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Madison Council Bulletin Fall 2009 9 0 0 2 L madison L A F cou ncil bulletin Part of the coffee service at Jack and Annette Friedland’s home The Madison Council Bulletin is a publication of the Table of Contents James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. James H. Billington 1 Letter from the Librarian Librarian of Congress Jo Ann Jenkins 3 Madison Council Meeting Spring 2009 Chief Operating Officer Susan K. Siegel 10 World Digital Library Debuts Director of Development H. F. “Gerry” Lenfest 13 2008 Philadelphia Award Presented to Chairman Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest Leonard L. Silverstein Treasurer 14 Residential Scholars Center: Igniting Conversations, Illuminating Minds Design: Carla Badaracco 16 New Acquisitions Photography: Vince Massa (Philadelphia) 17 2009 Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program Pages 3-9 John Harrington A Warm Welcome to New Members Page 13 21 Barry Wheeler Pages 17-19 24 Award-Winning Experience 25 In Memoriam: Harry J. Gray Cover: Dr. Billington and Chairman Lenfest; (l-r) Mummers; Members in front of the Curtis Publishing Building; and Independence Hall Letter from the Librarian I was glad that so many members could join us in Philadelphia for our spring meeting. We are deeply grateful that Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest, Annette and Jack Friedland, Martha Morris and John Medveckis all welcomed us for an inspiring visit and opened the door to many of Philadelphia’s cultural treasures. We will not soon forget the memorable evening at the Friedland home before our meeting or the magical combination of the Barnes Collection and the Curtis Institute musicians that the Lenfests provided at the end. We are very grateful to Chairman Lenfest and his wife, Marguerite, for their enthusiasm and leadership on our top fundraising priority: the remodeling of a building on Capitol Hill into a much-needed Library of Congress Residential Scholars Center. Increasingly, students, teachers and scholars are unable to come to the Library because they cannot find affordable housing in the nation’s capital, one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. This new facility will provide inexpensive hospitality close to the Library for more than 2,000 library users annually from all over the nation and the world. A Library Junior Fellow recently commented that the creation of this center will demonstrate that the Library “is interested in bringing the best and brightest to work with its treasures, no matter what their financial situation.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 1 LETTER, FROM PAGE 1 Since our last Council meeting, the Library received a generous $3 million grant for the Center from Jane and Calvin Cafritz’s Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and a gift from Council members Jon and Lillian Lovelace. These gifts, coupled with the lead gift from Chairman Lenfest and gifts from Council members Marjorie M. Fisher, Jean and Jay Kislak, Glenn Jones, David and Susie Sainsbury, and Caroline Rose Hunt bring us two-thirds of the way toward our goal. With your help we can cross the finish line while we can still take advantage of the depressed construction market. Deepest thanks to the entire Council for its critical support of the 2009 Junior Fellows Program which brought 46 enthusiastic and talented students from around the country to work with our remarkable curators. These students gain insights into the environment and culture of the world’s largest repository of human knowledge and uncover treasures in the Library’s special collections that are then made available to researchers from around the world. We are pleased to welcome a number of new Council members: Diane and Mike Jones, suggested by Ed and Joyce Miller; Georgia Shreve, suggested by Mitzi Perdue; Linda and Bill Custard, suggested by our wonderful Dallas contingent; and Penny Watkins, suggested by Chairman Lenfest. I encourage each of you to nominate individuals who would further strengthen the Council and help continue its impressive record of stewardship. In 2010, the Madison Council will celebrate 20 years of steadfast support for the nation’s library. We look forward to celebrating this wonderful milestone with you and thank you for all you have done and are doing for the Library of Congress. James H. Billington The Librarian of Congress 2 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 Madison Council Meeting Spring 2009 Above: Dream Garden designed by Maxfield Parrish and Louis Tiffany Left: 1777 map of Philadelphia Below: Dr. Billington and John Van Horne, Director of the Library Company of Philadelphia MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 3 (l-r) Row 1: Gerry Lenfest; Members departing Philadelphia Museum of Art; Library Company curator and Roger Baskes Row 2: Nancy Knowles and John Garvey with Mummers; Leonard and Elaine Silverstein Row 3: Dr. Billington with Annette and Jack Friedland; Tom and Penny Watkins Row 4: Marguerite Lenfest; Joe Rishel, Cézanne exhibition curator, and Gerry Lenfest 4 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 (l-r) Row 1: Annette Friedland and Marjorie