Number range CHAPTER **American Library Association Midwinter Meeting**

**Library of Congress Update**

**January 17, 2006**

Service units and divisions/offices within the Library submitted the
information in this update.

**LC EXHIBIT BOOTH**

The Library's exhibit booth is no. 469 in the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center in San Antonio. The exhibit booth coordinator is
Robert Handloff. Exhibit hours are:

Friday, January 20, 5:30-7:30 pm

Saturday-Sunday , January 21-21, 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Monday, June 23, 9:00 am-2:00 pm

**U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE**

[Section 108 Study Group]{.underline}

The Section 108 Study Group, convened under the aegis of the National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and
co-sponsored by the U.S. Copyright Office, began its work this spring.
The goal of the group, named after the section of the U.S. Copyright Act
that provides limited exceptions for libraries and archives, is to
prepare findings and make recommendations to the Librarian of Congress
by mid-2006 for possible alterations to the law that reflect current
technologies. This effort will seek to strike the appropriate balance
between copyright holders and libraries and archives in a manner that
best serves the public interest.

The creation of the study group was prompted in part by the increasing
use of digital media. Digital technologies are radically transforming
how copyrighted works are created and disseminated, and also how
libraries and archives preserve and make those works available. Cultural
heritage institutions, in carrying forward their missions, have begun to
acquire and incorporate large quantities of "born digital" works into
their holdings to ensure the continuing availability of those works to
future generations.

Section 108 of the Copyright Act permits libraries and archives to make
certain uses of copyrighted materials in order to serve the public and
ensure the availability of works over time. Among other things, section
108 provides limited exceptions for libraries and archives to make
copies in specified instances for preservation, replacement and patron
access. These provisions were drafted with analog materials in mind,
and, as has been observed, do not adequately address many of the issues
unique to digital media, either from the perspective of rights owners or
libraries and archives. The Section 108 Study Group will review and
document how section 108 should be revised in light of the changes
wrought by digital technologies, while maintaining balance between the
interests of rights holders and library and archive patrons.

The Section 108 Study Group is made up of copyright experts from various
fields, including law, publishing, libraries, archives, film, music,
software and photography, and it is co-chaired by Laura Gasaway,
director of the law library and professor of law at the University of
North Carolina, and Richard Rudick, former vice president and general
counsel of John Wiley and Sons. (See \<http://www.loc.gov/section108/\>)

[Orphan Works Study]{.underline}

In January 2005, the Copyright Office announced the beginning of its
study of issues surrounding "orphan works" -- copyrighted works whose
owners are difficult or even impossible to identify and locate. The
study is a response to concerns that uncertainty surrounding ownership
of these works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users
from using works in socially productive ways, such as by incorporating
these works in new creative efforts, or by making them available to the
public. The study seeks to address these concerns by soliciting public
comment on the issue in order to determine whether a legislative,
regulatory, or other solution might be appropriate.

The study was conducted in three phases. The first phase involved the
solicitation of written comments from the public. The January 26th
Notice of Inquiry published in the Federal Register invited the public
to submit written comments during an initial 60-day period. The Office
received approximately 700 unique comments before the deadline on March
25, 2005.

After this initial period expired, the Notice of Inquiry also provided
for a 45-day period during which the public was invited to submit reply
comments addressing issues raised by the initial comments. The Office
received about 150 unique comments before this period concluded on May
9, 2005. Both the initial comments and the reply comments have been
posted on the Copyright Office's Website.

The next phase involved the review and evaluation of the written
comments. After some review, the Office held roundtable meetings with
dozens of interested parties in summer 2005 in both Washington, D.C.,
and Berkeley, California, as part of an effort to produce a report and
recommendations on orphan works in January 2006.

The study has the support of several members of Congress who are
frequently engaged in copyright issues. On January 5, 2005, Senators
Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy, the chairman and ranking member,
respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on
Intellectual Property, asked the Register of Copyrights to study this
issue and to report findings by the end of the year. In the same month,
Reps. Lamar Smith and Howard Berman, the chairman and ranking member,
respectively, of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts,
the Internet and Intellectual Property, sent letters to the Register
supporting the study.

[Pre-registration]{.underline}

The Copyright Office has implemented a directive from Congress to devise
a system to allow for pre-registration of unpublished works in advance
of commercial release, to help pre-empt infringement. The directive was
included in the Artists\' Rights and Theft Prevention Act enacted April
27, 2005 \[P.L. 109-9\]. Pre-registration is now available through an
on-line submission process. The Copyright Office delayed slightly the
implementation of the pre-registration process to ensure that the online
forms were compatible with browsers that may be used by most applicants.
Currently, the process is available using Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5
and 6.0, Netscape 7.02 and Firefox 1.0. Working with the vendor, the
software is undergoing upgrades, to be launched early next year, to
further expand the browsers that can be used to access the forms.

**OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN**

**[VSIP/VERA (Buyout/early-out)]{.underline}**

This year, the Congressional oversight committees approved the Library's
request to offer Voluntary Separation Incentive Program buyouts and/or
Voluntary Early Retirement Authority retirements from targeted positions
and functions in three service units: Congressional Research Service (up
to 50 buyouts), Library Services (up to 175 division-wide, plus all
eligible employees in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded
Sound Division), and Integrated Support Services (up to9 buyouts). In
order to assure that the VSIP/VERA program will be cost-neutral to the
Library, employees electing the buyout had to retire by January 3, 2006.
The savings from unpaid salaries from January 3 through September 30
will offset the cost of the incentive payments. Employees had to submit
buyout requests by Friday, December 2, 2005. As of that time, the number
of VSIP/VERA retirement applications was: Library Services -- 174; CRS
-- 31; ISS--7; total for the Library -- 212.

**WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY**

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Google Co-Founder Sergey
Brin announced on November 22, 2005, that Google would contribute \$3
million to the Library's initiative to begin a World Digital Library
(WDL) for use by other libraries around the globe. The effort would be
supported by funds from nonexclusive, public and private partnerships,
of which Google is the first.

The concept for the WDL came from a speech that the Librarian delivered
to the newly established U.S. National Commission for UNESCO on June 6,
2005, at Georgetown University.

To lay the groundwork for the WDL, the Library will develop a plan for
identifying technology issues related to digitization and organization
of WDL collections. The content of the World Digital Library, like that
of American Memory, will be primarily one-of-a-kind materials, including
manuscript and multimedia materials of the particular culture.

Dr. Billington named John Van Oudenaren, chief of the European Division
and head of the *Global Gateway* digital library project, as the
Library's senior advisor for the WDL initiative, effective December 19.

**LIBRARY SERVICES**

Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services, issued the
first Library Services E-Newsletter in November 2005 to keep members of
the Association of Research Libraries, the Urban Libraries Council, and
the Council of State Library Agencies informed of the service unit's
projects and initiatives.

**ACQUISITIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC ACCESS DIRECTORATE (ABA)**

ABA lost 78 staff to the VSIP/VERA opportunity, by the January 3, 2006
departure date.

[Acquisitions and Cataloging in Overseas Offices]{.underline}

Lygia Ballantyne retired from the Library on January 3. She was director
of the Library's office in New Delhi, India, and served during the past
sixteen months as acting chief of the African/Asian Acquisitions and
Overseas Operations Division (AFAOVOP). James Gentner, director of the
Cairo Office (Egypt), will serve as acting division chief of AFAOVOP for
four months beginning no later than March. Carol Mitchell, currently
acting director of the Islamabad Office (Pakistan), has agreed to serve
concurrently as the acting director for the Cairo Office during this
interval.

The Library's overseas offices (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cairo, Egypt;
New Delhi, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Nairobi, Kenya; Islamabad,
Pakistan; and the sub-office in Bangkok, Thailand), administered in
AFAOVOP, acquire and catalog materials from countries in which the book
trade is not well developed; provide preservation controls such as
binding and microfilming for many materials they acquired; and conduct
the Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAP) to enable other libraries to
acquire materials for their own collections on a cost-recovery basis.
The overseas offices made major progress this year toward full
integration with the Library's acquisitions and bibliographic access
processes in Washington. After intensive training in Washington in the
ILS cataloging module for all types of material including electronic
resources, microforms, and maps, all offices are able to catalog
independently in the ILS.

In April, the directors of the six offices and their financial analysts
were trained in use of the ILS acquisitions module and Momentum, the
Library's online financial system, as part of the 2005 Field Directors
Conference in Washington. This conference also covered the Library's
collection policy and digital initiatives, with the goal of involving
the overseas offices more closely in the development of digital content.
An outgrowth of the April conference was recognition of the need for a
new Cooperative Acquisitions Program (CAP) automated system that would
meet auditors' requirements regarding the CAP revolving fund and
clients' increased expectations for service. At year's end, CAPS-AD
(Cooperative Acquisitions Program system-Alternative Development) was
under development by the Technology Policy Directorate. The alternative
system would make use of the information technoloy expertise and
superior knowledge of the business model residing in each office.

