Gazette Volume 19, No. 40 • November 7, 2008 • A weekly publication for Library staff CFC Rally Calls on Library Staffers’ Generosity

By Jennifer Gavin Library staffers were asked on Friday, Oct. 31, to find a way—despite a falling stock market and rising prices for fuel, food and other necessities—to continue their legendary generosity in giving to charities through the Combined Federal Campaign. As government employees, we’re really among the lucky ones in difficult times, noted Librarian of Congress James H. Billington as he thanked Library staff- ers, who exceeded last year’s pledge goal,

for their longtime generosity. Last year, Wheeler Barry 1,380 Library staffers contributed to the The U.S. Armed Services Color Guard presents the colors to kick off the annual Combined Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), and Federal Campaign at the Library. the Library won the campaign’s Summit planned as part of the Library’s CFC cam- be a CFC book sale —the location is still Award, its highest award for excellence. paign, including the CFC Agency Fair being determined—and bake sales. The This year’s Library-wide pledge goal is from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, AFSCME unions at the Library will spon- $575,000. Nov. 13, in Madison Hall; the CFC Talent sor fund-raising speakers’ programs. Billington quoted the late tennis great Show from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, The Library’s chief operating officer, Arthur Ashe: From what we get, we can Nov. 18 in the Coolidge Auditorium; and Jo Ann Jenkins, noted that the Library make a living; what we give, however, the CFC White Elephant sale, from 9:30 had already raised $10,000 toward this makes a life. a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. Several fund-raising events are 10, in the Madison Hall. There will also CFC, Continued on page 7 Native American Activist to Give Keynote Native American activist, journalist peoples’ traditions, culture and and poet Suzan Shown Harjo will deliver arts. For the past four decades, the keynote address for the Library’s 2008 she shaped federal Indian policy celebration of Native American Heritage and succeeded in recovering Month. more than one million acres of The free, public event will take place land including sacred places. at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Harjo is one of seven Native Mumford Room, LM 649, in the James Americans who filed the 1992 Madison Building. landmark lawsuit, Harjo et al v. Born in Oklahoma, Harjo is Hodulgee Pro Football, Inc., regarding the Muscogee and a member of the Cheyenne name of the Washington, D.C., people. Her great-grandfather, Chief Bull football team. In 1999, a three- Suzan Shown Harjo will give Native American Bear, was a leader in the Cheyenne resis- judge panel unanimously decided Heritage Month keynote. tance against government oppression to cancel federal trademark pro- Harjo’s social and political activism during the late 19th century. tections for the team’s name. The District dates back to the late 1960s and early Harjo is founder and president of The Court reversed that decision in 2003; 1970s when she was news director for Morning Star Institute, a national Native the case is now before the U.S. Court of the American Indian Press Association rights organization that promotes Native Appeals. NATIVE AMERICAN, Continued on page 7 2 Library of Congress Gazette NovemBER 7, 2008

