GAZETTE Volume 24, No. 39 • October 25, 2013 • A weekly publication for Library staff New Program Charts Future Paths for Library A Message from the Librarian
e launched in Sep- tunities that the Library’s tember the first resources have for the W phase in a Library- health of America in the wide Futures Program that 21st Century. will chart a map for the I told them that I did future of the Library of Con- not know how to make gress by December 31, 2015. such a map, but said that This program will address, they, the Library of Con- in the course of calendar gress staff, can and should years 2014 and 2015, key suggest some bold new issues facing the Library outlines for such a map, and develop better ways to working together across fulfill the Library’s historic traditional lines within the service missions in the rap- Library. idly changing, unpredictable Members of the teams times that lie ahead. will act as individuals, not The mission of the spokesmen for existing Library is to support the units, and will bring dif- Congress in fulfilling its ferent experiences, per- constitutional duties, to Shealah Craighead spectives and talents to make its resources available Librarian of Congress James H. Billington addresses Futures Program their work beginning with participants on Sept. 9. and useful to the American their choice of leaders. people, and to sustain and preserve for Futures Program will be the recommen- The teams’ recommendations should future generations a universal collection dations to the Librarian by mid-January not be either composite wish-lists or of the world’s recorded knowledge and a 2014 of eight special teams on eight prob- mere tweaks to existing ways of doing unique patrimony of America’s cultural lems/opportunities that the Library will things. They should be clear statements creativity. The purpose of this Futures be dealing with in the following two of agreed recommendations—and of Plan is to lay the basis for defining and years, when the program will be com- dissenting alternatives, if they, too, are implementing in 2016 an altogether new pleted. spelled out. Team recommendations Strategic Plan for the Library. It will be This Futures Program has enlisted 72 should not merely split the difference or designed to realize the full potential of staff members—all below the executive cover them over with vague generalities. this Library’s unique constellation of committee level—to make these recom- Everyone in the Library should feel human and material resources for the mendations. I explained this program free to make suggestions or comments to future of the Congress and the people to participants on September 9, 2013. members of the teams. In naming team of the United States. I said they were pioneer explorers of members, the emphasis has been on rela- This first, preparatory stage in the these uncharted possibilities and oppor- FUTURES, continued on page 4 Inside
App for Braille Books Nash’s ‘Wild Tales’ On Tap A Library of Congress app allows blind Singer-songwriter Graham Nash discusses Lectures, films, concerts, classes and other patrons to download braille and audio books his new memoir, “Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll events at the Library of Congress in the to mobile devices. Life,” at the Library. coming week. Page 3 Page 7 Page 8 2 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE OCTOBER 25, 2013
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In Brief to be published by Oxford University Press. Library Selects Teacher-in-Residence Bew will work primarily with the GAZETTE Library’s extensive collection of presiden- www.loc.gov/staff/gazette tial papers, the papers of U.S. secretaries Rebecca Newland, librarian at Kemps GAYLE OSTERBERG Landing Magnet School in Virginia Beach, of state, and Frontline Diplomacy: The Executive Editor Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection MARK HARTSELL Va., has been selected as the Library of Editor Congress’s 2013-14 teacher-in-residence. while a scholar-in-residence. The Kissinger Chair is a distinguished Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Since 2000, the Library has recruited Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; educators to work with its Educational senior research position in residence Lisa Davis, Donated Leave Outreach division to help teachers and at the Library for a period of up to 10 Proofreader: George Thuronyi school librarians incorporate the Library’s months. Using research facilities and Design and Production: Ashley Jones services at the Library of Congress, the PETER BRAESTRUP GAIL FINEBERG JAMES W. McCLUNG digitized primary sources into high-qual- Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher ity instruction. scholar is expected to engage in research (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) Newland has been the school librarian on foreign policy and international affairs at Kemps Landing since 2010. Previously, that will lead to publication. An official publication of the Library of Congress,The Gazette encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and she worked for the Virginia Beach City photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to Public Schools as a curriculum developer New Book Published convey the most necessary information. and facilitator of professional develop- Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital ment, taught high school English in New The contributions of Italian Ameri- form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached Microsoft Word file. Jersey and Virginia, and presented at cans are the subject of “Explorers Emi- grants Citizens: A Visual