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GAZETTE Volume 28, No. 1 • January 13, 2017 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside Inaugurations, on Display A new display explores presidential inaugurations via materials drawn from Library collections – including handwrit- ten speeches by Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Page 3 New Scholars at Kluge Center Four new scholars arrived at the Kluge Center this week to begin work on projects about the art of cinema, the Shawn Miller American Revolution, Jesuits and Vice President Joe Biden congratulates new Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester on Jan. 3. public-school libraries. Page 3 Biden, New Members Mark Start Of Congress with Library Events One of them attracted a special visi- By Mark Hartsell tor. Biden spent much of the afternoon s the 115th Congress got under way swearing in newly elected senators in last week, the Library welcomed the Capitol, part of his constitutional role Anew members of Congress and in presiding over the Senate. Afterward, their families, friends and supporters at he dropped by room 119 of the Jefferson Coming Events events marking the start of the new term Building to congratulate Blunt Rochester, The Library over the next month will – including an appearance at one by a the newest (and only) member of the host events exploring Coptic icons, Hebraic poetry, Sub-Saharan music and special guest: Vice President Joe Biden. House from Delaware – a state Biden a Russian historian and culinary writer. Five new members of Congress represented in the Senate for 36 years. Page 6 – joined by about 800 guests – held Biden declined the offer of a podium receptions in the Jefferson or Madi- to address the audience – “the last thing son buildings: Reps. Anthony Brown you need is me with a microphone,” On Tap (D-Maryland), Tom O’Halleran (D-Ari- he quipped – and instead stood in the Lectures, films, concerts, classes and zona), Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Lisa center of the room, closely circled by other events at the Library of Congress in the coming week. Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware) and Lloyd Blunt Rochester’s family and supporters. Page 8 Smucker (R-Pennsylvania). CONGRESS, continued on page 4 2 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE JANUARY 13, 2017 NEWS Closures for Inauguration Week GAZETTE The following is the operation sched- the Madison or Adams building read- www.loc.gov/staff/gazette ule, including building closures, for the ing rooms until closing. Entry is via the Library of Congress’s Capitol Hill campus southeast (2nd Street) entrance as well GAYLE OSTERBERG during the week of the presidential inau- as tunnels from the Adams and Madison Executive Editor MARK HARTSELL guration (Jan. 16-21). buildings. Editor Jan. 16: The Jefferson Building’s The Madison and Adams build- Contributing Editors: Bryonna Head, Calendar; Great Hall and exhibitions will be open ings and most reading rooms within Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 those buildings will open to visitors and Lisa Davis, Donated Leave Proofreader: George Thuronyi p.m. All reading rooms and the Adams researchers under normal operations. Design and Production: Ashley Jones and Madison buildings will be closed Special collections reading rooms within PETER BRAESTRUP GAIL FINEBERG JAMES W. McCLUNG for the federal Martin Luther King Jr. these buildings will close at 5 p.m. Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) holiday. All building exits will be available for (1990 – 1997) Jan. 17: The Library will follow use in the event of an emergency. normal operations. 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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]. JANUARY 13, 2017 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 3 NEWS New Scholars Take Up Residence at Kluge Center Four distinguished scholars – David Bordwell, Timothy Breen, Jose Casanova and Wayne Wiegand – this week began residencies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. They will conduct research at the Library for four months. Bordwell, a professor of film studies emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, All photos Prints and Photographs Division will hold the Kluge Chair in Modern Cul- George Washington Abraham Lincoln ture. He will draw on the vast resources of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division to work New Display Explores Treasures on a book project, “The Art of Cinema 1908–1920.” Of Presidential Inaugurations Breen, a professor of American his- tory emeritus at Northwestern University, A two-week display on inaugurations, ington and Jefferson and a letter written will hold the Kluge Chair in American at the Library of Congress, will feature by Washington voicing trepidation about Law and Governance. He will work on a presidential treasures – the handwritten becoming president. project titled “Enforcing The American speeches of George Washington, Thomas In the connecting rooms, visitors will Revolution: Law and Disorder During the Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln – and find inaugural souvenirs from incoming War for Independence.” collections on the lighter side: menus, presidents’ parties and parades. An early Casanova is a sociology professor dance cards and souvenirs. newspaper report on an inauguration at Georgetown University and head of The exhibit will include newspapers, will be on view, and staff members will Georgetown’s Berkley Center Program on film clips, a demonstration of online demonstrate Chronicling America, a Globalization, Religion and the Secular. resources and a challenging presidential website providing access to historic news- At the Kluge Center, Casanova will hold history quiz. papers that is maintained by the Library. the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures “Presidential Inauguration Treasures” Film clips will portray the speeches and of the North. He will work on a project will be on view from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., parades, and there will be demonstra- titled “The Jesuits Through the Prism of Jan. 23 through Feb.