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salvage whatever he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston as national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's if everyone in yugoslavia read comics it was organized the state in the school supported it or maybe a little less but compared to today the print runs were incredible view of it was the way through the tunnels the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's a comic yes you could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and it's cheech ish have a tough time living from their work. as we were there are a couple of enthusiastic to do it because it's their passion for 3 that's the reason they're still any type of scene here reporter we're over here there's comic book authors and illustrators unfortunately look for jobs and side of bosnia and herzegovina valley. she just says the market has been decimated even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like challenge and his publishing company. is doing with a gra

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salvage whatever he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston his national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's with everyone in yugoslavia read comics the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's a comic issue could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and it's cheech ish have a tough time living from their work she just says the market has been decimated even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like challenge and his publishing company. got to colleagues or for our audience. is doing with a graphic comics so with the publishing house on the comic book store was a good step towards creating what bosnia lacks a coffee comics has brought out a new edition of wall to defend sarajevo the story has also been republished in german and chinese in china the tale of walter the resistance fighter who took on the nazis is well known chinese tourists visiting sarajevo flocked to his memorial there though until the en

worthy of special note during this time as a national library for the blind and print disabled in ls.h its network of state and local library circulated more than 20 million copies of braille, audio in large print items. like to take this opportunity to recognize nls director who joined the library in 2012 and will retire at the end of may. her priorities were to leverage advancing technology and expand content for all print disabled persons. she accomplished these goals and so much more for the nls. out also like to express my gratitude for your support in the fiscal 2021 for high-protein needs such as cyber security enhancement, state-of-the-art shelving for the lot library and enhance science and technology technology or crs. thank you as well for your support for the libra zoo preservation strategy and collection storage and modules at fort meade is part of the capitol project. i would like to note the funding from the aoc budget designate for storage module seven was reprogrammed for the fencing surrounding the capitol campus after generate six. we would ask this vital funding be

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franken was about the gravesite sits a few yards away from the fdr library and is a historic site run by the national park service. over the years, people from all over the world have come to pay their respects including presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, and military personnel from all military branches. next slide, please. the library is currently closed but it contains more than 70 million pages of documents from hundreds of people involved in that was about administration or family. library handles thousands of research requests each year. i hope when the current coping shutdown ends, you will all come to visit. we all have an exciting visit which will be opening called fdr's final campaign which looks at the final days of his administration. that concludes my presentation. i look forward to hearing from alex. jason: thank you very much for that very interesting presentation. we will now turn it over to alex, please. alexandra: thank you so much, and welcome everybody to this very strange way of doing a conference. i miss seeing you all in person. thank goodness we have the tools to be a

nation. here enshrined in the library of congress is one of the most important documents and history of freedom controls these elections and the lawmaking processes which flow from them. the written constitution of the united states. so that the laws which are made may be constitutional and useful, lawmakers must constantly study to meet this need, it was established in 1946, a fact gathering agency that operates on december scale. the legislative reference service aired with 150 members to keep congress and forms -- informed. he is seeking information about china from here. the congressmen wants more facts about a government report said that he can draft a bill more intelligently and participate more effectively in the foreign affairs miti. this particular request for information is but one of thousands. some of them can be answered with a word and some of them require works -- weeks of research and book length reports. regular or special congressional committees like the armed services committee often start fireworks. the committee works over bills before they are debated on. it is another wa

national portrait garage. this smithsonian. oh elaine de kooning produced a painting for the truman library of jfk and there's i guess famously a must be a copy of it at the national portrait because i'm a fan well that be on view at the new renovated museum. well, we have as i mentioned some rotating gallery space downstairs. i'm i'm hopeful what i would like to do is there's a little room where we can put some portraits. i'd like to put up portraits of all the presidents that truman knew and have a little discussion of his relationship, you know, ronald reagan. he truman didn't know him as president. but reagan was a big truman supporter back in the day. he knew herbert hoover brought her herbert hoover back into government service. of course, he knew fdr he knew ike he knew kennedy. he new johnson. these are important relationships i think that that he crossed paths with all these presidents and yeah the decooning i'm a big fan of the national portrait gallery. i love those presidential every time. i'm in washington. i try and well in pre-covid days. we'll see how it is now, but i try to walk through there. i love those port

national park service. he had already donated the library to the national archives and the property it was on. and it's surrounded by the springwood estate. so eleanor said give us one year and e we will give it all to the national park service and i'll move up. >> where did the roosevelt family money come from? >> it's an interesting story, because it really is about the wealth and development of new york city. originally the claus von who came to new york probably around 1660. he started out as a farmer. and then over the generations they became investors. they owned property. they were involved with the sugar trade. they were involved with railroads. they were involved with banking. one of fdr's descendents helped start the bank of new york with alexander hamilton. they were involved with a lot of different things. they were never a financial status like the vanderbilts or the melons, but they were in the upper class of wealth. most of it came from investments. >> okay. can you talk a little bit about the descendents, we often get this question, are there any descendents involved with the l

