Access to important oriental scientific literature was provided by two special bibliographies:

"Communist Chinese Periodicals in the Agricultural Sciences," library list No. 70, revised May 1963, 33 pages.

"Korean Publications in the National Agricultural Library," library list No. 79, June 1963, 25 pages.

Increased services to scientists in specialized fields, to attorneys and to Department personnel in the field were provided. The Beltsville Branch, which gives on-site service to the Agricultural Research Center, loaned 23,485 books and periodicals, answered 19,435 reference questions, and prepared 20 bibliographies. The Bee Culture Branch added 1.058 items to its comprehensive bibliography of the world's beekeeping literature, made 1,475 loans, and answered 578 reference questions. The Law Branch loaned 15,836 publications, answered 14,860 reference questions, and prepared 100 legislative histories. Four-fifths of the Department's personnel are located in the field. When their research needs cannot be met by the National Agricultural Library, a land-grant institution library or local library, field libraries may be authorized. As of June 30, 1963, 13 field libraries supervised by the Forest Service and the Agricultural Research Service were in operation. Forest Service has established libraries at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.; Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland, Oreg.; Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif.; region 8 (southern region), Atlanta, Ga.; Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans, La. Northwestern Forest Experiment Station, Upper Darby, Pa.; and Southeast Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, N.C.

The Agricultural Research Service has libraries at the National Animal Disease Laboratory, Ames, Iowa; Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory, Greenport, Long Island, N.Y.; and one each at the four regional research and development divisions located at Albany, Calif.; New Orleans, La.; Peoria, Ill.; and Wyndmoor, Pa.

In addition, authorization has been given to the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah, to provide a library for its station personnel, its field offices, and all of Forest Service Region 4. General supervision of these libraries by the National Agricultural Library was strengthened by onsite inspection of 10 of them. Work is in progress on revision of the National Agricultural Library's "Guidelines" for their operation, and liaison with Forest Service and Agricultural Research Service officials has been increased to insure incorporation of our directives in appropriate agency regulations.

The ad hoc Advisory Committee, which was appointed by the Secretary in 1962 to initiate a more formalized program of cooperation between the National Agricultural Library and the libraries of land-grant colleges and other libraries in the United States, was reconstituted in June 1963 as a regular public Advisory Committee on library services. Many of the accomplishments reported for fiscal year 1963 resulted from implementation of the committee's recommendations. In addition, other recommendations are currently under consideration, and the continuance of the committee will result in further strengthening of the cooperative program.

Program coordination services

An Orientation and Training Section has been established in the library for handling orientation programs, tours for visitors, and training sessions on how to use the library. Working closely with Foreign Agricultural Service, the section helps study programs in agricultural library science and cooperates in the Foreign Agricultural Service Terminal Program for foreign participants. There has been an increase of 69 percent over last year in the number of people utilizing its services. Additional worldwide sources for acquisition of publications through exchange arrangements has been a byproduct of the activity.

Training sessions on how to use the library have been held for over 100 Department employees with participation ranging from clerks to economists. Visual aids and mimeographed instructions have been developed to assist in these sessions. The plan initiated last year to coordinate questionnaires and publicity is resulting in better issuances and more consistent releases.

Because of increasing demands for information on all library and documentation activities, a centralized clearinghouse has been established to serve as a coordinating and control point for the entire Department.

Volume of work. The following table shows a comparison of the workload for fiscal year 1963 with the estimated workload for fiscal years 1964 and 1965. Figures include Bee Culture, Beltsville, and Law Branch statistics, as well as those of the main library.

SUMMARY OF INCREASE AND DECREASE, 1965

Decrease due to elimination of nonrecurring amount provided in 1964 for plans and specifications_.

Increase for construction of facilities___.

Net increase__.

-450,000 +7, 000, 000

+6, 550, 000

The National Agricultural Library containing the world's most comprehensive collection of agricultural, biological, and general chemical publications is housed in physical facilities that were outgrown 20 years ago, completely inadequate and harmful to the book collection.

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The library contains approximately 1,212,000 volumes, a significant part of the Nation's intellectual heritage. Because the stacks space, according to all standards, is adequate for only 500,000 it has become necessary to house the collection in two separate buildings. Even so, the materials are stacked in piles on practically every aisle in the Library, jammed together on nearly every shelf, and subjected to continuous wear, tear, and loss.

Priceless and irreplaceable volumes are deteriorating because of roof leaks and improper temperature and humidity. Heat pipes run through these rooms causing harmful temperatures in the winter, and the destructive conditions continue with uncontrolled summer heat.

In January 1963, the Bibliography of Agriculture staff was moved to a third building where facilities were made temporarily available to house this activity, which is considered by U.S. scientists to be one of the most important support services in scientific documentation. Further disruption of essential services occurred in January of 1964 when the staff was moved from the Old Post Office Building to the Auditors Building. At the present time, the library is trying to operate an efficient program with a widely scattered staff and publications in two separate facilities.

