Only a committee to the library i think that is particularly helpful you could be here with us today as well as a member of the Committee Said shes here as the committee and also on these topics particularly valuable in the roles of appropriating we have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, the architect of the capitol these kind of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure that we are giving the agencies that help they need. We are glad to be here of course with the library and doctor carla hayden and the librarys chief Information Officer and the register of copyrights. Thank you all for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily at least i want to talk primarily about modernization. We had a chance at the last meeting to talk about the ideas of how to make a labor even more of an experience for people who visit. I think we want to talk today about how the modernization of the ailments are coming together and all of the services or being benefited by that. The library of congress provides a lot of functions for this historically. One of them has been the Copyright Office. I think initially that was to be sure the library would be a recipient of the great treasure of the copyright documents that will become a part of the librarys collection, but the Copyright Office has always been a part of the library. Today we are taking a deeper look again. Any discussions you want to have about the challenges you are having more success is that you are having as he moved into more uptodate protection Cyber Threats are real. We got to know each other well in 2016 when we were able to Work Together to be sure she became the First Library in a long time to be th the library f congress and we have been pleased to be able to Work Together since then. Prior to the arrival of all three of you in these print jobs, the gao was critical of the office of technology. The Government Accounting Office identified the lack of storage for Strategic Planning and Information Security and priva privacy. They recommended that the library hire a permanent chief Information Officer which it did, and that th chief informatn officer would professionalize the Technology Needs of the library which will only we are going to find out today you are doing. You are ultimately responsible for the management and success of the library as a whole which includes the Copyright Office but of course weve looked at the register of the Copyright Office to be responsible for what happens ever happens everye thevery day and havethe kind ofp with the two of you that are essential to make that happen. Glad you are here and look forward to see how you take this job and make it work. We talked some last year in this committee and we had a proposal even to make your selection slightly different and outside the normal Selection Process that it had been for the library of congress. That did not pass and so the congresss view is the situation would continue to stay as it was. They spend a lot of time with all three of you over recent months trying to be sure this was working the way that it needs to work. Talk about trade policy or other types of policy without talking about the importance of protecting information of copyrights and other patterns so it is a very real topic. I mentioned with the library was doing in other areas and im glad the three of you are here today to talk about this, and i am particularly pleased senator udall could carve out the time to be your. I turn to you for any Opening Statements you might have. Thank you so much, chairman. You are a good friend and we worked on a lot of issues together. Thank you for holding this hearing. The library of congress is an Important Institution and im pleased to see the committee taking an active role to make sure that its healthy and strong and i want to thank all the witnesses that are here today. I also worked with doctor hayden a lot over the course of her tenure over there and i really enjoyed developing that deeper relationship. First i want to save the library is an american treasure of immeasurable value. Its 170 million items include the Worlds Largest collection of legal materials, films and sound recordings. Its landmark buildings see 2 million visitors every year and there were 114 million visits to its website last year. And the Copyright Office is critical to music, film and Publishing Industry with over 1 trillion every year. Copyrights are especially important in my homes to new mexico. They are significant and growing part of the states business activity. In addition to its public value, the library is fundamentally essential to the work here in the legislative branch. Some people might think the members of congress are informed of the imagine what this place would be like without the asset to the Congressional Research service. And online resources like congress. Gov help keep us informed and uptodate with nonpartisan information. Like so many americans, we rely day in and day out on the information provided by the library of congress to make important decisions. While the hearing may not be kerrbe. Live on cable news, itse committees job to make sure the library is wellrun, uptodate and prepared for the future. Future generations will thank us. I know you and your team have been working diligently to modernize and grow the infrastructure of the congress. Its crucial to the libraries evolving operations. Im encouraged with the pace with which the Government AccountabilityOffice Recommendations have been implemented. Ive worked on federal it reform on a bipartisan basis for many years and i know it not easy. The big projects are tough enough in corporate but federal agencies face a much different budget process than these issues. Federal chiefederal chief inforn officers have learned a lot of lessons to develop best practices in recent years. And i urge the library of Copyright Office to seek out those best practices and Work Together for success. I look forward to hearing about the progress to improve the librarys infrastructure and operations, progress and improving accessibility of the librarys unique collections and historical artifacts of Thomas Jeffersons draft of the declaration of independence and the confidence of abraham lincolns pocket the night he was assassinated. Tangible pieces of some of the most significant moments in the nations shared history can be both preserved and made accessible. Along those lines, i want to highlight one of the librarys ongoing initiatives the veterans history project chartered by congress in 2000 and th 2000 ine ongoing effort collects and makes accessible personal accounts of the American Veterans so that future generations can hear directly from veterans that better understand the realities of the war. With veterans approaching i will be interested to hear an update on the project during the question and answer time. Helping native american tribes protect their historical and coachable resources is also a high priority for the. Of doctor hayden, weve spoken about this before and i know it is a priority for you. I hope that we can keep working together on tribal engagement under the music modernization act as well as the librarys language and other resources for tribes. And i look forward to the Panel Discussion today and they would yield back to the chairman. Doctor hayden, your full testimony will be in the record and you can deal with it however you want. Im also going to ask that my remarks and senators udalls in any comments on introductory comments the panel would like to make what goes into the record without objection. So we are glad you are here and we will let you specify on behalf of everybody and then everybody get their share of questions. Thank you mr. Chairman. Senator udall, senator smith, 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. And i want to thank the committee for its ongoing support in the library in