dr. hayden: yes. the way you describe it is exactly the way that libraries even designed their buildings and the furniture, and making sure there is even signage that unaccompanied adults and children's sections are going to be questioned. there are so many safety measures put in public libraries and even college and university libraries to make sure that minors are safe and that they are not exposed to objectionable material, as far as we can prevent. your final degree was a phd from the university of chicago, a very highly respected institution, a logger early work was a children's librarian. these are issues you have always cared about. dr. hayden: yes, and it has been interesting -- i mentioned earlier with the proceed with caution for copyright, that if you pay attention with the front end it sometimes helps in terms of later. anding with young people seeing what imagination can be sparked -- 3-d printers are now has araries and that perfect time to let young people know that all of this informat

[laughter] with senator mikulski and the strongest work of dr. hayden. we know she will do an incredible job at the library of congress and it is great to be here with senator survey into is taken a great interest in the library and has been a great champion of these issues in our state and nation. with people from our community dr. hayden has worked today's hearing is well-timed. sunday marks the 216th anniversary of the creation of the library in 1800. senator mikulski and i were blessed to be baltimore and spy birth and others have the good sense to move to baltimore. for the last 23 years, she has directed the enoch pratt library which is not quite as old as the library of congress but was established in 1880 two, making it one of the oldest free public libraries in the nation. in 1994, maryland was the first state to offer statewide internet service to its residents with the sale of maryland's online public information network. dr. hayden didn't just run the public library system, she oversees the state library resource center which provides all mar

dr. hayden, welcome to the committee. appreciate your testimony, appreciate your willingness to undertake this important job. i want to talk for a few minutes about copyright. it seems to me that's one of the most important jobs before you in terms of organization, i.t., policy, copyright. i try to explain copyright to my children and their eyes glaze over. they don't know it even exists. we have a lot of work to do and copyright is very complex. i guess one of my questions that i'm -- it's untoward, i suppose, to ask someone at their confirmation hearing about the idea of divesting part of their responsibility but what are your thoughts on spinning out the copyright office, having its own presidentially appointed director? it seems to me the fact that it's lodged in the library as a historic artifact, given its importance in our society of intellectual property, should it have its own separate existence? >> well, thank you for mentioning young people, as well i'd like to address that and how we can work to make the new g

dr. hayden, welcome to the committee. appreciate your testimony, appreciate your willingness to undertake this important job. i want to talk for a few minutes about copyright. it seems to me that's one of the most important jobs before you in terms of organization, i.t., policy, copyright. i try to explain copyright to my children and their eyes glaze over. they don't know it even exists. we have a lot of work to do and copyright is very complex. i guess one of my questions that i'm -- it's untoward, i suppose, to ask someone at their confirmation hearing about the idea of die vevesting part of t responsibility but what are your thoughts on spinning out the copyright office, having its own presidentially appointed director? it seems to me the fact that it's lodged in the library as a historic artifact, given its importance in our society of intellectual property, should it have its own separate existence? >> well, thank you for mentioning young people, as well i'd like to address that and how we can work to make the new g

if confirmed, dr. hayden would succeed james billington and become the first african-american woman to serve in the position. during hayden's congressional confirm make hearing she laid out her vision for the future of the library of congress. >> s i envision the future of this wonderful institution i see it growing in its stature, not only in library yapship but how people view libraries in general, as more of its resources are readily available for more people online, users will not have to be in washington, dc. everyone will have a sent of ownership pride in this national treasure. a child on a reservation in new mexico has the same access a high school student in st. louis, missouri, fifth grader in kentucky would be able to view abraham lincoln's papers from this home computer. and a shy, tenth grader from meridian, mississippi, with dreams of performing would be able to view the library's leonard bernstein collection, a student from a community college in kansas could look at and even download re

i have always argued for real-time oversight as opposed to what i call dr. oversight, which i find is far less constructive. mr. hayden: i will double down on everything that ben said. oversight may help solve that problem. i suggested earlier with regard to the broad legitimacy of the enterprise the eyes of the american people. the oversight is seen to be sufficiently invasive and howevere and approving, we define that, that maky go a long way of going down the field . i would suggest picketing off of what ben said, narrow and intense is far better than broad. i am quite happy with the oversight committees getting deeper into the business, more immediacy, more at the operational tempo of the enterprise, rather than looking in the rearview mirror, rather than adding bodies to the left and right in the right and the left, which creates this bureaucracy that the operational community has to then fee in order get on to do what they have to do. one brief example. andesponse to mr. snowden the special commission created to look at nsa collection, the pdd 28,t iss