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Get This Week's Gazette GAZETTE Volume 20, No. 8 • March 13, 2009 • A weekly publication for Library staff Head of EPA Announces New Era for Agency By Audrey Fischer PA is back on the job. This is what Lisa Perez Jackson E wants people to know about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the organization she was selected by President Barack Obama to lead. Jackson delivered this message during her keynote address on March 5 to begin the Library’s 2009 celebration of Women’s History Month. This year’s national theme is “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.” “Thanks to President Obama’s budget, EPA will have its highest level of support in its 39-year-history,” said Jackson, the first African American to hold the posi- Barry Wheeler tion. “We are rising above past divides Maria A. Pallante, left, associate register for policy and international affairs in the Copy- right Office, presents EPA Administrator Lisa Perez Jackson with a facsimile of a 1722 that have slowed down progress on the plan of her hometown of New Orleans, from the Geography and Map Division. environment for decades.” between family and a career.” other women at the forefront today. In little more than 30 days since Demonstrating a strong sense of his- “I am here because of a long line of coming to the helm, Jackson has led tory, the new EPA head acknowledged a women who took the lead to save the the agency’s review of a number of the debt to the women who paved the way world,” she said, referring to women’s previous administration’s policies, such for her, such as House Speaker Nancy contributions to the environment and as automobile emissions standards and Pelosi, first lady Michelle Obama and HEAD OF EPA, continued on page 5 air quality in the vicinity of schools. “Parents deserve to know that the air their children breathe is safe,” she said. A chemical engineer by training and All Staff Invited to Celebrate LCPA’s 40th profession, Jackson was one of only two Forty years ago, in 1969, Richard collection of films through a cooperative women in the engineering program at Nixon was sworn in as the 37th president program with the American Film Institute, Princeton in the 1970s. But times were of the United States. The Apollo 11 astro- as well as the unparalleled Feinberg col- changing and the status of women in the nauts reached the moon. Half a million lection of Walt Whitman materials. And workplace was improving. music fans flocked to Woodstock, the the Library of Congress Professional “I was searching for a way to serve. Chicago Eight stood trial for activities at Association (LCPA) came into being EPA offered a place for talented young with 100 members and annual dues of $1. women to come and to thrive,” she said, the 1968 Democratic National Convention Glen Zimmerman, Bob Zich, Edith Scott recalling the early days of the agency, and “Sesame Street” made its television which was founded in 1970. Jackson premiere. and Jerry Pennington were the new staff served initially at EPA’s headquarters in Here at the Library, some big things organization’s officers. Washington, D.C., and later at its regional were happening too: The first five vol- To celebrate LCPA’s 40th anniversary, office in New York. umes of the Pre-1956 National Union meet old friends and make some new “I received a promotion shortly after Catalog were published, and the first com- ones, learn about educational forums my second child was born,” Jackson puter tapes of MARC records were being and other activities and enjoy some light noted. “Women shouldn’t have to choose distributed. The Library acquired a huge CELEBRATE LCpa, continued on page 4 2 Library OF CONGRESS Gazette MARCH 13, 2009 NOTICES BRING KIDS TO WORK ON APRIL 23 Staff members are invited to participate in the Volunteers are needed to help organize GAZETTE Library’s annual “Take Our Daughters and Sons escorts for the tours and to serve as escorts, www.loc.gov/staff/gazette To Work Day,” which is a national event that to register young people for the tours and other helps girls and boys discover what the adults assignments. Staff wishing to volunteer may MATTHEW RAYMOND in their lives do every day in the workplace. contact Tynesha Adams, Human Resources Executive Editor GAIL FINEBERG This also is an opportunity for young people to Services, by e-mail [email protected] or call Editor learn about Library careers to which they 7-5232. Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; might aspire. 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