Gazette Volume 18, No. 26 • June 29, 2007 • A weekly publication for Library staff ALA Visitors Respond Warmly to Library Welcome

By Gail Fineberg

ibrarians listening intently as Librar- ian of Congress James H. Billington Lspoke at length about his 20 years at the Library, its history and its future in a wide-ranging televised conversation with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb. Librarians bending over ancient texts and colorful pop-up books in Library reading room displays, touring the stacks and materials-processing areas, and taking notes in dozens of meetings on all aspects of librarianship — acquisitions, cataloging, preservation, Web design and development, the digital world and the future of libraries, to name a few topics. Librarians gasping upon walking through the big double doors into the gold-domed Main Reading Room, tipping backwards to view Blashfield’s Human Understanding painted on the dome ceiling 160 feet above the scholars’ desks below, and posing for pictures above the circulation desk. These are but some of the scenes at the Library this past week as hundreds of American Library Association (ALA) delegates reveled in the Library’s archi- Nancy G. Alfaro Marilyn Parr, public service and collections access officer, Collections Access Loan and tecture, history, service and hospitality. Management Division (CALM), leads an Acquisitions and Bibliographic Directorate tour Photo coverage of these events appear into the stacks near the Main Reading Room. on pages that follow. One of those listening to Billington’s used, I am astounded and gratified that a She was a librarian. But I never knew her. conversation with Lamb, to be broad- public servant with his depth of human- She died in 1942 in a ghetto in Poland. cast on “Q and A” at 8 and 11 p.m. on ity serves us,” she said. “His eloquence, My mother survived. I just read her and Sunday, July 1, was Martha Alma Penzer, his story of a people who founded this my father’s accounts preserved in the a Brownell Library librarian serving the knowledge-based democracy and this Holocaust Museum. I was so grateful to community of Essex Junction, Vt. “I am Library, so moved me. His inclusiveness find their stories there.” She paused. so moved. I had no idea that a man of his comes from the core of him.” “I am going back to Chittenden County humanity was the head of the Library of Making the point that librarians, librar- and tell everyone I know —we have an Congress,” she said at the conclusion of ies and museums are essential for the active network of librarians whose souls the C-SPAN taping on Monday afternoon, preservation of history and memory, are on fire — how humane this Librarian June 25. Panzer told the story of her own name. “At this time, when we are so cynically “I am named for my grandmother, Alma. ALA VISITORS, Continued on page 4  T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

f o r u m To the Editor: I’m writing about the constant door closures at the Library of Congress. It’s very hard to understand why [the blue core Madison Building] door cannot always be kept Gazette open for staff for two hours a day at lunch time. It seems to me that it is a tremendous MATTHEW RAYMOND burden on Library [and U.S. Capitol Police] to have to try to screen staff and visitors Executive Editor GAIL FINEBERG simultaneously at the main entrance, 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Editor We are told that [Library and congressional] staff get preference to enter but it does MICHAELA McNICHOL not always work that way. Even so, why should visitors be forced to wait in a long line Art Director while staff enter first? Why should it be a hassle for people to visit the Library and a Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; hassle for LC staff to return from lunch? Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; I’m sure that we will be told that staffing patterns are the result of budget constraints, Runako Balondemu, Donated Leave but since the red corridor door is closed all day, and the green and blue corridor doors Contributing Photographers: Erin Allen, T.J. Jeffers, Michaela McNichol, Charlynn Spencer Pyne are closed almost all day, isn’t plenty of money being saved already? In addition, I’d Proofreader: George Thuronyi like to know why only one of the two metal detectors at the Madison Building’s main entrance is used? Certainly the use of both of them would help speed the process of peter braestrup James W. Mcclung Founder Founding Publisher entering the Library. (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 1994) The Library of Congress Police should reassess the situation and make it a priority to keep the blue core Second Street door open every day at lunch time. An official publication of the Library of Congress, The Gazette encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to Neil Plotnick convey the most necessary information.

Senior Acquisitions Specialist Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one week prior to European and Latin Acquisitions Division publication date. Please submit text in digital form via email (gfin@ loc.gov) preferably as an attached Microsoft Word file.

