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Gazette Volume 21, No. 21 • June 4, 2010 • A weekly publication for Library staff Lucy Suddreth Maybe We’re Amazed: Paul Sees Success in McCartney Performs at Library Communication, Collaboration

By Erin Allen

Lucy Suddreth, recently appointed chief of support operations, began her first day on May 24 meeting with staff and senior directors, responding to e-mails and reviewing space plans, all before noon. The Gazette sat down to talk with her about her role and responsibilities and what she hopes to work towards for the institution.

Tell us about your new position and what your main role and respon- sibilities will be.

I am honored to have Dr. Billington Abby Brack appoint me to this new position and to Sir Paul McCartney, named the third Gershwin Prize winner, performs his hits “Yester- serve as part of the Library’s Executive day” and “Blackbird” for a packed audience June 1 in the Coolidge Auditorium. Committee. As chief of support operations, Stripes, Lorne Michaels, , I will have direct responsibility for the over- By Erin Allen and . All were in all management and administration of the town to toast the Beatle, and several were Library’s infrastructure functions, which ou know it’s a rare moment when set to perform in a concert at the White include Human Resources, Contracts and you can make a Foo Fighter cry House the next night, where the President Grants Management, Integrated Support and the stare in rapt Y and First Lady would officially bestow the Services, the Office of Opportunity, Inclu- attention. But it was all in a day’s work for Gershwin Medal on McCartney. siveness and Compliance, and Security Sir Paul McCartney, who was on hand at “I’ve had the privilege of welcoming and Emergency Preparedness. Working the Library June 1 to celebrate his receipt presidents and kings,” said Speaker of with the operational directors, we will of the third annual Gershwin Prize for the House Nancy Pelosi in her opening ensure that the Library’s programmatic Popular Song. remarks. “Tonight we are welcoming mission and objectives are met. A star-studded audience packed the musical royalty.” She said that much like This is a very exciting time for the Coolidge Auditorium that evening to the Gershwin’s, McCartney’s music was institution. For a little over a year now, enjoy an all-too-brief yet very intimate “timeless,” even noting the night’s other a diverse cross-section of management performance of Macca’s music. Joining auspicious occasion – the 43rd anni- and staff have reviewed and discussed Library staff, members of Congress and versary of the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s our strategic direction, goals and infra- other invited guests were the likes of Lonely Hearts Club Band” – to resound- structure requirements. I will facilitate previous Gershwin Prize winners Paul ing applause. the operational directorates in aligning Simon and , , After remarks from Pelosi and Librar- their resources and their independent Library Living Legend , ian of Congress James H. Billington, the programs around supporting our overall aforementioned Foo (also of Suddreth, continued on page 6 Nirvana fame), Jack White of the White McCartney, continued on page 4 2 T h e Ga zette June 4, 2010

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news Poet Laureate Gives Final Reading, Ending Tenure

