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GAZETTE Volume 25, No. 1 • January 10, 2014 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside Book Festival to Leave Mall The National Book Festival this year will become a “one long day” event with evening activities and move from the Mall to the Washington Convention Center. Page 3

Best Practices in Literacy Promotion The Library of Congress Literacy Awards program publishes a best-practices review of the work in the field of literacy being done by the awards’ 26 semifinalists. Page 5 Michaela McNichol Kate DiCamillo is the author of best-selling books such as “Because of Winn-Dixie.” Library Names DiCamillo

Update on Smoking Policy Ambassador to Young Readers Following a ruling by an arbitrator, the Library this month will make changes to for young people’s literature. the areas in which smoking is prohibited By Mark Hartsell on its grounds. DiCamillo, who succeeds Walter Dean Page 6 Myers, will be inaugurated at 11 a.m. he inner voice of Kate DiCamillo today in a ceremony in room 119 of the belongs to a 10-year-old girl from Jefferson Building. T a small Florida town who learned “Kate DiCamillo is not only one of our to navigate the world through books she finest writers for young people but also an checked out at the local library. outstanding advocate for the importance “That connection to the 10-year-old of reading,” Billington said. “The Library kid, I’ve come to believe through the of Congress is pleased to welcome Kate as years, is more immediate for me than a worthy successor to our three previous other people,” said DiCamillo, the best- national ambassadors.” selling author of “Because of Winn-Dixie” The ambassadorship was established and “The Tale of Despereaux.” “Maybe in 2008 by the Library’s Center for the that’s why I write for kids. That 10-year-old Book, the Children’s Book Council and ‘Mickey One,’ Jan. 17 in the Pickford is front and center all the time for me.” Every Child a Reader to raise awareness Theater. That innate ability to empathize with of the importance of literature to chil- On Tap young readers makes DiCamillo a natu- dren’s literacy. Lectures, films, concerts, classes and ral for her new role: On Jan. 2, she was The ambassador serves a two-year other events at the Library of Congress term, appearing at events around the in the coming week. named by Librarian of Congress James Page 8 H. Billington the national ambassador AMBASSADOR, continued on page 4 2 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 10, 2014

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Upcoming GAZETTE ‘Daggers Drawn’: 35 Years of Cutting Cartoons www.loc.gov/staff/gazette GAYLE OSTERBERG ‘Daggers Drawn’ Executive Editor MARK HARTSELL Jan. 14, noon Editor Pickford Theater, Madison Building Contributing Editors: Erin Allen, Calendar; Carlin “René” Sayles, Moving On and Length of Service; essays discussing his time with The Lisa Davis, Donated Leave Proofreader: George Thuronyi Economist. In this book, Kallaugher Design and Production: Ashley Jones has pointed his keen eye and sharp PETER BRAESTRUP GAIL FINEBERG JAMES W. McCLUNG pen at important world events of the Founder Founding Editor Founding Publisher (1990 – 1997) (1990 – 2009) (1990 – 1994) past 35 years. There are cartoons sati- rizing leaders from Ronald Reagan and An official publication of the Library of Congress,The Gazette Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama encourages Library managers and staff to submit articles and In his celebrated career with The and Angela Merkel. photographs of general interest. Submissions will be edited to convey the most necessary information. Economist, Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher In addition to his longtime work Deadline for submission of articles is 5 p.m. Wednesday, one has created more than 4,000 editorial for The Economist, Kallaugher is also week prior to publication date. Please submit text in digital form via e-mail ([email protected]) preferably as an attached cartoons and 140 covers. His work a cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun. He Microsoft Word file. has lampooned international leaders also spent 10 years in London, drawing Back issues of The Gazette in print are available in the Public Affairs Office, LM 105. across the liberal-to-conservative spec- cartoons for The Observer, The Sunday Electronic archived issues and the a color PDF file of the current trum, and his distinctive renderings are Telegraph, Today and The Mail on issue are available online at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette. immediately recognizable as the work Sunday. His work has been exhibited

