Mr. DORNY. There would be a 744 man-year reduction in the SCS out of a total of 16,052 man-years. From 16,796 down to 16,052, in total for the Service.

Mr. D. A. WILLIAMS. Mr. Dorny, he is referring to the 555 figure, the ACP part.

Mr. DORNY. I do have the figures separate for ACP on reimbursable obligations which is 555 man-years. Advances and reimbursable obligations in total would cause man-years of employment to drop down from 1,505 down to 952. I thought you were relating your question to the total Service reduction.

Mr. MICHEL. Just a minute. Those figures are interesting because I am wondering why they don't square with those appearing on page 219 which show under technical assistance to ACP participation estimated 1964, 1,195, as against budget estimate 1965, 640.

Mr. DORNY. This is for advances and reimbursements in total. There are other sources included in reimbursements. The figures Mr. Williams was talking about before was the 555 man-years reduction for the ACP portion of advances and reimbursements.

Mr. D. A. WILLIAMS. Mr. Michel, you are correct in your figures. On page 219 the item referred to there, specifically tied to ACP, technical assistance to ACP participation, shows under 1964 an $8 million transfer level estimated, with 1,195 man-years. With the scaled-down program to $150 million projected to 1965 fiscal year the estimated transfer is $4,800,000, with a total of 640 man-years. The difference between 1,195 man-years and 640 man-years is the 555 we have been talking about. The figures Mr. Dorny was talking about include additional sources of reimbursement other than the ACP.

Mr. MICHEL. Let me get at it another way. If the committee sustains this figure of $100 million reduction, how much of that $100 million would actually go to the farmers themselves in payments for conservation practices as against a figure subtracted from that, that is for administration of technical assistance, bodies, employed bodies, et cetera?

Mr. D. A. WILLIAMS. Sir, I suspect that you will have to inquire of this from the Agricultural Stabilization Service to be accurate on it. I would simply say this, that the $150 million level, as I understand it, would still have in it administrative expense. So that the $100 million scaled down, the very large proportion of that, would be costsharing funds for farmers.

Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Williams, I shan't ask you any more or develop this any further at this point. When the folks from the ASCS come before us I will put specific questions to them. For the record and for my own satisfaction I will know for sure what the difference will be if we use the one figure as against the other in actual payments to the farmers for these conservation practices. With that, I will relinquish the floor.

Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Baker, we want to thank you for your appearance before our committee at this time. And again, Mr. Williams, we want you and the members of your staff to know that we appreciate the manner in which this has been presented to our committee.

The committee will adjourn until 1 o'clock tomorrow.

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1964.

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

WITNESSES

DR. NYLE C. BRADY, DIRECTOR, SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOSTER E. MOHRHARDT, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

MRS. BLANCHE L. OLIVERI, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PROGRAM COORDINATION SERVICES, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY CHARLES W. MEHRING, MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIAISON OFFICER, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY

CHARLES F. KIEFER, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES

MISS NANCY A. GOFF, ASSISTANT BRANCH CHIEF, BUDGET BRANCH, DIVISION OF BUDGET AND FINANCE, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES

F. R. MANGHAM, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PLANT AND OPERATIONS CHARLES L. GRANT, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Mr. WHITTEN. We will turn now to the National Agricultural Library.

We wish to state for the record that we on this committee have been very much pleased through the years at the very excellent job done by the library of the Department of Agriculture. As we have said many, many times, the value of all research is only academic unless it is used. And it will not be used unless it is made easily accessible. Unfortunately, as somebody said, it is easy for some people to lie right down beside it without being disturbed.

Dr. Brady, we are glad to have you here sponsoring the Library Service. Also, we are glad to have Mr. Mohrhardt with us as well as his associates.

In times past we have tried to provide some funds for new facilities. Like many things, we haven't been able to do all the things we would like to. I notice that you are asking now for the construction of a new library, for about $7 million. At this point I would like to have pages 55 through 64 of the justification, volume 3, included in the record. (The material referred to follows:)

PURPOSE STATEMENT

Function. The library, pursuant to the Department's Organic Act of 1862, and under delegation from the Secretary, "procures and preserves all information concerning agriculture which can be obtained by means of books ***" the act establishing the Department, the library also serves as the National Agricultural Library.

Under

Activities.-The library makes available to the research workers of the Department and the State agricultural colleges, as well as to the general public, the agricultural knowledge of the world that is contained in published literature. This reduces duplication of effort and avoids diversion of valuable time of scientists and administrators by letting them know what has been done previously in their fields. The library collects current and historical published material and organizes it for maximum service to the Department and to the public through reference services, loans of publications, bibliographical services, and photoreproductions of library material. It issues a monthly Bibliography of Agriculture in which is listed the agricultural literature of the world. The book collection approximates 1,212,000 volumes.

