GAZETTE Volume 26, No. 20 • May 22, 2015 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside

They Write the Songs Natalie Merchant, Ne-Yo, Donald Fagen and other songwriters perform in the annual ASCAP concert in the Coolidge Auditorium. Page 3

Helping Hand for Students

Abby Yochelson of the Humanities and Social Shawn Miller Sciences Division is honored for her work in Deputy Librarian David Mao addresses employees May 21 in the Coolidge Auditorium. promoting literacy among local elementary school students. Page 6 Billington Announces Realignment Life on Earth and Beyond A Kluge Center event next week examines Of Library Operations, Programs recent discoveries about the origins and future of life in the cosmos. Officer will begin operation in mid-June. Page 7 By Mark Hartsell The other changes will take effect this fiscal year, no later than Sept. 1. ibrarian of Congress James H. Bill- “Collectively, these modifications ington this week announced a major will strengthen information-technology L realignment of operations designed and other support functions, elevate to strengthen information-technology our outreach work, integrate digital and functions at the Library, elevate outreach analog collection management, provide efforts, consolidate management of digital a better overall support structure for staff, and analog collections and provide an and ultimately result in better service to improved support structure for staff. the Library’s customers,” Billington said The plan Billington revealed on in a message to Library staff. Monday contains three main elements: Billington on Monday also appointed the realignment of the functions of the two members of the Library staff – Edward Trumpeter Etienne Charles performs Office of Strategic Initiatives, the estab- R. Jablonski and Jane McAuliffe – to serve music from his Creole Soul project, in new leadership positions established May 29 in the Coolidge Auditorium. lishment of a new National and Inter- national Outreach service unit, and the under the plan. On Tap consolidation of management-support Jablonski was named the Library’s Lectures, films, concerts, classes and units across the institution in a new Office chief operating officer. He previously other events at the Library of Congress in of the Chief Operating Officer. served as associate director of the Office the coming week. Page 8 The Office of the Chief Operating REALIGN, continued on page 4 2 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 22, 2015

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NEWS Songwriters Tell Stories Behind the Music

By Mark Hartsell

Ne-Yo was the “safe” guy in high school, the one girls confided their prob- lems to, the one they always wanted to be friends with – just friends. “Never had the guts to tell any of these girls how I felt about them,” the singer, songwriter and actor told an audience in the Coolidge Auditorium last week. “Would write poems about them, the poems would stay in my little book and they would never see the light of day.” Some, eventually, found not just the light of day but the top of the charts: Mario scored a No. 1 hit with Ne-Yo’s “Let Me Love You” in 2005 and Beyonce hit No. 1 the next year with his “Irreplaceable.”

Ne-Yo joined eight other songwrit- All photos Shawn Miller ers in the Coolidge to share the stories Ne-Yo behind the songs on May 12 at the seventh annual “We Write the Songs” concert works and tell the stories behind their ad to find someone new. staged at the Library of Congress by the creations. Holmes had worked on the song for American Society of Composers, Authors Williams urged Congress to pro- years, writing an original chorus that and Publishers (ASCAP). vide greater copyright protections for went, “If you like Humphrey Bogart and The event, hosted by songwriter and songwriters, then kicked off a string of getting caught in the rain … I’m the love ASCAP president Paul Williams, cel- performances by the songwriters of hit that you’ve looked for, write to me and ebrates the gift by the ASCAP Foundation tunes that spanned nearly five decades: escape.” to the Library of original manuscripts, “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Peg” (Donald Just before recording the tune, lyric sheets and other materials and also Fagen of Steely Dan); “Wonder” and Holmes changed his mind. Instead of an allows songwriters to perform their own “Thank You” (Natalie Merchant); “Him” old movie star, he thought, a fun beach- (Rupert Holmes); “Top of the World” and vacation cocktail – a daiquiri, margarita “One Moment in Time” (John Bettis, with or piña colada – might better capture the Deborah Cox); “Only Girl in the World” feeling of the title’s “escape.” (Crystal Nicole); “You Don’t Bring Me “The final lyric came to me in one Flowers” and “How Do You Keep the hour, and there were a lot of critics who Music Playing?” (Alan Bergman with Lari think I should have taken two hours,” White); “The House That Built Me” and “I he quipped. Can’t Make You Love Me” (Allen Sham- The last-minute substitution of lyri- blin); and “Glory,” the Oscar-winning cal ingredients – piña colada for Bogart song from the film “Selma” (Rhymefest). – worked: “Escape” reached the top of Ne-Yo closed the show with “Let Me the Billboard charts, becoming the last Love You,” “Irreplaceable,” “Closer” and No. 1 single of the 1970s. “Time of Our Lives.” Holmes went on to write the Tony The songwriters also told some of the Award-winning musical “Drood” and stories of how their inspirations became Drama Desk Award-winning book for songs. the Broadway musical “Curtains.” But Holmes, who described himself as “Escape” always will be sweet – in more “a two-hit wonder,” scored his first with ways than one. “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” – his “I’d never had a piña colada in musical story about a man in a tired my life,” Holmes said. “I’ve had many Natalie Merchant relationship who takes out a personal since.” u 4 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 22, 2015

