Gazette Volume 20, No. 13 • April 17, 2009 • A weekly publication for Library staff New Communications Tools Library, UNESCO, Push Library Content to Public Partners to Launch “The Library of Congress launched WDL on April 21 By Erin Allen the first U.S. agency-wide blog two years he Library of Congress has gone ago and continued its pioneering social- The Library of Congress, UNESCO viral, and no, that doesn’t mean it media role with initiatives such as the and 34 partner institutions on April 21 T has caught a cold with all systems immensely successful Flickr pilot project,” will launch the World Digital Library, on lockdown. Quite the contrary—the said Librarian of Congress James H. Bil- a website that features unique cultural venerable institution is more “out there” lington. “We have long seen the value of materials from libraries and archives for the world to see than ever before. such interaction with the public to help from around the world. Information on Library news and events achieve our missions, and these agree- The site will include manuscripts, is available through Twitter, more than ments remove many of the impediments maps, rare books, films, sound record- 30 RSS and e-mail news-alert services, to making our unparalleled content more ings, and prints and photographs, which and one of the first blogs from a federal useful to many more people.” will be available without restrictions agency. A channel on the video service (www. to the public and free of charge. The In addition to these Web 2.0 enter- youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress) browseable, searchable site will function prises, YouTube has begun sharing Library is devoted to Library content, including in seven languages and offer content in content from its vast video collections talks and lectures of authors and scholars dozens of languages. on the YouTube web service as part of a and film presentations from the American The launch will take place at a recep- continuing initiative to make its incom- Memory collections. tion at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. parable treasures more widely accessible Librarian of Congress James H. Billington New Communications, to a broad audience. Continued on page 5 WDL Launch, Continued on page 7 Author of 1976 Act Dies

By Judith Nierman and Gail Fineberg her most significant legacy. The preceding law had not been changed substantially Barbara Ringer, the principal architect since 1909. of the first major revision of the nation’s Former U.S. Rep. Robert Kastenmeier, copyright law in 67 years and the first who served for many years as chairman woman to serve as register of or acting chairman of the House subcom- at the Library of Congress, from 1973 to mittee that dealt with copyright matters 1980, died on Thursday, April 9, in Lexing- and who worked closely with Ringer ton, Va. She had been in declining health and the Copyright Office to revise the for several years. She was 83. copyright law, said: “Barbara was the Ringer, an attorney whose legal heart and soul of that project.” career as a specialist in copyright law She not only crafted the legislative spanned 32 years in the Copyright Office, material, he said, but she also was “the was known for her brilliance in drafting political strategist, the one who figured legislation, her authorship of works on out how to deal with all the divisive inter- copyright, and her ability to harmonize ests.” divergent points of view. She was a key A 1949 graduate of Columbia Uni- adviser to Congress in the preparation versity Law School, Ringer joined the

Library of Congress and passage of the legislation resulting in Copyright Office that year as an examiner Barbara Ringer the , which remains Ringer, Continued on page 4 2 Library of Congress Gazette April 17, 2009

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NEWS Stanhope to Review, Report on Collections Development Librarian of Congress James H. Billing- in library science in 1979, the same year Division, “opening mail for four hours a ton has appointed Charles V. Stanhope he completed an intensive professional day and answering mail the other four as a senior adviser to Associate Librarian training program at the Library with the hours,” he recalled. for Library Services Deanna Marcum. 