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Open World Leadership Center Financial Statement Audit - Auditor’s Report and Transmittal letter, July 2016

To further its monitoring of collections-related issues, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted a performance audit of the Prints and Photographs (P&P) Division’s administrative and accounting controls over its collection. Our objectives were to examine (1) the criteria guiding the P&P...

During this semiannual period, we issued several reports across a variety of topics. We reported on the effectiveness of controls for the Library’s financial management system as part of the audit of the Library’s fiscal year 2016 financial statements, the Library’s use of appropriated funds for...

During this semiannual period, we issued several reports. We reported that the Prints and Photographs (P&P) Division effectively tracks its materials but needs to assess the risks associated with its growing quantity of material not fully processed. OIG determined that at the time of our fieldwork...

During this semiannual period, we issued several reports, including two that focused specifically on the Library’s information technology (IT) challenges. The reports benchmarked the Library’s IT-related budget obligations and human capital against those of other federal government agencies...

During this semiannual period, we issued a report on the Library’s need to determine an eDeposit and eCollections strategy and two reports on security at the Library’s facility in Landover, Maryland. These reports highlighted a number of issues of significant importance to the Library. For example...

During this semiannual period, we issued reports on the maturity of the Library’s system development life cycle processes and procedures and on the design of Library-wide internal controls for tracking information technology investments. These reports highlighted a number of structural issues that...

In the last six months, we issued reports on the Open World Leadership Center’s FY13 financial statements audit and physical security at the Library’s Landover Warehouse facility. We also continued a facilities planning review; oversaw an audit of information technology system certification and...

In the last six months, we issued reports on the Library’s FY 2013 financial statements audit and the alternate computing facility. We are pleased to report that for the eighteenth consecutive year, the Library received an unmodified opinion on its consolidated financial statements. We also...