NEWS

Library of Congress Realignment

REALIGN, continued from page 1 week, that office no longer will exist. Center and head of the Office of Scholarly The Office of Strategic Initiatives also Programs, was named director of National of Finance and Administration in the no longer will exist under the new operat- and International Outreach. Congressional Research Service and, ing structure. Some of its functions, such McAuliffe, a prominent scholar of the for two years, as head of the service’s as information-technology services, will Qur’an, Islam and Muslim-Christian rela- Office of Technology. He also led the fall under the Office of the Chief Informa- tions, previously served as president of Library’s Office of Contracts and Grants tion Officer in the new Office of the Chief Bryn Mawr College and as dean of arts Management for 18 months. Operating Officer. and sciences at Georgetown University. As chief operating officer, Jablonski New organizational charts that reflect The new service unit McAuliffe leads will oversee the Library’s institution- the realignment are available at www. will manage the Library’s scholarly, edu- wide management-support units: Human loc.gov/staff/ogc/legal_ref/spec_anno/ cational and interpretive programs, its Resources Services, Integrated Support LCrealign.pdf. national and international outreach pro- Services, the Office of Contracts and “Like all federal agencies, the Library grams, and its fee-for-service enterprises. Grants Management, the Office of the continues to be called to do more with “One of my principal goals as librar- Chief Financial Officer, the Office of the less, to get value for every public dollar ian has always been to share America’s Chief Information Officer and the Office spent, and to make the most of the human spectacular national collection with those of Security and Emergency Preparedness. capital that is our greatest asset,” Bil- outside the Library’s walls and to engage Some of those units had been over- lington said. people with the work we do here,” Bil- seen by the Office of Support Operations. McAuliffe, who joined the Library lington said. Under the realignment announced this last year as director of the John W. Kluge National and International Outreach MAY 22, 2015 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 5

