ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Librarian of Congress

For the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015

Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2016 Front Cover: The Lincoln Cathedral Magna Carta was sealed by CONTENTS King John of England at Runnymede in 1215. Photo illustration, original photo courtesy of Lincoln Cathedral Letter from the Acting Librarian of Congress...... 4 Organizational Reports...... 45 Inside Front Cover: The public views Magna Carta at the Library of Organizational Chart...... 46 Congress in November 1939, where it was deposited for safekeeping Library of Congress Officers...... 6 by the British during World War II. Congressional Research Service...... 48 Harris & Ewing Collection, Prints and Photographs Division Library of Congress Committees...... 8 U.S. Copyright Office...... 50 Inside Back Cover: This mosaic representing “Law” adorns the ceiling Office of the Librarian...... 52 of the east corridor of the Thomas Jefferson Building’s Great Hall. Facts at a Glance...... 10 Carol Highsmith M. Smith Archive, Prints and Photographs Division Library Services...... 54 Mission Statement...... 11 Office of Strategic Initiatives...... 56 Law Library...... 58 Serving the Congress...... 12 Office of Support Operations...... 59 Legislative Support...... 13 Office of the Inspector General...... 60 Copyright Law and Policy...... 14 Copyright Royalty Board...... 61 Congressional Preservation Efforts ...... 15 Other Services to Congress...... 16 Library Realignment...... 62 Supporting the Library...... 16 Appendices ...... 65 Collecting, Preserving and Providing A. Library of Congress Advisory Bodies...... 66 Access to Knowledge...... 18 B. Selected Acquisitions...... 71 Collecting...... 19 C. Exhibitions...... 73 Preserving...... 20 D. Publications...... 77 Providing Access to Knowledge...... 23 E. The Library in the News...... 78 F. Statistical Tables...... 79 Promoting Creativity, Scholarship and Lifelong Learning...... 28 1. Appropriations for 2015...... 79 Library of Congress Promoting Creativity...... 29 2. Appropriations for 2016...... 79 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Promoting Scholarship...... 33 3. Financial Statistics...... 80 Washington, D.C. 20540 Promoting Lifelong Learning...... 36 4. Additions to the Collections—Items...... 83 For the Library of Congress online, visit loc.gov. 5. Additions to the Collections—Titles...... 85 The annual report is published through the Office of Communications, Celebrating Achievement...... 38 Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1610, 6. Unprocessed Arrearages...... 85 Library of Congress Prizes and Awards...... 39 Telephone (202) 707-2905. 7. Cataloging Production...... 86 Library Staff Recognition...... 43 Executive Editor: Gayle Osterberg 8. MARC Records...... 86 Managing Editor: Audrey Fischer 9. Preservation Treatment Statistics...... 87 Art Director: John Sayers Photo Editor: Shawn Miller 10. Copyright Registrations...... 88 Design and Composition: Blue House Design 11. U.S. Copyright Office Business Summary...... 88 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 6-6273 12. Services to Individuals Who are ISSN 0083-1565 Blind or Physically Handicapped...... 89 Key title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress 13. Reader Services...... 90 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office 14. Cataloging Distribution Service: Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP Financial Statistics...... 91 Washington, D.C. 20402-9328 ISBN 978-0-8444-9574-3 15. Human Resources...... 92

3 Opposite, the Librarian’s ceremonial office in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building Photo by Shawn Miller

I am pleased to present the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for Fiscal Year 2015.

During the year, the Congressional from Lincoln Cathedral), the Bay with varying degrees of technical Research Service (CRS) in the Psalm Book (the first book printed proficiency explore the ways in which Library of Congress began its second in America), President Lincoln’s online tools may be used to locate the century of service to our nation’s second inaugural address and items Library’s unparalleled analog and lawmakers. CRS and the Law Library from civil rights leader Rosa Parks’ digital collections. responded to more than 600,000 collection. research requests from Members of Sincerely, Congress and their staff. The U.S. The Library expanded its global David S. Mao Copyright Office advised Congress on collections—which grew in fiscal year Acting Librarian of Congress copyright law and policy in a digital 2015 by 1.7 million analog items age. To increase the transparency of to a total of 162.5 million. During the legislative process, the Library the fiscal year, the Library’s website continued to add content to the recorded 86.1 million visits and more user-friendly, authoritative legislative than 482.5 million page views. The source, Congress.gov. Library’s literacy-promotion website, Read.gov, and its Teacher’s Page The Library’s staff answered questions continued to provide children, families from more than 457,000 people—in- and educators with rich content to person at our reference desks and online encourage lifelong learning. through our Ask a Librarian service. The National Library Service for the Social media continued to help the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library connect with a growing circulated nearly 22 million copies audience. A decade ago, the Library of braille and recorded books and of Congress was one of the first magazines to more than 862,000 reader federal agencies to launch a blog. accounts through a network of more Many other Library blogs have than 100 cooperating libraries. been added—each focused on the institution’s specific collections or Approximately 1.58 million people services. The Library’s presence on visited the Library of Congress in Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, 2015. Of these, a record 1.24 million iTunes U, Pinterest and, most recently, visited the Thomas Jefferson Building. Instagram, followed. The Library of They came to conduct research Congress is reaching millions of users Letter from the Acting using the Library’s unparalleled through these sites. resources, view the magnificent art and architecture of the 19th-century In these pages are highlights of Librarian of Congress building and see many rare and the work of the 3,100 talented unique items on display. Those rarities people who work in the nation’s Acting Librarian of Congress David Mao included the Magna Carta (on loan library. Many of them help users Photo by Shawn Miller

4 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS LETTER FROM THE ACTING LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OFFICERS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (on Sept. 30, 2015) TRUST FUND BOARD MEMBERS

Executive Committee Ex Officio Members James H. Billington, Edward R. Jablonski, Robert R. Newlen, James H. Billington Sen. Roy Blunt David Lebryk, Fiscal Assistant Librarian of Congress Chief Operating Officer Chief of Staff Librarian of Congress Chairman, Joint Committee Secretary of the Treasury on the Library of Congress (representing U.S. Treasury David S. Mao, Mary Mazanec, Director, Maria A. Pallante, Secretary Jacob J. Lew) Deputy Librarian of Congress and Congressional Research Service Register of Copyrights Rep. Gregg Harper Acting Law Librarian of Congress Vice Chairman, Joint Committee Jane McAuliffe, Director, Mark Sweeney, on the Library of Congress Bernard A. Barton Jr., National and International Outreach Associate Librarian Chief Information Officer for Library Services Senate Appointees

Operations Committee Kathleen L. Casey Thomas Girardi George Marcus Arlington, Virginia Los Angeles, California Palo Alto, California Edward R. Jablonski, Chair, Francois DiFolco, Associate Director Donald Simon, Assistant Law Chief Operating Officer for Finance and Administration, Librarian for Administrative Christopher G. Long Congressional Research Service Operations, Law Library Wilmington, Delaware David Christopher, Chief of Operations, Sandra M. Lawson, Larry Stafford, U.S. Copyright Office Deputy Associate Librarian, National and International Outreach House of Representatives Appointees Operations, Library Services J. Richard Fredericks Barbara Guggenheim James V. Kimsey San Francisco, California New York, New York, and McLean, Virginia Robert R. Newlen, Los Angeles, California Chief of Staff

Presidential Appointees Inspector General Joan W. Harris Kurt W. Hyde Chicago, Illinois

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Sally Susman New York, New York Charles Wright (2014–2015)

Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–2016)

6 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 7 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COMMITTEES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COMMITTEES (continued)

Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, 114th Congress, First Session United States Senate, 114th Congress, First Session Sen. Roy Blunt (Missouri), Chairman Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia), Chairman

Rep. Gregg Harper (Mississippi), Vice Chair Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Ranking Member

Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas) Rep. Candice S. Miller (Michigan) Sen. Mark Kirk (Illinois) Sen. Christopher Murphy (Connecticut)

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia) Rep. Tom Graves (Georgia) Sen. Jerry Moran (Kansas)

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (New York) Rep. Robert A. Brady (Pennsylvania) Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vermont) Rep. Zoe Lofgren (California) United States House of Representatives, 114th Congress, First Session Rep. Tom Graves (Georgia), Chair Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, 114th Congress, First Session Rep. Mark Amodei (Nevada), Vice Chair Sen. Roy Blunt (Missouri), Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida), Ranking Member

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (New York), Ranking Member Rep. Scott Rigell (Virginia) Rep. Sam Farr (California)

Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tennessee) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (California) Rep. Evan Jenkins (West Virginia) Rep. Betty McCollum (Minnesota)

Sen. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Illinois) Rep. Steven Palazzo (Mississippi)

Sen. Thad Cochran (Mississippi) Sen. Tom Udall (New Mexico)

Sen. Pat Roberts (Kansas) Sen. Mark Warner (Virginia)

Sen. Richard Shelby (Alabama) Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vermont)

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia) Sen. Angus King (Maine)

Sen. John Boozman (Arkansas)

Sen. Roger Wicker (Mississippi)

Committee on House Administration, United States House of Representatives, 114th Congress, First Session Rep. Candice S. Miller (Michigan), Chairman

Rep. Robert A. Brady (Pennsylvania), Ranking Member

Rep. Gregg Harper (Mississippi) Rep. Zoe Lofgren (California)

Rep. Richard Nugent (Florida) Rep. Juan C. Vargas (California)

Rep. Rodney Davis (Illinois)

Rep. Barbara Comstock (Virginia)

Rep. Mark Walker (North Carolina)

8 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 9 FACTS AT A GLANCE In fiscal year 2015, the Library of Congress . . .

RESPONDED to more than 1 million ■■ 24,055,745 cataloged books ƒƒ14,974,472 visual materials, reference requests from Congress, in the Library of Congress as follows: MISSION STATEMENT the public and other federal agencies classification system ‚‚14,200,418 photographs and delivered approximately The Library’s mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its 20,500 volumes from the Library’s ■■ 14,613,415 items in the ‚‚106,676 posters collections to congressional offices; nonclassified print collections, ‚ 667,378 prints and drawings constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge including books in large type and ‚ ƒƒ3,381,592 other (including and creativity for the benefit of the American people. REGISTERED 443,812 claims raised characters, incunabula (books to copyright through the U.S. printed before 1501), monographs machine-readable items) Copyright Office; and serials, music, bound WELCOMED nearly 1.6 million newspapers, pamphlets, technical onsite visitors and recorded The exterior of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. Photo by Shawn Miller CIRCULATED nearly 22 million reports and other print material 86.1 million visits and more than copies of braille and recorded books 482.5 million page views on the and magazines to more than 862,000 ■■ 123,807,900 items in the nonclassified blind and physically handicapped (special) collections, including: Library’s web properties. At year’s reader accounts; end, the Library’s online primary- ƒƒ3,601,323 audio materials source files totaled60.9 million; CIRCULATED nearly 900,000 items (discs, tapes, talking books for use within the Library; and other recorded formats) EMPLOYED 3,094 permanent staff members; and ƒƒ70,296,299 manuscripts PRESERVED more than 9 million OPERATED with a total fiscal 2015 items from the Library’s collections; ƒƒ5,559,470 maps appropriation of $630.853 million, ƒƒ17,069,754 microforms RECORDED a total of 162,477,060 including the authority to spend items in the collections: ƒƒ1,758,713 moving images $39.9 million in receipts. ƒƒ7,166,307 items of sheet music

Clockwise from the top left: A display of World War I images and writings accompanied a Library lecture on “Art from War”; Items from the Lomax family are displayed to mark the centennial birthday of folklorist Alan Lomax in 2015; A portion of the Library’s Dayton C. Miller flute collection is displayed in the Thomas Jefferson Building; This green jade artifact from the Jay I. Kislak Collection in the Library of Congress dates to the Classic Period Maya, 400-700 CE; Film Vault Leader George Willeman inspects a film reel for the first motion picture version of Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein (1910) made by Edison Studios; Visitors tour the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. Photos by Shawn Miller

10 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 11 The U.S. Capitol building Photo by Shawn Miller

Serving the Congress

The Library of Congress was LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT established in 1800 to provide resources The Congressional Research Service to Members of Congress for use in (CRS) in the Library of Congress their work. The Joint Committee on has one mission: to serve the nation’s the Library—the oldest continuing lawmakers in the performance of joint committee of the U.S. Congress— their work. The research and analysis, was created through legislation signed seminars and programs produced by by President John Adams on April 24, CRS provide the U.S. Congress with 1800, which also created a library for a nonpartisan, confidential resource the nation’s lawmakers and provided that helps them navigate the legislative for its congressional oversight. The process and address important, unique collaboration between these two complex issues. Last year, CRS institutions has allowed both to serve responded to 597,000 congressional the nation for more than two centuries. requests. In addition, the congressional audience viewed research products In fiscal 2015, the Library supported on the CRS website approximately Members of Congress, their staffs 850,000 times. and constituents in a variety of ways, from providing reference, research and CRS examines pressing legislative analysis on key issues of the day to issues facing Congress; identifies and supplying surplus books to congressional assesses policy options; and provides districts. The Library also continued to analysis, consultation and briefings implement new technologies to make to support Congress throughout the the legislative process more accessible legislative process across the full range and transparent to the American public. of public policy issues.

SERVING THE CONGRESS 13 The U.S. Congress established the Law Library of Congress in 1832 with the The Library of Congress is leading several major mission of making its resources available to Congress and the Supreme Court—a preservation initiatives at the behest of Congress. mission that has expanded to include other branches of government and From left: Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) presents 2014 Gershwin Prize recipient the global legal community. Librarians Billy Joel with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol as composer Michael Feinstein and lawyers respond to congressional looks on. Photo by Shawn Miller inquiries about U.S., foreign, comparative and international legal and in fiscal 2015. One addressed copyright The Copyright Office also continued sound recordings have been selected. issues in education and for the visually a study on the implementation by the The legislation also calls for archival CONGRESS COMES TO THE LIBRARY legislative research, drawing upon the world’s largest collection of law books impaired. The other, “The Register’s United States of certain treaty provisions research projects that would investigate and legal resources. The collection Perspective on Copyright Review,” regarding the right of copyright owners the survival rates of American movies The Library of Congress—located presentations. In fiscal 2015, Members comprises more than 5 million items, featured Register of Copyrights Maria A. to make their works available online. In produced in all major categories during within a block of the U.S. Capitol— and their staffs viewed the Library’s including 2.92 million volumes, and Pallante as the sole witness. She was first addition, it initiated a study to review the 19th and 20th centuries. frequently served as a meeting and Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor global legal materials in various formats. to testify at the start of the copyright law how photographs, graphic artworks, event venue for Members of Congress exhibition, First Among Many: The review in 2013; in fiscal 2015, she was the illustrations, and certain other visual Established by Congress in 2000, and congressional staff. With support Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments The Law Library, in fiscal 2015, 100th witness, and her remarks took into works are sold, purchased, or licensed the National Digital Information from the Congressional Relations in American Printing and President answered nearly 4,600 congressional account all the witness testimony to date. and how copyrights to these works Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office (CRO), the Visitor Services Lincoln’s second inaugural address. inquiries and provided Members of are registered and enforced under the (NDIIPP) seeks to collect and preserve In fiscal 2015, the House Judiciary Office, Facilities Services and the Congress with 869 legal research Copyright Act. The inquiry, building on at-risk digital content of cultural and Members attended a Nov. 18 event at Committee also held a hearing about Office of Special Events and Public reports, special studies and memoranda. the office’s longstanding policy interest historical importance. That same year, the Library in recognition of Gershwin Copyright Office operations and Programs, the Library hosted 95 The Law Library’s legal reference in these types of visual works, sought the Congress established the Veterans congressional events in fiscal 2015. Prize recipient Billy Joel. Rep. Gregg librarians assist congressional staff any funding in which it considered limits perspectives of both copyright owners Harper (R-Miss.), Chairman of the Joint on the ability of the office to meet the History Project in the Library’s American time either chamber of Congress is in and users. The Library supported multiple Committee on the Library, presented needs of digital-age stakeholders. Folklife Center to preserve the memories session, no matter the hour. events relating to the orientation and the singer-songwriter with a flag that copyright.gov/docs/ of those in our nation’s armed services swearing-in of the 114th Congress had been flown over the U.S. Capitol The Copyright Office published two musiclicensingstudy/ and others who shared America’s with 13 new senators and 63 new in honor of Joel’s achievements and COPYRIGHT LAW major policy reports in support of copyright.gov/orphan/ wartime experience in the 20th- and representatives. CRO staff met contributions to popular song. AND POLICY Congress’ work during the fiscal year. copyright.gov/laws/hearings/ early 21st- centuries. By year’s end, the individually with a majority of newly The U.S. Congress established the One analyzed potential updates to project had gathered nearly 100,000 elected Members of Congress On May 6, Members of Congress United States Copyright Office within provisions of the Copyright Act that collections from across the nation. to brief them about the Library’s attended the Library’s “We Write the Library in 1897, headed by the govern music licensing, including CONGRESSIONAL services and programs. the Songs” concert in the Coolidge Register of Copyrights. The Copyright the activities of songwriters, music PRESERVATION EFFORTS In 2009, Congress directed the Library Auditorium, which recognized and Office carries out activities pursuant to publishers, record labels and digital The Library of Congress is leading and the Smithsonian Institution’s On March 27, CRO hosted its sixth honored the work of the American the Copyright Act, including registering delivery services. The other offered several major preservation initiatives at National Museum of African American congressional forum on the Library’s Society of Composers, Authors and copyright interests, recording licenses legislative recommendations addressing the behest of Congress that will ensure History and Culture to conduct a survey educational resources. More than 50 Publishers to protect the intellectual and other information about copyright the legal and business challenges faced by America’s history and culture are of existing oral history collections with congressional staff and interns attended property of its membership. ownership and title, and administering those who seek to use orphan works or captured and preserved for generations relevance to the civil rights movement, this briefing, where they received certain statutory licenses. The Register to engage in mass-digitization projects. to come (see page 33). and to record new interviews with people demonstrations on how teachers in their Members of the bipartisan Library of Orphan works are original works of is the principal adviser to the Congress who participated in the movement. congressional districts can access the Congress Congressional Caucus were authorship for which prospective users In its concern for preserving the nation’s on copyright law and policy and works The Library’s American Folklife Center wide range of primary-source materials invited to attend behind-the-scenes cannot identify or locate copyright audiovisual heritage, Congress enacted closely with other government agencies. cataloged the new interviews and added and curricula, receive notification of tours of Library offices and exhibitions. owners to request permission. As part the National Film Preservation Act them to its web portal. teacher training and more. Chaired by Reps. Earl Blumenauer Throughout the year, the Copyright of the report, the office proposed a of 1988 and the National Recording (D-Ore.) and Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), Office continued to assist the limited pilot program to establish a Preservation Act of 2000. These loc.gov/film/ Throughout the year, Members of the caucus was established in 2008 comprehensive review of the nation’s legal framework known as extended acts direct the Librarian of Congress loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/ Congress came to the Library to to encourage Members’ use of the copyright laws initiated in fiscal 2013 by collective licensing to enable certain to select “culturally, historically or view new exhibitions and attend Library’s unparalleled collections and digitalpreservation.gov Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chair of mass-digitization activities. In June, the aesthetically” significant films and lectures, symposia and other special its knowledgeable staff. the House Judiciary Committee. The office invited public comments on the sound recordings, respectively, for loc.gov/vets/ committee held two law-review hearings operation of such a pilot program. preservation. To date, 650 films and 425 loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/

14 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS SERVING THE CONGRESS 15 From left: Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) and Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) attend a Library program and display about Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Brian Williams; Sen. Lankford (R-Okla.) thanks supporters at a reception in Madison Hall following the swearing-in of the 114th Congress on Jan. 6, 2015; Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington present a facsimile of a map made by George Washington to philanthropist Howard Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) presents author David McCullough with a historic commemorative stamp booklet of the Wright Brothers at a Library G. Buffett (center) during a ceremony honoring Buffett for his purchase and loan of the Rosa Parks Collection; Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), his wife Grace and program about the iconic aviators. Unless noted, photos by Shawn Miller Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif) attend a Library program and display about President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Unless noted, photos by Shawn Miller