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RECENT APPOINTMENTS Peter Young Returns to LC As Chief of Asian Division Peter R. Young, director of the National Young has held to head the Cataloging Dis- Agricultural Library (NAL) since 2002, has numerous professional tribution Service. Prior to been appointed chief of the Library’s positions in national, joining NAL in 2002, he Asian Division. academic, research served as acting chief of “I am delighted that Peter Young and public libraries, the Library’s Asian Divi- will be returning to the Library of Con- and has extensive gov- sion. gress following his distinguished ser- ernment and industry An active member in vice directing the National Agricultural experience. He is the the American Library Asso- Library,” said Associate Librarian for only Chinese Ameri- ciation, Young has made Library Services Deanna Marcum. “I can librarian to hold major contributions to the am counting on Peter to lead the Asian high-level managerial Library Administration and Division as well as to work with me to positions at two U.S. Management Association develop a collection strategy for digital national libraries. (LAMA), the Library Infor- science resources that is appropriate for Young joined the mation Technology Asso- the national library.” Library of Congress in ciation (LITA), the National Peter Young “I am excited about returning to the 1980 as a customer ser- Information Standards Library and I look forward to working vices officer in the Cataloging Distribution Organization (NISO), the Public Library with my wonderful colleagues in the Service (CDS). From 1984 to 1985 he Association (PLA) and the Chinese Amer- Asian Division,” said Young. “I am also served as assistant chief of the Library’s ican Libraries Association (CALA). He delighted to be working with Deanna MARC Editorial Division, and from 1985 served as president of CALA from 1989 Marcum to help develop plans for the to 1988 he was chief of the Cataloging to 1990 and received the association’s Library’s digital support for science infor- Division of the U.S. Copyright Office. Distinguished Service Award in 2003. mation.” In 1988 Young left the Library to direct The Library of Congress is a central A native of Washington, D.C., Young Faxon Academic Information Services, repository for all types of Asian publica- received a bachelor’s degree in liberal for which he founded the Faxon Institute tions that are not broadly available at arts from the College of Wooster and a for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and other locations in the United States. Initi- master’s degree in library science from Scientific Communication. From 1990 to ated in 1869 with a gift of 10 works in 934 Columbia University’s School of Library 1997 he served as executive director of volumes offered to the United States by Science. He served as a film-library spe- the U.S. National Commission on Libraries the Emperor of China, the Library’s Asian cialist with the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry and Information Science, an independent collection of more than 2 million items Division (1968-1970) and was awarded federal agency that advised the president is the largest and most comprehensive three bronze star medals for meritorious and Congress on library and information outside of Asia. For more information achievement directing a Special Service services and policies. about the division, go to www.loc.gov/ Library in Chu Chi, Vietnam. Young returned to the Library in 1997 rr/asian/. u

OBITUARY Christopher Dell Dies U.S. Army. He earned a bach- received successive promotions. the War Democrats: The Grand Christopher Dell, a retired elor of arts degree from Goddard In CRS, Dell worked as a speech Erosion of Conservative Tradition,” analyst in American national College in Plainfield, Vt., in 1951, writer, researcher and policy ana- was published in 1975. government in the Congressional and a master’s degree in history lyst, concentrating in such areas In retirement, Dell lived in Research Service, died Oct. 13 in from the University of Maryland as elections, political parties and Richmond, N.H., and Naples, Washington. He was 81. in 1956. American history. Fla., before returning to Wash- An original “red-diaper baby,” After serving as a public He retired from CRS in 1984. ington in 1997. He is survived by Dell was born in New York City school teacher, Dell was In his private pursuits, Dell his wife, Kathleen Kane Dell of in 1927 and spent his early years appointed to the Library staff in was an accomplished jazz musi- Washington, who also worked in in Greenwich Village, where his 1958 as an information librar- cian, playing piano and banjo. CRS before their marriage; their father, Floyd, was a critic, novelist ian in the Inquiry Section of the He was a historian of progressive daughter Mia Dell of Hamilton, and managing editor of the social- Legislative Reference Service, Republicanism, a Lincoln scholar New Zealand; two daughters ist magazine The Masses. predecessor to the Congressional and a member of the Civil War by his first marriage, Jerri Dell After his family moved to Research Service (CRS). Round Table of Washington. of Cumberland, Md., and Katie Washington, Dell graduated He later transferred to what His study of Lincoln’s delicate Dell Kaufman of Takoma Park; in1946 from the old Central High is now the CRS Government and wartime relationship with the and six grandchildren. School and later served in the Finance Division, in which he opposition party, “Lincoln and —By Thomas H. Neale 4 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette NOVEMBER 7, 2008

NEWS Rare Finds: Division Displays Additions to Collections

By Erin Allen “The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters,” observed Galileo Galilei after turning his telescope on the Milky Way early in the 17th century. He found this band of white light across the night sky consisted of many stars, each of them too distant to be seen by the naked eye. His book, “Siderius Nuncius” (1610) or “The Starry Messenger,” was the first scientific treatise based on observations through a telescope. Not only did he record his study of the Milky Way, but also he reported on his examination of the moon and his sighting of four objects orbiting around Jupiter.

