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Contact
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
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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.
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