NEWS will include the Kluge Center and the tered throughout several service units, Office of Scholarly Programs; the National diminishing opportunity for identifying Library Service for the Blind and Physi- synergies, undermining the specialized cally Handicapped; the Center for the needs of these activities, and diluting Book and its Poetry and Literature Center the focus and mission of other areas of and Young Readers Center; national digi- the Library. tal initiatives; the Federal Research Divi- The new service unit, he said, would sion; FEDLINK; the World Digital Library; bring together programs that currently the Publishing Office; the Business Enter- reside in Library Services, the Office of prises division; the Interpretive Programs the Librarian and the Office of Strategic Office; the Educational Outreach/Teach- Initiatives. ing with Primary Sources staff; the Visitor “Ultimately, we believe this pragmatic Services Office; the Special Events staff; new alignment will not only result in a and intern and fellowship programs. better support structure for our staff but McAuliffe also will oversee several also in even more effective outcomes for Amanda Reynolds of the Library’s most prominent public Jane McAuliffe the varied consumers and customers of programs: the National Book Festival; these programs and services,” he said. the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song; and The realignment plan, Mao said, the national boards and registries for film doesn’t address some concerns of and recorded sound, which each year employees and management – the ongo- select 25 films and 25 sound recordings ing strain on workloads, for example, or to be preserved for posterity. the Library’s tightened budget. On Thursday, Deputy Librarian David “But it does provide a more effective S. Mao discussed the realignment before framework for an operation where these an audience of Library employees both realities exist,” he said. “When we are in the Coolidge Auditorium and watch- called upon to do more with less, getting ing a live-stream broadcast on the staff the framework right is very important. intranet. And that is what we are trying to focus Chief of Staff Robert R. Newlen, Asso- on here.” u ciate Librarian for Library Services J. An FAQ about the realignment is avail- Mark Sweeney, interim Chief Informa- able at http://loc.gov/staff/ogc/legal_ref/ tion Officer Elizabeth R. Scheffler and spec_anno/sa15-07faq.html. McAuliffe also spoke. Shawn Miller Ed R. Jablonski Mao assured employees that the OIG Would Like to Know changes would make no direct impact systems; bureaucracy, or lack of under- Report suspected illegal on most staff members. standing by management regarding some activities, waste, fraud, abuse “With the exception of top manage- outreach functions; and duplication of and mismanagement in Library ment positions across the Library, duties effort because of these issues. administration and operations of individual employees will not change As the Library nears completion of to the Office of the Inspector in any significant way,” he said. “Most the strategic plan, Mao said, now is the General (OIG). A link to all importantly, no staff will be losing their ideal time to better align some of its pro- Library of Congress regulations jobs, changing their position descrip- grams in support of its institutional vision. is available on the staff intranet at tions or, in most cases, even moving Recent studies of information-technology www.loc.gov/staff/ogc/. their desks.” systems at the Library have reinforced the The Library began a focused study need to adjust that structure. To report suspected fraud, waste, of these issues in 2013 with its prepara- Regarding the new National and abuse or mismanagement within tions to create a new strategic plan for International Outreach service unit, Mao the Library of Congress, please 2016-20. The librarian’s Futures Program, noted that the Library for many years call (202) 707-6306, contact which included Library staff members, has maintained programs, initiatives us via our online form at http:// also played a role in raising issues and and offices targeted at disparate audi- www.loc.gov/about/office-of-the- ideas that shaped the realignment plan. ences but bearing a shared mission of inspector-general/contact-us/ Those concerns, Mao said, included outreach and shared dependencies on or report anonymously by mail the separation of the systems of analog non-appropriated funds and the Library’s to: P.O. Box 15051, Washington, collections and digital collections; frus- collections. D.C., 20003-9997. trations with information-technology Yet currently, he said, they are scat- 6 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 22, 2015

NEWS Mentor Takes Lead to Help Students Read

By Mark Hartsell

Serving as a reading mentor, Abby Yochelson says, is a powerful way to help children develop a passion for books and learning and prepare them for more suc- cessful and fulfilling lives. “Our role is to help impart a love of reading and books – an important step in helping young students become eager about reading and learning,” said Yochel- son, a reference librarian in the Humani- ties and Social Sciences Division. “We also are mentors in the sense that our students get our undivided attention. One-on-one time with an adult is not always possible in large classrooms or when students have a number of siblings.” A local literacy-promotion organiza- tion recently honored Yochelson for her work in helping children read. Every- Courtesty of Everybody DC Wins! body Wins! DC last month named her the Abby Yochelson and her student reading partner, Emilia. recipient of its Minnon Friedman Mentor of the Year Award, given each year for backgrounds with young children,” large then vote to choose a winner. outstanding leadership and commitment Yochelson said. “Many of our mentors In nominating Yochelson, program as a mentor. still have young children at home and colleagues described her as “the model Everybody Wins! DC is a privately are presumably very busy every evening of a wonderful mentor.” funded, nonprofit organization dedicated with reading and homework.” “She has recruited hundreds of volun- to promoting children’s literacy through Yochelson has volunteered with Every- teers from her organization to read with shared reading experiences. This year, the body Wins! since 2010, serving as liaison students,” the nomination read. “She … organization is serving more than 5,000 between the organization and Library advocates for mentors, communicates students in 37 low-income elementary volunteers, publicizing the Power Lunch with the program staff and thinks imag- schools in the Washington, D.C., area. program and recruiting new mentors. inatively about how her organization One of its programs, Power Lunch, She also serves as a reading mentor can help Everybody Wins! DC and the pairs professionals – some 1,200 this aca- – this year to Emilia, a second-grader at students.” demic year – with low-income students to Tyler. Yochelson received the award at the read and talk together at school during “Sometimes I’m having a very rushed Everybody Wins! DC gala on April 22 at lunchtime. or stressful morning and don’t feel as if the Washington Capital Hilton, where Library employees have partici- I really have the time to go to Tyler that Emilia, in a speech she’d practiced for pated in Power Lunch as mentors since day,” Yochelson said. “No matter what, weeks, introduced her to a ballroom of 2010, when the Congressional Research once I get there and am meeting with my hundreds of adults. Employees Association and the Library student, my work cares just drop away “Ms. Abby is also very smart, like me, of Congress Professional Association and the time to focus on reading and and I am so proud of her for winning the helped recruit three dozen staff members conversation always helps the rest of mentor of the year award,” Emilia said. to read with students at Tyler Elementary my day. Many mentors have told me the “She really deserves it. The votes are School on Capitol Hill. same thing.” in, and everyone agrees with me: She This year, more than 60 Library Each year, coordinators in the Power rocks!” u employees volunteered to serve as read- Lunch program nominate mentors for the For more information about the Every- ing mentors. Minnon Friedman award. A panel narrows body Wins! DC reading mentor program, “I’m amazed by the diversity of men- the nominees to three finalists, and the contact Abby Yochelson at [email protected] tors we have in terms of their personal Power Lunch mentors and students at or 7-2138. MAY 22, 2015 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 7

