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Depository Libraries GPO distributes Government publications through the printed and electronic publications to Internet at http://www.access.gpo.gov/. approximately 1,400 depository libraries For information about this service, nationwide where they may be used by contact the GPO Access support team at the public free of charge. A list of 202–512–1530, or E-mail at depository libraries is available from the [email protected]. Superintendent of Documents. Phone, Bookstores Popular Government 202–512–1119. It may also be accessed publications may be purchased at the on-line at http://www.access.gpo.gov/. GPO bookstores listed below. Electronic Access GPO Access provides online access to key BookstoresÐGovernment Printing Office

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For further information, contact the Office of Congressional, Legislative, and Public Affairs, Government Printing Office, 732 North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 20401. Phone, 202–512–1991. Fax, 202– 512–1293. Internet, http://www.access.gpo.gov/.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 101 Independence Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20540 Phone, 202–707–5000. Internet, http://www.loc.gov/.

Librarian of Congress JAMES H. BILLINGTON Deputy Librarian of Congress DONALD L. SCOTT Chief of Staff JOANN JENKINS Associate Librarian for Library Services WINSTON TABB Associate Librarian for Human Resources LLOYD A. PAULS Services Director, Congressional Research Service DANIEL MULHOLLAN Register of Copyrights and Associate Librarian MARYBETH PETERS for Copyright Services Law Librarian RUBENS MEDINA General Counsel ELIZABETH PUGH

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Inspector General JOHN W. RENSBARGER Chief, Loan Division L. CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Chairman (Librarian of Congress) JAMES H. BILLINGTON (Secretary of the Treasury) ROBERT E. RUBIN (U.S. Representative from California and WILLIAM M. THOMAS Chairman, Joint Committee on the Library) Appointive Members EDWIN L. COX, PATRICIA DUFF,J ULIE FINLEY, THOMAS S. FOLEY,A DELE HALL, JOHN KLUGE, PETER LYNCH, ARTHUR ORTENBERG, CECILLE PULITZER, LAURENCE TISCH

The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States, offering diverse materials for research including the world’s most extensive collections in many areas such as American history, music, and law.

The Library of Congress was established them are the most comprehensive by act of April 24, 1800 (2 Stat. 56), collections of Chinese, Japanese, and appropriating $5,000 ‘‘for the purchase Russian language books outside Asia and of such books as may be necessary for the former Soviet Union; volumes the use of Congress ... .’’ The relating to science and legal materials Library’s scope of responsibility has been outstanding for American and foreign widened by subsequent legislation (2 law; the world’s largest collection of U.S.C. 131–168d). The Librarian, published aeronautical literature; and the appointed by the President with the most extensive collection in the Western advice and consent of the Senate, directs Hemisphere of books printed before the Library. 1501 A.D. Supported mainly by the The manuscript collections relate to appropriations of Congress, the Library manifold aspects of American history also uses income from funds received and civilization, and include the from foundations and other private personal papers of most of the Presidents sources and administered by the Library from George Washington through Calvin of Congress Trust Fund Board, as well as Coolidge. The music collections contain monetary gifts presented for direct volumes and pieces—manuscript and application (2 U.S.C. 154–163). published—from classic works to the Under the organic law, the Library’s newest popular compositions. Other first responsibility is service to Congress. materials available for research include As the Library has developed, its range maps and views; photographic records of service has come to include the entire from the daguerreotype to the latest governmental establishment and the news photo; recordings, including public at large, making it a national folksongs and other music, speeches, library for the United States. and poetry readings; prints, drawings, and posters; government documents, Activities newspapers, and periodicals from all Collections The Library’s extensive over the world; and motion pictures, collections are universal in scope. They microforms, and audio and video tapes. include books, serials, and pamphlets on Reference Resources Admission to the every subject and in a multitude of various research facilities of the Library languages, and research materials in is free. No introduction or credentials many formats, including maps, are required for persons over high school photographs, manuscripts, motion age. Readers must submit appropriate pictures, and sound recordings. Among photo identification with a current

