LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Volume 14, No. 31 A Weekly Newspaper for the Library Staff September 12, 2003

Ambassador from Malta Visits Kunz Show Music Mix Enlivens 2003-04 Concert Series Jazz great Dave Brubeck will receive the Library’s “Living Legend” award at a jazz workshop and jam session kicking off the Library’s 2003-2004 Library concert series at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, in the Coolidge Audtiorium. The following evening, the Brubeck Institute’s sextet of tal- ented young musicians directed by bassist Christian McBride will appear in an 8 p.m. concert with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The Brubeck opener indicates the diversity of programs sched- uled for this year’s series, featuring an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, pop, folk, hip-hop, and world-music artists. With performers ranging from the Juilliard String Quartet, jazz chanteuse Shirley Horn, and flamenco/jazz pianist Chano Domínguez, to break

Michaela McNichol dancers and Chinese percussionists, the season promises to John Lowell, ambassador to the United States from Malta, take listeners on an interesting array of musical journeys. tours “Canadian Counterpoint,” a Swann Gallery exhibition Future highlights include performances by the period of paintings by magazine illustrator Anita Kunz, on Sept. 5. Here, Martha Kennedy, Swann Gallery curator, discusses a ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, a solo recital by pianist Menahem caricature of Whoopi Golberg that appeared on the cover of Pressler, composer-performer Richard Rodney Bennett, singer- the Boston Globe magazine, Sept. 13, 1992. songwriters Buddy and Julie Miller and Laura Cantrell. CONCERTS, Continues on page 8 Kluge Center Welcomes Scholars for Second Year Congress International Studies Fellow- Thapar already in residence. By ROBERT SALADINI ship—Mellon Program. Scholars in The following describes biographical residence give lectures, host symposia, background and fields of interest for this he John W. Kluge Center begins and make other Kluge Center presenta- new group of scholars: its second full year of activity this tions throughout the year. See schedule Robert Albro, a Mellon Fellow, T month with the arrival of a distin- on page 5. received his Ph.D. from the University guished group of fellows and scholars In residence this autumn are Robert of Chicago and is assistant professor of who are coming to use the Library’s Albro, Alden Almquist, Gregg Brazinsky, cultural anthropology at Wheaton Col- unparalleled collections in pursuit of Clarissa Burt, Anita Callaway, Peter Car- lege. He is researching “‘Popular’ Con- topics as varied as perceptions of the roll, Finis Dunaway, Eric Jacobson, Ablet tortions: the Politics of Mis-recognition Mississippi River, the roles of tobacco and Kamalov, Tomasz Kamusella, Svetlana and Modern Bolivian Publics.” chocolate in the Spanish Empire from Kujumdzieva, Marcia Norton, Karen Alden Almquist, Kluge Staff Fellow 1492-1700, Islam and Uygar nationalism Oslund, and Man Shun Yeung. and a literary examiner in the Copy- in Xinjiang, China, contemporary North In addition, the center will host sev- right Office, received his doctorate in Atlantic whaling, and a collection of early eral other distinguished visiting scholars anthropology from Indiana University Christian liturgical texts. including the former President of Brazil, in 1985. During his tenure he will study These fellows and scholars include Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ruth “Indigenous Knowledge and Practices as recipients of grants through the Library’s Cardoso, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Resources in the Preservation of Wildlife Kluge Fellowship program, the Rocke- Stone, and Lanxin Xiang. These distin- and Biodiversity in Africa.” feller Humanities Fellowships in Islamic guished scholars are joining Libby Gregg Brazinsky, Kluge Fellow, Studies program, and the Library of Larsen, Robert Remini, and Romila SCHOLARS, Continues on page 4 2 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 3

The Gazette A weekly newspaper for the Library of Congress staff Call for Volunteer Ushers ‘American Treasures’ GAIL FINEBERG Volunteer ushers are needed for Closes for Six Days Editor the Music Division’s 2003-2004 concert The “American Treasures” exhi- MICHAELA McNICHOL series in the Coolidge Auditorium. bition in the second-floor Jefferson Visual Information Specialist Ushers will receive two tickets to Building Treasures Gallery will be Contributing Editors: Deborah Durham-Vichr, Calendar; and Carla V. Bussey, Moving On and Length of Service. the concert for which they volunteer. closed from Sept. 19 through 24 while Proofreaders: Sally Craig and Suzy Platt Send Donna Williams an e-mail at the special exhibition “The Dream of Flight” is installed in the central core [email protected] for more information. of American Treasures. Readers who To view the concert’s Season-at-a- normally walk through this gallery to PETER BRAESTRUP JAMES W. McCLUNG Glance, visit the Web site (www.loc.gov/ reach the European Reading Room will Founder Founding Publisher rr/perform/concert) of the Concert be given an alternate route. (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 1994) Office, Music Division, or stop by the The gallery will reopen to the Performing Arts Reading Room in LM public on Sept. 25. Public hours are The Gazette encourages LC staff to submit articles or photographs 113 for a concert season schedule. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through of general interest. Submissions will be edited to convey the most Saturday. necessary information. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital form and if pos- OIG Hot Lines silble include hard copy with your submission. 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Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services Metrochek Distribution 2003 Schedule Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff Quarterly Distribution: October, November, Make up day: For the months of November The staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and and December only: A-M, Tuesday, Oct. 7, and December only: Wednesday, Nov. 12, thoughtful debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspaper editors exercise discretion over which 9 a.m. – noon and 1 – 3 p.m., Mumford Room, 10 a.m. – noon and 1 – 3 p.m., LM 139 letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In decid- LM 649; M-Z, Wed., Oct. 8, 9 a.m. – noon and 1 ing whether or how much to publish, we consider content – 3 p.m., Mumford Room, LM 649 Make up day: For the month of December only: (including misstatements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal attacks, and redun- Wednesday, Dec. 10, 10 a.m. – noon and 1 – 3 dancy) and length (the limit is 600 words). Make up day: For the months of October, p.m., LM 139 Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work November, and December only: Thursday, Oct. and telephone extension should be included so we can 23, 10 a.m. – noon and 1 – 3 p.m., LM 139 verify authorship. Letter writers should understand that when they sign their letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing privacy. If a letter calls for management response, for example, an explanation of a policy or actions or clarification of fact, we will ask for Notice: Transit-subsidy management response.—Ed. To meet the fiscal year closing deadlines, the U.S. Department of Transportation Transit Benefit and Parking Office will be closed Sept. 29 and 30. Please pick up all transit benefits Gazette at a glance . . . no later than Friday, Sept. 26. People 3 SMART Benefit participants will need to download September transit benefits no later than 12 midnight, Sept. 22. Electronic downloading of benefits for the remainder of the Milestones 7 month will be suspended. Any SMARTRIP card holder who does not download prior to this deadline may pick up Metrocheks at the Transit Benefit and Parking Office, Department of Calendar 8 Transportation, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sept. 23 - 26. www.loc.gov/staff/gazette 2 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 3 PEOPLE Gregory A. Lukow Appointed Chief of MBRS Gregory A. Lukow has been appointed tion programs. chief of the Motion Picture, Broadcast- For many years he has served as a ing and Recorded Sound Division of the primary delegate to the International Library. Federation of Film Archives and as a He has served as the division’s assis- member of the Archivists Council of tant chief since January 2001. Lukow Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation. SEPT 11, Continues on page 7 managed the division after the former He is a member of the founding board of division chief, David Francis, retired in directors of the National Television and February 2001. Video Preservation Foundation. Lukow oversees planning for the Lukow has written and lectured National Audio-Visual Conversation widely about the history and preserva- Center in Culpeper, Va., which will be tion of American moving image media the state-of-the art archival storage and and has curated a number of film and

