Particularly helpful that you could be here with us for this today as well, also a member of this committee. Shes here as a member of the committee but also on these topics particularly valuable and the rules appropriating we have been having with the library, smithsonian, architect of the capitol, these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies the help they need. Were glad to be here of course with the librarian dr. Carla hayden with mr. Bud barton, the librarys chief Information Officer and karen temple, the register of copy rights thank all of you for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily, at least i want to talk primarily about modernization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to talk about the Physical Plant ideas of how to make the library even more of an experience for people who visit there. I think we want to talk about today more of how the modernization of the it elements at the library are coming together and how all services are being benefitted by that. The library of course performs a lot of functions for us historically. One of those functions has been the copy right office. I think initially that was to be sure that the library would be a clear recipient of that great treasure of the copy righted documents that would become part of the librarys collection. But the copy right office has always been part of the library. Today were taking a different a deeper look again into the copy right office, and were glad the register is here with us, but also it and modernization generally. I think were going to focus mostly on the copy right office and it, but we want any discussions that you want to have about challenges youre having or successes youre having as you move in the direction of more up to date it, more up to date protection, you know, Cyber Threats are real, and i think they are particularly real in 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 and be sure that she became the first librarian in a long time to be the librarian of congress, and weve been pleased to be able to Work Together since then. Prior to the arrival really of all three of you in these current jobs, the gao was very critical of the library, copy Rights OfficeInformation Technology. The Government Accounting Office identified a lack of storage of Strategic Planning, information and technology investment, 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 Officer would professionalize and centralize the Information Technology needs at the library which hopefully were going to find out today you are doing. As the librarian, dr. Hayden you are ultimately responsible for the management and success of the library as a whole, which includes the copy right office but of course we look to the register of the copy right office to be responsible for what happens there every day and have the kind of working relationship with the two of you that are essential to make that happen. Mr. Martin, glad you are here. Look forward to hearing about how youre taking this job and making it work, and ms. Temple, we talked some last year in this committee. We had a proposal even to make your selections slightly different and maybe outside the normal Selection Process that it had traditionally been at the library of congress. That did not pass. And so the congresss view was that this situation would continue to stay as it was. I think the staff, the rules committee has spent a lot of time with all three of you over recent months trying to be sure that this is working the way it needs to work. Its hard to talk about trade policy or lots of other policy without talking about the importance of protecting information and copy rights and other patents and other things, so this is a very real topic. We had our last review in march as i mentioned before of the library and what the library is doing in other areas. Glad the three of you are here today to talk about this. Im particularly pleased with that the senator could carve out the time to be here as part of this as well. I would turn to you, senator, for any Opening Statements you might have. Thank you very much, chairman blunt, and youre a good friend, and we have worked on a lot of issues together. Thank you very much 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 its healthy and strong. And i wanted to thank all the witnesses that are here today, 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 i have really enjoyed developing a deeper relationship. First i want to say 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 building see 2 million visitors every year, and there were 114 million visits to its websites last year. And the copy right office is critical to music, film and publishing industry, worth over 1 trillion dollars every year. Copy rights are especially important in my home state of new mexico, where artists and the Creative Economy are significant and growing part of our states business activity. In addition to its public value, the library is fundamentally essential to our work here in the legislative branch. You know, some people may think members of congress are ill informed, but imagine what this place would be like without the assets like the Congressional Research service. And online resources, like congress. Gov help keep us informed and up to date with nonpartisan factual 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. So while this hearing may not be carried live on cable news, its this committees job to make sure the library is well run, up to date, and prepared for the future. Future generations will thank us. Dr. Hayden, i know you and your team have been working diligently to modernize and grow the it infrastructure of the library of congress and the copy right office, Digital Technology is crucial to the librarys 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 its not easy. Big it projects are tough enough in corporate enterprises, but federal agencies face a much different budget process and unique organizationally issues. Federal chief Information Officers have learned a lot of lessons and developed best practices in recent years. I urge the library and copy right 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 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 Lincolns pockets the night he was assassinated, tangible pieces of some of the most significant moments in our 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 h there on going effort collects and makes accessible personal accounts of american war veterans so future generations can hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. With veterans day approaching, i will be interested to hear an update on the progress of that project during our questionandanswer time. Helping native american tribes protect their historical and Cultural Resources is also a high priority for me. Dr. Hayden, we have spoken about this before, and i know its a priority for you. I hope 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 our panels discussion today, and i would yield back to the chairman. Thank you, senator udall. So dr. Hayden, your full testimony will be in the record. You can deal with it however you want. Im also going to ask that my remarks and senator udall and any comments any member of the panel would like to make would go into the record without objection. Dr. Hayden, were glad you are here. Were going to let you testify on behalf of everybody and then everybody will get their share of questions. Im sure of that. Dr. Hayden . Thank you mr. Chairman, senator udall, senators, 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 copy right office, and i want to thank