[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 121 (Thursday, July 26, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1630]
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                     HONORING DAVID WOODLEY PACKARD

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 26, 2007

  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Madam Speaker, this evening at the 
Library of Congress, David Woodley Packard, president of the Packard 
Humanities Institute (PHI), will officially transfer the 415,000-
square-foot Packard Campus in Culpepper, VA, to the Library of Congress 
to house what is the world's largest and most comprehensive collection 
of moving images and sound recordings.
  As a member of the Joint Committee on the Library, I want to commend 
the board members of the Packard Humanities Institute and, in 
particular, its president, David Woodley Packard, for making this new 
facility possible. It is truly a gift to the Nation whose creative 
heritage in sound and image will for the first time be consolidated in 
one state-of-the-art facility. I also want to note the generosity of 
the Packard Humanities Institute to my home state of California: the 
UCLA Film Archive and the restoration of the Stanford Theatre in Palo 
Alto and the San Jose Fox Theater for the San Jose Opera.
  Constructed by the Packard Humanities Institute, the three-building 
facility represents the largest-ever private gift to the U.S. 
legislative branch of government and one of the largest ever to the 
Federal Government. The Packard Campus will consolidate audiovisual 
collections and will enhance the Library's efforts to preserve and make 
accessible its collections of moving images and sound recordings. I 
also want to commend my colleagues in the Congress who have provided an 
additional $82.1 million to support operations, maintenance, equipment 
and related costs for this magnificent facility.
  In closing I want to commend the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. 
Billington, for his commitment to the preservation of our Nation's 
audio-visual heritage. Under his leadership, Congress approved P.L. 
105-144 in 1997 to authorize the unique public-private partnership that 
has resulted in the facility now being transferred to the Federal 
Government for the Library of Congress.

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