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Gazette Volume 22, No. 39 • October 14, 2011 • A weekly publication for Library staff Bacharach, David

Named Recipients Cindy Moore of Gershwin Prize

Burt Bacharach and , the songwriting team that produced classics such as “Walk on By,” “What the World Needs Now is Love” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” have been named recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Grammy- and Academy Award- Project One: winning songwriters each will receive the Gershwin Medal next spring at an Delivering the Web Strategy all-star tribute staged in Washington, D.C. The announcement marked a Ger- Learn More: By Emmet Devine shwin Prize first: Bacharach and David Staff members are invited to attend a are the only songwriting team ever to be briefing on Project One on Oct. 27 from 10 honored. The prize previously had been ork has begun on “Project One,” to 11:30 a.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium. awarded only to individuals: Paul Simon, the next, aggressive phase of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. W implementing the Library web allows the Library’s websites to adapt to “The timeless hits by strategy developed by the Web Gover- new technology and user demands. and Hal David have helped launch the nance Board last year. Project One is a carefully sequenced careers of many of our nation’s most Project One, which involves all Library series of tasks designed to accomplish celebrated performers, and they continue service units, will create a new web pres- maximum progress in the shortest amount to be played on iPods, radio, television, ence that is easier for users to search and of time. As Project One progresses, the in movies, and performed in cabarets to browse, to find what they need and to detailed look, feel and content for web and on the Broadway stage,” Librarian understand what they have found. The pages of the core areas will be estab- of Congress James H. Billington said in goal of Project One is to begin building lished. announcing the award. “The success of a web presence that truly reflects the The new pages will have unifying their creative genius continues today as breadth, quality, expertise and authority elements and consistency across the core they each add new songs to what is with- of the Library. areas but also will be tailored to the core out question one of the richest and most In 2010, the Web Governance Board areas’ distinct content and specialized recognizable multi-generational playlists (WGB) created a web strategy that identi- user needs. known to the world. Their creative talents fied three core areas of the Library’s web Currently, many Library items are have inspired songwriters for more than presence: the National Library, informa- organized online in groups or by Library five decades, and their legacy is much in tion by and for Congress, and Copyright. organization. Under Project One, a new the tradition of George and , Based on the strategy, the WGB created framework will be developed to handle for whom this award is named.” information architectures – blueprints each individual collection item as one David, 90, a lyricist, and Bacharach, for a website’s organization, search and “object” – made easily findable by a 83, who wrote the music, first began navigation systems – for each of these search – and to associate related objects collaborating in the 1950s at the Famous core areas. into “sets.” Paramount Music Co. in New York’s sto- In the next 12 months, Project One will The newly designed pages for col- ried Brill Building. Today, their songs use these blueprints to redesign the user lection items will include links to these continue to be recorded by such artists experience and to establish a technical sets so that users, upon finding one item Gershwin, continued on page 5 foundation for future development that one, continued on page 4 2 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette October 14, 2011

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Upcoming Gazette New Poet Laureate to Give Inaugural Reading www.loc.gov/staff/gazette

JENNIFER GAVIN Literary Season Opener Acting Executive Editor Mark Hartsell Oct. 17, 7 p.m. Editor Coolidge Auditorium Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; of the World,” described by The New Lisa Davis, Donated Leave York Times Sunday Book Review as Proofreader: George Thuronyi Design and Production: Ashley Jones “characteristically wise.” peter braestrup Gail FinebErg James W. Mcclung He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher (1990 – 2009) “The Simple Truth” and the National (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 1994) Book Award in 1991 for “What Work An official publication of the Library of Congress, The Gazette Is” and in 1980 for “Ashes: Poems New encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and Frances Levine and Old.” photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to convey the most necessary information. Born in Detroit in 1928, Levine Philip Levine, whose poetry has Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one received degrees from Wayne State week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital honored the working man for almost form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached half a century, will give his inaugu- University and the University of Iowa Microsoft Word file. Writer’s Workshop. As a student, he Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public ral reading as the 18th poet laureate Affairs Office, LM 105. consultant in poetry at the Library of worked at Detroit’s auto-manufacturing Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current Congress on Oct. 17. plants. issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. Librarian of Congress James H. Bil- Levine has said about writing poems