conservation facility for the Library’s film, Gail Fineberg video exhibitions that have appeared in television, and audio collections. Gregory A. Lukow festivals and museums across the coun- The Library’s director for public ser- try. He co-edited and published “The forward with the extraordinary work and vice collections, Diane Kresh, said: “Mr. Administration of Television Newsfilm leadership of the Library of Congress in Lukow’s knowledge of motion pictures, and Videotape Collections,” the first safeguarding one of the premiere audio- television, and sound media, his national U.S. publication devoted to television visual collections in the world, and I look leadership in audio-visual preservation preservation. forward to continue working with the planning and implementation, his highly Lukow holds a bachelor’s degree in more than 100 dedicated MBRS Division effective direction of the division, and broadcast journalism and English from staff as we implement the unprecedented the key role he has played in the massive the University of Nebraska and a master’s new capabilities of the National Audio- project to build the National Audio-Visual degree in film and television atudies Visual Conservation Center.” Conservation Center make him ideally from UCLA, where he is a candidate for Lukow was a principal founder of the suited to this critical management a doctorate. ❑ Association of Moving Image Archivists position and to meeting the challenges (AMIA), serving five terms as its found- associated with collecting and preserving ing secretary and member of its board of America’s moving image and recorded LCPA to Help WAMU directors. Prior to coming to the Library sound heritage.” Once again the Library of Congress in 2001, Lukow was the coordinator of Said Lukow: “I am honored to carry Professional Association (LCPA) is assist- Moving Image Archive Studies at the Uni- ing American University’s public radio versity of California, Los Angeles, where station WAMU during its fall membership LC-Globe and the Veterans History Project, he aided in the establishment of the first campaign. LC volunteers will answer American Folk Life Center, present: graduate-degree program of its kind in phones to accept pledges from 6:30 to 10 the stories of three gay and lesbian veterans North America. p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, during the show His previous experience also includes Hot Jazz Saturday Night, which is hosted When History Speaks nine years as head of the American by LC’s own Rob Bamberger. His show Franklin E. Kameny Film Institute’s National Center for Film is one of the station’s most popular, so Private First Class, U.S. Army and Video Preservation, for which he there are always lots of callers. World War II Combat Veteran directed all of the institute’s preserva- The WAMU studios are at 4000 Bran- dywine St., N.W., which is one block from Robert M. Rankin, MD the Tenleytown Metro stop. On-street Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.) You’re invited to an parking will be available. Vietnam War Combat Veteran LCPA Social Prior to the event, volunteers from Donna Sumption Introduction to the LCPA LC will receive a map, directions, and a Captain, U.S. Army for Current and New Employees script for handling calls, which means Persian Gulf War Combat Veteran Monday, Sept. 15 no experience is necessary, as well as 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. a full dinner catered by a local restau- Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m. WEST DINING ROOM, LM 621 rant. Only 15 volunteers will be needed, Dining Room A, LM 620 LIGHT REFRESHMENTS so if you’re interested, call or send an www.loc.gov/staff/globe Request ADA accomodations five days e-mail to Robert Handloff at 7-4443 or Request ADA Accomodations five business days in advance, at (202) 707-6362 TTY [email protected] in advance at 7-6362 or [email protected] or [email protected] 4 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 5

SCHOLARS, Continued from Page 1 well as for promoting regional coopera- tinue her research about early modern tion in South America. He will be pursue theories of state sovereignty. received his doctorate from Cornell research in sociopolitical aspects of con- Eric Jacobson, Kluge Fellow, received University and is assistant professor temporary Brazil. his Ph.D. from the Free University of in the History Department at George Ruth Cardoso, distinguished visiting Berlin. He is convenor of critical reli- Washington University. His research scholar and former first lady of Brazil, is, gious studies at the University of Sussex, will focus on the cultural interactions like her husband, an important sociologist in Brighton, UK. His research topic is the that have occurred between the United with many books to her name. A recipi- “Holocaust, Zionism, and Jewish History States and East Asia during the 20th ent of numerous awards for her research in the Correspondence of Hannah Arendt century and American intellectual and about immigration, she was chairwoman and Gershom Sholem, 1941-1963.” cultural relations with South Korea during of the Comunidade Solidaria, a program Ablet Kamalov, Rockefeller Fellow, the 1950s and ’60s. to combat poverty and social exclusion received his Ph.D. from the Institute Clarrisa Burt, Rockefeller Fellow, in Brazil. She will pursue research in of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy received her Ph.D. from the University sociopolitical aspects of contemporary of Science, St. Petersburg. A senior of Chicago. Until recently she was assis- Brazil. research associate at the Institute of tant professor of Arabic literature at the Peter Carroll, Luce Fellow, received Oriental Studies, Kazakh Academy of American University in Cairo; she is now his Ph.D. from Yale University and is assis- Science, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he will on the faculty of the U.S. Naval Acad- tant professor of modern Chinese history study “Globalization, Islam, and Uygar emy in Annapolis. Burt is combining at Northwestern University. He calls his Nationalism in Xinjiang.” her research project, “Felicity’s Parting: research project “Changing Significance Tomasz Kamusella, Kluge Fellow, Imitation, Trope, and Gender in Classical of Suicide in China During the First Half was the Jean Monnet Fellow in the Arabic Poetry,” with the establishment of of the 20th Century.” Department of History and Civilization, an Arabic language and culture program Finis Dunaway, Kluge Fellow, is a European University Institute, Florence, at the U.S. Naval Academy. Mellon postdoctoral fellow and visiting Italy. A Ph.D. recipient from the Institute Anita Callaway, Kluge Fellow, is a assistant professor at Cornell University. of Western Affairs, Poznan, Poland, he specialist in the visual culture of 19th- A recipient of the Ph.D. from Rutgers Uni- will research “Nationalism and the Poli- century Australia. She will focus on versity, he will be researching “Thirteen tics of Language in East Central Europe the same topic and time period in the Ways of Looking at a River: The Missis- during the 19th and 20th Centuries.” United States in a project called “The sippi in the American Imagination.” Svetlana Kujumdzieva, Kluge Fellow, Making of American Visual Culture: the Jean Bethke Elshtain, holder of received her Ph.D. from the Bulgarian Enduring Legacy of Ephemeral Art.” A the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in State Academy of Music, Sofia, and has research fellow at the Australian National American History and Ethics, is Laura been associate professor and senior University, Canberra, she received her Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social researcher at the Bulgarian Academy Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. and Political Ethics at the University of of Sciences, Institute of Arts, Sofia. Her Fernando Henrique Cardoso, distin- Chicago Divinity School and a member research topic is “A Cross-Cultural Study guished visiting scholar and president of the Kluge Center’s Scholars’ Council. of the Oktoechos: John of Damascus, of Brazil from 1995 to 2002, is known Author of numerous books and articles John Koukouzeles, Chrysaphes the for strengthening democratic values, about politics and morality, she will con- New.” improving institutions, and searching for progress and a better standard of living for many sectors of Brazilian society, as Writers’ Group Seeks Published or Aspiring Authors If you are a published author or are working to develop your talents to someday become published, the Library of Congress Professional Association (LCPA) invites you to join the Library of Congress Writers’ Group. We need fiction and nonfiction writers, playwrights, screenwriters, poets—in other words, those who want to write, improve their craft, and meet other writers. The “Showcase of Talent,” which was displayed recently outside the LC Credit Union, probably was just a small sample of what Library writers have accomplished. But learning the writing Homegrown 2003: art, researching, drafting the composition, and revising are usually solitary and potentially lonely The Music of America endeavors. Beginners and other amateurs benefit from camaraderie and encouragement. They Concert Series need what author and writing teacher Raymond Obstfeld calls “the mingling factor.” A writers’ Concerts begin at noon on the Neptune Plaza. group should offer an opportunity to share ideas and insights, vent frustrations, and find new motivation to persevere. Sept. 18 2003 National Heritage Award With support and participation from enough writers of all genres and levels of skill, we can winners Robert and Lorenzo enjoy a lively forum, learn from one another, and feature presentations and speakers who will Martinez and Family perform benefit both amateurs and published writers. If you would like to join and add your input to the Hispanic music from New Mexico group’s direction and objectives, e-mail Ruth Brown at [email protected] or call 7-4760. ❑ 4 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 5