History of the Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public state and regional librarian conferences. Affairs Office, LM 105. Italian-American Experience from the She attended the 2012 Library of Con- Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current gress Summer Teacher Institute. She was Collections of the Library of Congress,” issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. selected as teacher-in-residence in part to be published by Anniversary Books in association with the Library of Congress. based on her use of the Library’s Lewis Library of Congress Gazette Washington, DC 20540-1620 Hines collection of photographs in a sixth- Authors Linda Barrett Osborne and Paolo Battaglia have selected 500 images Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] grade language arts project on Charles Design and production: Ashley Jones, Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist.” related to the rich history of Italian 7-9193, [email protected] Each teacher-in-residence undertakes Americans from the Library’s holdings ISSN 1049-8184 of photographs, maps, posters, letters, Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the a project to benefit his or her home school Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services or district to be implemented during the films, and sound recordings. With a foreword by director Martin Scorsese, following academic year. For her project, Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff Newland will plan and facilitate half-day the book includes essays by Mario B. Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful Mignone and Antonio Canovi. debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspa- workshops for teacher/librarian pairs who per editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and “Explorers Emigrants Citizens” will be how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether or how much to will then develop and team-teach a col- publish, we consider content (including misstatements of fact, laborative lesson using Library primary the subject of a Books & Beyond discus- libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal attacks, and redundancy) and length (the limit is 300 words). sources. sion and book-signing by the authors Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work and at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in the telephone extension should be included so we can verify author- Montpelier Room. The event, which is ship. Letter writers should understand that when they sign their Bew Named Kissinger Chair letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing sponsored jointly by the Center for the privacy. If a letter calls for management response, for example, an explanation of a policy or actions or clarification of fact, we Librarian of Congress James H. Bil- Book in the Library of Congress and will ask for management response.—Ed. lington has appointed British scholar the Library’s Publishing Office, is free John Bew as the Henry A. Kissinger and open to the public; tickets are not Chair in Foreign Policy and International required. Gazette Deadlines Relations at the Library’s John W. Kluge “Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A The deadline for editorial copy for the Nov. 8 Visual History of the Italian-American Gazette is Wednesday, Oct. 30. Center. His tenure begins this month. E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor Bew is a reader (distinguished senior Experience from the Collections of the to [email protected]. academic) in history and foreign policy Library of Congress,” will be sold for $55 To promote events through the Library’s online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) at the War Studies Department at King’s in bookstores nationwide and through and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and College London and director of the Inter- the Library of Congress Shop. Credit- contact information to [email protected] by card orders are taken at (888) 682-3557 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. national Centre for the Study of Radi- Boxed announcements should be submitted calisation and Political Violence. He will or www.loc.gov/shop/. Copies of the electronically (text files) by 9 a.m. Monday spend nine months at the Library writing book will be available for purchase and the week of publication to [email protected]. a history of Anglo-American realpolitik, signing at the Oct. 30 event. OCTOBER 25, 2013 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 3
NEWS New App Brings Braille Books to Mobile Devices
generations: They receive By Mark Hartsell materials faster, don’t get weighted down with bulky A new app released books or cartridge playback last month by the equipment, and can use the National Library Ser- i-devices they already own. vice for the Blind and “It makes the program Physically Handi- more appealing to younger capped (NLS) allows folks who are in general blind people to access audio and braille already digital natives, and books via mobile devices. they expect these things to The free app, released Sept. 19, for work with their devices,” the first time enables registered users of Bernstein said. the Braille and Audio Reading Download And while BARD Mobile (BARD) program to download audio and About 5,000 registered users downloaded the new app offers patrons convenience, from the Apple store in its first week. braille books to their iPhones, iPads or it provides something more iPods. devices by reading aloud items shown as well. “The BARD Mobile app allows search- onscreen. “What I didn’t expect was all these ing, downloading