of this multitalented artist. at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Library of Congress Gazette Kallaugher will discuss and sign his The Tate Gallery in London and the Washington, DC 20540-1620 Editorial: Mark Hartsell, 7-9194, [email protected] new book, “Daggers Drawn: 35 Years Library of Congress. Design and production: Ashley Jones, of Kal Cartoons in The Economist” on This Books & Beyond event, co- 7-9193, [email protected] Jan. 14 in the Pickford Theater. sponsored by the Library’s Center for ISSN 1049-8184 Printed on paper that contains recycled paper by the This 196-page large-format book the Book and its Prints and Photo- Printing Management Section, Office Systems Services contains more than 300 of Kallaugh- graphs Division, is free and open to the er’s award-winning works along with public; no tickets are required. Gazette Welcomes Letters from Staff Staff is invited to use the Forum pages for lively and thoughtful debate relevant to Library issues. However, just as other newspaper editors exercise discretion over which letters to publish and how to edit them, so do we. In deciding whether or how much to publish, we consider content (including misstatements of fact, libel, innuendo, ridicule of individuals or the institution, personal Letter to the Editor: attacks, and redundancy) and length (the limit is 300 words). Letters must be signed by the author, whose place of work and Dear Library colleagues, telephone extension should be included so we can verify author- ship. Letter writers should understand that when they sign their letters and release them to us for publication they are relinquishing privacy. If a letter calls for management response, for example, I just want to give a special thanks to those of you who sent out positive thoughts an explanation of a policy or actions or clarification of fact, we and prayers for me; who sent e-mails, cards or notes of well wishes; who sent flow- will ask for management response.—Ed. ers, food and gifts; who donated leave; who came to visit and/or called. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity! Each act of kindness has truly been Gazette Deadlines uplifting for me. The deadline for editorial copy for the Jan. 24 Gazette is Wednesday, Jan. 15. Happy holidays to you all! E-mail editorial copy and letters to the editor to [email protected]. To promote events through the Library’s Allene Hayes online calendar (www.loc.gov/loc/events) Former chief of the U.S./Anglo Division and the Gazette Calendar, e-mail event and contact information to [email protected] by 9 a.m. Monday of the week of publication. 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 10, 2014 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 3

NEWS Book Festival to Move to Convention Center

By Mark Hartsell

The Library of Congress National Book Festival this year will move from the National Mall to an indoor location in Washington, D.C., and become a single- day event with evening hours, the Library announced on Wednesday. The 14th annual festival will be held Aug. 30 at the Walter E. Washington Con- vention Center in the District of Columbia and, for the first time, will feature programs after dark. Event organizers said the move to the convention center will provide more seats for festival-goers, offer protection from heat and rain, and allow the addition of new features to the festival, such Kimberly Powell as a pavilion focused on international The book festival has been staged on the Mall since 2003. authors. “In addition to a new International Park Service project to restore the green Billington said the new venue, sched- Pavilion featuring authors from around spaces on the Mall. ule and features offer new opportunities the world, festival-goers will be able to The five-year project, begun in 2011, for festival-goers. stay up late, with new evening activi- calls for the installation of more durable “We are very excited about the Inter- ties between the hours of 6 p.m. and 10 turf as well as granite borders for the national Pavilion,” Billington said. “In p.m.,” Librarian of Congress James H. lawns, subsurface drains and cisterns prior years, when we have offered authors Billington said. that collect rainwater for use in irrigation. from other nations – including the Nobel Another new pavilion will serve as The park service completed the first Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa – we the central feature of the evening hours. phase of that project in late 2012 and last have packed the house. “Great Books to Great Movies” will year announced new rules for Mall use “The Library offers books and other offer an evening panel discussion with designed to protect the restored grounds collections in more than 470 languages, experts and film-industry figures, fol- from damage. and our World Digital Library is pre- lowed by the screening of a film adapted The festival expanded to two days in sented in seven languages – Spanish is from a classic book. 2011 and drew more than 200,000 fans the most widely used. Mexico will be “We are excited by this opportunity that year and in each of the following well-represented as we ‘go international’ to marry the literary side of the Library years. at the festival.” u of Congress National Book Festival to the Library’s world-famous film and audio- Donated Time recording preservation work,” Associate Librarian for Library Services Roberta I. The following Library employees have satisfied the eligibility requirements Shaffer said. “Many of our greatest films to receive leave donations from other staff members. Contact Lisa Davis at are visual depictions of great books, and 7-0033. the Library of Congress brings all these Luis Acosta Sandra Mit Chelle riches to the world.” Craig Andrews Ruth Mullen The book festival was first held in Erik Delfino Juan Manuel Perez 2001, inside the Library of Congress. The Jennifer Harbster Alison Pullins event moved to the U.S. Capitol grounds Juretta Heckscher Cynthia Connelly Ryan the next year and to the Mall in 2003, Melissa Hire Malvina Shimanov where it remained for a decade. Kenneth Hunter-Hall Leonard Waters The move to the convention center Rose Kutcher Barbara Whitehead this year was prompted by a National Donald Marcus Donna Williams 4 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 10, 2014

