Weekly Gazette, May 29, 2020 Issue

Volume 31, No. 21 LIBRARY May 29, 2020 GAZETTEOF CONGRESS A weekly publication for staff Plan Released to Restore Operations

BY WENDI A. MALONEY

A methodical, step-by-step plan for restoring operations on-site at the Library has been mapped out, Library leaders announced during an all-staff virtual town hall meeting on Wednesday. The plan involves three phases with six parts and seeks to reduce the risk of exposure to the COVID-19 coro- navirus in Library buildings. The first phase will launch when local conditions related to the pandemic allow, probably sometime in mid- Junior fellows logging on from home on Tuesday included Randi Proescholdt (from June. left), Digital Collections and Management Services; Lupita Partida, Hispanic Division; Patty Templeton, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division; and “Your cooperation is going to be Selena Qian, Office of the Chief Information Officer. vital in making sure that as we go through this restoration of on-site operations … we all remain as Library Welcomes Junior safe and as healthy as we can,” said Librarian of Congress Carla Fellows — From a Distance Hayden. The 2020 class will collaborate across four time Other speakers at the town hall were Mark Sweeney, principal zones and 22 states. deputy Librarian of Congress; Ed Jablonski, the Library’s chief BY MARK HARTSELL ships not with the usual early operating officer; Sandra Charles, morning trip to the Madison Build- chief medical officer; Joe Cappello, For nearly 30 years, the Junior ing for orientation but instead by acting director of the Human Capi- Fellows Summer Intern Program waking up, making breakfast, stay- tal Directorate; Elizabeth Scheffler, has given college undergraduate ing home and logging on. director of Integrated Support Ser- and graduate students a one-of- a-kind opportunity: the chance to For the next 10 weeks, they will vices; and April Slayton, director of toil away at workstations that communications. do hands-on work at the world’s largest library and to experience have been social distanced in the The restoration-of-operations plan everything the nation’s capital has extreme, scattered across four is based on guidance from author- to of fer. time zones and 22 states from itative health sources including the Connecticut to California. Office of the Attending Physician Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the Library of Con- On July 22, the term will culmi- for Capitol Hill, the Johns Hopkins nate with another program first: University Center for Health Secu- gress to close to the public, the Library this summer offered the a virtual display day, transforming rity and the Centers for Disease what has been a one-day public Control and Prevention, Sweeney positions in a new way — as virtual internships, a first for the program. exhibition of the fellows’ work into said. an online presentation of videos The plan’s three phases include So, on Tuesday, this year’s cohort illustrating their efforts. The intern- of 40 fellows began their intern- OPERATIONS, CONTINUED ON 7 JUNIOR FELLOWS, CONTINUED ON 6 NOTICES

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2 MAY 29, 2020 NEWS Data Jam Offers Sneak Peek into Millions of Historical Images Innovator-in-Residence Ben Lee is extracting visual content from historical newspapers.