[Casalini Shelf-Ready Project]{.underline}

The Library's project to acquire shelf-ready materials, with complete
cataloging and some book preparation, from its Italian book vendor,
Casalini libri, moved into the production phase in October 2005. The
project began in 2004 and proceeded in three phases. The first two
phases involved the contribution of 2,200 Casalini-produced
bibliographic records, with associated authority work for the final 400,
in compensation for intensive training, review, and feedback to Casalini
by Library of Congress experts. In 2006, the Library expects to obtain
up to 3,500 core-level bibliographic records from Casalini, which has
joined NACO and SACO, the name and subject authority components of the
Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and will contribute necessary
authority work to support access points on these records to OCLC.
Serials, volumes added to multivolume sets, belles lettres, and certain
other materials are excluded from the project; the Library will continue
to catalog at least half its Italian materials in-house during this
phase. A Library of Congress bibliographic record that was prepared by
Casalini carries an 040 field with values: \$a ItFiC \$c ItFiC \$d DLC.

[Duplicate Materials Exchange Program (DMEP)]{.underline}

An outgrowth of a business process improvement project initiated in
2002, DMEP had as its goals to maintain or improve equitable exchanges
with active partners; reduce ABA staff time needed to manage exchange
programs; reduce space used to store duplicates, list materials, and
pack items; reduce expense by reducing the number of times that items
were physically handled; and implement a Web-based customer interface to
replace paper lists. All goals have now been achieved, and the Library's
exchanges with partners around the globe are centrally serviced through
DMEP. The online interface for the program, Web DMEP, was launched at
the end of July 2005 to 3,063 partners in 118 countries. The site
employed shopping cart functionality to allow the Library's exchange
partners to select desired materials in exchange for materials that they
send to the Library. Web DMEP offered instantaneous selection, inventory
control, partner access to an entire database of available titles in all
subject areas; and many other improvements over the traditional process
of distributing printed lists of available materials. For exchange
partners without Web access, the program continued to distribute printed
lists containing a different, but comparable, selection of books. In
fiscal 2005, the Library sent its exchange partners 11,197 books
requested from printed DMEP exchange lists and 4,574 books requested
from Web DMEP.

[Bibliographic Enrichment Activities]{.underline}

John Celli, Chief of the Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Division,
became chair of the Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team upon the
retirement of founding chair John Byrum on January 3, 2006. John Celli
and cataloging automation specialist David Williamson will coordinate
and manage BEAT projects. Patricia Hayward, program specialist in the
CIP Division, will assist with administrative and other support. For
more information, please see \<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/beat\>

*Automated Web Cataloging with the Web Cataloging Assistant.* An
outgrowth of BEAT\'s Web Access to Publications in Series project (see
below), Web Cataloging Assistant has been in operation since June of
2004. It is currently being used to catalog monographs from 32 different
series. As of November 30, 2005, it has accounted for nearly 4,000
electronic monographs cataloged. This project allows a cataloger to
examine the abstract page for a particular monograph on the Web, and by
using computer and programmed functions effect the creation of a MARC
record that is automatically added to the LC database. This record
includes an abstract of the title represented. The cataloger
subsequently adds subject headings and performs any needed authority
work. The capability greatly reduces manual aspects of the project and
allows catalogers to concentrate on the intellectual work, thus
providing an enriched record through largely automated means.

*Web Access To Publications in Series*. This project has several facets,
the first of which is to link many \"working paper/discussion paper\"
type serial publications to their Web-based electronic versions. These
links provide access to electronic versions of these publications. With
this project LC provides more timely, comprehensive, and cost effective
access to these series. In a second area of activity the Library\'s
Serial Record Division is creating electronic serial records for a
number of high research value monographic series that have not been
represented in LC\'s catalogs, thereby opening up a rich, new source of
information for researchers who may now access electronic versions of
those items. These efforts have provided access to the full electronic
texts of 30,000 individual monographs. In all, Web Access to
Publications in Series currently has links to more than 350 series. A
noteworthy enhancement to both the project and for Business Reference
Services, Science, Technology and Business Division, has been the
creation of a Web-accessible database of *Technical Reports and Working
Papers in Business and Economics* for series covered by the project. The
database can be accessed at
\<http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/techreps/techrepshome.php\>

*Machine Generated 505 Table of Contents (MG 505)*. This BEAT project
adds full text table of contents (TOC) data to catalog records --
information that was previously available only through links from within
catalog records to LC\'s Web-based TOCs for those items. In addition to
English language materials, the project has recently expanded to include
items in German.

The original TOC data was generated from information captured from the
scanned table of contents images from books and is now being added to
field 505 by computer programs. Fields with such information are
preceded by the legend: \"Machine generated contents note:\" and are not
reviewed for punctuation. Because the scanned table of contents reflect
a wide variety of formats and structures, a small percentage of records
may contain errors in the placement and configuration of the 505 texts.
Begun in February 2005, this project has produced 10,000 machine
generated TOC.

*Web Access to Works in the Public Domain.* This BEAT initiative links
LC bibliographic records to full text electronic copies of the materials
residing in other institutions. The Library expects to provide users
with substantive information about these materials as well as access to
their full texts. In 2005, BEAT processed items from new sources: RAND
Corporation, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the University of
Maryland Law School, and the University of Wisconsin Digital
Collections.

*BEAT Book Reviews projects.* This ongoing BEAT project to include links
to scholarly reviews expanded in fiscal 2005 to include reviews from
*E-Streams* and *Education Reviews*.

*Collaborative project to study iVia software.* The Library has a
cooperative agreement in the final stages with the INFOMINE Project
(\<http://infomine.ucr.edu\>) at the University of California,
Riverside. This cooperative agreement would test the iVia software
(\<http://infomine.ucr.edu/iVia/\>) developed for the INFOMINE project.
iVia harvests, analyzes, and processes metadata from Websites and other
digital objects for use in the INFOMINE database. The parties believe
that it would benefit the library community worldwide to incorporate the
Library's subject authority and classification data into the iVia
automatic classifier capability. It is thought that the incorporation of
this data will improve the ability of the iVia software to generate
metadata useful to the Library and other libraries, with minimal
intervention by cataloging staff. The cooperative agreement was pending
as of December 30.

*Digital Tables of Contents.* The Digital Tables of Contents project
creates machine-readable Table of Contents (TOC) data from TOC
surrogates and these materials are subsequently HTML-encoded and placed
on a server at the Library. The process cross-links the TOC to
underlying catalog records. Both the catalog records and the linked TOC
data may be viewed through a Web browser by accessing the Library\'s
online catalog access options. Over 32,000 TOCs have been created and
linked in this project. In 2005, over 6000 TOCs have been added to the
project. In addition, more than 8.8 million hits have been recorded on
the TOC files section of BEAT Web pages for the three Web-based TOC
projects combined.

[Cataloging in Publication]{.underline}

In early spring 2006, the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication
(CIP) Program will launch two separate online surveys to U.S. libraries
and U.S. publishers. The year 2006 marks the 35^th^ anniversary of the
CIP program, an appropriate time to review the status of the program and
to obtain feedback from the communities it serves.

The surveys are designed to obtain input on a number of critical issues
facing the CIP program and its future. They will help the Library of
Congress identify the full scope of how CIP data is currently used and
how the program can be improved, so that it can better meet the needs of
the library and publishing communities, while improving throughput,
efficiency and reducing costs.

The surveys will be posted on the Library of Congress homepage and
notice of their availability will be advertized through the American
Library Association and the Association of American Publishers.

For further information about the 2006 CIP surveys, please contact Oxana
Horodecka, Coordinator of Electronic Programs, CIP Division, Library of
Congress: [[ohor@loc.gov]{.underline}](mailto:ohor@loc.gov)

[Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS)]{.underline}

*Cataloger' s Desktop.* Migration to the Web of *Cataloger's Desktop* is
now complete. The Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) will shortly
introduce a simplified user interface and a reorganized and
easier-to-use table of contents. We will demo *Desktop* new features as
well as Quick Tip navigational aides in the LC booth theater as well as
throughout the conference at the LC exhibit booth.

*Classification Web.* CDS will also demonstrate *Classification Web*,
its fee-based service offering Web access to *LC Classification*
schedules and *LC Subject Headings* plus Dewey correlations to LCSH.
Since CDS released the product, it has been an outstanding success, with
more than 1,700 subscribers around the world. A demonstration of
*Classification Web: New Features* will take place in the booth theater.

*Free PDF versions of selected publications*. The following publications
will be available as free PDF files beginning with issues published
after January 1, 2006: *Cataloging Service Bulletin, Updates to Library
of Congress Rule Interpretations, Updates to Subject Cataloging Manual:
Subject Headings, Updates to CONSER Editing Guide, Updates to CONSER
Cataloging Manual,* and *Updates to MARC 21 format* documentation. The
traditional paper publications will continue to be available from CDS by
paid subscription. Based on CDS's experiences offering PDF versions of
these selected publications throughout 2006, CDS may decide to offer
additional titles in PDF format.

*Cataloging Documentation Survey.* CDS conducted a cataloging
documentation survey this past summer. The survey was available directly
from the CDS Web page. Among the major findings were the following:
there was some interest in PDF versions of updates to CDS's looseleaf
publications \[see section directly above this for details\], but,
generally, PDF was not a preferred format for LC documentation users.
*Classification Web* was the preferred format for accessing *Library of
Congress Subject Headings; Cataloger's Desktop* was the preferred format
for accessing LC's cataloging documentation. Forty percent of
respondents used the paper print versions of documentation to supplement
their use of the Web products.