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AMBASSADOR, continued from page 1 country and encouraging young people to make reading a central part of their lives. The young Kate DiCamillo certainly did. DiCamillo was raised in Clermont, a small town in central Florida, in a home filled with books. Kate’s mother read to her, bought her books and sent her for more to the tiny, wood-framed Cooper Memorial Public Library – a place that held unique importance in her life. “It was this old house filled with books, and the librarians knew me and gave me special privileges: I could check out more than four books at a time,” DiCamillo said by phone from her Min- neapolis home last week. “Being seen by those librarians as somebody who was special and who loved to read – that shaped me. It was also how I made sense of the world, through books.” She read, she said, “without discretion”: Beverly Cleary, “Little House on the Prairie,” “The Twenty-One Balloons” and, over and over, a biography of George Washington Carver – anything she could get her hands on. “I was just wide-ranging. Whatever it was, I would read it,” she said. “Loved, loved, loved books.” At the University of Florida, a profes- sor noticed her facility with words and urged her to consider graduate school. But she passed, deciding instead to become a writer – or, at least, pose as one. “I just got a black turtleneck and started wearing that, because that’s what Michaela McNichol writers wore,” she said. “I started talking Author Kate DiCamillo with young fans at the 2004 book festival. about how I was going to be a writer. And, no lie, that’s basically how I spent She had never considered writing Dixie,” was published in 2000 and earned the next 10 years.” for children, but fate landed her on the a Newbery Honor as one of the year’s She worked at Disney World, Circus warehouse’s third floor – filled entirely best children’s books. World, a campground – but never wrote with children’s books. Her follow-up, “The Tiger Rising,” was a thing. She read them and got inspired. named a finalist for the 2001 National “The whole time I’m saying, ‘I’m a “I thought, I want to try to do this,” Book Award for Young People’s Literature. writer, I’m a writer, I’m a writer,’ ” she she said. In 2003, “The Tale of Despereaux” won said. “It wasn’t till I turned 30 that I figured Through her work at the book distribu- the Newbery Medal as the year’s best out I was actually going to have to write tor, DiCamillo connected with editors at American book for children. something.” Candlewick Press and eventually sub- She since has produced three more DiCamillo began writing short stories, mitted a draft of a novel about a lonely novels, two picture books and two series moved to Minneapolis and took a job in girl who adopts a mischievous dog she of chapter books, and both “Winn-Dixie” a book warehouse as a “picker,” pulling encounters in a grocery store. and “Despereaux” were made into fea- volumes off shelves to fill orders. The finished novel, “Because of Winn- ture-length films – a wave of success that JANUARY 10, 2014 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 5

NEWS still leaves DiCamillo wondering what happened. Celebrating the Season “I’m sitting here with my mouth hang- ing open,” said DiCamillo, who began writing with modest expectations: She hoped just to earn enough to go part-time in her other job. That’s why, in part, she wants to serve as ambassador. “There is a part of me that still can’t believe I got published,” she said. “So much has been given to me by this community. I want to try to give back.” DiCamillo chose as her platform “Sto- ries Connect Us” – the act of reading brings people together and the power of literature helps people better understand each other. “It’s more than reading together, but