and reading braille and “Because VoiceOver is so good and people coming out and saying, ‘You talking books and magazines on one because by default most apps are auto- know, it’s really meaningful to be able fully accessible, mainstream device,” matically at least partially accessible, the to do this on a mainstream device, the NLS Director Karen Keninger said. “It’s iPhone became hugely popular for this same device my friends and neighbors a library in your pocket.” audience,” Bernstein said. “There was an are using,’ ” Bernstein said. “I don’t have The app, available through the Apple attendant demand for an app from us.” to go to a blindness store to buy a specific App Store, works on any i-device for any The new app – begun in summer 2012 product that’s geared to blind users. I’m patron with a BARD account. An Android – makes BARD’s nearly 50,000 books, using the same thing my friend is using. app, expected to be released in the next magazines and music scores, in audio “That’s really important to people.” six months, remains in development. and braille formats, available on most BARD has more than 59,000 registered The Apple app both plays audio books mobile devices. users; about 5,000 of them downloaded and allows patrons to read braille books Most NLS patrons access material not the app in its first week. via a Bluetooth-connected “refreshable through Internet download but through “We anticipate that significant num- braille display” – a keyboard-size device hard-copy braille books or “talking-book” bers of readers will adopt the app as that presents braille characters by means audio cartridges distributed by mail – a their primary reading device,” Keninger of round-tipped pins raised through holes dynamic, Bernstein said, that reflects the said. “As a growing percentage of blind in a flat surface. demographic of patrons. and disabled Americans adopt mobile The app also provides a more sophisti- BARD and BARD Mobile better suit devices, the app will provide a highly cated method for navigating to any point the needs of patrons from younger valued avenue to NLS materials.” u in a book, via chapter titles. “All of the text of those titles is dis- Donated Time played by the app,” said NLS research and development officer Neil Bernstein, The following Library employees have satisfied the eligibility requirements to who helped create the app. “That text receive leave donations from other staff members. Contact Lisa Davis at 7-0033. has been buried in our books but never Julie Biggs Zuhair Mahmoud displayed by our player for all these years. Christy Chason Juan Manuel Perez But now it’s starting to become visible.” Christine Cochrane Cynthia Connelly Ryan Demand for the app has been building Tanya Fletcher Malvina Shimanov the past few years in part because of the Kenneth Hunter-Hall Barbara Whitehead popularity of i-devices among the blind, Sherlita Jones Donna Williams Bernstein said. Robin Lancaster In 2009, Apple introduced a software application – VoiceOver – that increases accessibility for blind readers on its Read the Gazette in color at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette 4 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE OCTOBER 25, 2013
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FUTURES, continued from page 1 tively new employees who have been Futures Program Teams here for less than 15 years, with only occasional inclusion of longer-serving 1. Recruiting, mentoring and retaining high-quality new staff expertise, including a and expert veterans of the Library of new cadre of Knowledge Navigators and succession planning. Congress staff. Robert Brammer, LAW The Library of Congress Futures Andrew Druliner, CRS Program has been and will be entirely Nan Ernst, AFSCME Local 2910 designed, developed and implemented Victoria Hill, HSS by its own dedicated and multi-talented Julius Jefferson, CREA staff. This decision is based on the Kimberly Powell, HRS simple fact that the Library has been Megan Rivet, COP created and sustained by one budget Jermaine Smith, AFSCME Local 2477 for all its different parts and functions by the Congress of the United States. Dawn Stitzel, LS/AL Team recommendations should gener- Pang Xiong, AD ally assume that there will be no more Bren Yacobucci, CRS funding or total slots than we have at 2. Creating an integrated national program for enhancing lifelong learning for the present. We hope that the teams will American people, with particular emphasis on K-12 education. suggest synergies between different parts of the Library as well as efficien- Kaleena Black, WDL cies and economies. Where appropri- Liah Caravalho, LAW ate, teams may suggest consolidating or Rob Casper, Poetry Office reducing functions that may no longer Shawn Gallagher, ISS be essential or would require significant Karen Jaffe, Young Readers Center increased federal funding or staffing. Julie Miller, MSS All the teams are important. Each Lee Ann Potter, OSI team’s area of focus is as follows: Margaret Steele, OSI Team No. 1: Recruiting, mentoring Nishelle Wingfield, OSEPP and retaining high quality new staff expertise for the Library, including a 3. A role for the Library of Congress in advancing STEM with and for both the private new cadre of Knowledge Navigators and public sector. and succession planning. Bahadir Akpinar, NDIIP Team No. 2: Creating an integrated David Brunton, OSI national program for enhancing life- Connie Carter, ST&B long learning for the American people, Fenella France, PRESERV with particular emphasis on K-12 edu- Tina Gheen, LAW cation. Jennifer Harbster, ST&B Team No. 3: A role for the Library of John Hessler, G&M Congress in advancing