*Training products.* During 2006, four new courses and their
accompanying CDS materials will be introduced: *Metadata Standards and
Applications*; *Principles of Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus
Design*; Digital Project Management for the 21st Century; and *Digital
Library Design Overview*. During the last year, the following training
courses and accompanying CDS materials were revised: Integrating
Resources Cataloging Workshop; Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop;, and
*Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop*. A new course and accompanying
CDS material, *Basic Creation of Name and Title Authorities*, was
introduced.

*New Voyager Unicode Implementation and Delete Records.* The new Voyager
Unicode implementation had to be completely tested before CDS made the
switch. Ninety percent of the affected programs are now functioning
without problems. One exception relates to the distribution of delete
records. There is a problem with the delete processing when certain
diacritics are present. CDS is aware of the problem and has identified
the records. Subscribers need not report the missing records. CDS hope
to resolve the issue soon and will redistribute the missing delete
records.

A positive result of the new Voyager Unicode system is that CDS is now
in a position to distribute UTF-8 encoded records. For the near future,
UTF-8 distribution will be in response to requests from subscribers.

*CDS transition.* Kathryn Mendenhall, chief of CDS, became full-time
acting director of the Partnerships and Outreach Programs Directorate in
November 2005. Barbara Tillett, chief of CPSO, is also acting chief of
CDS during Mendenhall's absence. She is assisted by Tom Yee, assistant
chief of CPSO. In addition, Loche McLean and Bruce Johnson will rotate
as acting assistant chiefs of CDS, with McLean taking on that role for
the first quarter of the calendar year.

[Cataloging Policy]{.underline}

*Descriptive cataloging.* The Cataloging Policy and Support Office
(CPSO) continues to move forward with its mandate to revise its
documentation. The following LCRIs have been modified, cancelled or
simplified:

*LCRI 1.0G1, Accents and Other Diacritical Marks*. This LCRI prohibited
the use of accent marks on initial capital letters of words in
manifestations published after 1801 in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
At that time of issuance in 1982, this policy aligned with the practices
of the Library and Archives, Canada (LAC); however, since that time LAC
has changed its practice and asked the Library of Congress to conform
with that change. Effective January 1, 2006, CPSO is cancelling this
LCRI and will reissue the LCRI with guidelines for implementation. This
LCRI will be available February 1 via Cataloger\'s Desktop. Catalogers
may begin to implement this decision immediately. Cf. \<
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/accents.html\>

*LCRI 22.17, Dates.* In late June 2005, CPSO posted a proposal for the
addition of dates to existing personal name headings, and solicited
comments from the wider cataloging community. This proposal stimulated a
tremendous response and interesting discussions. A complete summary of
the comments received, and a discussion of the resulting decisions made
by Library of Congress cataloging management is available at
\<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/deathdates.pdf\> \[140 KB; 14 p.\]. In
brief, these decisions are: Allow the optional addition of death dates
to established headings that contain birth dates only. Continue the
\"status quo\" regarding the restriction of adding dates (birth and/or
death) to existing headings that previously had no dates and are not in
conflict with other headings. Additional simplification and
implementation issues are addressed in the full report. A draft of LCRI
22.17 incorporating these decisions is available at
\<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/22-17-rev05.pdf\> \[19 KB; 2 p.\]. The
final version will be available via *Cataloger's Desktop* on February 1,
2006. Because of the expected impact and in the interest of an orderly
implementation, LC requests that the new policies not be followed until
the LCRI is published.

*LCRI 25.13. Manuscripts and Manuscript Groups draft available for
comment.* Because this complex rule is used infrequently by most
catalogers, the lack of explicit guidelines has caused considerable
frustration and disparate results. The revisions are designed to give
clear instructions so that catalogers will 1) know exactly how to create
a heading for a manuscript and provide appropriate references, even
though they only occasionally create these headings, 2) achieve
consistency in creating manuscript headings, 3) provide specific
instructions for relating a manuscript heading to the heading for the
work contained in the manuscript, and 4) limit the creation of an
authority record for the work to situations in which it is actually
needed. The draft is available at
\<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/25_13.html\>. The deadline for comment
on this draft is January 30, 2006. Comments may be sent to CPSO by email
at \<cpso@loc.gov\>.

*Descriptive Cataloging Manual*, *Z1.* The 670 section has been updated
to include guidelines for the use of subfield \$u that allows catalogers
to add a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) in authority records when
needed. Appendix 1: Ambiguous headings has been updated to reflect
recent policy changes in regard to Forests, parks, and reserves as well
as to the appropriate MARC coding for U.S. tribal entities. Appendix 2:
Canadian Names clarifies that the Library and Archives, Canada will
maintain the status quo in regard to Canadian forests, parks, and
reserves as well as to names of Canadian First Nations.

*LC Guidelines supplement to the MARC 21 Format for Authority Data
(i.e., "Blue pages")* has been updated to reflect the use of subfield
\$u in the 670 field and guidelines for the use of 043 in authority
records have been issued.

[LC Unicode cataloging policies]{.underline}. CPSO will be working on
adjustments to the cataloging policies related to bibliographic and
authority records using non-roman scripts over this coming year.
Currently, LC is planning to hold changes until 2007 to allow time for
testing and coordination with the NACO nodes; discussions have already
started.

[LCSH, 28^th^ edition]{.underline}. The 2006, 28^th^ edition of LCSH
will include approved subject headings and changes up to and including
Weekly List 35 for the editorial meeting that met on August 31, 2005.

[Library of Congress Classification]{.underline}. The 2005 printed
editions of class H (Social sciences), K (Law in general. Comparative
and uniform law. Jurisprudence), KF (Law of the United States), K Tables
(Form division tables for law), L (Education), P-PA (Philology and
linguistics), and PJ-PK (Oriental philology and literature, Indo-Iranian
philology and literature) were published by the Cataloging Distribution
Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress.

*[Subject Cataloging Manual: Shelflisting]{.underline}.* The Cataloging
Policy and Support Office is planning to produce a new edition of the
current *Subject Cataloging Manual: Shelflisting*, combined into a
single physical volume with the current *Subject Cataloging Manual:
Classification*. In the meantime, much of the new and revised material
in the shelflisting manual is being made available in *Cataloger\'s
Desktop*. The manual has been reorganized into two sections: *General*,
and *LC-Specific Information*. Many of the instruction sheets have been
renumbered and relocated. G 60 has been split into five separate
instruction sheets. Fourteen instruction sheets have been deleted
because they reflect internal LC procedures that have changed since the
introduction of the LC ILS in 1999. Some of the remaining instruction
sheets have been updated to correct errors or remove obsolete
information. Additional updates and corrections will appear in
*Cataloger's Desktop*, Issue 1, 2006.

[Cooperative Cataloging]{.underline}

Highlights from the Program for Cooperative Cataloging statistics for
fiscal include:

new name authority records:162,099

new series authority records: 9,889

new subject authority records: 2,962

new bibliographic records:66,809

CONSER authentications: 23,692

CONSER maintenance: 32,246

Growth in membership has continued at an even pace, with the PCC
reaching the 500 member mark during the fiscal year. A large number of
training sessions for new and current members were conducted over the
past year--64 institutions and over 100 catalogers received NACO
training; the majority of these sessions were done by non-LC staff.
Outreach efforts in under-represented areas such as East Asian,
African-American, and other minority groups had notable successes with
the training of the Harvard Yenching Library for BIBCO (monograph
bibliographic record cooperative program), the NACO (name authority
cooperative program) membership of the National Indian Law Library, and
the formation and training of a Caribbean NACO and SACO (subject
authority cooperative program) funnel centered in the University of the
West Indies.

A further notable development is the consolidation of SACO as a program
with membership, training, and quality/quantity requirements.
Experienced catalogers have agreed to serve as SACO mentors in the
field, working with new members. This will spread the training and
review expertise outside the LC staff.

[CONSER]{.underline}

*Auto-Derived Records and CONSER Authentication*. In October 2005 CONSER
members discussed a joint OCLC/LC/PCC proposal to include in the CONSER
database records created as a part of the OCLC e-serials holdings
project. The records were created using a macro to clone e-serial
records from existing CONSER and non-CONSER OCLC records for the print
resources. One of the issues surrounding the cloned records is the
possibility that some incorrect ISSN data on the records for the print
resources will transfer to cloned e-serial records. Resolving duplicate
records created during the project is also a concern. The proposal will
be a topic at the CONSER-At-Large meeting on Sunday at the 2006 ALA
Midwinter meeting.

*Access Level Record for Serials.* The Library of Congress Serial Record
Division and several PCC members have formed a group to develop and test
an access level record for serials. This collaborative pilot project is
co-chaired by Regina Reynolds (LC) and Diane Boehr of the National
Library of Medicine. Several CONSER members are participating in the
project and a discussion will be presented at the CONSER-At-Large
meeting at Midwinter.

The access level record pilot for serials takes advantage of the model
used for non-serial e-resources developed by Dave Reser (LC), LC
contractor Tom Delsey, LC cataloging staff, and LC reference staff. The
effort is designed to enhance the utility of catalog records, both to
end users and those in the library that use catalog records for
processing serials, by assuring that essential elements for user tasks
are present in the record. Cataloging cost savings may result by
supplying only those record elements that are essential for performing
the user tasks identified in *Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
Records (FRBR)*: find, identify, select, and obtain.

