TRAINING CURRICULUM

2016-docent-training-curriculum

Docent Training Curriculum – 2016

WEEK 1

Tuesday, Sept 6, 2016

*10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Welcome, General Orientation

Visitors Services Office staff: Giulia Adelfio, VSO Officer; Alicia Bartlett, Megan White, Kahin Mohammad, Diana Gibbs, Howard Friedland, Susan Mordan-White, Valerie Thornton

Online Reading: Visitor Services Office

General Information about visiting the Library: www.loc.gov/visit

Library’s mission and strategic plan; See also Fascinating Facts and the FAQ under this heading:  www.loc.gov/about/mission.html

Volunteer Website http://www.loc.gov/loc/volunteers

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Information Desk – Ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building

Tour of Jefferson Building and Walk-Through of Exhibitions, Susan Mordan-White

Thursday, Sept 8, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Law Library of Congress and the Congress.gov website

Shameema Rahman and Andrew Weber

Online Reading: Law Library of Congress

Law Library of Congress:http://www.loc.gov/law

Congress: www.congress.gov

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room/CALM Training Room, LJ G 07 (LJ ground floor)

Collections, Access, Loan, Management Division (CALM) – Discussion followed by a tour of LJ stacks Steve Herman

Online Reading

Managing the Collections, Collections, Access, Loan, Management Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/cmd

“Ft. Meade Storage Facility Wins National Construction Management Award”, LC Information Bulletin,

Dec. 2009: www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0912/meade.html

“Expanded Cold Storage:  Space Opens for Special Formats at Ft. Meade”, LC Information Bulletin,

July/August 2009. www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/09078/ftmeade.html

“Preserving, Storing, Retrieving:  Ft. Meade Module Construction Continues”, LC Information Bulletin, March 2007: www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0703/ftmeade.html

WEEK 2

Tuesday, Sept 13, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.  

Pickford Theater – LM 3rd floor Madison Building

Protective Services and the Office of Emergency Preparedness

Ken Lopez, OSEP – Dan Cummins, Personal Security Office Mike Salmons, OSEP – Jared Zingman, Emergency Preparedness Julie Booth – USCP

Michael Thomas – Securiguard, Inc.

Online Reading

Maps and directions; guidelines and tips:  http://www.loc.gov/visit/directions

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Pickford Theater– LM 3rd floor Madison Building

“Historical Perspective on the Library of congress: Presentation & Discussion”

John Y. Cole

Webcast

A History of the Library of Congress (webcast), John Cole:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5058

Online Reading

History of the Library; Includes links to John Cole’s books: Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress and Upon These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress:  www.loc.gov/about/history.html

Chronology – Online Tours: http://www.loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/jefferson-building-chronology

C-Span documentary on the Library of Congress: http://www.c-span.org/loc

“The ‘Main Building’:  Remembrances of Things Past”, LC Information Bulletin, May 1997:  www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/970505/mainbldg.html  Previous Librarians of Congress:  http://www.loc.gov/about/about-the-librarian/previous-librarians-of-congress

Thursday, Sept 15, 2016 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Hispanic Reading Room/Division

Carlos Olave

Online Reading

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Office of Scholarly Programs and Kluge Center

Mary Lou Reker

Online Reading http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building and Children’s Literature Reading Room

Children’s Literature Center, Rare Book and Special Collections Division

Sybille Jagusch

Online Reading http://www.loc.gov/rr/child

WEEK 3

Tuesday, Sept 20

10:00 – 11:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

 How to navigate the Library of Congress Website

Susan Mordan-White

 11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Young Readers Center, LJ G29

Monica Valentine

Online Reading

http://www.read.gov/yrc

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Veterans History Project

Rachel Mears and Lisa Taylor

Online Reading

http://www.loc.gov/vets

Experiencing War: www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-wingsofwar.html featured interviews arranged by topic

Thursday, Sept 22, 2016

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Give a 5 minute tour – know dates, beginning history, building design description

Online Reading

History of the LOC http://loc.gov/about/history-of-the-library

Jefferson’s Legacy – A Brief History of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Interpretive Programs Office (Exhibition Program)