The project, “Poetry By Donna Urschel for the Mind’s Joy,” included a poetry- Kay Ryan brought her customary writing contest, a charm and wry humor to her final read- videoconference ing as the 16th Poet Laureate of the United with students at States. community colleges In the Coolidge Auditorium on May 20, and designation of after an eloquent introduction by Carolyn April 1 as Commu- Brown, director of the Office of Scholarly nity College Poetry Programs, Ryan approached the lectern Day. The events to enthusiastic applause. were sponsored by “How am I going to wean myself from the Library, in col- all this adulation? I try to remember it’s laboration with the not me. It’s the title,” Ryan said. Community College Many would disagree. It’s not the title Humanities Asso- that draws adulation – it’s Ryan’s inimi- ciation. table self, and her compact, fresh poems “I can say that Barry Wheeler that are packed with surprising insight poetry is alive and Kay Ryan gives her final reading at the Library as Poet Laureate . and off-beat wisdom. well on community “Kay Ryan has brought to us the last college campuses. There’s a great deal of “I find the first two lines so incredibly two years a certain sharp and loving excitement,” Ryan said. “I visited many true. It takes a little while to understand honesty, a great wit, charm and wonderful colleges over the country and we had how funny they are,” Ryan said. The first self-deferential humor,” Brown said. “Her a real good time. That all worked out two lines of “Extraordinary Lengths:” humor is grounded in profound serious- well.” The only justification/ for extraordinary ness about life – life being so consequen- Ryan also reiterated the importance lengths/ is extraordinary distances. / tial, one dare not take it too seriously. of community colleges. “Everyone knows Yet you don’t find this/ in the majority of Humor is what helps you balance the community colleges are an absolutely instances. seriousness with what you’re living. essential, life-saving link in our education Ryan read several poems about “Her wit sparkles with a deep inquisi- system and culture. As I’ve said before, memory, including “Lacquer Artist.” tiveness about the worlds of experience community colleges are nitrogen-fixing Ryan said her memory tends to have a that are within her and within each of devices that enrich the very soil of the lot of lacuna in it. An excerpt from the us.” communities in which they exist. The poem: There is a nacreous gleam/ in Brown also said the title of Ryan’s students come out of the colleges. They certain areas of the mind/where some- poetry project “Poetry for the Mind’s are improved, and they return to the thing must have been/ at some time--/ Joy” can be a sound-bite description for communities.” perhaps many somethings,/ judging by Ryan’s poetry itself. “I imagine that each Ryan read 28 poems. About 24 of the pearlescence;/ of her poems had started with Kay think- them came from her newly released After Ryan read her poem “Lime ing ‘isn’t it strange that …,’ because there book “The Best of It: New and Selected Light,” she had a lot to say about the is a curiosity that I always see present Poems.” She started the evening with limelight. “I have had the luxury of finding in her poems. Then her musings begin. “Extraordinary Lengths,” the poem that out more about the limelight than I knew Her thoughts are crafted for sound and she likes to read first at her community when I wrote this poem,” she explained. sense, placed carefully in small compart- college appearances. “I can say it is hard to get any work done ments with not a smidgen of extra space. The Poet Laureate said, ‘‘Extraordi- when one is observed. When you reach the end, there’s the brief nary lengths’ is a phrase used in relation- “I mean it’s very odd to be made Poet moment, a tickle, of understanding – the ship to emergencies. The deal with me is Laureate, because you are extracted moment of the mind’s joy.” that I hate emergencies. My project in this from your environment, which is to stay Ryan served as U.S. Poet Laureate poem – by sheer assertion – is to separate home and write. And that environment is for two terms, from 2008 to 2010. During extraordinary lengths from a condition understood to be preparation somehow her tenure, she initiated a poetry project of emergency. I’m trying to create a little for being a public figure,” Ryan said. that focused on poetry written by com- more room and a few more flourishes and In another amusing observation, the munity college students across the nation. make them available to the mind. Poet, continued on page 6 4 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette June 4, 2010

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Mccartney, continued from page 1 coiffed and smiling. “I love you all,” he said, exiting the “Some of the stuff you write, you don’t stage. Loma Mar Quartet performed, using string know where it comes from … it’s a mys- Earlier that day, journalists gathered instruments from the Library’s Cremonese terious process,” he began. “With ‘Yester- for a press conference at the Library – a collection, which includes priceless vio- day,’ the song came to me in a dream, so scene reminiscent of an episode of TMZ, lins and cellos made by Antonio Stradi- I have to believe in the magic. with photographers swarming around vari and Giuseppe Guarneri. McCartney “Actually, the original lyrics were McCartney, flashbulbs going off like fire- and the quartet have worked together ‘Scrambled eggs, oh baby, how I love works. before with his 1999 album “Working your legs,’” he quipped before strapping “I have no idea what happens next … Classical,” the collection from which on his guitar and giving the audience yeah, I’ll say something,” he said as he they performed. what they came for. Cue aforementioned took the podium. “As a kid, I kind of grew Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang waterworks. up listening to the Gershwin brothers. I was clearly in the groove as he performed Luckily, the Librarian led McCart- wouldn’t have believed this [when I was McCartney’s “A Leaf” on the very same ney back on stage following what was a kid] if you told me then what would piano used to compose. assumed to be a single song perfor- have happened. The Library of Congress At one point he paused for a moment, mance. is something else.” although not for dramatic interpreta- “I’m really unprepared, but I like little He then fielded questions on every- tion, but because someone’s cell phone informal gatherings like this,” said the thing from songwriting to the meaning went off, much to the chagrin of the audi- Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, as he got of his lyrics to the BP oil spill. ence. comfortable, unbuttoning his shirt and “For me to get the Gershwin Prize The edge-of-the-seat moment finally loosening his tie. and knowing what it means and what arrived as Sir McCartney took the stage, His encore of “Blackbird” brought their music has done, it makes this very looking dapper in his dark suit, perfectly down the house. special,” he said. u