lington announced Levine’s appoint- during his factory days: “I believed Library of Congress ment on Aug. 10. even then that if I could transform my Washington, DC 20540-1620 Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] “Philip Levine is one of America’s experience into poetry, I would give it Design and production: Ashley Jones, great narrative poets,” Billington said the value and dignity it did not begin 7-9193, [email protected] to possess on its own.” ISSN 1049-8184 in announcing the selection. “His Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the plainspoken lyricism has, for half a A book signing will follow the Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services century, championed the art of telling reading in the Coolidge Auditorium, ‘The Simple Truth’ – about working in which kicks off the 2011–12 literary Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff season. Tickets and reservations are Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful a Detroit auto factory, as he has, and debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspa- about the hard work we do to make not required, but early arrival is rec- per editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether or how much sense of our lives.” ommended. to publish, we consider content (including misstatements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal Levine is the author of 20 collec- More information is available at attacks, and redundancy) and length (the limit is 600 words). tions of poems, most recently “News www.loc.gov/poetry/. Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work and telephone extension should be included so we can verify author- ship. 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 How are We Doing? Let Us Know will ask for management response.—Ed.

We’re surveying Library staff to find out how we can make the Gazette a better Gazette Deadlines staff news outlet. Please take a moment to complete the 10-minute survey at The deadline for editorial copy for the Oct. 28 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LOCGazette. Gazette is Wednesday, Oct. 19. E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor If you don’t have access to a computer, a paper version of the survey is to [email protected]. available in LM 105. All responses are completely confidential, and your To promote events through the Library’s online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) opinions will help us build a better Gazette. and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and contact information to [email protected] by 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. Boxed announcements should be submitted electronically (text files) by 9 a.m. Monday Read the Gazette in color at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette the week of publication to [email protected]. October 14, 2011 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 3

News On New Map in Library’s Collections, the World is Flat

as “the Bible Map of the World.” meet him at a local restaurant. Over coffee By Donna Urschel In the bottom corner of the map, and pie, Hildreth presented him with he advertised, “Send 25 cents to the the map, which had been in Hildreth’s For 40 years, Don Homuth displayed author, Prof. Orlando Ferguson, for a family for years, passed down from his the “Map of the Square and Stationary book explaining the Square and Station- grandfather in South Dakota. Earth” on the wall of his home, most ary Earth. It Knocks the Globe Theory “John told me I was the only person recently in his dining room. It was a who would appreciate the his- dependable conversation starter tory and humor of this map with guests – not many people and how strange it is – and it’s get to view a flat-Earth map from pretty strange,” Homuth said. 1893. When Homuth decided When Homuth and his to part with the map, he con- wife, Kathy Cegla, residents of ducted research and learned Salem, Ore., decided it was time the map was rare. He found to change the wall décor and another copy in the Pioneer retire the map, they wanted to Museum of Hot Springs, Fer- find it a good home. Not only is guson’s hometown, but it was the map an interesting oddity, it missing the bottom portion. is somewhat rare. The donation to the Homuth e-mailed the Geog- Library generated substan- raphy and Map Division to see tial media publicity, including if the Library wanted the map. South Dakota public radio, Robert Morris, a senior technical USA Today and the London information specialist, checked Daily Mail – coverage that led the database, analyzed nearly 75 to the discovery of a copy of maps and determined that the Abby Brack Ferguson’s 20-page booklet, Library lacked a copy of “Map Sen. Jeff Merkley (left) and Don Homuth discuss the map Homuth “Proof of the Square and of the Square and Stationary donated to the Library. Stationary Earth,” at a small Earth.” He telephoned Homuth public library in South Dakota and gratefully accepted the gift. Clean Out.” in a box that hadn’t been opened in 75 On Sept. 22, the map officially joined Homuth, a former North Dakota state years. the Library’s collections at a presentation senator, grew up in Fargo, where an eighth- At the presentation, Michael Handy, ceremony with Homuth and Cegla, U.S. grade teacher, John Hildreth, “taught me deputy associate librarian of Library Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Library staff a love of language and literature.” Services, thanked Homuth for his dona- and a few fellow Oregonians – one of Homuth later attended North Dakota tion and cited the importance of such whom just met Homuth on the airplane State University in Fargo and occasionally generosity. and decided to tag along. would meet Hildreth on the street. “The Library relies on people to “Giving this map to the Library of Con- One day, Hildreth asked Homuth to donate materials,” he said. u gress is a rare and unusual privilege,” Homuth said. “The map is not significant. It’s a weird backwater of history. But it’s Donated Time cool and fun.” The following Library employees have satisfied the eligibility requirements to The map was created 118 years ago receive leave donations from other staff members. Contact Lisa Davis at 7-0033. by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, S.D., who refused to believe the Earth was Angela Cannon Tinisha Hayes Lawrence Perry round, even though its spherical shape Christy Chason Deloris Freeman-Jordan Arlene Peters had been scientifically established centu- Jennifer DesBordes Rocita Lawson LeeAnne (Buckley) Rupple ries earlier. Ferguson based his logic on Shaniqua Fenwick Donald Marcus Jamie Stevenson “400 passages in the Bible that condemn Ulinda Fenwick Lisa Moberg Patricia (Pam) Van Ee the globe theory or the flying Earth.” He Dawn Franks Susan Nelson titled his creation “Map of the Square and Uhuru Goss Parthenia Palmer Stationary Earth” but also referred to it 4 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette October 14, 2011