Back issues of The Gazette are available in the Public Affairs Office, Ed. Note: U.S. Capitol Police Inspector Fredinal P. Rogers e-mailed the following April LM 105, and issues dating from 2000 through the current issue are 20 response to Mr. Plotnick, who had complained “about the constant closing of the available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. Second Street door at lunch time” in an April 20 e-mail addressed to Inspector Rogers. A Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-1620 series of e-mails between them culminated with Mr. Plotkin’s June 18 letter to the editor, Editorial 7-9194, [email protected] above, and Inspector Rogers’ brief answer alluding to his earlier response, below. Design and production 7-0970, [email protected] ISSN 1049-8184 Mr. Plotnick: Thank you for your e-mail of April 20. Feedback from staff is always welcome and Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the promotes mutually respectful, thoughtful and considered communication allowing us Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services to better understand each other’s needs and constraints. As you know, all departments of the Library are operating under tighter fiscal Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff The staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and constraints than have been experienced in recent years; the police department is no thoughtful debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspaper editors exercise discretion over which letters different in this regard. In order to protect the collections, ensure a safe working envi- to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether ronment and reduce risk to employees and visitors, which are our first and overriding or how much to publish, we consider content (including mis- statements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or mission concerns, the department prioritizes its operations based on threats and guid- the institution, personal attacks, and redundancy) and length ance provided by senior leadership of the Library. The police must screen and protect (the limit is 600 words). Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work staff, visitors and deliveries, patrol the Library’s facilities, respond to emergencies, deter and telephone extension should be included so we can verify authorship. Letter writers should understand that when and detect criminal activity, apprehend violators of the law and document all these they sign their letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing privacy. If a letter calls for manage- activities. These tasks are compounded by the large numbers of students and visitors ment response, for example, an explanation of a policy or to our buildings during the spring and summer months. actions or clarification of fact, we will ask for management response.—Ed. Within this hierarchy of prioritized needs, opening a door for two hours [for staff only] conflicts with processing hundreds of visitors in lines in the Jefferson and Madison Deadlines for Editorial Content and Buildings. On a consistent basis, I choose to safely and efficiently process the large Calendar Submissions number of visitors into the buildings. This is the reason for closing of the Second Street The deadline for editorial copy for the July 6 issue is Wednesday, June 27. Email articles to door when the above interests conflict. the Editor, Gail Fineberg, at [email protected]. To To meet your needs and the needs of other stakeholders, my decision is influenced promote events through the Library’s online calendar and the Gazette Calendar, email event by the fact that staff is, as you note, given priority at the “all-access” doors. It has been and contact information to [email protected]. my frequent observation that staff is offered head-of-line privileges. If I am not doing this well, please let me know, and I will improve my performance in this area. At a g l a n c e : I will continue to assign personnel to posts as dictated by operational needs. We ALA 3-11 will make every effort to open the Second Street door when feasible. I hope that this e-mail provides you with greater understanding as to why this door Transit Subsidy 10 is closed. www.loc.gov/staff/gazette JUNE 29, 2007 T h e G a z e tt e 

l i r b r a ry welcomes a l a A Conversation With the Librarian of Congress Andrew Councill Andrew

