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Get This Week's Gazette LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Volume 17, No. 8 A Weekly Newspaper for the Library Staff February 24, 2006 LC Enhances Emergency Communications By GAIL FINEBERG he Library continues its prepara- tions to meet emergencies with T improvements to its emergency communications systems and the acquisi- tion of new equipment and supplies. Staff will be updated on these and other emergency preparedness measures at a Town Hall Meeting scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 30, in the Mumford Room, LM 649. Satellite Telephones By GAIL FINEBERG Three new satellite telephones will enable the Library’s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness to maintain emergency communications within the Library and between the Library and the U.S. Capitol Police Command Center and Gail Fineberg other federal and District of Columbia The Library has purchased some 200 shelter-in-place kits for deployment throughout the emergency communications centers. Library. Here, Gary “Buck” Buchanan, special assistant to the director for emergency services, displays some of the supplies that will help staff members survive an emer- The Inmarsat Global Area Network gency requiring them to shelter within Library buildings for up to 12 hours. More pictures enables its subscribers, including various on page 4. Capitol Hill agencies, to communicate even if cell phones are inoperable and land lines are down or overloaded, as Library’s Jelly Roll Morton Recordings was the case in the aftermath of terrorist By Alan Lomax in 1938 Win 2 Grammys attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and the Katrina disaster. “Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Panels that can send and receive Lomax” (Rounder Records) won in two categories at the 48th annual Grammy information relayed by the satellites are Awards on Feb. 8. located in the Emergency Operations The Grammy for best historical album was presented to Jeffrey Greenberg Center of the Madison Building and the and Anna Lomax Wood, compilation producers, and Adam Ayan and Steve Police Communications Center in the Jef- Rosenthal, mastering engineers. The award for liner notes went to jazz scholar ferson Building. They serve two station- and folklorist John Szwed. ary phones and one mobile phone that “We’re thrilled that the Jelly Roll Morton set won at the Grammy Awards,” the Library’s incident commander can said Peggy Bulger, director of the American Folklife Center (AFC), the division carry to the scene of an emergency. that houses the original Jelly Roll Morton discs. “Anna Lomax Wood called me Satellite communications enhance from the festivities to let me know.” In their acceptance speech, the producers the redundancy of a Library emergency thanked both the Library and the American Folklife Center. communications system that includes Musicologist, anthropologist, producer and writer Alan Lomax began collecting annunciators, which can convey U.S. folk music for the Library with his father at the age of 18. Lomax’s conversations Capitol Police emergency notifications GRAMMYS, Continues on page 3 EMERGENCY, Continues on page 4 2 THE GAZETTE FEBRUARY 24, 2006 NOTICES Emergency Preparedness Classes The Gazette A weekly newspaper for the Library of Congress staff Course Date Time Room GAIL FINEBERG Editor Basic Evacuation Mar. 22 10 - 11 a.m. LM-654 E MICHAELA McNICHOL Team Training Apr. 12 1 - 2 p.m. LM-654 E Visual Information Specialist May 23 2 - 3 p.m. LM-654 E Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; Runako Balondemu, Donated Leave Evacuation Chair Feb. 21 2 - 3 p.m. LM-654 C Contributing Photographers: Francisco Apodaca, Erin Allen, T.J. Jeffers, Michaela McNichol, Charlynn Spencer Pyne Mar. 28 1 - 2 p.m. LM-654 E Proofreader: George Thuronyi Apr. 20 10 - 11 a.m. LM-654 A/B May 31 1 - 2 p.m. LM-654 E PETER BRAESTRUP JAMES W. 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March 22, Mumford Room, LM 649 Register online through the Online Learning Center (formerly LC Learning Gateway) or Gazette at a glance . by calling the OGC at 7-6916. Staff also may register at the door. Women’s History Month 3 Presented by the Office of the General Counsel. Notable Events 7 Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at 7-6362, [email protected]. Calendar 8 www.loc.gov/staff/gazette FEBRUARY 24, 2006 THE GAZETTE 3 GRAMMYS, Continued from page 1 with New Orleans jazz pioneer Ferdinand 2006 Women’s History Month Events “Jelly Roll” Morton produced the original 1938 Library of Congress recordings. Con- Prints of Ester Hernandez sidered the genre’s preeminent musician- March 1, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., West Dining Room, LM 621 historian, Morton’s talented piano playing Helen Langa, Ph.D., associate professor of art and gender studies at American and arranging made him a perceptive University, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. about the work of Ester Hernandez, interpreter of jazz music. These invalu- whose prints will be on display from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. able recordings of Morton’s performance Hernandez is one of the most important and influential artists in the Chicano/ and oral history, made from the stage Chicana movement. Of Yaqui and Mexican descent, Hernandez was born in the of the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium, San Joaquin Valley of Dinuba, Calif. The sixth child in a family of farm workers, recreated the styles of many of Morton’s she is best known for her activist imagery in support of farm workers’ rights in turn-of-the-century jazz contemporaries, California, and for subjects concerned with Chicano culture and history, political giving Lomax what amounted to the first struggle and resistance, feminist issues and spirituality.
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