Available funds and man-years 1963 and estimated, 1964 and 1965

-100,000

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Activities transferred in the 1965 estimates to "Salaries and expenses, Office of Management Services".

Base for 1965_

Budget estimate, 1965_

Increase [for increased pay act costs (Public Law 87-793]--

Project statement

1,326, 140 1, 347, 000 +20,860

The National Agricultural Library, cooperates jointly with the other national libraries-Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine-to collect, on a worldwide basis, publications in the sciences and organize them for optimum It services not only the Department of Agriculture, but throughout the world, agricultural colleges and universities, other research and educational institutions, individual scientists, industry, farmers, and the general public.

use.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

These services are performed through four major activities:

(1) Technical services.-Including selection from national and international sources; acquisition, classification, cataloging and preparation for maximum use of all books, journals, and other publications for the department library collection; upon request, classification and cataloging for agency field libraries; and maintenance of a national information center on exchange of agricultural publications.

(2) Public services.-Including individual reference and lending work, compilation of special bibliographies, provision of photoprint and microfilm copies of library material, and preservation and maintenance of the Nation's and world's heritage of published knowledge in the field of agriculture.

(3) Field and special services.-Including compilation of continuing bibliographies; provision of reference, bibliographic, and lending services in specialized areas; authorization, direction and review of agency field libraries; and provi sion of leadership in developing plans for maximum utilization of the Nation's agricultural-biological library resources and services.

(4) Program coordination services.-Including coordination of policy releases and general management requirements of the library; orientation and training of nonlibrary personnel; and development of procedures and controls on a Departmentwide basis for documentation and other than initial dissemination of scientific and technical information.

SELECTED EXAMPLES OF RECENT PROGRESS

Technical services

The program for acquiring foreign publications was expanded through arrangements made with university libraries to send duplicate Arabic and Indian agricultural publications to the library, and through establishment of closer working relations with agricultural attaché to strengthen the exchange of foreign publications program.

Work has begun on enlarging the domestic exchange program through direct contact with commercial publishers, societies, and associations which publish in fields of interest to agriculture.

To give the Nation the most comprehensive collection possible of agricultural machinery catalogs and to avoid unnecessary duplication by the National Agricultural Library and the land-grant college and university libraries, assignment of the national responsibility for this field to the university library with the best collection has been studied. Based on this study, a cooperative agreement with the regents of the University of California for the library at Davis to collect, house, and service this collection on a national basis has been arranged.

Continued progress was made in cataloging and classifying publications for the collection. In 1963, 2,416 more titles were searched prior to cataloging and 197 more titles were cataloged than during the previous fiscal year. In addition, with continued application of the refined acquisition policy, and the development of the professional oriental language cataloger, the cataloging backlog was reduced from 47,200 pieces in 1962 to 40,745 pieces in 1963.

The Subject Authority File, mentioned as in preparation for publication in the 1964 budget, was in the hands of the printer at the end of the year. This work, which is eagerly awaited by agricultural librarians, includes 93,272 entries on 2,434 pages to be published in 4 volumes.

Public services

The number of reference questions answered during the year increased by 2,949 from 96,893 to 99,842 for the year. Total loans also increased from 238,064 to 261,256, an addition of 23,192.

Twenty-four printed, mimeographed, typewritten, or slip bibliographies and lists were prepared to fill special requests. Representative examples include (a) School lunches, 1952-61 (printed).

(b) Safflower, 1900-60 (printed).

(c) Contract and vertical integration, 1953-62 (printed).

(d) Farmer committees at State and local levels (typewritten).

(e) Congressional material on information storage and retrieval (mimeographed).

(f) Evaluation of food qualities (slip).

(g) Fumigation of peanuts in storage (slip).

Binding was again performed by a small business concern at a cost of $1.95 per volume under a waiver issued by the Public Printer. In 1963, 8,459 volumes were bound as compared with 8,161 volumes in 1962, an increase of 298 volumes. Field and special services

A recordbreaking high of 103,765 items indexed in the "Bibliography of Agriculture" provided additional access to the world's output of scientific literature of agricultural subjects. This compares with 90,215 items indexed during the fiscal year 1962, an increase of 15 percent. For the first time since the "Bibliography of Agriculture" came into being (in 1942) a list of periodicals indexed in it was printed. This 163-page publication, "Serial Publications Indexed in the Bibliography of Agriculture" (library list No. 75), was issued in a 1,000-copy edition and given wide distribution. In addition to being an extremely useful library tool, it is being employed as the keystone in investigating the feasibility of cooperative indexing with land-grant college libraries.