rather than less,” he said. to participants in the Open World pro- By Audrey Fisher A strong advocate for using digital gram (formerly the Russian Leadership C-SPAN founder and CEO Brian Lamb technology to increase access to the Program), which he spearheaded in 1999 interviewed Librarian of Congress James Library’s collections, Billington sees the with congressional support. He reported H. Billington on June 25 about the chal- Internet as a way to bring people back that since its inception, the Open World lenges and accomplishments during his into reading by whetting their appetite to program has brought 11,000 emerging 20-year tenure. The interview, which was seek more information in books. political leaders from throughout the conducted before a live audience in the “My predecessor [historian Daniel Russian Federation to the United States to Library’s Coolidge Auditorium, will air Boorstin] said that you can get all the experience family, cultural and political on C-SPAN’s “Q and A” at 8 and 11 p.m. information you want electronically, but life in America. on Sunday, July 1. it won’t help you reach the unimagined The Librarian noted that the concept During the one-hour conversation question or the unwelcome answer. For of a World Digital Library was inspired by with C-SPAN founder and CEO Brian that you have to go to books.” the Meeting of Frontiers project, a bilin- Lamb, Billington spoke passionately “Does the Library have every book?” gual Web presentation about the parallel about the institution he has served with asked Lamb, posing a frequently asked exploration and settlement of Siberia and unflagging energy and enthusiasm for question. the Russian Far East, and the meeting of nearly 20 years. “Not every book but more than the Russian-American frontier in Alaska “It is a temple of knowledge,” pro- anywhere else,” Billington responded. and the Pacific Northwest. The site was claimed Billington. “Historian John Hope He explained that as the home of the built by the Library in collaboration with Franklin, who recently received the John Copyright Office since 1870, the Library the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity,” houses “the mint record of American Russian State Library, the National Library calls the Library of Congress ‘the eighth creativity.” He also noted that for the CONVERSATIONS, Continued on page 11 wonder of the world.’” third year, summer interns are being “Why do you keep doing this at an given the opportunity to search through advanced age?” asked Lamb. these records to uncover hidden treasures “It’s a fascinating job,” Billington such as Cole Porter’s first musical and an replied. “I am a scholar at heart. I learn unpublished play script by Zora Neale something new every day — about life Hurston that found its way from a box and about people, especially through a on a shelf to the stage. diverse staff with all types of talents.” When asked by Lamb about a recent On that note, Lamb inquired about trip to Russia and China, the Librarian the future of librarianship. took the opportunity to discuss several of Turning to the audience, composed the Library’s international initiatives. The largely of librarians attending the Ameri- trip was planned in part to celebrate the can Library Association Annual Confer- Billingtons’ 50th wedding anniversary and ence, Billington underscored the need to coincide with the 200th anniversary of for talented librarians and teachers to U.S.-Russia diplomatic relations. serve as “knowledge navigators” in an Billington, a Russian scholar, believes increasingly digital world. that the free and open access to knowl- “Every community needs a human edge that libraries provide is the very

intermediary between the world of books essence of democracy. It was precisely Gail Fineberg and this exploding amount of informa- this free and open access to information Brian Lamb interviews the Librarian for C- tion. Librarians are more important now that he hoped would be demonstrated SPAN “Q and A” at 8 and 11 p.m., Sunday.  T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

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ALA VISITORS, Continued from page 1 of Congress is, and, oh, this Library, how this Library is so immensely rich and giving to all of us.” Staff member Judith Cannan, chief of the Instructional Design and Train- ing Division, Library Services, had this response to Billington’s remarks: “What came through loud and clear, with every word that he uttered, was his total com- mitment to the Library, was his love and passion for the place. His deep knowl- edge of the collections and the way he can talk about them was thrilling. It was clear how we have been able to come so far, with his leadership, and I was terribly proud.” Visitors and Library staff both made the best of a rocky beginning on Friday

afternoon. Just as ALA members began Nancy G. Alfaro to arrive for the Library open houses “Big Heads” (ALA Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discus- scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m., police closed sion Group) hold an open meeting in the Montpelier Room. At far right is Susan Morris, the Jefferson Building visitors’ entrance assistant director of Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, Library Services. at 2:08 p.m., pending investigation of a ogy and Business Division staffers had of the Near East Section, was William suspicious package. baked. Business Reference Services had Kopycki, a Middle East bibliographer from By 2:35 p.m. the package was cleared, highlighted books from its collections the University of Pennsylvania Library. but malodorous fumes were detected on the sports, automotive, and oil and “The Library’s collections in the area of in the Adams Building. To be on the gas industries, and Science paid tribute Middle East bibliography are the most safe side, police evacuated the Adams to Rachel Carson, school and kitchen prominent in the country, and this is an Building and closed the doors of both gardens, regional cookery, transportation opportunity for librarians to meet the the Jefferson and Adams buildings until and household technology. Webcasts of specialists and see these treasures. It’s 7:14 p.m., while a Hazard Materials Abate- business reference, household technol- great,” Kopycki said. ment Team cleaned up a chemical spill in ogy and a demonstration of the division’s Some 300 visitors streamed into the the old Photoduplication Service space, Everyday Mysteries web site were avail- Main Reading Room for two hours after where film-developing sinks and pipes able. “We were glad of the chance to Barbara Morland unlocked the double were being dismantled. While this was greet the few ALA members who arrived doors between the Great Hall and the going on, Library police responded to before the evacuation,” Carter said. Main Reading Room at 5 p.m. on Friday. three other incidents. After Jefferson Building doors were They climbed the steps into the high Undeterred by locked doors, a Second closed, visitors “tunneled over” from podium that is the center of the original Street blockade, sirens and police and the Madison Building. They saw gems circulation desk and posed for snap- fire vehicles, dozens of rerouted ALA from Library collections in the various shots taken by Victoria Hill, chief of the delegates lined up at the southeast door reading rooms and met welcoming staff Humanities and Social Sciences Division. to wait for admittance to the Jefferson members who spent time explaining their Reference librarians greeted visitors and Building. collections and their work to acquire, explained the architectural details of the To no avail, Connie Carter, head of catalog and preserve them. For example, great room. science reference service, shouted an more than 60 visitors to the African and Two of these visitors, Kathleen Krepps invitation to the Jefferson line as she Middle East Division reading room saw from Hinsdale Central High School in and her colleagues were being evacu- displays of materials from Iran, Afghani- Hinsdale, Ill., and Karen Johnson from ated from the Adams Building: “When stan, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, the Downes Grove, Ill., talked about their use we reopen, come over for cookies and Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking of American Memory and other online lemonade.” worlds and Africa. resources in their work as teacher-librar- Later outside, Associate Librarian Viewing an interior display of rare ians. “We teach the technical applica- for Library Services Deanna Marcum Hebraica, Islamica and Africana materi- passed out cookies that Science, Technol- als and chatting with Chris Murphy, head ALA VISITORS, Continued on page 10 JUNE 29, 2007 T h e G a z e tt e 