Photographs by Abby Brack Some concert attendees: (clockwise from top left) Jack White and Karen Elson, Sir Paul McCartney and former Gerswhin Prize recipient Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, Kevin Jonas, and wife Danielle Deleasa, Kevin Jonas Sr. and Faith Hill. June 4, 2010 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 5

news HISTORY’s “Modern Marvels” Features Library of Congress June 10

By Geraldine Otremba

The Library of Congress is the focus of a one-hour special, “The Real National Treasure,” on the HISTORY channel’s longest-running series, “Modern Marvels,” airing on Thursday, June 10 at 9 p.m. ET. More than 50 staff of the Library and the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) tell the Library’s story and show the audience the vast array of daily activities of acquisition, copyright, cataloging, security, preserva- tion and serving readers. The Library and HISTORY agreed in 2008 to create a multimedia collaboration that showcases the Library’s collections on HISTORY’s broadcast programs and its website, history.com. The Library has also worked with HISTORY to bring its programs and educational resources to more than 250,000 teachers across the country. “We have greatly valued our joint HISTORY channel’s Modern Marvels site. efforts with HISTORY since April 2008 to find innovative, engaging ways to make history to a mass audience. From the time, temperature and technology. the unparalleled resources of the Library first conversations in 2008, producer Jim Ten days were spent scouting loca- of Congress more broadly known and Lindsay was keenly interested in seizing tions from Capitol Hill to Fort Meade to accessible,” said Librarian of Congress the opportunity to tell the story of a library Culpeper, Va., and interviewing curators James H. Billington. “It has been a plea- unlike any other in the world. After wide- and staff to understand how the Library sure to work with HISTORY on an episode ranging conversations with Billington acquires, catalogs, preserves and protects of ‘Modern Marvels’ that will shed new and staff throughout the Library, Lindsay the world’s largest and most important light on the Library’s varied and critical recognized that the program would tell information reserve. Dozens of Library missions.” the story of the Library of Congress – the and AOC staff worked behind the scenes More than 500 “Modern Marvels” epi- most incredible “treasure chest” in the to make sure that a seven-day shooting sodes have been broadcast covering a nation’s capital and a “palace” built by schedule of 12-hour days captured every wide range of topics, including science, Congress – and its evolution from the important aspect of the story. technology, electronics, mechanics, engi- 18th to the 21st century. Division chiefs Mark Dimunation of neering, architecture, industry, mass pro- Also highlighted is the work of the Rare Book and Special Collections; Greg duction, manufacturing and agriculture. Preservation Directorate. Dianne van Lukow of Motion Picture, Broadcasting In the episode on the Library, viewers will der Reyden, directorate chief, shows and Recorded Sound; John Hébert of explore the public spaces, stacks and deteriorating books destroyed by book Geography and Maps; and Jim Hutson vaults of the Thomas Jefferson Building; worms. Michelle Youket demonstrates of Manuscript lent their expertise to the see some of the Library’s great treasures, the fragility of information stored on production. In addition Stephen Ayers including a collection of Stradivarius and CDs, and Fenella France demonstrates (AOC), Joe Puccio (Acquisitions), Steve Guarneri violins, manuscripts written by state-of-the-art equipment that reveals Herman (CALM), Sheridan Harvey (Main America’s Founding Fathers and original the secrets of the L’Enfant map of Wash- Reading Room), Liz Scheffler (Copyright), music in Mozart’s own hand; rare maps, ington, D.C. – moments in the program Larry Smith and Stephen Nease (MBRS), including one used by Lewis and Clark; that bring the viewer directly into contact Ray White and Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford and Jefferson’s personal library. with how the Library’s stewardship of its (Music) and Helena Zinkham (Prints and The program represents a milestone collection, both traditional and digital, is Photographs) were also involved in the in bringing the Library’s mission and a continual race against the ravages of episode. u 6 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette June 4, 2010

