Salaries and expenses, Legislative Reference Service-Continued History and Government Division: Total (9), salaries and expenses, Legislative Reference Service. 46, 238 Total (15), salaries and expenses, distribution of catalog cards. 53, 061 COPYRIGHT OFFICE, LIST OF NEW POSITIONS Senator STENNIS. You say that you would still have seven new positions to meet the increased registration workload. Now, are they clerical, professional, or just what are they? If you could compile a list of those, I think it would be helpful to have it in the record. Mr. MUMFORD. Yes. We have a table here on that. Senator STENNIS. All right; that will be inserted in the record at this point. (The table referred to follows:) SERVICE FOR THE BLIND Senator STENNIS. Now, let us take up this quarter of a million dollars for a more adequate library service for the blind. You say that this is for a general strengthening of the program so that you may better serve the blind through the various State and local agencies. Now, I am not familiar with your program. Do you already have a sizable national program on that? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. The Library has, for many years, carried on this program under statutory provisions, with the money appropriated to the Library. It procures books in the form of talking books, recordings, and the machines on which to play them, and books in raised characters. The service itself is rendered through 30 cooperating regional libraries and 55 State agencies for the blind, which distribute talkingbook machines. Senator STENNIS. This is all under your service? Mr. MUMFORD. It is part of the total program. Senator STENNIS. Where does the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare come in? Mr. MUMFORD. It is not connected with nor a part of this national program. Senator STENNIS. They have a program of their own? Mr. MUMFORD. Not of library service. Senator STENNIS. So you are the master planner and sole agent, you might say, in this field of work? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes. I believe the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare may be concerned with the distribution of textbooks, are they not, Mr. Gooch? Mr. GOOCH. I believe they have some responsibility there, sir, but not for library materials in general. Senator STENNIS. This is a mission that you are primarily responsible for? Mr. MUMFORD. That is correct. Senator STENNIS. Senator Saltonstall, do you have any questions? Senator SALTONSTALL. I have just a few questions. The House gave you practically what you wanted except for $34,700? Mr. MUMFORD. That is correct. PURCHASE OF NEW BOOKS Senator SALTONSTALL. Do you have enough money to buy new books? Mr. MUMFORD. Well, the answer to that is we never really have enough money to buy all the materials we would like to acquire; but this will help us greatly. We had been losing ground badly. With the increasing production of material all around the world and the increase in prices also in this country and abroad, we felt it was essential to try to obtain some additions to this appropriation in order to hold our own. As I said before, the amount of money that can be used for the purchase of older material is relative. I think this will get us through the year satisfactorily. Senator SALTONSTALL. You are reasonably satisfied? INCOME FROM COPYRIGHTS Senator SALTONSTALL. Now I have one other question on this matter of copyright. Is my memory correct that you get a certain income from that? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir; the Government does. On page 61 of the estimates we have a table showing the fees collected in 1958 and the estimate for 1959 and for 1960, as well as the estimated value of the material deposited. The fees which are deposited in miscellaneous receipts in the Treasury, plus the value of the material received more than equals the appropriation for the support of the Copyright Office. We collected $945,231 in fees in 1958, and the value of the material deposited was estimated to be $546,313, which made a total income of $1,491,544, as compared to the total cost of $1,326,505. Senator SALTONSTALL. Then you are making money. The value of the books or materials that you receive are listed at the proper cost? Mr. MUMFORD. Well, we have tried to evaluate them on a realistic basis. Many of these books, of course, are quite valuable and expensive, such as encyclopedias, loose-leaf services, and various other expensive works. SPACE PROBLEM Senator SALTONSTALL. I have one other question; however, it is not in your appropriation, but I would like to ask this: Have you enough space over there? Do you need additional space there? Mr. MUMFORD. We certainly do not have enough space, and urgently need additional facilities. It is an extremely critical matter with us. Senator SALTON STALL. Have you put in for more space? Senator STENNIS. Senator Saltonstall, I will just turn this letter of June 1, 1959, from Dr. Mumford, addressed to Senator Hayden, over to you, a long letter concerning the space problem, including the preliminary plans and estimates for the additional building for the Library of Congress. That letter and the joint resolutions, House Joint Resolution 352 and Senate Joint Resolution 97 will be inserted in the record at this point. (The letter and resolutions follow :) THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, Hon. CARL HAYDEN, Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropraitions, DEAR SENATOR HAYDEN: In response to your request, I am writing with reference to the Library's need for additional facilities. As one of the leading research libraries of the world, the Library of Congress must add substantial numbers of publications to its collections each year in order to maintain its effectiveness. This inevitably requires room for growth despite strenuous efforts to pursue a selective acquisitions policy. The Library Annex, completed in 1938, was originally equipped with book shelving only to the extent of approximately two-thirds of the space designed for that purpose. Over the years, the remainder of this book-stack space has been used for work operations, but now the pressure of the growing book collections is so great that the Architect of the Capitol is installing steel shelving in areas originally intended for books with the result that more space must be found to accommodate displaced work operations and to permit the orderly growth of the Library. F Although we had been making studies of special aspects of the space problem almost from the time that I became Librarian of Congress, I appointed a committee approximately 18 months ago to set down in considerable detail our needs for a third building and to develop a coordinated approach to the space problem in an enlarged physical plant. By April 1958 these studies had advanced to the point where I was able to discuss them with the Joint Committee on the Library. Following this meeting, the joint committee instructed the Architect of the Capitol to prepare a report and statement on the Library's space problem. We cooperated with the Architect by providing an