l i r b r a ry welcomes a l a Library Announces NBF Authors, Poster, New Ad Campaign By John Sayers The Library held a press conference at the Washington Convention Center on June 22 to announce the author lineup for the Sept. 29 National Book Festival and unveil the poster for this year’s event, as well as to preview a new series of public- service announcements produced as part of the Library’s eight-year partnership with the Advertising Council. Television, radio, print and Web PSAs will promote the love of reading to a key age group, children 9-12 years old. Kathy Crosby, senior vice president for the Gail Fineberg, Gail Fineberg, Ad Council, cited studies that say once children have learned to read, they lose interest in reading for fun as they grow older. “In the fourth grade, 45 percent of children read for fun every day,” she said. “By the time they get to eighth grade, only 19 percent say the same.” The Library and the Ad Council have created a literacy-promotion campaign with the theme “Explore New Worlds: Read.” A rough cut of the first televi- sion spot, a warm, evocative piece with a fantasy train-travel motif, was shown; the full campaign will be launched later this summer. The ads will promote the Library’s “Lifelong Literacy” Web site (www.loc.gov/literacy/ or www.literacy. gov), which will add new activity features in conjunction with the launch of the Raquel Maya, new spots. Director of Communications Matt Raymond and public affairs specialist John Sayers Director of Communications Matt (top) hold a press conference to announce the Sept. 29 book festival author-lineup Raymond discussed the Book Festival and announce a new Ad Council campaign. ALA exhibit hall crowds visit the Library’s lineup of authors and presented the booth to learn the latest about Library services, initiatives and products. 2007 NBF poster, the work of noted artist An announcement of the book festival conferees had the chance to hear the Mercer Mayer, illustrator of more than 300 authors may be found on a link from the latest news on a number of Library prod- children’s books. The whimsical poster Library’s home page at www.loc.gov. ucts, services and initiatives, including art was inspired by the work of classic the new Packard Campus for audio- American illustrator N.C. Wyeth, a leading Library’s Booth at ALA visual conservation in Culpepper, Va., figure in American art in the first part of The Library again participated in the the National Digital Newspaper Program, the 20th century, and includes a dragon, American Library Association’s (ALA’s) the New Visitors Experience, Classifi- a giant and other fantastic creatures sur- semiannual exposition, held this summer cation Web, Cataloger’s Desktop, the rounding a family of enrapt readers. in the spacious Washington Convention Veterans History Project, StoryCorps, the “Both the book festival and our Center. Thousands of conferees visited National Book Festival, Lifelong Literacy, public-service campaign are key parts the Library’s booth in the ALA exhibit and news from several divisions and of the Library’s campaign to reach out hall, where Library staff discussed ser- reading rooms. to the public and encourage a love of vices and products for the nation’s aca- Jane Gilchrist, Library Services, man- the book and a lifelong joy of reading,” demic, public and school libraries. aged the booth as well as all Library said Raymond. In the booth’s presentation theater, activities planned for ALA. u  T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

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Liam Sullivan, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, which collected oral histories during its alumni week- end, asks Peter Seligman about the Library’s Veterans History Project, Raquel Maya which hosted an open house. During the Music Division’s open house, senior music specialist Raymond White shows librarians Linda Barnhart, University of California, Davis, and Ann Joining an Acquisitions and Bibliographic Caldwell, Brown University, historic Access tour of the Library are Barbara Brahms and Mozart manuscripts.