1979 Intern Class. He was selected for the Intern Pro- Stanhope will address a variety of critical Stanhope joined the Library in 1975 gram in September 1979; promoted to issues related to the Library’s collections- as a GS-5 accessioner, in the Gift Section a GS-11 as assistant section head of the development responsibilities. of the former Exchange and Gift (E&G) American-British Exchange Section, E&G, For the past two years, Stanhope has in 1980; and transferred to worked in the Office of the Librarian the Administrative Office of as assistant chief operating officer for the Office of the Assistant executive operations, and for many years Librarian for Research Ser- has worked in a variety of capacities in vices in 1982, beginning his the Library. long administrative career In a statement announcing the appoint- at the Library. In 1991, he ment, Billington said: “In Charles’s new was promoted to assistant role, I am charging him with (1) reviewing to the director of Public all of Library Services’ strategic -planning, Services and Collections working-group reports and related docu- Management II, Constituent ments on collections development and Services, and in 1995, he (2) drafting a detailed plan for the orga- was reassigned as special nization structure and responsibilities of assistant to the chief of staff a Collections Development Office. During in the Office of the Librar- the development of Library Services’ stra- ian, where he has worked tegic plan, six separate working groups since in various administra- recommended that such a study be car- tive capacities. u ried out and that a person or an office be given responsibility for this important Charles V. Stanhope will function. A similar recommendation was craft a plan for collections

Christopher Carlson development. made in the inspector general’s report on acquisitions in 2007.” The effective date of the appointment was Wednesday, April 8. Stanhope will Poet Laureate Kay Ryan to Return report to Marcum, but he will work closely Librarian of Congress James H. Bil- event, sponsored by the Library’s Poetry with all staff involved in recommending, lington has appointed Kay Ryan to serve a and Literature Center, is free and open selecting, and maintaining the Library’s second term as Poet Laureate Consultant to the public. collections, as well as with the working in Poetry. During the 2008-2009 literary season, groups that recommended this study. In his final report, he will detail a plan that Billington said, “Kay has been an Ryan appeared at the Library of Congress includes recommendations for the Col- uplifting presence as Laureate during National Book Festival and at several lections Development’s authorities and the past year, and her poetry continues Library poetry events. She also served responsibilities, its organizational struc- to awe and delight readers. In her appear- as a panelist at the “Robert Burns at 250” ture and its resource requirements. ances at the Library, Kay has captivated conference sponsored by the Library’s “Charles’s in-depth knowledge of the audiences with her fresh insights into American Folklife Center and the govern- Library, its history, and its collections will the beauty, power and importance of ment of Scotland. She selected two gifted be invaluable in making this project suc- poetry. We are looking forward to her young poets to receive the prestigious cessful,” the Librarian said. “I am grateful announcement this fall of a project she 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships in Poetry to Charles for all that he has contributed hopes to establish, and we are glad she from the Library of Congress. thus far, and I look forward to the results is available to serve in this important In San Francisco, Calif., Ryan took of this critically important study.” position in 2009-2010.” part in the poetry reading for “National Stanhope graduated from the Univer- Ryan’s first term will conclude at 6:45 Treasures, Local Treasures: The Library sity of Maine with a bachelor’s degree in p.m. on Thursday, May 7, when she gives of Congress at Your Fingertips,” a tour- French in 1971 and from the Catholic Uni- a reading in the Coolidge Auditorium ing program sponsored by the Library’s versity of America with a master’s degree of the Thomas Jefferson Building. The Center for the Book. u 4 Library of Congress Gazette April 17, 2009