extensive set of tables with explanatory notes, and the Architect's report was forwarded to the joint committee on August 13, 1958. This matter was again considered by the joint committee on March 25, 1959, and following this meeting, joint resolutions were introduced in both Houses of Congress, House Joint Resolution 352 on April 27, 1959, by Representative Omar Burleson, and Senate Joint Resolution 97 on May 14, 1959, by Senator Theodore Francis Green. These joint resolutions would authorize a preliminary study and review in connection with the proposed additional building for the Library of Congress. Concurrently with all of these activities looking toward a third building, we have been working with the General Services Administration since last summer on the problem of finding approximately 200,000 square feet of rental space to afford the Library some relief until an additional building could be completed. In its action on the independent offices appropriation bill the House of Representatives disapproved the General Services Administration budget estimate for funds to rent 200,000 square feet of space for occupancy by the Library of Congress. I should like to stress the distinction between the Library's immediate need for temporary space, on the one hand, and, on the other, its need for an additional permanent building which is unlikely to be provided in less than 5 years. The provision of the requested temporary rental facilities would not in any way change the requirement for the permanent additional building, nor would early approval of either House Joint Resolution 352 or Senate Joint Resolution 97 in any way reduce the Library's immediate need for the requested temporary facilities. The areas in the present Library buildings which were provided for staff operations and reading rooms are either overcrowded or occupied practically to capacity, and some of the areas intended for exhibition purposes and for the storage of the Library's permanent active collections are occupied by staff operations for which space cannot be provided otherwise. To make it possible to continue the services and the custody of the collections effectively during the next 5 to 10 years, we must transfer certain work operations and materials to quarters outside of the present Library buildings. Our plan is to locate in such quarters certain of the elements which would be moved to the proposed new building upon its completion, namely, the distribution of catalog cards, the Catalog Maintenance Division, the Government Printing Office Branch Bindery and Branch Printing Shop, a portion of the Exchange and Gift Division, the Division for the Blind with its collections, the Map Division and the collections of maps and atlases, and a portion of the Prints and Photographs Division. These require 46,700 square feet for staff operations and reading rooms and 153,300 square feet for the catalog card stock, the map and atlas collections, portions of the materials in the custody of the Exchange and Gift Division and the Prints and Photographs Division, the Government Printing Office Branches, and book storage. After such relocations, staff crowding in the present buildings can be alleviated, the installation of shelving in the annex bookstacks can be completed, and the collections can be properly shelved with allowance for their normal expansion during the next few years. I greatly appreciate your interest in our space problem, an interest, I may say, that is consistent with your longstanding concern for the welfare of the Library. Sincerely yours, L. QUINCY MUMFORD, [H.J. Res. 352, 86th Cong., 1st sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize preliminary study and review in connection with proposed additional building for the Library of Congress Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, is authorized and directed to prepare preliminary plans and estimates of cost for an additional building for the Library of Congress. SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized to make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for such purpose the sum of $75,000. [S.J. Res. 97, 86th Cong., 1st sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize preliminary study and review in connection with proposed additional building for the Library of Congress Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction and supervision of the Joint Committee on the Library, is authorized and directed to prepare preliminary plans and estimates of cost for an additional building for the Library of Congress. SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized, subject to the prior approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, to make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for such purpose the sum of $75,000. FUNDS TO RENT ADDITIONAL SPACE Senator STENNIS. Now, I have one additional factor that I would like to bring up here. The General Services Administration, Senator Saltonstall, has requested funds to rent approximately 200,000 square feet of space to afford the Library some relief until the additional building can be completed, and the House denied the funds in the independent offices appropriations bill. Now, that was just to make you familiar, and maybe now you will develop this further. Senator SALTONSTALL. I asked that question because I had been reading about it in the papers. Now, Dr. Mumford, I happened to be present at the independent offices appropriations hearings this morning when the General Services was discussed and the hearing was closed. Now, I was not there throughout the meeting, but I do recall that this subject of the House turning it down was brought up and there was $6,500,000 cut off their operations fund, which they stated was for rental space. Now, my suggestion would be that if you have a special interest in this matter that you either ask Senator Magnuson for an opportunity to appear before them, which is entirely proper, or write them a letter. I would suggest that you ask for an opportunity to appear before they close the hearings. They will be closing the hearings this week, and I think the public witnesses come on either on Thursday or Friday; so that if you wish to make a strong case for this 200,000 square feet— and I do not know how much money is involved, but you ought to go right after it. Mr. MUMFORD. Well, I think there was some misunderstanding about the immediate need that this rental space was designed to serve and the long-range need of a third building. Senator SALTONSTALL. I would suggest, Dr. Mumford, that you see Mr. Floete as soon as you get through with us this afternoonor try to-and then I would suggest that you either write a letter to supplement this letter, to Senator Magnuson, or request an opportunity to appear briefly before him. Mr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Senator SALTONSTALL. I see no reason why you should not stress it, if Mr. Floete has asked for the return of the money, but I do not think-and I was not there all the time--I do not think he went into detail. I see no reason why you should not supplement it, particularly if you need this space. |