Bluestone Is Chief of Science, Technology and Business Division
Ronald Bluestone has been named chief of the Library’s Science, Technology and Business Division. He began his career at the Library in 1971. He was a reference librarian in the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, the Microform Reading Room and the Main Reading Room of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division. He then served as the division’s automated resources information specialist.
In 2001, Bluestone joined the Science, Technology and Business Division, serving as head of the Automation, Collections Support and Technical Reports Section. He held a collateral assignment as acting head of the Business Reference Section. He has served as acting chief of the division since September 2007.
Bluestone holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from George Washington University. He conducted archaeological studies in Guatemala in conjunction with post-graduate course work in archaeology at Catholic University of America.
The Science, Technology and Business Division provides reference and bibliographic services and develops the general collections of the Library in all areas of science, technology, business and economics, with the exception of clinical medicine and technical agriculture, which are the subject specialties of the National Library of Medicine and the National Agricultural Library respectively. The division holds an extensive collection of more than 4.4 million U.S. and foreign technical reports and standards. For more information about the division, go to www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/.
Osborne Tapped to Lead Federal Research Division
David Osborne has been appointed chief of the Library’s Federal Research Division (FRD). Osborne received a bachelor’s degree in history and Russian from the University of Nebraska and a doctorate in Russian from Ohio State University. He joined FRD’s Science and Technology Unit in 1978, where he performed research on physical oceanography and nuclear technology. In 1996, he became supervisor of the unit, continuing to research and write analytical reports on science and technology topics while supervising the research and report writing of staff-unit members. In 2000, he was promoted to head of FRD’s Research Section, supervising 20 full-time research analysts and 25 additional expert contractors who perform a wide range of research projects. In addition to his supervisory research duties, Osborne has been responsible for FRD’s marketing efforts.
During his career in FRD, Osborne has contributed to a number of Library-wide initiatives. In the 1990s he co-wrote a report for the associate librarian for Constituent Services on the future space needs for the book collections and contributed to a special Librarian’s task force on science and technology information in the Library. In 2006–2007, he participated in a working group for the Library Services Performance Planning and Management Program on promoting on-site research and scholarship at the Library.
Osborne has served as author or co-author of more than 100 studies, bibliographies and reference works, including “Domestic Trends to the Year 2015: Forecasts for the United States” and, most recently, “History of the U.S. Army Battle Command Training Program, 1987-2003.”
The Federal Research Division provides research and analysis on a cost-recovery basis to federal agencies, the District of Columbia and authorized federal contractors. Through a comprehensive services agreement with the U.S. National Technical Information Service, FRD can provide custom research services to the private sector, state and local government, international organizations, and others.
The division celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2008. (See Information Bulletin, March 2008.) For more information about the division, go to www.loc.gov/rr/frd/.
Loughney Named Chief of Packard Campus
The Library of Congress has appointed Patrick Loughney as the chief of the Library’s Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va. Loughney will oversee the state-of-the-art facility where the Library acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of movies, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings.
The Packard Campus offers globally unprecedented capabilities and capacities for the preservation and reformatting of all audiovisual media formats dating back to the 19th century. In addition to preserving the collections of the Library, the campus was also designed to provide similar preservation services for other archives and libraries in both the public and private sectors. The Packard Campus is the locus for three congressionally mandated boards charged with preserving the nation’s audiovisual heritage: the National Film Preservation Board, the National Recording Preservation Board, and the American Television and Radio Archive.
Since January 2005, Loughney has been curator of the Motion Picture Department of George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, N.Y., and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Rochester. During that time, he also served as director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at Eastman House.
Loughney was head of the Moving Image Section and Motion Picture and Television Reading Room in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress from 1995-2005. He served in the military and earned a doctoral degree in American Studies from George Washington University in 1988, where he wrote his dissertation on the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection and the related public records in the Copyright Office.
Opened in July 2007, the Packard Campus was created through a unique partnership among the Packard Humanities Institute, the United States Congress, the Library of Congress, and the Architect of the Capitol. The facility, with a construction cost of more than $155 million, represents the largest-ever private gift to the Library of Congress and one of the largest ever to the federal government. (See Information Bulletin July-August 2006 and July-August 2007.)
Peter Young To Lead Asian Division
Peter R. Young, director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) since 2002, has been appointed chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.
A native of Washington, D.C., Young received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from the College of Wooster and a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University’s School of Library Science. He served as a film-library specialist with the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division (1968-1970) and was awarded three bronze star medals for meritorious achievement directing a Special Service Library in Chu Chi, Vietnam.
Young has held numerous professional positions in national, academic, research and public libraries, and has extensive government and industry experience. He is the only Chinese-American librarian to hold high-level managerial positions at two U.S. national libraries.
Young joined the Library of Congress in 1980 as a customer services officer in the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS). From 1984-1985, he served as assistant chief of the Library’s MARC Editorial Division, and from 1985-1988 held the position of chief of the Cataloging Division of the U.S. Copyright Office.
In 1988, Young left the Library to direct Faxon Academic Information Services, where he founded the Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and Scientific Communication. From 1990-1997, he served as executive director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, an independent federal agency advising the president and Congress on library and information services and policies.
Young returned to the Library in 1997 to head the Cataloging Distribution Service. Prior to joining NAL in 2002, he served as acting chief of the Library’s Asian Division.
An active member in the American Library Association, Young has made major contributions to the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Public Library Association (PLA) and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). He served as president of CALA from 1989-1990 and received the association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2003.
The Library of Congress is a central repository for all types of Asian publications that are not broadly available at other locations in the United States. Initiated in 1869 with a gift of 10 works in 934 volumes offered to the United States by the Emperor of China, the Library’s Asian collection of more than 2 million items is the largest and most comprehensive outside of Asia. For more information about the division, go to www.loc.gov/rr/asian/.