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One, continued from page 1 “The Law Library is excited that leg- ing the strength of its component parts.” of interest, can be connected with more islative information has such a promi- Project One aims to accomplish more related items. nent focus for Project One,” said Roberta than just improving the search features For example, a set can be a map, a Shaffer, the Law Librarian of Congress. and navigation within each of the core manuscript and a sound recording asso- “Our desire is to make legal and legisla- areas. The WGB’s web strategy and the ciated with a Civil War event. As each of tive information more accessible to our information architecture strategy call the objects can be included in multiple diverse clienteles, including curious and for improved findability and usability sets, the items will serve as both destina- concerned citizens, and to bring out the between the core areas. The project will tions and as gateways that enable users to incredible collection of legal and legisla- design a method to present users who find all the relevant material throughout tive materials in alignment with the vast search LOC.gov with relevant material the collections, regardless of where the collection of the entire Library.” located on Copyright.gov. material is physically located. Beyond the immediate improvements As the new pages for content, search As the new framework is developed, to the user experience, the new infrastruc- and navigation are introduced, the means the National Library’s search feature will ture also is designed to be a solid platform to measure the effectiveness of these enable users to more easily discover all for future development. It will provide the pages will be introduced. Under Proj- of the Library’s information relevant to basis of an enhanced Legislative Informa- ect One, a standard set of performance their requests. Users will be able to find tion System in support of the Congress metrics will be collected across the web collections materials through the main and will facilitate the development of presence in order to inform the decisions LOC.gov search that now often can only mobile applications. on how to improve the user experience be found through a collection-specific “With a major focus on implementing and to focus our resources. search tool. a new architecture, this first year positions OSI/Web Services has been desig- Project One’s goals for the Congres- us for the years to come to provide the nated to coordinate the technical work of sional and legislative information area are legislative information Congress and the Project One but must draw upon expertise as substantial as its goals for the National public want on the devices they prefer,” from throughout the Library. Library collections. said Cliff Cohen, WGB member for the “Project teams will include staff repre- By the fall of 2012, a beta site for public Congressional Research Service. senting all of the Library’s Service Units, legislative information will be launched. For the Copyright area, Project One working together to create a unified web Users will be able to find legisla- efforts will principally focus on devel- presence that showcases a modern infor- tive information through “faceted” oping new designs for navigation and mation architecture,” said Jim Karamanis, searches like those currently content pages. a WGB member from OSI and the man- offered by the main LOC.gov “The website serves as the portal to ager of Project One. search. the Office’s electronic registration system, The collaborations already have The new system will which enables us to offer better regis- begun. help novice users easily tration services to the copyright com- A team addressing the infrastructure locate, and navigate munity,” said Maria Pallante, Regis- for the new Congressional and legisla- through, legisla- ter of Copyrights. “We are excited tive information system has been assem- tive information. to be working with our col- bled from the staff of the Congressional Once the materials leagues in the Library as we Research Service, the Law Library, Library have been found, design and deploy the next Services, the Office of Strategic Initiatives users will be able generation of the Office’s web and Information Technology Services. to permanently presence – one that reflects the The team devoted to search has bookmark unifying themes of the been collaborating with content owners and read- greatest library in the throughout the Library. The metadata ily share world while showcas- team – whose work is essential for accu- them. rate search results – has been working across the service units to refine Library- wide standards and to plan for the release Cindy Moore of items with metadata that will improve their findability. Although its benefits will be appar- ent to users, Project One’s most sig- nificant accomplishment may be the foundation it will establish for con- tinual cooperation and progress. u October 14, 2011 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 5