OTHER SERVICES The Congressional Relations Office SUPPORTING THE LIBRARY TO CONGRESS continued creating outreach materials to The Library operated under three GOVERNMENT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS The Library reached out to Congress encourage congressional offices to share continuing resolutions from Oct. to ensure both new and returning Library services with their constituents 1, 2014, until Dec. 16, 2014, The Library of Congress has been the official online source of email alerts any time a Member of Congress (from the current Members of Congress, as well as new via their social media sites. This service which provided appropriations at U.S. legislative information since THOMAS.gov launched on Jan. Congress) introduces a bill, there is an action on a particular bill or provides congressional offices with approximately the same level as committee chairs and ranking Members, 5, 1995. In recent years, the Library has worked to transition the a new issue of the Congressional Record is available on the site. suggested Facebook posts, tweets, the fiscal 2014 appropriation. The were aware of the full range of its site to the modern, mobile-friendly website, Congress.gov. collections, programs and services. YouTube content and Pinterest items to president signed the Consolidated and To make Congress.gov more accessible to people with help facilitate their constituent outreach. Further Continuing Appropriations Congress.gov provides Members of Congress, legislative disabilities, a new feature, “Listen to this page” reads the The Congressional Research Service Act (P.L. 113–235) on Dec. 16, 2014, agencies and the public with accurate, timely and complete legislative summaries aloud. A new video series, “Two-Minute CRO also maintained LCNet, an hosted “Legislative Issues and Procedures: providing an appropriation for the legislative information. The site is presented by the Library of Tips,” provides tutorials such as “Creating and Using intranet website through which Members The CRS Seminar for New Members,” Library of $630.853 million, including Congress using data from the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov Email Alerts,” “Search Terms and Facets” and of Congress and their staff can request held Jan. 9–12, 2015, in Williamsburg, authority to spend up to $39.9 million the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, the “Navigating a Bill.” These short videos join a nine-part series on Library services. The site received Virginia. Briefings included legislative and in offsetting receipts. Congressional Budget Office and the Library’s Congressional the legislative process, written by CRS experts. nearly 7,900 requests for materials, budgetary processes, the economy and Research Service (CRS). including reproductions of historically The Librarian of Congress testified national security. or geographically relevant items which in support of the Library’s fiscal 2016 As the result of a series of system updates during fiscal 2015, appear on the site’s Image Gallery. During the year, the Library of budget request before the House and more than 1 million items pertaining to the legislative process CRO also worked with congressional Congress circulated 20,540 volumes Senate Appropriations Subcommittees are accessible on stationary computers or mobile devices. The offices to coordinate congratulatory from its general and special collections for the Legislative Branch on Feb. 26 site contains metadata for legislation starting with 1973 (the letters to constituents participating to congressional offices. and March 17, 2015, respectively. The 93rd Congress), full text of the legislation beginning in 1993 in Library programs such as Letters fiscal 2016 request of $666.6 million (the 103rd Congress) and both the Congressional Record and About Literature and the Junior Fellows The Library continued its multiyear represented a 5.7 percent increase committee reports dating back to 1995 (the 104th Congress). Summer Internship program. initiative to improve the technical over the 2015 budget. Mandatory New content includes treaty documents, nominations, executive communications and the Federalist Papers. infrastructure needed to provide Congressional offices and committees pay-related and price-level increases geospatial data to Congress, the accounted for 61.8 percent of the selected 35,500 items from the Library’s The site also offers profiles of all current Members of Congress, Library and its patrons. In fiscal 2015, requested increase. At the end of fiscal Surplus Books Program and distributed and some former Members dating to 1929 (the 71st Congress). the Library produced more than 120 them to libraries, schools and non-profits 2015, the legislative funding bill had Each profile includes a photo, a link to a short biography, district maps on issues of concern to Congress in Members’ districts and states. In a not yet been passed. The president information, party affiliation and, in the case of current members, such as energy production, health care growing trend, congressional offices signed a continuing resolution on links to congressional websites and contact information. exchange enrollment and conflict zones donated nearly 9,700 books to the Sept. 30, 2015, to provide funding from in the Middle East. Surplus Books Program. Oct. 1 through Dec. 11, 2015. Along with the growth in volume of data on the site, additional features have been added. Users can now sign up to receive The Library’s Congress.gov legislative information system is accessible on mobile devices. Photo by Abby Brack Lewis

16 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS SERVING THE CONGRESS 17 Library of Congress staff member Candice Townsend references a volume in an alcove of the Library’s Main Reading Room. Photo by Shawn Miller

Collecting, Preserving and Providing Access to Knowledge

COLLECTING other U.S. libraries through their In 2015, the Library’s collections grew to Cooperative Acquisitions Programs. In more than 162 million items in various fiscal 2015, the Library continued the formats. The Library added 1.7 million West Africa Acquisitions Pilot Project items to its collection during the year in collaboration with the Council of through purchase, gift, exchange or American Overseas Research Centers transfer from other government agencies. to select, purchase and provide (See Appendix B, Selected Acquisitions.) bibliographic services for materials from 11 West African countries. In The U.S. Copyright Office forwarded fiscal 2015, the project acquired 5,835 more than 660,000 copies of works collection items. These acquisitions with a net value of $35.7 million to strengthen the Library’s holdings in the the Library’s collections in fiscal 2015; more than 392,000 of these copies were areas of literature, social sciences and received from publishers under the current events in West Africa. mandatory deposit provisions of the law. Collection Development The Library’s six overseas offices The Collection Development Office (located in Cairo, Islamabad, Jakarta, is responsible for ensuring that Nairobi, New Delhi and Rio de Janeiro) the Library’s analog and digital acquired, cataloged and preserved collections reflect the breadth and materials from parts of the world where depth of knowledge published in all the book and information industries media, languages and regions of the are not well-developed. Those offices world. The office works closely with acquired 213,363 items for the Library the acquisitions and recommending of Congress and, on a cost-recovery specialists to achieve the Library’s basis, provided 320,109 items to collection-building goals.

COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 19 During the year, the remaining open position in the office was filled and the structure, purpose and responsibilities of the Library’s Collections Policy Committee were reviewed. The office began a systematic review of collecting levels and collections policy statements, assessed collections usage statistics and analyzed foreign newspaper subscriptions. The office issued several reports dealing with From left: McGuffey Readers from the mid-19th century are among the collections in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division; collecting levels, bibliographic records Collections and Services Chief Helena Zinkham opens Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, the largest book in the and digital-collecting strategy. Library’s collection. Photos by Shawn Miller

This rare copy of the Apostles Edition of the Saint John’s Bible was acquired by the PRESERVING The congressionally mandated Newspapers 3,000 hours of content from the Studs Library of Congress during the Pope’s visit in September 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller Preserving its unparalleled collections— National Digital Information Chronicling America. The Library Terkel Collection (in collaboration with from cuneiform tablets to complex digital Infrastructure and Preservation of Congress, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum) and the objects—is one of the Library’s major Project (NDIIPP), administered by the the National Endowment for the processing of 2,000 lacquer discs from THE SAINT JOHN’S BIBLE activities in support of its vision to further Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, Humanities, sponsors the National the Les Paul Collection. human understanding and wisdom. continued to collect and preserve at-risk Digital Newspaper Program, a project At the fiscal year’s end, the Packard The Library of Congress received a of Gospels during liturgy. Inspired, During the year, more than 9 million digital content of cultural and historical to digitize and provide free public Campus Data Center held 6.2 petabytes rare Apostles Edition of The Saint Jackson proposed a most ambitious items from the Library’s collections were importance (see page 56). access to American newspapers that of collection content comprising nearly John’s Bible as a gift from Saint John’s project: create a handwritten and bound, treated, mass-deacidified or are in the public domain. During 2015, 1.5 million digital files. This includes Abbey and University in Minnesota, illustrated Bible using the materials and microfilmed or otherwise reformatted. loc.gov/preservation/ more than 1.84 million newspaper more than 205,000 files from 18,200 through the generosity of the GHR methods employed by the Benedictines The Preservation Directorate surveyed pages were scanned, bringing the total public broadcasting programs acquired Foundation. On behalf of the American centuries earlier. The Saint John’s Bible the preservation needs of 1.4 million Books to 9.9 million pages since the project’s for the American Archive of Public people, the Librarian of Congress is the product of a 13-year collaboration items from the Library’s general and Offsite and Onsite Storage. During inception. The scanned newspapers Broadcasting and ingested into the accepted the Bible in the office of between Jackson’s team of artists and special collections, including books, the year, the Library transferred are accessible on the Library’s Digital Archive in fiscal 2015. Speaker of the House John Boehner, calligraphers in Wales and scholars and photographs, maps, audiovisual materials 67,450 items to its climate-controlled Chronicling America website, a free theologians at Saint John’s Abbey and and other formats. More than 155,000 in the presence of Pope Francis, on offsite storage facility at Fort Meade, national searchable database of nearly With funding from the National Film University in Minnesota. items were bound, 62,000 were housed the occasion of the Pope’s address to Maryland, and its storage facility in 1,900 historic American newspapers Preservation Board, the Library initiated Congress on Sept. 24, 2015. in protective containers and 66,000 were Landover, Maryland, bringing the total published in 38 states, Puerto Rico and Using a medieval-meets-modern the Silent Film Project, the goal of treated or repaired. Nearly 206,000 files to 5.2 million items housed offsite. the District of Columbia between 1836 combination of tools, the project was which is to borrow, catalog, digitally The work of art—one of only 12 copies were digitally copied and archived. An and 1922. In fiscal 2015, the site logged completed in 2011. Saint John’s In most cases, items can be retrieved preserve and ensure the availability produced—is composed of more than additional 1.3 million units (volumes/ more than 42 million page views and Abbey later commissioned 12 fine-art and sent to Capitol Hill within 24 of silent films for public viewing and 1,130 pages and 160 illuminations. sheets) were deacidified and more than 3.9 million visits. copies of the Bible, called the Apostles hours. Under the Additional Service research. Private collectors may engage The Apostles Edition is the first 6 million pages were reformatted, Editions, which reflect the scale and Copy Program, 93,806 duplicate in the project by lending their small- handwritten and illuminated Bible with an additional 2.3 million pages Audiovisual Collections volumes were withdrawn. To address gauge silent films that do not otherwise commissioned by a monastery since artistic intent of the monumental Packard Campus for Audio-Visual microfilmed by the Library’s Overseas survive or only survive in a less complete the invention of the printing press more original manuscript. Each of the seven overcrowding in the bookstacks of the Conservation. The Packard Campus Office in New Delhi. form. All borrowed films are scanned for than 500 years ago. volumes in the Bible measures 2 feet Thomas Jefferson and John Adams for Audio-Visual Conservation preservation and access purposes. tall and 3 feet wide when open. In April, The Library’s preservation research Buildings on Capitol Hill, a temporary in Culpeper, Virginia, houses the The idea for the Bible was born Jackson presented Pope Francis with program conducted analyses and collection storage facility was leased Library’s recorded sound and moving loc.gov/avconservation/ in the mid-1990s when Donald a set of the Apostles Editions at the assessments of factors that endanger in Cabin Branch, Maryland, to house image collections—the world’s largest Jackson, a calligrapher serving as the Vatican. The Library’s own rare edition the Library’s collections, investigated 3.1 million books in Fort Meade- and most comprehensive. In fiscal Films. It is estimated that half of the official scribe to Queen Elizabeth II, was displayed in the Great Hall of the ways to reduce inherent risks and the compatible containers. Library staff 2015, the Packard Campus digitally films produced before 1950 and 80 to 90 witnessed the Saint John’s Abbey Thomas Jefferson Building for a period effects of the use of collection items began planning for the construction preserved nearly 54,000 moving image percent of those made before 1920 are monks in procession with the Book of three months, beginning on Sept. 26. and helped reduce environmental risks and transfer of collections to Fort and recorded sound collection items. gone forever. The Library of Congress to the collections. Meade Module 5. Highlights include the digitization of is working with many organizations to

20 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 21 prevent further losses. Under the terms By cataloging its holdings in English of the National Film Preservation Act and in many other languages, the of 1988, the Librarian of Congress— Library provides bibliographic access with advice from the National Film to its vast and growing collections. Preservation Board (see Appendix A, Through shared and cooperative Library of Congress Advisory Bodies)— cataloging and through its cataloging began selecting 25 films annually for the products, the Library helps the National Film Registry to be preserved nation’s libraries provide better access for all time. The films are chosen on the to their collections. basis of cultural, historical or aesthetic Saving significance. On Dec. 17, 2014, the Visitors to all Library buildings in fiscal Private Ryan Librarian of Congress named 25 films 2015 totaled 1.58 million. Of these, a to the National Film Registry, bringing record 1.24 million visited the Thomas NATIONAL FILM Jefferson Building. The Library’s Great the total to 650. REGISTRY Hall and exhibitions remained open to Sound Recordings. The National the public on federal holidays, with the (2014 Additions) U.S. Army Air Force World War II veteran Henry “Hank” Carr participates in an oral history interview for the Veterans History Project. Recording Preservation Act of 2000 exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas Photo by Shawn Miller mandates the preservation of the and New Year’s Day. The Library held 13 Lakes (2004) nation’s historic sound recordings, many well-attended public open houses in Bert Williams Lime Kiln of which are at risk of deterioration. the Main Reading Room on Columbus Club Field Day (1913) AMERICA’S STORIES It directs the Librarian of Congress to Day and Presidents Day. The Big Lebowski (1998) name sound recordings of aesthetic, Reference Services Down Argentine Way (1940) The Library of Congress has been personal recollections were deposited collections with relevance to the civil historical or cultural value to the During the year, 897,311 items were The Dragon Painter (1919) collecting and preserving the nation’s in the Library, bringing the total to nearly rights movement, and to record new National Recording Registry, to establish circulated for use by patrons working Felicia (1965) oral history since the 1930s, when the 100,000 since the project’s inception. interviews with people who participated an advisory National Recording at the Library. The Library’s staff Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) Many of these stories are accessible on in the movement, over a five year period Preservation Board and to create and responded to 457,442 reference Federal Writers’ Project documented the project’s website. beginning in 2010. The Library has since implement a national plan to assure the The Gang’s All Here (1943) requests. Of these, nearly 156,000 the experiences of former slaves as well long-term preservation and accessibility House of Wax (1953) completed the survey and launched the were received online, including queries as Americans living through the Great In 2003, documentary producer Dave of the nation’s audio heritage. Civil Rights History Project website, that were handled through the Ask a Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories Depression. The American Folklife Center Isay was inspired by the Library’s WPA which provides information about civil Librarian service. of the Kindertransport (2000) in the Library of Congress became the collections to launch StoryCorps, an On March 25, 2015, the Librarian rights collections housed in more than Little Big Man (1970) repository for these oral histories and innovative oral history project in which announced the addition of 25 sound 1,500 archives, libraries, museums and Patrons continued to register in person Luxo Jr. (1986) others, such as the man-on-the-street ordinary Americans record one another’s recordings to the 2014 National other repositories around the country, for the Library-issued reader card. In interviews after the attack on Pearl stories. The more than 51,400 audio Recording Registry, bringing the total Moon Breath Beat (1980) including the Library of Congress. In fiscal 2015, the Library issued nearly Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and similar interviews that comprise the StoryCorps to 425. Please Don’t Bury Me Alive! (1976) fiscal 2015, the American Folklife Center, 47,000 new Reader Identification interviews following the terrorist attacks project reside at the Library of Congress. The Power and the Glory (1933) which manages the project at the Library, Cards. Many of those patrons of Sept. 11, 2001. In addition to weekly broadcasts on made these interviews and other related PROVIDING ACCESS submitted requests for materials using Rio Bravo (1959) National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, TO KNOWLEDGE Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Launched in 2000 at the behest of materials available on the project website the Integrated Library System’s (ILS) selected interviews are available as The Library of Congress makes its Congress, the Veterans History Project in in conjunction with the opening of the automated Call Slip function in the LC Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) downloadable podcasts from NPR and multi-format collections publicly the American Folklife Center is preserving Library’s exhibition, Civil Rights Act of Online Catalog. Saving Private Ryan (1998) as animated shorts on the StoryCorps available in its multiple reading rooms and making available the recollections website. 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. The Shoes (1916) and research centers on Capitol Hill The Library added 88 new encoded of those in the armed services dating to AFC cataloged 7,292 civil rights-related and at the Packard Campus for Audio- archival description finding aids online, State Fair (1933) World War I. In recognition of the 70th Under the Civil Rights History Project items, digitized 17,101 items in various Visual Conservation in Culpeper, bringing the total to 2,225 web- Unmasked (1917) anniversary of VJ-Day in 2015, the project Act of 2009, Congress directed the formats and expanded the project website. V-E + 1 (1945) launched a major campaign to preserve Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Virginia, and through its website. accessible finding aids covering more the stories of World War II veterans Institution’s National Museum of African loc.gov/vets/ than 60.2 million archival items in the The Way of Peace (1947) The Library also provides global residing in and around the nation’s American History and Culture to loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/ Library’s collections. Willy Wonka and the access to its resources and those capital. During the year, more than 5,000 conduct a survey of existing oral history storycorps.org Chocolate Factory (1971) of other nations through the loc.gov/rr/ collaborative World Digital Library. loc.gov/findingaids/

22 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 23 Cataloging second pilot in fiscal 2016. BIBFRAME, The Library provided cataloging coupled with the already implemented records to the nation’s 122,000 public, RDA: Resource Description and school, academic and research libraries Access, is paving the way for a major and other institutions that rely on the transformation in bibliographic control. Library’s bibliographic data. In fiscal With these two standards, the Library The Miseducation 2015, the Library cataloged in its of Congress, along with other libraries, of Lauryn Hill Voyager system 268,250 new works on will be able to share and use metadata Courtesy Columbia Records 271,977 separate bibliographic records. in ways never before possible, with Production of full- and standard-level potential for great savings of time, original cataloging totaled 183,979 energy and resources. bibliographic records. The Library Access for the Blind and and other member institutions of the The Library’s collection search methods have evolved from traditional card catalogs to Physically Handicapped online databases. Photo by Shawn Miller international Program for Cooperative In fiscal 2015, the National Library NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY (2014 Additions) Cataloging created 296,466 name and Service for the Blind and Physically series authority records, and 4,934 and Scholastic. NLS also added materials significance, free of charge, about Handicapped (NLS) circulated nearly to its Braille Audio Reading Download numerous countries and cultures. Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings “Mary Don’t You Weep,” The Swan subject authorities. The Library served as 22 million copies of braille and (BARD) offerings with those produced Participation has grown to 190 partners at University of California, Santa Silvertones (1959) secretariat for the program and created recorded books and magazines to 84,659 of the name and series authority by network libraries, thus expanding the in 81 countries. At year’s end, the Barbara Library (c.1890–1910) Joan Baez, Joan Baez (1960) more than 862,000 reader accounts records and 3,474 of the subject scope and quantity of available titles. The WDL website contained 12,268 items, The Benjamin Ives Gilman Collection, through a network of more than 100 containing more than 610,522 images, “Stand by Me,” Ben E. King (1961) authorities. Dewey Decimal Classification fiscal 2015 additions to BARD comprised recorded at the 1893 World’s cooperating libraries. Through its in 128 languages. numbers were assigned to 103,346 titles 1,393 talking books, 227 braille books Columbian Exposition at Chicago New Orleans’ Sweet Emma Barrett digital talking-book program, NLS as a service to other libraries throughout and 10 audio magazines, bringing the (1893) and her Preservation Hall Jazz continued to distribute digital players A highlight of the year was the public total to nearly 65,000 items. In June, the Band, Sweet Emma and her the world that use that system to organize and audiobooks on flash-memory release on Nov. 17 of the new user “The Boys of the Lough”/The Humours Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1964) their collections. cartridges in specially designed mailing free BARD mobile app became available interface—the first full redesign of the of Ennistymon,” Michael Coleman containers to libraries nationwide. through Google Play for devices running website since its initial launch in 2009. (1922) “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” The Bibliographic Framework Initiative. In Android OS 4.1 or later. The new interface better accommodates Righteous Brothers (1964) fiscal 2015, the Library continued “Black Snake Moan”/“Match Box Blues,” During the year, NLS contracted for the use on mobile devices. In fiscal 2015, the The Doors, The Doors (1967) development of BIBFRAME to World Digital Library Blind Lemon Jefferson (1927) production of 3,564 audio books and also WDL website recorded more than 6.8 replace MARC 21 as a cataloging selected 20 audio recordings of books The World Digital Library (WDL) is “Sorry, Wrong Number,” episode of Stand! Sly and the Family Stone (1969) million visits—nearly double that of the metadata standard in order to reap from recordings provided free of charge a website, accessible from anywhere Suspense radio series (1943) Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished previous year. Total page views were 30.8 the benefits of newer technology, by the commercial publishers Audible, in the world, which presents in Colleagues, Lincoln Mayorga (1968) million, up from 24.1 million in fiscal 2014. “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,” particularly data linking. The Library Inc.; Hachette; Penguin; Random House digital form documents of historical Johnny Mercer (1944) A Wild and Crazy Guy, Steve Martin continued to build on the work and Noteworthy content added to the site (1978) Radio Coverage of President Franklin tools developed in fiscal 2014: a stable Children learn with talking books. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped from partner institutions included D. Roosevelt’s Funeral, Arthur Sesame Street: All-Time Platinum version of the vocabulary and data- the only known copy of the journal Godfrey, et al. (April 14, 1945) Favorites, (1995) entry editing and transformation believed to have been written on board tools that convert MARC records to the ship during Vasco da Gama’s first Kiss Me, Kate, original cast album, OK Computer, Radiohead (1997) BIBFRAME descriptions. These tools voyage to India, 1497–99, from The (1949) Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out were updated and combined with Municipal Library of Porto, Portugal; John Brown’s Body, film soundtrack Hymnody from Southeastern other new components to support the oldest surviving document written (1953) Kentucky, Indian Bottom a BIBFRAME pilot to allow input in Catalan, 1080, from the National “My Funny Valentine,” The Gerry Association (1997) of native BIBFRAME descriptions. Library of Catalonia, Barcelona; all 39 Mulligan Quartet featuring The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Approximately 35 Library catalogers of the first editions produced between Chet Baker (1953) Lauryn Hill (1998) created bibliographic descriptions, in 1584 and 1619 at the press in Lima (the both BIBFRAME and in MARC— oldest press in South America and the “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman, the latter for distribution through the second-oldest in the New World), in (1955) Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Library’s Cataloging Distribution Spanish, Latin, Quecha and Aymara (1999) Service. The results of the pilot will be from the National Library of Peru; two evaluated and plans will be made for a of three existing parts of the Book of

