Who always chairs the appropriating committee nd from the library, and i think thats particularly helpful you could be here with us for this today as well. Also a member of this committee. So shes here as a member of the committee but also on these topics, particularly valuable in her role as appropriating. Weve been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the 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 heyden, and karen temple, registry of copyrights. I think we 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 i. T. 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 Copyright Office. I think initially that was to be sure that the library would be a clear recipient of that great treasure of the copyrighted documents that would become part of the librarys collection. But the Copyright Office has always been part of the library. Today were taking a different a deeper look again into the Copyright Office, and were glad the register is here with us, but also i. T. And modernization generally. I think were going to focus mostly on the Copyright Office and i. T. , but we want to any discussions you want to have about challenges youre having or successes youre having as you move in the direction of more up to date i. T. And more up to date protection. Cyberthreats are real, and i think theyre 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 of really all three of you in these current jobs, the gao was very critical of the library, the copyrights office, Information 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 youre doing. As librarian, dr. Hayden, youre 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 register, the Copyright 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. Barton, glad youre here, look forward to hearing about how youre taking this job and making it work. And miss temple, we talked some last year in this committee. We had a proposal even to make your selection slightly different and maybe outside the normal Selection Process that had traditionally been with the library of congress. That did not pass, and so the Congress View was that this situation would continue to stay as it was. I think the staff of the rules committee has spent a lot of time with all three of you over recent months trying to be sure 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 copyrights 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 was doing in other areas. Glad the three of you are here today to talk about this. And im particularly pleased that senator udall could carve out the time to be here as part of this as well. Senator udall, i turn to you for any Opening Statements you might have. Thank you so much, chairman blunt. Youre a good friend, and were worked on a lot of issues together. Thank you so 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 want to thank all the witnesses that are here today, dr. Hayden, ms. Temple, and mr. Barton. I also have worked with dr. Hayden a lot over the the course of her tenure over there and have really enjoyed developing a deeper relationship. First, i want to say the library is an american treasure of immeasurable value. It 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 websites last year. The Copyright Office is critical to music, film, and 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 in growing 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 illinformed, 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 i. T. Infrastructure of the library on congress and the Copyright Office. Digital technology is crucial to the librarys evolving operations. Im encouraged at the pace with which the recommendations have been implemented. Ive worked on federal i. T. Reform on a bipartisan basis for many years, and i know its not easy. Big i. T. Projects are tough enough in corporate enterprises, but federal agencies face a much different budget process and unique organizational issues. Federal chief Information Officers have learned a lot of lessons and developed best practices in recent years. I lurch the library and 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 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. This ongoing effort collects and makes accessible personal accounts of american war veterans so that future generations can hear directly from veterans to better understand the realities of war. With veterans day 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. Dr. Hayden, weve 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. 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 my remarks and senator udalls and any comments, introductory comments any member of the panel would like to make would go into the record without objection. So dr. Hayden, were glad youre 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. 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 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. The library is a Different Organization from what it was just a short time ago, and over the last few years, we have stabilized our core i. T. Structure. We have streamlined and strengthened our i. T. Governance, and we have centralized and professionalized our i. T. Work force. And that hard work has allowed us to close and implement nearly 95 of the gao 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. And were making progress in upgrading the systems to register and maintain to up date records for created 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. To keep progress moving forward, the Copyright Office has now hired a senior technical adviser in place to help manage and plan i. T. Modernization and also to enhance the collaboration between the Copyright Office and the agencys technology staff. And in fiscal year 2019, the Copyright Office and the office of the cheep Information Officer jointly engaged in User Experience to stakeholders and launched develop 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. We will also complete a prototype of a searchable Records Management system and begin the initial development for the next generation online registration system. I want you to know that i believe in my team leading this effort. Register karen temple, chief Information Officer bud barton, and i believe that together we will deliver a modernized copyright system. We are also completely overhauling the technology that powers every part of the library. The chief Information Officer, mr. Barton, is working with the Congressional Research service, crs, to implement a new research and information system. And it will make use of the latest technologies. The National Library for the blind and print disabled is completely rethinking how it delivers content to people with reading difficulties. The law library has completely 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 focused design and agile development, weve rolled out new products to millions of online users and made enhancements to many of our services. And lastly, our Digital Strategy agency wide is leveraging technology to find innovative ways to reach more people. So with these efforts, were 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, but weve made great progress. So i thank you again for inviting me to update the committee with my colleagues, and we welcome your questions. Great. Were glad youre here. We clearly are going to have plenty of time for us to ask multiple questions. I think well try to stay at about fiveminute segments and go back and forth. Senator hydesmith is coming back in a moment ago obviously will be here for questions as well. Ms. Barton, would you share your progress . You started right, when, 2016, or was it 15 . September of 2015, sir. 2015, and that was in response to the idea that somebody needed to come in and be the chief Information Officer. Kind of just in a couple minutes, sort of give me a sense of how far youve come from the day you walked in and particularly how far youve come since the librarian took her job in 2016. Thank you for the question, sir. Its a great opportunity for me to be able to reenforce the talent we have at the library regarding i. T. And the professionalism displayed by the staff. As the gao audit found, there was a lack of oversight. So they suggested that the library hire a chief Information Officer. Whenever i first came in, it was apparent to me that it wasnt a lack of talent or lack of capability. It was really a lack of vision. The library has been working in a siloed fashion. As im sure well discuss a little bit more throughout the hearing, centralization was something that would help us. In other words, making decisions about i. T. At the agency level regarding Strategic Direction and making sure those decisions at the Strategic Direction didnt interfere with the individual service or Business Units needs to have specialized i. T. To perform their business mission. Whenever i first arrived, i testified my goal was to see the findings of the gao audit were addressed in a way that didnt just check a box. I wasnt here to just make sure we closed the audit findings. Was hire to make sure the root cause of those findings was addressed in such a way that 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. I expect we will close all of those findings by the end of this calendar year. We have submitted the 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 closed. The progress we have made is significant, and it covers every domain of i. T. From the discussions ive had with the gao, the team that was here. It was the first time theyve actually made that broad of a recommendation. The number of recommendations were significant, over 100 recommendations. And in every domain of i. T. From security to finance, to operations, every domain that exists. The biggest progress we have made is in security. 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 have been validated, tested, and compared to nst standards, whos the body that we look to for establishing security standards. On that topic, let me go to ms. Temple before i run out of time here with my first questions. On the security topic, intellectual property, clearly one of the things that for good reason were 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 and your job . Yes, thank you for the question. Security is one of the most important aspects of our development of an i. T. System. Im very pleased that the library has taken such a huge role in ensuring that the items we receive in the library are protected. Digital security, as we move to Digital Technology, we receive a host of different types of works from 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 its development. So thats one of the things that we are focusing on as we develop with the library. And youve worked in the office for some time, havent you . Yes, i have. And whats the difference in the security either concerns or your sense of security now compared to five years ago or whatever number you want to give me . Yes, i would say that the main difference i