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GAZETTE Volume 28, No. 16 • May 5, 2017 • A weekly publication for Library staff Inside Dedicated to Daniel Murray The Library and the Toni Morrison Soci- ety dedicate a bench to the memory of Daniel A.P. Murray, a historic figure in Library history. Page 3 Shawn Miller Farewell to a Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera concludes his David Rubenstein interviews Sonia Sotomayor in the Coolidge Auditorium on April 27. tenure as U.S. poet laureate with a celebration in the Jefferson Building. Page 4 Sotomayor Helps Library Open Exhibit on Art of Courtroom New Acquisitions The Madison Council recently made possible the acquisition of new items for discussion of their work. Library collections, including the papers By Mark Hartsell That evening in the Coolidge, as two of “Roots” author Alex Haley. courtroom artists sketched the scene, Page 6 he Library of Congress last week Rubenstein interviewed Sotomayor about opened its new exhibition about the her experiences and about the court’s T art of courtroom illustration with the work. (Afterward, she would tour the help of a participant in many of the legal exhibition and find among the illustrations dramas that have most profoundly shaped a rendering of a young judge – herself our nation in recent years: U.S. Supreme – presiding over a case involving Major Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. League Baseball.) Sotomayor, along with Madison Coun- Sotomayor described for Rubenstein cil Chairman and Carlyle Group CEO the difficulty of deciding cases (“we David M. Rubenstein, appeared in the struggle with the answers more than Coolidge Auditorium on April 27 to mark our writings reflect”), the dominance of the opening of “Drawing Justice: The Art certain universities on the court (“there of Courtroom Illustration,” an exhibition is a little bit too much Ivy League”), the Gloria Gaynor performs in the that explores the work of the artists who loss of Justice Antonin Scalia (“the shock Great Hall of the Jefferson Building chronicle high-profile court cases. itself was so great to every one of us”) on May 6. The celebration began earlier that day, and socializing with fellow justices (“the On Tap when three artists featured in “Drawing opera lovers tend to go to the theater often Lectures, films, concerts, classes and Justice” – Marilyn Church, Pat Lopez and together; I don’t have any dance lovers other events at the Library of Congress on the court”). in the coming week. Bill Robles – joined curator Sara Duke in Page 8 room 119 of the Jefferson Building for a SOTOMAYOR, continued on page 7 2 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 5, 2017

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NEWS Bench Honoring Daniel Murray Dedicated at Jefferson

By Jennifer Gavin

There’s a new bench on Neptune Plaza in front of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building – a place not just to sit, but to sit and reflect on the contributions of a person who played a seminal role in the Library’s early history: Daniel Alexan- der Payne Murray (1852-1925), the first African-American assistant librarian of Congress. “I can definitely say ‘I’m standing here because of Mr. Murray,’ ” said Carla Hayden, who is seven months into her term as the first African-American and