NEWs Ringer, Continued from page 1 Arthur Levine, an attorney who worked has made exceptional contributions in in the Copyright Office from 1963 to 1971. the field of patents, trademarks or copy- of applications for copyright registra- He was assistant chief of the Examining rights. tions. For the next 27 years, she assisted Division. “Without Barbara Ringer, there Also an expert in international copy- two registers of copyright, Arthur Fisher would not have been a copyright revision right law and a mediator between develop- (1951–60) and Abraham Kaminstein act in 1976,” he said. ing and developed countries in shaping (1960–71), in their efforts to bring about a copyright laws for the global commu- comprehensive revision of U.S. copyright For her leadership in revising the U.S. nity, Ringer helped draft the Universal law. The effort actually began before copyright law, Ringer, in a 1977 White Copyright Convention (UCC) in 1955. She World War II but stalled during the war. House Ceremony, received the Presi- served as rapporteur for the establish- Public Law 94-553 was signed into law dent’s Award for Distinguished Federal ment of the 1961 Rome Convention for on Oct. 19, 1976, three years after Ringer Civilian Service, the highest honor for the Protection of Performers, Producers was appointed register. extraordinary achievement in federal of Phonograms and Broadcast Organiza- During the law-revision process, service. She was recognized by her peers tions, and she played an active role with Ringer did the work of 12 people, writing in 1979, when she received the Jefferson other international conferences, including reports for the register and drafting legisla- Medal from the New Jersey Patent Law the 1967 Intellectual Property Conference tion and committee reports, according to Association, given each year to one who at Stockholm that resulted in revision of both the and the UCC. New Communications, Continued has remastered both of these collec- Ringer was instrumental in drafting and from page 1 tions for YouTube viewing. They are also establishing the 1972 Geneva Treaty on available at an even higher resolution Not surprisingly, videos of Library the Protection of Phonograms. In 1973 on the Library’s site, further supporting content already exist on YouTube. From she was an alternate representative on the the institution’s goal of being the mint a behind-the-scenes look at the Harry U.S. delegation to the Intergovernmental repository the nation’s history. Copyright Committee meeting in Paris. Houdini collection with Penn and Teller Additionally, YouTube is reaching The following year she served as an alter- and a Jimmy Buffet concert to fan-made new and broader audiences with video nate representative on the U.S. delegation videos of Thomas Jefferson Building tours recordings of Library programs that once to the Diplomatic Conference to Negotiate and compilations of assets already avail- were available only to small, live audi- a Convention Relating to Distribution of able on the Library’s website, unofficial ences gathered locally to hear them. Such Program-Carrying Signals in Brussels. presentations are already popular. programs include author talks from the A transplant from the Midwest to the Official Library YouTube offerings National Book Festival on the National District of Columbia, Ringer was born include films from the Thomas Edison Mall; authors’ book discussions spon- on May 29, 1925, in Lafayette, Ind. She studio. Beginning in the late 1880s, Edi- sored by Books & Beyond of the Center was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at George son’s labs not only built the equipment for the Book at the Library; lectures given Washington University, from which she for filming and projecting films but also by John W. Kluge Center scholars at the earned a bachelor’s degree in 1945 and produced popular content for the new Library; and Library curators’ Gallery Talk a master’s degree in 1947. She was a 1949 medium. These films, more than 100 years narratives about exhibitions. graduate of the Columbia University Law old, are valuable not only for historical Project coordinators say that a huge School. A member of the American Bar purposes but also for their unique subject audience for this kind of content existed Association, the D.C. Bar Association, matter. Boxing cats, anyone? Or how but was not aware of the offerings already and the Federal Bar Association, she was about the muscle pageantry of Sandow, made available on the Library’s website. admitted to practice before the District of “the father of modern bodybuilding?” By having a presence on YouTube, the Columbia Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals Classic industrial films from the West- Library can, in effect, bring itself to the and the U.S. Supreme Court. inghouse Works, produced in April-May masses. After joining the Copyright Office as 1904, also are available on the Library’s The General Services Administration an examiner in 1949, she served suc- YouTube channel. The executives of the also announced agreements with Flickr, cessively