Marcia Norton, Kluge Fellow, received Through the John W. Kluge Center, scholars, Kluge postdoctoral fellows, and her Ph.D. from the University of Califor- the Library of Congress hosts qualified for postdoctoral fellows supported by nia, Berkeley and has been assistant scholars conducting research in its unpar- other private foundation gifts, as well as professor in the history department alleled collections for a period of up to easy access to the Library’s services and at George Washington University. Her one year. Established in 2000 through specialized staff. research project is “American Offerings: a $60 million endowment from John W. For more information about the John Tobacco and Chocolate in the Spanish Kluge, the center is located in the Library’s W. Kluge Center, contact the Office of Empire, 1492-1700.” Thomas Jefferson Building. The Kluge Scholarly Programs (phone: 7-3302; Karen Oslund, Mellon Fellow, Center furnishes work and discussion fax: 7-3595; e-mail: [email protected]: received her Ph.D. from the University space for the Kluge chair holders, other or Web site: www.loc.gov/kluge). ❑ of California, Los Angeles. She has been established chairs, distinguished visiting an instructor in the history department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She calls her research project “Of Kluge Center Events Whales and Men: The North Atlantic as SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER a Zone of Contested Scientific Ethics and Wednesday, Sept. 17 Visions: Narrative Cycles and the Authoring of Cultural Politics.” Lecture: Libby Larsen, holder of the Papamar- Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan” Michael Stone, distinguished visiting kou Chair in Education and Technology, “The 2:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building senior scholar, is a professor of Arme- Concert Hall That Fell Asleep and Woke Up as Thursday, Oct. 23 nian studies and the Gail Levin de Nur a Car Radio” Melhem D. Salman, Kluge Center Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Hebrew (Co-sponsored with Music Division) Scholar University, Jerusalem. A noted authority 6:30 p.m., Mumford Room, LM 649 Presentation: “Salman Al Farisi: Companion of on the Dead Sea scrolls, he will continue See www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-150.html the Prophet Mohammed, and the Main Initiator his translation of the Book of Adam Thursday, Sept. 18 of Interpretation (Ta’weel), Pursuit of Knowl- and examine several of the Library’s Brian Taves, Kluge Staff Fellow edge (Irfan) and Rationalism (Aklania), within Armenian manuscripts and Hebraica Presentation: “Thomas H. Ince, Pioneer Inde- Islam” 2:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building collections. pendent Producer” Man Shun Yeung, Kluge Fellow, 2:30 p.m., Pickford Theater, LM 301 Nov. 5 and 6 received his doctorate from the Graduate Tuesday, Sept. 23 Awarding of the first Kluge Prize School of Letters, Kyoto, Japan. He has Symposium: “Will Economic Reforms Lead to (To be announced) been a language instructor in the Chinese Democracy in China?” Thursday, Dec. 4 department of the University of Hong (Co-sponsored with Asian and Science, Tech- Susan Hirsch, Rockefeller Fellow in nology and Business Divisions) Islamic Studies Kong. He hopes to explore the image 1:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building of China in the eyes of 18th- and 19th- Presentation: “The Embassy Bombings See www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-139.html Reframed: Constructing Identities, Legal Mean- century Westerners in a project called Thursday, Oct. 2 ings, and Justice” (title of presentation subject “Western image of Canton (Guangzhou) Michael Chang, LC Fellow in International to change) and Its Inhabitants, 1760-1860.” Studies 2:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building Presentation: “The Southern Tours and the Thursday, Dec. 11 Courting of Jiangnan Elites in 18th century Robert Albro, LC Fellow in International The Science, Technology & China” Business Division presents Studies 2:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building Philip J. Wyatt, Ph.D. Presentation: “‘Popular’ Contortions: CEO, Wyatt Technology Corp. Thursday, Oct. 16 The Politics of Misrecognition and Modern Elizabeth Oyler, LC Fellow in International Bolivian Publics” (title of presentation “Bioterrorism: Studies subject to change) Detection & Presentation: “Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic 2:30 p.m., LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building Prevention”

Tuesday, The Humanities and Social Sciences Division offers Sept. 16, 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Research Orientation to the Library of Congress Pickford Theater, Presented from 10:30 a.m. to noon on the following Mondays: LM 301 September 15, 22, 29 October 6, 20, 27 Chicago Daily News, 1917, Library of Con- gress American Memory Collection November 3, 17, 24, LJ-G07, Jefferson Building Evening Sessions: 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 15, Oct. 6, Nov. 3 Request ADA Accomodations five business days in advance at 7-6362 or [email protected] Registration Required: Phone (202) 707-3370 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., or register in person in the Computer Catalog Center, Jefferson Building, first floor. www.loc.gov/rr/scitech 6 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 7