STEM with and Marc Levinson, CRS for both the private and public sector. Tomoko Steen, ST&B Team No. 4: An integrated program for greater Library of Congress focus on 4. An integrated program for greater Library of Congress focus on Latin America, Latin America, Latino recruitment and Latino recruitment, and on Mexico in particular. on Mexico in particular. Jennifer Gavin, OC Team No. 5: An overall program for better serving and working with and for Eliamelisa Gonzalez, CRS the Congress including—but reaching Angela Kinney, ALAWE beyond—CRS and the Law Library. Francisco Macias, LAW Team No. 6: The international col- Carlos Olave, ALAWE lections and programs of the Library Roberto Salazar, OIC of Congress, including acquisitions, Eduardo Soares, LAW overseas offices and the World Digital James Sweany, HSS Library. Team No. 7: Outside collaborations OCTOBER 25, 2013 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 5
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and cost-sharing possibilities with other 5. An overall program for better serving and working with and for the Congress including public and private institutions that do – but reaching beyond just – CRS and the Law Library. not involve inappropriate special favors for such partners. Kelly Buchanan, LAW Team No. 8: Viable long-term poli- Kevin Kosar, CRS cies and procedures that can promise Jeffrey Lofton, VHP the continued acquisition of U.S. domes- Liz Morrison, OSEPP tic creativity in all formats (within and Jeff Seifert, CRS beyond copyright deposit) to sustain the Colleen Shogan, CRS Library’s status as a unique intellectual Jason Steinhauer, POP and creative “national patrimony” of Ellen Terrell, ST&B the American people. Aaron Watson, COP The first set of teams are made up of team No. 1 and No. 5. Team 1 will 6. The international collections and programs of the Library of Congress, including acquisi- focus on recruitment and retention of tions, overseas offices and the World Digital Library. relatively new staff members with high expertise. This is particularly important Mary Jane Deeb, AMED because (a) many senior curators and Mary Eno, OSEPP specialists with unique experiences Travis Hensley, POP may well retire without imparting their Janice Hyde, LAW one-of-a-kind wisdom to successors, Ken Katzman, CRS and (b) newer staff with important William Kopycki, ABA technological skills may be tempted to Elizabeth Korres, LAW leave for more remunerative opportuni- Christopher Masciangelo, WDL ties in the private sector. David Morris, EUR Team 5 will concentrate on sug- John Van Oudenaren, WDL gestions for providing better and more diverse services for the Congress. This Outside collaborations and cost-sharing possibilities with other public and private 7. is important because there may be institutions that do not involve inappropriate special favors for such partners. growing, or as yet unexplored, imagi- Gene DeAnna, MBRS native new services and activities from Jessica Gerrity, CRS the Library as a whole for serving those Sara Karrer, DO who govern and fund the Library. Patrick Loughney, LS/AL The second set of two teams (2 Donna Sokol, LAW and 7) will both be important Library- Gail Sonnemann, COP wide special emphases during the all- Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, MUS important 2014-2015 years in which the Margaret Williams, OGC Futures Program will be completed. Team 2 involves fleshing out and 8. Viable long-term policies and procedures that can promise the continued acquisition lifting to a higher national level our of U.S. domestic creativity in all formats (within and beyond copyright deposit) to sustain existing resources for the overall new the Library’s status as a unique intellectual and creative “national patrimony” of the Library-wide theme of Lifelong Learn- American people. ing. This theme covers every stage of life and every category of Americans Robin Butterhof, SER from learning how to read (our three Karl Debus-Lopez, ABA new prizes for literacy) to very senior Darren Jones, HSS sources of wisdom (chair holders at the Gayle Osterberg, OC Kluge Center and its Nobel-level prize Elizabeth Peterson, AFC for the life-long study of humanity). Kim Robinson, COP Team 7 deals with outside collabora- Andrew Weber, LAW tions and cost-sharing possibilities with Brian Williams, CRO public and private institutions. One size does not fit all. This team may wish to consider suggesting some ground FUTURES, continued on page 6 6 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE OCTOBER 25, 2013
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FUTURES, continued from page 5 democracy. mittee that will include Al Banks, David The STEM team (3) could consider Mao, Mary Mazanec and Maria Pallante rules for—or imaginative new ways of— how the Library’s rich resources for the to provide me an initial assessment early collaborating with other institutions world-wide history of T and E (technol- in February 2014 with suggested recom- –so long as staff do not commit scarce ogy and engineering) as well as S and mendations and general guidelines for Library resources to outside projects M (science and math) can contribute space utilization within the Library’s that will detract from higher-priority to education as well as to advanced three Capitol Hill buildings. The com- Library needs. research and to the American record mittee will consider emerging trends The Library will be hard-pressed to of innovation. in space utilization and allocation that continue to innovate (and even to sustain The Latin American team (4) could support the Library’s mission. They may some core services) if its private-sector