BY SAHAR KAZMI

Soon, more than 100 million images from the Library’s Chron- icling America collection — one of the largest datasets of visual con- tent ever produced from a cultural heritage collection — will be made available on loc.gov thanks to Ben Lee. He is one of two partici- pants this year in LC Labs’ Innova- tor-in-Residence program. On May 7, Lee and the LC Labs team held a virtual “data jam” to give the public a first look at Newspaper Navi- Shawn Miller gator, the image recognition and exploration project Lee created. Ben Lee looks through historical newspapers at the Library in February. Using a machine-learning algo- more than 130 digital humanities providing new exploratory avenues rithm, Newspaper Navigator pin- practitioners and included con- to complement keyword searches points photographs, maps, head- tent experts from the Chronicling of the imagery. It will include a lines and other imagery across America team who introduced the searchable user interface to allow the more than 16 million pages of scale and scope of the expansive the public to easily explore and historical newspapers included in newspaper collection. download visual content. Chronicling America. The algorithm The data jam demonstrated the Because the Newspaper Navi- took 19 days to run through the first phase of Newspaper Navigator gator dataset, along with all of entire collection, ultimately identi- — prepackaged sets of visual con- the code written to produce it, is fying approximately 10 terabytes of tent that can be downloaded by being released by Lee in the public images and related metadata. defined parameters, such as con- domain, the project is primed to “By extracting visual content from tent type or publication date. Along open even more doors for search the digitized newspapers, Ben’s with photographs and illustrations, and discovery among the Library’s project is creating a first-of-its- the datasets include comics, edi- and other digital humanities col- kind opportunity to surface new torial cartoons, headlines, maps lections in the future. stories in American history through and advertisements. Newspaper Navigator expands on images,” said Kate Zwaard, the During the workshop, attendees Beyond Words, a crowdsourced Library’s digital strategy direc- built photo collages and word image identification and tran- tor. “Ben is making history for the clouds using visuals and headlines scription pilot program the Library Library while pushing computer from curated sample images — launched in 2017. It is also part science research a big step from ads for little-known medical of the Digital Strategy Director- forward.” elixirs to photos of mustachioed ate’s ongoing effort to investigate Until now, people interested in men in 19th-century Arizona machine-learning applications for Chronicling America’s visual con- newspapers. Their efforts proved the Library’s digital collections. tent, like photos or comics, have that the possibilities for using Last summer, the directorate largely been restricted to search- Newspaper Navigator to find novel hosted a summit, “Machine Learn- ing on individual pages to find what stories are probably limitless. The ing and Libraries,” and it recently they need, “a daunting task given prepackaged datasets, as well as published a report detailing explor- the size of the collection,” said Lee. the complete dataset of over 100 atory projects conducted at the “But that size — and the fact that million images, are available on University of Nebraska, Lincoln. A the collection is free and available news-navigator.labs.loc.gov. summary of the summit and the to the public — made it an ideal The next phase of Newspaper report are available at labs.loc.gov/ test for machine learning at scale.” Navigator will launch this summer work/reports/. ▪ The data jam was attended by on labs.loc.gov with the goal of

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 3 Arana Receives Literary Award Marie Arana has been named a of the top five books of the year by recipient of the 2020 Arts and the Peruvian newspaper of record, Letters Award in Literature by El Comercio. the American Academy of Arts For many years, Arana was editor- and Letters. Arana is direc- in-chief of the Washington Post’s tor of literary initiatives in the Book World, and she has written Library’s Center for Learning, for the New York Times, National Literacy and Engagement. Geographic, the International The $10,000 award honors excep- Herald Tribune, Spain’s El País, tional accomplishment in any Colombia’s El Tiempo and Peru’s El literary genre. Comercio. Arana’s biography of Simón Bolívar Arana has helped to guide the won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Library’s literary programming for Book Prize, and her memoir about 20 years. Prior to being appointed her bicultural childhood, “American last fall as literary director of the Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood,” Library and director of literary

was a finalist for the National Book initiatives, she served as literary Shawn Miller Award. Her newest book, “Silver, adviser to two Librarians of Con- Marie Arana at the National Book Sword and Stone,” a history of gress and literary director of the Festival. Latin America, was longlisted for National Book Festival. great institution. I am deeply grate- the Andrew Carnegie Medal of “I owe so much of my work to the ful to be here.” Excellence and cited as the best Library of Congress, which is why book of the year by the American I’m here, trying to pay back the The American Academy of Arts Library Association. generosity,” Arana said. “My last and Letters was founded in 1898. Arana also writes fiction. Her novel, two books of Latin American his- Among its many programs, it seeks “Cellophane,” a family epic set in tory would have been impossible to foster and sustain an interest in the Peruvian Amazon, was a final- without the support of the Kluge literature, music and the fine arts ist for the John Sargent Prize, and Center and the phenomenal Latin by administering more than 70 “Lima Nights” was selected as one American collection housed in this awards and prizes. ▪ OBITUARY bachelor’s degree from Davidson Office explaining its operations. College. While there, she studied Miller loved to read, especially abroad in Europe, which fostered Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, a lifelong love of travel, especially but also newer works and young to Italy. adult fiction. She also enjoyed Miller moved to Washington, D.C., theater, classical music and opera in 1980 and began working at and took yearly trips to New York the Library as a technician in the to see performances. She often Congressional Research Service volunteered at the National Book (CRS). She joined the Copyright Festival as well. When baseball Office in 1984 as a copyright bib- returned to Washington, D.C., in liographer and moved in 1987 to 2005, Miller became an instant its Public Information Office (PIO), Nationals fan. David Rice David where she remained for the rest of Miller is survived by her husband her career. There, she helped the Page Miller of 35 years, Brian Brown, whom public navigate the office’s ser- she met while working in CRS. Page Miller, a longtime and vices and programs. Every two years, they traveled much-admired member of the Over time, Miller became known as together to Italy with friends. Other Copyright Office’s staff, died April 8 an expert on all things copyright. survivors include Miller’s brother, after a brief illness. She was 64. She taught staff from throughout Chris Miller, and his wife, Delores, Miller was born in Baltimore and the Library about copyright, men- and many nieces and nephews. A grew up in New York and North tored new PIO specialists and gave gathering in Miller’s memory will be Carolina, where she earned a countless tours of the Copyright held at a later date. ▪

