ANNUAL REPORT of the LIBRARIAN of CONGRESS for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2014
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Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2014 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2015 B | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS CONTENTS Letter from the Librarian of Congress .........................4 Organizational Reports ...............................................47 Organization Chart ...............................................48 Library of Congress Officers ........................................6 Congressional Research Service ............................50 Library of Congress Committees .................................8 U.S. Copyright Office ............................................52 Office of the Librarian ..........................................54 Facts at a Glance. ........................................................11 Law Library ...........................................................56 Mission Statement. ......................................................10 Library Services. ....................................................58 Office of Strategic Initiatives .................................60 Serving the Congress...................................................12 Office of Support Operations................................62 Legislative Support ................................................13 Office of the Inspector General.............................63 Copyright Law and Policy .....................................15 Copyright Royalty Board .......................................64 Congressional Preservation Efforts ........................15 Other Services to Congress ...................................16 Appendices ................................................................65 Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Supporting the Library .........................................19 A. Library of Congress Advisory Bodies ...............66 Washington, DC 20540 B. Selected Acquisitions .........................................72 Collecting, Preserving and Providing C. Publications .......................................................74 For the Library of Congress online, visit loc.gov. Access to Knowledge ..................................................20 D. Exhibitions ........................................................75 The annual report is published through the Office of Communications, Collecting ...............................................................21 E. The Library in the News ...................................78 Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1610, Preserving ..............................................................23 telephone (202) 707-2905. F. Statistical Tables .................................................79 Providing Access to Knowledge .............................26 1. Appropriations for 2014..............................79 Executive Editor: Gayle Osterberg Managing Editor: Audrey Fischer Promoting Creativity, Scholarship 2. Appropriations for 2015..............................79 and Lifelong Learning.................................................32 Art Director: John Sayers 3. Financial Statistics .......................................80 Photo Editor: Shawn Miller Promoting Creativity .............................................33 4. Additions to the Collections—Items ...........83 Design and Composition: Blue House Design Promoting Scholarship ..........................................36 5. Additions to the Collections—Titles ...........85 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 6-6273 Promoting Lifelong Learning ................................40 6. Unprocessed Arrearages .............................85 ISSN 0083-1565 Key title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress Celebrating Achievement ............................................42 7. Cataloging Workload ..................................86 Library of Congress Prizes and Awards ................43 8. MARC Records ..........................................86 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP Library Staff Recognition......................................46 9. Preservation Treatment Statistics ................87 Washington, DC 20402-9328 10. Copyright Registrations ..............................88 ISBN 978-0-8444-9572-9 11. U.S. Copyright Office Business Summary .. 88 12. Services to Individuals Who are Blind or Physically Handicapped .........................89 Front Cover: The Library of Congress and the U.S. Capitol are in close proximity. Photo by Carol Highsmith 13. Reader Services ...........................................90 Inside Front Cover: An all-staff meeting in the 14. Cataloging Distribution Service: Senate Reading Room in 1948 Prints and Photographs Division Financial Statistics .......................................91 Inside Back Cover: The Congressional Reading Room 15. Human Resources .......................................92 in the Thomas Jefferson Building Photo by Shealah Craighead 3 I am pleased to present the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for fiscal year 2014. During the year, the Congressional staff. And the U.S. Copyright Office work in the nation’s library—perhaps Research Service in the Library of provided 245,895 direct reference our greatest resource in an increasingly Congress celebrated a century of service services to members of the public. knowledge-dependent world. to our nation’s lawmakers. Established by Congress in 1914, the Legislative The Library expanded its global Sincerely, Reference Service has evolved into the collections—which grew in fiscal year modern day Congressional Research 2014 by 2.7 million analog items to James H. Billington Service, which provides Congress a total of 160.7 million. We added Librarian of Congress with nonpartisan policy analysis. 7.1 million new primary-source files To increase the transparency of the online for a total of 52.3 million, freely legislative process, the Library’s user- available for education and inspiration friendly, authoritative legislative source, beyond Washington. Congress.gov, is accessible on stationary computers and mobile devices. The amount of digital content generated throughout the world, in hundreds Similarly, the National Library Service of languages, continues to grow for the Blind and Physically Handicapped exponentially. With content provided by in the Library of Congress, which began the Library and 181 partner institutions in more than 80 years ago with braille 81 countries, the Library’s World Digital books and long-playing records has Library website is making multilingual incorporated the latest advances to serve and multimedia primary-source materials its patrons. Today, the service provides available in seven languages online. A digital talking books and electronic milestone was reached during the year braille. The Braille and Audio Reading when the 10,000th item was added to the Download web-based service known WDL website. The Library of Congress hosts a semi-annual open house in the Main Reading Room. Photo by Shawn Miller as BARD is also accessible through the Internet and an app for mobile devices. The Library’s literacy-promotion During the year, the Library released website, Read.gov, and its Teacher’s a report on the future of braille, which Page continued to provide children, resulted from the first-ever summit on families and educators with rich content braille held in 2013. to encourage lifelong learning. With LETTER FROM THE the inspiration and generous support of In fiscal year 2014, the Library welcomed philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, we 1.45 million visitors and answered presented the 2014 Library of Congress LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS questions from 467,142 people—in- Literacy Awards to three organizations person at our reference desks and online that are doing exemplary, innovative and through our Ask a Librarian service. replicable work in literacy promotion. CRS and the Law Library responded Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to more than 597,000 research requests In these pages are highlights of the Photo by Abby Brack Lewis from Members of Congress and their work of the 3,138 talented people who 4 | 2014 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OFFICERS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD Executive Committee Ex Officio James H. Billington, James H. Billington, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (New York), David A. Lebryk, Fiscal Assistant Librarian of Congress Librarian of Congress Vice Chair, Joint Committee Secretary of the Treasury on the Library (representing U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Dizard Jr., David S. Mao, Mark Sweeney, Acting Associate Rep. Gregg Harper (Mississippi), Chair, Jacob J. Lew) Deputy Librarian of Congress Law Librarian of Congress Librarian for Library Services Joint Committee on the Library Molly Johnson, Acting Associate Mary Mazanec, Director, Lucy D. Suddreth, Senate Appointees Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Chief of Support Operations Congressional Research Service Kathleen L. Casey Thomas Girardi Elaine Wynn Arlington, Virginia Los Angeles, California Las Vegas, Nevada Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights Christopher G. Long Wilmington, Delaware Operations Committee Lucy D. Suddreth, Chair, Dennis Hanratty, Director, Kathleen Ott, Director, House of Representatives Appointees Chief of Support Operations Human Resources Services Congressional Relations Office J. Richard Fredericks Barbara Guggenheim James V. Kimsey