Lovato-Gassman, director of libraries at Nancy G. Alfaro Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, right, and Sister Fredericia Griffin, a librarian at St. Joseph’s Church and School in Grosvenordale, Conn. Assist- ing them were acquisitions specialists Joseph J. Mahar, left, and Reid Graham. Seeing the Library — A Dream Come True Tired at the end of a long day in A singer with conservatory-trained is essential to their development, she Washington, D.C., but exhilarated, Gayle voice, she earned a bachelor’s degree in emphasized. “Even when a mother’s Evans, whose career as a public and music and business from Chicago State carrying a child, she should be telling children’s librarian spanned more than University, and then a master’s degree stories.” u 55 years, sat on a bench facing the in library and information science from circulation desk of the Main Reading the same college. Later she earned a Room during an open house for ALA doctorate in curriculum and instruction delegates Friday evening, June 22. from the University of Illinois. For the “I am so excited to be in the Library past 12 years she has taught prospective of Congress. I have dreamed of this for teachers how to use library resources a very long time,” she said, looking up in the classroom. at the soaring gold dome supported by Through Sen. Richard J. Durbin she marble columns. learned about the Library’s Educational “When did you decide to become Outreach program to help teachers use a librarian?” she was asked. primary sources found on the Library’s “All my life,” she responded. Web site to excite interest in the class- She can’t even remember when her room. Twice an instructor from DePaul love affair with books began, but she University in Chicago came to Evans’s remembers hanging out in the primary class to guide student teachers to the school library with her best friend, also Library’s primary sources. a reader, and she remembers working “My students were really excited,” in the DuSable High School library as Evans said. “They were not aware of the an honor student. “I developed a love resources at the Library of Congress.” Gail Fineberg of reading then,” she said. Teaching children a love of books Gayle Evans JUNE 29, 2007 T h e G a z e tt e 

l i r b r a ry welcomes a l a George Wilkie George Gail Fineberg Gail Fineberg While ALA visitors and tourists wait in a long line to enter the Jefferson Building, Jacqueline Coleburn shows a children’s popup book to U.S. Patent Office librarian Chris Kitchen in the Children’s Literature Center (upper right), and Law Library staff members Shameema Rahman and Meredith Shedd Driscoll show rare law materials to ALA visitor Benjamin Almoite (upper left). Gail Fineberg Rachel Becker, a technician in the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, arranges a division reading room display for visitors. Even though the Jefferson Building doors were locked shortly after open houses began at 2 p.m., more than 60 visitors found their way to this reading room by the end of the day.  T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

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Martha Hopkins, Interpretive Programs Office, and John Cole, director, Center for the Book, lead ALA librarians on a “Shakespeare Walking Tour” of the Jefferson Building.

Senior copyright research specialist Tony Bogucki shows ALA participants a copyright registration record of a work by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) during a tour of the new Copyright Public Records Reading Room. Judith Catherine Nierman Charlynn S. Pyne

ALA visitors pose for a family portrait in the center of the Main Reading Room. They are Lew Hagerman of St. Petersburg, Fla., his daughter Debbie Smith of Fairfax and his grandson Connor Smith, 6 ½. Gail Fineberg

Visiting librarians wait for Victoria Hill, acting chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, to take their pictures high in the original circulation desk in the Main Reading Room. Gail Fineberg JUNE 29, 2007 T h e G a z e tt e 

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Library staff welcome ALA delegates in a variety of activities shown in these pictures, clockwise from top right. Chris Murphy, head of the Near East Sec- tion, discusses rare materials with Middle East bibliographer William Kopycki, University of Pennsylvania. Gregory Lukow, chief, Motion Picture, Broadcast- ing and Recorded Sound Division, gives a special booth presentation about the new audiovisual preservation center at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Va. The Copyright Section 108 Study Group discusses exceptions and limita- tions to exclusive rights under Section 108 of the Copyright Act. Hirad Dina- vari shows Iranian materials to Mary Puleo, Everett Libraries in Everett, Mass., and Paul Vermoatte, Harvard College Library in Cambridge, Mass. LuBow Woynetz, Ukrainian Cultural Research Center, Stanford, Conn., peeks into the old card catalog off the Main Reading Room. Nancy G. Alfaro Gail Fineberg Gail Fineberg Raquel Maya Gail Fineberg 10 T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