consider broadening the reach of continue to work beyond that date to take support comes solely from philanthropy. Spanish-language acquisitions (as the into account programmatic initiatives Unlike most other large cultural institu- Library’s Rio de Janeiro office has done arising from the teams’ recommendations tions, this Library has neither a com- with Portuguese ephemera in Brazil); and the Library-wide technology review. mercial revenue stream nor a significant building on the two-day conference on In the period between late January endowment. And it has not—and will Mexico at the Library in December 2013; and early March of 2014, the Librarian not—accept gifts for anything other than and suggesting ways of increasing staff and senior management will determine services mandated by the Congress or diversity in all areas of the library by the structures, objectives and the role determined by the Library itself to be helping recruit more Latinos for intern- of the team members and other staff in important for its mission. ships and staff employment at the Library. the Library for the next six-month stage The third set of two teams (6 and 8) An overriding issue for the Library of the Futures Program (March 1-Sep- will consider how best to sustain and for the next several years will be the tember 1, 2014). I will begin in 2014 the make more focused and usable the two integration of the digital and the analog process of executive decision-making principal areas of the collections: the elements in both our internal operations that will give final shape to the Futures international and the domestic. Each and our external services. To that end, Program so that it can be implemented of these categories should be consid- we will conduct an overall review of in calendar 2015—and will be used, ered in terms of both analog and digital the technology the Library will need beginning in calendar year 2016, as the materials. to support the Futures Program. The basis for an altogether new Library-wide The team for international collections technology review will be conducted by strategic plan. (6) could consider the importance of the Deputy Librarian of Congress, Robert The program will be shaped by (1) collecting unique analog items not likely Dizard. It will seek specific recommen- the initial exploratory work of the eight to be found in other U.S. libraries, the dations for technologies related to the substantive teams in October –December role of overseas offices, the importance Library’s services to Congress and the 2013, and by other subsequent substan- and nature of the World Digital Library nation that can be implemented in the tive work by special staff teams; as well and other possible ways of both taking course of the Futures Program. as (2) the ongoing separate work of the in and sending out digital items. This review will examine what social Library-wide technology review and of The domestic collections team (8) media the Library will collect and how it the Space Allocation Committee. could consider how to systematize and will be served, as well as the technology This Futures Program will be dramatize the role of the Library of Con- required to ingest, preserve and make explained and coordinated throughout gress in gathering and preserving the accessible the Library’s immediate prior- calendar years 2014-2015 with the Joint closest thing America has to a national ity needs from the overwhelming tsunami Committee on the Library and with the patrimony of intellectual and cultural of digitized content being created today. appropriations and other committees in creativity by the people of the United This important effort will help ensure both houses of Congress. States. that the Library will have access to, and All inputs into the key decision-mak- The final pair of teams (3 and 4) will will consider, all the technology options ing will advance the unchanging mis- deal with two areas that will receive that can help us maintain a high level sion of the Library. That is our guiding added attention in the two-year period of performance and provide accessible star, along with the Jeffersonian ideals of the Futures Program. The Library has services in this fast-changing universe. of memory, reason and imagination. great collections and curatorial strengths This Library-wide technology review will We need to recognize ourselves—and in both of these regions of study. They proceed apart from the teams and will exemplify for others—the increased are increasingly important for the United produce its first report to inform and importance of this unparalleled national States, and the Library needs to make help guide the Futures Program early institution for sustaining America’s cul- these often-unique resources more in March 2014. tural creativity and knowledge-based widely used for the health and prosper- I have also appointed Roberta Shaffer democracy in an increasingly knowl- ity of a creative and knowledge-based and Lucy Suddreth to co-chair a com- edge-dependent world. u OCTOBER 25, 2013 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 7
NEWS Nash Tells ‘Wild Tales’ of Rock ’n’ Roll
By Audrey Fischer
Singer-songerwriter Graham Nash came to the Library with “Wild Tales” – not his 1973 album, but a similarly titled new memoir subtitled “A Rock & Roll Life.” And what a life it’s been for a boy from war-torn Manchester, England. Bombed by the Germans during World War II, the area became a bastion for British rock bands like the Hollies, which Nash formed in 1963. “When I finished writing the book, I said, ‘Man, I wish I was him.’ It’s been insane, but I love what I do and it shows no sign of stopping,” said Nash.
