Annual Report, FY 2013

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2014 CONTENTS Letter from the Librarian of Congress ......................... 5 Organizational Reports ............................................... 47 Organization Chart ............................................... 48 Library of Congress Officers ........................................ 6 Congressional Research Service ............................ 50 Library of Congress Committees ................................. 7 U.S. Copyright Office ............................................ 52 Office of the Librarian .......................................... 54 Facts at a Glance ......................................................... 10 Law Library ........................................................... 56 Library Services .................................................... 58 Mission Statement. ...................................................... 11 Office of Strategic Initiatives ................................. 60 Serving the Congress................................................... 12 Office of Support Operations ............................... 62 Legislative Support ................................................ 13 Office of the Inspector General ............................ 63 Copyright Matters ................................................. 14 Copyright Royalty Board ...................................... 64 Congressional Preservation Efforts ....................... 16 Library of Congress Appendices .................................................................. 65 Other Services to Congress ................................... 16 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. A. Library of Congress Advisory Bodies............... 66 Washington, DC 20540 Supporting the Library ......................................... 18 B. Publications ....................................................... 72 For the Library of Congress online, visit www.loc.gov. Collecting, Preserving and Providing C. Selected Acquisitions ........................................ 73 Access to Knowledge .................................................. 20 D. Exhibitions ........................................................ 75 The annual report is published through the Office of Communications, Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress, Collecting .............................................................. 21 E. The Library in the News .................................. 78 Washington, DC 20540-1610, telephone (202) 707-2905. Preserving .............................................................. 23 F. Statistical Tables ................................................ 79 Providing Access to Knowledge ............................ 27 1. Appropriations for 2013 .........................79 Executive Editor: Gayle Osterberg 2. Appropriations for 2014 .........................79 Managing Editor: Audrey Fischer Promoting Creativity, Scholarship and 3. Financial Statistics ..................................80 Lifelong Learning ........................................................ 32 Art Director: John Sayers 4. Additions to the Collections—Items .......83 Promoting Creativity ............................................. 33 Photo Editor: Abby Brack Lewis 5. Additions to the Collections—Titles .......85 Design and Composition: Blue House Design Promoting Scholarship .......................................... 36 6. Unprocessed Arrearages .........................85 Promoting Lifelong Learning ................................ 39 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 6-6273 7. Cataloging Workload ..............................86 ISSN 0083-1565 Celebrating Achievement ............................................ 42 8. MARC Records ......................................86 Key title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress Library of Congress Prizes and Awards ................ 43 9. Preservation Treatment Statistics ...........87 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Library Staff Recognition ..................................... 46 10. Copyright Registrations ..........................88 Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP 11. U.S. Copyright Office Washington, DC 20402-9328 Business Summary ..................................88 ISBN 978-0-8444-9568-2 12. Services to Individuals Who Are Blind or Physically Handicapped .....................89 13. Reader Services ......................................90 FRONT COVER Visitors obtain information at one of the Library’s Information Desks in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Photo by Shealah Craighead 14. Cataloging Distribution Service: INSIDE FRONT COVER Visitors waiting to enter the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Financial Statistics ..................................91 Building form a line across the Neptune Plaza. Photo by Abby Brack Lewis 15. Human Resources ...................................92 INSIDE BACK COVER Researchers use the Library’s Main Reading Room. Photo by Abby Brack Lewis 3 I am pleased to present the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for Fiscal Year 2013. The historic halls of the Library of Congress are always bustling—with historians, librarians, cata- logers, copyright experts, authors, scientists and poets. And those are just some of the 3,224 talented people who work here. In fiscal year 2013, the Library welcomed 1,619,170 visitors and answered the questions—both personal and profound—from 513,946 more at our reference desks and through our Ask a Librar- ian service. The Library also responded to more than 636,137 research requests from Members of Congress and their staff. And the U.S. Copyright Office provided 255,078 direct reference services to members of the public. The Library also continued to expand its global collections—which grew in fiscal year 2013 by 2.65 million analog items to a total of more than 158 million. We added online 7.6 million new primary-source files for a total of 45.2 million, freely available for education and inspiration beyond Washington. We added features and information on the nation’s authoritative legislative source, Congress.gov; continued to build the digital historic records files at the U.S. Copyright Office; and introduced new mobile apps for the U.S. Constitution and the National Library Service’s BARD reader for the visually impaired. The amount of digital content generated throughout the world, in all languages, continues to grow exponentially. With content provided by the Library and 178 partner institutions in 80 countries, the Library’s World Digital Library website is making multilingual and multimedia primary-source materials available in seven languages online. The Library continued and built upon its long tradition of recognizing exceptional achievement. Natasha Trethewey served with distinction as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and was ap- pointed in fiscal year 2013 to a second term. The Library awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to a songwriting icon, Carole King. With the inspiration and generous support of philanthro- pist David M. Rubenstein, we established the Library of Congress Literacy Awards, recognizing organizations that are doing exemplary, innovative and replicable work in literacy promotion. And we established the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, recognizing the long and important writing career of Don DeLillo. In these pages are highlights of the work of the nation’s library. The images and information reflect an institution that has continued to grow from its beginnings in 1800 to LETTER FROM THE the dynamic, global resource it is today. The Library of Congress is truly a gift from Congress—the greatest supporter of a library in the history of humankind—for its constituents and for seekers of wisdom everywhere. LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS Sincerely, James H. Billington The Librarian of Congress LEFT Hallway outside the Librarian’s Ceremonial Office in the Thomas Jefferson Building INSET Librarian of Congress James H. Billington Photos by Abby Brack Lewis 2013 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OFFICERS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Sandra M. Lawson, Deputy Associate Librarian, Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, 113th Congress, First Session Operations, Library Services James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress Rep. Gregg Harper (Mississippi), Chair Karen Lloyd, Strategic Planning Officer, Robert Dizard Jr., Deputy Librarian of Congress Office of the Chief Financial Officer Sen. Charles E. Schumer (New York), Vice Chair Alvert Banks, Acting Associate Librarian for Kenneth Lopez, Director, Office of Security and Rep. Candice S. Miller (Michigan) Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Illinois) Strategic Initiatives Emergency Preparedness Rep. Rodney Alexander (Louisiana) * Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vermont) David S. Mao, Law Librarian of Congress Kathleen Ott, Director, Congressional Relations Office Rep. Robert A. Brady (Pennsylvania) Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas) Mary Mazanec, Director, Congressional Research Service Jeffrey Page, Chief Financial Officer Rep. Zoe Lofgren (California) Sen. Roy Blunt (Missouri) Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights Elizabeth Pugh, General Counsel Roberta I. Shaffer, Associate Librarian for Library Services Kirk Rascoe, Director, Office of Opportunity, Inclusiveness Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Compliance United States Senate, 113th Congress, First Session

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