Library of Congress Professional Guild

AFSCME
Local 2910

Celebrating 31 years of advocacy, representation, and leadership at the Library of Congress.

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AFSCME, Local 2910

Library of Congress, LM-G41

101 Independence Ave., S.E.

Washington, DC 20540-9994

Phone: 202-707-6493/1304

Fax: 202-707-1873

Email: guild@loc.gov

We are the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910, representing over 1600 employees at the Library of Congress. Welcome to our homepage.

Employee privacy and confidentiality protected - February 14, 2008 newsletter article on Federal Service Impasses Panel ruling in favor of Guild in Official Time dispute. For full text of FSIP decision click here.

Guild Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations, May 1, 2007 (15 pages in PDF format).

Guild prevails in landmark arbitration case on union represenational activites. Click here for the August 13, 2007, newsletter.

On July 16, 2007, Arbitrator James M. Harkless issued his decision concerning the grievance filed by the Library of Congress requesting that Guild officers and stewards be put on leave without pay for alleged deficiences in reporting union representational activities. Arbitrator Harkless also ruled on the Guild's grievance against the Library on charges of coercion. The arbitrator's decision is a lengthy 61 pages. Jump to page 50 for discussion of the cases. Click here for the full text.

President and Chief Steward face leave without pay... click here for January 11, 2007 Guild Newsletter, which includes an update on actions taken by Library management on reporting and use of official time. (in PDF format)

Editorial Cartoon by Marilyn Wassmann (with assistance of Paul Wassmann)

"Assault on employee rights -- the assault on Guild rights," Nov. 15 2006 newsletter (in PDF format)

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The Future of Cataloging

New! Read Thomas Mann's detailed review ("On the Record" but Off the Track, 38 page pdf) of the Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The paper also examines the reorganization of LC's cataloging department proposed by Library management, and the predicably damaging impact it will have on libraries in all Congressional districts. The URL for the Working Group Report itself is www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries, a satirical response to erosion of support for cataloging at the Library of Congress, by Daniel Cohen (December 14, 2007).

Click here to read all essays posted since 2005 from an important debate underway at the Library of Congress on the future of cataloging.