Lopez Responsible for Emergency Preparedness The Library’s Office of Security has evacuate LC buildings or “shelter in place.” Derek Ester, who has been detailed from reorganized as the Office of Security and He said he would base his decisions on Serial Records to the Office of Security Emergency Preparedness. discussions with the EMT and local and as a training support specialist; he is an Director for Security Kenneth Lopez federal emergency management agencies emergency medical technician and cap- is wearing another hat, as director for and on consultation with the Library’s tain of a volunteer rescue squad. emergencies. As such, he oversees chief operating officer, Deputy Librarian Lopez said the “designated agency the Library’s Emergency Management Donald L. Scott. safety and health official” (DASHO) is Team (EMT), which serves as an advi- If an emergency should take place responsible for health and safety policies sory and coordinating group rather than during “off hours,” the Library Police and programs relating to Occupational as a policy-making body, according to watch commander on duty would be Safety and Health Act (OSHA) require- Lopez. the decision-maker, Lopez said. ments rather than emergency prepared- In event of a severe emergency, such Security specialists Gary “Buck” ness. Scott is the DASHO. as a natural disaster or terrorist attack, Buchanan and Steve Hersh will serve as Jeff Goldberg, who was organizing Lopez said, he is the one in the Library emergency preparedness coordinators in and training staff emergency volun- who will decide the appropriate actions charge of planning, logistics, staff train- teers, such as zone wardens and floor for staff to take, for example whether to ing, and drills. They will be assisted by LOPEZ, Continues on page 7

2003 National Hispanic Heritage Month Events at the Library of Congress during Hispanic Heritage Month September-October 2003

Sept. 26—Panel discussion about Ecua- dorean Poet Laureate Jorge Carrera Andrade, sponsored by the Hispanic Division and the Embassy of Ecuador, Mumford Room, LM 649, 4 - 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception. Panelists will be moderator Georgette Dorn, chief, Hispanic Division; and literary critics Klaus Muller-Bergh, professor, University of Chicago; Enrique Ojeda, Opening Speaker, Closing Speaker, Dr. Richard H. Carmona professor, Boston College; and H. E. Raúl Gango- Gaddi H. Vasquez tena, ambassador of Ecuador. Sept. 29—LC’s Veterans History Project will Sept. 17—Opening Keynote Speaker, Richard host a program by filmmaker Sonya Rhee, who Traditions,” dance lessons and lecture by Abdul H. Carmona, M.D., U.S. surgeon general, Madison will introduce and discuss her 25-minute PBS Al-Ali, professional dance instructor, Mumford Hall, 10 - 11 a.m., followed by a reception. documentary, “Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam, Room, LM 649, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. the Documentary,” Pickford Theater, LM 301, Sept. 18—Martínez Brothers, guitarists from Oct. 1—Closing keynote speaker, Gaddi H. noon. New Mexico, sponsored by LC’s American Folklife Vasquez, director, U.S. Peace Corps, Madison Center, Neptune Plaza, noon - 1 p.m. Sept. 30—“Exploring the Hispanic World,” Hall, 10 - 11 a.m., followed by a reception. John Hébert, chief, Geography and Map Division, Sept. 19—“Fiesta Latina,” music by George Oct. 11—Library of Congress Hispanic Read- West Dining Room, LM 621, noon - 1 p.m. Washington University’s “Los Gringos Latin Jazz ing Room Open House, Jefferson Building, Room Band,” Mumford Room, LM 649, Oct. 1—Film, “The Bronze Screen,” Part II, LJ 240, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. 12:30 - 2 p.m. Pickford Theater, LM 301, noon - 1 p.m. Oct. 14—Flamenco Program, sponsored by Sept. 24—Film, “The Bronze Screen,” Oct. 3—Hispanic Dance Festival: “Exploring the American Folklife Center, Mumford Room, Part I, Pickford Theater, LM 301, noon - 1 p.m. Latin American, Caribbean, and Philippine Dance noon - 1 p.m.

Carlos J. Olave, senior reference librarian, Hispanic Division, Co-Chair, 2003 National Hispanic Heritage Month Planning Committee, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4850, TEL: 202-707-3702, FAX: 202-707-2005, E-mail: [email protected] 6 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 7

Staff May Register for Bone Marrow Donations Library staff may volunteer for the tions. Staff wishing to donate marrow To ensure that all patients have an National Marrow Donor Program at the may ascertain whether they qualify medi- equal chance of finding a matched donor, next two regularly scheduled blood drives cally during the registration process or the program has several minority recruit- at LC from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sept. 19 and by visiting the Health Services Office at ment programs. Minority patients will Sept. 26 (see ad below for rooms). LM G40. continue to benefit from the addition The American Red Cross will provide According to the Library’s Health of more African Americans, Latinos, information about the marrow-donation Services Office, the National Marrow American Indians, Alaskan natives, program. Prospective donors may regis- Donor Program, a nonprofit organiza- Asian, native Hawaiian and other Pacific ter and have their blood typed at the same tion based in Minneapolis, Minn., is the Islanders to the registry. time they donate blood. It is also pos- international leader in finding and match- The Health Services Office asks that sible to be placed on the marrow-donor ing donors unrelated to patients needing staff consider this opportunity to volun- registry without donating blood. marrow donations and blood stem-cell teer and show their support by joining The American Red Cross has been transplants. Since its founding in 1986, the program. ❑ awarded a grant to cover the cost of the donor program has facilitated more typing blood for the marrow donor than 15,000 bone marrow transplants LOPEZ, Continued from Page 6 program so there is no cost to volunteer for patients with no matching donors in donors. their families. and disability monitors, and coordinating Staff may register as marrow donors By recruiting committed donors, the Library-wide evacuation and shelter-in- if they are between the ages of 18 and program maintains the largest and most place plans and exercises, has resigned 60 and in general good health. No test- diverse registry of potential volunteer from his position as LC’s emergency ing will be performed if volunteers have marrow and blood stem cell donors in the management program officer. General elevated, uncontrolled blood pressure world. Patients with various types of leu- Physics of Tampa, Fla., hired him as a (hypertension greater than 140/90 is kemia, Hodgkin’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s homeland security coordinator to plan acceptable if it is controlled by medi- lymphoma, sickle cell anemia, aplastic counter-terrorist responses and training cation); serious asthma that requires anemia, and plasma cell and platelet dis- for state and local governments in the hospitalization; or several other condi- orders may benefit from bone marrow southeast region of the United States. transplants. His last day at LC was Aug. 8. ❑ American Red Cross Blood Drive The LCPA Book Club will meet at Help Design Employees’ Art, Blood Drive Dates 1 p.m., Sept. 18, in LM 107. The Crafts Show Catalog Cover 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. September selection is: “What The LCPA Employees Art and Crafts Exhibit Committee is soliciting designs for the cover Sept. 19, Classroom A/B, LM 654 Becomes of the Brokenhearted?” of the art show catalog this year. The design Sept. 26, West Dining Room, LM 621 by E. Lynn Harris. will be used for the catalog cover, invitations, and name tags. The design submissions should include the following typographical elements: “Thirty-Second Annual LCPA LCPA Sells Arena Stage Tickets Employee Arts and Crafts Exhibit, December 4, 2003 - February 27, 2004.” For additional This year, LCPA will sell tickets for the following three information and to submit cover designs, call productions: Von Smith 7-1416. Submissions are due by “Shakespeare in Hollywood” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, COB, Oct. 24.. Oct. 4. A single ticket costs $50 for a front-row seat in the Fichandler Theater; buyers may claim a tax deduction of $13.25 per ticket. Genealogy Research Orientation “Camelot” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21. The single-ticket Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and 15, price is $55 for a front-row seat in the Fichandler theater; the Nov. 5 and 19, Dec. 3 and 17. tax deduction is $13.50 a ticket. “Crowns” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14. The single-ticket 10 - 11:30 a.m., LJ-G42, Jefferson Building price is $50 for mezzanine seating in the Kreeger Theater; the This orientation class, Published tax deduction is $12. Resources for Genealogical Research at LC, Those who purchase tickets to all three performances is open to all researchers. will receive an additional discount. For more information and to register, go to LJ G42 or call 7-5537 between 8:30 a.m. To order tickets or ask questions, contact Robert Handloff and 5 p.m., Monday - Saturday. at 7-4443 or e-mail him at [email protected] . Presented by LC’s Local History and Genealogy Reading Room. 8 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 9