partly that: Teachers to students, grand- McKinley Sharon parents to grandchildren, parents to their Nicholas Brown of the Music Division conducts the LC Chorale at kids, kids to their parents, communities the Library of Congress holiday program in the Great Hall on Dec. 18. reading together,” she said. “That is a Sandra Thompson provides interpretation for the audience. way to connect. “And when you’re sitting alone in your room [reading], you’re connecting with other people by imagining other lives.” The 10-year-old DiCamillo connected to the world that way. Ambassador DiCa- New Library Publication Explores millo hopes to help others do the same. “I feel really lucky to get to do this,” Best Practices in Fostering Literacy she said, “to tell stories for a living, and The Library of Congress Literacy from 28 U.S. states and 21 countries, nar- to be the ambassador and to go out and Awards program, established in 2013, in rowing them to 26 semifinalists. Librarian talk about the power of stories.” u December published “Best Practices,” of Congress James H. Billington made the More information about the national a review of the outstanding work in the final selections, which were announced ambassador for young people’s litera- field of literacy being done by the 26 in September. ture is available at http://read.gov/cfb/ semifinalists for the awards. “Best Practices,” written by Maralita ambassador/. The Library’s Center for the Book L. Freeny, a librarian with more than administers the program, which is made 40 years of experience, identifies eight possible by the generosity of David M. practices commonly employed by the Madison Café Room Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle semifinalists: facilitating access to print; Available Group and a major donor to the Library cultivating diverse partnerships; lever- of Congress, including its annual National aging community resources; assuring Having a baby shower, Book Festival. cultural relevance; using technology; retirement bash or just a routine “ ‘Library of Congress Literacy Awards developing writing skills; reading aloud division meeting? Book the 2013 Best Practices’ addresses the topic of and storytelling; and fostering early inter- staff multipurpose room in the literacy from the programmatic level and vention and family engagement. east wing of the Madison Café. highlights the extraordinary efforts of the The report is available on the Center The room – available for use individuals, governmental agencies and for the Book website at www.read.gov/ by Library staffers weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m – may nonprofit organizations that applied for literacyawards. The 2014 Library of Con- be reserved through Public the awards,” said John Y. Cole, chair of gress Literacy Awards program will soon Programs Services at 7-2595 or the Literacy Awards program and director be announced. Updates are available [email protected]. of the Center for the Book. by signing up for “Center for the Book The Literacy Awards advisory board & National Book Festival” at www.loc. reviewed the 187 applications received gov/rss. u 6 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 10, 2014

NEWS Update on Smoking-Prohibited Areas on Library Grounds On June 7, 2013, in an effort to promote a healthier environment for staff, research- ers and visitors, Library management provided the labor organizations (AFSCME 2477, AFSCME 2910 and CREA) with a notice to bargain proposing to prohibit smoking on the entire Madison Plaza, the area near the C Street door, near the loading docks on the Madison and Adams Buildings, the area near the front and rear doors of the Adams Building, on the upper plaza of the Jefferson Building, and near other Jefferson Building doorways. Representatives from Library management and the labor organizations met on several occasions and were unable to reach agreement on the areas where smoking would be prohibited. The unions objected to the Library’s proposed areas where smoking would be prohibited and counterproposed that smoking should be permitted in the alcove in the northwest quadrant of the Madison Plaza adjacent to First Street and that the Library provide benches for installation on the southeast corner. A mediator from the Federal Media- and Third Street and at the Adams load- tobacco may schedule an initial encounter tion and Conciliation Service (FMCS) ing dock. Smoking outside the Jefferson with HSO. During this visit, one of the facilitated two mediation sessions to assist Building will be prohibited at entrances in practitioners will use an algorithm that the Library and the labor organizations in the Upper Plaza and at other entrances. guides them through a number of differ- reaching agreement. However, the parties ent scenarios to determine a candidate’s were unable to agree. Changes to the prohibited smoking tobacco use status and readiness to quit. The parties then sought the services areas will become effective at the close The cessation approach is a combina- of the Federal Service Impasses Panel of business on Jan. 13. tion of education, counseling, self-help (FSIP) to resolve the bargaining impasse. Employees are encouraged to take materials, suggestion of pharmacologic The parties presented their positions to advantage of the smoking-cessation pro- aids, and ongoing support. u the arbitrator in November 2013. gram developed by the Health Services For additional information on smoking, On Dec. 11, the FSIP chair issued the Office (HSO). see LCR 1817-7 (Smoking in the Library arbitrator’s opinion and decision on the The program offers a multifaceted of Congress) at www.loc.gov/staff/ogc/ matter. approach to quitting. Employees who use legal_ref/lcr/lcr_index.html. The FSIP chair ordered the adoption of the unions’ proposal to require the Library to not prohibit smoking in the Flu Shots Available alcove in the northwest quadrant of the Madison Plaza adjacent to First Street and Flu activity is increasing nationally and is high in some states. Additional to provide benches for installation on the increases are expected in the coming weeks. If you have not gotten your flu southeast corner. vaccination yet this season, get one now. Smoking outside the Madison Building A flu vaccine (www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm) is the first and best will be prohibited at building entrances way to protect yourself and the people around you from influenza and its encompassing the Madison Plaza, the potentially serious complications. Flu shots are available on a walk-in basis entrance at C Street, and the Madison load- at the Health Services Office (LM G40) Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to ing dock, as well as outside the Adams noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. More information is available at 7-8035. Building near entrances on Second Street JANUARY 10, 2014 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE 7