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address and, for certain collections, like —an interlibrary loan system; those of the Manuscript, Rare Book and —the photoduplication, at reasonable Special Collections, and Motion Picture, cost, of books, manuscripts, maps, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound newspapers, and prints in its collections; Divisions, there are additional —the sale of sound recordings, which requirements. As demands for service to are released by its Recording Laboratory; Congress and Federal Government —the exchange of duplicates with agencies increase, reference service other institutions; available through correspondence has —the sale of CD–ROM cataloging become limited. The Library must tools and magnetic tapes and the decline some requests and refer publication in book format or microform correspondents to a library within their of cumulative catalogs, which make area that can provide satisfactory available the results of the expert assistance. While priority is given to bibliographical and cataloging work of inquiries pertaining to its holdings of its technical personnel; special materials or to subjects in which —a centralized cataloging program its resources are unique, the Library does whereby the Library of Congress attempt to provide helpful responses to acquires material published all over the all inquirers. world, catalogs it promptly, and Copyrights With the enactment of the distributes cataloging information in second general revision of the U.S. machine-readable form as well as by copyright law by Act of July 8, 1870 (16 printed cards and other means to the Stat. 212–217), all activities relating to Nation’s libraries; copyright, including deposit and —a cooperative cataloging program registration, were centralized in the whereby the cataloging of data, by name Library of Congress. The Copyright Act authority and bibliographic records, of 1976 (90 Stat. 2541), as amended and prepared by other libraries becomes part codified, brought all forms of of the Library of Congress data base and copyrightable authorship, both published is distributed through the MARC and unpublished, under a single Distribution Service; statutory system which gives authors —a cataloging-in-publication program protection immediately upon creation of in cooperation with American publishers their works. Exclusive rights granted to for printing cataloging information in authors under the statute include the current books; right to reproduce and prepare derivative —the National Serials Data Program, a works, distribute copies or national center that maintains a record phonorecords, perform and display the of serial titles to which International work publicly, and in the case of sound Standard Serial Numbers have been recordings, to perform the work publicly assigned and serves, with this file, as the by means of a digital audio transmission. United States Register; and Works eligible for copyright include —the development of general schemes literary works (books and periodicals), of classification (Library of Congress and musical works, dramatic works, Dewey Decimal), subject headings, and pantomimes and choreographic works, cataloging, embracing the entire field of pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, printed matter. motion pictures, sound recordings, and Furthermore, the Library provides for: architectural works. Serving in its —the preparation of bibliographical capacity as a national registry for lists responsive to the needs of creative works, the Copyright Office Government and research; registers nearly 600,000 claims to —the maintenance and the copyright annually and is a major source publication of cooperative publications; of acquisitions for the universal —the publication of catalogs, collections of the Library of Congress. bibliographical guides, and lists, and of Extension of Service The Library texts of original manuscripts and rare extends its service through: books in the Library of Congress;

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—the circulation in traveling increased emphasis on in-depth research exhibitions of items from the Library’s and analysis. The function and collections; capabilities of CRS have grown over the —the provision of books in braille and years in response to the increasing scope ‘‘talking book’’ records, as well as books of public policy issues on the on tape, for the blind and the physically congressional agenda. handicapped through 143 cooperating CRS provides multidisciplinary libraries throughout the United States; assistance to the Congress at every stage —the distribution of its electronic of the legislative process concerning materials via the Internet, including more subject areas relevant to policy issues than 40 million bibliographic records, before the Congress. Its Director, assisted summaries of congressional bills, by a management team, oversees and copyright registrations, bibliographies coordinates the work of seven research and research guides, summaries of divisions which span the range of public foreign laws, an index of Southeast Asian policy subjects and disciplines: POW/MIA documents, and selections American Law; Economics; Environment from the Library’s unique historical and Natural Resources Policy; Foreign collections—the Library’s major Affairs and National Defense; contribution to the National Digital Government; and Science, Technology, Library—via LC WEB (http:// and Medicine. The Service has two www.loc.gov/); online public legislative information divisions: the Congressional information through Thomas (http:// Reference Division and the Library thomas.loc.gov/); major exhibits; the Services Division. These divisions Library’s catalog; the Library’s digitized provide reference, bibliographic, and collection of unique American materials; other information services to the pointers to external Internet resources Congress and CRS staff using both including extensive international, traditional techniques and automated national, State, and local government systems. The Service’s administrative information; and an international offices are Finance and Administration; electronic library of resources; and —the provision of research and Policy Compliance; Research; and the analytical services on a fee-for-service Director’s Office. In addition to responding to individual basis to agencies in the executive and requests for information and analysis, judicial branches. CRS prepares products and services in Congressional Research Service The anticipation of topics that likely will be mission of the Congressional Research on the legislative agenda, and develops Service (CRS) is to provide to the and presents seminars that provide a Congress, throughout the legislative forum for discussion among Members of process, comprehensive and reliable Congress and their staffs, CRS specialists, legislative research, analysis, and and nationally recognized experts on information services that are timely, important legislative issues. objective, nonpartisan, and confidential, The CRS’ Internet home page provides thereby contributing to an informed Members and their staff with access to national legislature. In the last several CRS products and services and links to years, CRS has responded to more than public policy, legislative, legal, and 500,000 requests for services from the reference information. CRS and the Congress annually. Library of Congress contribute to the CRS evolved from the Legislative Legislative Information System, an Reference Service, established in 1914 electronic retrieval system that provides by an act of Congress. The statutory the Congress with the most current and authority for CRS in its current form dates back to the Legislative comprehensive legislative information Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended available, including bill summaries and (2 U.S.C. 72a note), and the Legislative status, full text of legislation, and Reorganization Act of 1970, as amended committee reports. (2 U.S.C. 166). The 1970 act authorized For further information, call 202–707–5700.