4 MAY 29, 2020 QUESTION & ANSWER

Congress was a no-brainer; when only for a month before maximum I learned about the opening in the telework was instituted. Thus, in Publishing Office, it seemed like a many ways, teleworking has come fantastic fit. to feel like my normal circum- As editorial assistant, I work with stance. While I have been able to my colleagues on all stages of keep up most tasks, I will admit producing the books we publish that nothing has been able to or co-publish — from assessing replace the thrill of going into the a proposal’s merits, copyediting stacks to get any book I want (or manuscripts and securing permis- ordering it from one of our off-site sions to writing sidebars, proofing locations). Also, I weirdly miss my indexes, suggesting cover art and commute. I’m fortunate that it was collecting reviews. Another big just long enough that I could read project for our office is consolidat- a few chapters of a book or listen ing all of our publications’ meta- to a podcast without it being too data into a single Microsoft Access much of a daily hassle. It’s hard to database. I’m a relative beginner replicate that when I just have to when it comes to Access, so that’s commute from the bedroom to my been a fun and challenging learn- living room. ing experience. What do you enjoy doing outside Once operations are back to work? normal, come say hi to us on the I love baseball, and I am a Nation- Zach Klitzman fifth floor of Adams! als season ticketholder. Hopefully, sports will return as soon as it’s How has the coronavirus Zach Klitzman is an editorial assis- safe to do so. I also love playing pandemic changed your work? tant in the Publishing Office. trivia. Fortunately, I’ve even been For the most part, we’ve been able Tell us a little about your able to play remotely during the to adapt fairly well to telework. background. pandemic over conference calls Obviously, we can’t have in-person with friends. In fact, I recently I’m a native Washingtonian, born meetings, but we’ve been able to played three consecutive nights here in D.C. For undergrad, I went maintain our collaborative work of Harry Potter trivia, and my team to the University of Pennsylva- with video conferencing and daily finished top three each time. Yes, nia (Go Quakers!), majoring in email check-ins. For me, I’ve been I’m a huge Harry Potter fan (my history. I also have a master’s focusing on projects that rely on house is Ravenclaw). degree in history from American digital resources more than print University. While writing my mas- resources. What is something your co- ter’s thesis, I frequently visited workers may not know about you? How are you adjusting generally to the Library’s Manuscript Reading Speaking of trivia, I am a Jeopardy! the new circumstances? Room. It’s great now to have that champion. In 2016, I appeared on outside scholar’s perspective on Well, the irony is that I’ve now offi- the game show and won enough the Library, as well as that of an cially been working from home for money to pay off my grad school employee — I joined the Library’s longer than I worked in the office! I loans. That’s an experience I’ll staff in February. had been employed at the Library never forget. ▪ For 10 years previously, I worked at President Lincoln’s Cottage. It’s a nonprofit historic house museum in Washington, D.C., where Lincoln WEEKLY VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUP spent his summers as president The Employee Assistance Program is hosting a half-hour virtual support group while commuting to the White on Webex on Thursdays at noon to help Library staff address uncertainty and House. I’ve also worked for the His- stress arising from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. torical Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Park Service. Join at https://bit.ly/35uLbNa using the meeting access code 901-990-307, or join by phone at (510) 210-8882 using the same access code. No registration What brought you to the Library, is required. Questions? Call (202) 707-6389, option 3, Mondays through and what do you? Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. or (800) 869-0276 at other times. Although I enjoyed my time at the cottage, I knew I wanted to focus on history and museum publishing rather than historic site adminis- tration. Working for the Library of

