We will hear testimony from dr. Carla hayden. This is a little more than an hour. [indiscernible] chairs the committee for the library which is particularly helpful that you could be here with us today and also a member of the committee. This is particularly valuable in her role that we will be in the discussions we have been having. These types of oversight hearings. We want to give the agencies that help they need and we are glad to be here with the library and, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Karyn temple,d the registrar of copyrights. Thank you to all of you for being here. I think that i want to talk primarily about the modernization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden to talk about the Physical Plant to ideas of making the library even more of an experience for people that visit there. I think we want to talk more about how the modernization of at the libraryts are coming together and how all services are being benefited by that. The library performs a lot of functions for us, historically. One of those functions has been the Copyright Office. Initially, that was to be sure that the library would be a clear recipient of the great treasure of the copyrighted documents that would become part of the librarys collection. Hasthe Copyright Office always been a part of the library. Today, we are taking a deeper look into the Copyright Office and we are glad the registrar is here with us. But also i. T. And modernization generally. Think we will focus mostly on the copyright process and i. T. But we want any discussions you want to have about challenges you are having or successes you are having as you move in the direction of more uptodate i. T. And more uptodate protection including Cyber Threats being real. Iny are particularly real some of the information that you are dealing with. Dr. Hayden and i got to know each other well in 2016 when we were able to Work Together to be sure that she became the First Library and in a long time to be the library and of congress and we have been pleased to Work Together since then. Reallyo the arrival of all three of you in these was veryobs, the gao critical of the library, the Copyrights Office and information to elegy. The Government Accounting Office identified a lack of storage strategic planning, information and Technology Investment management and weaknesses in Information Security and privacy. They recommended that the library hire a permanent chief Information Officer which it did. And that chief information would professionalize and centralize the Information Technology needs at the library which hopefully we will find out today that you are doing. As a librarian, dr. Hayden you are ultimately responsible for the management and success of the library as a whole which includes the Copyright Office but of course, we look to the registrar of the Copyright Office to be responsible for what happens there every day and have the working relationship with the two of you that is a central to making that happen. Barton, we arer. Glad youre here and we are looking forward to how you are taking this job and making it work in ms. Temple, we spoke some last year in this committee and we had a proposal to even make your selection slightly different and may be outside the normal Selection Process that had traditionally been for the library of congress. That did not pass. View was that the situation would stay as it was. The staff of the rules committee has spent a lot of time with all three of you in recent months to make sure this is working the way that it needs to work. It is hard to talk about trade policy or a lot of other policy without talking about the importance of protecting information and copyrights and other patents and other things. So this is a very real topic. March,our last review in as i mentioned before, of the library and what the library was doing. Glad the three of your here today to talk about this. And i am particularly pleased that senator udall could carve out the time to be here as part of this as well. Senator, i turn to you. Senator udall thank you, so and you aren blunt a good friend and we have worked on a lot of issues together and he why so much for holding this hearing. The library of congress is an Important Institution and i am pleased to see the committee taking an active role to make sure it is healthy and strong and i want to thank all of the witnesses here today including dr. Hayden, ms. Temple, and mr. Barton and i also have worked with dr. Hayden a lot over the course of her tenure over there and have really enjoyed developing a deeper relationship. Say the library is an american treasure of immeasurable value. 