l i r b r a ry welcomes a l a Transit Fare Subsidy Program The federally subsidized public trans- nology on Aug. 1. LM 139, makeup date. portation program for government work- New employees and staff commut- 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Aug. 29, ers is converting from paper Metrochek ers using the MARC Train system, VRE LM 139, makeup date. cards to electronic SmarTrip technology and regional commuter buses can still 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, Sept. 11, LM this summer. claim subsidies at quarterly distributions 139, makeup date. Library staff who commute to and offered at the Library. After Sept. 11, new staff members, or from work using Metrorail, Metrobus, the The next quarterly distribution will those who missed the scheduled distri- Fairfax Connector and vanpools were occur: butions above, may visit the Department to have applied earlier this month for 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, July 10, of Transportation at 1200 New Jersey the Smart Benefits program. Under this Mumford Room, LM 649, staff members Ave., S.E., West Building (diagonally program, quarterly federal-commuter whose last names begin with the letters across from the Navy Yard Metro stop). subsidies are applied electronically A through M. Staff should check with their Metro- to SmarTrip cards issued to qualified 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, July 11, chek service unit liaison before going participants. Mumford Room, LM 649, staff members to the department, and they should take Metro transportation systems already whose last names begin with the letters Library photo-identification cards with recognize SmarTrip cards, and the Fair- N through Z. them. u fax Connector will begin using the tech- 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, July 25,

ALA VISITORS, Continued from page 4 tions that connect teachers and parents of Congress. Marilyn Parr, the public access officer, with the resources of the Library,” Krepps The Acquisitions and Bibliographic led a tour of the collections control room explained. Access Directorate (ABA) offered an and Jefferson stacks for these “tourists” “If Congress could level the playing acquisitions-to-access view to more than after they finished their tour of ABA. field so that poor districts could enjoy 80 visitors taking behind-the-scenes tours On Monday following Billington’s open the same electronic resources as rich dis- at 1 and 4 p.m. on Friday. Staff led tours conversation with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, tricts, that would be wonderful,” Krepps of the Receiving and Routing Area; vari- the Library hosted a Great Hall reception said, adding that she would explore the ous cataloging offices, including serial for the ALA leadership. Library curators services of the Library’s Educational and music cataloging; the Electronic displayed rare books, manuscripts, maps, Outreach program. Resources Management System; Elec- music and other gems from the Library’s In the Madison Building, attentive tronic Cataloging in Publication; the collection in the Main Reading Room and staff and refreshments awaited visitors to ABA workflow redesign, and JACKPHY Members Room, which were opened for the Library Services open house in the (Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, the occasion. u conference room of LM 624. Selections Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish scripts) — Audrey Fischer, Raquel Maya and Donna from the National Film Registry played on cataloging. Urschel contributed to this article. a large screen, providing an interesting backdrop to the festivities. Attention Adams Building Employees Amy Ferguson, a reference librarian The Library of Congress Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness (OSEP) has at the Richland College Library in Dallas, begun the second phase of construction of the Library’s Emergency Public Address System Texas, had visited the Jefferson Building (EPAS) in the Adams Building. a few years ago and was eager to return Installation will continue through August 2007 and will require access to ceilings and and get a closer look at the whole opera- walls in the Adams Building. To minimize interruptions, technicians of M.C. Dean Inc. or tion. “I was really looking forward to this SPAWAR Systems may contact supervisors over the next few weeks to schedule work in chance to see what this place is really their areas. OSEP apologizes for any inconveniences this may cause. like,” she said. Staff with questions regarding the EPAS installation may contact Albert Sabet, SPAWAR Another first-time visitor to the Library Systems, at 7-4088 or [email protected], or Michael Salmons, Office of Security and Emergency was Liam Sullivan, who works in the Preparedness, at 7-2850 or [email protected]. Access Services Department of the Baker Library at Harvard Business School in OIG Hot Lines Reports of offenses against the Library may be made in confidence to the Boston, Mass. Sullivan said he had always Office of the Inspector General, 7-6306, by fax at 7-6032, or by sending an e-mail to OIG Hotline, [email protected]. wanted to get an inside look at the Library JUNE 29, 2007 T h e G a z e tt e 11