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Ruth F. Boorstin writing. In 1964, she received a master’s degree in the social sciences from the Ruth F. Boorstin, an editor and University of Chicago. close collaborator with her late hus- In 1977, she assisted her husband band, former librarian of Congress in the development and creation of and prize-winning historian Daniel J. the Center for the Book in the Library Boorstin, died on Dec. 1 at an assisted- of Congress and became one of the living center in Encino, Calif. She was center’s principal supporters. 95. She regularly attended the annual Daniel Boorstin, who served as meetings of the affiliated state centers librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, of the book from the late 1980s until described his wife as his “principal after her husband’s death. and most penetrating editor.” He died In 1987, she helped the center in 2004. A memorial service was held launch “The Year of the Reader,” the first for him at the Library on April 27, 2004. in a series of annual national reading- Ruth Boorstin was born in Arizona promotion campaigns. and grew up in New York before receiv- She published poetry in the “Wall ing a bachelor’s degree in economics Street Journal” for many years; in 1998, from Wellesley College in 1938. In the her works were collected and published 1940s, she was a book reviewer for the in the book “Love is Not Because.” Then-Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin New York Times and other newspapers. Charitable contributions in honor (left) and wife Ruth, assisted by Center for the In the 1950s and 1960s, during her hus- of the memory of Ruth F. Boorstin may Book director John Cole, launched the Library’s band’s teaching career at the University be sent to the Center for the Book, 101 “1987 – The Year of the Reader” national read- of Chicago, she created a syndicated Independence Ave., SE, Washington, ing promotion campaign. newspaper column featuring children’s D.C. 20540. u

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2014 TSP Limits The Thrift Investment Board has announced the annual elected-deferral What are the requirements to participate in the TSP catch-up limit for 2014 is $17,500 and the 2014 “catch-up” limit is $5,500. Below program? are answers to some commonly asked questions about the Thrift Savings First, the employee must contribute the maximum amount of regular TSP Plan (TSP). contributions for that year. Second, the employee must be 50 or turning 50 during that calendar year. What components make up your retirement income? For Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) employees, the three What is the 2014 TSP catch-up limit? components are Social Security benefits, the FERS basic annuity and the $5,500 Thrift Savings Plan. When can I make employee contributions for both TSP and TSP For Civil Service Retirement Service (CSRS) employees, the Thrift Savings catch-up? Plan is a supplement to the CSRS annuity. For CSRS Offset employees, the Elections to start, change and stop contributions can be made at any time Thrift Savings Plan is a supplement to the basic benefit and Social Security. online on the NFC Employee Personal Page (www.nfc.usda.gov). You must re-elect catch-up each year; it does not carry over. What is the 2014 TSP IRS elected-deferral limit? $17,500. Can I contribute a percentage only? Any dollar amount or percentage up to the IRS limit. How many pay periods do you have to contribute to TSP and TSP catch-up for 2014? What website may I visit to get more information? 26. The Thrift Savings Plan site at www.tsp.gov.