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Gershwin, continued from page 1 as Diana Krall, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Cyndi Lauper and the cast of the televi- sion show “Glee.” “I’ve been fortunate to receive a number of music-industry honors during my career,” said David, who has served as president of the American Society of Com- posers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). “However, the news of being awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize was especially meaningful to me. I am humbled and excited at the same time to receive this prestigious award.” Said Bacharach: “It’s a great honor to receive this award and to follow the past recipients, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney – it doesn’t get any better than this.”

The songwriters’ extensive catalog Photo courtesy of Hal David can be tracked through their registra- Burt Bacharach (left) and Hal David received a Grammy Trustees Award in 1997. tions with the U.S. Copyright Office: The across the globe, and he made cameo also presented David with its Visionary first Bacharach/David song recorded in appearances in all three “Austin Powers” Leadership Award and, in 2004, named Copyright is “Peggy’s in the Pantry,” dated movies. In 2005, he released the “What the World Needs Now is Love” as May 9, 1956. “At This Time,” featuring contributions its “Towering Song.” ASCAP estimates Many other, better-known tunes fol- by Dr. Dre, , and that the song has been aired on the radio lowed, and in the 1960s and 1970s the Rufus Wainwright – and won a Grammy more than 2 million times. writers established productive partner- for Best Pop Instrumental Album. The Gershwin prize commemorates ships with singers such as Dionne War- His work has won three Academy George and Ira Gershwin, the legendary wick, B.J. Thomas, Dusty Springfield, The Awards and eight , American songwriting team whose exten- Carpenters, Tom Jones, Jackie DeShan- including one he shares with David, the sive manuscript collections reside in the non, Gene Pitney and . 1997 Trustees Award. Library of Congress. The prize is awarded Bacharach and David in that period David has his name on 20 gold records to musicians whose lifetime contributions produced a huge number of hits that and has won several Grammy Awards. in the field of popular song exemplify the helped define an era: “Walk on By,” “What In 1984, he was elected to the Nashville standard of excellence associated with the World Needs Now is Love,” “Raindrops Songwriters Hall of Fame; in 1996, he the Gershwins. Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “Only Love Can and Bacharach received the coveted More information about the Gershwin Break a Heart,” “Do You Know the Way to Award from the national Prize is available at www.loc.gov/about/ San Jose,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2011, the Hall awardshonors/gershwin/. u “,” “,” “Close to You,” “Alfie,” “What’s New Pussycat?,” “The Look of Love, “The OIG Would Like to Know Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” “There’s Report suspected illegal activities, waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement Always Something There to Remind Me” in Library administration and operations to the Office of the Inspector General and “.” (OIG). Library of Congress Regulation 211-6 explains the functions, authority Bacharach studied piano early in his and responsibilities of the inspector general. Regulation 2023-9 explains life and became a fan of bebop jazz. After the rights and responsibilities of Library employees regarding the inspector meeting singer Vic Damone during a stint general. in the Army, he performed with Damone A link to all Library of Congress regulations is available on the staff intranet at and studied music at McGill University www.loc.gov/staff/ogc/. and the Mannes School of Music. Early in his career, Bacharach served as musi- Contact the OIG hotline at 7-6306 or [email protected]. Or report cal director for actress Marlene Dietrich. anonymously by mail to: P.O. Box 15051, Washington, D.C., 20003-9997. Bacharach still tours and performs 6 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette October 14, 2011

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In Brief A ‘Spring’ in Their Step LCPA Awards Education Grants

In August, the Library of Congress Professional Association (LCPA) Con- tinuing Education Fund (CEF) awarded educational grants totaling $8,445 to 25 LCPA members. Library staff will use the grants to study a wide array of subjects, including legal research, accounting and electronic records preservation. This summer, LCPA members and retirees also made donations to CEF in memory of Reid London Graham of Library Services, who passed away on June 10 after 45 years of service to the Library. Graham’s family contributed $10,000 to establish an endowment that will pro- vide a perpetual source of funding for