CONCERTS, Continued from Page 1 A special miniseries, “Jazz at the Neptune Plaza. Tickets are distributed Nation’s Library,” will bring veteran by Ticketmaster at (301) 808-6900 or (410) In May 2004, the Library will host vocalist Jimmy Scott and the Jazz Expres- 752-1200. Each ticket carries a service “Man About Town,” a program of works sions, singer Meredith D’Ambrosio, and charge of $2, with additional charges from its Leonard Bernstein Collection. the Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio to perform for phone orders and handling. Tickets The same month will feature the Dave in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. are also available at Ticketmaster outlets Holland Quintet; the explosive stylings of The Library’s concerts are offered and online at www.ticketmaster.com. Full Circle Souljahs, a group of perform- under the auspices of a major program Although the supply of tickets may be ers exploring the “full circle” of hip-hop initiative, I Hear America Singing. Taking exhausted, there are often empty seats culture; as well as the authentic folk its theme from a Walt Whitman poem, the at concert time. Interested patrons are sounds of Hazel Dickens and Helen series encompasses concerts, lectures, encouraged to come to the Library by 6: Schneyer, living links to the mountain master classes, symposia, educational 30 p.m. on concert nights to wait in the and bluegrass traditions, co-presented outreach projects, and a Web site standby line for no-show tickets. with the American Folklife Center. celebrating the American musical heri- Unless otherwise noted, all concerts Concerts from the Library of Congress tage—classical and popular, sacred and are at 8 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium, will also present Ethel, an amplified string secular, music from America’s cities and located on the ground floor of the Thomas quartet that infuses classical music with a songs from its heartland. Jefferson Building. For further informa- rock-and-roll edge. World music enthusi- All Library concerts and other public tion about Concerts from the Library of asts can tune their ears to SpFlimenninir, programs are presented free to the public Congress, call the Concert Information a folk group based in the Faeroe Islands but require tickets for admission. No tick- Line, at 7-5502, or visit the Web site at between Iceland and Norway, and The ets are required for noontime events in www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert. Pro- Spirit of FPs, a program of Moroccan, this series, which are offered from noon grams are subject to change without Algerian, and American artists from the to 1 p.m. in the Library’s Coolidge Audi- notice. (See fall schedule on page 9.) ❑ Festival of World Sacred Music. torium or on the Jefferson Building’s Composer Libby Larsen to Discuss Music and Technology Composer Libby Larsen, the Harissios tra, has created more than 200 works selected her opera, “Frankenstein, The Papamarkou Scholar in Education and spanning genre from intimate vocal Modern Prometheus,” as one of the eight Technology at the Library, will present a and chamber music to massive orches- best classical music events of 1990. lecture titled “The Concert Hall That Fell tral and opera scores. Her commissions Larsen was named to the Harissios Asleep and Woke up as a Car Radio” at and recordings, prized for their inspired, Papamarkou Chair in Education and 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the contemporary American spirit, are a testa- Technology in the John W. Kluge Center Mumford Room, LM 649. ment to her fruitful collaborations with a of the Library in June 2003. The holder of Sponsored by the Library’s John W. long list of world-renowned artists. Lars- this chair, which was established through Kluge Center and the Music Division, the en’s works are widely recorded on such a gift from investment banker Alexander event is free and open to the public. labels as Angel/EMI, Nonesuch, Decca, Papamarkou (deceased 1998) in honor One of America’s most prolific and and Koch International Classics. of his grandfather, explores issues of performed living composers, Larsen will Her opera, “Barnum’s Bird,” which the education and technology that have an address ways in which transportation and Library and the Odyssey Commissioning impact on the Library of Congress and technology have affected various aspects Program of the Plymouth Music Series the nation. of music in the United States and abroad. commissioned in honor of the Library’s For more information about the Specifically, she will discuss the manner 200th anniversary, had its world premiere Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Educa- in which music has been and is taught in the Coolidge Auditorium in February tion and Technology or any of the other in American schools and conservatories; 2002. fellowships, grants, and programs offered the effect that westward expansion in this Her awards and accolades include the by the John W. Kluge Center, contact the country and globalization abroad has had 2003 Eugene McDermott Award given by Office of Scholarly Programs by telephone on the use and perception of music by the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- (7-3302), fax (7-3595), or visit the Web listeners, performers, and composers; the ogy, the 1994 Grammy as producer of the at www.loc.gov/kluge. role and function of music in people’s CD, “The Art of Arleen Augér,” a Lifetime everyday lives; as well as the future of Achievement Award from the American Hispanic Reading Room musical expression and its link to tech- Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships nology. from the National Endowment for the Arts OPEN HOUSE Saturday, Oct. 11, Larsen, the first woman to serve as and the Bush Foundation, and numerous 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., LJ 240 resident composer with a major orches- honorary doctorate degrees. USA Today 8 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 9

x Concerts from the Library of Congress The concert schedule for the first half of the 2003-2004 season, September through December, follows. Winter and spring 2004 concerts will be advertised in The Gazette.