When do the 26 pay periods end? Where do I go in-house if I have additional questions? Pay period 24 of 2014. Visit the Human Resources Customer Service Center in LM 107 or call 7-5627. 8 T H E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GA ZETTE JANUARY 10, 2014

CALENDAR

JANUARY JANUARY JANUARY Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, FRIDAY MONDAY THURSDAY 10 13 16 Penn. 2 p.m., West Dining Symposium: “With Their Aerobics Class: High-Low. Room, LM 621. Contact Own Eyes: Photographers Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA 7-6073. Witness the March on B-36. Contact 7-8637. Washington” features Film: Civil rights television Yoga: Noon, LM SB-02. photographers in the documentaries. CBS Contact 7-5984. Library’s March on Reports: “Who Speaks for Washington exhibition, Kluge Center Lecture: Birmingham?” (1961) and along with relatives of Kluge fellow Amanda Ciafone ABC Bell & Howell Close-up! photographers no longer presents “ ‘I’d Like to Buy the “Walk in My Shoes” (1961). living. 1 p.m., Whittall World a Coke’: Coca-Cola 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus Pavilion. Contact 7-8938. Advertising and Cultural Theater, Culpeper, Va. Contact 7-9994. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Revolutions of the 1960s.” own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Noon, LJ 113. Contact JANUARY 7-0213. Contact 7-3013. 17 FRIDAY JANUARY Meditation: Open to all. Aerobics Class: Strength 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact training and floor exercise. 14 TUESDAY [email protected]. Ceremony: Kate DiCamillo Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Aerobics Class: High-Low. B-36. Contact 7-8637. will be inaugurated as the Noon, LC Wellness Center, Briefing: Roberta I. Shaffer, new national ambassador LA B-36. Contact 7-8637. associate librarian for Library Film: Jazz Film Friday: for young people’s literature Services, presents a pre- “Mickey One” (1965). 7 p.m., Books & Beyond: Renowned during a special ceremony. 10 ALA briefing for staff who Mary Pickford Theater, LM cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher a.m., LJ 119. Contact 7-5221. plan to attend the American 301. Contact 7-5502. discusses and signs his new Aerobics Class: Strength book “Kevin Kal Kallaugher: training and floor exercise. Daggers Drawn.” Noon, Mary Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Pickford Theater, LM 301. B-36. Contact 7-8637. Contact 7-5221. Weight Watchers at Work Seminar: The Employee Assistance Program presents Want to lose weight using a sensible eating plan, a seminar on estate planning. accompanied by the support of like-minded group Noon, West Dining Room, LM members? Want weekly meetings in a convenient 621. Contact 7-6389. location? Then Weight Watchers at Work is for you! Meditation: Open to all. (Sponsored by the Library’s Health Services Office.) 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact [email protected]. Weight Watchers will hold an open house on Jan. 14 at JANUARY 12:45 p.m. in LM 209. Film: Jazz Film Friday: WEDNESDAY “Arrows Into Infinity” (2012). 7 15 Bloomsday Camerata: Join anytime. Sessions are ongoing and are held on p.m., Mary Pickford Theater, Reading aloud Borges’ LM 301. Contact 7-5502. “Collected Fictions.” Noon, Tuesdays from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. in LM 209. Film: “Judgment at LM 227. Contact 7-0013. Nuremberg” (UA, 1961). Lecture: Nevine Tolba of Ayn Registration must be done online. For information about 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus Shams University in Egypt obtaining a monthly pass online, contact [email protected] Theater, Culpeper, Va. presents “The Treasures of or 7-0022. Contact 7-9994. the Golden King Tut.” Noon, JANUARY African and Middle Eastern A monthly pass costs SATURDAY Division Reading Room, LJ 11 220. Contact 7-7311. $39.95 (minimum three Film: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia months, then go month- Woolf?” (Warner Bros., 1966). Forum: Bible study. Open 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus to all. 12:05 p.m., LM 542. to-month). Theater, Culpeper, Va. Contact [email protected]. Contact 7-9994. Aerobics Class: Strength JANUARY training and floor exercise. 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness SUNDAY 12 Center, LA B-36. Contact Calling All Curators! Film: “Raiders of the Lost 7-8637. Ark” (Paramount, 1981). 2 Got a favorite find or rediscovered treasure in your Yoga/Pilates: Start at your p.m., State Theater, Culpeper, collections? Send suggestions to [email protected] for own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Va. Tickets required. Contact possible inclusion in a future issue. Contact 7-3013. 7-9994.

Request ADA accommodations for events five business days in advance at 7-6362 or [email protected]. See www.loc.gov/loc/events for the Library’s online calendar.