100 70 million items including the Worlds Largest collection of legal materials. Its landmark buildings c 2 million visitors a year and there were 114 million visits to its websites last year. And the Copyright Office is critical to the Publishing Industry worth over 1 trillion every year. Copyrights are especially important in my home state of new mexico where artists and the Creative Economy are significant and are a significant growing part of our states activities. Value,tion to its public the library is fundamentally essential to our work in the legislative branch. Some people may think that members of congress are misinformed or ill informed, but imagine what it would be like without the use of this research service. And Online Services like congress. Gov keep us up to date and informed with nonpartisan information. Reliedny americans, we day in and day out on the information provided by the law of congress to make the library of congress to make important decisions. Committees job to make sure the library is well run, uptodate, and prepared for the future. Future generations will thank us. Yourayden, i know you when team have been working diligently to modernize and grow the i. T. Infrastructure of the library of congress and the Copyright Office. Digital technology is crucial to the librarys a balding operations. Encouraged with the pace that the Government AccountabilityOffice Recommendations have been implemented. I worked on federal i. T. Reform on a bipartisan basis for many years and i know it is not easy. Big i. T. Projects are tough enough in corporate and arises a mucheral agencies face different budget process and unique organizational issues. Federal chief Information Officers have learned a lot of lessons and developed best practices in recent years and i urge the library to seek out those best practices and Work Together for success. About thehearing progress to improve the librarys infrastructure and off and operations, process in improving accessibility of the librarys unique collections and historical artifacts like Thomas Jeffersons draft of the declaration of independence and the contents of abraham pockets the night he was assassinated. These moments can be preserved and made accessible. Along those lines, i want to highlight one of the librarys ongoing initiatives the endeavors. Story making accessible personal accounts from war veterans so future generations can hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. With a approaching, i will be interested to hear an update on that project. Helping native american tribes protect their historical and Cultural Resources is also a high priority for me. Have spokenit we about that before and we know it is a priority for you. I hope we can continue to Work Together on the tribal engagement as well as the librarys language and other resources for tribes. And i look forward to our panels today and i yield back to the chairman. Chairman blunt thank you, senator udall. Hayden coming your full testimony will be in the record and you can deal with it however you want. I would also ask that my remarks comments anddalls any that the panel would like to make no into the record without objection. Dr. Hayden, we are glad you are here and we will let you testify. And then everyone will get their share of questions. Dr. Hayden. You, chairmanank and senator udall. I welcome the opportunity to be here today to give you an update on the librarys modernization and especially the Information Technology and work with the Copyright Office. I want to thank the committee for its ongoing support of the library in general and with the librarys i. T. Modernization. Three years ago, in this very room, during my confirmation the manywe discussed challenges and opportunities presented by the librarys Tech Knowledge he. And i am excited to be able to tell you today that we have significantly improved the librarys Information Technology. Differenty is a organization from what it was just a short time ago and over , we havefew years stabilized our core i. T. Structure, we have streamlined and strengthened our i. T. Governance and we have centralized and professionalized our i. T. Workforce. Has allowedd work us to close and implement nearly 95 of the gao recommendations made in 2015 and we keep working until we close 100 by the end of this year. The Copyright Office is a tough agency. And were making progress in upgrading the systems to register. So the systems are automated, integrated, and easier for the public to use. And thanks to the generous support from congress, the library is one year into a fiveyear effort to design and enterprisewide copyright system. And it keep progress moving forward, the Copyright Office has now hired a Senior Technical Advisor in place to help manage and plan i. T. Modernization and also to enhance the collaboration between the and the agencye technology staff. Year 2019, the Copyright Office and the office of the chief Information Officer jointly engaged in User Experience outlook outreach to stakeholders. This fiscal year, the library will release a limited pilot of the first fully digital copyright record agent system. We will also complete a prototype of a searchable Records Management system and begin the initial development for the next generation of online registration systems. I want you to know that i believe in my team leading this effort. Seniorr karyn temple, Information Officer but barton and i believe together we will deliver a modernized copyright system. We also completely overhauled the technology that powers every part of the library. Officer, information mr. Barton, is working with the Congressional Research service to implement a new research and Information System and it will make use of the latest technologies. The National Library for the blind and the disabled is completely rethinking how it delivers content to people with reading difficulties. Completelyrary has digitized the u. S. Statutes at large and, in collaboration with the Government Printing office, we have digitized the congressional serial set dating back to 1817. So by embracing user focus outgn and we have rolled products to millions of users. And lastly, our Digital Strategy agencywide is leveraging technology to find innovative