24 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 25 loc.gov that allows access to 21 million items, including new gallery, grid, “Instagram is a great way to provide a glimpse of and slideshow tools for visualizing Library content; the addition of newly contemporary life at the world’s largest library.” digitized primary-source collections including the James Monroe Papers, the —Gayle Osterberg, Director of Communications Andrew Jackson Papers, the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature and the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape. In addition to its main Facebook site— The Library’s Pinterest account has over National Library Service for the Blind The Library continued development with nearly 270,000 “friends”— the 5,000 followers and includes content and Physically Handicapped; the of Congress.gov, a premier Library offers Facebook pages for the on 46 boards featuring the Library’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual destination for legislative information. Law Library, the American Folklife collections, exhibitions, publications and Conservation; and the John W. Kluge Progress includes search and browse Center, Performing Arts, the National events such as the National Book Festival. Center. In fiscal 2015, a new blog improvements, enhancements to Digital Information Infrastructure and focusing on the National Book Festival appropriations data, improved data Preservation Program and the National The Library’s main blog—among was added. In fiscal 2015 the Library’s exchange with legislative partners and the Library Service for the Blind and the first federal blogs at the time of blogs received 2 million views. addition of new content (see page 17). Physically Handicapped. The Library’s its launch on April 24, 2007—has since been joined by 14 other blogs In August, the Library launched its Library of Congress events, book Twitter presence includes feeds for This 16th-century manuscript, known as the Florentine Codex, is accessible on the generated by the Copyright Office; talks and concerts reached extensive the World Digital Library, the digital presence on Instagram and began World Digital Library website. the Law Library; the National audiences through the Library’s YouTube preservation program, the Congressional sharing images from current events, Digital Preservation and Information and iTunesU channels. The Library’s Research Service, teacher resources, the concerts and exhibitions. The Infrastructure Program; the Music, Hours of Simon de Varie, 1455, from the National Library and Archives in YouTube channel continued to grow Law Library, legislative resources, map Instagram channel ended fiscal 2015 Prints and Photographs, and Science, National Library of the Netherlands; Cairo, the National Library of Uganda with the addition of nearly 400 new collections, the John W. Kluge Center, with more than 900 followers. Technology and Business Divisions; seven Mesoamerican codices, including in Kampala and the Iraq National videos this year. Since the site’s debut in Library events and the Register of the Poetry and Literature Center; loc.gov the Codex Vergara, Codex Azcatitlan, the Library and Archive in Baghdad. 2009, the Library’s YouTube channel Copyrights. The Library’s main Twitter Aubin Tonalamatl, and the Codex Mexicanus, account gained 147,000 followers during the Educational Outreach Office; blogs.loc.gov wdl.org has garnered almost 10.3 million video from the National Library of France; views by users around the world. Content the year, bringing the total to 778,000. the American Folklife Center; the loc.gov/connect/ five manuscripts associated with Fray The Library’s Website and on the Library’s iTunesU channel has Bernardino de Sahagún, compiler of Social Media been viewed or heard via downloads and the Florentine Codex, circa 1540–1574, The Library’s website, loc.gov, streams more than 3.8 million times since from the Newberry Library and the its launch in June 2009. New content This photo of a provides users with access to the Library of Congress complete run of the Cherokee Phoenix, institution’s unparalleled resources, added in fiscal 2015 included interviews concert is a popular The Library the first Native American newspaper in such as its online catalogs; selected from the Civil Rights History Project, image on the Pinterest account the United States,1828–1834, from the collections in various formats; professional development content for Library’s Instagram presents boards account. Photo by on various topics. Library of Congress. copyright, legal and legislative teachers, public domain videos from the Shawn Miller information; Library exhibitions; and Library’s collections, scholarly symposia, The WDL team worked in cooperation videos and podcasts of Library events. poetry readings, concerts and each with the Library’s custodial divisions The Library’s website recorded more presentation from the 2014 Library of to select hundreds of items from the than 86.1 million visits and 482.5 Congress National Book Festival. Library’s collections to digitize for million page views in fiscal 2015. inclusion in the WDL on a new scanner Thousands of photo enthusiasts dedicated specifically for this purpose. In fiscal 2015, the Library successfully continued to not only access but also managed a fourth year of the overall help identify Library photos from the A key objective of the WDL project Web Strategy implementation effort. early 1900s through the photo-sharing is to build digital library capabilities The project focused on functional, project on Flickr. During the year, the in the developing world. To that end, content, and process work across the Library added over 2,400 photos to its the WDL continued to maintain Library’s web presence. Highlights Flickr account, bringing the total to and process content from digital include usability improvements to the more than 22,000. The images have conversion centers at the Egyptian core search and browse toolset for received 216 million views since 2008.

26 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 27 The Library hosts an open house in the Main Reading Room on Presidents Day 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller

Promoting Creativity, Scholarship and Lifelong Learning

PROMOTING CREATIVITY Concerts. Since 1925, the Library’s Through its support of the U.S. Coolidge Auditorium has provided a Copyright Office, the Library supports venue for world-class performers and the goals and administration of an world premieres of commissioned effective copyright law, which the works. Sponsored by the Library’s Music Supreme Court has called the “engine Division with support from private of free expression.” Rooted in the U.S. donors, the 2014–2015 season featured Constitution, copyright law is designed 95 individual events, including 27 major to promote, protect and disseminate concerts, 40 lectures and talks and five works of authorship. world premieres of musical compositions commissioned by the Library. The Music The Library also promotes creativity Division’s public programming also and cultural literacy through its many included a series of lectures delivered public programs throughout the year. by curators and other experts, as well Public Programs as symposia and displays of collection During the year, the Library presented items. In April, the Library and CD hundreds of public programs that Syndications launched a new edition of promoted creativity, scholarship and the Library’s classical-music radio series, lifelong learning. Below is a selected slated for broadcast nationwide. In May, list. Webcasts of many of these events more than 20 pieces of contemporary can be viewed on the Library’s website. classical music commissioned by the Library became available to listeners free loc.gov/loc/events/ of charge through a collaboration with loc.gov/webcasts/ Q2 Music, the online stream of music

PROMOTING CREATIVITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING 29 presented by New York-based public broadcaster WQXR Radio. “ScholarFest marked the 15th anniversary of the loc.gov/concerts/ establishment of the John W. Kluge Center in the Exhibitions. Library exhibitions mounted Library of Congress.” in fiscal 2015 marked the 800th anniversary of the creation of Magna —Jane McAuliffe, Director of Scholarly Programs Carta and the 200th anniversary of the Library’s acquisition of Thomas Jefferson’s library, celebrated the 1640 publication of the first book printed in Film Screenings. The Library’s Packard “Conversations with African Poets and Parks: Beyond the Bus,” with Elaine America, honored the work of 20th- Campus Theater continued its popular Writers” series entered its fourth year. Steele, a longtime associate of civil century political cartoonists and the art film screenings that showcase the film, rights leader Rosa Parks and co- The American Folklife Center’s public of theatrical design. To commemorate television, radio and recorded sound founder of the Rosa and Raymond programs included 13 concerts in the 150th anniversary of its delivery, the collections of the Library of Congress. Parks Institute for Self Development. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and Librarian of Congress James Billington its Homegrown series, 10 lectures in open the Library’s Magna Carta exhibition along with Deputy Librarian David Mao. Library placed on display the original The Art Deco-style theater is one of its Benjamin Botkin series and three The European Division hosted 40 Photo by Amanda Reynolds manuscript of President Abraham only five venues in the country equipped symposia and five events in the Civil public events, including a program Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address to show original classic film prints on Rights History Project series. To launch on the liberation of Southern Italy as for four days only—March 4 through nitrate film stock as they would have the annual International Conference seen through the photographs of Gen. A CHARTER FOR THE AGES March 7—in the Great Hall of the been screened in theaters before 1950. of Indigenous Archives, Libraries and George S. Patton. Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. The theater also features a custom- Museums, the American Folklife Center Visitors to the display included President made organ that provides live musical The 1215 Lincoln Cathedral Magna the United States for display in the and the Association of Tribal Archives, The Geography and Map Division Obama. (See Appendix C, Exhibitions). accompaniment for silent movies to Carta—one of only four surviving copies British Pavilion at the 1939 New Libraries and Museums presented a hosted the annual spring symposium of of the original—was the centerpiece of York World’s Fair. Following the six- enhance the cinematic experience. loc.gov/exhibits/ symposium at the Library titled “Civil the Society of Woman Geographers. the Library’s 10-week exhibition, Magna During the year, the Packard Campus month display, the document traveled Rights, Identity and Sovereignty: Native The division also collaborated with the Carta: Muse and Mentor. offered 145 public events in its 205-seat to Washington, D.C. On Nov. 28, American Perspectives on History, Law, Washington Map Society to present 1939, the British ambassador to the theater, including the screening of more seven evening lectures. The 75-item exhibition celebrated and the Path Ahead.” United States, in an official ceremony, than 190 films held by the Library. the 800th anniversary of Magna handed Magna Carta over to Librarian Nearly 11,000 people attended these The Center for the Book sponsored 20 The Hispanic Division sponsored 30 Carta, telling the story of the first of Congress Archibald MacLeish screenings. Among the live events held programs as part of its popular Books & public events, including a celebration charter to limit the power of a king, its for safekeeping during World War at the theater was a production featuring Beyond lecture series that highlights new of the 75th anniversary of the reinterpretation through the centuries II. The Library placed the document the Metropolitan Washington Old-Time books by authors who used the Library’s Hispanic Reading Room with a and emergence as an enduring on exhibition until the U.S. entry into Radio Club, which recreated episodes vast resources to produce their works. In keynote address by Deborah Jakubs, document of constitutional law in the the war, when it sent Magna Carta to of two 1949 radio shows. February, the center hosted a two-day president of Duke University. United States. Fort Knox, Kentucky. The document conference on romance fiction. Lectures, Symposia, Poetry Readings. The John W. Kluge Center sponsored “Magna Carta gave us our first concept returned to England in 1946. The selected events highlighted below are As part of its Copyright Matters more than 30 public programs during of a society governed by the rule of The Library, in association with a sampling of the many programs hosted Lecture Series, the U.S. Copyright the year on topics that included foreign law—a major step,” said HRH The Thomson Reuters, published the by the Library during the fiscal year. Office presented a program recognizing policy, religion, American history Princess Royal, Princess Anne, who cut exhibition’s companion book of the World Intellectual Property Day in and government, the earth and the the ribbon signaling the opening of the The African and Middle Eastern environment, and arts and culture. A same title, which features a foreword April. The program explored this exhibition on Nov. 6, 2015. Division’s programs included an highlight of the year was #ScholarFest, by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice year’s theme of music and copyright, Armenian Vardanants Day event, the Kluge Center’s celebration of its The exhibition also marked the 75th John Roberts Jr. and essays by leading including ways that musicians and which featured a presentation by 15-year history, which welcomed more anniversary of Lincoln Cathedral scholars. Also in conjunction with the composers create in the modern age. Carnegie Fellow Susan Harper on than 70 current and former Kluge Magna Carta’s first visit to the Library exhibition, the Library offered curator- “American Humanitarianism in the The Daniel A.P. Murray African scholars for two days of scholarly of Congress. The document made led talks in the exhibition gallery, and Manuscript Division historian Michelle Krowl Armenian Crucible, 1915–1923.” The American Culture Association of the conversations. Other public programs its first trip outside of England in presented a symposium and lecture shows President Barack Obama the original division’s Hebraic Section continued its Library of Congress and the Library’s included the inaugural Daniel K. Inouye seven centuries when it came to series on the Great Charter. manuscript of President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. Official White “Treasures from the Hebraic Section” Chapter of Blacks in Government Distinguished Lecture featuring former House photo by Pete Souza series and the African Section’s presented a panel discussion, “Rosa Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright

30 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS PROMOTING CREATIVITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING 31 and Colin Powell; a conference on The Science, Technology and Business The John W. Kluge Center the legacy of Vaclav Havel featuring Division’s lecture series included talks The John W. Kluge Center was Secretary of State Madeleine Albright by NASA scientist Douglas Morton on established in 2000 with a gift of $60 and Sen. John McCain; and a three- climate and wildfires in the 21st century, million from the late John W. Kluge, part seminar series on astrobiology and by Dr. Daniel R. Lucey on Ebola in Metromedia president and founding the humanities. Called the Blumberg West Africa and by Gabriel Weimann chair of the James Madison Council Dialogues, the series features 23 of University of Haifa on terrorism in (the Library’s private-sector advisory scholars and scientists and was a part cyberspace. Big data, underground water group). The center’s goal is to bring the world’s scholars to the Library of the NASA/Library of Congress supplies in space, community gardens, of Congress to use the institution’s Astrobiology Program. and the Fukushima explosion were some vast resources and interact with of the other topics covered by this series. The Law Library presented a lecture policymakers in Washington. series and a symposium to celebrate loc.gov/loc/events/ During the year, the Kluge Center the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta brought scholars and interns in the and the opening of the Great Charter’s Open Houses. Twice each year, humanities and social sciences to The Library of Congress opens its display at the Library of Congress. Washington. Senior scholars, pre- In conjunction with the Library’s magnificent Main Reading Room for a and post-doctoral fellows and interns exhibition on the Civil Rights Act of special public open house. Each event researched topics of historical and The Library’s 2015 National Book Festival drew crowds to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Sept. 5, 2015. 1964, photojournalist Bob Adelman draws thousands of visitors wishing to Photo by Shawn Miller contemporary significance in the and retired executive director of the view the Library’s architecture, tour its fields of humanities, social sciences, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) exhibitions and learn how to access its foreign policy and law. The center LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Ira Glasser discussed their work and vast collections. The fall open house hosted its first-ever Kluge Fellows in experiences during the civil rights on the Columbus Day holiday, Oct. Digital Studies. A highlight of the movement. The Law Library marked 13, drew nearly 5,600 visitors to the year was the appointment of Jane The 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival, held book-signing area and the “Let’s Read America” area, featuring Constitution Day in September with Main Reading Room. More than 4,000 McAuliffe as director of the Kluge Sept. 5, 2015, drew a capacity crowd of book-lovers to the pro-literacy activities for children offered by the event’s sponsors. a program that examined religious people braved frigid weather to attend Center and the Office of Scholarly free, public event in the Walter E. Washington Convention freedom and the U.S. Constitution. the winter open house on Feb. 16, the Programs and the celebration of the Center in Washington, D.C. This year marked the 15th The 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival was federal Presidents Day holiday. During center’s 15th anniversary. anniversary of the popular annual event, and the 200th made possible through the generous support of National Book The Poetry and Literature Center the open house, Patricia Smith, the Festival Board Co-chair David M. Rubenstein; Charter Sponsors loc.gov/kluge/ anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library coming to offered numerous poetry readings and the Library of Congress. include AARP, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2014 National Bobbitt Prize for Poetry literary events during the year. Charles The Washington Post and Wells Fargo; Patron sponsors, The winner, read from her work from the American Folklife Center Wright concluded his tenure as the The 12-hour festival featured presentations and book-signings James Madison Council and the National Endowment for the center of the Main Reading Room. The American Folklife Center (AFC) Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in by more than 170 bestselling authors on 19 stages and Arts; Contributor-level sponsors, C-SPAN2’s Book TV, The Phillip Bobbitt, who presently endows was created in 1976 by Congress Poetry at the Library of Congress with a program areas. In addition to the genre pavilions (Children; Junior League of Washington, Jacqueline B. Mars, National the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National to “preserve and present American Teens; History; Biography; Fiction, Mystery; Graphic Novels; Geographic, PBS Book View Now, Scholastic Inc. and WAMU conversation with former Poet Laureate Prize for Poetry, was present. Special folklife.” As the national center for Contemporary Life; Poetry & Prose), there were pavilions 88.5 FM; and in the Friends category, the Australia Council for Charles Simic held on April 30. Juan children’s programming in the Library’s folklife scholarship, the center is devoted to Science, Food, Romance Novels and International the Arts, the Marshall B. Coyne Foundation Inc., The Embassy Felipe Herrera gave his inaugural Young Readers Center drew more than responsible for research, documentation, Programs. For the first time, a pavilion was devoted to authors of Peru, Georgetown University’s Department of Spanish and reading as the 21st Poet Laureate 400 young people and their families to archival presentation, reference from the First Nations of Australia. Another first was the Portuguese, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, The Hay- Consultant in Poetry on Sept. 15. each of the open houses. service, live performances, exhibitions, availability of a Festival App, with a complete list of all events Adams, the Inter-American Development Bank, The Jefferson publications and training. The AFC and locations, custom scheduling, maps, presentation ratings Hotel, Susan Carmel Lehrman, the Mathematical Sciences The Rare Book and Special includes the Archive of Folk Culture, and ways to share the experience via social media. Illustrator Research Institute with support from board chair Roger A. Collections Division offered special PROMOTING SCHOLARSHIP which was established in 1928 and is Peter de Sève designed the 2015 Library of Congress National Strauch, the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, the presentations during the year that The Library is a catalyst for promoting now one of the largest collections of Book Festival poster. Mexican Cultural Institute, Lissa Muscatine and Bradley Graham, featured more than 3,000 collection scholarship through the John W. ethnographic material from the United the National Endowment for the Humanities, NPR, the Small items. The division’s outreach efforts Kluge Center and the American States and around the world. The center The Library of Congress Pavilion offered myriad presentations by Press Expo and Split This Rock. also included an extensive program Folklife Center, which offer fellowship continues to collect and document living the Library’s curators about the institution’s collections and services. of classroom presentations, many of opportunities in various disciplines traditional culture, while preserving for The event also drew large crowds to the Pavilion of the States, the loc.gov/bookfest/ them developed cooperatively with and publications that showcase the the future its unparalleled collections in local university programs. Library’s unparalleled collections. the state-of-the-art preservation facilities

32 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS PROMOTING CREATIVITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING 33 lawyers who demonstrate exceptional In fiscal 2015, the following MOTHER OF THE CIVIL ability and interest in copyright law scholars served as Distinguished RIGHTS MOVEMENT work closely with senior Copyright Chairs or Distinguished Visiting Office legal staff on domestic and Scholars: Steven Dick, Baruch international law and policy projects. S. Blumberg NASA/ Library of The Rosa Parks Collection was Congress Chair in Astrobiology; placed on a 10-year loan from the Rosa Parks, circa 1950. Junior Fellows. A panel of Library Bradford Lee and Bruce Jentleson, Howard G. Buffett Foundation to Photo by Thomas curators and specialists selected 36 Henry Kissinger Chairs in Foreign the Library’s Manuscript Division college students from nearly 800 Policy and International Relations; in fiscal 2015. Parks’ refusal to The collection was opened to applicants to participate in the Library’s Mary Dudziak, Kluge Chair in give up her seat on a Montgomery, researchers on Feb. 4, Parks’ birthday. 2015 Junior Fellows Summer Intern American Law and Governance; Alabama, bus to a white passenger In March, several items from the Program. During the 10-week paid David Hollenbach, Maguire Chair on Dec. 1, 1955, led to her arrest collection were incorporated into the internship (June 1–Aug. 7), the interns in Ethics and American History; Library’s exhibition, The Civil Rights Act The 2015 Junior Fellows showcase items from their 10-week internships on July 30, 2015. as well as the Montgomery Bus inventoried, cataloged, arranged, of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. Photo by Shawn Miller David Grinspoon, Distinguished Boycott—a seminal event in the preserved and researched backlog These included a two-page document Visiting Scholar; Carolyn Brown, U.S. civil rights movement. This collection materials in many different of the Library of Congress. One of the researchers or research teams. These Distinguished Visiting Scholar; Tim with Parks’ instructions to participants formats in various divisions. They courageous act and her continued center’s major initiatives is the Veterans included four teams selected to receive Eastman, Distinguished Visiting in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in presented a display of rare and unique participation in the struggle earned History Project, which was established the Archie Green Fellowships, which Scholar; and Sreten Ugricic, 1955; Parks’ date book from 1955 items at the end of their tenure. The her the moniker “Mother of the Civil by Congress in 2000 to preserve are designed to stimulate innovative Distinguished Visiting Scholar. listing drivers for the boycott; and a focus of the program is on increasing Rights Movement.” the memories and artifacts of the research projects documenting flyer for Parks’ speaking engagement access to the Library’s collections and National Ambassador for Young nation’s war veterans. The center also occupational culture in contemporary The collection comprises at Sharp Street Methodist Church in raising awareness of the Library’s digital People’s Literature. Two-time administers the StoryCorps Collection America; two recipients of the Gerald 1956. They joined an image of Parks’ preservation programs by making them Newbery Award-winner Kate approximately 1,500 items including and the Civil Rights History Project E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund being fingerprinted following her arrest better-known and accessible to Members DiCamillo served the second year personal correspondence and (see page 15). for Ethnography Fellowships, which and copy of her arrest record that were of Congress and researchers, including of her two-year term as National photographs, autobiographical provides grants that enable people already on display. loc.gov/folklife/ scholars, students, teachers and the Ambassador for Young People’s notes, letters from presidents, her from the public sector to work with general public. The 2015 program was Literature. She continued to focus Presidential Medal of Freedom and A larger assemblage of items from the primary ethnographic materials, Publications made possible through the generosity on her platform, “Stories Connect Congressional Gold Medal, additional Rosa Parks Collection was on view housed anywhere at the Library of Each year, the Library publishes books, of the late Mrs. Jefferson Patterson Us.” The National Ambassador honors and awards, clothing and in a special display case during the Congress, available to those in the calendars and other printed products and the Knowledge Navigators Trust position was created in 2008 to raise furniture, and 200 drawings by month of March. A school group from private sector; and two recipients featuring its vast content. Library Fund with additional support provided awareness of the importance of schoolchildren and hundreds of Rosa Parks Middle School in Maryland of the Blanton Owen Fund, which publications in print can be purchased by The Pew Charitable Trusts. A young people’s literature as it relates greeting cards from individuals viewed the display, which included supports folklife fieldwork. in bookstores nationwide and from lead gift from H. F. (Gerry) Lenfest, to lifelong literacy, education and the thanking her for her inspirational role a photograph of Parks attending the the Library Shop. Among the titles chair of the Library’s James Madison development and betterment of the Copyright Office Special Programs. in the civil rights movement. school’s dedication in 1998. published in 2015 were companion Council private-sector advisory group, lives of young people. The U.S. Copyright Office welcomed volumes to Library exhibitions on established the Knowledge Navigators new fellows under the Abraham L. the Magna Carta and the Armenian Trust Fund with major support National Digital Stewardship Residency. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence printed book, and books that feature provided by members of the council. The National Digital Stewardship Program and the Barbara A. Ringer the work of author and satirist Mark Residency (NDSR) is a Library Copyright Honors Program. The Twain and the cartographic discoveries John W. Kluge Center Scholars. interagency agreement with the Institute Kaminstein program brings leading of Meriwether Lewis and William Founded in 2000, the Kluge Center of Museum and Library Services academics with a demonstrated Clark. (See Appendix D, Publications.) attracts some of the world’s brightest to provide a unique opportunity for commitment to the study of minds to the Library of Congress, recent graduates to apply their digital loc.gov/publish/ copyright law and policy to the where they pursue humanities stewardship knowledge in a hands- loc.gov/shop/ Copyright Office to research and and social-science research. Kluge on environment and to help host work on mutually beneficial projects. fellowship recipients, all of whom have institutions with digital assets address Library-appointed Scholars The 2014–15 Kaminstein Scholar received terminal advanced degrees challenges related to digital stewardship. and Fellows analyzed empirical information and within the past seven years, spend On April 3, five members were named American Folklife Center. metadata related to public access to In fiscal 2015, four to 11 months at the John W. to the 2015 class. During their 12-month Students from Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney, Md., look at items from the Rosa Parks the American Folklife Center provided pre-1978 copyright records. Through Kluge Center in the Library’s Thomas tenure, which began in June, residents Collection, including a photo of Parks in front of their school. Photo by Shawn Miller fellowships to eight individual the Ringer program, developing Jefferson Building. worked on digital stewardship projects