l i r b r a ry welcomes a l a New Required IT Security Awareness Course Online The updated 2007 version of the online Library and at home help protect resources service units. Information Technology (IT) Security and personal identity, as well as keep Following the dictates of Library of Awareness Training is now available at viruses, malware and spam at bay. Many Congress Regulation (LCR) 1620 and www.loc.gov/staff/cld/ (or, from outside current events are reflected in the new ITS Directive 01, Information Technology the Library, http://olc.loc.gov). course, such as the 26.5 million veterans Services has launched the 2007 course Every person at the Library who uses recently put at risk because their records through the Office of Management and Library computer systems—government were stored in a stolen laptop computer. Training, Center for Learning and Devel- employee, contractor or volunteer—must As a part of the course, staff members opment. take the course every year. The deadline are asked to acknowledge the Library’s Staff who need access to a computer to complete the new course is Sept. 30. Rules of Behavior regarding IT security to complete the IT Security Awareness Actual working time on the course should practices. Completion of the course and Training may visit the e-learning Lab in be less than a half an hour. acceptance of the Rules of Behavior will LM 644 from noon to 5 p.m., Monday Good IT-security practices at the be recorded and forwarded to appropriate through Friday. u

CONVERSATIONS, Continued from page 3 of Russia and more than 20 libraries, cept of making the Library’s unparalleled new visitors experience next year. archives and museums located in cities resources accessible has been his mission He noted that the number of visitors in Siberia and the Russian Far East. throughout his tenure. is projected to increase from 1.4 mil- Six national libraries are now partici- “Acquiring, preserving and making the lion to 3.5 million with the opening of a pating in the World Digital Library and collections accessible is not very glamor- new passageway connecting the Capitol 30 more have expressed interest in join- ous, but it’s important for our children,” Visitor Center to the Thomas Jefferson ing the effort, said Billington, who first he said. “The Library serves everyone, but Building. introduced the concept in a speech he it’s taken for granted that it will always With a theme of “bringing knowledge gave before the newly established U.S. be here,” said Billington. Recalling the to life,” the enhanced visitors experience National Commission for UNESCO on specter of the Library of Alexandria, will use technology to acquaint visitors June 6, 2005, at Georgetown University. once the world’s largest library, he made with the Library’s collections and the The World Digital Library project seeks to a case for vigilant care and support of architecture and iconography of the mag- replicate the Library’s successful Ameri- the Library. nificent Jefferson Building. can Memory project by collaboratively The Librarian noted the support of With so much that the Librarian yet digitizing primary-source materials per- Congress in carrying out the Library’s wants to do, Lamb was compelled to ask taining to the world’s cultures and making missions. “The Congress of the United Billington if he plans to retire. them available online. States is the greatest single patron of “The Lord has favored me with good “The World Digital Library is a virtual libraries in the world,” he said, noting health and undiminished vitality. I have story. People love other people’s stories,” that the Continental Congress met in a no immediate plans to retire.” u observed Billington. “Theories divide library and Congress constituted its own people, but stories unite people.” library as one of its first official acts. Lamb gave the Librarian an opportu- The first congressional committee to be Good Morning America! nity to tell his own story by asking him to established was the Joint Committee on 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 3 recall his reaction to being approached the Library. with the possibility of being appointed “Do you have what you need?” asked ABC anchors in New York City will join Librarian of Congress. Lamb, referring to the Library’s annual Librarian of Congress James H. Billington “There have been only 13 Librarians budget of approximately $600 million. in the Great Hall for a live broadcast of Good Morning America celebrating of Congress since 1800, so it wasn’t some- “You always need more than you Independence Day. thing I thought about, although I used get,” replied Billington, “especially with the Library a lot for my research,” said an ambitious agenda.” Topics will include six founding Billington. Throughout the interview, Billington documents, including Thomas Jefferson’s When his nomination by the White peppered his responses with the many rough draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776), George Mason’s House was first publicized, he was asked initiatives that comprise his agenda, such draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights what his biggest challenge might be. He as the creation of a national audiovisual (1776) and John Hancock’s letter to replied, “To bring out the music that is conservation center in Culpeper, Va., the George Washington (July 4, 1776). already there.” Stated simply, this con- Veterans History Project and plans for a 12 T h e G a z e tt e JUNE 29, 2007

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