Cheryl Regan

Online Reading

Exhibitions http://www.loc.gov/exhibits

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Serials and Government Publications

Amber Paranick and Roslyn Pachoca

On Online Reading

Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/news

Chronicling America chronicling america.loc.gov

WEEK 4

Tuesday, Sept 27, 2016

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Pickford Theater– LM 3rd floor Madison Building Publishing Office

Peggy Wagner

Online Reading

Publishing Office www.loc.gov/publish/general/

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Pickford Theater – LM 3rd floor Madison Building

ADA Accommodation Training

Vicki Magnus

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  

Pickford Theater – LM 3rd floor Madison Building

Education Outreach

Lee Ann Potter

Online Reading

Teacher Resources www.loc.gov/teachers

https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2013_0910.pdf

Thursday, Sept 29, 2016 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

  Preservation Directorate

Mary Oey

Online Reading

http://www.loc.gov/preservation

Back to Baseball Cards:  Preserving the Nation’s Heritage at the Library of Congress:  www.loc.gov/preservation/conservators/bachbase/index.html

“The Preservation Directorate at 40” LC Information Bulletin, May 2007:

www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0705/directorate.html

Webcasts

Preservation Roadmaps for the Twenty-first Century: Assessing Options for Large Collections, Part I (webcast of symposium):  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5193

Preservation Roadmaps for the Twenty-first Century: Assessing Options for Large Collections, Part II (webcast of symposium):  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5192

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Mass Deacidification

Jeanne Drewes

Online Reading

Preservation and deacidification

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/deterioratebrochure.html

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/about/deacid/index.html

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rt/index.html

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Jefferson SW Courtyard (Rain location – West Dining Room, LM 6th floor Madison Building) Ice Cream Social

WEEK 5

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Rosh Hashanah

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Pickford Theater– LM 3rd floor Madison Building

The Center for the Book and The National Book Festival

Guy Lamolinara

Online Reading

Center for the Book www.read.gov/cfb/  Read http://www.read.gov/

16th Library of Congress National Book Festival, Saturday, September 24, 2016

www.loc.gov/bookfest

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Pickford Theater– LM 3rd floor Madison Building

            10 minute tour practice and delivery

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Pickford Theater– LM 3rd floor Madison Building

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)

Chris Corrigan

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/nls/

Thursday, October 6, 2016 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Congressional Relations Office

Brian Williams

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.  

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Confab with Coordinators

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Congressional Research Service

Jennifer Manning & Rita Tehan

Online Reading

Congressional Research Service – About CRS: www.loc.gov/crsinfo/about/

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building European Division

Kenneth Nyirady

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/rr/european

WEEK 6

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

*10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Rare Book and Special Collections (RBSCD) and the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Mark Dimunation and Eric Frazier

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/

Webcast

Rare Book and Special Collections (webcast), Clark Evans, retired head of (RBSCD):  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4259

The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection

Online Reading

“The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection”, LC Information Bulletin, Oct. 2007:  www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0710/rosenwald.html

A Heavenly Craft:  The Woodcut in Early Printed Books, Exhibitions:  www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/

“Modern Tools Evaluate Ancient Works: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection”, LC Information Bulletin, Oct. 2003:  www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0310/catalog.html

Digitized Materials from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Books & Special Collections:  www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/rosenwald.html

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Digitization at the Library of Congress

Michael Neubert, Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Yom Kippur

Field Trip

9:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Offsite visit to Collection Storage Facility at Ft. Meade, MD Board bus at Madison Building rear door at 1st and C St, SE

Steve Herman (CALM) Number Based on Bus???