as head of the Renewal and Westinghouse Works prided themselves YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv that will allow Assignment Section (1951); assistant chief on being modern and progressive. Most other federal agencies to participate in (1955), acting chief (1960), and chief of prominently featured are the Westing- new media while meeting legal require- the Examining Division (1961); assis- house Air Brake Company, the West- ments and the unique needs of govern- tant for examining inghouse Electric and Manufacturing ment. GSA plans to negotiate agreements (1963); and assistant register of copyrights Company and the Westinghouse Machine with other providers, and the Library will (1966). In addition to her focus on revis- Company. explore these new media services when ing the nation’s outdated copyright law The Library’s Motion Picture, Broad- they are appropriate to its mission and during these years, as assistant register casting and Recorded Sound Division as resources permit. u she had extensive responsibilities for the April 17, 2009 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette 5

NEWs management and policy-making of the Copyright Office. From 1971 until her appointment as Lucky Egg register of copyrights in 1973, Ringer lived and worked in Paris as director of the Roll Winners Copyright Division of the United Nations Some 900 Library employees Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Orga- wanted to be among those win- nization (UNESCO) in Paris. ning 40 tickets that the White After the copyright law was revised in House gave the Library for the 1976 with her leadership, Ringer led the Obama family’s first Easter Egg Copyright Office in accommodating the Roll on the White House lawn on ensuing sweeping changes by rewriting Monday, April 13. The Librarian office regulations, creating new forms suggested that the president of and establishing new practices. the Library of Congress Profes- Ringer retired from the Copyright sional Association (LCPA) draw Office in 1980 and joined the Washington, names out of a box, and that is D.C., law firm of Spencer & Kaye. But she what LCPA President Angela never stopped working on copyright mat- Kinney is doing here as Chief ters. Ever an advocate for authors and cre- Operating Officer Jo Ann Jen- Gail Fineberg ators, she became a member of the Com- kins observes. The 14 winners, Angela Kinney draws the name of a lucky winner of a mittee for Literary Property Studies (CLPS) ticket to the White House Easter Egg Roll. whose names were drawn on formed by Irwin Karp, former counsel to Friday, April 10, were Paula Crutchfield, Courtney Williams, KizzyG omes, Lillie Lee, the Authors League. She and the commit- Georgia Zola, Lisa Davis, Chris Peterson, Bernice Reyes, Marsha Young, Brenda Addi- tee proposed changes to the copyright- renewal system; submitted an amicus son, Joanne Kitching, Rachel Young, Jeramine Malloy and Gloria Dixon. brief in a Supreme Court case involving the film “Rear Window” and the right to Ringer foresaw that the analog world Ringer’s lifelong friend Mary Lyle, who create derivative works; counseled the would convert quickly to a digital one was assistant chief of the Renewals and House subcommittee on renewal issues; that would require the Copyright Office Documents Section, described Ringer as and drafted the Copyright Renewal Act of to change its systems of registering and a pioneer advocate and champion of part- 1992 that repealed copyright termination recording copyrights. To remain relevant, time work schedules, women’s programs and provided for automatic renewal of she said in 1993, the office must move and a child-care center, such as the one copyright for works copyrighted between to a digital database interwoven with she championed for the Library. 1964 and 1977—works that Ringer felt had the registration system, a step that the From the 1960s into the 1990s, Ringer been treated unfairly in the 1976 Act. In Copyright Office now is in the process lived in Harbour Square in southwest 1988, when legislation was blocked in of completing. Washington, D.C. She was one of the origi- the Senate, she advocated for U.S. entry A gracious woman of tremendous nal property owners in this cooperative into the Berne Convention. focus, curiosity and good humor, Ringer housing project. She bought 100 acres in Ringer returned to the Copyright Office fostered the professional development Bath County, Va., had a house built there in 1993 to serve for nearly a year (Novem- of many younger attorneys whom she and eventually lived there full