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 Hal David, 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 Burt Bacharach 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 Ira Gershwin, 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 EVENTS 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. 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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.