CEF grants in his memory. Abby Brack CEF plans to award the first annual Reid Graham Memorial Grant in August Dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company perform excerpts from “Appalachian Spring” in the Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 4. The ballet classic, 2012. with music by , is the subject of a new book for young people, For the 2011 season, the CEF awarded “Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring.” The Coolidge Foundation of grants to Martha-Lucia Sierra, Nicholas the Library of Congress commissioned the original work, which premiered in the Taylor, Yvonne Brown, Kenneth Hunter Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. The event was supported by the Jonah S. Eskin Memorial Fund. Hall, Diana Gibbs, Ahmed Zaied, Cecelia Rogers, Robert Giannelli, Maria Perez- Morales, Kathleen O’Neill, Mieassa Greene-Thomas and Nicole Broodie. Civil War Books Published images of all five versions of the address. Educational grants also were awarded Two of them – the John G. Nicolay and to Veronica Barnes, Monica Beach, Kim- To mark the sesquicentennial of the John Hay copies – are printed unbound berly Buggs, Wilma Calander, Ana Yanci Civil War, the Library, in collaboration and placed in a pocket in the book, Chaletzky, Almaz Gebre, Melissa Hire, with Little, Brown and Company, has pub- folded as Lincoln folded them. Alexander LoBianco, Margaret McAleer, lished “The Library of Congress Illustrated The 136-page, hardcover book with Marcus Mosley, Roslyn Pachoca, Amber Timeline of the Civil War” by Margaret 20 illustrations is available for $69 at Paranick, and Albert Tyas. E. Wagner. www.levenger.com and the Library of The CEF was established in 1984 to The 240-page, hardcover volume, with Congress Shop. support LCPA members in the pursuit more than 350 color illustrations, is avail- of professional development. Funds are able for $35 in bookstores nationwide and Surplus Books Program Moved supplied from donations made through at the Library of Congress Shop. The Library’s Surplus Books Program the Combined Federal Campaign and The Library, in association with Lev- has been temporarily relocated to LM from donations to “named grants” estab- enger, also has updated and reproduced G15A because of renovation slated for the lished by family, colleagues and friends “Long Remembered: Lincoln and his Five basement level of the Madison Building. in memory of loved ones or in honor of Versions of the Gettysburg Address,” with The program will stay at that location colleagues leaving the Library. text by two scholars from the Manuscript until it returns to its home space in early More information is available at www. Division, David D. Mearns and Lloyd A. 2013. Hours of operation remain 9 a.m. loc.gov/staff/lcpa/Activities/CEF/ or Dunlap. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. through its trustees, Angela Napili (ana- The book, originally published to For more information, contact Joe [email protected]), Hector Morey (hmor@ mark the centennial of Lincoln’s address, Mahar ([email protected]) or Joe Puccio loc.gov) or Bill Ruvinsky ([email protected]). features high-resolution, digitized color ([email protected]). October 14, 2011 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 7