34 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS PROMOTING CREATIVITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING 35 at hosting institutions, which included Swann Fellows. The Caroline and Teacher-in-Residence. The Library of and Literature Center at the Library Educational Outreach the U.S. Senate Historical Office, the Erwin Swann Foundation for Congress recruits educators to work of Congress. In collaboration with Administered by the Educational American Institute of Architects, the Caricature and Cartoon, administered with its Educational Outreach Team the Children’s Book Council (CBC) Outreach Team in the Office of National Library of Medicine, the D.C. by the Library of Congress, provides to help teachers and school librarians and the CBC Foundation, and with Strategic Initiatives, the Library’s Public Library, and the Government fellowships for research in the Library’s incorporate the Library’s digitized support from publishers, the center outreach to teachers focuses on Publishing Office. collections. In fiscal 2015, three primary sources into the classroom. sponsors the National Ambassador the use of primary sources in the doctoral candidates completed their Each Teacher-in-Residence undertakes for Young People’s Literature. classroom. Over the past two decades, Poet Laureate. Juan Felipe Herrera was tenures in residence: Andrew Benjamin a project to benefit his or her home The center also maintains and updates digital technology has allowed the appointed as the Library’s 21st Poet Bricker, a postdoctoral fellow in English school or district to be implemented the Library’s literacy-promotion Library of Congress to make many Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2015– at McGill University, investigated during the following academic year. website, Read.gov. of its collections accessible in K–12 2016. Born in California, Herrera is the a shift in satire in the second half Rebecca Newland, a school librarian classrooms in the United States and first Hispanic poet to hold the position. of the 18th century; Paul Hirsch, a in Virginia Beach City Public Schools, For the third year, the Center for around the world. Access to these He has written over a dozen poetry history instructor at the University of served a second term as the Library’s the Book administered the Library resources assists educators in meeting collections, including Half the World in California, Santa Barbara, examined 2014–2015 Teacher-in-Residence. of Congress Literacy Awards, an curriculum goals and creating lifelong initiative supported and originated by Light: New and Selected Poems (2008), which the dissemination of and impact made Newland continued to plan and deliver learners. The Teachers Page, the philanthropist David M. Rubenstein. received the National Book Critics by millions of American comic books professional development days in her Library’s web-based resource for Circle Award and the International and cartoon booklets from the early teachers, includes lesson plans that The Dust Bowl is the focus of one of the home school district. The awards recognize and support Latino Book Award. His project as 1940s to the mid-1950s; and Maureen meet curriculum standards. In fiscal Library’s new Student Discovery Sets for organizations and institutions in the laureate is La Casa de Colores, or “the Warren, a doctoral candidate in art Witter Bynner Fellowships. Poets Emily 2015, the site recorded nearly 5 Apple iPads. United States and abroad that have House of Colors,” which provides the history at Northwestern University, Fragos and Bobby C. Rogers received million visits. made significant contributions to public with an opportunity to contribute analyzed works of art about domestic the 2015 Witter Bynner poetry Through its Teaching with Primary combating illiteracy. (see page 40). The Educational Outreach Team to an epic poem, with new themes political disputes in the Northern fellowships, which confer a $10,000 Sources Program (TPS) the Library is worked with Web Services to expand the announced each month. Netherlands during the 17th century. award. The poets read from their works providing educators with methods and During the year, the center reprised Interactive Student Discovery Series for at the Library on March 26. materials that build student literacy its national signature project— Letters Apple iPads, which can be downloaded About Literature—which inspires skills, content knowledge and critical- loc.gov/hr/employment/ free of charge on iBooks. Six new thinking abilities. During the year, young people to write about how books Library of Congress Student Discovery through workshops, conferences and have changed their lives (see page 43). Sets were added to the Teachers Page in webinars, the TPS program served PROMOTING LIFELONG fiscal 2015, bringing the total to 12. The The Young Readers Center in the more than 22,000 teachers in 392 LEARNING series brings together historical artifacts Thomas Jefferson Building continued congressional districts. Many of these In additional to its fellowships, research and one-of-a-kind documents on a wide to grow in popularity, with new received instruction through the TPS services and collections access, the range of topics, from history to science programs and activities for children Consortium, composed of the Library’s Library of Congress promotes lifelong to literature. that attracted nearly 30,000 visitors learning and literacy through its Center 28 partner institutions across the country. during the year. for the Book and K–12 educational The Library offered an array of From print journals to social media, professional development opportunities outreach efforts, which assist the The Poetry and Literature Center, the Library sought to connect with for the nation’s teachers. These nation’s teachers in engaging students which fosters and enhances the public’s educators around the nation. The included five Summer Teacher through the use of primary resources in appreciation of literature, is the home of Educational Outreach Team hosted Institutes held at the Library in July the classroom. the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. 28 webinars for educators and reached and August 2015. Participants in Charles Wright, the Library’s Poet more than 10,000 followers on its Center for the Book the summer program totaled 135 Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2014– @TeachingLC, a Twitter feed for K–12 The Library’s Center for the Book was educators from 33 states, representing 2015, presided over the literary season, educators, offering primary sources, established by Congress in 1977 to 105 congressional districts. The which featured many distinguished poets inspiration and ideas. The team also “stimulate public interest in books and program reprised its Civil Rights and writers reading from their works. published 124 posts on its Teaching with reading.” A public-private partnership, Institute in conjunction with the the Library of Congress blog, to showcase the center sponsors educational Library’s exhibition on the Civil Rights The Center for the Book once again the Library’s collections and strategies programs that reach readers of all Act of 1964. A special focus was managed the authors’ program for the for using them in the classroom, and ages through its affiliated state centers, given to the Rosa Parks Collection, National Book Festival (see page 32). to encourage readers to share their collaborations with nonprofit reading purchased and put on loan to the teaching strategies. Read.gov Young Readers Center Director Karen Jaffe shows students a special braille copy promotion partners and through the Library of Congress with support from of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. Photo by Shawn Miller Young Readers Center and Poetry loc.gov/poetry/ the Howard G. Buffet Foundation. loc.gov/teachers/

36 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS PROMOTING CREATIVITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND LIFELONG LEARNING 37 Gershwin Prize winner Billy Joel joins the performers on stage at a concert celebrating his achievements at DAR Constitution Hall on Nov. 19, 2014. Photo by Shawn Miller

Celebrating Achievement

Throughout the year, the Library of John W. Kluge Prize. Jürgen Habermas Congress celebrates the achievements and Charles Taylor, two of the world’s of the nation’s creative and scholarly most important philosophers, received communities. The Library also the Library’s John W. Kluge Prize for recognizes the accomplishments of its Achievement in the Study of Humanity staff members. at a ceremony held Sept. 29 in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Building. Habermas and Taylor, the PRIZES AND AWARDS ninth and 10th recipients of the award, The Library of Congress sponsors will share $1.5 million. Ordinarily the privately endowed programs that prize carries a $1 million award, but honor achievement in the humanities. in 2015 the Kluge Prize was increased Through these awards and prizes, the to $1.5 million in recognition of the world’s greatest repository of human Kluge Center’s 15th anniversary. creativity honors those who have Library of Congress Prize for American advanced and embodied the ideals of Fiction. Louise Erdrich received the individuality, conviction, dedication, Library of Congress Prize for American scholarship and lifelong learning. Some Fiction during the 2015 Library of of these awards are open to students in Congress National Book Festival on grades four through 12. Sept. 5. The prize honors an American loc.gov/about/awards-and-honors/ literary writer whose body of work is

CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT 39 distinguished not only for its mastery of of time and to encourage new groups, or the most distinguished book of the art but for its originality of thought organizations and individuals to become poetry published in the preceding and imagination. Erdrich is the author involved. Recipients of the 2015 awards two years. Awarded at the Library of of such critically acclaimed novels are First Book, winning the David M. Congress, the Bobbitt Prize is a biennial as Love Medicine, The Last Report on the Rubenstein Prize ($150,000); United $10,000 award donated by the family Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Through Reading, winning the American of Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt of Austin, Doves and The Round House. Prize ($50,000); and Beanstalk, winning Texas, in her memory. the International Prize ($50,000). Literacy Awards. Created and sponsored A Book That Shaped Me Summer by philanthropist David M. Bobbitt Prize. The 2014 Rebekah Writing Contest. The Library’s “A Book Rubenstein, the Library of Congress Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for That Shaped Me” Summer Writing Literacy Awards seek to reward those Poetry was awarded to Patricia Smith Contest, part of the Library’s National organizations that have been doing on April 6 for her book Shoulda Been Jimi Book Festival, asks rising fifth- and exemplary, innovative and easily Savannah. The prize is awarded for an sixth-graders to reflect on a book that replicable work over a sustained period American poet’s lifetime achievements, has made a personal impact on their

GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG

The Library of Congress recognized Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate President the 50-year career of singer-songwriter Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Billy Joel with his selection as the 2014 House Administration Committee Director of National and International Outreach Jane McAuliffe introduces the 2015 Kluge Prize winners, Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor recipient of the Library’s Gershwin chairman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) on Sept. 29, 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller Prize for Popular Song. The Gershwin and Joint Committee on the Library Prize honors a living musical artist’s Chairman Gregg Harper (R-Miss) lifetime achievement in promoting the joined Joel onstage for the award lives. Launched in 2012 with the D.C. Third Place Grand Prize and was recognized for its leadership role genre of song as a vehicle of cultural ceremony. Moderated by actor Kevin Public Library, the contest expanded Maryland State Winner in delivering flexible, innovative and understanding; entertaining and informing Spacey, the event, which concluded to include public libraries in Maryland, Maria Lemma, Enoch Pratt Free Library, relevant programs and services to audiences; and inspiring new generations. with a performance by Joel, was taped Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and who wrote about Homesick by Jean Fritz support, build and sustain a constant The award commemorates George and by WETA Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. Local libraries offered state of Army readiness. Ira Gershwin, the legendary American FEDLINK Awards. FEDLINK serves broadcast on PBS stations nationwide The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song medal the contest as part of their summer songwriters whose extensive manuscript federal libraries and information Small Library/Information on Jan. 2, 2015. reading programs. More than 200 collections reside in the Library. Association of America. He has had 33 centers as their purchasing, training Center—Darnall Medical Library, young readers submitted essays to Joel’s multiple Grammy wins include Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations. and resource-sharing consortium. Each Walter Reed National Military The Library honored Joel on Nov. Song of the Year (“Just the Way You Are,” In 1990, he was presented with a participating public libraries in the year, FEDLINK presents the winners Medical Center, Washington, D.C, 18 at a luncheon with Members of 1978), Record of the Year (“Just the Way Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Mid-Atlantic region. of its national awards for federal was recognized for dedicated library Congress. More than 600 Members You Are,” 1978), Album of the Year (52nd Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was librarianship, which recognize the leadership in support of quality patient First Place Grand Prize and of Congress, their spouses and staff Street, 1979), and back-to-back wins for presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, many innovative ways federal libraries, care and health education. Virginia State Winner attended an all-star tribute concert at Best Rock Vocal Performance (Male) for the organization’s highest honor, in 2001. librarians and library technicians Alexia De Costa, Arlington Public DAR Constitution Hall the following two of his 13 multi-platinum albums, 52nd In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock fulfill the information demands of Federal Librarian of the Year— Library, who wrote about Rules by evening, which featured performances Street and Glass Houses in 1979 and and Roll Hall of Fame and has received the government, business, scholars and the R. James King, Branch Chief and Cynthia Lord. by Tony Bennett, Boyz II Men, Gavin 1980, respectively. Recording Industry Association of America public. The winners were announced Information Architect, National DeGraw, Josh Groban, Natalie Maines, Diamond Award, presented for albums that on May 5, 2015, at the Library of Institutes of Health Library, Second Place Grand Prize and John Mellencamp and LeAnn Rimes. Joel is the sixth top-selling artist of all time have sold more than 10 million copies. In Congress. They included the following: Bethesda, Maryland; Pennsylvania State Winner House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the third top-selling solo artist of all 2013, he was among those receiving the Allison Templeton, Bucks County (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Nancy time, according to the Recording Industry 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Large Library/Information Federal Library Technician of Free Library, who wrote about the Center—Barr Memorial Library, Fort the Year—Maria Walls, Library Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Knox U.S. Army Garrison, Kentucky, Technician, U.S. Department of Justice,

40 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT 41 runners-up were chosen from each of the “Louise Erdrich is an American original, a writer whose three competition levels: Level 1 (grades four–six), Level 2 (grades seven and eight) work rings with authenticity.” and Level 3 (grades nine and 10).

—Robert Newlen, Chief of Staff The following are the national winners in the three competition levels:

Level 1—Gerel Sanzhikov of New Washington, D.C, was recognized for sponsored by the Elizabeth Ridgway Junior Division: Rishab Bhatt, Jersey wrote to Wendelin Van Draanen, her unique ability to blend technology Fund, which was established in memory from Grover Middle School author of The Running Dream. with librarianship to lead and of the former director of Education (New Jersey) won for his documentary, Level 2—Gabriel Ferris of Maine implement information solutions. Prince Henry the Navigator: A Pioneer’s Outreach at the Library. The $1,000 wrote to Walter Isaacson, author of prizes are awarded in the junior division Legacy of Cartography and Exploration. History Prizes. The Library of Congress Steve Jobs. (grades 6–8) and the senior division “Discovery or Exploration in History Senior Division: Mead Andrew Level 3—Aidan Kingwell of Illinois Prize” was awarded as part of National (grades 9–12) of the National History Krowka from Hendersonville High wrote to Mary Oliver about her poem History Day on the campus of the Day competition for an outstanding School (North Carolina) won for his When Death Comes. University of Maryland at College project in any category on American or performance, “By Endurance We Park on June 16, 2015. The prize is international discovery or exploration. Conquer: The Leadership and Legacy Read.gov/letters/ of Sir Ernest Shackleton.” Living Legend Award. The Library of Chief of Staff Robert Newlen awards Louise Erdrich the 2015 Library of Congress Prize for Leicester B. Holland Prize. The Holland Congress Living Legend Award honors American Fiction at the 2015 National Book Festival on Sept. 5, 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller Prize recognizes the best single-sheet, those who have made significant measured drawing of a historic building, contributions to America’s diverse site or structure prepared to the standards cultural, scientific and social heritage. of the Historic American Buildings First presented in 2000, during the Survey, Historic American Engineering Library’s bicentennial celebration, Record or the Historic American the award has been given to artists, Landscapes Survey. Administered by the writers, filmmakers, physicians, Heritage Documentation Programs of entertainers, sports figures, public the National Park Service, the $1,000 servants and musicians who have Patricia Smith, the 2014 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winner, reads her prize was announced jointly by the enriched the nation through their Library of Congress and National Park poetry in the Main Reading Room during the Library’s 2015 Presidents Day open house. professional accomplishments and Photo by Shawn Miller Service in January. Fort Worth architect personal excellence. In fiscal 2015, the Paul M. Dennehy received the prize award was presented to Glenn Jones, for his drawing of the Broadview Park a pioneer in cable television and in Ann Arbor, Michigan District Library The Library raised $487,000 in 2014, Pavilion in Fort Worth, Texas. dissemination of knowledge through received the Network Subregional exceeding its goal by $62,000. digital networks, and musician Marta Library of the Year Award, which also Letters About Literature. More than Casals Istomin. carries a $1,000 prize. Levon Avdoyan, the Armenian and 50,000 young readers from across the Georgian specialist in the African country participated in the 2014–2015 Network Library of the Year. The and Middle Eastern Division, was Letters About Literature competition, Michigan Braille and Talking Book LIBRARY STAFF informed by the Foreign Ministry of sponsored by the Library’s Center for the Library in Lansing, Michigan, received RECOGNITION the Republic of Armenia that the Book. Open to students in grades four the Network Library of the Year Award. The Library of Congress received the president of Armenia had issued a through 12, the competition challenged The award, which carries a $1,000 cash Summit Award from the Combined proclamation awarding him the Medal young people to write letters to their prize, is given by the National Library Federal Campaign for its performance of Movses Khorenatsi. This medal is favorite authors explaining how their Service for the Blind and Physically last year in the annual charitable- awarded in recognition of outstanding works changed their lives. The top letters Handicapped in the Library of giving drive. The award is given to achievements in the areas of culture, in each competition level for each state Congress. The Washtenaw Library for agencies that post a 3 percent increase art, literature, education, social were chosen. Then, national winners and the Blind and Physically Disabled at the in dollars raised over the previous year. sciences and sports.

42 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT 43 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington (center) and Deputy Librarian of Congress David Mao (top row, third from left) pose with graduates and instructors of the Library’s Career Development Program. Photo by Shawn Miller

Georgette Dorn, chief of the Association that provides a voice the 2014 recipient of the David H. Hispanic Division, was elected to full within the association for federal and Partington Award, given annually by the membership of the North American military libraries. Middle East Librarians Association for Academy of the Spanish Language. accomplishments in the field of Middle Talia Guzmán-González, Hispanic East librarianship and scholarship. Jeanne Drewes, chief of the Binding Division reference librarian, received and Collections Care Division, the SALALM (Seminar on the C. Ford Peatross, the founding director of received the 2015 Paul Banks and Acquisition of Latin American the Center for Architecture, Design and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award Library Materials) Attendance Engineering at the Library of Congress, for outstanding contributions to Scholarship Award, and she also received the President’s Award from received the Harold T. Prinkett the field of preservation of library The National Building Museum for his Minority Award from the Society for materials. The award is given outstanding contributions to the museum. each year by the Preservation American Archivists. and Reformatting Section of the Karen Spar, a specialist in domestic Pamela J. Jackson, deputy assistant The James Madison Memorial Building is one of three Library of Congress buildings on Capitol Hill. Photo by Shawn Miller Association for Library Collections social policy and division research director for the Government and & Technical Services (ALCTS), a coordinator in the Congressional Finance Division of the Congressional division of the American Library Research Service was selected as a John Research Service received the CRS Association. Drewes also received the C. Stennis congressional staff fellow Director’s Award. The award is Federal and Armed Forces Libraries for the 114th Congress. Established presented annually to recognize Round Table’s 2014 Achievement in 1993, the Stennis fellows program excellence in serving Congress. Award in recognition of her work is a competitive, bipartisan, bicameral Barbara Tenenbaum was informed by in the promotion of library and leadership development opportunity for Organizational Reports information services in the federal senior-level congressional staff. the new Ambassador of Mexico that community. The Federal and Armed she will receive the “Aguila Azteca” Forces Libraries Round Table is Christopher Murphy, the Library’s (Aztec Eagle), the highest civilian a unit of the American Libraries Near East area specialist, was named award granted to foreigners.

44 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS 45 ORGANIZATION CHART As of September 30, 2015

EC Members of the Executive Committee of the Library of Congress. EC The Librarian of Congress 1 The Library of Congress Inspector General Act of 2005 (PL 109-55), effective August 2, 2005, requires that the Inspector General shall report to, and be under the general supervision of the Librarian of Congress. 2 The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Act of 2004 (PL 108-419), effective May 31, 2005, replaced the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel system with the Copyright Royalty Judges, who are appointed by the 1 Office of the Inspector General Librarian of Congress. Copyright Royalty Judges2 3 The General Counsel serves as counsel to the Executive Committee.