first female librarian of Congress. She Shawn Miller noted that Murray helped design the Jef- Library employees and Morrison Society members dedicated a bench for Daniel A.P. ferson Building, “the first federal building Murray on April 28. Seated are Iris Taylor (left) and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. in the U.S. Capitol [complex] that was Standing are Deputy Librarian Robert Newlen (from left), Rosalyn Jones Fountain, not built by slave labor,” and was “indis- Arnold Wiggins, Darren Jones, Larry Sarratt, Ahmed Johns, Theresa Davis, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Carolyn Denard and Craig Stutman. pensable” on the small staff overseen by Ainsworth Spofford, the sixth librarian of ones who made the journey and of those an encyclopedia. Congress and the man who convinced who did not make it. There is no suitable Murray was nominated to be com- Congress to build the Jefferson Building, memorial or plaque or wreath or wall memorated with a bench by the Library which opened in 1897. or park or skyscraper lobby. There’s no employees group the Daniel A.P. Murray But despite his excellent work and three-hundred-foot tower. There’s no small African-American Cultural Association, administrative talent, Murray “was passed bench by the road.” which since 1979 has sponsored numer- over for promotion” on grounds that white Born in Baltimore, Murray, the son of ous speakers and events at the Library. Iris employees would not want to be super- a freed slave, came to Washington, D.C., Taylor, currently treasurer of the group, vised by a black man. at the age of 9 to work for his brother, suggested that Murray be nominated for The bench, recognizing Murray’s role who managed the U.S. Senate’s restau- a bench. as a trailblazer for African-Americans at rant. A decade later, Murray joined the In addition to the bench dedication the Library and his work documenting 12-member staff of Spofford as personal emceed by Center for the Book Director the literature of the African diaspora, was assistant, later rising to become only the Pamela Jackson, which included songs at dedicated with joy and song on April 28, second African-American to hold a pro- the open and close by Ayanna Gregory, in a ceremony attended by more than fessional position at the Library, as refer- the daughter of African-American activist 100 people including several of Murray’s ence librarian. In 1881, he became the and performer Dick Gregory, there was a descendants. It is the 21st bench placed assistant librarian, serving in the Main reception for guests including a display by the Toni Morrison Society nationwide Reading Room. It was there that he began of rare materials from the more than as part of its Bench By the Road Project, his work documenting the lives and efforts 1,100 items first collected and cataloged which commemorates African-Americans of outstanding men and women of African by Murray, including numerous books, who fought, in various ways, to improve descent, which he planned to publish in poems and other printed materials. u the lot of their people through U.S. his- tory. Murray’s bench and its story will be included in an upcoming Morrison book. Send Us Your Ideas! The bench project grew from a 1989 quote by Morrison, noting that “There is Do you have an idea for a Library of Congress Blog posting? Would you like no place you or I can go, to think about to write a post? If so, please contact Wendi Maloney at [email protected] or or not think about, to summon the pres- 7-0979. She is on a detail to the Office of Communications and is acting as ences of, or recollect the absences of managing editor of the Library of Congress Blog. slaves; nothing that reminds us of the 4 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 5, 2017

NEWS Poet Laureate Closes Term With Day of Festivities

By Wendi A. Maloney

The poetry of Juan Felipe Herrera took center stage on April 26 at a day- long celebration of his two terms as the 21st poet laureate of the United States. It began with a noon choral performance by the Fresno State Chamber Singers from Fresno, California, Herrera’s home- town; an evening panel explored his work in relation to Latino social and cultural movements; and a concert by the Grammy Award-winning rock band Quetzal closed the celebration, titled “Speak the People/the Spark/el Poema.” Fresno State music professor Benja- min Boone composed four pieces for the choral performance, three of them set to poems by Herrera. One of the composi- tions, “Mrs. Leyla Sampson Said,” honored Shawn Miller Herrera’s third-grade choir teacher, who Juan Felipe Herrera with the Fresno State Chamber Singers in the Jefferson Building. told him he had a beautiful voice after he sang in front of class, struggling with his director of Radio Bilingüe; and Louie Morales is a Mixtec Indian from nerves and his English. Herrera is the son Pérez, singer-songwriter with the band Oaxaca, Mexico. He immigrated to the of migrant workers from Mexico. Los Lobos. Rafael Pérez-Torres, an English United States at age 9 with his family to “That was the key to my life,” Herrera professor at UCLA, moderated the panel, pick grapes in Sonoma County, California. said. “I took that key, and I took those asking participants to speak about the After contracting tuberculosis at age 12, words, and I gave them to everyone I origins of their artistic voices. he spent a year in a sanitarium with noth- could. . . . She was telling me that the Herrera read “Let Us Gather in a Flour- ing to do but read. He was taken aback to beauty in my voice was the beauty in ishing Way,” a poem he wrote in English discover that many people held negative everyone’s voice.” and Spanish while a student at UCLA in views of families like his. Herrera has been one of the most the early 1970s, a time of intense activism. “We were dirty and undeserving, etc. active poets laureate in the history of “It was really not about writing. It We deserved to be poor because we the position. The author of 30 books of wasn’t about being a poet,” Herrera didn’t have the initiative or the energy or poetry and other works, he was named recalled. “It was about standing up and the intelligence,” he recounted. “So that’s poet laureate in 2015 and reappointed in speaking for our communities, to open when I decided to speak out.” 2016. Among his projects, he created “La up and break open those vaults . . . that Morales went to Harvard College and Familia,” an epic poem drawing on par- had our stories, our words, our symbols then Harvard Law School. While there, ticipation from the public, and “The Tech- and signs and in many ways our people.” he started a radio show to serve the local nicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon,” an González grew up in East Los Angeles Puerto Rican community. In 1976, he online bilingual illustrated poem includ- and is a professor at Scripps College in founded Radio Bilingüe in California’s ing contributions from second- and third- addition to being a musician. She said she San Joaquin Valley. It is now a major grade students and their teachers and found her voice as an artist from reading national Latino public media service, librarians from across the country. Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes for which Morales has won widespread Panelists in the evening discussed and others who spoke to her experience acclaim, including a MacArthur Founda- how the rise of Latino literary and artis- – and through being asked to write lyrics tion fellowship. tic culture has brought together Latino for Quetzal. “So now on Radio Bilingüe, we get to communities over the past several “I really started paying attention to listen to Juan Felipe Herrera, [to] invite decades. Besides Herrera, the panelists wordsmithing and how things were being the audience to become part of the lon- were Martha González, lead vocalist put together,” she explained, “and that gest poem in the world,” he said in refer- for Quetzal; Hugo Morales, executive became really exciting.” ence to Herrera’s poet laureate project. MAY 5, 2017 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 5