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JUNIOR FELLOWS, CONTINUED FROM 1 offered programs that foster pro- University of Mary Washington; fessional development, encourage HISP. ship concludes July 31. social interaction and provide a Chelsey Brown; Lee’s Summit, Mis- “There is always a high level of deeper knowledge of the institu- souri; University of Missouri; African interest and excitement found in tion — a goal that this year required and Middle Eastern Division (AMED). both the Library staff and incom- some out-of-the-box thinking. Herman Luis Chavez; Fort Collins, ing class of junior fellows,” said This year, IFP is offering a series of Kimberly Powell, chief of Internship Colorado; Colorado State Univer- interactive Webex sessions that sity; HISP. and Fellowship Programs (IFP). allow the interns to get to know “This summer, we are looking for- each other and chat about their Paige Collins; Austell, Georgia; ward to the opportunities to wel- work. They also will have opportu- University of Georgia; Center for come our first virtual cohort. We nities to meet virtually with Librar- Learning, Literacy and Engagement will bring forward traditions that ian of Congress Carla Hayden, (CLLE). are part of the signature experi- Principal Deputy Librarian of Con- Jessica Craig; Camarillo, California; ence and will innovate together as gress Mark Sweeney, Chief of Staff UCLA; Law Library. we pilot new aspects. Ryan Ramsey and other Library Saraya Flaig; Lewiston, Idaho; Uni- “Colleagues from the Human Cap- leaders. versity of Idaho; CLLE. ital Directorate, the Office of the In addition, IFP also is hosting a Chief Information Officer and so regular professional-develop- Briana Gausland; Barrington, Rhode many others have been working ment series on Tuesdays to foster Island; Wheaton College; AMED. for months to prepare, and we are knowledge of Library departments Madeline Goebel; Jensen Beach, all eager to meet the class of 2020 and services and another on Fri- Florida; University of Texas at and welcome them to the Library.” days to further develop work skills. Austin; African, Latin American The fellows will work in 19 divi- “The collaboration this year has and Western European Division sions located in the Congressional been amazing,” program man- (ALAWE). Research Service, the Copyright ager Eric Eldritch said. “Each of Tracee Haupt; Hyattsville, Mary- Office, the Law Library, Library the participating departments has land; University of Maryland; Kluge Services, the Office of the Chief carefully considered designing Center. Information Officer and the Office and redesigning projects to make Mallory Haselberger; Waldorf, of the Librarian. inroads to our collections and Maryland; University of Maryland; enhance access remotely.” There, they’ll participate in a wide CLLE. range of library activities, such The Junior Fellows program has Katherine Howell; Kernersville, as preservation, indexing, digital been a signature initiative of the North Carolina; University of Illinois initiatives, program development, Library since 1991. It is made pos- at Urbana-Champaign; Researcher information management and out- sible by a gift from James Madison and Reference Services. reach to targeted audiences. Council member Nancy Glanville The 27 projects they collectively Jewell through the Glanville Family Sally Johnson; Montgomery, Texas; are undertaking explore Library Foundation and from the Knowl- University of Oklahoma; CLLE. collections and programs and help edge Navigators Trust Fund, which August Kahn; Barrington, Rhode make them more accessible to the was established with a lead gift Island; Pitzer College; AMED. public — among other endeavors, from the late H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, ; Sterling, Virginia; expanding access for early motion chairman emeritus of the Madi- Hibba Khan George Mason University; Office pictures, measuring the effects son Council, and with major sup- of the Chief Information Officer of light sources on collection port provided by members of the (OCIO). materials, digitizing braille music council. The program originally was scores, surveying African Ameri- made possible through the gener- Nina Milica Kostic; Groton, Con- can business history and testing osity of Mrs. Jefferson Patterson. necticut; University of Rhode experimental ways to share digital The members of the 2020 class Island; OCIO. collections. of junior fellows (with hometown, Sophie Lefebvre; Buffalo, Minne- To facilitate this work, the Library school and assignment) are: sota; Carleton College; Science, provided each intern with a Citrix Meredith Atkinson; Manassas, Vir- Technology and Business Division virtual desktop to access a stan- ginia; University of South Carolina; (ST&B). dard workstation with Microsoft Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Ethan McFerren; Ashburn, Virginia; Word 2016, Skype for Business and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS). University of Virginia; CLLE. Webex accounts. Allison Booher; Canal Winchester, Franky Moore; Norfolk, Virginia; In addition to the opportunity Ohio; Vanderbilt University; His- Carnegie Mellon University; Pres- to work with Library collections, panic Division (HISP). ervation Research and Testing the internship in years past also Matthew Bova; Arlington, Virginia; Division (PRTD).