As a repository for such monumental McNichol Michaela research, the Library can now boast it has a first edition of this seminal work. Newly acquired by the Rare Book and Special Dan De Simone, right, curator of the Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Collections Division, the stellar treasure Special Collections Division, discusses was on display with some 75 new addi- Galileo’s “Starry Messenger” with Jeremy tions to the division’s collections during Adamson, director, Collections and an open house on Oct. 22. Services Directorate, Library Services. “This is the largest copy that exists,” said Dan De Simone of the celestial study. The significance, he said, is that Galileo’s renderings in this edition are intact. Other copies, for example those held by Har- vard University, are incomplete because who confront and lay bare their feelings the Italian astronomer’s illustrations were in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. trimmed away in the process of rebinding Examples were on display. the books. “‘Falling to Earth’ by Michael Kuch “The binding from our edition is prob- is probably the darkest book,” said Mark ably from the time the book was printed, Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Rosemary Fry Plakas, American history so that’s why it is preserved,” added De Special Collections Division. “His studio specialist in the Rare Book and Special Simone. looked out on the World Trade Center. His Collections Division, points out significant Walking among the items on display poetry and drawings reflect the images of details of embossed bookbindings made by Margaret Neilson Armstrong. during the division open house in the people flying and reference the imagery Rosenwald Room was to journey through of Jacob’s Ladder, Icarus, a parachuting times of theological revolution, politi- Christ. It’s extremely moving.” writing was produced on paper made cal evolution, childhood whimsy and Another item, titled “Combat Paper,” from the cut-up uniforms of servicemen national tragedy. Each table displayed a began as a writing project for members and women,” said Dimunation. “It was cross-sampling of gifts as well as items of the Iraq Veterans Against the War to definitely a protest mechanism.” purchased by the division during the express themselves in ways other than Next to these art books that begged past two years. public action. The project morphed into consideration for their in-your-face visuals In keeping with the Library’s mission the Warrior Writers Project and its first was a colorful arrangement of red, green to document all aspects of the events on chapbook, “Warrior Writers: Move, Shoot and blue cloth bindings embossed with September 11, 2001, the division has built and Communicate.” gold and silver leaf. Margaret Neilson a collection of books by noted artists “The artwork accompanying their Armstrong, a preeminent designer of NOVEMBER 7, 2008 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette 5

Mark Dimunation, chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, reveals artwork from Michael Kuch’s “Falling to Earth.”

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Sybille Jagusch, chief of the Children’s Literature Center, Rare Book and Special Collections Divi- sion, discuss new addi- tions to the children’s literature collections. Michaela McNichol Michaela

Iraq Veterans Against the War created “Warrior Writers: Move, Shoot and Communicate” along with pieces of paper made from the cloth of military uniforms.

Carroll L. Johnson, left, senior exhibit director, Interpretive Programs Office, and other staffers gather around a table displaying books that offer pictorial views of history, includ- ing Galileo’s “Starry Messenger” and illuminations linked to the Giant Bible of Mainz. decorated cloth publishers’ bindings author of the Jules Verne Encyclopedia, With a single purchase last year, the from 1890 to 1913, created the bindings “The Library of Congress holds the most Library completed its collection of the for this collection of American classics: comprehensive Verne Collection of any work of Vincent Fitzgerald and Company, 274 works by the Brownings, Washington institution outside the writer’s native known for its fine printing of works by Irving, Henry Thoreau, John Greenleaf land.” The division rounded out this par- James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Jalaluddin Whittier and others, which the Library ticular collection with various editions Mohammad Rumi. purchased in 2008. and states of Verne’s publications, many “What we have here are pieces of “This is a spectacular collection in of which are scarce or unusual in some culture and human experience,” con- pristine condition,” emphasized Dimu- degree. For example, an 1873 copy of cluded Dimunation. “They range from nation. “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the telling the stories of ordinary people in Recent acquisitions also marked Sea” is the first true American edition extraordinary times all the way up to efforts of the division to complete some of and is one of only two known copies in single books that fundamentally changed its collections. According to Brian Taves, salmon-colored cloth. the world.” u 6 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette NOVEMBER 7, 2008