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The following personnel actions sion (RBSCD), LS; Jessica A. Blesso, Permanent Promotions reported by the National Finance Center customer service representative, GS-07, Ebonye T. Flanagan, reader reg- for the Library of Congress took effect in Office of Business Enterprises (BE), LS; istration assistant, GS-05, Collections Pay Period 14, 2011. Lauren J. Chisholm, support clerk, Access, Loan and Management Division GS-01, Information and Records Divi- Permanent Appointments (CALM), LS; Nancy P. Huang, human sion (I&RD), Copyright Office (COP); resources specialist, GS-11, Office of Zoe Danon, supervisory social sci- Robert A. Clark, office automation Worklife Services Center, (WLSC), OSO; ence analyst, GS-15, Foreign Affairs, assistant, GS-05, Office of the Law Librar- Igor Inozemtsev, quality assurance Defense and Trade Division (FDT), ian (LAW/LIBN), Law Library (LAW); specialist, GS-13, Digital Futures, OSI; Congressional Research Service (CRS); Benjamin J. Collins, social science Kenneth D. Mitchell, video preserva- Kimble A. David, administrative sup- analyst, GS-11, Domestic Social Policy tion specialist, GS-12, MBRS, LS; Hector port assistant, GS-08, Facility Services Division (DSP), CRS; Gregg A. Girvan, L. Morey, librarian, GS-12, African, (FACS), Office of Support Operations social science analyst, GS-09, DSP, CRS; Latin American and Western Division (OSO); David L. Folden, information Darrell K. Hardie Jr., clerk, GS-04, (ALAWE), LS; Jacqueline A. Smith, technology specialist, GS-13, Office of Office of Workforce Performance and supervisory IT project manager, GS-15, the Director of the Information Technol- Development (WPD), Human Resources COP; and Genea M. Watson, project ogy Service (ITS); Robert J. Friedrich, Services (HRS); Katherine N. Hoover, management coordinator, GS-12, Office preservations specialist (audio), GS-12, social science analyst, GS-11, Resources, of Information Management and Tech- Motion Picture, Broadcast and Recorded Science and Industry Division (RSI), nology (IMT), CRS. Sound (MBRS), Library Services (LS); CRS; Sean M. Hoskins, economist, Ernest Galloway, financial manager, Reassignments GS-09, Government and Finance Divi- GS-14, Federal Library and Information sion (G&F), CRS; Breana E. Lee, clerk, Margaret A. Benko, executive assis- Center Committee (FLICC), LS; Lei He, tant, GS-11, Office of the Register (REG), physicist, GS-14, Digital Futures, Office of GS-02, Office of the Librarian (LIBN); Kristin A. Ouellette, library aide, COP; and Alicia M. Mroczyk, GS -11, Strategic Initiatives (OSI); and Joshua D. I & R D, COP. Scott, information technology specialist, GS-04, RBSCD, LS; Liam Schiffmann, GS-14, ITS. clerk, GS-02, Humanities and Social Resignations Science Division (HSS), LS; Scott R. Julie Stone Evans, social science Talaga, social science analyst, GS-09, Temporary Appointments analyst, GS-15, DSP, CRS; and Erin D. DSP, CRS; and Eliana M. Wilk, social Amber N. Ables, library aide, GS-04, Williams, social science analyst, GS-15, Rare Book and Special Collections Divi- science analyst, GS-07, FDT, CRS. DSP, CRS.

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At the time of her death, Campbell had mittees and groups: the human resources worked in the Copyright Office for 43 years, committee and Copyright’s rules review beginning in 1968 as a part-time editorial group, committee on improving communica- clerk in the Editing and Publishing Section tions and register claims team. In 2004, she of the Cataloging Division. served as co-chair of the LCPA Art Exhibit Campbell was born in Washington, D.C., Committee. and graduated from Eastern High School. She Campbell belonged to many Library received her bachelor’s degree in nutrition interest groups, including the Asian American from Howard University in 1971 and began Association, the Hispanic Cultural Society working full time in the Cataloging Division’s and the Daniel A. P. Murray African-American Books Section as a cataloger. Cultural Association. She also volunteered She was permanently promoted to team as a mentor in a lunchtime reading program leader in the Books Section, then renamed at Tyler Elementary School near the Library. the Literary Section, in 1977. In 1980, Camp- Many times she expressed her love of bell went to the Visual Arts Section, which the Library’s diversity, the opportunities to later was merged into the Performing Arts meet so many people and the Library’s many Cynthia Campbell Section and renamed the Arts Section. cultural programs. With the Office’s reorganization in 2007, Campbell is survived by her husband, Cynthia Campbell, a team leader in the she assumed the position she held at her James. Her funeral was held Sept. 8 in Wash- Visual Arts Division of the Copyright Office, death. ington, D.C., with burial in Quantico National died on Aug. 30 after a short illness. Campbell served on numerous com- Cemetery in Quantico, Va. u 8 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette October 14, 2011