The serials pilot will include creation of test records based on the
essential set of AACR2 and MARC 21 elements and the cataloging
guidelines. The records will be evaluated in terms of cataloging costs
and how well the records meet end user and library processing needs. The
project is expected to result in a chart of essential data elements and
an outline of cataloging guidelines by January 2006. A progress report,
including an evaluation of the pilot, is expected by the end of April
2006. The charge for the pilot including a detailed discussion of
background, methodology, and deliverables is available at
\<http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/Access-level-chargelc-pccaug17.pdf\>

*Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP)*. In fiscal
2005, trainers in the SCCTP taught 64 workshops, sponsored by more than
twenty different organizations. Sponsors included utility network
training programs, library associations, library interest groups,
consortia, and university libraries. The SCCTP workshops continue to
enjoy strong demand and serve as a practical source of serials
cataloging training in the serials community.

During the year, SCCTP joined other cooperative training initiatives
under the umbrella of the Cataloger's Learning Workshop (CLW)
\<http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/\>. CLW is a clearinghouse portal for
cataloging and other metadata training resources for information
workers. The CLW editorial board provides editorial oversight of
material produced by the participating programs: SCCTP, Cooperative
Cataloging Training, and Cataloging for the 21st Century. CLW is
developing guidelines to provide more consistency in training materials
created and distributed by component programs and hopes to enhance
communication among course developers, revisers, CDS as distributor, and
instructors.

Catalogers and course developers have expressed interest in developing
Web-based courses from existing SCCTP workshop material. Development of
pilot instructor led online workshops is being considered for
development in 2006.

*CONSER Documentation.* The SCCTP *Integrating Resources, Basic Serials,
Advanced Serials,* and *Electronic Serials* workshops were revised in
2005 to reflect changes in the 2004 Update to AACR2 and included other
changes and corrections. The *CONSER Cataloging Manual (CCM)* update 2
was distributed in spring of 2005 and the *CONSER Editing Guide (CEG)*
update 16 was completed in December 2005 and will be distributed in
early 2006.

[Library of Congress Website Focus Group]{.underline}

The Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access division at the Library of
Congress plans to redesign its Website at
\<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/\>. The Library of Congress will conduct
focus groups at ALA in San Antonio to learn more about the needs of our
Website users. We will focus on the needs of catalogers and other
individuals who use the Library\'s cataloging and related resources.

There will be six 30-minute focus group sessions. Participants were
asked to register before January 10, 2006. Please send questions to:
Michelle Rago, Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress,
\<mrag@loc.gov\>

[Bibliographic Access Divisions and Serial Record Division Production,
Fiscal Years 2005 and 2004]{.underline}

*Bibliographic Records Completed* FY2005 FY2004

Full/Core Original 185,531 185,309

Collection-level cataloging (CLC) 4,441 4,393

Copy cataloging 55,925 46,363

Minimal level cataloging [28,993]{.underline} [23,872]{.underline}

Total records completed 277,453 259,937

*Total Volumes Cataloged* 312,818 294,510

*Items Processed on Inventory-Level* *Records* --0\-- 24,392

*Authority Records Created or Updated*

New name authority records 88,828 92,311

New series authority records 9,056 8,770

New Library of Congress Subject Headings [6,678]{.underline}
[6,393]{.underline}

Total records created 104,562 107,474

**COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES DIRECTORATE**

[Federal Research Division]{.underline}

In response to a request from ALA for use in a library disaster recovery
workshop, FRD has mounted on its public Website a May 2001 report
prepared under an Interagency Agreement with FEMA entitled "Cost
Estimates for the Replacement of Periodical Holdings." The report
relates to the cost of replacing specific periodical titles lost in a
flood at North Dakota State University in 2000. The URL is
\<http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/FEMA.pdf\>.

[Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division]{.underline}

*National AudioVisual Conservation Center.* In December 2005, the
Library took possession of Phase 1 of the new National AudioVisual
Conservation Center (NAVCC) in Culpeper, Virginia. Phase 1 is comprised
of the 140,000 square foot Collections Building and the Central plant
servicing the entire facility. Staff will begin working on-site in early
January to prepare for the massive task of moving the Library's moving
image and recorded sound collection throughout the winter and spring
months. The Packard Humanities Institute continues to construct Phase 2
of the facility -- comprised of the Conservation Building and Nitrate
vaults -- which is now scheduled for completion and final turnover to
the Library at the end of 2006. At that time, the Library's audiovisual
preservation laboratories and the staff in the Motion Picture,
Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division will be relocated to Culpeper.

Through contracts with Ascent Media Group and a team of software
developers, progress continued on the design of the NAVCC audiovisual
system and software requirements necessary to automate and integrate the
center's new workflows. In January 2006, the Library's Information
Technology Services (ITS) department distributed a Request for Proposal
to procure the new computer server and storage infrastructure that will
be used as a preservation archive to sustain and protect the
petabyte-level preservation data produced by the NAVCC. The deadline for
proposals in response to the RFP is March 15, 2006.

*National Preservation Boards.* In consultation with the Library's
National Recording Preservation Board, work continued on the effort to
conduct a study of the state of recorded sound preservation in the U.S.
As part of the study, the Library produced two new publications in
collaboration with the Council of Library and Information Resources
(CLIR). The first, *Survey of Reissues of U.S. Recordings* by Tim
Brooks, was published in August 2005. The purpose of this report is to
determine the legal accessibility of sound recordings published in the
United States during the period between 1890 and 1965. Utilizing
scientific research methods, the report discovered that only about 14
percent of recordings published during this period are still in print
today. The second study, published in December, was entitled *Copyright
Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972
Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives*. This study,
written by Columbia University Law Professor June Besek, provides a
legal analysis of the complex rights issues involved in sound recordings
prior to their being brought under federal copyright protection in 1972,
with a focus on the scope of protection and allowable uses, particularly
for research and scholarship.

In December, the Librarian of Congress announced the 17^th^ annual
selection of 25 films named to the National Film Registry. Selected
following the receipt of public nominations and in consultation with the
Library's National Film Preservation Board, the total number of titles
on the registry now stands at 425. Titles named in 2005 were: *Baby
Face* (1933), *The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man* (1975), *The
Cameraman* (1928), *Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina,
May 1940* (1940), *Cool Hand Luke* (1967), *Fast Times at Ridgemont
High* (1982), *The French Connection* (1971), *Giant* (1956), *H2O*
(1929), *Hands Up* (1926), *Hoop Dreams* (1994), *House of Usher*
(1960), *Imitation of Life* (1934), *Jeffries-Johnson World\'s
Championship Boxing Contest* (1910), *Making of an American* (1920),
*Miracle on 34th Street* (1947), *Mom and Dad* (1944), *The Music Man*
(1962), *Power of the Press* (1928), *A Raisin in the Sun* (1961), *The
Rocky Horror Picture Show* (1975), *San Francisco Earthquake and Fire,
April 18, 1906* (1906), *The Sting* (1973), *A Time for Burning* (1966),
and *Toy Story* (1995).

**PARTNERSHIPS AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS DIRECTORATE**

Kathryn Mendenhall, director of the Cataloging Distribution Service, was
named interim director of the Partnerships and Outreach Programs
Directorate, effective November 1, 2005.

[Federal Library and Information Center Committee]{.underline}

Roberta Shaffer was appointed executive director of the Federal Library
and Information Centers Committee on August 29. During fiscal 2005, the
Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) pursued its
mission to foster excellence in federal library and information services
through interagency cooperation and to provide guidance and direction
for FEDLINK.

The FLICC Human Resources Working Group contributed to redefining the
Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards for job series
1410 (librarians) as well as the Classification Standards and to
removing the librarian occupation from OPM's services directory to have
it established as a professional occupation. The Education Working Group
presented a variety of seminars and workshops on cataloging, copyright
law, digital licensing, and other information science policy issues. The
Content Management Working Group sponsored an update session on the
future of the federal library and workshops on information architecture,
taxonomy and eGovernment.

[National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
(NLSBPH)]{.underline}

In a milestone agreement, NLS arranged for Battelle, a major technology
innovation firm, to lead a consortium of expert subcontractors to design
and develop its next-generation audiobook system. The complete playback
system will include a solid-state digital talking-book machine and a
flash-memory cartridge, about the size of a credit card and labeled in
both print and braille, that stores the audiobook. It will be
lightweight, portable, and durable enough for years of use, largely
maintenance-free. NLS has set a reliability goal of ten years of normal
daily operation.

**PRESERVATION DIRECTORATE**

Dianne van der Reyden was permanently appointed director of preservation
on September 12.

[IFLA PAC Center Initiatives]{.underline}

The Directorate is the Regional Center for North America for the
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Preservation and
Conservation (PAC) Focal Point, which is hosted by the National Library
of France. During the summer of 2005, the Directorate initiated the
formation of an IFLA PAC North American Network, consisting of a dozen
partners including the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns
Hopkins, the University of Utah, and the University of Texas-Austin, as
well as the Smithsonian Institution Library, the National Archives and
Records Administration, the New York Public Library and the Library and
Archives of Canada. The purpose of this group is to form a network of
local regional centers that can address library preservation issues on a
national level. The first charge to the group was to develop a
coordinated effort for emergency mitigation for collections. To this
end, each partner was asked to agree to commit annually a total of 80
hours of staff time in recovery and training plus \$1000 in resources or
the equivalent to help with emergencies in North America or neighboring
countries. With the advent of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the North
American Network (NAN) has held weekly conference calls to coordinate
activities with FEMA and the Heritage Preservation Foundation, and a
series of recovery workshops have been planned for fiscal 2006.