NOTABLENEWS EVENTS

India-U.S. Relationship mathematical cartography. published book about the role of The Historic American Buildings Topic of Nov. 13 Talk by Hessler will present “Zeno’s radio in the run-up to World War Survey at 75,” the free, public Kissinger Chair-holder Mice: Regiomontanus, Martin II, at noon on Thursday, Nov. 13, symposium will be held in the Waldseemüller and the Life of in the European Division Con- Mumford Room LM 649. The relationship between Johannes Schöner 1477-1547” at ference Room, LJ-250, of the The symposium is sponsored the United States and India and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13, in Thomas Jefferson Building. by the Center for Architecture, its likely evolution in the next the Geography and Map Division Vaughan’s book “Battle for Design and Engineering at the decade is the topic of a Library Reading Room, LM B-01 of the the Airwaves: Radio and the Library and the National Park lecture by Ambassador Teresita James Madison Building. 1938 Munich Crisis” examines Service, with participation Schaffer, holder of the Henry He also will discuss the dif- the radio’s key role in the 1938 from the American Institute of Alfred Kissinger Chair in For- ficulties of researching Renais- Munich crisis as it was played Architects, which is granting eign Policy and International sance cartography and will try out on the radio stations of continuing-education credits Relations at the John W. Kluge to dismiss many of the myths Czechoslovakia, Germany, Brit- for attending architects, and the Center. that have plagued Waldseemül- ain, and the United States. The Interior Museum. Schaffer will present “India ler scholarship for more than a book draws on the extensive and Speakers for the morning ses- and the United States—Rein- century. long-forgotten archives of Czech sion, “Celebrating the Past and venting Partnership” at 4 p.m. The Library will sponsor the Radio as well as radio archives in Present,” include C. Ford Peat- on Thursday, Nov. 13, in Room lecture in conjunction with the Germany, Britain and the United ross, founding director of the LJ 119 of the Thomas Jefferson Washington Map Society. States. Center for Architecture, Design Building. The Library’s Kluge Hessler, a senior reference The European Division and and Engineering in the Prints Center will sponsor the free, librarian in the Library’s Geog- the Embassy of the Czech Repub- and Photographs Division of the public lecture. raphy and Map Division, will lic are sponsoring the free, public Library of Congress, whose talk Schaffer will discuss whether also give the same lecture in a event. will be “HABS as a Catalyst in the the relationship between the u u u u u two-part presentation at noon on Library of Congress: Reflections United States and India is a Wednesday, Nov. 12, and at noon on 75 Years.” “natural alliance” or a marriage Symposium to Celebrate on Wednesday, Dec. 3, in the HABS is thriving today in a of convenience. She will examine 75 Years of Documenting “Exploring the Early Americas” tri-lateral partnership comprised whether these two giant democ- Historic U.S. Buildings exhibition on the second floor of the Library of Congress, the racies can adopt an international This year marks the 75th of the Thomas Jefferson Build- National Park Service and the partnership to fit their interests, anniversary of the Historic ing. The Nov. 12 presentation is private-sector American Institute ideals and different foreign-pol- American Buildings Survey titled “Exploring Waldseemüller’s of Architects. Under his “New icy styles. (HABS), America’s first federal World: Mysteries of the 1507 and Deal,” President Franklin D. Since 1998, following a 30-year historic preservation program. 1516 World Maps” and Dec. 3 talk Roosevelt started the program career in the U.S. Foreign Service, The HABS mission is to create is “Strange Effects: The Life and in 1933 to provide employment Schaffer has been director of the a public archive of America’s Astronomy of Johannes Schöner, to architects unable to find work South Asia Program at the Center architectural heritage, consisting 1477-1547.” during the Great Depression. for Strategic and International of measured drawings, historical Schöner, an astronomer, math- HABS and the Historic Ameri- Studies. She has devoted most reports and large-format, black- ematician and globe maker, can Engineering Record (HAER), of her career to issues concern- and-white photographs. was the original owner of the created in 1969, is one of the most ing international economics and History lovers, design scholars Waldseemüller 1507 and 1516 widely used of the Library’s col- South Asia. and students will gather at the u u u u u world maps that are now in the Library at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. lections, recording more than John Hessler to Describe Library’s possession. 14, for a day-long, six-speaker 350,000 drawings, photographs According to Hessler, Schöner symposium celebrating this and histories for more than How First America Map collected manuscripts of many 35,000 historic structures and Influenced Cartography important and influential pro- cartographers and astronomers gram. Titled “American Place: sites dating from Pre-Columbian John Hessler, the Library’s of the period. times to the 21st-century. expert on the 16th-century u u u u u Waldseemüller map that names Broadcaster-Journalist 37th Annual LCPA Arts & Crafts Exhibition America for the first time, Discusses Role of Radio Show submissions: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 12, 13 and 19, in LM will demonstrate in a Nov. 13 334. Show opening and reception: 4 – 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 13, in Mumford Room, LM 649. Show closes April 30. Library lecture how cartogra- In 1938 Munich Crisis David Vaughan, an award- For registration forms, agreement and release forms; guidelines for pher Johannes Schöner used the submissions and framing; and FAQs, visit www.loc.gov/staff/lcpa/arts. winning English broadcaster and Waldseemüller maps and other html. journalist who lives in the Czech Contact co-chairwomen Mary Wedgewood, [email protected], materials to produce his globes 7–1403; or Cynthia Campbell, [email protected], 7– 8067. Republic, will discuss his recently and develop new methods of NOVEMBER 7, 2008 The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Gazette 7

