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RETIREMENT OF BERNARD A. ``BUD'' BARTON, JR., THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
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HON. ZOE LOFGREN
of california
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Ms. LOFGREN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Bernard A.
``Bud'' Barton, Jr. on his retirement from the Library of Congress and to thank him for nearly three decades of dedicated public service.
Mr. Barton has spent his career at the intersection of knowledge and technology. While serving as the deputy chief information officer for the North Carolina National Guard. Mr. Barton designed the agency's disaster recovery and continuity of operations capabilities, ensuring the Guard lived up to its ``Always Ready'' motto. As chief information officer for the Defense Technical Information Center, Mr. Barton ensured that the Department of Defense's largest library had the IT infrastructure necessary to fuse science and technology data and reliably deliver the knowledge needed to develop the next generation of technologies to support our Warfighters and help assure national security.
In 2015, Mr. Barton took on what Fortune Magazine labeled as possibly the hardest job in tech, serving as the Chief Information Officer for the Library of Congress. Mr. Barton has ably guided the nation's oldest federal cultural institution through a complete technological overhaul. Mr. Barton oversaw the centralization of Library technology activities; fostered the creation of an agency-wide digital strategy; and marshalled efforts to optimize and modernize the Library's IT infrastructure and critical IT business systems. Under his leadership, the Library completed a three-year data center transformation, embracing the best of traditional IT services and the Cloud to ensure a stable, flexible, scalable foundation for the future. He also completely revamped IT security, and successfully addressed more than 100 major technology recommendations identified by Congress and the GAO.
Through it all, Mr. Barton has been a transparent, proactive, and enthusiastic partner to Members of Congress, our staff and our constituents.
The impact of these changes cannot be overstated. As the world's largest library and home of both the Congressional Research Service and the U.S. Copyright Office, the Library of Congress stands as a beacon of knowledge and a source of creativity. Mr. Barton leaves the Library a stronger, more digitally enabled institution that is better prepared than ever to serve the needs of Congress, researchers, and all Americans.
Please join me in wishing Mr. Barton a well-deserved retirement after a lifetime of faithful public service.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 152
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