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collections storage, work environment programs through communication and and fire and life safety, as well as the transparency. Human Capital Management Plan. I like to say that the infrastructure is where the Final thoughts? rubber meets the road, and these new I feel very fortunate to have been a part plans along with the revised strategic plan of the Library of Congress for the past 20 will provide a pathway for developing years and to have the Librarian provide critical performance goals and measures. me with this opportunity to be a change I look forward to working with a group of agent. I believe that success comes from directors who have a great appreciation continuing to improve how we work for this institution and passion for their together to achieve results, and how we respective areas. treat one another along the way. u

Short-term goals? I am in the process of starting up the Poet, continued from page 3 new Office of Chief of Support Opera- Poet Laureate said, “I like the feeling of tions, which will require filling a few facts in a poem, but I don’t care about critical positions. I also want to focus them if they don’t rhyme or fit in. So I just on the impact that the current budget modify what happens.” environment will have on meeting our Ryan also read “Against Gravity,”

Fern Underdue Fern operational goals and objectives. Along which she said is a poem about “why Lucy Suddreth, Chief of Support Operations with the day-to-day, there are some other we don’t get smacked down by all the major initiatives that will be unfolding by gravity there is.” Explaining the poem, Suddreth, continued from page 1 the end of the fiscal year. Ryan said, “I loathe emergency, but I mission. don’t like weight, either.” Some lines Long-term goals? from “Against Gravity”: How do we move/ Is this a new office and what is The same initiatives and priorities under weight?/ What opposite force/ do different in what you’ll bring to the will be with us over the long term. There we generate/ that keeps our clothes/ table? are the action plans to be implemented floating around us/. This will be a new service unit that as a result of the Management Agenda, The poem ends with the lines: Because will focus directly on the enabling infra- and the Facilities, Human Capital Man- we’re glad some mornings,/ and buoyant, structure. Reporting to the Librarian, I will agement and Strategic plans. However, as though we had/ no bombs or appoint- continue many of the duties that I had as I believe that with a focus toward good ments. Ryan, who prefers to lead a simple assistant chief operating officer but now collaboration and communication, we and quiet life, said, “Bombs and appoint- with delegated authority for oversight, will play a positive role in moving the ments – it tickles me that I consider them administration and accountability. My Library’s mission forward. equal.” leadership style still encompasses the Ryan ended the reading, and her lau- seven practices of facilitative leadership, What do you want staff to under- reateship, with her poem “Matrigupta,” which was introduced to the Library in stand about your goals for the Library about an ancient poet who was given 1998. These principles are organized and what your focus will be as chief the entire state of Kashmir because his around better communication, collabora- of support operations? poetry pleased a ruler of India, Rajah tion and participation. It is important that staff members know Vicrama Ditya. Matrigupta ruled Kashmir that the operational directors understand for five years (from 118 to 123) and then What are you looking most for- the priority of providing a rich, diverse abdicated to become a recluse. “You can ward to in your new position? and inclusive work life program, a work see the applicability here,” Ryan joked. Over the past 13 years, I have had environment that is conducive to their An excerpt from “Matrigupta”: “I am the privilege to observe and be a part being productive and ensuring that they too blessed,”/ went the little thank-you/ of many of the transitional initiatives of remain safe and healthy – that services poem he had rehearsed,/ but already his this great institution. I have been most and processes are easily navigated. These words/ were getting reversed/ and he encouraged by the Librarian’s recent are just some of the many functions man- said, “I am/ blue tressed,” which was/ Management Agenda initiative, as it places aged by the enabling infrastructure that only the first indication/ of how things great emphasis on the infrastructure or we will continue to enhance and will were in Kashmir/ before his abdication. operational support side of the house. seek staff input. It is my goal to improve “Thank you,” Ryan said. The audience My immediate attention will be given to upon the overall planning, direction and gave her a standing ovation before she the Facilities Plan, which encompasses timely execution of the Library’s support walked off the stage. u June 4, 2010 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette 7