Sept. 30: Oct. 22: op. 33, no. 1 Dec. 5: Workshop and jam session Juilliard String Quartet with Mozart: String Quartet in G Major, New York Festival of Song honoring Dave Brubeck Christopher Oldfather, piano K. 387 (dedicated to Haydn) Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, 7 p.m. in Coolidge; no tickets Bach: Contrapuncti I-IV from The Tickets available Sept. 24. artistic directors required. Art of Fugue Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Babbitt: Joy of More Sextets Nov. 8: the New York Festival of Song Oct. 1: (McKim Commission) Chano Domínguez Septet showcases singers Sylvia McNair, Dave Brubeck and his Quartet, Beethoven cycle (Part II): String “Cádiz in the soul and Monk in the Judy Kaye, Joseph Kaiser and with the Brubeck Institute Sextet Quartet, op. 130 / Grosse fingers,” pianist Domínguez and his pianist Steve Blier in music from The legendary jazz pianist-com- Fuge, op. 133 trio are joined by three accompa- the Vernon Duke and the Richard poser leads his famed quartet, Tickets available Sept. 17. nying performers (a player of the Rodgers collections in the Library joined by six gifted young musi- Afro-Peruvian cajon, a singer, and of Congress. Tickets available Oct. cians from the Brubeck Institute Oct. 24: a dancer) for hybrid music that 22. under the direction of bassist Juilliard String Quartet with merges the old gypsy tradition with Christian McBride. Tickets avail- Charles Neidich, clarinet the leading edge of jazz. Tickets Dec. 12: able Sept. 10. Bartók: String Quartet no. 1, op. 7 available Sept. 24. Hesperus & Friends Babbitt: Clarinet Quintet Hesperus members––co-direc- Oct. 16: Beethoven cycle (Part II): String Nov. 14: tors Scott Reiss and Tina Chancey, Ethel Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 131 Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Grant Herreid, Bruce Hutton and A string quartet that transcends Tickets available Sept. 17. Composer of symphonies, operas Rosa Lamoreaux––are joined by taste, genre, and style to embrace and ballets, three-time Oscar nomi- fiddlers Peter Sutherland, Elke music of our time, Ethel takes the Oct. 28: nee for his film scores, and jazz Baker, and a trio of cloggers in audience on an intense and mus- Chilingirian String Quartet pianist, and one of the most versa- “Winter Light,” a heartwarming cular ride of arena-rock propor- Mozart: String Quartet in C Major, tile British composer-performers of celebration of the winter season tions. Tickets available Sept. 10. K. 465 (“Dissonance”) today, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett with music that crosses cultural Bartók: String Quartet no. 5 invites the audience to a cabaret and historical boundaries. Tickets Oct. 17: (Coolidge Commission) featuring his own works and selec- available Oct. 29. Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio Dvorák: String Quartet in D Major, tions from the American songbook. Winner of the 2002 Best Latin op. 106 Tickets available Oct. 1. Dec. 16: Jazz Grammy, Afro-Cuban jazz Tickets available Sept. 17. Menahem Pressler, piano pianist-composer Gonzalo Nov. 19: On this day of Beethoven’s birth, Rubalcaba—with Ignacio Berroa Oct. 30: Juilliard String Quartet with the quintessential chamber on drums and Armando Gola on Music from China Masao Kawasaki, viola musician and founding pianist bass—interweaves musical idioms An ensemble that offers the sights Beethoven: String Quintet in C of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio from the rhythms of rumba to and sounds of “silk strings and Major, op. 29 celebrates his own 80th birthday strongly classical components. bamboo winds” with fiddles and Beethoven cycle (Part II): String with a solo recital on the Coolidge Tickets available Sept. 10. flutes; the ancient sounds of the Quartet in A Minor, op. 132 stage. The program includes pipa and erhu; and the percussive Tickets available Oct. 8. Schubert and Chopin. Tickets avail- Oct. 21: strength of gongs and wood- able Nov. 5. SpFlimenninir blocks—in works by Zhou Long, Nov. 21: Based in the Faeroe Islands Chen Yi, Zhou Qinru, and James Juilliard String Quartet with Brent Dec. 18: between Iceland and Norway, Mobberley. Tickets available Sept. McMunn, piano Juilliard String Quartet with SpFlimenninir (“the folk musi- 24. Haydn: String Quartet in F Minor, Marcy Rosen, cello cians”)––a native Faeroese, a op. 55, no. 2 (“The Razor”) Schubert: Quintet in C Major, D. 956 Swede, two Americans and two Nov. 7: Hoiby: Serenade for Violin and Beethoven cycle (conclusion): Danes––perform traditional and Kodály String Quartet Piano (McKim Commission) String Quartet in B-flat major, op. contemporary folk music and song Haydn: String Quartet in E Major, Beethoven cycle (Part II): String 130 from Scandinavia and America on op. 2, no. 2 Quartet in F Major, op. 135 Tickets available Nov. 5. fiddle, recorder, piano, guitar, man- Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Tickets available Oct. 8. dolin, and acoustic bass. Tickets op. 20, no. 4 available Sept. 17. Haydn: String Quartet in B Minor, 10 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 11

Study Group Seeks Ideas for Library Services for Staff Library Services is exploring options tronic resources. staff to participate by taking part in a short to improve research-and-reference ser- The study group is looking at the Web-based survey from Sept. 15 through vices for Library staff. practices of the special library commu- 19, at www.loc.gov/staff/ls/psc/sls/staff. A Staff Library and Information Ser- nity, especially other federal libraries, Please take a moment to complete the vices Study Group has been appointed by for models of both in-person and virtual survey, and help us plan your library and Library Services directors to look at work- information services. Services that help information services. related library and information needs, staff use resources themselves, as well as The Staff Library and Information Ser- review current and previous library ser- services that can answer questions and vices Study Group may be contacted by vices, and recommend how to improve deliver information for staff members, are e-mail at [email protected]. For more infor- and reinvigorate those services. being evaluated. The goal is to get the mation, visit the Web site listed above. The goal is to help staff make more needed information to staff members as Study group members are Lee Avdoyan, efficient use of their time and Library efficiently as possible so they can con- African, Middle Eastern Division; Fehl resources in support of their work. The centrate on the tasks at hand. For more Cannon, Acquisitions Directorate; Tim study group will report its findings and background information, see the study Carlton, Technical Processing and recommendations to Library Services group’s Web page at www.loc.gov/staff/ Automation Instruction Office (TPAIO); directors in October. ls/psc/sls/staff Cheryl Cook, Cataloging Distribution Ser- The study group is concentrating on vice; Erik Delfino, study group chairman, the following three major areas: Help Us Help You Integrated Library System; Kathy Eighmey, • research/reference support for The study group needs the assistance FEDLINK; Gary Huggens, Social Sciences work-related information needs— making of the Library staff in assessing the scope Cataloging Division; Marilyn Parr, Digital staff (including reference staff and other of information needs and suggesting Reference Team; Joe Puccio, Acquisi- Parking Notice experts) aware of resources available at ideas for possible approaches to assist- tions Directorate; Joan Weeks, TPAIO; the Library and assisting with their use; ing Library Services staff. and Carol Zimmermann, Preservation providing access to material beyond The study group invites all Library Directorate. ❑ LC collections via interlibrary loan and document delivery; and providing Parking Campaign virtual/digital library services. • tools and services to help staff keep Integrated Support Services Parking Program Office has announced that applications up with developments in the library and are being accepted for the parking campaign that runs from Oct. 19, 2003, through April IT professions; examples are electronic 17, 2004. “current-awareness” services, such Applications are being accepted from Sept. 15 through Oct. 3 in the following categories: as Web sites, and briefings and other carpool, special schedule, after 3 p.m., length of service, motorcycle, and bicycle. presentations. Apply online at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/staff/iss/parking.html • training and support in the use of Acceptance notification will begin Oct. 13. the Library’s growing collection of elec-

