For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2003 Annu Al Repor T of the Librarian of Congress
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 2003 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 ANNU AL REPOR T OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS T OF THE LIBRARIAN www.loc.gov ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 Library of Congress Photo Credits CONTENTS Independence Avenue, SE Photographs by Architect of the Capitol Washington, DC (inside front and back covers; page ); Anne Day (front and back covers; pages , , , For the Library of Congress and ); Jim Higgins (page ); and Carol on the World Wide Web, visit Highsmith (page xiv). <www.loc.gov>. Photo Images A Letter from the Librarian of Congress v (of the Thomas Jefferson Building) The annual report is published through Library of Congress Officers and Consultants ix the Publishing Office, Front cover: Marble staircase with bronze Organization Chart x Library Services, Library of Congress, female figure by Philip Martiny, Great Hall. Washington, DC -, Inside front cover: Mosaic “History” by Library of Congress Committees xii and the Public Affairs Office, Frederick Dielman, above fireplace, south Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress, end, Members of Congress Reading Room. - Page xiv: Stucco tripod, vestibule of main Highlights of Washington, DC . Telephone () - (Publishing) entrance. Congressional Research Service or () - (Public Affairs). Page : Bronze door titled “Writing” by Olin Levi Warner; left panel “Truth” and right Copyright Office panel “Research.” Page : Clock, youths reading, and winged Managing Editor: Audrey Fischer Law Library of Congress Father Time by John Flanagan, entrance, Main Reading Room. Library Services Page : Trade mark, or printer’s mark, Copyediting: Publications Professionals LLC for firm of Valentin Kobian on wall that Office of the Librarian Indexer: Kate Mertes displays printers’ marks, south corridor. Production Manager: Gloria Baskerville-Holmes Page :Balustrade crowning two levels of Office of Strategic Initiatives Assistant Production Manager: Clarke Allen arches, Main Reading Room. Page : Stained glass window, ceiling, APPENDIXES Library of Congress Great Hall. - Page : Among eight Pompeiian red panels Catalog Card Number A. Major Events at the Library ISSN - by George Willoughby Maynard, two of Key title: Annual Report of the Librarian “The Virtues” titled “Patriotism” and B. The Librarian’s Testimonies “Courage,” south corridor, second floor. of Congress C. Advisory Bodies Inside back cover: Mosaic “Law” by Frederick Dielman, above fireplace, north end, D. Honors For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Members of Congress Reading Room. E. Selected Acquisitions Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP Back cover: Commemorative Arch, F. Exhibitions Washington, DC - Great Hall. G. Online Collections and Exhibitions H. Publications I. Staff Changes J. Statistical Tables . Appropriations for . Appropriations for . Appropriations, Staff, and Workload Comparison Chart . Financial Statistics: Summary Statement iv Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress . Additions to the Collections—Items A LETTER FROM THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS . Additions to the Collections—Titles . Unprocessed Arrearage . Cataloging Workload . Records in the MARC Database The President of the Senate . Preservation Treatment Statistics The Speaker of the House of Representatives . Copyright Registrations . Copyright Business Summary . Services to Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals DEAR MR. PRESIDENT AND MR. SPEAKER: . Reader Services It is my pleasure to submit to you the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for . Cataloging Distribution Service: Financial Statistics fiscal year . . Human Resources With generous support from Congress, the Library further developed its security in a climate of heightened alert while continuing to carry out its mission of sustaining, Index preserving, and making accessible its universal collections. The Congressional Research Service and the Law Library provided Congress with the most current research and analysis relevant to the war on terrorism, homeland security, and many other issues of national and international concern. In fiscal , Congress entrusted the Library to draw up a national plan to pre- serve the rising flood of important but impermanent material available only in digital form. During the year, the Library received congressional approval of the plan, “Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program,”which the Library developed with extensive outside consultation. The plan was approved, as was the release of $ million of the $. million that Congress initially appropriated for the program in fiscal .To begin its next phase, the program seeks project applications to develop a model for the collection and preservation of historically significant digital materials that are at risk of disappearing forever. Also in fiscal , the Library began bringing some of the world’s leading senior scholars to use the Library’s collections and to interact with members of Congress. The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress officially opened its doors on May , . Endowed by John Kluge, the founding chairman of the James Madison Council, the center has five Kluge chairs and three others created by other private donations. The Library also began a comprehensive international search to identify the winner of the first Nobel-level award for lifetime achievement in the human sciences, the $ mil- lion Kluge prize. v vi Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress A Letter from the Librarian of Congress vii The year marked the anniversary of two major milestones in American his- The Library—the world’s largest and most comprehensive repository of human tory: the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the centennial of the knowledge—shares its resources globally, as well as locally, through its award-winning Wright brothers’ first flight. The Library commemorated those anniversaries with two Web site. A new site called Wise Guide, which is a monthly online magazine, introduces exhibitions: Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America and The newcomers to the Library’s site by providing links to the highlights of the Library’s Dream of Flight. The Lewis & Clark exhibition featured one of the most important electronic educational resources. Building on its popular American Memory and single acquisitions in the Library’s history: German car- America’s Library Web sites, which now contain more than . million items of tographer Martin Waldseemüller’s map of the world. American history and culture for scholars and researchers, as well as for children and It is the first map to portray the New World as a separate families, the Library also continued to enhance its Global Gateway site with a growing continent, and the first document of any kind to call the number of links to its unparalleled international resources. New World “America,” in honor of explorer Amerigo In fiscal , the size of the Library’s collection grew to . million items, includ- Vespucci. ing more than million cataloged books and other printed materials, million man- The Library also celebrated milestones in its broader uscripts, . million microforms, . million maps, more than million items in the service to the nation. Fifty years ago—in January — music collection, nearly million visual materials, . million audio materials, and the Library began to print and sell inexpensive catalog more than million items in miscellaneous formats. cards for sound recordings of all kinds. This service To house its burgeoning collections, the Library opened an off-site storage facility was similar to the card service that the Library began in Fort Meade, Maryland, in November , with an estimated capacity to house providing for books and pamphlets in . The Library’s . million items in an optimal preservation environment. By the close of the fiscal year, Librarian of combined catalog distribution service for all formats, which was made possible by , volumes had been transferred to the first module of the facility. Planning Congress James H. the Library’s development and publication of rules for the descriptive cataloging of continued for the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) in Culpeper, Billington. (Photo by Sam Kittner) such materials, now saves the nation’s libraries more than $ million annually by Virginia. Generously funded by the Packard Humanities Institute and supported by providing timely, high-quality catalog records. In , the Library’s continuing effort Congress, the facility will eventually house the Library’s recorded sound, videotape, to preserve sound recordings again made history with the first annual selection of safety film, and nitrate film collections when it opens in . fifty items to the National Recording Registry, in accordance with the responsibilities Those and many other initiatives were accomplished during the year by the vested in the Library under the National Recording Preservation Act of . Library’s permanent staff of , members—the institution’s most valuable asset. This The Library also celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Center for the report describes their achievements while sustaining a collection without equal in Book, which, in , achieved its goal of fostering affiliated reading promotion cen- the world for the benefit of current and future generations of lawmakers and their ters in all fifty states; the