Frequently Asked Questions: General

The pre-recorded/on-demand videos can be found in three places:

• National Book Festival website:  https://www.loc.gov/events/2020-national-book-festival/schedule/video-on-demand/  
• Library of Congress Event Videos  https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/ 
  • This collection contains National Book Festival videos and other presentations from the Library of Congress.
  • Search by presenter name or keyword.
  • Browse only the 2020 Festival videos in this interface, starting here:  https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/?dates=2020/2029&q=%22national+book+festival%22
  • Note: The videos may be saved from this location for later play offline.
• Library of Congress YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress 
  • Note: be sure to use the search option inside the channel, rather than the one for all of YouTube.  In the laptop/desktop interface, this is next to "ABOUT" and just above the video window.

Live Q&A: Not every NBF presenter in 2020 had a live Q&A session.  For one who did, find a link on the presenter’s biography page to a recording.  The biography pages  are linked from here:  https://www.loc.gov/events/2020-national-book-festival/authors/  .

Other 2020 National Book Festival-related videos, including the PBS television special are listed and linked here: https://www.pbs.org/show/library-congress-national-book-festival/ .  The PBS Special and its promotional clips may also be streamed on the PBS Video App, available from the Apple Store and Google Play.