Lewis and Clark Symposium: Companion to Library’s exhibition National Book Festival 2003 Needs Workers “Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Meet new people and have tons Clark and the Revealing of America.” of fun on Oct. 4 by working at the National Book Festival. THURSDAY SEPT.18 Morning session, “Expectations and Realities of To showcase the Library’s the American West”: James P. Ronda, 10 a.m., and collections, products, and services Carolyn Gilman, 11 a.m. in the Library of Congress Afternoon session, “Cartography and the pavilion, contact Angela Kinney American West”: John Logan Allen, professor of geography at the University of Wyoming, 2:30 p.m., ([email protected] or 7-5572). and Ralph Ehrenberg, former chief of the Library’s To work in other pavilions Geography and Map Division, at 3:30 p.m. Reception and book signing, 5:30 p.m. Coolidge throughout the festival, contact Auditorium. Presented by Interpretive Programs Teri Sierra ([email protected] or Office and Geography and Map Division, with the 7-5277). As in the past, volunteers will work one shift only in order to be able to assistance of the Office of Scholarly Programs. Call 7-3323 to reserve space. enjoy the festival as well. Request ASL and ADA accomodations Please give your name, telephone extension, e-mail, and mail code when responding. five days in advance at 7-6362. If you have physical limitations, please let organizers know. 10 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 SEPTEMBER 12, 2003 THE GAZETTE 11

MILESTONES September 2003 years; Kathryn B. Murphy, budget offi- visory social science analyst, 20 years, Peter Lu, librarian, 40 years; Susan cer, 30 years; Raphael Perl, foreign affairs Carroll L. Johnson, exhibit specialist, C. Biebel, librarian, 35 years; Yvonne analyst, 30 years; Stephanie Smith, 20 years; Albert T. Jones, library techni- J. Brooks, library technician, 35 years; social science analyst, 30 years; Jasper cian, 20 years; Michiko Y. Kitsmiller, Jean L. Clark, library technician, 35 Womach, economist, 30 years; Jeffrey library technician, 20 years; Kenneth M. years; Lenuex O. Davis, police officer, A. Cole, supervisory copyright examiner, Mackie, administrative officer, 20 years; 35 years; Robert B. Ewald, librarian, 25 years; Sharon L. Hunt-Waters, infor- Kenneth Nyirady, librarian, 20 years; 35 years; Kenneth E. Harris, program mation technology specialist, 25 years; Gwendolyn Roberts, information tech- manager, 35 years; Carl E. Iskow, Francine S. Liem, supervisory librarian, nology specialist, 20 years; Geraldine D. library technician, 35 years; Walter J. 25 years; William S. Lucas, police officer, Robinson, library technician, 20 years; Oleszek, social science analyst, 35 years; 25 years; Margery T. Maier, administra- Thomas Tsai, librarian, 20 years; John Predrag P. Pajic, librarian, 35 years; tive officer, 25 years;Madeline F. Matz, Williamson, technical information Janice E. Rubin, attorney adviser, 35 librarian, 25 years; Sharon N. Sharp, specialist, 20 years; and Pamela K. years; Ronald D. Smith, police officer, library technician, 25 years; Charlotte Watkins, library technician, 10 years. 35 years; Leda V. Starks, secretary, 35 Y. Brown, library technician, 20 years; years; Milicent K. Wewerka, librarian, Christopher J. Cephas, warehouse 35 years; Shirlena M. Butler, adminis- worker, 20 years; Mary F. Coleman, Carpools Maryland trative officer, 30 years;Mary L. Dunk- clerk-typist, 20 years; Tony M . Good- Rider seeks carpool from Lanham, Md. ley, administrative support assistant, 30 man, information technology specialist, Call Phyllis at 7-4222. years; Charles Gialloreto, information 20 years; Paul J. Graney, social science Rider seeks carpool from Clinton, Md. technology specialist, 30 years; Lynne analyst, 20 years; Mark E. Holt, super- Call Gloria at 7-6135. W. Hammette, supervisory interior Established carpool seeks rider. designer, 30 years; Paula Hogan, Originates in Calvert County, with possible meeting points along Rt. copyright technician, 30 years; Judy C. The Library of Congress Philatelic Club 4/Pennsylvania Ave. 6:30 - 4 p.m. McDermott, administrative librarian, 30 schedule. Call Ken Schaaf at 7-4506. All meetings are at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays in the Decimal Classification Conference Carpools Virginia Room, LM 5th Floor, Green Core, Sept. The Caregiving Discussion Group 16, Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, Nov. 18, Established carpool meeting at 395 and Dec. 2, Dec. 16. will meet from noon to 1 p.m. in LM Edsall Road seeks driver/rider. Call Vera Contact John Roberts at 7-3129 for more information. 623 (yellow core) on the following at 7-3943. Wednesdays this fall: Carpool seeks driver/rider from Sept. 17, Oct. 8, Oct. 22, Nov. 5, Stafford/Fredericksburg. Call Liz at 7- Nov. 19, Dec. 10 National Book Festival 0968 or Michael at 7-0924. Poster Available Driver seeks carpool from Route 28 or Pick up posters for the National Book Festival, scheduled for Oct. 4, in the Stringfellow area at I-66 (Centreville Public Affairs Office, LM 105. area). Call Jen at 7-7669 or email Donated Leave [email protected]. The following Library employees have satis- Rider seeks carpool from Old Town fied the eligibility requirements of Library of Congress Regulation (LCR) 2015-13 to receive Alexandria, Va. Call Roger at 7-6710. leave donations from other staff members. Driver wanted for established carpool Participants in the voluntary leave trans- from Kings Park West/Burke area of fer program have exhausted other sources of leave during their medical emergencies and Fairfax County. Call Mike at 7-9890 or greatly appreciate leave donations. e-mail [email protected]. Individuals wishing to receive leave or donate leave through this program should contact the acting Program Manager, Runako Balondemu, at 7-1545. FRLI Andrea Ball Sandra Johnson Focusing on Real Life Issues will meet on Alice Butler Robert Jordan Tamille Brown Patricia Lash Sept. 18, noon - 1:30 p.m. in the Pickford Kathleen Cabana Tameka Lyons Theater, LM 301. James Childress Laura Monagle Lucille Cook Charlyn Pyne Stephen Daggett Glenda Richardson Tamikia Epperson Bonnie Roberts MAIL?? Patricia Grant Francine Via Questions, Tracking of Express Items, Vanessa Guess Muriel Washington Comments, Mail Delivery Denise Hamlet Call LOC Mail Call Center, 301-336-8820 Monday Mitchell Harrison through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 12 THE GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 12, 2003