Deputy Librarian of Congress EC

Congressional Research Service U.S. Copyright Office Office of the Librarian Law Library Library Services Office of Strategic Initiatives Office of Support Operations

Office of the Director EC Office of the Register of Office of the Law Librarian EC Office of the Associate Librarian Office of the Associate Librarian Office of the Chief of Office of Administrative Copyrights and Director of the for Library Services EC for Strategic Initiatives and Support Operations EC EC Operations Copyright Office Congressional Relations Office Chief Information Officer EC Development Office Editorial Administrative Services Human Resources Services Digital Initiatives OfficeAccounting of the OperationsChief Financial Office OfficeGlobal of Legal the Deputy Research Law Librarian American Folklife Center Workforce Acquisitions Review Office Officer Directorate Veterans History Project Web Services Office of the Deputy Director Office of the General Counsel Budget Office Workforce Management Communications Office Affairs Foreign Comparative and Repository Management Disbursing Office Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Worklife Services Programs Office Office of Policy and International International Law Division I Integration Management Financial Reports Office Foreign Comparative and Conservation Human Resources Operations Procedures International Law Division II Digital Resource Management and Financial Systems Office Collections and Services Workforce Performance and Registration Policy and Planning Office Literary Division Strategic Planning Office Public Services Division Directorate Development American Law Division Global Legal Collection Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Performing Arts Division Digital Conversion Team Integrated Support Services Domestic Social Policy Division Directorate Division Visual Arts Division National Digital Information Facility Services Collection Services Division General Collections and Services Teaching With Primary Sources Office of Communications Infrastructure and Preservation Management Stacks Services Division African and Middle Eastern Division Health Services Asian Division Program (NDIIPP) OfficeContracts of Contracts Office and Grants Digital Resources Division Logistics Services Government and Finance Division Office of Public Information and Collections Access, Loan and Office Systems Services Division Grants Management Office Management Division Education Office of the Director Safety Services Resources, Science and Industry Repositories 3 Relations European Division Information Technology Services Office of Public Records and Office of Legislative and External Federal Research Division Resources Management Space Utilization Planning and Design Administrative Services Office Office of the General Counsel Hispanic Division IT Security Knowledge Services Group Programs Director Office of the Chief of Operations Humanities and Social Sciences Division Technology Assessment Copyright Acquisitions Division Office of Special Events and Public Office of Administrative Operations Office of the Counselor to the Science, Technology and Business Information and Records Division Research and Development (R&D) Inclusiveness and Compliance Division Administration Licensing Division R&D Digital and Web Initiatives OfficeAnalysis of Opportunity, and Compliance Office of Finance and R&D Infrastructure Receipt, Analysis and Control Special Collections and Services Counseling, Mediation and R&D CRS Information and Publishing Division Geography and Map Division Complaints R&D Copyright Office of Congressional Manuscript Division Inclusiveness Motion Picture, Broadcasting and R&D Library Services / Law Library Recorded Sound Division R&D Database Administration Office of Information Management OfficeCopyright of the Technology Chief Information Office Music Division Operations Preparedness and Technology and Development Officer Partnerships and Outreach Preservation Directorate Prints and Photographs Division Enterprise Systems Engineering OfficePersonnel of Security Security and Emergency Rare Book and Special Collections Office of Workforce Management Programs Directorate Binding and Collections Care Technical Facilities and Services Emergency Preparedness Division Division Multimedia Center for the Book Serial and Government Publications Protective Services End User Computing Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate Federal Library and Information Conservation Division Division Acquisitions Fiscal and Support Office Overseas Operations Division Network (FEDLINK) Preservation Reformatting Division African, Latin American and Western Policy and Standards Division Interpretive Programs Office Preservation Research and Testing European Division U.S. / Anglo Division National Library Service for the Blind Division Collection Development Office Asian and Middle Eastern Division U.S. Arts, Sciences & Humanities and Physically Handicapped Cooperative and Instructional Division Office of Business Enterprises Automation Planning and Liaison Programs Division U.S. Law & Literature Division Office of Scholarly Programs TechnologyOffice Policy Directorate Germanic and Slavic Division Programs Publishing Office Integrated Library System Program Visitor Services Office Office Network Development and MARC Standards Office

46 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 47 Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research DOMESTIC POLICY ISSUES responsible for tracking appropriations. security, and reliability; proposals to Service (CRS) serves Congress by CRS supported Congress as it Analysts interpreted changes in reform federal wildfire suppression providing comprehensive and reliable considered key domestic issues such congressional rules and regulations and spending; and the proposal by the U.S. legislative research and analysis that as Medicare, Medicaid, and the explained complex legislative practices. Army Corps of Engineers and the is timely, objective, authoritative and Children’s Health Insurance Program; Attorneys briefed Congress on the Environmental Protection Agency to confidential throughout all stages of reauthorization of the Elementary congressional investigative and oversight define “waters of the United States.” the legislative process. and Secondary Education Act; and function and kept Members of analysis of the Ebola outbreak abroad Congress updated on the implications In fiscal 2015, CRS continued to and control of the disease at home. of Supreme Court decisions. FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES provide substantive analytic support Experts provided support as lawmakers The Iran Nuclear Agreement, for domestic and foreign policy addressed the U.S. budget, federal debt, CRS assisted Congress as it addressed the refugee crisis in Syria, and issues on the legislative agenda. the deficit and tax reform, and gave surface-transportation legislation the activities of the Islamic State Management developed initiatives legal advice on executive discretion authorizing federal highway and generated requests for assessments to optimize workflow, streamline regarding immigration reform. CRS public transportation programs; of major challenges to U.S. global operations and services and revised its appropriations status table to comprehensive energy legislation, interests, as did the situations in enhance efficiency. improve service to congressional staff including electric-grid modernization, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Egypt and other sub-Saharan African countries. CRS experts advised Congress on trade- related issues such as the U.S. Trade Promotion Authority, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

and the reauthorization of the U.S. Congressional Research Service Director Mary Mazanec speaks during the CRS Staff Export-Import Bank. CRS supported Appreciation Day on June 10, 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller Congress as lawmakers addressed the challenges of U.S.-China relations. Working with others in the Library, environment has changed, how to Experts kept Congress apprised on CRS identified and assessed options organize for greater efficiency and international law, on foreign affairs for updating the existing CRS system how to improve the CRS product line, process and on reforms for the for authoring and publishing (A&P) workforce and technology. Department of Defense. written products for Congress. Goals are to forge a coalition of CRS formed a policy working group to review all existing policies and MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES relevant stakeholders; develop shared understandings of business needs, guidelines and ensure consistency with CRS worked with other Library technical options, and vocabulary; and Library of Congress regulations and service units to support and enhance review trends and lessons learned by relevancy to CRS staff, both in terms Congress.gov—the next-generation other organizations in order to build an of the work CRS does for Congress legislative information system. improved, next-generation A&P tool. and the professional responsibilities of Accomplishments included addition CRS staff. The working group initiated of treaties, executive reports, and As part of the strategic planning effort, a process of drafting policy statements senate executive communications to the CRS director hosted all-hands on CRS core values—objectivity, the Congress.gov collections; and meetings and brown-bag lunch sessions authoritativeness, timeliness, improvements to the Congress.gov with employees to begin a dialogue on nonpartisanship, and confidentiality— user experience, advanced search, the future of CRS. Feedback included as well as amending and updating Kristy N. Kamarck, analyst in military manpower, and Ian E. Rinehart, analyst in Asian affairs, confer on a report. Photo by Jerry S. Almonte browse, portal and display pages. comments on how the congressional existing policies and guidelines.

48 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 49 U.S. Copyright Office

The U.S. Copyright Office administers In January, the office published a reflect the realities of the digital and subject matter, the index is meant of the copyright law. Section certain major provisions of the United major report about copyright-related environment and 21st-century as a starting point for those wishing to 1201 provides that, upon the States copyright law and provides expert documents that are submitted to business expectations. The report better understand how the federal courts recommendation of the Register and impartial advice about copyright the office for public recordation, arose from a multiyear analysis have applied the fair use doctrine. of Copyrights, the Librarian of law and policy to Congress, federal such as assignments, transfers, of the information technology Congress may designate certain agencies, the courts, and the public. licenses, terminations of grants and platforms that support the office’s In fiscal 2015, the Copyright Office classes of works as exempt from the other records reflecting copyright services, including its registration and registered more than 443,000 prohibition against circumventing Under the direction of Register of copyright claims, of which 94 ownership. The office’s 2013–14 recordation functions. technological measures that control Copyrights Maria A. Pallante, the percent were filed online, and it Kaminstein Scholar in Residence access to copyrighted works. Copyright Office achieved important prepared the report. Stanford Law The office launched on its website the recorded thousands of copyright milestones in fiscal 2015. In School, the Copyright Office’s first U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Index, transfer documents. In addition, the In fiscal 2015, the Copyright Office December 2014, the office published academic research partner, also designed to provide the public with office processed hundreds of notices recognized the 225th anniversary of the official version of the Compendium contributed. The report will inform searchable summaries of important terminating transfers of copyrights federal copyright law On May 31, 1790, of U.S. Copyright Office Practices. The the office’s ongoing project to fair use decisions by courts. The made in the 1970s, most of which President George Washington signed new edition is the first comprehensive introduce online filing and processing index was undertaken to support the pertain to musical works. “An Act for the Encouragement of revision in three decades of the of documents. 2013 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Learning,” which acknowledged the Internationally, the Register of Compendium, which serves as the Property Enforcement, prepared by the value of copyright to advancing the office’s administrative manual The office published a second report U.S. intellectual property enforcement Copyrights and other senior members nation’s cultural and economic progress. regarding its statutory duties under in February recommending upgrades coordinator within the executive office of the Copyright Office staff worked the Copyright Act. to its technological capabilities to of the president. Searchable by court with executive branch agencies on copyright.gov copyright law and policy affecting other countries and participated in international conferences and negotiations. These included matters related to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the Trans- Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Within the Copyright Office, the Register expanded her leadership team. In fiscal 2015, she appointed a deputy general counsel, a deputy director of policy and international affairs, a deputy director for registration policy and practice, a senior adviser to the Register and a technology director.

The Copyright Office invited three rounds of public comments and held public hearings in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles in relation to the sixth triennial rulemaking Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante testifies before Congress on April 29, 2015. The Copyright Office hosts a program for World Intellectual Property Day on April 28, 2015.Photo by David Rice proceeding under section 1201 Photo by David Rice

50 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 51 Office of the Librarian

The Office of the Librarian provides The Office of the Librarian also has The Office of the General Counsel valued at $203.4 million to support of Congress National Book Festival. leadership to the Library, including oversight for guiding such initiatives as provided legal counsel to Library Library programs, initiatives, James Madison Council Chairman and congressional relations, financial the World Digital Library website (see management regarding Library technology infrastructure, facility National Book Festival Co-Chairman and legal services, planning and page 25). initiatives, collections and operations; projects, and collections management. David M. Rubenstein, AARP, Wells performance management, fundraising, reviewed Library contracts and In all, 141 grants, awards and Fargo, the Washington Post, the contracting, communications and event In fiscal 2015, the Office of the agreements; served as the Library fellowships totaling $9.6 million Institute of Museum and Library planning. It performs these functions Librarian continued to lead the ethics and privacy office; supported were made for a variety of scholarly Services and a number of additional through its offices of Congressional Library-wide effort to update and the Library’s legislative and regulatory purposes, including $5.3 million in supporters donated more than $2.6 Relations; the Chief Financial Officer; implement the organization’s Strategic activities; and represented the Library in grants to 29 universities and other million in cash and in-kind gifts to the General Counsel; Development; Plan (2011–2016) and to lay the negotiations, disputes and litigation. educational institutions for the support the festival. Contracts and Grants Management; foundation for a new Strategic Plan Teaching with Primary Source (TPS) Communications; and Special Events (2016–2020), which was finalized on During the year, the Library program. The Library also distributed The James Madison Council—the and Public Programs. Sept. 30, 2015. completed 2,133 contracting actions 60 fellowships and awards totaling Library’s private-sector advisory $3.1 million. group—continued to provide substantial support for Library initiatives, including The Contracts Office worked with literacy programs, fellowships, symposia FEDLINK, an organizational unit and the World Digital Library. Gifts in Library Services, to maximize the from members totaled $2.75 million. The January/February 2015 issue of buying power of federal agencies. These contributions helped the the Library of Congress Magazine. Cover design by Ashley Jones. Approximately 500 federal offices Library acquire a number of special transferred funds to FEDLINK and items, including letters from two contracted for goods and services valued iconic American composers, Leonard at $81.7 million during fiscal 2015. Bernstein and George Gershwin; two Federal customers also placed $106.5 original design drawings for murals in million in direct express orders against the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building the FEDLINK contracts, bringing the by distinguished American artist Elihu total to $188.2 million. Vedder; and a unique 1864 illustrated map of Andersonville Prison. During fiscal 2015, the Library’s development activities brought in a total The Library coordinated more than of $7.52 million, representing 866 gifts 330 public and private events during from 579 donors. Those gifts, including the year. Library events and initiatives $3.1 million in cash gifts, $3.03 million were publicized on the Library’s in new pledges, $999,580 in in-kind gifts, website and through its social media and $398,336 received through planned platforms. The Library’s weekly in- gifts, were made to 63 Library initiatives. house newsletter, The Gazette, kept staff The Library forged partnerships with members informed about Library-wide 229 first-time donors, who gave a total developments. Available in print and of $1,443,535. online, the bimonthly Library of Congress Magazine promoted use of the Library’s Private gifts supported new and resources and services for both onsite continuing initiatives throughout and online patrons. the Library, including exhibitions, acquisitions, and other scholarly loc.gov/about/mission.html David Rubenstein meets with children from the Letters About Literature and A Book That Shaped Me contests at the programs, such as the 15th Library loc.gov/lcm/ Library’s 2015 National Book Festival. Photo by Shawn Miller

52 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 53 Library Services

Library Services performs the held by the Library Services service and managing the secure storage exhibitions, publications, tours, retail traditional functions of a national unit and the Law Library of of more than 162 million items in services, and public programs that library: acquisitions, cataloging, Congress; to catalog physical and the Library’s collections; physically present the Library’s rich resources reference services and preservation for digital resources in all languages; to serving requested collections and in engaging ways. Scholars and the traditional and digital collections. train Library of Congress staff and currently providing onsite as well researchers make fuller use of colleagues in the library community; as offsite reference/information the Library’s collections through The offices that make up Library to spearhead a wide range of services through 17 research centers fellowships and research programs Services are organized within five standards and leadership initiatives and collection access points on in the John W. Kluge Center. The directorates: Acquisitions and in cataloging and acquisitions and to Capitol Hill and via the Internet; directorate also supports the Library’s Bibliographic Access; Collections lead cooperative programs that greatly and coordinating collections-based goal of providing leadership and and Services; Partnerships and enhanced other libraries’ services digitization projects to increase public services to the library and information Outreach Programs; Preservation; to patrons. The directorate also led access to high-research-value Library community. The programs of the and Technology Policy. The the library community in developing materials. More than 3.5 million Center for the Book, the National Packard Campus for Audio-Visual BIBFRAME, a new bibliographic digital files were created from analog Library Service for the Blind and Conservation, the American Folklife framework that will make libraries’ items housed in the Collections and Physically Handicapped and the Center (including the Veterans catalog data intelligible to the Services custodial divisions. History Project), and the Collection semantic web. Federal Library and Information Development Office also report to As part of the Library’s space- Network reach targeted constituencies Library Services. Major activities of the Collections management program, the Collections through partnerships with other and Services Directorate during the and Services Directorate manages libraries and information services The Acquisitions and Bibliographic past year included developing the collections storage on the Library’s organizations around the country. Access Directorate continued to Library’s collections in all languages, Capitol Hill campus, at the state- acquire materials for all collections subject areas and formats; organizing of-the-art high-density storage The Preservation Directorate modules at Fort Meade, Maryland, continued to assess and treat at the annex in Landover, Maryland, collections using technologies, Julie Biggs, senior paper conservator, examines pages of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural and at the National Archives and practices, and procedures that Address under a binocular microscope. Photo by Shawn Miller Records Administration’s storage site are known to reduce risks to these in Valmeyer, Illinois. The Library’s resources and assisted in building Packard Campus for Audio-Visual and monitoring storage and display The Technology Policy Directorate ILSPO continued to improve services Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia, environments that protect collections comprises the Automation Planning to patrons and staff members. consolidates, develops, preserves from accelerated deterioration. In and Liaison Office (APLO) and the Working with staff throughout the and provides broad public access to addition, the Preservation Directorate Integrated Library System Program Library, ILSPO increased use of a comprehensive collection of the sought to better understand and Office (ILSPO). In fiscal 2015, APLO the Patron Services RSS feed to world’s audiovisual heritage of moving reduce risks to the Library’s continued to provide technical support notify patrons of changes in reading images and recorded sounds. for Library Services, including the collections through preservation room hours of service, availability 300 staff members who telecommute The Partnerships and Outreach research that explored those factors of collections and discovery systems or work at remote locations. APLO Programs Directorate presents the posing risks to collections and tested and training opportunities. To Library’s collections to new and possible ways of mitigating or implemented the Overseas Field Office accommodate the growing number broader audiences, contributes to eliminating those risks. During the Replacement Systems (OFORS) in of patrons using mobile technologies scholarship and research through year the Preservation Directorate the remaining four of six overseas to access the online catalog, ILSPO onsite activities and provides a visitor addressed the preservation needs of offices. APLO also revised the Library staff collaborated with the Library’s experience that inspires learning. more than 9 million collection items Services continuity of operations plan Web Services staff to implement a Stereograph collector Robin G. Stanford discusses Civil War-era images from her collection Visitors learn about the Library’s to ensure their availability to current (COOP), which now serves as a model “responsive design” interface that could recently acquired by the Library. Photo by Shawn Miller work and collections through and future generations. for the Library’s other service units. adapt to a variety of devices.

54 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 55 Office of Strategic Initiatives

The Office of Strategic Initiatives website and worked with content website through internal scanning people and the nation’s lawmakers. (OSI) directs the Library’s digital owners throughout the Library to operations, contracted services and As part of this effort, the Library’s strategic planning efforts, integrates improve the delivery of hundreds of collaborations with outside partners. Web Archiving Team continued to the delivery of digital content and thousands of digital items to end users. In fiscal 2015, 8.6 million new digital provide project management and information technology services Highlights of the year included three files were added, bringing the total to technical support for 39 active web and oversees the Library’s national major releases of Congress.gov 60.9 million, including 6.6 million files archive collections. In fiscal 2015, program for digital content that added new features and content from the National Digital Newspaper the team archived 179 terabytes of preservation. Through its Educational (see page 17) and improvements to Program. Using repository software, web content (1.6 million documents), Outreach Office, OSI educates the Library’s National Book Festival OSI staff added 608 terabytes of bringing the total to 763 terabytes students and teachers about the use website A new book festival mobile content to the Library’s digital (10.8 billion documents) in the of digitized primary sources in the app allowed attendees to plan their collection, for a total of more than 2.6 Library’s web archive collections. classroom (see page 37). OSI also visit, track event schedules and access petabytes of digital collections under Information Technology Services supports major Library initiatives author biographies. Web Services also Library management. (ITS) supports the technology such as the World Digital Library, continued to manage the technical needs of the Library of Congress the National Digital Newspaper and policy aspect of the Library’s The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation and its external customers and Program and the Library’s National growing use of various social media maintains a reliable, secure and high- Program (NDIIPP) was mandated Book Festival. platoforms to deliver both content and performance data communications by Congress in 2000 to develop a communications (see page 26). and information processing Participants in the Summer Teacher Institute tour the Library’s Civil Rights Act of 1964 exhibition. During the year, OSI’s Web Services nationwide strategy to collection and Photo by Shawn Miller infrastructure. In collaboration with division provided operational and OSI continued to add high-quality preserve high-risk digital materials the Office of Security and Emergency strategical support for the Library’s digital content to the Library’s of high value to the American Preparedness, ITS works to ensure the migration of the Library’s financial the group implemented a new tool continuity of operation at an Alternate management system (Momentum) to capable of monitoring wired and Computing Facility in the event of a the cloud, improvements in Copyright data Wi-Fi networks on the same pandemic or other emergency. During Office operations and the geospatial platform. It managed the replacement the year, the ITS Security Group was hosting environment. of obsolete (end-of-life) data Wi-Fi involved in assessing a governance, equipment in the Library’s public and risk and compliance system to better The ITS End User Computing administrative offices and it replaced manage the Library’s continuous Group migrated the majority of end-of -life network switches in all monitoring activities. the Library’s users to the current version of Internet Explorer and Library buildings including remote The ITS Multimedia Group’s Video upgraded the software distribution sites. This effort resulted in enhancing Production Section produced more and management platform to the Library’s end user network access than 400 programs and post-produced the latest version available. The capability from 100 to 1,000 megabytes 175 National Book Festival videos and group developed a new electronic (1 gigabyte). The primary ISP made them accessible on the Library’s format tool to expedite customer bandwidth capacity was increased from website and YouTube channel. The support requests and conducted a 600 megabytes to 1 gigabyte, which group’s Digital Scan Section produced comprehensive physical inventory resulted in a quicker response time for 130,000 high-quality digital images of of all Library IT assets for import accessing Library information online. items in the Library’s collections that into the Library’s asset management can now be accessed online. database of record. The Technology Assessment Group The ITS Research and Development The Technical and Facilities Services continued to support users with Groups enhanced and upgraded several Group continued to improve disabilities in compliance with Allison Druin of the University of Maryland Division of Research leads a workshop for the National Digital Stewardship Residency students. applications during the year, including telecommunications through a Section 508 of the Americans with Photo by Shawn Miller three releases of Congress.gov, variety of efforts. During the year, Disabilities Act.