NEWS Dialogue Explores ‘Life on Earth and Beyond’

The second Blumberg Dialogue on ogy and its context within the history and oceanography and in the astrobiology astrobiology, hosted by the John W. Kluge philosophy of science. The scholars will program at the University of Washington. Center at the Library of Congress, next then participate in an afternoon public The three-part series is held in lieu week will examine recent discoveries roundtable to discuss their findings and of an appointment to the NASA/Library about the origins and future of life in the insights. of Congress Astrobiology Chair in 2015. cosmos and their influence on ongoing Both the seminar and the public dis- Nathaniel Comfort, a professor at the tradition of inquiry in the history and cussion will be led by Derek Malone- Institute of the History of Medicine philosophy of science. France, associate professor in the at John Hopkins University, has been The public portion of the program, departments of philosophy and religion named to the chair for 2016. He will “Rethinking Life on Earth and Beyond: at George Washington University, and begin on Oct. 1, 2015, and be in residence Astrobiology and the Role of Paradigm John Baross, professor in the school of for 12 months. u Shifts in Science and Human Self-Under- standing,” takes place at 3 p.m. on May 28 in room 119 of the Jefferson Building. The event is free, and tickets are not ‘Winning Marriage’ needed. The three-part Blumberg Dialogue series is part of the Kluge Center’s Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Program, which investi- gates the intersection of astrobiology research with humanistic and societal concerns. The third dialogue will take place in August. Details will be posted to the Kluge Center website at www.loc.gov/kluge. For the second Blumberg Dialogue, seven leading scholars from the humani- ties and the sciences will conduct con- versations about how recent scientific discoveries fit within the context of the

longer trajectory of the history and phi- David Rice losophy of science. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (second from right) and “Winning Mar- The scholars are: Linnda R. Caporael, riage” author Marc Solomon (third from right) on April 22 discussed the professor of science and technology marriage-equality movement for an audience of Library and congres- studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; sional staff in the Law Library multimedia room. Kennedy and Solomon afterward posed with members of the Library GLOBE steering com- Brian Henning, professor of philosophy mittee: Bob Dardano (from left), Erin Hawkins, Nicholas Brown and and environmental studies, Gonzaga Yvonne Dooley. University; Paul Humphreys, professor of philosophy, University of Virginia; Sarah Stewart Johnson, assistant profes- sor of planetary science, Georgetown University; Mi Gyung Kim, professor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month history, North Carolina State University; Eric Schwitzgebel, professor of philoso- In celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, the Library’s phy, University of California, Riverside; Asian American Association on May 29 will present the Silk Road Dance and Kelly Smith, associate professor Company and guest Praneetha Akula in a performance of dances from of philosophy and biological sciences, Central Asia. This event, which takes place at noon in the Montpelier Room, is Clemson University. co-sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. The scholars will spend May 27 and For more information, contact Yasmeen Khan at [email protected]. part of May 28 in seminar work examin- ing readings and research on astrobiol- 8 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 22, 2015

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