time. She ber 1993 to August 1994) as acting register mentored, including the current register enjoyed needlework and crocheting, fill- of copyrights and also as co-chairman of copyrights, Marybeth Peters, who heard ing her bird feeders, and tending her three of the Librarian’s Advisory Committee Ringer give a presentation about the Copy- cats; she was active in the Bath Animal on Copyright Registration and Deposit right Office during Library orientation for Welfare organization. Ringer did archival (ACCORD). new employees. “[She] inspired me to work on Americana and folk music in her As acting register, she worked on seek employment in the office, which I local library while retaining her ties with regulations relating to cable and satel- joined in February 1966. She became my the copyright community. lite licensing. When Congress created role model as I went through law school at The only child of her parents, Ringer the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel night while working as a music examiner once referred to herself as “the last leaf on (CARP) in 1993, she proposed a system by day,” Peters said. “Barbara was pas- the tree.” She leaves no immediate family that was similar to that of the current sionate about authors and authors’ rights; but many friends. No memorial service Copyright Royalty Board. Colleagues say she was passionate about the Copyright is planned. Donations in her memory that she was 15 years ahead of the time Office and the Library. Knowing her and may be made to the Bath Animal Welfare because of her concern for continuity of working with her was a great gift that I Foundation, P.O. Box 716, Hot Springs, CARP decisions. will treasure forever.” VA 24445. u 6 Library of Congress Gazette April 17, 2009

noteable events Michael D. Coe to Present Civilization” (2003). collectors, academic institutions Proclamation has been criticized Biannual Kislak Lecture Coe is a member of the and combat veterans. since then for its timidity and on Early Toltec Culture National Academy of Sciences Cameron will present a slide limitations. Were African Ameri- Anthropologist Michael D. and has received the Tatiana lecture showing the process. A cans really free? Why were many counties in Louisiana and all of Coe, one of the foremost experts Proskouriakoff Award from number of the artists plan on West Virginia exempted from the in Mesoamerican archaeology, Harvard University, the Order being present. The project has proclamation? will deliver the third biannual of Quetzal from the Republic of produced a book of poetry and A panel of distinguished think- Jay I. Kislak lecture, at 7 p.m. Guatemala and the Orden del broadsides with art—all made ers will convene to discuss the on Wednesday, April 29, in the Pop from the Museo Popol Vuh, from uniforms. Veterans’ work document’s far-reaching effects Coolidge Auditorium of the at the Universidad Francisco Mar- will be available at the event for and the man who penned it. Thomas Jefferson Building. roquín in Guatemala City. purchase and signing. Moderated by Kwame Holman, Sponsored by the Library’s The third Kislak lecture is a For a moving video about the congressional correspondent for John W. Kluge Center, the His- component of the Kislak Ameri- project, visit combatpaper.org/. PBS’s NewsHour, the panel will panic Division and the Rare can Studies Program established u u u u u include Rep. G. K. Butterfield, Book and Special Collections at the Library of Congress in 2004 Law Day Panelists D-N.C.; Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Division, the lecture is free and by the Jay. I. Kislak Foundation. To Discuss Lincoln’s D-Ill.; Kurt Schmoke, dean of open to the public. u u u u u Emancipation Proclamation the Howard University School In his lecture titled “The Kislak Combat Paper Project Helps In celebration of Law Day on of Law; and Roger Wilkins, pro- Oyohualli Pendant—Eroticism Vets Heal From Wartime May 1, the Law Library of Con- fessor emeritus, George Mason and War Among the Toltecs,” Experiences, Trauma gress will host a panel discussion University. Some of the Library’s Coe will explain why the Toltecs Drew Cameron, one of the examining Abraham Lincoln’s more unusual copies of the Eman- incised a beautiful scene of founders of the Combat Paper Emancipation Proclamation, one cipation Proclamation will be on marching warriors on this largest Project, will explain the thera- of the most profound documents display. example of a known Toltec shell peutic benefits of transforming in U.S. history. Law Day is a national day to pendant or oyohualli, a