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Like González, Pérez grew up in East Los Angeles. “My work has always been Happy IP Day inspired by my early life growing up,” he said. “It’s a wellspring of beauty and pain and sorrow and joy. . . . This thing that all Chicanos have become quite acquainted with.” As a child, Pérez listened to Mexican music with his mother. Later, he devel- oped a taste for Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and “everybody in between.” But he returned to Mexican music in 1973 when he formed Los Lobos with three friends. “It was kind of unheard of at the time,” he said of a rock band playing traditional Mexican music. The Latino civil-rights movement was

going on in parallel, Pérez noted, and Shawn Miller Los Lobos lent its musical services to Eric Schwartz (from left) moderates a discussion with songwriter Steve “just about any Chicano cause that was Bogard and musician and journalist Jason King in the Coolidge Auditorium happening at the moment, [of] which on April 26. The event, hosted by the Copyright Office, marked World Intel- there were many.” lectual Property Day. Pérez joked that he first met Herrera during this time, when they both had much longer and darker hair. Los Lobos went on to win multiple Grammy Awards New Reader-Registration Station Opens and has been nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Library of Congress this week directed to the larger Madison Building The concluding performance by Quet- opened a reader-registration station in station, where more equipment is avail- zal brought the audience to its feet. The the Jefferson Building to increase con- able to issue cards in a more timely way. band’s music brings together influences venience for patrons who come to the The Jefferson Building station will be including Mexican ranchera, cumbia, Library to research the collections. the only location where reader-identifica- salsa, rock, R&B, and folk. u The new station, which opened May 2, tion cards are available after 4:30 p.m. on is located in the Microform and Electronic evenings when reading rooms are open Resources Center (MERC) in room 139 until 9:30 p.m. (Mondays, Wednesdays In Case of Emergency of the Jefferson Building. and Thursdays). The station will operate from 8:30 Each user of the Library’s research To reach the U.S. Capitol Police a.m. to 9 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays areas, including Computer Catalog Cen- for any emergency, call 911 from and Thursdays and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 ters and Copyright Office public-service any Library of Congress landline p.m. on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. areas, is required to have a reader-identi- or 202-707-7111 from any mobile Researchers entering the MERC will fication card issued by the Library. phone. (Dialing 911 from a be able to speak first to a reference librar- Cards are free and can be obtained mobile phone connects the caller ian and receive research guidance to by completing an online registration form with the D.C. Metropolitan Police navigate the Library’s campus and read- and presenting a valid driver’s license, Department.) ing rooms. New researchers needing a state-issued identification card or pass- reader-identification card will be able port. Researchers must be at least 16 years To reach the Capitol Police for to obtain the card in the same room. of age at time of registration. non-emergencies (such as Renewal cards can also be obtained. It is possible to preregister online lost and found or the hours of The hours of the reader-registration by completing a web form (this can be operations for entrances and station in room 140 of the Madison will done up to two weeks prior to visiting the exits), call 7-1000 from any remain the same: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Library in person). A preregistration form, Library landline or 202-707-1000 Monday–Saturday. and more information, is available at from any mobile phone. Groups of new researchers needing www.loc.gov/rr/readerregistration.html. reader-identification cards still should be Questions should be directed to 7-5278 u 6 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 5, 2017