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American Folklife Center The Center, Folk Culture, an extensive collection of which was established in the Library of ethnographic materials from this country Congress by Act of January 2, 1976 (20 and around the world. It is the national U.S.C. 2102 et seq.), has a coordinative repository for folk-related recordings, function both in and outside the Federal manuscripts, and other unpublished Establishment to carry out appropriate materials. The Center’s reading room programs to support, preserve, and contains over 3,500 books and present American folklife through such periodicals; a sizable collection of activities as receiving and maintaining magazines, newsletters, unpublished folklife collections, scholarly research, theses, and dissertations; field notes; and field projects, performances, exhibitions, many textual and some musical festivals, workshops, publications, and transcriptions and recordings. audiovisual presentations. The Center is For further information, call 202–707–6590. directed by a Board of Trustees consisting of four members appointed by Center for the Book The Center was the President from Federal agencies; four established in the Library of Congress by each appointed by the President pro act of October 13, 1977 (2 U.S.C. 171 tempore of the Senate and the Speaker et seq.), to stimulate public interest in of the House from private life; and five books, reading, and libraries, and to ex officio members, including: the encourage the study of books and print Librarian of Congress, the Secretary of culture. The Center is a catalyst for the Smithsonian Institution, the promoting and exploring the vital role of Chairmen of the National Endowment books, reading, and libraries—nationally for the Arts and the National Endowment and internationally. As a partnership for the Humanities, and the Director of between the Government and the private the Center. sector, the Center for the Book depends The Center has conducted projects in on tax-deductible contributions from many locations across the country, such individuals and corporations to support as the ethnic communities of Chicago, its programs. IL; southern Georgia; a ranching The Center’s activities are directed community in northern Nevada; the Blue toward the general public and scholars. Ridge Parkway in southern Virginia and The overall program includes reading northern North Carolina; and the States and promotion projects with television of New Jersey, Rhode Island, and and radio networks, symposia, lectures, Montana. The projects have provided exhibitions, special events, and large collections of recordings and publications. More than 50 national photographs for the Archive of Folk educational and civic organizations Culture. The Center administers the participate in the Center’s annual Federal Cylinder Project, which is reading promotion campaign. charged with preserving and Since 1984, 35 States have established disseminating music and oral traditions statewide book centers that are affiliated recorded on wax cylinders dating from with the Center for the Book in the the late 1800’s to the early 1940’s. A Library of Congress. State centers plan cultural conservation study was and fund their own projects, involving developed at the Center, in cooperation members of the State’s ‘‘community of with the Department of the Interior, the book,’’ including authors, readers, pursuant to a congressional mandate. prominent citizens, and public officials Various conferences, workshops, and who serve as honorary advisers. symposia are given throughout the year. For further information, call 202–707–5221. The Folklife Center News, a quarterly newsletter, and other informational National Preservation Program The publications are available upon request. Library provides technical information The Government Printing Office sells related to the preservation of library and additional Center publications. archival material. A series of handouts The American Folklife Center on various preservation and conservation maintains and administers the Archive of topics has been prepared by the