56 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 57 Law Library Office of Support Operations

The Law Library provides Congress these reports are available to the public The Office of Support Operations program enhancement. The Library spaces and Library infrastructure. ISS with comprehensive research on foreign on the Law Library’s website. provides oversight and direction to four was recognized as the first federal agency also initiated projects to enhance storage and comparative law, and reference diverse, interdependent infrastructure to develop and implement a phased capacity and preservation in existing services on U.S. legal and legislative In addition to Congress, the Law Library programs that support the Library’s retirement program. space through the use of high-density and information. It maintains extensive and prepared 1,407 research or reference mission and strategic initiatives: the environmentally superior storage systems. The Office of Opportunity, Inclusiveness unparalleled collections in U.S., foreign reports to executive and judicial branch Office of Security and Emergency and Compliance supports the Library’s and international law to serve the many agencies, the U.S. bar, and members of Preparedness; Human Resources On June 15, 2015, the Office of the commitment to fairness and inclusion needs of Congress. The Law Library the public around the world. Services; the Office of Opportunity, Chief Operating Officer was established by providing educational forums for also serves U.S. federal courts and Inclusiveness and Compliance; and under an organizational realignment, employees and training for Library executive branch agencies, and offers The Law Library answered Integrated Support Services. effective Oct. 1, 2015. The office will managers, ensuring the timely resolution reference services to the public. approximately 4,590 congressional oversee the Library’s institution-wide inquiries and served 25,056 patrons The Office of Security and Emergency of complaints, facilitating reasonable support structure, including its Human accommodations and provided In fiscal 2015, the Law Library prepared in its reading room, on the phone Preparedness focused on strengthening Resources Services, Integrated Support interpreting services across the Library. 869 legal research reports, special or electronically. Its Public Services protective services, personnel security Services, Office of Contracts and Grants In fiscal 2015, the office sponsored 29 studies and memoranda in response Division answered a total of 3,488 and emergency preparedness programs. Management, Office of Security and events that promoted disability awareness to inquiries from Congress. Foreign inquiries through Ask a Librarian, the Collections security was also enhanced Emergency Preparedness, Office of the and cultural diversity; conducted law specialists provided Members through expansion of the Site Assistance Chief Financial Officer and Office of the Library’s virtual reference service. several conflict resolution courses for of Congress with reports related to Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Visit Program, which partnered physical Chief Information Officer. In fiscal 2015, Breyer speaks during a symposium on Magna Library managers and union stewards; The Law Library continued to expand security with preservation elements. the office evaluated the needs of the new many pressing U.S. legislative issues, Carta on Dec. 9, 2014. Photo by Shawn Miller and accommodated 950 requests for including regulations concerning its use of social networking. Twitter The office also implemented additional organization, including funding, creating access controls and electronic security interpreting services. defense procurements, assisted suicide, followers increased to 45,544, and a blog, In Custodia Legis, published 228 or updating of position descriptions, measures for the Library’s highest-level taxation of citizens living abroad, child second Twitter account, focused on posts and recorded 283,827 page views. Integrated Support Services (ISS) identifying and outfitting office space collections and financial assets. Lastly, labor in family agriculture, family and Congress.gov, numbered 22,565 continued to deliver print management and completing an array of other the office continued to upgrade its medical leave, impact of United Nations followers. The Law Library had 26,916 The Global Legal Monitor, a continually services, conduct safety training sessions administrative functions. The office also emergency communications systems, General Assembly and Security Council Facebook friends and continued to offer updated online publication covering and promote staff wellness and employee reviewed its mission requirements, with including mass alert notifications, mobile resolutions on domestic legislation, RSS feeds and e-mail alerts in order to legal news and developments assistance programs. While continuing an emphasis on information technology radio equipment and the emergency decentralization of power in Ukraine, notify subscribers about the availability worldwide, received 1,886,649 page its multi-year Facility Asset Management and collection storage. The Library’s public address system. and late term abortion laws. Many of of selected resources. The Law Library’s views for the year. The Guide to Law Enterprise system, ISS completed 67 Operations Committee, chaired by the Online, an annotated portal of Internet facility projects that improved collections Chief Operating Officer, also assisted in Human Resources Services continued sources of interest to legal researchers, storage, the work environment, public identifying mission-critical issues. to direct and guide the Human Capital had 749,998 page views. Planning Board, an agency-wide committee composed of senior managers Both resources are accessible on the from each service unit, designated by Law Library’s website. and reporting to the Library’s Executive After nearly three years of planning Committee. The Planning Board leads and preparation, the newly renovated the Library’s efforts to improve its Law Library reading room opened workforce and ensure alignment with to the public on Sept. 3. Located the agency’s strategic goals. In fiscal on the second floor of the Library’s 2015, the Planning Board focused James Madison Building, the bright, on performance management for senior-level employees, hiring process welcoming space is a 21st-century legal improvements and flexibilities, strategic research facility. Deputy Librarian of Congress and Acting Law Librarian David Mao (center) officiates at the grand succession management including Travis Painter (front left), program manager for Interpreting Services, leads a brown bag lunch re-opening of the Law Library Reading Room on Sept. 23, 2015. Photo by Shawn Miller loc.gov/law phased retirement, and telework workshop as Eric Eldritch interprets. Photo by Shawn Miller

58 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 59 Office of the Inspector General Copyright Royalty Board

The Office of the Inspector General leadership role in the 21st century. The Copyright Royalty Board (OIG), an independent office in the The audit plan also called for the administers the royalty provisions of Library of Congress, serves agency Audit Division to accomplish its the Copyright Act. The act requires management, the Congress and the statutory requirement to contract copyright owners to license their American taxpayer. Authorized under for, and oversee, the annual audit of television and music programming for the Library of Congress Inspector the Library’s financial statements. retransmission by cable and satellite, General Act of 2005, the OIG serves The Library received an unqualified and requires cable and satellite these constituencies through its efforts to (“clean”) audit on its fiscal year 2014 system operators to deposit with the prevent and identify fraud, waste, abuse consolidated financial statements. Copyright Office royalties for the and mismanagement at the Library. distant retransmission of those works The Audit Division completed an to their subscribers. The Act also Fiscal 2015 was a watershed year audit of an IT security contractor’s requires artists, copyright owners, and during which the OIG produced billings that subsequently identified recording and distribution companies internal changes in its audit planning significant questioned costs. to license certain digital transmissions strategies and focused on the Library’s In addressing the Library’s IT of their sound recordings, including top management challenges. The infrastructure, OIG produced Inspector General also initiated greater performance audits addressing transmissions by Internet and satellite Office of the Inspector General and more frequent interactions with weaknesses in the Library’s system radio stations. The three Copyright Semiannual Report, March 2015. Library senior management to leverage development life-cycle practices and Royalty Judges who comprise the board OIG efforts to advise and assist Library in the design of its system of internal issue determinations regarding royalty rates, terms and distributions relating management in accomplishing its controls for its IT investments. Also, The Copyright Royalty Board holds a hearing. Photo by David Rice strategic goals. Further, as part of the the Audit Division produced a report to these statutory licenses. Inspector General’s strategic vision, he focusing on the challenges and policy In fiscal 2015, licensees remitted established more frequent and ongoing decisions the Library must address in During the year, the judges commenced witnesses. The judges will render their approximately $314 million in consultations with key congressional its collection of born digital collections six new proceedings, reopened one determination in December 2015. television retransmission and other committees to more proactively fulfill (for eDeposit and eCollections). proceeding and held three hearings. royalties. The judges approved OIG’s duties to the Congress. OIG cited the need for critical The judges referred three novel The D.C. Circuit affirmed the judges’ distributions of approximately $378 policy decisions and infrastructure questions of law to the Register of decision on remand in Webcasting The Inspector General initiated million from 22 different royalty funds. development by the Library if it is Copyrights and initiated two projects III rate determination as well as their fiscal 2015 audit activities with the The judges finalized five matters, to restore its role as a leader for born to improve workflow efficiency (digital decision regarding 2000-2003 cable development of the 2015–2016 three of which were proceedings digital strategies. Other performance submissions to the Federal Register and and satellite royalty distributions audit risk analysis and proposed by stipulation or adjudication audits addressed collections and non- electronic filing). to certain program suppliers. The audit plan. Within the framework of and published five agreed partial- collections security at the Library’s D.C. Circuit remanded for further the audit plan, the Audit Division distribution notices for comment. Landover Center Annex. In April, the judges commenced a proceedings the judges’ decision concentrated its efforts on the top The judges also published final six-week hearing to receive evidence regarding distribution of royalties to management challenges of collections The Investigation Division handled rates and terms for two statutory regarding royalty rates for Internet devotional programming claimant storage, information technology a variety of allegations of misuse of licenses, proposed rates and terms for transmission of sound recordings and referred the 1999 cable royalty (IT) infrastructure, building Library property, improper employee one statutory license, cost-of-living (webcasting). The judges received distribution appeal to mediation. digital collections, performance conduct, and other threats to Library adjustments for three established rates, more than 3,500 exhibits and admitted management, and contracting. Much operations. With additional cases and five notices of intent to audit. written and oral testimony from 53 loc.gov/crb/ of OIG’s audit emphasis during the remaining open at the beginning of the fiscal year was on assisting Library fiscal year, the Investigation Division management in its efforts to manage closed 28 criminal and civil cases along data, thereby retaining the Library’s with 20 administrative cases.

60 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS 61 On May 18, 2015, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced a plan for realignment of certain Library programs and operations to better support the institutional vision described in the institution’s 2016–2020 Strategic Plan. Both plans were to be effective on Oct. 1, 2015.

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64 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDICES 65 Phillip L. and Cheryl Milstein Raymond W. Smith Toyin Falola APPENDIX A. Library of Congress Advisory Bodies New York, New York McLean, Virginia Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities Martha Hamilton Morris Paul G. Stern at the University of Texas at Austin JAMES MADISON James F. and Janet Dicke Leo J. Hindery Jr. Villanova, Pennsylvania Potomac, Maryland COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP New Bremen, Ohio New York, New York Philip W. Gold David M. Rubenstein, Chairman The Honorable Thomas G. and Roger A. Strauch Chief of Neuroendocrine Research Washington, D.C. Consuelo Duroc-Danner Glenn R. Jones* and Dianne Eddolls Elizabeth Moukawsher Berkeley, California National Institutes of Mental Health Houston, Texas Centennial, Colorado Groton, Connecticut H. F. (Gerry) Lenfest, Chairman Emeritus Michael S. and Jean Strunsky W. Roger Louis Marguerite Lenfest Jeannine English Jerral W. and Gene Jones Nancy A. Nasher and San Francisco, California Kerr Chair of English History West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. Dallas, Texas David J. Haemisegger and Culture at the University of Dallas, Texas George and Julie Tobolowsky Marjorie Fisher Furman and James V. Kimsey Texas, Austin Edwin L. Cox, Chairman Emeritus Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Roy Furman Washington, D.C. Donald E. Newhouse Margaret MacMillan Birmingham, Michigan New York, New York Charles T. Wegner, IV and Jay I. and Jean Kislak Warden of St. Antony’s College John W. Kluge*, Founding Tara Wegner Marjorie S. Fisher Miami, Florida at the University of Oxford Chairman Emeritus Julie C. Opperman West Chicago, Illinois Palm Beach, Florida New York, New York Los Angeles, California Thomas J. and Linda Knox Mark A. Noll The Honorable J. Richard Fredericks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Francis A. McAnaney Professor Leonard L. Silverstein, Treasurer Emeritus Sarah and Ross Perot Jr. THE KLUGE CENTER San Francisco, California of History at the University of Washington, D.C. Dallas, Texas SCHOLARS COUNCIL David H. Koch The Scholars Council is a body of Notre Dame John K. Garvey New York, New York James Earl and Cecilia Jones, Honorary Caren H. Prothro distinguished scholars, convened by Wichita, Kansas John Rogers Searle Pawling, New York Dallas, Texas the Librarian of Congress to advise Susan Carmel Lehrman Willis S. and Marion Slusser on matters related to scholarship at William B. and Inger Ginsberg Chevy Chase, Maryland Professor of the Philosophy of David and Rosalee McCullough, Audre N. Rapoport the Library with special attention to New York, New York Mind and Language at the Honorary Waco, Texas the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. Boston, Massachusetts Ira A. Lipman University of California, Berkeley Thomas V. and Erika Girardi New York, New York Members of the Scholars Council are Lady Susie Sainsbury appointed by the Librarian of Congress Ruth S. Altshuler Los Angeles, California William Julius Wilson London, England under a separate charter appended to Dallas, Texas Lillian P. Lovelace Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser Nancy Glanville Jewell Santa Barbara, California the Kluge Center’s charter. Emilia A. Saint-Amand University Professor Norma K. Asnes Houston, Texas at Harvard University New York, New York Marie Arana New York, New York Cary M. Maguire Misty and Lewis Gruber Dallas, Texas Writer-at-large for The Washington Post B. Francis Saul II John Witte Jr. Roger S. and Julie Baskes Chicago, Illinois Director of the Center for the Bethesda, Maryland Manuel Castells Chicago, Illinois Katherine B. Martin Study of Law and Religion Wallis Annenberg Chair in Barbara Guggenheim and Leawood, Kansas at Emory University Walter Scott Jr. Communication Technology Geoffrey T. and Rene Boisi Bertram H. Fields Omaha, Nebraska and Society at the Annenberg School New York, New York Malibu, California John J. Medveckis Gordon S. Wood Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Communication L. Dennis and Susan Shapiro Alva O. Way University Professor Beverly L. and Lyman Hamilton University of Southern California, Richard H. Brown and Mary Jo Otsea Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and Professor of History Emeritus Katy and Ken Menges New York, New York Avon, Connecticut Los Angeles at Brown University Dallas, Texas Raja W. Sidawi Jeffrey B. Hawkins António Rosa Damásio Buffy M. Cafritz New York, New York Pauline Yu Edward S. Miller Bethesda, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts David Dornsife Professor of President of the American Council Washington, D.C. Albert H. Small Neuroscience at the University of of Learned Societies John S. Hendricks Norma Dana Bethesda, Maryland Southern California, Los Angeles New York, New York Silver Spring, Maryland Lucile Swift Miller Richmond, Virginia Frederick W. Smith Roger Hertog Nancy M. Dedman Memphis, Tennessee Dallas, Texas New York, New York

66 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS *Deceased APPENDIX A. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ADVISORY BODIES 67 WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY Katrina Miller AMERICAN FOLKLIFE Donald Scott NATIONAL FILM National Society of Film Critics EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Florida State University College of CENTER BOARD Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.) PRESERVATION BOARD Member: David Kehr Ismail Serageldin, Chair Law Research Center OF TRUSTEES Former Deputy Librarian Academy of Motion Picture Arts Alternate: David Sterritt Director Tallahassee, Florida Congressional Appointees of Congress and Sciences Bibliotheca Alexandrina C. Kurt Dewhurst, Chair Henderson, Nevada Member: Sid Ganis Screen Actors Guild-American Michael S. Neuren Director Emeritus Alternate: Martha Coolidge Federation of Television and Wei Dawei Administrative Office of the Courts Michigan State University Museum Ex Officio Radio Artists Deputy Director of Georgia East Lansing, Michigan James H. Billington Alliance of Motion Picture and Member: Richard Masur National Library of China Atlanta, Georgia Librarian of Congress Television Producers Alternate: Valerie Yaros Patricia A. Atkinson Washington, D.C. Member: Carol Lombardini Claudia Lux Phyllis Pickett Folklife Program Coordinator Alternate: Tracy Cahill Society for Cinema and Media Studies Project Director North Carolina General Assembly Nevada Arts Council Anne K. Rasmussen Member: Matthew Bernstein Qatar National Library Raleigh, North Carolina Carson City, Nevada Society for Ethnomusicology American Film Institute Alternate: Jennifer Horne Washington, D.C. Member: John Ptak Barbara Schneider-Kemp Michelle Wu Jean M. Dorton Alternate: Cecilia DeMille Presley Society of Composers and Lyricists General Director Georgetown University Law Center Community and Legislative Liaison G. Wayne Clough Member: Alan Bergman Berlin State Library Washington, D.C. Big Sandy Community and Secretary American Society of Alternate: Ray Colcord Technical College Smithsonian Institution Cinematographers and International Renato Andrade Lessa Harry Truman (H.T.) Moore, Prestonsburg, Kentucky Washington, D.C. Cinematographers Guild United States Members of the President ABA Board of Governors Member: Caleb Deschanel International Federation of Brazilian National Goodwin Moore PLLC Joanna Hess Michael Ann Williams Alternate: John Bailey Film Archives Library Foundation Paragould, Arkansas Founder President Member: Susan Oxtoby Indigenous Language Institute American Folklore Society Association of Moving Image Archivists Alternate: Rajendra Roy Law Library of Congress Staff Ex Officio Santa Fe, New Mexico Bloomington, Indiana Member: Tom Regal James H. Billington David S. Mao Alternate: Wendy Shay University Film and Video Association Librarian of Congress Deputy Librarian of Congress Presidential Appointees Jane Chu Member: Ben Levin Acting Law Librarian of Congress Susan Hildreth Chairman Department of Film, Television and Alternate: Simon Tarr President National Endowment for the Arts Digital Media AMERICAN BAR Robert Newlen Institute of Museum and Washington, D.C. of the School of Theater, Film Writers Guild of America ASSOCIATION STANDING Chief of Staff Library Services and Television at the University of East Member: Howard Rodman COMMITTEE ON THE LAW Washington, D.C. William D. Adams California, Los Angeles West Alternate: Richard Wesley LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Don Simon Chairman Member: Bob Rosen M. Elizabeth Medaglia, Chair Assistant Law Librarian for At-Large Librarian’s Appointees National Endowment for Alternate: Jan-Christopher Horak U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Operations Maribel Alvarez the Humanities Member: Grover Crisp Washington, D.C. Professor of English Washington, D.C. Department of Film and Television of Alternate: Vacant American Bar Association Staff University of Arizona the Tisch School of the Arts at New Tedson J. Meyers, Special Adviser Elissa Lichtenstein Member: Hanay Geiogamah Tucson, Arizona Betsy Peterson York University Fairhope, Alabama Acting Director Alternate: Schawn Belston Director Member: Antonia Lant Bob Edwards American Folklife Center Lillian Gaskin Ken Goldsmith Alternate: Dan Streible Sirius XM Radio Library of Congress Member: Alfre Woodard The Federal Administrative Law Legislative Counsel Alternate: Caroline Frick Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. 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68 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX A. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ADVISORY BODIES 69 NATIONAL RECORDING National Archives and NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION BOARD Records Administration PRESERVATION APPENDIX B. Selected Acquisitions American Federation of Musicians Member: Daniel Rooney FOUNDATION BOARD Member: Billy Linneman Alternate: Tom Nastick Charter Members The African and Middle Eastern Russian occupation in 2014. A Library A.G. Greenfield. The Law Library also Alternate: vacant Division purchased Tahrir al-Majisti, a staff member obtained a copy of acquired Year Books of Edward V to Henry Recording Industry Association T-Bone Burnett rare manuscript of the commentary the Orthodox Liturgy in Albanian VIII, a group of separately printed American Folklore Society of America Musician and Producer by the Muslim medieval philosopher and four other languages, including yearbooks covering the years 1483 Member: Burt Feintuch Member: David Hughes and scientist Nasir al-Din al-Tusi English—the first Albanian liturgy in through 1535. This completes the Law Alternate: Timothy Lloyd Alternate: Patrick Kraus Bruce Lundvall on Ptolemy’s Almagest. The division the Library’s collection. Following the Library’s preeminent collection of the Former President and CEO Emeritus also purchased a rare collection of terrorist attack on the offices of the earliest printed records of the decisions American Musicological Society SESAC of Blue Note Label Group vintage postcards, photographs, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of medieval English judges. Member: Judy Tsou Member: Shannan Hatch and cartographic materials of sub- in January, the Library purchased the Alternate: Patrick Warfield Alternate: Justin Levenson George Massenburg Saharan Africa from a vendor in magazine’s backfile in microfilm and The Manuscript Division received Producer, Engineer and Educator Turkey. The division received a gift of obtained a subscription for current and the first installment of the papers of Madeleine Korbel Albright, the first American Society of Composers, Society for Ethnomusicology approximately 600 CDs and DVDs of future issues. Ricky Minor Authors and Publishers Member: Jonathan Kertzer Persian films. woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of Member: Loretta Mu̘ñoz Alternate: Alan Burdette Bandleader The Geography and Map Division State (1997–2001), who will donate Alternate: Vacant The Asian Division purchased the initiated an effort to acquire the all her papers, with the exception of Davia Nelson Songwriters Hall of Fame Dragon Tripitaka, a reproduction of technical and personal papers of papers from her undergraduate years Radio Producer and member of Association for Recorded Member: Linda Moran a rare manuscript edition of the leading cartographers and geographers at Wellesley College. The division also Alternate: Robbin Ahrold NPR’s Kitchen Sisters Sound Collections Tibetan canonical texts known as involved in the earliest development received the gift of approximately Member: David Seubert Kanjur. The original was hand- of geographic information systems 44,000 letters from the files of Harvard At-Large Jonathan Poneman Alternate: Bill Klinger copied in 1669, during the K’ang-hsi (GIS) and computer cartography. This biologist, naturalist, scholar and author Member: Michael Feinstein Co-Founder reign (1661–1722), Qing Dynasty, effort began with the acquisition of the Edward O. Wilson. Audio Engineering Society Alternate: Vacant Sub Pop Records and preserved in the National Palace archives of Nicholas Chrisman, who Member: George Massenburg The Motion Picture, Broadcasting, Museum. Only 210 sets of the worked at the Harvard Laboratory Alternate: Elizabeth Cohen Member: Sandy Pearlman Bob Santelli and Recorded Sound Division reproduction were published. There for Computer Graphics, and Roger Alternate: Christopher Sterling Executive Director, Grammy Museum acquired recordings from the are no other known holdings in the Tomlinson (1933–2014), considered the Broadcast Music, Incorporated pioneering folk music label Stinson Member: Brenda Nelson-Strauss John L. Simson U.S. The division received the gift father of modern GIS. The division Member: Michael O’Neill Records, featuring Woody Guthrie, Alternate: William Ivey Former Executive Director, of Kun qu bai zhong, da shi shuo xi (the also received the donated Archive Alternate: Charles Feldman Pete Seeger, Josh White, Lead Belly, SoundExchange performing art of Kun qu: Masters’ of the Association of American Mary Lou Williams, the band Sonora Country Music Foundation Member: Bob Santelli lectures on 109 episodes). Kunqu is Geographers, the oldest professional Member: Kyle Young Alternate: Vacant Jack White one of China’s traditional operatic geographers’ organization in the Alternate: Alan Stoker Musician, Producer forms. The division also acquired United States, 1904 to the present. Member: Eric Schwartz Adan mun’go migonggae charyo ch’ongsŏ: Ex Officio Digital Media Association Alternate: John Simson yosong chapchi, a collection of South The Hispanic Division purchased James H. Billington Member: Lee Knife Korean women’s magazines originally from CIRMA Fototeca (a photography Librarian of Congress Alternate: Gregory Alan Barnes published between 1910 and 1950. workshop in Guatemala) A Japanese Photographer in Guatemala, a portfolio of Kenneth Silverman Music Business Association The European Division acquired 12 positive photographs on Ilford fiber- Of Counsel Member: Jim DOnio ephemera from Ukraine’s 2004 based paper produced from rare and Alternate: vacant presidential campaign and 2014 Foundation Staff original glass negatives. The portfolio parliamentary elections. It also will reside in the Prints and Photographs Music Library Association Gerald Seligman acquired 30 books published in the Division and greatly enhance the Member: James Farrington Executive Director territory of the Russian Federation Library’s Guatemalan collections. Alternate: Philip Vandermeer and banned in Ukraine. The division also obtained a subscription to The Law Library acquired a Jewish National Academy of Recording Arts Vedomosti Gosudarstvennogo Soveta communal register from Moravia (now and Sciences Respubliki Krym, the official publication the Czech Republic) and approximately Member: Dana Tomarken A view of the World Trade Center construction of the State Council of the Republic 120 translations of Hebrew-language Alternate: Maureen Droney in 1970 is the backdrop for homelessness. of Crimea that was created under Israeli law into English, published by Camilo Vergara, Prints and Photographs Division