Nash, who now is on the third solo Shealah Craighead tour of his 50-year career, appeared at Rocker Graham Nash discusses his new memoir at the Library on Sept. 16. the Library on Sept. 16, at a program sponsored by the Music Division. He in 1969, he left the Hollies at the height According to Nash, the sound was discussed and signed his book – a day of their success. But Nash wanted more born in a matter of minutes, the first time before its official publication. The Beatles’ than to be on the top of the pop charts. He the three harmonized on “You Don’t Have biographer, Bob Spitz, who worked on wanted to write music with a message – to Cry” at a party in California. The sound the memoir with Nash, was on hand to often political – and that was a decidedly was born of the multipart harmonies interview the “N” in CSNY (Crosby, Stills, different direction than his bandmates, perfected by the Byrds, Buffalo Spring- Nash and Young). who continued to have commercial suc- field and the Hollies – groups in which A wonderful storyteller, Nash needed cess without him. The hardest break was Crosby, Stills and Nash, respectively, had little prompting to regale the audience with childhood friend Allan Clarke, with performed. with irreverent tales from the 1960s – sex, whom he formed the Hollies. So Nash left his band, a troubled mar- drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Along the way was “But I had heard me, Stephen and riage and his country behind. The rest is his love affair with songstress Joni Mitch- David sing, and I wanted that sound. rock ’n’ roll history – now documented ell, who Nash describes as “a genius.” What could I do?” in the pages of his memoir. u There was a friendship with folksinger Mama Cass Elliot, who introduced him to David Crosby. Flu Shots Scheduled “Cass was like Gertrude Stein. She liked to bring people together,” Nash Flu immunizations will be provided to Library staff, contractors and badged recalled. Crosby, in turn, introduced Nash volunteers at the following times and locations. to Stephen Stills. And there was his marriage to Susan Date, Time, Initial of Last Name, Location, Sennett in 1977. The following year Nash October 29, 9-12; 12:30 to 2, N-Z, Madison Hall became a U.S. citizen and the couple October 31, 9-12; 12:30 to 3:, H-M, Madison Hall moved to Hawaii, where they raised a November 5, 9-12; 12:30 to 2, A-G, Madison Hall family and still live. November 6, 10-12; 1 to 2, All, Packard Campus “I experienced love at first sight twice November 7, 10-12: 1 to 2:, All, NLS-Taylor Street/Landover in my life,” Nash gushed. “She keeps me grounded.” November 8 and later: Flu immunizations will be given in LM G40, HSO, But, as his memoir begins, “It always 9-12 and 1-3. comes down to the music.” Everyone thought he was crazy when, 8 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE OCTOBER 25, 2013
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OCTOBER 619. Contact 7-5221. Tom Rankin of Duke University Music Division benefactor FRIDAY Lecture: Sara Regeur, chair presents “One Place: Paul Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. 25 Kwilecki and Four Decades Tickets required. 8 p.m., Aerobics Class: Strength of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, of Photographs from Decatur Coolidge Auditorium. Contact training and floor exercise. County, Georgia.” Noon, Mary 7-5502. Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA discusses her new book “The Most Tenacious of Minorities: Pickford Theater, LM 301. OCTOBER B-36. Contact 7-8637. Contact 7-5510. The Jews of Italy” Noon, THURSDAY Film: “Sladké století” (“Sweet African and Middle Eastern Books & Beyond: Linda 31 Century”), a film directed by Division, LJ 220. Contact Barrett Osborne, Paolo Aerobics Class: High-Low. Helena Treštíková, portrays 7-4186. Battaglia and Mario Mignone Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA several remarkable Czech discuss and sign their new B-36. 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