CALENDAR Madison Hall. F R I D AY 1 2 7-3323 to reserve space. Stroke Education: Mindy Facenda. Aerobic Classes: High-Low. 11:45 Aerobic Classes: Low-Impact Class. 10 a.m., West Dining Room, LM 621. a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA-B36. 11:45 a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA- Sponsored by Health Services. Contact, JoAnn Thomas, 7-8637. B36. Contact, JoAnn Thomas, 7-8637. Tai Chi Class: Beginning level 2. Noon Concert: Martinez Brothers, Film: “The Gong Show Movie” (1980), 11:30 a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA- guitarists from New Mexico and win- 7 p.m., Pickford Theater, LM 301. B36. Call S.W. Chen at 7-3284. ners of the National Endowment for Books & Beyond: Ralph Eubanks, the Arts 2003 National Heritage Fellow M O N D AY 1 5 director of publishing, discusses his award. Noon, Neptune Plaza. Spon- new book, “Ever Is a Long Time: A Jour- sored by the American Folklife Center LCPA Social: Introduction to the LCPA ney Into Mississippi’s Dark Past.” Noon, as a National Hispanic Heritage Month for current and new employees. Light Mumford Room, LM 649. Event. refreshments will be served. 11:30 a.m. Gallery Talk: Gerard Gawalt, Man- Language Table: ASL (American Sign - 1:30 p.m., West Dining Room, LM 621. uscript Division, discusses Jefferson’s Language). Noon, LM 623. Coordina- Tai Chi Class: Beginning level 1, 11:30 instructions to Lewis and Clark. Noon, tor Toby French, [email protected] a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA-B36. Call “Rivers, Edens, Empires,” Northwest Language Table: Tagalog (instruc- S. W. Chen at 7-3284. Gallery of the Jefferson Building. tional). Noon, Serial Conference Room, LM 515. Call Herminia Smith, 7-6176. Language Table: Beginning Hebrew Aerobic Classes: Low-Impact. (instructional). 12:10 p.m., LM 453. 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness Center, LA- Language Table: Portuguese. Noon, Call Peter Kearney, 7-4326. B36. Contact, JoAnn Thomas, 7-8637. Hanke Conference Room, Hispanic Division, LJ 240. Call Carlos Olave, Ballroom Dancing: Instruction. 12:30 Lecture: “When History Speaks,” a 7-3702. p.m., Dining Room A, LM 620. program by three gay and lesbian veterans. 1 p.m., Dining Room A, LM Language Table: Italian. Noon, ITS T U E S D AY 1 6 620. Sponsored by the Veterans History Conference Room, LM-G51B. Call Project and GLOBE. Denise Gallo, 7-6937. Lecture: “Bioterrorism: Detection and Kluge Center Lecture: “The Concert Language Table: Arabic Advanced Protection,” by Philip Wyatt, founder Hall That Fell Asleep and Woke Up as a (instructional). Noon, LM-G35. Call and CEO of Wyatt Technology Corpora- Car Radio,” by composer Libby Larsen, Nawal A. Kawar, 7-4708. tion, Santa Barbara, Calif. 11:30 a.m., holder of the Papamarkou Chair. 6:30 Language Table: Hungarian. Call Pickford Theater, LM 301. Presented by p.m., Mumford Room, LM 649. Eniko Basa, 7-5774 for location. the Science, Technology and Business Division. Lecture: “Discovery of the New World Real Life Issues: Noon, Pickford The- Through Old Maps,” by Wes Brown, ater, LM 301. Aerobic Classes: High-Low. 11:45 founder and past president of the Rocky Kluge Center: a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA-B36. Mountain Map Society. 7 p.m., Geog- “Thomas Harper Ince and the Early History of the Film Indus- Contact, JoAnn Thomas, 7-8637. raphy and Map Division Reading Room, try,” film review and presentation by Language Table: Beginning Arabic LM-B01. Sponsored by the Geography Brian Taves, Kluge Staff Fellow. 2:30 - 4 (instructional). Noon, LM-G35. Call and Map Division and the Washington p.m., Pickford Theater, LM 301. Spon- Nawal A. Kawar, 7-4708. Map Society. sored by Office of Scholarly Programs. Language Table: Turkish. Noon, Film: “Man in the Wilderness” (1971). LM 527. Call Joan Weeks, 7-3657. THURSDAY 18 7 p.m., Pickford Theater, LM 301. Lecture/Reception: Illustrator Anita Lewis and Clark Symposium: Com- Kunz, whose creations have appeared panion to Library’s exhibition “Rivers, on the covers of Time, Newsweek, The F R I D AY 1 9 Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and New Yorker, Rolling Stone, among other the Revealing of America.” Morning Bloodmobile: Volunteers may give magazines, will give a lecture in con- session, “Expectations and Reali- blood and register for bone-marrow junction with a Swann Gallery exhibition ties of the American West”: James P. donations. 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Class- of her work. Lecture at 2 p.m., Mumford Ronda, 10 a.m., and Carolyn Gilman, room A/B, LM 654. Room, LM 649, followed by reception at 11 a.m. Afternoon session, “Cartog- 4:30 p.m., Madison Hall. Aerobic Classes: Low-Impact. raphy and the American West”: John 11:45 a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA- Film: “Westward Ho The Wagons!” Logan Allen, professor of geography B36. Contact, JoAnn Thomas, 7-8637. (1957). 6:30 p.m., Pickford Theater, at the University of Wyoming, 2:30 Fiesta Latina: Music by George LM 301. p.m., and Ralph Ehrenberg, former Washington University’s “Los Gringos chief of the Library’s Geography and Latin Jazz Band,” a National Hispanic Map Division, at 3:30 p.m. Reception WEDNESDAY 17 Heritage Month event. 12:30 - 2 p.m., and book signing, 5:30 p.m. Coolidge Mumford Room, LM 649. Hispanic Heritage: Keynote speaker, Auditorium. Presented by Interpretive Richard H. Carmona, M.D., U.S. sur- Programs Office and Geography and Film: “Once Upon a Time in the West” geon general, opens National His- Map Division, with the assistance of (1968). 6:30 p.m., Pickford Theater, panic Heritage Month at LC. 10 a.m., the Office of Scholarly Programs. Call LM 301.