70 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX B. SELECTED ACQUISITIONS 71 APPENDIX C. Exhibitions

Library of Congress exhibitions can be viewed online at loc.gov/exhibits/.

NEW AND EXTENDED EXHIBITIONS Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Nov. 6, 2014–Jan. 19, 2015 A Long Struggle for Freedom This exhibition commemorates Sept. 10, 2014–Jan. 2, 2016 (extended) the 800th anniversary of the To celebrate the creation of Magna Carta, 50th anniversary the charter of liberties that of the Civil Rights England’s King John granted Act of 1964, to his barons in 1215 in order this exhibition to halt their rebellion and restore their allegiance to his highlights the legal throne. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the Lincoln and legislative struggles and victories leading to the Cathedral Magna Carta—one of only four surviving copies passage of this landmark legislation that outlawed of the original. While in its time Magna Carta secured only discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex the rights of a privileged class of the king’s subjects, this or national origin. The exhibition sheds light on exhibition traces the story of how this medieval charter, individuals—both prominent leaders and private through centuries of interpretation and controversy, became President Lincoln’s casket passes through a crowd on Philadelphia’s Broad Street. Robin G. Stanford Collection, Prints and Photographs Division citizens—who participated in the decades-long an enduring symbol of liberty and the rule of law. Organized campaign for equality. The more than 200 items, by the Library of Congress in partnership with Lincoln including correspondence and documents from Cathedral—Bringing Magna Carta to the USA—the Matancera and many others. The of composer, pianist and conductor The Rare Book and Special Collections civil rights leaders and organizations, photographs, exhibition was made possible by support from The Federalist division also acquired the Mitchell Marvin Hamlisch. Division acquired the 400-item newspapers, legal briefs, drawings and posters, Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and 1st Financial Kotlowitz Collection of more than collection of novelist Christopher are drawn primarily from the NAACP Records in Bank USA, as well as other generous donors. The exhibition The Prints and Photographs Division 200 soundtrack albums for films Isherwood and the gift of an 800- the Library’s Manuscript Division and its Prints also was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council acquired 540 Civil War stereographs produced from the 1930s through the item collection of novelist Edward and Photographs Division. Audiovisual stations on the Arts and the Humanities. from the Robin G. Stanford 1980s. The division also received a Gorey. For the Library’s collection throughout the gallery feature 77 clips showing Collection, including rare images of collection of 19 two-sided cassettes of movable books, the division dramatic events such as protests, sit-ins, boycotts Grand Illusion: The Art of Theatrical Design President Lincoln’s funeral procession of interviews with jazz artist Charles acquired Lothar Meggendorfer’s Im and other public actions against segregation and Feb. 12, 2015–July 25, 2015 through several cities. The division From the Baroque courts Mingus and his associates, conducted Stadtpark, ein Bilderbuch zum Aufstellen discrimination. The exhibition also features two also acquired the photographic of Europe to the Broadway by John Goodman for his book Mingus mit ausgeschnittenen Figuren, 2nd ed., ca. videos co-produced with HISTORY®. On March archive of Camilo José Vergara, who 1890. The two-sided printed pages stages of the United States, Speaks. The division acquired nearly 7, 50 new items were added to the exhibition, has documented America’s post- are punched out like theater scenery Grand Illusion offers a 2,000 nitrate and safety 35mm prints including several from the recently acquired Rosa industrial cities for the past 40 years. and can be set up into six different glimpse into the theatrical from the estate of Alois Dettlaff, Parks Collection. This exhibition was made possible The division purchased a Photochrom configurations. The division received, design collections amassed including the only surviving print by a grant from Newman’s Own Foundation, with collection of 365 views of Europe, as a gift made possible by the GHR ® over decades at the Library of Congress, which document of the 1910 version of Frankenstein additional support from HISTORY . Africa and Asia that augments its Foundation to mark the historic the world of the stage over centuries. The exhibit draws from produced by the Edison Company and collection of color images created address of Pope Francis to Congress, collections that document virtually all genres of theater: other early classic films. for sale to tourists and other travelers one of only 12 copies of the Apostles ballet, modern dance, opera, musical theater, comedy, in the 1890s and early 1900s. The Edition of the Saint John’s Bible, an dramatic theater and the variety stage. In recent years, The Music Division received 56 division received a complete set illuminated manuscript produced work in film design has been added to the strengths of the CDs of Slovenian choral music on of 60 World War I Liberty Bond by the monks of Saint John’s Abbey collections. Among the designs on exhibition are finished exchange from the National Library publicity posters given to the Library and University. renderings, works in progress, technical drawings, as well as of Slovenia. It purchased autograph by the family of Seymour Parker designers’ research materials supporting the development of manuscripts of Stravinsky’s “Berceuses Gilbert and the gift of 18 original The Serial and Government the look, feel and movement of a production. Other items du chat” and “Probaoutki” and Lockwood Dennis prints, woodblocks Publications Division purchased the on view are from correspondence and documents circulated holograph manuscripts by George and developmental/creative process Connecticut Journal, 1773–1777, and rare among designers and their collaborators that demonstrate and Ira Gershwin. The division also archival materials by this famous issues of several other 17th- and 18th- the centrality of the scenery, costumes, and lighting in the received through donation the papers Pacific Northwest graphic artist. century newspapers. conception and success of a production.

72 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX C. EXHIBITIONS 73 Pointing Their Pens: Herblock and Fellow First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and The Apostles Edition of the Saint John’s Bible Thomas Jefferson’s Library Cartoonists Confront the Issues Early Moments in American Printing Sept. 26, 2015–Jan. 2, 2016 When Thomas Jefferson March 21, 2015–March 19, 2016 June 4, 2015–Jan. 2, 2016 Received as a gift from Saint sold his personal library The exhibition offers viewers an In 1640, less than two years after landing in John’s Abbey and University, the to Congress in 1815 to extensive opportunity to experience Massachusetts Bay, Stephen Daye printed Apostles Edition of The Saint replace volumes destroyed the work of Herbert L. Block The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated John’s Bible is a work of art with in a fire set by the British (1909–2001)—commonly known as into English Metre, known as the Bay Psalm more than 1,130 pages and 160 during the War of 1812, it Herblock—alongside the work of his Book, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the first book to be illuminations that reflect life in the was the largest private book collection in North America. contemporaries over the period of printed in what is now the United States. Spanning nearly modern era. Measuring 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide when open, In this reconstruction of Jefferson’s library, the books have four decades and provides visual insights into key moments 150 years, this exhibition follows the spread of printing in it is the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned been arranged in his modified version of the organizational that shaped the United States in the 20th century. Issues the earliest years of the republic. American printing, often by a monastery since the invention of the printing press, system created by British philosopher Francis Bacon on which the nation was particularly divided in the 20th rugged, immediate, and practical, took on a distinctive more than 500 years ago. The gift of this Apostles Edition, (1561–1626). Divided into categories of Memory, Reason century—the question of U.S. intervention prior to entering character and urgency. From sermons to pamphlets, made possible by GHR Foundation, was made in the and Imagination—which Jefferson translated to “History,” World War II, the Red Scare, the Cold War, the Vietnam newspapers, and broadsides, publications that gave shape to presence of Pope Francis, following his Sept. 26, 2015, “Philosophy” and “Fine Arts”—the collection dem-onstrates War, the Watergate scandal, and events in the Middle East— American causes and ideologies were distinctively products of address to a joint meeting of Congress. The Saint John’s the span of Jefferson’s multi-faceted interests, which continue were fertile ground for editorial cartoonists. Pointing Their Pens the new American press. Throughout the exhibition, some of Bible is an unprecedented combination of ancient methods to inform the Library’s collecting strategy. draws from the comprehensive collections of cartoon art the best exemplars of early American printing are on display. and materials, with themes, images and technology of the acquired by the Library of Congress since the early 1900s, The work of such printers as William Bradford, Benjamin 21st century. Saint John’s Abbey and University partnered Mapping a New Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the including the Herbert L. Block Collection and the Art Wood Franklin, John Dunlap, and Mary Katherine Goddard— with world-renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson, senior United States, 1784 Collection of Cartoon and Caricature. This exhibition was who memorialized major moments in American cultural scribe to Her Majesty the Queen’s Crown Office at the House On display in the Thomas made possible through the generous support of the Herb history, thought, and politics— carry the story forward. The of Lords in London, England, to create this masterpiece— Jefferson Building’s North Gallery, Block Foundation. exhibition was made possible by the generous support of one of 12 copies in existence. this exhibition showcases Abel David M. Rubenstein. Buell’s 1784 map of the United Out of the Ashes: A New Library for States—the first map of the newly Congress and the Nation Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS independent United States that was May 8, 2015–May 2016 Sprague Coolidge Exploring the Early Americas: compiled, printed and published This exhibition marks the 200th Aug. 13, 2015–Jan. 23, 2016 The Jay I. Kislak Collection in America by an American. Seven copies of the map anniversary of the acquisition of In 1925, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge This exhibition features are known to exist. Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein Thomas Jefferson’s 6,487-volume (1864–1953) established the selections from more than purchased this map and placed it at the Library so it can library. This acquisition was the Coolidge Foundation at the Library 3,000 rare maps, documents, be publicly displayed and, by digital technology, made foundation of the modern Library of Congress, an unprecedented paintings, prints and artifacts available for research purposes. A state-of-the-art display of Congress. The Jeffersonian concept of a universal gift that ensured her support for that comprise the Jay I. Kislak case was constructed by the Library in collaboration with library covering all subjects is the basis of the Library’s contemporary music would continue Collection at the Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to allow comprehensive collecting policies. Jefferson’s belief that for many generations. Coolidge’s passion was chamber music Congress. The exhibition offers insight into Native American the original to be on continuous public view. Also on display democracy depended on free access to knowledge eventually and to make chamber music available to all, she built at the cultures, the dramatic first encounters between Native are four early maps of North America by John Mitchell, Americans and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal ensured the availability of the Library’s rich collections not Library of Congress an intimate, finely tuned auditorium that Carington Bowles, Thomas Hutchins and William Faden, only to Congress, but also to this nation and the world. bears her name. This exhibition is made possible through the changes caused by the meeting of the American and European which were created from 1755 to 1778. A 1784 map of the generous support of the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trust for worlds. The Kislak exhibition features two extraordinary maps United States by William McMurray, which was published the benefit of the Library of Congress. by Martin Waldseemüller—a 1507 world map that uses the nine months after Buell’s map, completes the exhibition. word “America” for the first time, and a marine chart made in 1516 that depicts a European view of the world enlarged by the presence of the Western Hemisphere.

74 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX C. EXHIBITIONS 75 The Library of Congress Bible Collection Gershwin Gallery On display in the Great The Gershwin Gallery in the APPENDIX D. Publications Hall of the Library of Thomas Jefferson Building is Congress, the Giant Bible dedicated to displaying selected BOOKS Mark Twain’s CALENDARS of Mainz signifies the items from the Library’s Magna Carta: Muse America: A Golden Age Travel Posters end of the handwritten Gershwin Collection, the & Mentor, the Celebration From historic capitals book while the Gutenberg world’s preeminent resource companion book in Words and to exotic ports of call, Bible marks the beginning of the printed book and the for the documentary legacy of to the Library’s Images by Harry the 12 prints in this explosion of knowledge and creativity the use of movable George and Ira Gershwin. Rare objects from the Gershwin exhibition of Katz provides calendar comprise a type engendered. This exhibition explores the significance Collection, which is housed in the Library’s Music Division, the same title, readers with whirlwind world tour of the two 15th-century Bibles and, through interactive are periodically rotated into the continuing exhibition titled celebrates the a perspective from the glamorous presentations, examines the relationship among the Mainz Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin. Among 800th anniversary on the renowned author, political days of luxury travel. Bible and the Gutenberg Bible and 16 selected Bibles from the items to be seen in the exhibition are the Porgy and Bess of the great pundit, satirist and journalist who These vibrant posters, reproduced from the Library’s collections. printed vocal piano score used and annotated by Rosamond English charter of rights and liberties remains as relevant today as he was the extensive collections of the Library Johnson, who was in the original cast in 1935; rare snapshots that received King John’s seal in 1215. during his lifetime (1835–1910). The of Congress, inspire travel to faraway Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson of George Gershwin; and Ira Gershwin’s drafts of some of Essays by leading United States and book includes many reproductions lands, such as Australia, China, India, Building his most famous song lyrics. Visitors can experience the United Kingdom scholars examine of Twain-related artifacts from the Italy and Monaco. (In association with Thomas Jefferson Building’s Graphic Arts Galleries Magna Carta in history, popular Library’s collections. (In association Universe/Rizzoli) 19th-century architecture The Library’s three Graphic culture and the shaping of American with Little, Brown and Company) Movie Posters and its elaborately decorated Arts Galleries in the Thomas life and law. (In association with To Know Wisdom These 12 movie interior, embellished by Jefferson Building feature cartoon ThomsonReuters) and Instruction posters in calendar works of art by nearly 50 collections and offer visitors a rich Mapping the West by Levon format showcase American artists. sampling of caricatures, comic with Lewis and Avdoyan is the some of the finest strips, political drawings, artwork created for magazines and Clark by Ralph companion talents ever to grace Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment graphic novel illustrations. The Bob Hope Gallery of E. Ehrenberg publication the silver screen. American Entertainment The Herblock Gallery celebrates the work of editorial and Herman to the Each poster in this calendar celebrates features items from the cartoonist Herbert L. Block with an ongoing display of J. Viola Library’s 2012 exhibition marking a movie selected for inclusion in the Library’s Bob Hope 10 original drawings, selected from the Library’s extensive sheds new the quincentenary of Armenian National Film Registry of the Library Collection, objects from the Herbert L. Block Collection. Herblock Looks at 1965: Fifty Years light on the printing. Drawing from the Armenian of Congress. (In association with rich and varied collections Ago in Editorial Cartoons Part II opened on Sept. 26, 2015, and cartographic collections of the Library of Congress, Universe/Rizzoli) of various Library divisions remains on view through March 19, 2016. discoveries of these explorers. the eBook contains 75 color images and objects borrowed from the Bob Hope Archives, located Drawing from period maps in the highlighting the varieties of the Butterflies in Los Angeles. On display in the gallery, Hope for America: The Swann Gallery introduces visitors to the quality and Library’s Geography and Map Armenian literary tradition from These selected Performers, Politics and Pop Culture examines the interplay variety of the Library’s cartoon collections through a Division and other repositories, the manuscripts through contemporary prints from the Icones of politics and entertainment in American public life. permanent memorial exhibition featuring 15 facsimiles of book examines the critical role that publishing. (In association with the Insectorum Rariorum by An introductory video and interactive exhibit stations seminal cartoons. The diverse selection includes caricatures, maps played in Thomas Jefferson’s Armenian eBook Initiative) Carl Alexander Clerck that display film and television clips, along with sound political cartoons, comics, animation art, graphic novels and vision of a formidable republic are suitable for framing. recordings, enliven the gallery experience. illustrations that reflect the Library’s rich cartoon holdings. that would no longer be eclipsed by (In association with European empires. (In association Universe/Rizzoli) A third gallery offers a changing exhibition program that with Levenger Press) showcases the graphic arts collections in the Prints and Japanese Blossoms Photographs Division. Pointing Their Pens: Herblock and Fellow This miniature Cartoonists Confront the Issues opened in the Graphic Arts wall calendar Gallery on March 21, 2015 (see New Exhibitions). features prints from the David Murray Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. (In association with Pomegranate)

76 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX D. PUBLICATIONS 77 APPENDIX E. The Library in the News APPENDIX F. Statistical Tables

Throughout the year, the Library of Congress received extensive news Table 1. Library of Congress Appropriations coverage in major newspapers, Available for Obligation—Fiscal 20151 broadcasts and social media. These Library of Congress, Salaries and Expenses $419,357,000 stories—appearing locally, nationally Congressional Research Service 106,945,000 and internationally—garnered millions Copyright Office 54,303,000 of positive media impressions for the Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 50,248,000 institution during the year. Total $630,853,000

1 The Office of Communication The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act (Public Law 113-235), signed by the President on Dec. 16, 2014, provided an appropriation for the Library of $630.853 million, facilitated more than 100 broadcast including authority to spend up to $39.9 million in offsetting collections. The Library operated and video productions featuring the under three continuing resolutions from Oct. 1, 2014 until Dec.16, 2014. Library and its programs, collections Adrienne Cannon, a historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division, discusses items and staff. C-SPAN’s American History in the Rosa Parks collection with members of the media. Photo by Shawn Miller TV produced a series of interviews with John W. Kluge Center Fellows Table 2. Library of Congress Appropriations and a segment on Abraham Lincoln’s New York Times, USA Today, The New The announcements of the Library’s Continuing Resolution Base Funding—Fiscal 20161 second inaugural; CBS Sunday Morning Yorker, The Telegraph, the Associated additions to the National Film Library of Congress, Salaries and Expenses $418,472,996 highlighted the Library’s moving-image Press, McClatchy News Service, Registry and the National Recording collections; Voice of America produced a NPR, Agence France Presse and The Registry continue to resonate with the Congressional Research Service 106,719,560 segment on the 200th anniversary of the Washington Post, which did a double- press, increasing the visibility of the Copyright Office 54,188,529 Library’s acquisition of Thomas Jefferson truck feature on the exhibition. Library’s preservation efforts. Stories Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 50,142,077 Library; BuzzFeed News showcased featured positive comments by notable Total $629,523,162 the Library’s video game collection; The Library’s extensive sports-related recording artists and filmmakers in 1 The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2016 (Public Law 114-53), signed by the President on Sept. 30, 2015, provided funding for the Library through Dec. 11, 2015 at the fiscal 2015 level the National Library Service for the collections attracted media attention both the mainstream and social media. net a rate of operation decrease of 0.2108 percent. This includes authority to spend up to $39.8 Blind and Physically Handicapped was during the year. The discovery of a Other preservation-related coverage million in offsetting collections. the subject of Government Matters on rare film of the 1924 World Series included coverage by The New Yorker WJLA-TV and News Channel 8; and Game was covered by The Washington of the Library’s web archiving efforts; WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show profiled the Post, The New York Times, USA Today, a Newsweek report on the Library’s Congress.gov website. ESPN, NBC Sports, Time, Politico and preservation outreach to the many others. The Library collaborated Moscow Library; and features in The acquisition (on loan) of the Rosa with the Washington Nationals to The Washington Post and Wired Magazine Parks Collection was covered by The create a baseball display at the stadium about preservation work at the Washington Post, ABC’s This Week with that showcases facsimiles from the Library’s Packard Campus for George Stephanopoulos, The New York Times, Library’s collections. Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Audio-Visual Conservation. Press, Associated Press and NPR. The The presentation of the Library’s The Library’s National Book Festival Library’s acquisition of the Jerry Lewis Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to remained a popular story in mainstream Collection was covered by the Associated singer-songwriter Billy Joel resulted in and social media in the months Press, Associated Press Broadcast, The Los more than 1,000 stories in such outlets leading up the popular event. Face the Angeles Times and The New York Times. as Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Nation featured a panel of authors and The Library’s Magna Carta: Muse & York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, showcased the festival as one of the Mentor exhibition, which showcased ABC Radio and the Associated Press. nation’s premiere literary events. In the 1215 Lincoln Cathedral copy of USA Today gave the story a three-day other literary news, the announcement the historic document, drew major treatment—a Life section cover graphic of the nation’s first Hispanic Poet news coverage from around the world, on previous winners, a cover interview Laureate—Juan Felipe Herrera—was including The Wall Street Journal, The with Joel and a story about the concert. also enormously popular with the press.