news Multifunctional Copiers Being Pilot-Tested on Library Network

A joint ISS/ITS project to integrate more than 230 multifunctional copier devices (MFDs), currently located throughout the Library of Congress under the ISS Administrative Copier Program, Poet, continued from page 3 onto the Library’s Data Network (LCDN) has been underway for the past eight months. A limited production pilot phase began May 27 with 22 Xerox machines and more than 300 Library staff located throughout the institution. Participants in this critical pilot phase include the Office of the Librarian, Copy- right, Law Library, Library Services, Office Abby Brack of the Chief Financial Officer, Human Italian President Giorgio Napolitano faces a throng of Italian reporters as he enters Resources Services, Integrated Support the Library of Congress for a visit on May 26. President Napolitano was accompa- Services, Office of Contracts and Grants nied by Ambassador of Italy to the United States Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata (center) and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington (right). Management and the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Offices participating in the pilot test phase were selected based on their current utilization of assigned MFDs and the project team’s desire to consolidates the functionality of a printer, an e-mail address directly from the MFD. get a good representation of MFD work- copier and scanner into one machine. Networked MFDs can help streamline flows, volume and use across the Library. Multifunctional copiers are common duplicate and cumbersome document Other factors also considered were the because the MFD provides a cost effec- processes and electronically organize, proximity of a network connection to tive way to consolidate assets, reduce edit and archive paper documents. With the MFD and workflow security in the costs and improve workflow. Also, MFDs a networked MFD, staff can turn paper test environment. Those offices handling have a substantially lower operating cost documents into electronic format and documents with highly sensitive content than the typical desktop printer. With the send to multiple destinations. were not considered viable candidates high cost of supplies and maintenance An added bonus will be the abil- for a testing environment because of for desktop printers, the lifetime oper- ity for ISS to monitor the operational the expectation of operational glitches ating cost of a typical desktop printer condition of each networked MFD. An inherent with every project’s pilot test can be as much as 20 times the initial administrative software will be installed phase. purchase price. Additionally, with the that will allow “alerts” to be sent to ISS The limited production pilot phase is scan feature, on a MFD, documents can whenever a MFD function drops below expected to last until late August 2010. be scanned, sent to your e-mail address a prescribed operational standard. This After an evaluation of the pilot phase, and stored electronically, thus reducing will allow ISS to be proactive in assuring a full production deployment rollout overall copier paper use. that the MFDs maintain a high state of for the remaining Capitol Hill Library Once fully implemented, staff will operational readiness. offices will begin in September 2010 and have the capability to print one or mul- Staff with questions can contact Rob is scheduled to be completed by early tiple copies of a document to the more Williams, ISS project manager at 7-5590, 2011. Other Library offices not located cost efficient MFD from their desktop John Nave (ISS) at 7-6538, or Mandy on Capitol Hill will be networked in late computer and/or scan the document to McGowan (ITS) at 7-2629. u 2011 during phase two of this project. A multifunction copier device, often Read the Gazette in color at www.loc.gov/staff/gazette referred to as a MFD, is a device that 8 T h e LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ga zette June 4, 2010