[Emergency Response Accomplishments]{.underline}

To respond to the needs of libraries in areas affected by hurricanes,
the Directorate updated its Website to include a link for Hurricane
Recovery, Emergency Preparedness and Response, containing information
for libraries, archives, museums, and the general public about recovery
of water-damaged materials. An in-house training program was designed
and scheduled for hurricane-affected library staff wanting to learn
disaster recovery techniques for collections, with a curriculum
specifically on the topic of recovery of water-damaged materials. The
Directorate also identified volunteers and supplies that may be
available to aid afflicted libraries.

[Mellon Photograph Survey Grant]{.underline}

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a \$40,000 grant to the
Directorate for a three-pronged project: a comprehensive survey of the
Library's photograph collections, an evaluation of a database structure
to use as an assessment tool related to the conservation of those
collections, and recommendations to address the needs identified in the
survey. The comprehensive survey of the Library's approximately 14
million photographs will allow photo conservators to plan and conduct
photo preservation activities more effectively and efficiently than has
been possible in the past because of limited staff and resources, and
will provide a model for that can be used to survey other photograph
collections in large research institutions. The project is expected to
take 15 months, continuing through fiscal 2006.

[Fellows and Interns Training Program]{.underline}

The Directorate reorganized its Fellows and Interns Training Program to
maximum funding options and to introduce students to the full range of
preservation activities undertaken in the Directorate. In addition to
funds from Pulitzer, Harper-Inglis, and INA, new funders included
Nielson-Bainbridge and The Mellon Foundation. The Directorate hosted
eight interns from conservation programs in the US, Chile, France,
Italy, and Japan.

[Digitizing Sound Initiative]{.underline}

Two initiatives continued with the Department of Energy's Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. The first, entitled the "Image,
Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc." (IRENE) Project, funded by the Library
and by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is aimed at building a
fast two-dimensional scanning machine for lateral discs. A functioning
prototype was assembled and scans made with that machine have
demonstrated the required performance. Development work on the full
scale software package is underway. Analytical studies research effort
is centered on the use of a precision surface profiling probe that
utilizes confocal microscopy. Various scans and tests have been made on
a diversity of media including wax and celluloid cylinders, shellac,
lacquer, and aluminum discs, and plastic dictation belts. Audio clips
from Edison and wax Dictaphone cylinders, some from the Jack London
residence at the Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen, California and
heavily damaged by "mold," have been recovered. A number of preliminary
conclusions are under consideration which impact on optimal scanning
strategies and scan times. This project was presented at the Library in
May 2005. The second initiative, entitled "Analytical Studies using
Non-Contact Methods on Mechanical Recording Media," is funded by the
Library with additional support from the Mellon Foundation. The research
effort is aimed at measurements using the full three-dimensional surface
profiles of phonograph discs to extract the maximum information from the
recorded sound carrier. A paper describing the 3D studies was published
in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society in June 2005. A goal of
this effort is to develop an IRENE-like proposal for a 3D scanning
system that could be used by the Library. That proposal would be ready
in mid-2006. Significant outreach activity has explained this research
and its value to a diverse audience including archivists, conservators,
scientists, audio professionals, students, and the general public.
Approximately 30 invited talks have been presented and a large number of
newspaper and magazine articles, and radio and TV spots have appeared.

[Preservation of Treasures Program]{.underline}

Work began on a contract with the National Institute of Standards (NIST)
for the design and construction of an argon encasement for the display
of the Waldseemueller Map, based on systems used for the Charters of
Freedom.

[Conservation Division]{.underline}

*Conservation Treatment Section.* Staff surveyed 3,744,985 special
collection items for treatment, digitization, exhibition, and relocation
to off-site storage. To make collections from twelve curatorial
divisions available for use, staff treated 57,644 books, paper,
photographic and mixed media materials, and housed 786,676 items,
including audio/visual materials. Preservation staff also prepared 577
items for exhibitions worldwide and 4188 items for the National Digital
Library and Internet access. New initiatives included the preparation of
condolence books to be signed by Congress for both the Pope John Paul II
and the victims of the London subway bombings, and staff continued to
consult on the new Capitol Visitors Center. Highlights included the
conservation treatment of several colonial documents including the
papers of George Mason, as well as a letter from the Continental
Congress to George Washington, the 1787 Articles of Confederation,
Benjamin Franklin's 1754 Draft of the Albany Plan of Union, and the
Declaration of Rights made by Representatives from Virginia. Ancient and
exotic materials were also treated, such as a medieval Ethiopian vellum
manuscript story of Saint Takle, the 15th century Washington Haggada, a
16th century Mishnah Torah with wooden boards, the Dhuratul Taj, an
illuminated manuscript of Shi'a text, the 17th century Sanson Atlas
Nouveau, an 18th century Italian parchment scroll containing the Book of
Esther, a 19th century Tibetan thangka painting and a 19th century map
of Peru. The Ezoshi Collection of 130 unique and rare volumes about the
Ainu people of Japan was fully examined, repaired and rehoused. In
addition, a special presentation housing was made for the bronze head
and hands of Abraham Lincoln. Treatment continued on the political
cartoons from the Herblock and Swann collections.

In the Interpretive Programs Office Conservation Program, Conservation
Division staff treated 90 books, 83 single paper items and 69 photos and
1 vase, among other things, for exhibits including the *Kislak
Highlights, Heavenly Craft, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Haven to
Home, American Treasures,* and Disney\'s LC to LA exhibition program.

*Preventive Conservation Section*. Preventive Conservation staff
completed the fourth year of a five-year project to preserve \'at-risk\'
collections on Capitol Hill. To protect such collections from handling,
light and pollutants as part of a stabilization initiative, over 13,255
enclosures, folders and boxes were made to house more than 965 books,
5,618 paper items, 6,645 photographs, and 27 objects. Milestones from
this initiative include the completion of the following three-year
rehousing projects: 130,450 documents from the Theodore Roosevelt
Collection, 15,080 photographs from the Margaret Mead collection, 43,969
photographs from the Biographical File Collection, and 2,781 dust
jackets protected from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Treatment and housing was completed on several photographic collections
including Fenton, Flanner-Solono, and Western Survey and on large items
from the Popular Graphic Art Collection.

[Binding and Collections Care Division]{.underline}

The Library Binding Section implemented two initiatives designed to
improve workflow efficiencies that began to reduce persistent binding
backlogs. The first project involved analyzing binding quality review
workflow to determine where non-staff resources could be applied in
order to redirect available staff time to the preparation of more items
for commercial binding. The second efficiency initiative involved a
pilot project to defer commercial binding of most softbound Copy 2\'s
volumes assigned to the General Collection that are cataloged by the
History and Literature Cataloging Division (HLCD). Instead of full
commercial binding, these duplicate volumes are being labeled and
processed for storage in the more environmentally beneficial Fort Meade
storage facility.

An existing contract with Preservation Technologies (PTLP), requiring
review and selection of newly bound items for mass deacidification
treatment, was modified to include preliminary binding quality review
and routine ILS update tasks for all commercially bound volumes. This
action resulted in a thirty percent increase in the number of items
being prepared for commercial binding on a weekly basis during the last
two months of the fiscal year.

The Collections Care Section continued to improve its core activities to
provide repair and box making services. In fiscal 2005, 2,954 volumes
were repaired and 15,489 boxes were made (an increase of 93 percent over
fiscal 2004 levels). Staff contributed to the efforts of the Public
Domain Book Scanning project. Contributions included writing selection
guidelines, drafting workflow documents, training in identifying the
condition of volumes to be scanned and in their care and handling, and
consulting with cooperating partners' staff concerning improvements to
scanning equipment. Collaboration with the CALM Division to wrap 1,441
damaged volumes allowed the volumes to quickly return to the decks
during a major shifting project.

Staff further collaborated with CALM, BIP and RBSC to develop an
initiative to move approximately 100,000 volumes from Landover to Fort
Meade. The Section's contributions to the project will include
identifying volumes to be transferred to RBSC, and cleaning and
rehousing at risk volumes. This project will begin in fiscal year 2006.
Staff continued to support the Preventive Conservation and Fort
Meade/Culpepper MDEP initiatives by supervising the work of five
Collections Care Technicians. Over 30,000 maps from the American Title
Map collection were rehoused through the section's management of a
contract with History Associates. This project will continue in 2006.

Before the close of the fiscal year, the Collections Care Section
acquired a new automated box-making system, the Kasemake. The Section
has already begun making use of the machine's enhanced capabilities. A
self-closing wrapper is now being made for volumes being sent to Fort
Meade. These wrappers are thinner than the previous four-flap box, and
therefore use less space within the Fort Meade box while still
protecting at risk volumes. Additionally, these boxes do not require any
fasteners, which speeds up their production and lowers the cost of
creating them. Furthermore, the new machine is being used to cut foam
inserts for MRC multimedia boxes and the MBRS Paper Prints boxing
project. Previously this had been a time consuming task done by hand
using several board shears, a book press and die-cut knife. Now, this
task is done with greater precision, and only takes seconds per piece.
In short, the system enables staff to efficiently create several hundred
box styles using a wider variety of materials including boxboard, foam,
cloth and matboard.