the committee for its ongoing support of the library in general and with the librarys it modernization. Three years ago, in this very room, during my confirmation hearing, we discussed the many challenges and opportunities presented by the librarys technology, and i am excited to be able to tell you today that we have significantly improved the librarys Information Technology. modernizing the office is a top agency priority. And were making progress in upgrading the systems to register and maintain uptodate records for creating work so that the systems are automated, integrated and easier for the public to use. And thanks to the generous support of congress, the library is now one year into a fiveyear effort to design and implement a new enterprisewide copyright system. And to keep progress moving forward, the Copyright Office is now hired a Senior Technical Advisor to insulate and help manage plan it modernization and also enhance collaboration between the Copyright Office and the Agencies Technology staff. And in fiscal year 2019, the Copyright Office and office of the chief Information Officer jointly engaged in User Experience outreach to stakeholders and launched the efforts for key components of the new system. This fiscal year the library will release a limited pilot of the first fully digital copyright recordation system and complete a voter prototype of a searchable Records Management system and begin the initial development for the next generation of online registration. I want you to know that i believe in my team being the center. Register temple, office of bud martin and i believe that together, we will deliver and modernize copyright system. We are also completely overall overhauling the technology that hours every part of the library. The chief Information Officer mister barth is working with the Congressional Research service, the ers to implement a new research and information system. And it will make use of the latest technology. The National Library for the blind and print disabled is completely rethinking out delivers content to people with reading difficulties. The law library has completely digitized the us tactics at large and in collaboration with the Government Printing office we have digitized the congressional set dating back to 1817. Though by embracing either focus, design and agile development, we rolled out new projects to millions of online users and we made enhancements to many of our services and lastly, our Digital Strategy agencywide is leveraging technology to find innovative ways to reach more people. So with these efforts we are moving ahead with the challenging but achievable task of transforming the library into a more digitally enabled agency. And theres still a lot of work to be done but weve made great progress and so i thank you again for inviting me to update the committee with my colleagues and we welcome your questions area were glad youre here, weve clearly, were going to have plenty of time for us to ask questions area we will try to stay at about five minutes segments just go back and forth. Senator highsmith is coming back in a moment and obviously we will be here for questions as well. Miss martin, would you share your progress. You started right when 2016 was 15 mark class september 2015. 2015 and that was in response to the idea that somebody needed to come in and be the chief Information Officer, just in a couple of minutes sort of give a sense of how far you come from the day you walked in and particularly how far you come is the librarian took her job in 2016. Thank you for the questions are. Its a great opportunity for me to be able to reinforce the talent that we have at the library regarding ip and the professionalism displayed by the staff. As the gao audit found, there was a lack of oversight and so they wanted, they suggested that the library higher chief Information Officer. Whenever i first came in it was apparent to me that there wasnt a lack of talent or lack of capability, it was really a lack of vision and a lack of oversight on the it organization. The library ive been ready much working in a silo fashion and as im sure we will discuss a little bit more throughout the hearing, centralization was something that would help this. In other words, making decisions about it at the agency level regarding Strategic Direction and then making sure those decisions at the Strategic Direction didnt interfere with the individual service or Business Units needs to have specialized it to perform their business issues. Whenever i first arrived i tested by my goal was to make sure that findings of the gao audit were addressed in a way that didnt just check a box area i was here to just make sure that we close the audit finding. I was here to make sure the root cause of those findings was addressed and in such a way that we were not 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 percent of those findings and i expect that we will close all those items by the end of this calendar year. We have submitted evidence that is necessary to the gao and are expecting back and forth conversations with them throughout the rest of this year on getting those close area the progress we have made is significant and it covers every domain of it from the discussions ive had with the gao, the team that was here. It was the first time it actually made that broad of a recommendation, number of recommendations were significant over 100 recommendations. And in every domain of it from security to finance to operations, every domain that there exists the biggest progress we have made is insecurity area and im very proud to say at this point all of the major systems within the library now obtain what we call an authority to operate which means the security of those systems have been validated, tested and compared to missed standards who is the body that we look to for establishing the clerk security standards. On the topic let me go to missed temple before i run out of time. My first questions, which is on the security topic, intellectual property barely one of the things that we are for good reason most concerned about. One of the big targets of Cyber Espionage and other things, do you feel good about where were headed in terms of the security of the information entrusted to the federal government through you in your job . Thanks for the question. Security is one of the most important aspects of our development of an it system and im very pleased that the library has taken such a huge role in ensuring that the items that we receive in the library are protected. Digital security as we move to Digital Technology we receivea host of different types of work. Some feature films to important books, to works that have not even been released to the public yet so security of our system is a critical aspect of the development so thats one of the thingswe are focusing on as we develop with the library. You worked in office for some time, havent you mark. Yes. And whats the difference in the either security concerns for yoursense 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 weve been placing on security , acknowledging and recognizing how critical it is to the management of our it system and really making sure that at every level ready is considered as we begin developing the new system area and so i think the focus in prioritization of security is one of the main differences from when we were using a class i would point out before we go, senator , while you said you worked there for some time about this job really for the department is the designated person or a relatively short time so if were back into 2014 or 2015, the late else was the r