library and museum where he's a supervisory curator. the microphone was used when fdr delivered his fireside chats. we'll learn why these talks were so effective in rallying a desperate nation during the great depression and we'll hear an excerpt from fdr's 1933 radio broadcast on the banking crisis the roosevelt library provided the video. well, i'm herman eberhardt supervisory museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum back again to talk about the stories connected to interesting objects in the museum collection. today we're going to be looking at an artifact that relates to one of fdr's greatest strengths his extraordinary talents as a communicator. and here is the object now it may be hard for a

the work was selected in 2010 for the library of congress national film registry, an annual list of 25 films deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. "the cry of jazz" refers to african-americans as negroes, the preferred term at the time. ♪ ♪ >> would you drop me off at the bus stop if it is not out of your way? >> don't forget my party tomorrow night, bring all of your friends. [indistinct conversations] >> bye, everyone. see you tomorrow night. >> i ought to be going, too. it was awfully nice of you to invite me, this is the first time into anything like this. and thank you for showing me that rock 'n' roll is jazz. >> you told her that rock 'n' roll is jazz? >> sure. rock 'n' roll is not jazz, it is merely an offshoot of rhythm and blues. >> who are you to know so much? >> alex is with the paul stephenson group. >> so much? -- so what? >> anybody knows that rock 'n' roll is not jazz. can you tell me what jazz is? >> merely the negro's cry of suffering. >> you act as though the negroes are the only ones that could've created jazz. that is not fair, a lot of fine

we have papers from the national consumer league at the library of congress and we highlight one of the articles she wrote and published. very much in riis style. an expose on the issue of women and children in the labor force. there poorly just and -- poor wages and lack of protection. we also have papers of the national child labor committee. hired by them to going to cover and basically do investigative reports. this is another riis-like activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. hyne went into factories and fields and took photographs considered some of the most important documentary photograph of the 20th century. particularly of child labor. use them like reese had used up pictures of the children to show this to social reformers and testify in front of congress. it led to major child labor legislation. >> one important about this exhibit and especially the kind of issues we deal with and emphasize on the sidewalls about public housing and public health, the attitudes towards immigrants. all these issues are still very much with us today. we like people to understand that

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we have papers from the national consumers' league at the library of congress. and we highlight one of the articles florence kelly wrote and published, very much in riis' style, very much an expose about the issue of women and children in the labor force and their poor wages and their lack of protection. this article was illustrated by a photograph by lewis hine. we also have the papers of the national child labor committee. and hine was hired by them to go undercover and basically do investigative reports. so this is another riis-like activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. basically pioneering investigative reporting. and hine went into canneries and factories and also the fields and took photographs that are now considered some of the most important documentary photographs of the 20th century. particularly of child labor. and then he used them, like riis had used the pictures of the children of the slums in an earlier time, to show as magic lantern slides to social reformers and testify before congress. and it did lead to major child labor legislat

i mean literally the national geographics in the library stop at 1959. eisenhower is the president on the wall and they cultivate this design and architectural frankly deception. i'm not saying that's wrong. we talked about that. but might there be a third way of designing communities that cater to people's tastes, classical, modern, colonial, and then within that taste, then think about how we can use creative care to address these challenges behaviors and whatnot. so, trying to create a third vision for that. i will close the one thing i have a problem with, with communes based on, like, philadelphia, 1948, is as your residential population ages, philadelphia 1948 is not going to seem like their childhood anymore and so -- i ask the guys about that. you're probably right, have to update the architecture. change the movie posters and things because the cohort is aging. so, as i found that sort of an amusing point. >> yes. your continuously updating the nationalee graphics. >> it's like think of your own taste in music. what you used to listen to and now

so should we talk about the presidential libraries first ladies materials? so before the national archives and i i might challenge i'd say before the presidential libraries where where does one find first lady the actual primary source materials. well my library to give ohio in can't know ohio is gaining more actual research materials. it's a relatively new institution. and i think there is definitely a push to acquire more document holdings there. unfortunately some of the early first ladies, you know, their papers have been scattered hither hither and yawn some were sold, you know at auction to private holders, so i'm going to turn that back around on the national archives and say time there is a garage sale of first ladies documents out there patrick. you need to be first in line. i'll have to talk to the arguments the united. it's a good it's a good mission to have we're katherine. this has been terrific i have to acknowledge besides having bobcat nation and support that. you've done something that no other speaker or panelist has done in all this time of doing virtual program