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JUne Meditation: Open to all. Film: “Tiger Bay” 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 4 friday 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact (Independent Artists, 1959). Monday – Saturday, Thomas [email protected]. 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus Jefferson Building. Contact Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture 7-4604. Weight Watchers: New Theater, Culpeper, Va. short form. Noon, LM SB-02. Contact 7-9994. Tai Chi: Yang Style Contact 7-4055. 17-week session. Fee prorated. 1 p.m., LM 209. june 37-posture short form. Noon, Bloomsday Camerata: Contact [email protected], Friday LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. Reading through Giovanni 7-3868. 11 Bloomsday Camerata: Exhibition Opening: “Hope Boccaccio’s “The Reading through Giovanni june for America: Performers, Decameron.” Noon, LM 536. Boccaccio’s “The Politics & Pop Culture” Contact 7-0013. 9 Wednesday Decameron.” Noon, LM 536. focuses on the careers Aerobics Class: Strength Research Orientation: Local Contact 7-0013. of Bob Hope and other training and floor exercise. History and Genealogy. Aerobics Class: Strength Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA Obtain a reader identification entertainers who chose to involve themselves in the training and floor exercise. B-36. Contact 7-8637. card in LM 140 prior to Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA attending. 10 - 11:30 a.m., LJ political climate of their times. Reading: The Hispanic The exhibition surveys the B-36. Contact 7-8637. Division hosts an afternoon of G-42. Register by phone at 7-5537, online at www.loc. involvement of entertainers in Luncheon: The LC poetry readings, moderated a wide range of causes and Toastmasters Club celebrates by Rei Berroa of George gov/rr/genealogy/signup. php. Contact 7-4071. campaigns that on occasion its 10th anniversary. Noon, Mason University. 1:30 p.m., have led to clashes and Mumford Room, LM 649. Mary Pickford Theater, LM Tai Chi: All levels. 11:30 a.m., controversies. The gallery Contact 7-8003. 301. Contact 7-2819. LC Wellness Center, LA B-36. includes items from the Bob Contact 7-2617. Film: “Saboteur” (Universal Film: “Purple Noon” (Plein Hope Collection and materials Pictures, 1942). 7:30 p.m., soleil) (Times Film, 1960). Forum: Bible study. Open to from the rich and varied Packard Campus Theater, 7:30 p.m., Packard Campus all. Noon, LM 613. Contact collections of the Library. Culpeper, Va. Contact 7-9994. Theater, Culpeper, Va. Contact [email protected]. 7-9994. LGBT Pride Month: D.C. june Councilman (At-Large) David Hope for America: Performers, Politics & Pop Culture monday Catania delivers the keynote 7 address. Noon, Whittall Tai Chi: Yang Style 37-posture Pavilion. Contact 7-6194. Opens Friday, June 11, and will short form. 11:30 a.m., LC Wellness Center, LA B-38. Book Talk: Library Hebraic remain on view 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 Contact 7-4055. area specialist Ann Brener p.m., Monday through Saturday in discusses her book “Samuel’s the Bob Hope Gallery of American NDIIPP Briefing: Sayeed Daughter.” Noon, African Choudhury, the Associate and Middle Eastern Division Entertainment on the ground Dean for Library Digital Reading Room, LJ 220. floor of the Thomas Jefferson Programs at the Sheridan Contact 7-3779. Building Libraries of Johns Hopkins University discusses “The Aerobics Class: Strength Data Conservancy: A training and floor exercise. On display will be Hope’s Web Science View of Data 12:30 p.m., LC Wellness personal papers, joke Center, LA B-36. Contact Curation.” Noon, National files, films and radio Digital Library Learning 7-8637 and television Center, Madison Building Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Atrium. Contact 7-2603. own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. broadcasts, Yoga/Pilates: Start at your Contact 7-3013. along with other own level. 1 p.m., LM SB-02. Tai Chi: Intermediate level. materials from Contact 7-3013. Strengthening exercises and the Library’s vast june two-person drills. 4:30 p.m., collections. LM SB-02. Contact 7-4055. tuesday 8 june Digital Future and You Series: Andrew Turner 10 thursday Borderlines/Borderlands: Culture and the of FortiusOne discusses Aerobics Class: High-Low. Canada-U.S. International Boundary “Where We Are – Emergence Noon, LC Wellness Center, of Neography.” 10 a.m., LA B-36. Contact 7-8637. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Mumford Room, LM 649. Yoga: Noon, LM SB-02. Embassy of Canada Contact [email protected]. Contact 7-5984. June 14-16 in Room LJ 119, Jefferson Building Aerobics Class: High-Low. Meditation: Open to all. For the complete schedule and to register online, visit Noon, LC Wellness Center, LA 12:15 p.m., LA G-06. Contact B-36. Contact 7-8637. [email protected]. www.loc.gov/folklife/Symposia/borders/index.html.

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