NotableNEWS Events

CFC, Continued from page 1 Armed Services Color Guard presented the few hours it takes for people at the year’s CFC campaign, even prior to the the colors; Karen Cribb played piano for fulfillment end to offer their time and kickoff rally. the assembled crowd, and Luashawnna show their support, Martens said. She urged employees to find out who Malachi emceed the event. Kathleen Rice, development manager their CFC keyworkers are and to access It is a different economy today, said for the group Turning the Page, which the Library’s CFC Web site or contact this Catherine Martens, director of the Make- provides books and training to parents year’s chairman, Robert Gee of the Law A-Wish Foundation in the Mid-Atlantic and students in several D.C. schools, Library, with any questions. The Library’s region, which grants children with life- noted that many corporations and foun- track record of CFC support has made threatening illnesses the fulfillment of dations are having to pull back from their it one of the best federal agencies for a wish. But there are still people who support, simply because the economy is participation, not only in the capital, but need our help. weakening and their bottom lines disal- in the country, she said. Martens, who has helped numerous low earlier levels of sharing. At the opening rally for this year’s CFC, kids make it to Walt Disney World or Rally participants also heard from two in the Madison Building’s Mumford Room, meet the President of the United States, of their colleagues—Robin Lancaster of two keynote speakers from the Make- told of three especially touching wish- the Congressional Research Service and A-Wish Foundation and the District of fulfillments for youngsters no older than Sara Willett Duke of Library Services— Columbia schools parent-activism group 10: for Ted, who wanted to see harp seals who described the ways their own fami- Turning the Page told touching stories of being born on the arctic ice; for Joey, a lies have benefited from CFC-funded lives improved through CFC funding of local Redskins fan who wanted to meet agencies. their programs. tight end Chris Cooley and ended up It takes a village, Duke said. “We could Iron Man helped choose tickets for a meeting most of the team and Coach Jim not raise our daughter alone without raffle that featured prizes from the parking Zorn; and Preston, whose goal was to your help.” u division, the Firehook Bakery, the Good become a Secret Service Agent and who Anonymously report suspected illegal activi- Stuff Eatery, the LCFCU and Sam’s Gifts. was sworn in at the agency’s headquarters ties, waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement The Library of Congress Chorale per- before an audience of 2,000 staffers. at the Library through the OIG hotline 7-6306 formed the National Anthem and the U.S. Many wishes have little cost except or [email protected].