6 MAY 29, 2020 OPERATIONS, CONTINUED FROM 1 Jake Newman; Guilford, Connecti- “This is very much a partnership cut; American University; CLLE. parts designed to allow the Library that will require a heightened to assess issues that arise as the level of responsibility for all of us Lupita Partida; Laredo, Texas; St. plan unfolds and take a step back as we take measures to reduce Mary’s University of San Antonio; if conditions warrant. Each time a HISP. the risk to ourselves but also to new part is introduced, staff will the rest of the people that we’re Sarah Patrick; Jarrettsville, Mary- receive a week’s notice if they working with,” Sweeney said. land; University of Maryland; Con- are to resume on-site work. gressional Research Service. During phase one, part one, “We expect there will be modi- on-site work will be limited to 40 Randi Proescholdt; Marshalltown, fications as we see how things hours per pay period. Staff who Iowa; University of Illinois at Urba- develop,” Jablonski said. He work on-site who cannot tele- na-Champaign; Digital Collections led the operations commit- work will receive paid adminis- and Management Services. tee responsible for the plan. trative leave for the remaining Selena Qian; Carmel, Indiana; Duke During the first part of phase 40 hours of the pay period. University; OCIO. one, a limited number of staff Phase one includes a second and contractors — up to about Quade Robinson; Midland, North part during which no more than 5 percent of the Library’s work- Carolina; Harvard University; Asian 25 percent of the Library’s staff force — will restart priority work Division. will be performing on-site oper- that cannot be accomplished by ations. In phase two, which has Keely Shaw; San Angelo, Texas; telework, which in the most recent only one part, up to 50 percent of Angelo State University; CLLE. pay period accounted for about the staff will perform most on-site Emily Sienkiewicz; Westfield, Mas- 80 percent of all hours recorded operations at a reduced level. at the Library, Sweeney said. sachusetts; Massachusetts College In phase three, select reading of Liberal Arts; OCIO. An immediate challenge is reduc- rooms will open to registered Zoe Ruthe Singleton; Bethesda, ing a backlog that has accrued readers (part 1); followed by the Maryland; University of Maryland; during the pandemic. As of May opening of all reading rooms, OCIO. 22, Sweeney said, there were 140 subject to assembly limits and pallets of unprocessed mail in reduced operating hours (part Lily Smith; Alexandria, Virginia; Library facilities, mostly copyright 2); followed by restoration of University of Pennsylvania; National deposits, new Library acquisi- all Library activities (part 3). Library Service for the Blind and tions, equipment and supplies. Print Disabled (NLS). During phase three, all Library In part one of the initial phase, staff will return on-site for at Sophia Southard; Cleveland, Mis- returning staff will be required least part of their normal work souri; University of Kansas; ST&B. to observe strict health pro- schedule. Telework will con- Michael Steffen; Ankeny, Iowa; Uni- tocols, including arriving with tinue on an expanded basis versity of Iowa; Kluge Center. a mask or cloth face cover- even afterward where there ing and responding to a prear- Katarina Stiller; Los Alamitos, Cali- is no loss of productivity. rival health questionnaire. The fornia; Fullerton College; PRTD. Health Services Division will take For the remainder of the calen- Patty Templeton; Chicago; Univer- each person’s temperature. dar year, Cappello said, staff will sity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- be able to draw on leave flexibil- Staff will also have to maintain a paign; MBRS. ities provided under the Families physical distance of 6 feet from First Coronavirus Act to address Jeremy Thompson; Goodyear, Ari- one another — service units may pandemic-related caregiving zona; University of Arizona; ALAWE. adjust work locations to accom- responsibilities, as well as other Vivian Teresa Tompkins; Greenville, plish this — avoid hallway conver- leave categories at the Library. sations and adhere to new direc- South Carolina; Syracuse Univer- A video of the town hall is avail- sity; NLS. tional signage in moving about buildings. More frequent clean- able online (https://bit.ly/3gw- Bailey Isabella Ward; Carmel, Indi- ing of common areas, including zc6Q), as are the slides (https:// ana; William & Mary College; ST&B. restrooms, will also occur, and go.usa.gov/xwYa7) presented. Liza Whitfield; Carmel, Indiana; supplies will be provided so staff Questions? Contact Loyola University, New Orleans; can disinfect their own work areas. [email protected]. ▪ CLLE. Crystal Williams; Brooklyn, New York; Virginia State University; Copyright Office. Your Employee Personal Page (EPP) is at Tyler Youngman; Oswego, New York; Syracuse University; OCIO. ▪ www.nfc.usda.gov/epps/

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