Library of Congress Professional Guild

AFSCME
Local 2910

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.

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2009 Guild Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Click here for the full statement of Saul Schniderman, President, May 5, 2009 (5 pages, pdf.) which covers employee survey; transit fare subsidy; merit selection; Office of Opportunity, Inclusiveness and Compliance; labor relations, support for staff specialization, food service, life safety, and "Crisis in the Copyright Office -- Part II."

2008 Guild Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations. Click here for the full statement of J. Kent Dunlap, Chief Negotiator, May 7, 2008. (19 pages, pdf), which includes:

• Crisis in the Copyright Office, pages 2-7
• Uncompromising Extremism in the Labor Relations Program, pages 8-10
• Future of Cataloging, pages 13-16
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Employees at the Library of Congress, Fact Sheet, May 2008, pages 17-18

Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, remarks of Guild President Saul Schniderman at press event hosted by Represenative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), June 4, 2009, and photograph. AFSCME letter of support to members of Congress.

Federal Labor Relations Authority Decision, February 24, 2009, regarding award in favor of the Guild by Arbitrator Barbara Franklin. Click to view.

To view Arbitrator Franklin's 2007 decision, click here.

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The Future of Cataloging

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/

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