MUST wear ID badge to Ft. Meade – Restricted to current docent class only

Return by 12:30

Thursday, October 13, 2016

10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

African and Middle Eastern Division

Angel Batiste, Area Specialist, African Section

Muhannad Salhi, Area Specialist, Near Eastern Section

Ann Brener, Area Specialist, Hebraic Section

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/rr/ amed/

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Music and Performing Arts Division

Ray White & colleagues

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/rr/perform/

Performing Arts Encyclopedia:  www.loc.gov/performingarts/ National Jukebox:  www.loc.gov/jukebox/

The Library of Congress Celebrates Songs of America: loc.gov/collections/songs-of- america/about-this-   collection

Webcast

Introduction and History of the Music Division (webcast), Sue Vita:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4257

Theater Treasures in the Music Division (webcast), Walter Zvonchenko:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4252

Post-1800 Treasures in the Music Division (webcast), Kevin Lavine:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4253

Dance Treasures in the Music Division (webcast), Elizabeth Aldrich:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4254

WEEK 7

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

SUKKOT

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Office of Communications

Gayle Osterberg

Online Reading

News from the Library: www.loc.gov/today/pr/2015/index.html Public Events: http://www.loc.gov/loc/events/index.php

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building The Development Office

Mark Conner

Online Reading

Support the Library: www.loc.gov/philanthropy/

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Meet at carriage entrance to the Thomas Jefferson Building Renovation of the Thomas Jefferson Building

Kevin Hildebrand, Architect of the Capitol

Art and Architecture of the Outside of the Thomas Jefferson Building – Walking Tour

Online Reading

Exterior of the Library http://loc.gov/visit/tours/online-tours/thomas-jefferson-building/exterior/

Thursday, October 20, 2016

*10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building  – U.S. Copyright Office

John Saint Amour

Online Reading

www.copyright.gov

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

West dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Asian Division

Eiichi Ito

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/rr/asian/

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.  

West dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building       

         20 minute tour practice and delivery

WEEK 8

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Simchat Torah

*10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building The Blashfield Murals

Anne Samuel

The Blashfield Collar and Lantern Medallions (webcast), Anne Samuel:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4258

Online Reading

“Mural by Blashfield in Main Reading Room’, Foundations & Perspectives, Architect of the Capitol,  www.capitol.gov/html/VGN_2010061465439.html

“Restoring Luster to the Lantern,” Foundations & Perspectives, Architect of the Capitol, Winter 2010:  www.aoc.gov/aoc/magazine/Blashfield-Mural.cfm

Edwin Blashfield, National Academy Museum:  www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/870/

Guide to the Papers of Edwin Howland Blashfield, NY Historical Society (good biographical information, papers not digitized): http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/blashfield/

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building The Blashfield Murals (cont.)

Anne Samuel

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Field Trip

9:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Offsite visit to Collection Storage Facility at Ft. Meade, MD Board bus at Madison Building rear door at 1st and C St, SE

Steve Herman (CALM) Number???

MUST wear ID badge to Ft. Meade – Restricted to current docent class only Return by 12:30

Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (cataloging)

Beacher Wiggins

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/aba/

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Manuscript Division

Marvin Kranz

Online Reading

Manuscript Resources www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

Webcasts

Marvin Kranz:  Manuscripts Behind the Scenes, Journeys and Crossings webcast:  www.loc.gov/rr/progr am/journey/kranz.html

Treasures of the Manuscript Division (webcast), Marvin Kranz:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4250

WEEK 9

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Statuary in the Thomas Jefferson Building

Thomas Somma, Art Historian

Webcast

Statuary in the Thomas Jefferson Building (webcast), Thomas Somma:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4251

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Tour of Statuary in the Thomas Jefferson Building

Susan Mordan-White

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Scavenger Hunt

Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor of the Jefferson Building

Prints and Photographs Division

Barbara Orbach Natanson

Online Reading

Prints and Photographs Resources www.loc.gov/rr/print/

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor of the Jefferson Building

Gutenberg Bible and Giant Bible of Mainz

Mark Dimunation

Online Reading

Gutenberg Bible: www.loc.gov/exhibits/bibles/the-gutenberg-bible.html

Giant Bible of Mainz: www.loc.gov/exhibits/bibles/the-giant-bible-of-mainz.html

More info – Interactive comparison for both bibles: www.loc.gov/exhibits/bibles/interactives/index.html

Survey of Gutenberg Bibles: http://www.clausenbooks.com/gutenbergcensus.htm

WEEK 10

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

West Dining Room– LM 6th floor Madison Building

Humanities, Social Science, and Genealogy (HSS)