NATIVE AMERICAN, Continued from page 1 the Howard Simons Fund for American National Congress of American Indians Indian Journalists. from 1984 to 1989, and as founding trustee and producer of Seeing Red, the first As a special assistant for Indian Leg- of the National Museum of the American Indian news show in the United States, islation in President Carter’s adminis- Indian (NMAI) from 1990 to 1996. Under on WBAI-FM Radio in New York. A vet- tration, Harjo was principal author of the auspices of the Smithsonian Institu- eran broadcaster and award-winning the President’s Report to Congress on tion, the museum opened facilities in New columnist, she founded and co-chaired American Indian Religious Freedom. York in 1994 and Washington, D.C., in She served as executive director of the 2004. Currently a guest curator for NMAI, Nov. 19 Deadline to Apply for Free Harjo has curated a number of exhibi- Credit Monitoring The Library of Congress Shop tions during the past decade, including Library staff members who were Library Library and congressional staff with I.D. will “Visions from Native America,” the first employees as of July 22, 2008, have until receive a 20 percent discount on regularly priced Nov. 19 to activate one year of free credit- items through Dec. 31. Native art exhibit ever shown in the U.S. monitoring service through the Triple No additional discounts on already-reduced Senate and House rotundas. She has also Advantage Premium program. merchandise. held a number of visiting fellowships in All employees who were on board as of July www.loc.gov/shop/ 22 were mailed Library letters informing them Open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday - Saturday poetry and Native identity. that the Library had engaged ConsumerInfo. The Library will also celebrate Native com, Inc., an Experian company, to provide American Heritage Month with a film one full year of credit monitoring at no cost to the employee. Mailed in August, the letter Donated Leave titled “Indian Rights, Indian Law,” to be provided a Web site address and telephone The following Library employees have satisfied shown at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 18 in the number at which an employee could obtain the eligibility requirements to receive leave the service and an individual activation code. donations from other staff members. Contact Pickford Theater, LM 301, in the James Employees were given a 90-day window in Runako Balondemu at 7-1545. Madison Building. A cultural display of which to enroll, which expires on Nov. 19. Tiffany Allgood Laura Monagle Kim Black Arlene Peters selected items from the Library’s col- Staff who were in Library employment as of Kimberly Brent-Thorpe Margo Rush Hall lections will be on view in the Madison July 22 and who have misplaced the letter Kimberly Susan Sutton may obtain the personal code by calling Cabbagestalk Francine Via Building lobby throughout the month of Susan Frieswyk in the HRS Customer Service Shvonne Chappell- Karla Walker November, and a Native American Heri- Center at 7-6959, or e-mailing her at sfri@ Kirby Thelma Wiley Tinisha Hayes Courtney Whisenton tage Web site will be accessible on the loc.gov. Irina Lazarevich Anthony Williams Library’ Web site at www.loc.gov. u 8 Library of Congress Gazette NOVEMBER 7, 2008