NEWS Madison Council Adds to Library Collections The James Madison Council, the Library of Congress’ major private-sector support group, recently made possible the acquisition of important items for Library collections – books, maps and manuscripts that couldn’t be obtained through appropriated funds. In March, Tim and Mitchell Gold donated a collection of papers belong- ing to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, best known for “Roots” and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” The collection contains much mate- rial related to “Roots” – typed draft sheets with Haley’s annotations and corrections; copies and originals of 18th-century and other early documents related to the book; material relating to the television series, “Roots: the Next Generations”; and photographs and letters from readers. Heavily edited material shows how Haley developed and refined ideas as he Clockwise from top left: Alex Haley discusses his book “Roots”; a Philadelphia wrote, providing insight into his creative census directory; a map of Edward Vernon’s estate; pages from a small Hebrew prayer book; and an illustration from Exodus. process. The council also made possible first to also list the African-American the expulsions from Spain and Portugal. the acquisition of a one-of-a-kind map residents of a U.S. city. The Library holds quite a few pieces belonging to the man for whom George The directory was printed by Jane written in honor of reigning monarchs – Washington’s Mount Vernon estate was Aitken, one of the leading American Joseph II of Austria, Muhammad Pasha of named. women in bookselling and printing of the Tunis and Alexander I of Russia, among The 1722 map depicts the English era. Aitken took over her father’s business others – but until now held nothing for estate of Adm. Edward Vernon, com- upon his death in 1802 and also inherited Netherland Jews, one of the most impor- mander of the British fleet during the his debt – the business failed in 1813, and tant Jewish communities in the 17th and War of Jenkins’ Ear. Among the colonials she was put in debtor’s prison in 1814. 18th centuries. serving in the fleet was Lawrence Wash- Marina Kats donated a small Hebrew Through the Naomi and Nehemiah ington, George’s elder brother. Upon prayer book specially created for the Cohen Foundation, the Library also returning to Virginia after the war, Law- Sephardi synagogue in the Hague, acquired a huge, colorfully illustrated rence named his own estate after his Netherlands. The book was published Book of Exodus – a limited edition of former commander. Eventually, Mount in Amsterdam in 1782 and recited by the entire Hebrew text accompanied by Vernon passed to George. the congregation in honor of William V, exquisite illuminations by Avner Moriah. The ink-and-watercolor map is one of Prince of Orange, both in Hebrew and The volume was created at the artist’s very few large-scale 18th century estate in Portuguese – a language still in use by workshop in Jerusalem and completed maps held by the Library, the most nota- many Jews in Amsterdam centuries after in November 2016. u ble being George Washington’s “Plan of My Farm on Little Hunting Creek.” John Medveckis donated to the Health Screening Available Library a rare Philadelphia census direc- tory from 1811, containing thousands of For employees’ convenience, personal laboratory screening by Chesapeake names, addresses and occupations of Health Screens & Consulting will return to the Library on May 10 in LM G-40 residents – carpenters, barbers, sawyers, (Office of Health Services) from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. To make an appointment or mariners, confectioners, coachmen, for more information, call the Office of Health Services at 7-8035. laborers. The most-comprehensive such volume of its time, the directory was the MAY 5, 2017 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE 7