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October Poetry Reading: Philip Division and Robert Aubrey Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture friday Levine, the 18th Poet Laureate Davis of WETA present “On the short form. 2 p.m., LM SB-02. 14 Consultant in Poetry at the Nature of Celebrity: Franz Liszt, Contact 7-4055. Tai Chi: Intermediate level. Library of Congress, will kick Niccolò Paganini, Lady Gaga.” Strengthening exercises and Film: “The Strawberry Blonde” off the fall 2011 season with 6:15 p.m., Whittall Pavilion. two-person drills. Noon, LM (Warner Bros., 1941). 7:30 a reading of his work. 7 p.m., Contact 7-5502. SB-02. Contact 7-4055. p.m., Packard Campus Coolidge Auditorium. Contact Concert: Pianist Louis Lortie Theater, Culpeper, Va. Contact Bloomsday Camerata: 7-5394. performs Liszt’s “Années 7-9994. Reading through Rabelais’ October de pèlerinage” (“Years of October “Gargantua and Pantagruel.” Pilgrimage”), followed by tuesday Friday Noon, LM 542. Contact 18 post-concert discussion with 21 7-0013. Lecture: Israeli photographer the artist. 8 p.m., Coolidge Tai Chi: Intermediate level. Aerobics Class: Strength Sharon Ya’ari presents Auditorium. Tickets required. Strengthening exercises and training and floor exercise. “A Public Family Album: Contact 7-5502. two-person drills. Noon, LM The American Colony in Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA October SB-02. Contact 7-4055. B-36. Contact 7-8637. Jerusalem, 1898-1946.” Noon, African and Middle Eastern thursday Bloomsday Camerata: Film: “Love Me Tender” (20th 20 Division Reading Room, LJ Reading through Rabelais’ Century Fox, 1956). 7:30 p.m., Symposium: “Preservation 220. Contact 7-3779. “Gargantua and Pantagruel.” Packard Campus Theater, Roadmaps for the 21st Noon, LM 542. Contact Culpeper, Va. Contact 7-9994. Aerobics Class: High-Low. Century: Transitioning to a 7-0013. Digital Future” is a symposium October Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA B-36. Contact 7-8637. addressing the challenges Aerobics Class: Strength 15 Saturday facing cultural heritage training and floor exercise. Meditation: Open to all. 12:15 Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Film: “Woodstock: The institutions as they balance the p.m., LA G-06. Contact mrag@ B-36. Contact 7-8637. Director’s Cut” (Warner Bros. loc.gov. preservation needs of legacy 1994 release of the 1970 film). collections with the growing LC Ballroom Dance Club: Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus and complex demands 12:30 p.m., LM 139. Contact short form. 2 p.m., LM SB-02. Theater, Culpeper, Va. Contact presented by the collection 7-6111. Contact 7-4055. 7-9994. of converted and born-digital Ceremony: The Center for the assets. 9 a.m., LJ 119. Contact Concert: Lucie Arnaz and October Book and the Rare Book and 7-1024. 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Contact 7-9994. monday 17 LC Chorale Rehearsal: All are Research Orientation: 10 – welcome. Concert is Dec. 13. 11:30 a.m., LJ G-07. Register 12:05 p.m., LM 516-A. Contact Having problems with your finances? by phone at 7-3370 or online 7-7452. Call our EAP at 1-888-290-4327 and receive a no-cost at www.loc.gov/rr/main/ telephone consultation with a financial counselor. Services inforeas/signup.php. Contact Forum: Bible study. Open 7-0945, 7-2138. to all. 12:05 p.m., LM G-51. are provided by experienced financial professionals. Local Contact [email protected]. referrals are available for more complex financial planning Kluge Center Lecture: Theresa Ventura, Mellon/ Aerobics Class: Strength through the website at www.guidanceresources.com. American Council of Learned training and floor exercise. Societies Dissertation 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness Completion Fellow, presents Center, LA B-36. Contact “Market Empire: The United 7-8637. The Annual CFC/LCPA Book Sale States, the Philippines, Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Oct. 18 (noon to 5:30 p.m.); Oct. 19 (9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.); and Natural Resource own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Management.” Noon, LJ 119. Contact 7-3013. and Oct. 20 (9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) in the Mumford Room of the Madison Building. Contact 7-3302. Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture Yoga/Pilates: Start at your short form. 2 p.m., LM SB-02. Browse and purchase from our selection of books; DVDs; own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. CDs, cassettes and LPs; and selected magazines. All Contact 7-3013. Preconcert Presentation: proceeds will be donated to the CFC General Fund. For more Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture Mathieu Deflem of the short form. 2 p.m., LM SB-02. University of South Carolina, information, contact Donald Hardy at [email protected] or at Contact 7-4055. Denise Gallo of the Music 7-1484.

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