library in simi valley, california. this is about 35 minutes. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> good evening and welcome back to the reagan library. [applause] it has never felt better to be back in our home with so many friends we have not seen in far too long. thank you for coming this evening and thank you so much for your steadfast accord for the reagan foundation and library during this time that has been difficult. in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, if you would please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. before we get started, there are a few people i need to make sure we recognize. i will start with former governor pete wilson, both a trustee, and his wife, go

she was an archivist at the national archives and records administration starting at the lbj presidential library. museum and then work that the archives here in dc from 1973 to 2012 where she retired as the director of presidential materials division. she currently currently lectures in rights on the first ladies including lady bird johnson and michelle obama in his co-editor of modern first ladies their documentary legacy. she's also published articles on presidential libraries and access to presidential records and our last speaker who will be our first speaker as diana carlin. she's the flare treasure is professor emerita of communication at saint louis university and as a retired faculty member and administration of the university of kansas where she taught course on the rhetoric of first ladies, she currently teaches usher lifelong learning classes on first ladies and lectures on their influence. she's the co-author or author of books on chapters books and chapters on martha, washington. barbara bush lady bird johnson hillary clinton and michelle obama diana. you're gonna kick it off today.

you could send me into the library of congress with the national archives and i would probably come out i was looking for. he was born to be a researcher and i cannot compare. if we are writing books about people that are still alive, i'm good at interviewing them. what tom will point me in the right direction and give me the research i will start to write, i'm not going to say i will write a chapter and send it back but at home a chunk with a million questions. i will send it back to tom and if he's as good an editor as he is a researcher we kind of have this assembly line going back and forth. so far it's worked for us. one of the things that is very compelling is the descriptions of the landscape it's also nice to get a birds eye view. so you've created this map in the book and they are so helpful. did you decide, did you know -- >> since we started collaborating we both sensed that the kind of books we write, people want to see where it happens. they were attacking a couple hundred marines. we know valley forge, they want to know and then he was turned back at the last moment becaus

tom you could send me into the library of congress, and the national archives and i would probably commitith what i was looking for. you might have to send a party with minors hats to find me, but tom is so adept. he was born to be a researcher. born to be. and i cannot compare that, when it comes to lineman draper it was all tom. i'm good interviewing them, but what tom will point me in the right direction, and he'll do the research, and also to write i'm not clear serrated chapter and send it back to him but i will get a hunk or chunk, with 1 million questions in it. i need this i need this, how do i expand on, this is too much of this. i'll send it back to tom, and he's as good and editor as he is a researcher. so we have this assembly line thing going back and forth. so far, it's work for us. >> there's probably a lot of trust there. >> i don't trust tom at all. >> no no never turn our back on each other. [laughs] . i'm >> so one of the things, that is very compelling as all these descriptions of the landscape, and the woodsman, and the wife's than the smells in the look at everything

the work was selected in 2010 for the library of congress national film registry, an annual list of 25 films deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. "the cry of jazz"

library and museum where he's a supervisory curator. the microphone was used when fdr delivered his fireside chats. we'll learn why these talks were so effective in rallying a desperate nation during the great depression and we'll hear an excerpt from fdr's 1933 radio broadcast on the banking crisis the roosevelt library provided the video. well, i'm herman eberhardt supervisory museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum back again to talk about the stories connected to interesting objects in the museum collection. today we're going to be looking at an artifact that relates to one of fdr's greatest strengths his extraordinary talents as a communicator. and here is the object now it may be hard for a modern audience to recognize but this is a very early nbc radio microphone that dates from the 1930s. the microphone is quite large. it stands over 15 inches high and it's made of metal and very heavy notice the large base it needs to keep from tipping over. now why is this microphone special? well, this is one of the microphones fdr used when he delivered some of his famous fireside chat radio speeches from the white house. now some of you might be

library staff when it opened in 1997. he had several positions and ascendant eventually to the directorship in 2004. he is really an archivist through and through having served at the national archives here in dc for the office the presidential libraries and presidential materials and he hails from mobile, alabama warren are you with us? i am thank you. pat. excellent. good to see you. how how is how is everything going down there? are you reopened yet? i know it's been a tough year for all the presidential libraries. we have not reopened yet. the covid numbers here are um, they're going down. we we hope to get the staff back into building sometimes soon. but the museum is still closed. and for a museum director like myself, i was trained as an archivist, but at some time, you know, you become a museum director. it has been a difficult difficult year. i mean we've got all these great volunteers the wonderful staff and it's of course we've been able to interact, you know through zoom and and and other mediums but just not seeing people on a day-to-day basis is been kind of odd, but hopefully we'll get this all behind us and we'll be able to open the museum again soon. exactl