Library of Congress Professional Guild

AFSCME
Local 2910

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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.

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).

Contents:

• Introduction, pages 1-2
• Crisis in the Copyright Office, pages 2-7
• Uncompromising Extremism in the Labor Relations Program, pages 8-10
• Proposed Changes in the Office of Workforce Diversity, pages 10-12
• Future of Cataloging, pages 13-16
• Closing Remarks, page 16
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Employees at the Library of Congress, Fact Sheet, May 2008, pages 17-18

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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.