Barbara Morland

Online Reading

Humanities & Social Science resources www.loc.gov/rr/main/

Local History & Genealogy resources www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room– LM 6th floor Madison Building

Practice Tours 30 minutes in length

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Margot Greenlee

Bodywise Movement

Thursday, November 10, 2016 *10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room– LM 6th floor Madison Building

  Mosaics in the Jefferson

Susan Mordan-White, Kathy Tuchman, and Megan White

Online Resources

Mosaic resources http://www.dimosaico.com/methods

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room– LM 6th floor Madison Building Science, Technology, and Business Division

Constance Carter and Ellen Terrell

Online Resources

Science, Business, Technology, and Medicine resources https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech

 

WEEK 11

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Restoration of the Jefferson Building Murals

Barbara Wolanin

Webcast

Restoration of the Thomas Jefferson Building Murals (webcast), Barbara Wolanin:  www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4255

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building  American Folklife Center

Jennifer Cutting

Online Reading

Folklife resources www.loc.gov/folklife/

Thursday, November 17, 2016

10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Gather outside the G&M reading room – LM B01 Geography and Map Division

Ed Redmond

Online Reading

Geography and Map resources www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

*1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Nuts n’ Bolts of Being a Docent

Diana Gibbs, Alicia Bartlett, & Susan Mordan + Coordinators

Handout

Doc name: Nuts n Bolts of being a Docent – 2015

WEEK 12

Thanksgiving Week No Class

November 21 – 25

 

WEEK 13

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

10:00 – 11:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

Office of General Counsel

Legal Issues at the Library of Congress Elizabeth Pugh

 11:00 – 12:00  p.m.

 West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room– 6th Floor of Madison Building Poet Laureate Office

Robert Casper-

Online Reading

www.loc.gov/poetry/

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Field Trip

9:00 a.m.

Offsite trip to Packard Campus of Audio-Visual conservation in Culpeper, VA Mike Mashon and Rob Stone

Travel time from DC area is 2 hours

Arrive at Culpeper – 11 a.m. Depart Culpeper – 2 p.m. Carpool only, no bus.  Bring a lunch as there is no cafeteria This trip is recommended but is optional

Let Susan Mordan-White know if your plan to attend 202-707-9203 or smordan@loc.gov

Online Reading

Culpeper

Thursday, December 1, 2016

*10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room– 6th Floor of Madison Building Thomas Jefferson’s Library

Mark Dimunation

Online Reading: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jefflib.html

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Practice Tours – Should be 45 minutes long

 

WEEK 14

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building Jefferson Building Archives, Manuscript Division

Cheryl Fox

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

  West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

  Design and Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building

  Martin Shore, Architect of the Capitol

Thursday, December 8, 2016

*10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Ford Peatross

Tour of the Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building Meet at the Neptune Fountain (weather permitting)

Summary of the Great Hall and the Main reading room (from the gallery) Ford Peatross

Webcasts

Inside the Library with Kurt Maier (Journeys and Crossings webcast):  www.loc.gov/rr/progr am/journey/lctour.html

Thomas Jefferson Building Tour: www.loc.gov/visit/tours/guided/jeffersonbuilding.html

Library of Congress Great Hall (C-Span webcast), Ford Peatross:  www.c-spanvideo.org/progr am/GreatH Jefferson Building Doors (C-Span webcast), Ford Peatross: www.c-spanvideo.org/progr am/Doors

Book Reading

The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building, pg. 279

 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building\

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

West Dining Room – LM 6th floor Madison Building

WEEK 15

Qualifying Tours

Week of December 12th is dedicated to presenting your qualifying tours.

Qualifying Tour Audience

Your QT will be done as one of the daily public tours.

All docents of the class of 2016 must complete successfully their qualifying tour before graduation on

Friday, December 16, 2016

Graduation

Docent Graduation and Holiday Reception

Montpelier room, James Madison Memorial Building 6th Floor Graduation begins at 11 a.m. followed by Volunteer Holiday Reception