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Preservation Office. Information and Information about ordering materials is publications are available from the available from the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Office of the Cataloging Distribution Service, Director for Preservation, Washington, Washington, DC 20541–4910. Phone, DC 20540–4500. Phone, 202–707– 202–707–6100. TDD, 202–707–0012. 1840. Fax, 202–707–1334. E-mail, National Film Preservation Board The [email protected]. National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress card numbers for presently authorized by the National new publications are assigned by the Film Preservation Act of 1996 (2 U.S.C. Cataloging in Publication Division. 179), serves as a public advisory group Direct inquiries to Library of Congress, to the Librarian of Congress. The Board CIP Division, Washington, DC 20540– consists of 40 members and alternates 4320. Phone, 202–707–6372. representing the many parts of the Contracts Persons seeking to do diverse American film industry, film business with the Library of Congress archives, scholars, and others. As its should contact the Library of Congress, primary mission, the Board works to Contracts and Logistics Services, ensure the survival, conservation, and Landover Center Annex, 1701 Brightseat increased public availability of America’s Road, Landover, MD 20785. Phone, film heritage, including advising the 202–707–8717. Librarian on the annual selection of films Copyright Services Information about to the National Film Registry and the copyright law (title 17 of the U.S. counseling the Librarian on development Code), the method of securing copyright, and implementation of the national film and registration procedures may be preservation plan. Key publications are obtained by writing to the Library of Film Preservation 1993: A Study of the Congress, Copyright Office, Washington, Current State of American Film DC 20559–6000. Phone, 202–707– Preservation (4 volumes, 748 pages) and 3000. Copyright information is also Redefining Film Preservation: A National available through the Internet, at http:// Plan (79 pages). www.loc.gov/. Registration application forms may be ordered by calling the For further information, call 202–707–5912. forms hotline at 202–707–9100. Reports Sources of Information on copyright facts found in the records of the Copyright Office may be obtained Books for the Blind and Physically for a fee of $20 an hour; any member of Handicapped Talking and braille books the public, however, may use without and magazines are distributed through charge the Copyright Card Catalog in the 142 regional and subregional libraries to Copyright Office. Copyright Office blind and physically handicapped records in machine-readable form residents of the United States and its cataloged from January 1, 1978, to the territories. Information is available at present are available through the public libraries throughout the United Internet, at http://www.loc.gov/. The States and from the headquarters office, Copyright Information Office is located Library of Congress, National Library in Room LM–401, James Madison Service for the Blind and Physically Memorial Building, 101 Independence Handicapped, 1291 Taylor Street NW., Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20559– Washington, DC 20542–4960. Phone, 6000, and is open to the public Monday 202–707–5100. through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cataloging Data Distribution eastern time, except Federal holidays. Cataloging and bibliographic information Employment Employment inquiries and in the form of microfiche catalogs, book applications (on SF–171, OF–612, or catalogs, magnetic tapes, CD–ROM Federal-format re´sume´) should be cataloging tools, bibliographies, and directed to the Library of Congress, other technical publications is distributed Directorate of Personnel, Washington, to libraries and other institutions. DC 20540–2200. Potential applicants

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are encouraged to visit the Employment Research and Reference Services in Office, Room LM–107, 101 Science and Technology Reference Independence Avenue SE., where current specialists in the Science and vacancy announcements and application Technology Division answer without forms are available. The personnel charge brief technical inquiries entailing hotline provides recorded information on a bibliographic response. Of special career opportunities. Phone, 202–707– interest is a technical report and 4315. Internet, http://www.loc.gov/. standards collection exceeding 3.6 Photoduplication Service Copies of million titles. Most of these are in manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, microform and are readily accessible for and book material not subject to viewing in the Science Reading Room. copyright and other restrictions are Requests for reference service should be available for a fee. Order forms for directed to the Library of Congress, photoreproduction and price schedules Science and Technology Division, are available from the Library of Washington, DC 20540–4750. Phone, Congress, Photoduplication Service, 202–707–5639. Washington, DC 20540–4570. Phone, An informal series of reference guides 202–707–5640. is issued by the Science and Technology Publications A list of Library of Congress publications, many of which Division under the general title LC are of interest to the general public, is Science Tracer Bullet. These guides are available through the Internet, at http:// designed to help a reader locate www.loc.gov/. A monthly Calendar of published material on a subject about Events, listing programs and exhibitions which he or she has only general at the Library of Congress, can be mailed knowledge. For a list of available titles, regularly to persons within 100 miles of write to the Library of Congress, Science Washington, DC. Make requests to the and Technology Division, Reference Library of Congress, Office Systems Section, Washington, DC 20540–4751. Services, Washington, DC 20540–9440. Phone, 202–707–5639. Reference and Bibliographic Services Research Services in General Topics Guidance is offered to readers in the Federal Government agencies can identification and use of the material in procure directed research and analytical the Library’s collections, and reference products on foreign and domestic topics service in answer to inquiries is offered using the collections of the Library of to those who have exhausted local, Congress through the Federal Research State, and regional resources. Persons Division. Science, technology, requiring services that cannot be humanities, and social science topics of performed by the Library staff can be research are conducted by staff supplied with names of private specialists exclusively on behalf of researchers who work on a fee basis. Federal agencies on a fee-for-service Requests for information should be basis. Requests for service should be directed to the Library of Congress, directed to Library of Congress, Federal National Reference Service, Washington, Research Division, Marketing Office, DC 20540–4720. Phone, 202–707– Washington, DC 20540–4840. Phone, 5522. Fax, 202–707–1389. 202–707–3909. Fax, 202–245–3920.

For further information, contact the Public Affairs Office, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20540–8610. Phone, 202–707–2905. Fax, 202–707–9199. Internet, http:// www.loc.gov/.

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