"LC has a new attitude of cooperation with the library community," Library Journal Executive Editor Francine Fialkoff wrote in an "Inside Track" column in December.
"The Library's old management team has been swept away, and a new team, many pulled from LC's middle management ranks, is now in place," she added. "With it comes a new attitude of cooperation ... and a loosening of the view that LC is a 'higher authority' that any other library in the land."
According to Ms. Fialkoff, "Nowhere is the change more evident than in the cataloging department. As Sarah Thomas, director of cataloging acknowledged on a recent visit by LJ to the Library, 'We've been LC-centric.' " The Library is now using more cataloging developed by librarians around the country and may eventually be able to " 'import' as much as 40 percent of the records for CIP (Cataloging in Publication) for current fiction and nonfiction."
Alexandria: The Journal of National & International Library and Information Issues has very favorably reviewed in Volume 5, No. 3 John Y. Cole's "Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress". Dr. Cole is director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
B.C. Bloomfield, former director of collection development at the British Library, wrote that "this excellent little introduction, generously priced at $9.50 ... is a pleasure to read and contemplate: Any taxpayer who carries this away with him is likely to recall his visit with pleasure and pride." _Jefferson's Legacy_ can be purchased at the Sales Shop in the Library's Madison Building or ordered prepaid from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20422. Cite stock number 030-001-00142-3 when ordering.