Billington; Kay Martin, Susan Catherwood, and Shirley Small Row 2: Jeanette Neubauer, Dr. Billington, John Medveckis, and Deanna Marcum; Alexander Hamilton and Glenn Jones Row 3: Nancy Jewell; Gerry Lenfest and Georgia Shreve Below: Derek Gillman, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, and the Madison Council MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 5 (l-r) Row 1: Dr. Billington; Peter Cummings; Leonard Silverstein Row 2: The Billingtons and the Lenfests in the Library Company of Philadelphia; Susan Shapiro and Kay Martin Row 3: Members at the Cézanne exhibition Row 4: Members in the American Philosophical Society 6 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 (l-r) Row 1: Consuelo Duroc-Danner and Benjamin Franklin; Mike and Diane Jones and Joyce Miller; Mitzi Perdue Row 2: Members in the Library Company of Philadelphia; Glenn Jones Row 3: Dr. Billington, Mary Patterson McPherson, Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society, and Gerry Lenfest; Ford Peatross, Library of Congress curator, Annette and Jack Friedland, and Dr. Billington Row 4: Marjorie Billington; Members at the American Philosophical Society MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 7 (l-r) Row 1: Bill Ginsberg and a Library Company curator; Dr. and Mrs. Billington with Diana Duncan, Vice-President of External Affairs of the Barnes Foundation Row 2: Albert Small and Tom Martin; Curtis Institute musicians Row 3: Roberto Díaz, President of the Curtis Institute of Music, with Barbara Guggenheim and Peter Cummings; Dr. Billington, John Medveckis, and Martha Morris Below: Barbara Guggenheim, Marina Kats, Derek Gillman, and Marguerite Lenfest; Mitzi Perdue 8 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 (l-r) Above: Trolley at Barnes Foundation; Friedland home; Chef Georges Perrier and Fred Harris Below, Row 1: Glenn Jones and Consuelo Duroc-Danner; Gerry Lenfest, Dr. Billington, and John Van Horne Row 2: Annette Friedland and Georges Perrier; Dennis Shapiro Row 3: Mary Patterson McPherson and Members; Roger Baskes with Residential Scholars Center architect Cal Bowie and Director of Development Sue Siegel MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 9 10 MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 World Digital Library Debuts In as much time as it takes to send an e-mail from Paris to Washington, word of the World Digital Library sped around the globe following an introductory news conference. Within one hour of the time the World Digital Library made its debut on April 21, the site had received 700,000 page views. By the end of the first day, the site had registered more than 7.1 million page views and a total of 615,000 visitors from every country in the world. The launch fulfills Dr. Billington’s dream of utilizing digital technology to bridge borders by enabling people to find common ground in their unique creative and intellectual endeavors. Dr. Billington took his idea for the World Digital Library to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a project could “have the salutary effect of bringing people together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking.” The site functions in the six official languages of UNESCO—Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish—plus Portuguese, and includes content in more than 40 languages. Descriptions of each item, along with videos with expert curators speaking about selected items, provide context for users and are intended to spark curiosity and encourage both students and the general public to learn more about the cultural heritage of all countries. Institutions contributing content to the WDL include national libraries and cultural and educational institutions in Brazil, Egypt, China, France, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. Institutions in many other countries are committed to joining the project, and will be contributing content as the WDL is developed. “We are honored to be working with so many great libraries in this venture,” said Dr. Billington, “and thankful for the strong support that UNESCO has given to this project. What we launched today is a first step. We look forward to seeing this project realize its ambition to bring people together, deepen our understanding of each other, and help electronically oriented young people enjoy what is best in traditional culture, using the new media.” In a statement issued to the press, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura declared, “UNESCO welcomes the creation of the World Digital Library which reflects the values and priorities of our organization. WDL offers an invaluable platform for the free flow of information, for international solidarity, for the celebration of cultural diversity and for the building of inclusive knowledge societies. With projects like the Digital Library, the cultural and societal potential of digital technologies come into their own.” MADISON COUNCIL BULLETIN — FALL 2009 11 Jamil Al-Dandany, Vice President External Affairs, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Marjorie Billington, Glenn Jones, and Raja Sidawi; Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO, and Dr.
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