[Preservation Research and Testing Division]{.underline}

The Preservation Research and Testing Division conducts original
research to advance preservation of the Library\'s collections. From a
material science perspective, the Library's collections are composed of
traditional, audio/visual and digital objects based on their
composition, properties and use. In order to extend the useful life of
these objects, research projects investigate material composition and
aging properties of collections and the materials used to housed them,
as well as the deleterious or beneficial effects of environments in
which collections are stored and the conservation treatments that
collections undergo. The Division has programs that assure quality
control of materials and procedures, develop specifications and
standards, undertake forensic analysis to identify compositions,
characterize effects of natural and accelerated aging on properties, and
develop testing and safety protocols.

*Quality Control and Assurance Program*. To support the preservation of
the Library\'s analog and digital collections, the Division\'s Quality
Assurance Program ensures that collection items in all formats are
housed only in the highest quality materials to achieve the maximum
usable life expectancy for the item. Materials procured through the
Preservation Supply Catalog, and by individual divisions, are required
to meet Library of Congress specifications and be subjected to rigorous
testing prior to acceptance. One hundred twenty-six items composed of
various materials were tested in PRTD, including paper, card, board,
book-cloth, plastics, film, and foam. These materials are evaluated
based on multiple parameters, constituting a total of 1256 tests
accomplished in fiscal 2005.

*Specifications Program*. To ensure that the Library continues to
provide products used for housing its collections that demonstrate the
characteristics of the exceptional durability and permanence required
for long-term preservation and access, in fiscal 2005 staff initiated a
Specification Discussion Group to better serve the needs of our
constituents by collaborating with conservators and custodial divisions
in the development of new specifications, and updating older ones. In
fiscal 2005 the committee highlighted the need to revise the
requirements for stiffness and smoothness of card and board stock, as
well as the physical requirements for corrugated board products used in
pre-made boxes and for the automated box tester in the Binding and
Collections Care Division. Experiments are being planned to more
precisely correlate the performance requirements established by the
Library curators with laboratory testable specifications. The results of
this study will be discussed with the Library's suppliers to try to
reach a reasonable compromise between preservation needs, commercially
available manufacturing processes, and cost.

*Forensic Analytical Services Program*. To provide scientific and
technical support for projects related to the conservation of the
Library collections, staff conducted physical and chemical analyses of a
variety of materials brought to the lab by curators and conservators.
These projects employ a wide array of advanced instruments for
identification and characterization of unknown materials. Many of these
projects use multiple techniques performed by a number of different
staff members in collaboration to render a final report on the findings
to the requestor. Results provided by staff analysts inform treatment
and housing decisions. Highlights in fiscal 2005 included analysis of
written adulterations on an original manuscript by Andrew Jackson for
his inaugural address; analysis of cross sections of ground, pigments,
and coatings on Islamic lacquer book-bindings; analysis of pigments and
varnish on a 1910 gouache painting for the cover of the New Yorker by
Rae Irvin; analysis of cellulose acetate residues removed during
treatment of two documents by George Mason; and analysis of a substance
used to impregnate the cover and pages of the Arkieratikon, a Greek book
of liturgy from the Medieval and renaissance collection.

*Safety Assurance Program.* Analyses are also conducted to determine
safety or health hazards imposed by handling objects with suspect
materials. In fiscal 2005 staff identified as harmless substances found
on plastic film cans in the cold vaults in Landover, a Balinese palm
leaf book from the Asian Division, and three books in AMED that are
being scanned for the Islam and Science Project. These analyses
constitute 173 spectra collected by Fourier Transform Infra-red
Spectrophotometry, 32 spectra collected by Scanning Electron
Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-Ray, and 118 examinations and digital
images using Polarized Light Microscopy.

*Digital Media Composition and Aging Research Program*. The Digital
Media Research Project continued to focus on several projects to assess
the usable lifetimes of optical digital media, using natural and
accelerated aging. The CD-Audio Media Natural Aging Project monitors the
aging properties, in terms of error levels, of digital media in
permanent storage under ambient conditions at the Library. The project
has now been in progress for nine years. This study is based on a
limited sample of 125 titles selected randomly from the Library\'s
collection, and analyzed every three years for increases in errors,
which represent the overall stability of the digital data on the disc. A
report on the progress of this study at the six-year mark was published
in late 2004 by the Canadian Conservation Institute in their post-prints
of the symposium on Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge
and Decision-Making, and is also available on the Library Preservation
Directorate\'s Web page. The CD Natural Aging Study's original data was
collected using a CD-Cats tester on an earlier operating system. In
fiscal 2005 a study was conducted to compare the results from the
CD-Cats to the Datarius analyzers in order to move all subsequent tests
to the Datarius instrument. All 125 titles were tested during the same
time period in both testers, and analysis of the data is underway. Based
on the results of this initial natural aging study a second expanded
study of discs from the collection was initiated in fiscal 2005. This
study incorporates 1050 discs selected to represent each year that discs
have been produced from the beginning of their emergence on the consumer
market, of which 431 were analyzed in fiscal 2005. Discs from both
natural aging studies are being examined microscopically and imaged
using a Zeiss Stemi SV-ll to examine physical manifestations of
degradation. The chemical composition of the discs is also being
analyzed to relate the presence of certain materials with different
mechanisms of degradation.

The CD-Audio Media Accelerated Aging Project utilizes accelerated aging
over a range of temperature and relative humidity levels to observe the
chemical and physical effects of aging, as well as the effect of
laser-engraving discs in an effort to secure the collection. The first
phase of this study, which employed standard ANSI aging conditions, was
completed last year, resulting in two reports published in fiscal 2005
as part of the Preservation Research and Testing Series. The discs from
this accelerated aging study are also being imaged and analyzed to
determine the components of CD-Rom discs that cause them to fail earlier
than discs with a more extended projected longevity.

The objectives of the Digital Media Research Program are to develop a
method for forecasting the obsolescence of optical media, assign life
expectancy (LE) ratings for various optical media, establish optimum
storage conditions for optical media, and develop a pilot project to
integrate best practices into the Library workflow. In furtherance of
these goals, and in support of the development of preservation
strategies through collaborations, the Preservation Directorate and the
Information Technology Division of NIST have entered into an interagency
agreement to share data and mutually support initiatives in progress at
both the institutions in support of evaluation and extension of life of
digital optical media. The NIST research is using accelerated testing to
determine the longevity of recordable optical media for storing data for
extended periods of time. The results of this research will be used to
guide consumers and institutions in purchasing discs that have the
components that will protect important data from being corrupted or lost
over time, and recommended schedules for refreshing the data.

*Paper Aging Research Program*. Staff continue to participate in a
100-year Natural Aging of Papers Project. Sponsored by the American
Society for Testing and Materials, this work is in collaboration with
four other laboratories and 10 libraries across the US and Canada,
including the National Archives and Records Administration, IPI, FPL,
and CCI. During fiscal 2005 testing continued on previously received
samples. The next batch of material for analysis will arrive during the
summer of 2008. The parallel Accelerated Aging of Papers Project has
resulted in the potential for a new standard test that would be
appreciably faster (requiring only 3 rather than 30 days) and not
require expensive humid aging chambers. An additional milestone was
reached in fiscal 2005, with the discovery that the production of
degradation products do not appear to taper off with time, but rather
continue to form for the life of the material.

*Adhesives Performance Standards and Research Project.* Staff continued
to provide leadership in developing international standards and
specifications for use in the testing and evaluation of materials used
in the housing, stabilization, and treatment of items in the Library
collections. In fiscal 2005 staff participated in meetings of ASTM
Committee D14 Adhesives, and chaired sub-committee D14.50 Hot Melt,
Pressure-Sensitive, and Archive Adhesives. Revisions were made to two
standards, ASTM D3191 and D6462 and submitted for Summer 2005 ballot. As
chair of the D14.50 task group, staff directed work on the development
of two new standard specifications for pressure-sensitive adhesive
labels for file folders and box-board, and a new standard test method
for peel adhesion of label stocks for use in libraries and archives. In
this work staff collaborated with scientists from National Archives and
Records Administration, Yale University, New York University, Forest
Products Laboratories, and technical representatives of adhesive
manufacturers, namely, 3M Company, Flexcon, Data2, Avery, Gaylord,
Computype, and Watson Label Products, in order to codify requirements
and test methods for permanent archival-quality label stock.

[Preservation Reformatting Division]{.underline}

The Preservation Reformatting Division provides access to at-risk
materials by converting items to new preservation formats, such as
microfilm, preservation facsimile copies or digital reproductions. In
carrying out this responsibility, the Division plans and manages the
preservation reformatting budget; executes annual reformatting plans by
establishing requirements and standards for preservation reformatting;
and collaborates with other institutions to develop preservation
reformatting projects that improve the quality, content and
accessibility of reformatted works. In fiscal 2005, the Preservation
Reformatting Division successfully converted 4,664,992 units (e.g.
pages, photographs, posters), a 13 percent increase over the fiscal 2004
level, of library material through a combination of preservation
microfilming (4,622,631 pages or 2,658,510 exposures), preservation
facsimile (16,669 pages or 32 volumes), digitization (40,826 pages or
4,197 works), and other preservation photographic reproductions (4,531
images and 1,000 acetate microfilm reels) for service to the public. The
reformatted material was drawn from three Area Studies divisions, seven
Public Service Collections divisions, the Law Library, and the master
negative microform collection. Approximately 1,874 micrographic units
(e.g. microfilm reels, microfiche) received complete bibliographic
inspection while all other units received a more basic level of review.
Regular quality assurance feedback was provide to all reformatting
vendors in order to correct any identified deficiencies and to ensure
compliance with contract requirements.