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SOTOMAYOR, continued from page 1 She also discussed her own journey to the court. Sotomayor grew up in a housing proj- ect in the Bronx and, at age 7, was diag- nosed with juvenile diabetes, a diagnosis that led her to think she’d have a short lifespan – and one that helped drive her to succeed. “I understood I had to pack in as much as I could into my short life,” she said. “I was one of those kids who did everything. … I never considered taking a year off school or wasting time because time is the most precious thing in my life.” She earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a law degree from Yale, then began work as an assistant district attorney in New York. Working in the trial division, she prosecuted robber- Shawn Miller ies, assaults and murders and handled Courtroom artist Pat Lopez finishes a sketch of the conversation between David cases involving police brutality, all the Rubenstein and Justice Sonia Sotomayor on April 27. while drawing upon her own experiences growing up in the Bronx. several times, then leave. They were less One thing that doesn’t happen: horse Prosecutors, she said, are necessary interested in her answers, she figured, trading. to represent the interests of victims and than in playing to voters in their home Rubenstein asked if justices engage the interests of society in ensuring that states on the evening news. in any give-and-take on cases – if you’re crimes are not committed. “But you also “I realized that’s what cameras do,” she persuadable to my view on this case, I’ll need people, like me, who understand said. “They take people out of their roles be persuadable to your view on that one. what motivates the other side and what and make them think about how they’re “That’s in Congress,” Rubenstein causes these things,” she said. projecting, outside of what they’re doing. quipped, to laughter, in reply to his own She also discovered truths she might “Justices are human beings,” she said. question. not have wanted to believe. “I learned as With the cameras on, some might ask “You really do have to persuade some- a prosecutor something that was a harsh fewer questions and some even more. one that you’re right,” Sotomayor said. “… lesson and one that my innate optimism Under questioning by Rubenstein, she That kind of bartering can’t be a part of may not have led me to: I learned that described the workings of the court – oral our process because you’re not going to there are truly, truly evil people in the arguments, conferences, opinion writing, switch a vote unless the other person is world.” the role of clerks, the susceptibility of truly persuaded.” Sotomayor later litigated international justices to persuasion by their colleagues. Another thing the court doesn’t do: commercial matters with a New York Occasionally, but not often, Sotomayor give up its secrets. Asked by Rubenstein law firm and, in 1991, was nominated by said, justices will change their minds in how the court avoids leaks in a town President Bush for the U.S. District Court. conference. awash in them, Sotomayor credited the She served as a judge on the U.S. Court Understand, she said, that before jus- loyalty and dedication of the court’s staff. of Appeals for the Second Circuit and, in tices get to oral argument, they’ve really People spend their lives at the 2009, President Obama nominated her for studied the issues and thought deeply Supreme Court, said Sotomayor, noting the Supreme Court. before voting. They’ve studied previous that they’d recently celebrated the 65th The nomination hearings helped court decisions, read academic explo- anniversary of one employee’s tenure change her mind on one often-debated rations of the subject, heard partisan there. They do so, she said, because subject: cameras in the courtroom. opinions. they are dedicated to the court as an At the time of her nomination to the “It’s pretty hard after you’ve digested institution. court, Sotomayor was open to the pres- all that material for a new argument to be “It is an institution that takes pride in ence of cameras at oral arguments. introduced into the equation,” she said. what we do and how we do it,” Sotomayor At her hearing, she noticed, sena- “So it’s harder to change someone’s mind said. “There are traditions that we have tors would enter the chamber, ask her after a vote because we had to get in all that are so well-respected by everyone a question that already had been asked this information. But it does happen.” who works there.” u 8 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GAZETTE  MAY 5, 2017