CALENDAR NOVEMBER NOVEMBER exhibition. Noon, Northwest Kluge Lecture: Ambassador FRIDay MonDay Pavilion. Contact 7-9203. Teresita Schaffer, holder of 7 10 Book Talk: the Henry Alfred Kissinger Master Class: Christian Belly Dance Class: Noon, Andrew Jampoler gives an illustrated talk Chair in Foreign Policy and Tetzlaff of the Tetzlaff Quartet LC Wellness Center, LA B-36. International Relations, presents a master class. Noon Contact 7-1215. about his new book “The Last Lincoln Conspirator.” presents “India and the - 2 p.m., Coolidge Auditorium. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your United States – Reinventing Contact 7-2329. Noon, Mary Pickford Theater, own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. LM 301. Sponsored by Partnership.” 4 p.m., LJ 119. Aerobics Class: Strength Contact 7-3013. the Humanities and Social Contact 7-2692. training and floor exercise. Sciences Division. Contact Lecture: John Hessler Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA NOVEMBER 7-1409, [email protected]. presents “Zeno’s Mice: B-36. Contact 7-8637. TUESDay Aerobics Class: Strength Regiomontanus, Martin Books and Beyond: Tom 11 Waldseemüller and the Life Holiday: All Capitol Hill training and floor exercise. Gjelten discusses and signs 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness of Johannes Schöner 1477- his book “Bacardi and the Library buildings are closed 1547.” 7 p.m., Geography and in observance of the federal Center, LA B-36. Contact Long Fight for Cuba: The 7-8637 Maps Division Reading Room, Biography of a Cause.” Noon, Veterans Day holiday. LM B-01. Contact 7-6277. Yoga/Pilates: Start at your West Dining Room, LM 621. Film: “All Quiet on the Western Concert: The Kuss Quartet Contact 7-5221. Front” (Universal, 1930). 7 own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Contact 7-3013. performs pieces by Haydn, Kluge Center Lecture: Quint p.m., Mount Pony Theater. Lachenmann and Schubert. Gregory presents a lecture Contact 7-9994. 8 p.m., Coolidge Auditorium. on “The Visual Resource NOVEMBER Tickets are required. Contact Center and the Sistine Chapel NOVEMBER 13 thursday 7-5502. Project.” 3:30 p.m., LJ 113. WednesDay CFC Agency Fair: 10 a.m. – Co-sponsored with the 12 NOVEMBER Reception: The Veterans noon, Madison Hall. Washington Area Group for FRIDay History Project honors all 14 Print Culture Studies. Contact Deadline: Art submission Symposium: vets working at the Library “American 7-2692. for the LCPA Arts and Crafts Place: The Historic American in observance of Veterans Exhibition. 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Music and the Brain Lecture Day and National Veterans Buildings Survey at 75.” 9 LM 334. Contact 7-1403, a.m., Mumford Room, LM 649. Series: Aniruddh D. Patel of Awareness Week. 10 – 11:30 7-8067. the Neurosciences Institute a.m., Veterans History Project Contact 7-8696. Kluge Center Lecture: 2007 discusses “The Music of Information Center, LM 109. Aerobics Class: Strength Kluge Fellow Mark Anderson Language and the Language Contact 7-6432. training and floor exercise. of Music.” 6:15 p.m., Whittall presents a talk titled “The Deadline: Art submission Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Pavilion. Co-sponsored by Natural Nation: Tropical for the LCPA Arts and Crafts B-36. Contact 7-8637. the Library’s Music Division Imaginings and Ecologies Exhibition. 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Film: “Letter From An and Science, Technology of Abjection in Brazilian LM 334. Contact 7-1403, Unknown Woman” (Universal, and Business Division, in Literature.” Noon, Whittall 7-8067. Pavilion. Contact 7-2692. 1948). 7:30 p.m., Mount Pony cooperation with the Dana Theater. Contact 7-9994. Foundation. Contact 7-2329. Tai Chi Class: All levels. 11:30 Lecture: David Vaughan a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA Concert: The Takács Quartet Film: “Love Me Tonight” discusses his book “Battle for B-36. Contact 7-2617. and Muzsikás, with guest artist (Paramount, 1932). 7:30 p.m., the Airwaves: Radio and the Bloomsday Camerata: 1938 Munich Crisis.” Noon, LJ Márta Sebestyén, perform Mount Pony Theater. Contact works by Béla Bartók along 7-9994. Reading through “The Cantos” 113. Contact 7-3704, hfed@ by Ezra Pound. Noon, Dewey loc.gov. with folk ballads and dances Concert: The Tetzlaff Quartet Conference Room, LM 547. from Transylvania. 8 p.m., performs works by Mozart, Aerobics Class: High-Low. Contact 7-0013. Coolidge Auditorium. Tickets Berg and Sibelius. 8 p.m., Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA required. Contact 7-5502. Coolidge Auditorium. Tickets Forum: Bible study. Open to B-36. Contact 7-8637. are required. Contact 7-5502. all. Noon, LM 613. Contact Yoga: Noon, LM SB-02. NOVEMBER [email protected]. Contact 7-5984. saturDay NovemBER 15 Gallery Talk: John Hessler Meditation: Open to all. 12:15 Film: “His Girl Friday” 8 SaturDay presents “Exploring p.m., LA 300. Contact mrag@ (Columbia, 1939). 2 p.m., Film: “Pinocchio” (Walt Waldseemüller’s World: loc.gov. Mount Pony Theater. Contact Mysteries of the 1507 and Disney-RKO, 1940). 2 p.m., Belly Dance Class: 1 p.m., 7-9994. 1516 World Maps” in the Mount Pony Theater. Contact LC Wellness Center, LA B-36. “Exploring the Early Americas” 7-9994. Contact 7-1215. Recycling toner cartridges helps Library families and the Native American Heritage environment! All proceeds Salute to LC Veterans Month: Suzan Shown Harjo, benefit Little Scholars, the The Veterans History Project invites all war veterans at the president of The Morning Star Library of Congress Child Library to a reception in their honor in observance of Veterans Institute, delivers the keynote Care Center. If you would Day and National Veterans Awareness Week 2008. address. 1 p.m., Mumford like to help your office A Salute to LC Veterans will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m., Room, LM 649. 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