*Micrographic and Facsimile Program.* An existing four-year preservation
microfilming contract was successfully completed. A new multi-year
preservation microfilming and digital imaging contract was successfully
competed and awarded to OCLC Preservation Service Centers at the close
of the fiscal year. This contract will allow the Library to continue
high-volume preservation reformatting activities for a wider variety of
library materials at a very effective cost. Deliverables under this new
contract include microfilm, microfiche and master digital files and
derivative files. Master negative microfilm holding records were created
for all of the Library's newspapers published in Latin America. These
holdings records were then successfully exported to the Center for
Research Libraries in support of the National Endowment for the
Humanities funded International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) Unionist.

[U.S. Newspaper Program]{.underline}

Over the past twenty-two years, access to American newspapers has been
greatly enhanced through the efforts of the United State Newspaper
Program (USNP) to catalog and preserve on microfilm an approximately
67.5 million historical newspaper pages. In fiscal 2005, the Library
continued to provide technical support to USNP grant recipients under an
interagency agreement with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced U.S. Newspaper
Program awards of \$1.4 million in fiscal 2005 to fund continuing
projects in three states: California (University of California,
Riverside), Illinois (University of Illinois, Urbana), and Virginia
(Library of Virginia, Richmond). Other projects continue in Illinois
(Chicago Historical Society, Chicago), New York (New York State Library,
Albany), Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University), and Tennessee
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville). To date, NEH has provided over 52
million in support of USNP projects in each of the fifty states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Library
staff also worked with OCLC and other USNP participants to best process
existing local data records to better conform to the MARC21 holdings
standard for OCLC 's Unionlist conversion effort.

[National Digital Newspaper Program]{.underline}

In fiscal 2005, the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) entered
the formative stages of Phase 1 development. NDNP, a partnership between
the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Library, is a
long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database for
all U.S. newspapers and select digitized historic titles. During the
year, program and technical development moved significantly forward in
parallel. Establishing a distributed resource approach modeled after the
United States Newspaper Program (USNP), NEH and the Library devised
technical guidelines and requirements for state participation in an
award program to digitally convert select historical newspapers from
microfilm. In April 2005, NEH awarded 6 state institutions a combined
\$1.9 million to locally select and convert 750,000 historical newspaper
pages from microfilm for Phase 1. As an initial test dataset, the
Library awarded IArchives a contract to convert approximately 80,000
pages from microfilm from its own historical collections fitting the
pilot time period, 1900-1910, selecting from those published in
Washington, D.C. Currently, the Library has converted 3600 pages (14,400
digital files) to NDNP technical specifications. The Library anticipates
making additional conversion awards during the development period. The
Library joined the Internet2 community, utilizing its advanced
infrastructure for wide-scale digital preservation projects, such as
NDNP. In addition, the program is testing the practical considerations
of aggregating such a large digital collection, implementing new
automated validation and authentication processes to manage assets
created a distributed multi-producer model. In addition to NDNP's focus
on developing a sustainable model for preservation and access to these
digital assets, another program requirement is the deposit of the
microfilm print master negative used for digitization to the Library of
Congress (approximately 700 reels in the first phase). These reels will
be added to the Library's master negative collections, disaster
insurance against any possible data loss for the future, and an
additional effort to secure long-term access to this national resource.
During the early part of fiscal 2005, the NDNP team defined requirements
for use of historical newspaper content. A master dataset, a
comprehensive newspaper title directory - approximately 140,000
bibliographic records and 900,000 holdings records for newspaper
originals, microfilm masters, and copies created during USNP -- serves
as a basic descriptive structure for all digitized pages. The
repository's Web interface allows for searching and browsing these
descriptive records and, per the user requirements, will include
full-text access and visual navigation to digitized pages as well.
Shortly, NDNP will initiate usability testing to inform additional
interface development, resulting in a user-friendly application
prototype to be publicly released at the end of fiscal 2006.

[Mass Deacidification Program]{.underline}

To extend the life and utility of collections through appropriate
treatment and technologies, the Directorate deacidified 296,119 books
and 1,012,500 document sheets as part of its 30-year initiative to
stabilize over 8.5 million general collection books and at least
30,000,000 pages of manuscripts. Deacidification results in extending
the useful life of acidic and slightly brittle books by a minimum of 300
percent, assuring in most cases that, given proper handling and storage,
treated books will survive for 300-1000 years rather than becoming
extremely brittle and degraded in less than a century, requiring much
more expensive reformatting. The single-sheet treater enabled the
Library to deacidify in the past year 1,012,500 pages of non-book,
paper-based materials. The 296,119 bound volumes deacidified last year
included 289,405 monograph books (retrospective collections as well as
newly-acquired books in various classes that are printed on acidic
paper) and 6,714 volumes from the Library's extensive collection of
American comic books.

**TECHNOLOGY POLICY DIRECTORATE**

[Integrated Library System Program Office]{.underline}

*Integrated Library Management System.* In November 2005, the Library
upgraded its integrated library management system to the Voyager with
Unicode Release. This upgrade accomplished the conversion of the LC
Database to Unicode, a character coding system designed to support the
interchange and display of the written texts of the diverse languages of
the modern world. Users can now search and display Arabic, Chinese,
Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and Yiddish characters and scripts in
the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

During the upgrade, the Library reduced the number of simultaneous
external OPAC and Z39.50 sessions in order to allocate additional system
resources for processing the conversion and indexing of the database.
Shortly after the completion of the upgrade the Library resumed all
previous levels of access. The Library regrets any inconvenience to
users and appreciates their patience during this brief period.

The Library has provided extensive Help Files to guide users in
adjusting the settings in their operating systems and Web browser to
enable proper display of all characters in the LC Online Catalog. These
Help Files are available at:
[[http://catalog.loc.gov/help/unicode.htm,]{.underline}](http://catalog.loc.gov/help/unicode.htm,)
and contain information about fonts for display and printing records. A
presentation on the Library\'s implementation of Unicode is available
at: [[www.loc.gov/ils]{.underline}](http://www.loc.gov/ils)

Over the past twelve months, the Library has continued to expand access
and improve service for users of the Library of Congress Online Catalog
([catalog.loc.gov]{.underline}). In the past year the Library increased
the number of simultaneous OPAC sessions by 25 percent and saw a
resulting decline in the number of customers who could not be
accommodated. The Library will continue to monitor external use and seek
ways to increase access for users.

In 2005, the Library expanded use of its integrated library management
system to its six overseas offices. Staff in Cairo, Islamabad, Jakarta,
Nairobi, New Delhi, and Rio de Janeiro now perform cataloging and
acquisitions activities in the LC ILS. The Cataloging Distribution
Service successfully migrated to a Voyager database in December 2005.

*Find It!, LC's OpenURL Resolver.* As part of the Library's ongoing
efforts to improve service to its users, the Library implemented Find
It!, an OpenURL resolver. Using the SFX software from Ex Libris, Inc.,
Find It! enables users to navigate seamlessly between independently
managed resources by generating links from citations for resources to
full digital content and other services, such as tables of contents and
abstracts; the Library of Congress Online Catalog; the Library's title
lists of available electronic journals; and Web search engines.

*Electronic Rights Management System.* In 2006 the Library will
implement a Web interface to its Electronic Rights Management System
(ERMS) to improve user access to electronic resources. The ERMS Web
interface will deliver a consolidated A to Z listing and up-to-date
holdings information. A search engine will provide access to these
electronic resources for staff and users. This Web interface will
provide a gateway to the full text of articles from e-resources via
multiple search options. Future directions for the project include
exploring the integration of the ERMS with other production systems,
such as Find It!, LC's OpenURL Resolver, to serve as a target for a
listing of LC's e-journal holdings.

*Encoded Archival Description.* LC's seven special format divisions
created over 25 new EAD finding aids in 2005. The 291 finding aids
indexed in LC's EAD InQuery search system provide access to more than 16
million archival items in LC's collections. The LC ILS contains
collection level summary records that point to these EAD finding aids
through persistent identifiers (handles). RLG regularly harvests LC's
EAD finding aids for inclusion in their Archival Resources site, a
"union catalog" of finding aids. In addition, the new PDF manifestations
of LC's EAD finding aids are prominently indexed by search engines such
as Google and Yahoo, which provides increased visibility to LC's
archival collections.

In fiscal 2005, LC's EAD Technical Group completed LC's implementation
of EAD2002, the revised EAD XML DTD released by the Society of American
Archivists into production in January 2004. Using a conversion software
toolkit written by LC's Music Division staff, all existing LC finding
aids were converted to XML. PDF versions were also creating (using
XSL-FO) to provide printable documents for LC reading rooms. With ITS
assistance, ILS staff modified LC's EAD InQuery search system.