symbol combat uniforms into paper The 90-minute program will celebrate the rule of law and its usually associated with eroticism during a discussion at noon on be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, May contributions to the freedoms and the arts. He will also exam- Tuesday, April 21, in Dining Room 1, in the Members Room of the that Americans enjoy. In 1957, the ine how such a strange mixture A, LM 621. Jefferson Building. Sponsored American Bar Association insti- of war themes and sexuality is The Library of Congress Pro- with support from the Friends of tuted Law Day to draw attention also found at Chichen Itza in fessional Association (LCPA) the Law Library of Congress, the to both the principles and prac- Yucatan, recently named “one of Veterans Forum will host the talk. public event is free, but advance tices of law and justice. President the seven wonders of the Modern Cameron will be introduced by reservations are required (202- Dwight D. Eisenhower established World.” Dianne van der Reyden, chief 707-9834, [email protected]). Law Day with a proclamation Coe holds the chair of Charles of the Preservation Division, Thought by some to be radi- in 1958. For more information J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthro- who will show slides to give an cal and dangerous at the time on Law Day, visit www.lawday. pology, Emeritus, at Yale Univer- overview of similar programs in it was issued, the Emancipation org. u sity, and is curator emeritus of the which paper-making is used as anthropology collection of the therapy and inspiration. Gallery Talk Peabody Museum of Natural His- Through paper-making work- tory, where he was curator from shops, veterans use their uni- Noon, Wednesday, April 22 1968 to 1994. His book, “Breaking forms worn in combat to create Georgia Higley, Serial and Government Publications Division, the Maya Code” (1992), was the cathartic works of art. The uni- “The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” within the Lincoln basis for a PBS documentary of forms are cut up, beat up, cooked exhibition “With Malice Toward None,” Second Floor, South the same name. and formed into sheets of paper. Gallery, Jefferson Building. His other books include “The Veterans use the transformative Maya” (now in its seventh edi- process of paper-making to tion), “In the Land of the Olmecs” reclaim their uniforms as art and Dealing with loss? Facing retirement? with Richard A. Diehl (1980), begin to embrace their experi- Going through a life transition? The Library’s Employee “The Art of the Maya Scribe” with ences as a soldier in war. Assistance Program can help. All Library employees and Justin Kerr (1998), “The True The Combat Paper Project is benefit-eligible dependents may contact the on-site counselor History of Chocolate” with his based at the Green Door Studio at 7-6389 or [email protected]. They also may call 1-888-290-4327 late wife Sophie D. Coe (1996), in Burlington, Vt., and is travel- or go to www.guidanceresources.com at any hour of any day “Mexico: From the Olmecs to ing throughout the United States. of the week to receive up to three sessions at no charge for off- the Aztecs” (now in its sixth edi- The project is made possible by a site counseling close to home or work. tion) and “Angkor and the Khmer collaboration among artists, art April 17, 2009 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette 7

moving on The following personnel actions, (general), GS-15, American Law Divi- Librarian (LAW); Fredric B. Simonton, which occurred at the Library of sion (ALD), CRS; Alisha A. Armstrong, information technology specialist, GS-14, Congress during Pay Period 02 in 2009, copyright specialist (registration), GS-09, Digital Futures, OSI; and Chun H. Yi, were compiled from National Finance Literary Division (LIT), Copyright Office information technology specialist, GS-14, Center (NFC) data. (COP); Shirley M. Berry, supervisory Digital Futures, OSI. photographer, GS-13, Office of Business Permanent Appointments Enterprises (POP), LS; Merleen Canty, Resignations Allison B. Benkwitt, librarian copyright specialist (registration), GS-09, Catherine Dixon, supervisory librar- (music), GS-09, National Library Ser- LD, COP; Michelle L. Graddy, copyright ian, GS-14, MUS, LS; and Maria L. Maier, vice for the Blind and Physically Hand- specialist (registration), GS-09, Perform- interior designer, GS-07, Facility Services icapped (NLSBPH), Library Services ing Arts Division (PA), COP; Loretta A. (FACS), ISS. (LS); Aaron M. Blackshire, contract Graham, copyright specialist (informa- specialist, GS-12, Office of Finance and tion), GS-11, Information and Records Retirements Administration (FIN), Congressional Division (I&RD), COP; Carl F. Hatch- Ralph G. Hartwell, information Research Service (CRS); Patricia A. ett, copyright specialist, GS-09, Visual technology specialist, GS-12, ITS; Harold Davis, social science analyst, GS-15, Arts and Recordation Division (VAR), C. Relyea, social science analyst, GS-15, Domestic Social Policy Division (DSP), COP; Jonathan P. Hawkins, copyright Government and Finance Division (G&F), CRS; Matthew J. Gallagher, contract specialist (registration), GS-09, PA, COP; CRS; and Mary A. Rooker, editor, GS-14, specialist, GS-13, Contracts and Grants Ted A. Hirakawa, supervisory copyright Office of Legislative Information (LIN), Management Office (OCGM), Office of specialist (registration), GS-14, LIT, COP; CRS. the Librarian/Chief Operating Officer David M. Hubbard, copyright special- Correction: (LIBN/COO); Jill C. Garcia, librarian ist (registration), GS-09, VAR, COP; and Muhannad A. Salhi received a perma- (collection specialist), GS-09, NLSBPH, Dean Seibert, budget analyst, GS-12, nent appointment in Pay Period 24, 2008, LS; Ellen S. Hall, administrative support Budget Office (BO), Office of the Chief as a reference specialist, GS-13, African assistant, GS-06, Office of the Director Financial Officer (OCFO). and Middle Eastern Division, Library of the Congressional Research Service Temporary Promotions Services. His title and grade were incor- (CRS/DIR); Philip C. Hartten, archivist rectly listed in Moving On in the April 3 supervisory (music), GS-09, Music Division (MUS), Mwanga Akerele Ale, issue of the Gazette. u LS; Ljiljana Ivezic, library technician, information technical specialist, GS-15, GS-05, Germanic and Slavic Division Office of the Director of Information (GS), LS; Gulnar Nagashybayeva, librar- Technology Services (ITS); Joseph A. ian, GS-09, Science, Technology and Stroman, lead accounting technician, WDL Launch, Continued from page 1 Business Division (ST&B), LS; Donna GS-08, Federal Library and Information and UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro J. Scanlon, librarian, GS-09, ST&B, LS; Center Committee (FLICC), LS; and John Matsuura will be co-hosts of the event, Paul F. Schirle, cartographer, GS-13, L. Thompson, lead accounting techni- and directors of numerous partner Knowledge Services Group (KSG), CRS; cian, GS-08, FLICC, LS. institutions will be on hand to present Gwyn A. Taylor, contracts specialist, the project to ambassadors, ministers, GS-13, OCGM, LIBN/COO; and Catherine Reassignments delegates and special guests attending A. Theohary, social science analyst, Patricia T. Barber, librarian, GS-13, the semi-annual meeting of UNESCO’s GS-14, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade United States/Anglo Division (USAN), LS; executive board. Division (FDT), CRS. Patricia A. Benson, copyright special- Billington first proposed the cre- ist (cataloging), GS-11, PA, COP; Carl ation of a World Digital Library (WDL) Temporary Appointments Fleischhauer, information technology to UNESCO in 2005, remarking that such a Gary J. Gowen, clerk, GS-02, Office specialist, GS-15, National Digital Infor- project could “have the salutary effect of Systems Services (OSS), Integrated mation Infrastructure and Preservation bringing people together by celebrating Support Services (ISS); Shanickia D. (NDIIPP), Office of Strategic Initiatives the depth and uniqueness of different McCall, clerk, GS-01, Manuscript Division (OSI); Donald Hardy, world digital cultures in a single global undertaking.” In (MSS), LS; Derek E. Mix, social science library program specialist, GS-11, Office addition to promoting international under- analyst, GS-13, FDT, CRS; and William of the Librarian (LIBN); Thipphavanh standing, the project aims to expand the B. Thompson, liaison specialist, GS-09, Padavong, information technology volume and variety of cultural content on Office of Congressional Affairs and Coun- specialist, GS-14, Digital Futures, OSI; the Internet, provide resources for edu- selor to the Director (CAC), CRS. Joseph N. Pagano, information tech- cators, scholars and general audiences, nology specialist, GS-14, Digital Futures, and narrow the digital divide within and Permanent Promotions OSI; Arlene T. Peters, office automa- between countries by building capacity Kristina Alexander, attorney adviser tion assistant, GS-05, Office of the Law in partner countries. u 8 Library of Congress Gazette April 17, 2009

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