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LC Investigates Alleged Threats by EmployeeCarl Cephas, a page at the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room who apparently enjoys gags at the expense of his coworkers, was given a paid five-day suspension in May after staff members complained that his jokes had gone too far. The Washington City Paper reported May 15 that Cephas had upset staff members by showing them one of his serial-killer trading cards and talking about "going postal"—the name of a 1997 novel that he kept at his desk. Cephas returned to work on May 12, after visiting a staff psychiatrist and watching LC personnel search his desk for a gun. LC Public Affairs Officer Jill Brett told American Libraries that the "library takes threats seriously. . . . All the procedures to present his side of the story with a representative from the union took place in due course." Posted June 22, 1998. |
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