*Handle Server*. The Library uses CNRI's handle server software to
provide persistent identification of LC-managed electronic resources. In
2005, LC migrated its handle server application to an Oracle platform
and Library staff registered more than 750,000 new handles. The
Library's handle server now contains over 1.25 million handles.

[Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NDMSO)]{.underline}

*METS (www.loc.gov/mets) and Digital Library Standards Prototyping*.
This year NDMSO expects to continue to expand our tools to allow MODS
and METS validation at creation, increasing data integrity, and explore
moving into a Fedora repository.

*MARC 21 (\<www.loc.gov/marc\>) and MARCXML
(\<www.loc.gov/marcxml\>)MARC 21 Documentation*. In the past, NDMSO
maintained the *Concise Formats* document in a standard ISO SGML markup
to generate 5 different products or views for users, including the *MARC
21 Concise Formats* (print), the *MARC 21 Concise Formats* (html/web),
the *MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic Format* (html/web), the MARC 21 field
lists (ASCII/web), and the translator's version (html/web). NDMSO is
completing conversion of all five MARC 21 formats into XML to enable
migration from the SGML markup to a content-oriented XML tag set. The
conversion process is expected to be completed during the beginning of
FY06.

*Unicode-MARC Forum.* The Library of Congress has set up a special
listserv for the MARC 21 systems and vendor communities to discuss and
arrive at consensus on various issues concerning the implementation of
Unicode with MARC 21. Proposal 2006-04
(www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2006/2006-04.html) was written which summarizes
the discussion on the Unicode-MARC Forum for converting Unicode to
MARC-8 for systems that cannot handle Unicode records. The Forum
consensus was for defining a placeholder character that was to be
substituted for each unmappable Unicode character.

*MODS (\<www.loc.gov/mods\>) and MADS (\<www.loc.gov/mads\>).* NDMSO
revised the MODS XML Schema, which was issued as version 3.1 in July
2005. It incorporated some structural changes to enable use of MODS
defined elements in the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS-- a
derivative of MARC 21 Authority format in XML), some corrections, and
some additions/changes requested by users. Some enhancements were
intended to accommodate the emerging description standard *Cataloging
Cultural Objects*.

The office is updating the XSLT stylesheets that it maintains for
conversion between MARCXML and other XML formats based on continually
revised mappings.

An increasing number of institutions are implementing MODS in their
digital library projects as a descriptive metadata schema, particularly
in conjunction with METS. For instance, the Digital Library Federation's
Aquifer initiative is creating a testbed of tools for selecting,
collecting, and providing access to quality digital content and is using
MODS with a MODS profile developed for Aquifer
(\<http://www.diglib.org/aquifer\>). DSpace has also chosen MODS as the
preferred descriptive metadata format in their METS profile for
submission information packages.

The Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) was updated in late
June 2005 to allow for the reuse of MODS elements. The office issued a
conversion tool in Dec. 2005 in the form of an XSLT stylesheet to
convert from MARC 21 authority records to MADS.

*PREMIS.* The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working
Group (PREMIS), sponsored by OCLC and RLG and co-chaired by staff from
LC/NDMSO and the Florida Center for Library Automation with 30 members
from five countries, completed its final report and data dictionary for
preservation metadata in May 2005. LC/NDMSO established a Website for
the maintenance activity (www.loc.gov/premis), including maintenance of
the data dictionary and the XML schemas to support implementation. It
also established a discussion list for the PREMIS Implementors' Group
(\<pig@loc.gov\>), an email address for questions (\<premis@loc.gov\>)
and is making available documentation in support of this activity. An
implementors' registry is under development.

In November 2005 the PREMIS Working Group received the prestigious
Digital Preservation Award, which is sponsored by the UK's Digital
Preservation Coalition and is part of the Conservation Awards supported
by Sir Paul McCartney, at the British Museum in London.

**OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES**

The major focus for the service unit was the National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, a congressionally
mandated program that the Library is leading for the nation. The program
seeks to collect and preserve at-risk digital information in a
collaborative framework of partners with defined roles and
responsibilities. Because the preservation of digital materials can
sometimes run into challenges posed by copyright law, a new independent
group was formed in fiscal 2005 to recommend ways that copyright law
should be changed to meet the needs of libraries when working with
digital materials for preservation as well as other purposes.

OSI is also responsible for the management of the Library's myriad
Websites and for the educational outreach programs, which demonstrate to
educators nationwide the value of incorporating electronic primary
sources in the classroom.

The Information Technology Services Directorate is also part of OSI,
providing technology support to all the service units of the Library.

[National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation
Program]{.underline}

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(NDIIPP) continued to move forward with its collaborative partnerships
and other activities designed to bring focus to important issues, such
as the ingest of large archives of digital material, how current
copyright law affects the process of digital preservation, the
establishment of the first digital-preservation research grants program
and an examination of how the states and territories of the United
States are coping with the preservation of digital state records. The
program's Website is at \<www.digitalpreservation.gov\>.

*Digital Preservation Partnerships.* The initial NDIIPP Digital
Preservation Partnerships form a model institutional network focused on
preserving at-risk digital information. This work depends on extensive
collaboration among the partners and with the Library. The eight
consortia comprising 36 institutions, which received NDIIPP awards
totaling nearly \$14 million during fiscal 2004, met twice in Washington
during fiscal 2005. All the partners have shown considerable progress
during the initial year of their projects, particularly in establishing
practical working frameworks and developing digital preservation tools
and services.

*Archive Ingest and Handling Test.* In June 2004, the Library entered
into a joint digital preservation project with Old Dominion University,
Department of Computer Science; Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan
Libraries; Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information
Resources; and Harvard University Library to explore strategies for the
ingest and preservation of digital archives. The 12-month project was
supported by Information Systems Support, Inc., and was completed in
June 2005. The test was designed to identify, document and disseminate
working methods for preserving the nation's increasingly important
digital cultural materials, as well as to identify areas that may
require further research or development.

The AIHT participants investigated and applied various digital
preservation strategies, using a digital archives donated to the Library
by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The
archives is a collection of 57,000 digital images, text, audio and video
related to the Sept. 11, 2001 events. The transfer of these 12 gigabytes
of digital content was being used to emulate the problems that arise in
digital preservation and to test possible solutions.

The project produced a first generation of tools and processes for
institutions to obtain sufficient physical control over digital objects
to preserve them; validated with practical experience the need for
implementation guidelines for the use of the METS standard (the METS
schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative and
structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library,
expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web
Consortium); stress-tested six repository implementations and provided
useful feedback to the developers of those implementations and validated
the transfer of data as the point of standardization rather than
specific hardware and software implementations. A final report will be
available in fiscal 2006.

*Library of Congress-National Science Foundation Research Awards.* In
May 2005, 10 university teams received a total of \$3 million to
undertake pioneering research to support the long-term management of
digital information. The Library and the National Science Foundation
made the awards as the result of a partnership formed to develop the
first digital-preservation research grants program. Research supported
by these awards will help produce the technological breakthroughs needed
to keep very large bodies of digital content securely preserved and
accessible over many years.

The projects are exploring challenging topics, such as preserving rich
oceanographic data from hundreds of deep-sea submersible missions;
automating methods to describe digital objects and place them in secure
archival storage; testing how to preserve digital video when it is first
created; and preserving complex three-dimensional digital content. All
the projects are expected to produce study results in one year.

*Electronic Deposit for Electronic Journals Project.* The purpose of the
eDeposit for eJournals project is to build a prototype system by the end
of fiscal 2006 that will ingest, archive and create access to electronic
journals and other digital content in the Library collections. The
project is a collaborative effort among three service units of the
Library: the U.S. Copyright Office, Library Services and the Office of
Strategic Initiatives. The project will consider the near- and long-term
needs of library users, as well as the technologies available, by
studying other systems and technologies in order to build the most
efficient system using available resources

*Web Content Capture Project.* During its second year, the Web Capture
Team worked to establish broader institutional support for, and
participation in, capturing at-risk content from the Web. The team
established a regular stream of content identification and selection to
harvest the content within a reliable technical environment. The team
also worked with custodians of the materials Library-wide to archive the
content.

In collaboration with representatives from the Congressional Research
Service, the Law Library and Library Services, the Web Capture Team
worked with recommending officers and curators to expand the Library's
collection of Web content by 15 terabytes of data comprising more than
3,500 Websites. To date, the Library has captured a total of 34
terabytes of Web content. The Web materials relate to such events as the
national elections of 2004 and the papal transition from John Paul II to
Benedict XVI. The Library also continued to capture Websites associated
with the war in Iraq, recent Supreme Court nominations, and Hurricane
Katrina.

The Library is a member of the International Internet Preservation
Consortium and worked through that organization to develop common Web
capture tools, processes and practices.

[National Digital Library Program]{.underline}

The National Digital Library Program continues to be one of the premier
Websites of the federal government, with millions of users across the
country and around the world. During fiscal 2005, the main home page at
[www.loc.gov](http://www.loc.gov/) was redesigned with an enhanced
interface and site architecture. The new design offers more attractive
graphics and is easier to navigate than its predecessor. The American
Memory Website, its companion Today in History site, and numerous other
Library Websites also received this visual and architectural upgrade.
The Library's site received an "Outstanding Website" award from the Web
Marketing Association in September.