ways to reach more people. And so, with these efforts, we are moving ahead with a challenging but achievable task of transforming the library into a more digitally enabled agency and are still and there is still a lot of poor to be down but we have made great progress so i thank you again for inviting me to a date update the committee with my colleagues and we welcome your questions. We are glad you are here. We will clearly have time to ask questions. I think we will try to stay at about five minutes segments and we will go back and forth. Senator hyde smith will be back in a moment and will be here for questions as well. Ms. Barton, which you share your progress . Mr. Barton i started in september 2015. In response to the idea that someone needed to come in and be the chief Information Officer. A sense of how far you have come from the day you have walked in and particularly since the library and took her job in 2016. Mr. Barton thank you for the question, sir. It is a great opportunity for me thee able to reinforce talent we have at the library therding i. T. And professionalism displayed by the staff. In the gao audit found there was so theyf oversight and suggested that the library hire a chief Information Officer. When i first came in, it was apparent to me that it was not a lack of talent or capability. It was really a lack of vision and oversight on the i. T. Organization. The library had been pretty much working in a siloed fashion. And as im sure we will discuss a little more through the hearing, visualization was something that would help. In other words, making decisions about i. T. At the agency level regarding Strategic Direction. And then making sure those decisions of for the Strategic Direction would not interfere with the needs of the individual units to have specialized i. T. To perform their business mission. I first arrived, i testify that my goal was to make sure that the findings of the ge gao audit were addressed in a way that did not just check a box. I was not here to make sure that we closed the audit findings but to make sure that the root cause of the findings was addressed and in such a way that we were not put back into the same situation in a matter of years. Of thanks to the support congress from a budgetary perspective, we have been able to address 95 of those findings and i expect we will close all of those findings by the end of this calendar year. We have submitted the evidence necessary to the gao and are expecting backandforth conversations with them through the rest of this year on getting those closed. Made isress we have significant. And it covers every domain of i. T. From the discussions i have had with the gao and the team that was here. It was the first time they had made that broad of a recommendation. The number of recommendations was significant. Over 100. And in every domain of security and in every domain. The biggest progress we have made is insecurity. And im very proud to say that at this point, all of the major systems within the library have now obtained what we call an authority to operate which means the security of those systems has been validated, tested, and compared to miss standards nist standards, the body we look to for establishing standards. On that topic, let me go to ms. Temple. Topic,security intellectual property is clearly one of the things that we are for good reason most concerned about. One of the big targets of cyber espionage. Do you feel good about where we are headed in terms of the security of the information that is entrusted to the federal government through you in your job . Security is one of the most important aspects of the development of our i. T. System and i am pleased the library has taken such a huge Digital Security as we move to digital technology, we receive a host of different types of work from feature films to important books to works that have not even been released to the public yet, so security is a critical asset aspects, so that is one of the things we are focusing on. You have worked in the office for some time. Yes. I have. Inwhat is the difference security concerns are your sense of security now compared to five years ago, or whatever number you want to give me . Ms. Temple the main difference is the focus that we have been placing on security. Acknowledging and recognizing how critical it is to the systemsnt of our it and really making sure that every level, security is considered. The focus and prioritization of security is one of the main differences from where we were years ago. Ount you have had this permanentlyor the for aated person relatively short time, so we are back in 2014, somebody else was back at the copyright at that time. Hayden, i amr. Aware that the library is implemented a new Digital Strategy by transitioning to a new tier three level data center. This investment is key to helping the library Deploy Technology to expedite and expand Digital Access to the vast collection of books and media. Last time you testified before the committee, you stated that the library was in the process of migrating applications to the new data facility. Your testimony today provides an update that you are moving forward to transition operations by the end of fiscal year 2020. Could you expand upon your testimony and discuss the progress of this move including progress on migrating data to Cloud Services. As we mentioned before, we are looking at and making sure that we have a capacitiesstorage and tha