general and with the libraries modernization. Three years ago in this room during my confirmation hearing, we discussed the many challenges and opportunities presented by the libraries technology, and i am excited to be able to tow you today that we have significantly improved the libraries Information Technology. The library is a Different Organization from what it was just a short time ago. And over the last few years we have stabilized the core it structure, we have streamlined and strengthened our governance and centralized and professionalized our workforce. And that has allowed us to closing implemented nearly 95 of the recommendations made in 2015 and we will keep working until we close 100 by the end of this year. Modernizing the Copyright Office is a top Agency Priority if we are making progress in upgrading their systems to register and maintain uptodate records for the creative works of assistance aror automated, integrated and easy for the public to use. They hire a Senior Technical Advisor in place to help manage and plan the modernization and also to enhance the collaboration between the Copyright Office and Agencies Technology staff. The Copyright Office and office of the chief Information Officer jointly engaged in User Experience outreach to stakeholders and launched Development Efforts for key components of the system. This fiscal year will release a limited pilot of the first fully digital copyright agent system and we will complete a prototype of the searchable Records Management system and begin the initial development for the next generation online Registration System we are also completely overhauling the technology that empowered every part of the library. The chief Information Officer 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 disabled is completely rethinking how it delivers content to people with reading difficulties. The library has completely digitized the u. S. Statutes at large and dating back to 1817. We have rolled out new products to billions of online users and made enhancements to many of the services. It 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 theres still a lot of work to be done that we have made great progress. We are glad you are here we will stay at about five minutes segments and go back and forth. Would you share your progress . September the 2015. That was in response to the idea somebody needed to com of e in to be the chief Information Officer and this is a couple of minutes in the sense of how far youve come from the day you walked in and how far youve come since the. Thank you for the question, sir. Its a great opportunity for me to be able to reinforce the talent that we have at the library regarding the it and professionalism displayed by the staff. As the gao audit found, there was a lack of oversight survey suggested thso theysuggested tha chief Information Officer. When i first came in, it was apparent to me that it wasnt a lack of talent or the lack of capability. It was a lack of decision and oversight on the it organizati organization. Making sure they didnt interfere in the individual units to have specialized it to perform their business mission. When i first arrived i testified my goal was to make sure the findings of the gao audit were addressed in a way that didnt just check the box. I wasnt here to just make sure we close the audit findings. I was here to make sure the root cause of the findings was addressed and in such a way we were not put back into the same situation in a matter of years. And thanks to the support of congress from a budgetary perspective, we have been able to address 95 of those findings, and i expect that we will close all of those findings by the end of the calendar year. We are expecting back and forth conversations with them for the rest of this year. It covers every domain including the discussions ive had with the gao was the first time they made that brought a recommendation to. From security financed operations, every domain that exists that the biggest progress we have made a sensitivity and im very proud to say at this point all of the major systems have obtained what we call the authority to operate which means the security of the systems have been validated, tested and compared to the standards of the body that we look to for establishing the security standards. On that topic let me go before i run out of time here with my first question which is on the security topic. Intellectual property, clearly one of the things for good reason we are the most concerned about on the targets of Cyber Espionage and other things. The feel good about where we are headed in terms of the security of the information that is entrusted to the federal government through it you and your job . Thank you for the question. Security is one of the most important aspects and im very pleased that the library has taken such a huge role in ensuring that the items we have received in the library are protected. Digital security as wevdigitald of move to Digital Technology we received a host of different types of works from feature films two important books to works that havent even been released to the public yet, so security of our system is a critical aspect of the development and so thats one of the things we are focusing on as we develop with the library. And youve worked with the office for some time, havent you. What is the difference in the security, either the concerns or your sense of security now compared to five years ago or whatever number you want to give me. I would say the main difference is the focus that we have been placing on security, acknowledging and recognizing how critical it is to the management of the it system and really making sure that at every level security is considered as we begin developing the new system, so i think the focus and prioritization of the security is one of the main differences from where we were years ago. And i was putting out before we go to the senator you worked there for some time. Youve had this job really for the permanently designated person for a relatively short time so if we are back in 2014 or 2015, somebody else was the register of copyrights at that time. Senator udall. Thank you mr. Chairman. As a part of the ongoing it management and modernization plan, im aware that the library has implemented a new Digital Strategy by transitioning to a new tier three level data center. This investment is key to helping the library deployed technology to expedite and expand Digital Access to the vast collection of books and media. Aat the time you testified befoe the committee has 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 fully transition operations by the end of the fiscal year 2020 to support the librarys digital needs. Could you expand on your testimony and discuss the progress that 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 variety of storage capacities and that includes the cloud and also physical storage capacities as well because of the nature of the materials that we are storing. Some need to be o onsite, and mr. Barton has been, he knows that ive been very concerned in making sure that we are able to make that migration secure, and also very effective without losing any data. That would be great. Mr. Barton. To move out of the Madison Building we test the production of the actual usable content is supposed to be complete by the end of this fiscal year. A lot of that content especially the ones that are desensitizing the security controls around it will be maintained in the new data center that we have and that will be complete by the end of the fiscal year. We will also be migrating our nonsensitive public release of things that the general public reviews into the cloud in a lot of respects so that its a faster and less physically from an equipment perspective thing we have to worry about funding. Can you update the committee on the progress of shifting Copyright Office tod