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MAY Campus Theater, Culpeper, Warsaw During the First Noon, LC Wellness Center 5 FRIDAY Va. Contact: 7-9994. World War.” Noon, European (LA B-36). Contact: 7-8637. MAY reading room. Contact: Yoga: Noon, LM SB-02. Aerobics Class: Strength 7-4371. training and floor exercise. 8 MONDAY Contact: 7-5984. Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Lecture: Sing Out! executive Meditation: Open to all. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your director and editor Mark Moss B-36. Contact: 7-8637. own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact: discusses the significance [email protected]. Discussion: The Music Contact: 7-3013. and challenges of folk-music Division and Veterans Lecture: Genealogist Daniel journalism. Noon, Whittall Ballroom Dance Club: History Project present a Horowitz of MyHeritage Pavilion. Contact: 7-1743. 12:30 p.m., LM 139. Contact: discussion of the role of 7-6111. shares techniques, resources Forum: Bible study. Open music in supporting service and repositories in the U.S. members and veterans from to all. 12:05 p.m., LM 542. and around the world that Contact: [email protected]. the Vietnam era through helped him discover the U.S. the present. Noon, Whittall branch of his family. Noon, Aerobics Class: Strength Pavilion. Contact: 7-5502. African and Middle Eastern training and floor exercise. Film: “House Party” (New reading room. Contact: 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness Line Cinema, 1990, R-rated). 7-3780. Center, LA B-36. Contact: 7-8637. 7 p.m., Pickford Theater. MAY Contact: 7-5502. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your TUESDAY Film: “To Sir with Love” 9 own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Bloomsday Camerata: (Columbia, 1967). 7:30 p.m., Contact: 7-3013. Packard Campus Theater, Reading “Exemplary Novels,” Concert: Singer-songwriter Culpeper, Va. Contact: by Cervantes. Noon, LM 227. Marty Stuart joins Roger 7-9994. Contact: 7-6971. McGuinn of The Byrds for MAY Forum: Study of an evening of music and Film: “A Mighty Wind” Comparative Religion will dialogue. 7:30 p.m., Packard (Warner Bros., 2003). 7:30 6 SATURDAY discuss Teilhard de Chardin Campus Theater, Culpeper, p.m., Packard Campus Symposium: The Library and the poet Rilke. Noon, LM Va. Contact: 7-9994. Theater, Culpeper, Va. 501. Contact: 7-5686. explores the history of disco MAY Contact: 7-9994. music and culture, featuring Lecture: Catherine Hiebert MAY appearances by Gloria 11 THURSDAY Kerst presents “Sidney FRIDAY Gaynor, Robin Roberts, Martin Robertson Cowell and the Lecture: Library Chief 12 Scherzinger, Alice Echols, WPA California Folk Music Communications Officer Aerobics Class: Strength Bill Bernstein and disco ball- Project, 1938-1940.” Noon, Roswell Encina speaks training and floor exercise. maker Yolanda Baker. 1 p.m., Whittall Pavilion. Contact: in honor of Asian Pacific Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Sold out. Will be live-streamed 7-5502. American Heritage Month, B-36. Contact: 7-8637. on Facebook and YouTube. addressing the theme “Unite Meditation: Film: “White Zombie” (United Coolidge Auditorium. Contact: Open to all. Our Voices by Speaking 12:15 p.m., LA G-06 and LM Artists, 1932). 7:30 p.m., 7-5502. Together.” Noon, Mumford Packard Campus Theater, 507. Contact: [email protected], Room. Contact: 7-8996. [email protected]. Culpeper, Va. Contact: Aerobics Class: High-Low. 7-9994. MAY 10 WEDNESDAY Lecture: Christopher Weight Watchers at Work Deal Days Ketcham discusses the need to balance the economic value of commercial space It’s a special time of year – Weight Watchers Deal Days! ventures with safety and Save 15 percent when you sign up for the next series ethical concerns for life on (starting June 13) or renew your membership between Earth. 11:30 a.m., Pickford May 9 and May 16. Theater. Contact: 7-1207.

Gallery Talk: Curators Sara Duke and Margaret Wood The program is sponsored by the Health Services Party: The Library opens the and exhibition director Office. Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays from 12:45– door for LOC disco night, Betsy Nahum-Miller discuss 1:30 p.m. in LM 209. Questions? Contact mdwo@loc. featuring a performance by the courtroom illustration Gloria Gaynor and a night gov for more information. collection at the Library. of dancing in the Great Hall. Noon, south gallery, Jefferson 7 p.m., Jefferson Building. Building. Contact: 7-0245. The Health Services Office offers this preventive Contact: 7-5502. Sold out. program in accordance with LCR 2018-2.2 and 5 U.S.C. Lecture: Author Robert Film: “The Best of the Marty Blobaum discusses his latest § 7901. Stuart Show” (RFD-TV, 2008- book, “A Minor Apocalypse: 14). 7:30 p.m., Packard

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