78 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 79 Table 3. Financial Statistics: Summary Statement THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Condensed Statements of Net Costs (Unaudited) The independent firm of assets as of Sept. 30, 2015, and $673.0 million and $673.8 million for For the Fiscal Years Ended Sept. 30, 2015, and 2014 (Dollars in Thousands) CliftonLarsonAllen was retained by 2014 total $528.0 million, and fiscal years ended Sept. 30, 2015 and Net Costs by Program Area: 2015 2014 the Office of the Inspector General to $523.6 million, respectively. 2014, respectively. Library Services $394,963 $392,232 audit the Library of Congress fiscal Law Library 26,459 23,741 2015 financial statements. ■■ The Condensed Statements of Net ■■ The Condensed Statements of Costs provide users with information Budgetary Resources provide Copyright Office 32,018 36,491 A condensed, unaudited version of the about the net costs for the Library’s six users with information about how Congressional Research Service 139,183 135,333 Library of Congress statements for fiscal programs. Net costs include allocated budgetary resources were made National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 59,662 56,740 2015 and fiscal 2014 follows, including management support costs. For the available as well as their status at Revolving and Reimbursable Funds 21,172 24,329 the four principal financial statements: fiscal years ended Sept. 30, 2015, and the end of the fiscal year. For the Net Costs of Operations $673,457 $668,866 the Condensed Balance Sheets, the 2014, the net cost of the Library’s fiscal years ended Sept. 30, 2015, Condensed Statements of Net Costs, six programs was $673.5 million and and 2014, the Library’s budgetary the Condensed Statements of Changes $668.9 million, respectively. resources were $850.9 million and in Net Position, and the Condensed $830.7 million, respectively. Statements of Budgetary Resources. ■■ The Condensed Statements of THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Condensed Statements of Changes in Net Position (Unaudited) Changes in Net Position provide users The Library’s audited financial For the Fiscal Years Ended Sept. 30, 2015, and 2014 (Dollars in Thousands) ■■ The Condensed Balance Sheets with information about the Library’s statements (including financial statement 2015 2014 provide users with information financing sources and the components notes and auditor’s report) can be Consolidated Consolidated about the Library’s assets, liabilities, of the changes in net position. The found at loc.gov/about/reports/ Total Total and net position. The Library’s Library’s financing sources totaled financials/loc.html. Cumulative Results of Operations: Beginning Balances $221,329 $216,351 Budgetary Financing Sources Appropriations Used 577,613 558,963 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Condensed Balance Sheets (Unaudited) Donations-Cash or securities 7,677 10,403 As of Sept. 30, 2015, and 2014 (Dollars in Thousands) Other 2,760 2,816 2015 2014 Other Financing Sources (Non-Exchange) Assets Donations-Property and Services 999 688 Intragovernmental Assets $345,973 $339,912 Imputed Financing 87,760 92,883 Pledges Receivable-Donations 7,790 7,316 Other (3,777) 8,091 Investments 121,566 122,507 Total Financing Sources 673,032 673,844 Property and Equipment, Net 49,250 50,110 Net Cost of Operations (673,457) (668,866) Other Assets 3,428 3,725 Cumulative Results of Operations, Ending $220,904 $221,329 Total Assets $528,007 $523,570 Unexpended Appropriations: Liabilities Beginning Balances $154,820 $141,486 Intragovernmental liabilities $49,059 $44,321 Budgetary Financing Resources Accounts Payable and Accrued Funded Payroll, Benefits 51,770 59,002 Appropriations Received 590,921 578,982 Deposit Account Liability 6,839 6,338 Appropriation Transferred and Other Adjustments (6,399) (6,685) Accrued Unfunded Liabilities 33,299 33,524 Appropriations Used (577,613) (558,963) Other Liabilities 4,407 4,236 Total Budgetary Financing Sources 6,909 13,334 Total Liabilities $145,374 $147,421 Unexpended Appropriations, Ending 161,729 154,820 Net Position Net Position, Ending $382,633 $376,149 Unexpended Appropriations $161,729 $154,820 Cumulative Results of Operations 220,904 221,329 Total Net Position $382,633 $376,149 Total Liabilities and Net Position $528,007 $523,570

80 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 81 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Condensed Statements of Budgetary Resources (Unaudited) Table 4. Additions to the Collections—Items For the Fiscal Years Ended Sept. 30, 2015, and 2014 (Dollars in Thousands) Print Collections Added Withdrawn Total FY14 2015 2014 Classified Collections Budgetary Resources Class A (General Works) 4,580 55 455,239 Unobligated Balances, Brought Forward, October 1 $77,448 $81,176 Class B-BJ (Philosophy) 5,835 2,010 459,406 Recoveries of Prior Year Obligations 23,240 17,589 Class BL-BX (Religion) 15,481 2,783 1,030,881 Budgetary Authority Class C (History, Auxiliary Sciences) 2,695 22 320,794 Appropriation 610,668 591,822 Class D (History except American) 27,027 311 1,811,520 Spending Authority from Offsetting Collections 145,988 146,835 Class E (American History) 4,358 42 334,454 Other (6,399) (6,685) Class F (American History) 6,840 59 571,207 Total Budgetary Resources $850,945 $830,737 Class G (Geography, Anthropology) 13,404 64 789,255 Status of Budgetary Resources Class H (Social Sciences) 33,356 2,023 3,533,074 Obligations Incurred $757,128 $753,289 Class J (Political Science) 5,791 100 928,814 Unobligated Balance 93,817 77,448 Class K and LAW (Law) 21,032 11 2,906,455 Total Status of Budgetary Resources $850,945 $830,737 Class L (Education) 5,122 217 630,386 Change in Obligated Balance: Class M (Music) 5,322 16 847,736 Total Net Unpaid Obligated Balance, Brought Forward, October 1 $222,938 $191,080 Class N (Fine Arts) 10,298 28,014 799,084 Obligations Incurred (net) 757,128 753,289 Class P (Language and Literature) 54,813 40,206 3,492,811 Less: Outlays, Recoveries and Change in Uncollected Payments (761,965) (721,431) Class Q (Science) 10,469 470 1,413,867 Total Unpaid Obligated Balance, Net, End of Period $218,101 $222,938 Class R (Medicine) 6,829 11,054 623,718 Net Outlays: Class S (Agriculture) 2,301 63 490,917 Gross Outlays $747,874 $715,702 Class T (Technology) 10,209 1,018 1,569,242 Less: Offsetting Collection and offsetting receipts (155,443) (159,696) Class U (Military Science) 2,058 53 245,197 Net Outlays $592,431 $556,006 Class V (Naval Science) 449 12 118,069 Class Z (Bibliography) 4,160 149 683,619 Total Classified Collections 252,429 88,752 24,055,745 Other Print Materials or Products Books in Large Type 0 0 8,684 Books in Raised Characters 0 0 81,539 Incunabula 0 0 5,711 Minimal-Level Cataloging (Monographs and Serials) 29,274 0 1,201,590 Newspapers (Bound) 0 0 37,954 Pamphlets 248 0 272,383 Technical Reports 25,235 0 1,821,171 Other 1,485,687 1,000,000 11,184,383 Total Other Print Materials 1,540,444 1,000,000 14,613,415 Total Print Collections 1,792,873 1,088,752 38,669,160

82 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 83 (Table 4 continued) Table 5. Additions to the Collections—Titles Other Collections Added Withdrawn Total FY14 Print Collections Added Withdrawn Total FY15 Audio Materials 33,987 0 3,532,275 Classified Collections Talking Books1 0 0 69,048 Class A (General Works) 4,580 0 102,254 Manuscripts 669,457 0 70,296,299 Class B-BJ (Philosophy) 5,835 0 277,636 Maps 43,395 23,815 5,559,470 Class BL-BX (Religion) 15,481 1 756,653 Microforms 157,263 0 17,069,754 Class C (History, Auxiliary Sciences) 1,985 0 161,923 Music 53,150 0 7,166,307 Class D (History except American) 26,777 0 1,266,245 Visual Materials Class E (American History) 2,179 0 168,759 Moving Images 30,638 43,520 1,758,713 Class F (American History) 4,940 0 328,152 Photographs (negatives, prints, and slides) 62,834 0 14,200,418 Class G (Geography, Anthropology) 13,404 0 694,516 Posters 367 0 106,676 Class H (Social Sciences) 29,834 0 1,869,174 Prints and Drawings 2,934 0 667,378 Class J (Political Science) 5,447 0 364,326 Other (broadsides, photocopies, nonpictorial material, etc.) 10,419 0 1,408,966 Class K and LAW (Law) 18,564 0 957,774 Machine-Readable Material 361 0 1,972,596 Class L (Education) 5,122 0 331,352 Total Other Collections 1,064,805 67,335 123,807,900 Class M (Music) 5,322 0 555,950 Total (items) 2,857,678 1,156,087 162,477,060 Class N (Fine Arts) 10,298 0 520,655

1 Not counted in general category of Audio Materials Class P (Language and Literature) 54,813 0 2,884,024 Class Q (Science) 10,469 0 793,163 Class R (Medicine) 6,829 0 387,752 Class S (Agriculture) 2,301 0 245,826 Class T (Technology) 10,209 0 837,470 Class U (Military Science) 2,058 0 104,771 Class V (Naval Science) 449 0 43,905 Class Z (Bibliography) 2,080 0 259,512 Total Classified Collections 238,976 1 13,911,792

Table 6. Unprocessed Arrearages Percentage Total Items in Arrearage1 FY15 FY14 Change Change Machine-Readable 0 442 (442) (100) Manuscripts 17,458,026 17,085,569 372,457 2.2 Moving Images 333,287 368,263 (34,976) (9.5) Music 2,896,886 3,136,711 (239,825) (7.6) Sound Recordings 1,036,623 1,041,934 (5,311) (.005) Total 21,725,264 21,632,919 92,345 0.004 1 Print material, maps, pictorial materials, and rare books are no longer considered arrearage. Remaining work on hand will be processed by regular staff, not as part of arrearage reduction. The moving image arrearage includes approximately 300,000 still images from the silent film era purchased late in the previous fiscal year for custody in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

84 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 85 Table 7. Cataloging Production Table 9. Preservation Treatment Statistics FY15 FY14 Treatment New Full-Level Catalog Records 183,979 186,657 Volumes Treated 6,018 Cooperative New Titles Fully Cataloged 75,265 66,707 Unbound Paper-Based Items Treated 59,099 Minimal-Level Cataloging Titles 11,398 25,826 Photographs Treated 793 Copy Cataloging 74,940 62,629 Commercial Library Binding (volumes) 155,346 Collection-Level Cataloging 1,660 1,692 Mass Deacidification (volumes) 183,191 New Works Cataloged 268,250 359,072 Mass Deacidification (sheets) 1,025,686 Name and Series Authorities Established 84,659 77,652 Housing/Rehousing Cooperative Name and Series Authorities Established 211,807 203,459 Protective Boxes Constructed, for Paper-Based Materials 7,170 Subject Headings Established 3,474 1,786 Paper-Based Items Rehoused 18,332 Cooperative Subject Headings Established 1,460 1,564 Photographs Rehoused or Moved 20,705 Books Received for Processing in the Acquisitions and 1,407,377 1,520,409 Discs, Film (reels), Magnetic Tape (reels/cassettes) Cleaned/Packaged 875 Bibliographic Access Directorate (ABA)1 Copying/Reformatting Books Completely Processed in the ABA Directorate2 728,226 852,729 Preservation Photocopying (volumes) 427 volumes 1 Does not include 93,806 additional service copies withdrawn from stacks. Paper-Based Materials Converted to Microfilm (pages)1 4,897,838 exposures (8,326,325 pages) 2 Does not include 52,542 additional service copies withdrawn from stacks. Paper-Based Materials Converted to Digital Format (works) 57,571 Audio Materials Converted to Digital Format (files) 12,854 Video Materials Converted to Digital Format (files) 10,813 Motion Picture Films Converted to Digital Format (reels) 343 Table 8. MARC Records in the Library of Congress Database Motion Picture Films Converted on Analog Film (reels) 309 Category Total Net Increase General Preservation of the Collections Books 14,015,721 177,288 Items Assessed 1,360,708 Electronic Resources 48,482 2,789 Items Surveyed, Paper-Based 26,220 Manuscripts 18,172 513 Items Surveyed, Photographs 5,404 Maps 347,967 4,335 Items Surveyed, Other Formats 41,523 Music 697,683 21,777 Pieces Labeled 16,022 1 Serials & Integrating Resources 1,326,894 13,623 Includes 2,313,700 pages microfilmed or microfiched in the Library’s overseas offices. Visual Materials 621,806 32,878 Subject Authorities 421,016 3,637 Name Authorities 9,378,869 290,920 Holdings Records 19,899,458 368,915 Totals: Bibliographic 17,076,725 253,203 Authority 9,799,885 294,557 Holdings 19,899,458 368,915 Grand Total 46,776,068 916,675

86 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 87 Table 10. Number of Copyright Registrations by Subject Matter, Fiscal 2015 Table 12. Services to Individuals Who are Blind and Physically Handicapped Category of Material Published Unpublished Total Items Number 1 Non-dramatic literary works: Circulated of Readers Monographs and computer-related works 126,333 49,160 175,493 Regional, Subregional Libraries and Advisory Outreach Centers Serials: Analog Cassette 987,775 98,969 Serials (non-group) 7,515 — 7,515 Digital Cartridge 14,722,531 354,073 Group Daily Newspapers/Newsletters 3,109 — 3,109 Digital Download 3,268,144 55,143 Group Serials 44,498 — 44,498 Braille 355,411 30,196 Total literary works 181,455 49,160 230,615 E-Braille 161,286 12,697 Works of the performing arts, including musical works, dramatic works, 43,570 36,565 80,135 Large Print 1,910,747 209,651 choreography and pantomimes, and motion pictures and filmstrips Miscellaneous2 231,074 100,776 Works of the visual arts, including two-dimensional works of fine and 50,420 38,809 89,229 Totals 21,636,968 861,505 graphic art, sculptural works, technical drawings and models, photographs, NLS Service to Overseas Patrons cartographic works commercial prints and labels, and works of applied arts Analog Cassette 220 109 Sound recordings 13,414 29,563 42,977 Digital Cartridge 5,458 152 Total basic registrations 288,859 154,097 442,956 Digital Download 13,036 191 Renewals 798 — 798 Braille 160 17 Mask work registrations 58 — 58 E-Braille 333 42 Vessel hull design registrations 0 0 Large Print 718 119 Grand total all registrations 443,812 NLS Service to Music Patrons Preregistrations 771 Analog Cassette 336 91 Documents Recorded 8,484 Digital Cartridge 988 562 Digital Download 14,080 1,686 Braille 1,408 444 Table 11. U.S. Copyright Office Business Summary: Fee Receipts & Interest, Fiscal 2015 E-Braille 12,529 718 Receipts Large Print 391 152 Fees Recorded1 Interlibrary Loan—Multistate Centers Copyright Registration $27,574,008 Analog Cassette 9,660 N/A Mask Works Registration 9,840 Braille 1,382 N/A Vessel Hull Design Registration 6,320 Digital Cartridge 129,283 N/A Renewal Registration 21,042 1 Items circulated include containers, volumes, mailed magazines, and digital downloads (books and magazines). Subtotal $27,611,210 2 Miscellaneous includes formats such as NEWSLINE, descriptive videos, and circulation of network-produced magazines. Recordation of Documents 2,227,254 NLS = National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped N/A = not applicable Certifications 576,301 Searches 41,607 Special Handling/Expedited Services 2,115,290 Preregistrations 122,710 Other Services 425,675 Subtotal $5,508,836 Total Receipts Recorded $33,120,047 Fee Receipts Applied to the Appropriation $33,206,666 Interest Earned on Deposit Accounts 624 Fee Receipts and Interest Applied to the Appropriation2 $33,207,290 1 “Receipts Recorded” are fee receipts entered into the U.S. Copyright Office’s systems. 2 “Fee Receipts and Interest Applied to the Appropriation” are income from fees and deposit account interest that were fully cleared for deposit to the Copyright Office appropriation account within the fiscal year. The amount of Fee Receipts Applied to the Appropriation during the FY does not equal the Total Receipts Recorded, because some receipts recorded at the end of a year are applied in the next fiscal year.

88 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 89 Table 13. Reader Services1 Table 14. Cataloging Distribution Service: Financial Statistics, Fiscal 2015 Circulation of Items Direct Reference Service Source of Income for use within Web-based/ General $1,602,533 the Library In Person Correspondence Telephone E-mail Total U.S. Government Libraries 40,090 African and Middle 3,761 2,113 959 3,395 4,975 11,442 Foreign Libraries 830,625 East Division Total Gross Sales $2,473,248 American Folklife Center/ 2,286 4,601 42 2,649 5,167 12,459 Analysis of Total Income Veterans History Project Cataloger’s Desktop 654,195 Asian Division 5,643 3,952 0 503 1,909 6,364 Classification Web 1,128,003 Collections Access, 159,028 17,256 0 23,174 44,847 85,277 Loan, and MARC Files & MARC Publications 690,704 Management Division Miscellaneous Publications 347 European Division 28,208 4,187 62 1,535 2,669 8,453 Technical Publications 0 Federal Research Division 0 0 0 15 30 45 Total Gross Sales $2,473,248 Geography and 107,471 9,731 72 1,080 2,789 13,672 Adjustments 0 Map Division Total Net Sales $2,473,248 Hispanic Division 5,450 11,300 621 6,005 20,485 38,411 Transfers Humanities and Social 17,803 26,004 171 2,617 11,266 40,058 Fees Transferred to Appropriation $2,473,248 Sciences Division Fees Transferred to Miscellaneous Receipts 0 Law Library2 21,976 25,056 656 4,413 3,488 33,613 Total Fees Transferred $2,473,248 Manuscript Division 59,249 30,160 208 3,288 6,093 39,749 Motion Picture, 4,022 1,848 23 3,360 11,794 17,025 Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Music Division 138,490 2,925 2,035 977 3,490 9,427 Prints and Photographs 239,361 10,805 71 1,879 8,615 21,370 Division Rare Book and Special 9,450 3,036 27 1,122 4,092 8,277 Collections Division Science, Technology and 10,579 28,739 150 4,965 10,252 44,106 Business Division Serial and Government 84,534 50,145 19 3,843 13,687 67,694 Publications Division Total 897,311 231,858 5,116 64,820 155,648 457,442 1 Not included here are statistics for the U.S. Copyright Office, which answered 171,046 reference inquiries in fiscal 2015. Also not included here are statistics for the Congressional Research Service, which completed approximately 597,000 responses to requests and services for members and committees of Congress. The congressional audience viewed research products on the CRS web site approximately 850,000 times. Also not included are 437 reference inquiries answered in the Preservation Directorate. 2 Not included here are the 1,407 research reports, special studies and memoranda the Law Library prepared for Congress, other government agencies, and the public.

90 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS APPENDIX F. STATISTICAL TABLES 91 Table 15. Human Resources (as of Sept. 30, 2015) Library Permanent Employment by Service Unit Office of the Librarian 177 Includes Office of the Librarian; Office of Communications; Development Office; Congressional Relations Office; Office of Special Events and Public Programs; Office of the General Counsel; Office of the Chief Financial Officer; Office of Contracts and Grants Management Congressional Research Service 577 U.S. Copyright Office 387 Law Library 84 Library Services 1,371 Office of Strategic Initiatives 282 Office of Support Operations 206 Office of the Inspector General 10 Total Permanent Library Employees 3,0941 Demographics Average Years of Library of Congress Service 17 Average Years of Federal Service 18 Average Age 50 Males 1,731 Females 1,363 American Indian 11 Asian 181 Black 854 Hispanic/Latino 62 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0 White 1,269 1 Includes employees funded by appropriated and non-appropriated sources. The Library’s attrition rate for permanent employees was 6.43 percent in fiscal 2015.

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