The space problem is at such critical state that the future of library service of the country's scientists is at stake. Publications necessary for scientist's work are not being acquired because there is no place for staff to select and classify them and no stack space in which to store and maintain them.

Fortunately, the first step to alleviate this major impediment to the Library's efficiency and development was taken in the fiscal year 1964 budget when funds for preliminary studies and for planning of a new and adequate library building were made available by the Congress.

A site, already the property of the Federal Government, at the Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md., has been selected.

The Beltsville location will enable the library to remain in the Washington metropolitan area, and maintain its essential liaison with the other two national libraries. The library will also be better able to serve the Department's scientists working at the Plant Industry Station and the Research Center.

The amount requested will permit the Library to proceed with the construction of a building approximately 265,000 gross square feet adequate to house the 2 million volumes expected to be in its collections by the early 1980's, and the personnel to prepare, maintain, and service them.

The General Services Administration announced on January 27, 1964, that the design for a new National Agricultural Library building would be developed by the New York City firm of Warner Burns Toan and Lunde, and that the plans and specifications are to be completed by April 1965. It is anticipated that bids for construction will be requested immediately after completion of the plans, and that the contract for construction is expected to be let before the end of 1965.

Mr. WHITTEN... Mr. Mohrhardt, you may proceed as you wish from this point.

Mr. MOHRHARDT. This is Miss Goff's first appearance. I will submit this biographical sketch for the record.

Mr. WHITTEN. We are glad to have you people appear before us. It is also interesting to the readers to realize that we have such experienced and capable people. We are glad to have you. (The biographical sketch follows:)

NANCY A. GOFF, ASSISTANT CHIEF, BUDGET BRANCH, DIVISION OF BUDGET AND FINANCE, OMS

Miss Goff was born November 6, 1908, in Leavenworth County, Kans. She graduated from the Wichita Business College and attended the University of Kansas. She received her B.A. degree in accounting from George Washington University, and pursued her graduate studies at American University. Miss Goff taught in Kansas for two school terms. She joined the Department of Agriculture in 1937, and has assumed increasingly difficult assignments in the field of budgeting. She has been in her present position since January 1963.

Mr. MOHRHARDT. Thank you for the remarks, Mr. Whitten. I hope that I can come up to the quality which you pointed out in your introduction.

I have a short prepared statement which I would like to read, if I

Mr. MOHRHARDT. Committees of the House and the Senate, the Office of Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation the scientific associations, have stressed during the past year the urgency for greater cooperation, coordination, and compatibility in science documentation-information activities throughout the United States. The National Agricultural Library has taken steps to insure cooperative activities on the part of the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, nad has invited the land-grant institutions and others concerned with agricultural-biological research to work cooperatively in providing scientists, technicians, students, and others with a better system for readily and efficiently obtaining scientific publications and information. As was pointed out in a statement before the House ad hoc Subcommittee on Research Data Processing and Information Retrieval, we have the need "to somehow more rapidly take new-found information and make it available to the researcher, the scientist, the teacher, the student, and the businessman."

Among the specific projects started by the National Agricultural Library are

1. The coordination within the National Agricultural Library of all Department efforts in the classification, indexing, storage and retrieval, and other documentation activities concerned with the handling of sicentific and technological information. The Library serves only as a coordination center and does not exercise jurisdiction over the activities of the agencies.

2. The establishment of a clearinghouse for translations. For the first time the Department will have in the Library a center where up-to-date information will be available on all translation activities by Department agencies in the translation of foreign scientific and technical articles. This center will enable those seeking translations to determine first whether or not certain translations have been made previously, and will also enable Department employees to locate quickly those that are available. 3. The center will also coordinate all bibliographic activities within the Department, thus enabling the agencies to take advantage of work being done by other Department employees, and in addition providing the Library with information not heretofore available.

With the increasing emphasis upon scientific information, it is more urgent than ever that efforts such as those above be taken to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and also to provide quicker access to work that has already been done.

In an effort to extend the usefulness of this information, the library has notified the land-grant institutions concerning these coordination

activities and has invited them to participate in feeding their information into the system and using the total facilities.

All of the above cooperative efforts are closely coordinated with the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information of the Federal Council for Science and Technology and with the Office of Science Information of the National Science Foundation. In this way the National Agricultural Library's resources, services and centralization are directly interconnected with those of other governmental agencies. I should also like to report on a further development which will result in greatly improved service to the Department and other scientists. As has been reported to this committee during the past few years, there are many deficiencies in the present Bibliography of Agriculture. Additional information in foreign languages is being included at the present time. We have also started the first part of the eventual automation and mechanization of the assembling and production of the bibliography. Working with the cooperation of the Department's Office of Management Appraisal and Systems Development, we are now mechanizing the production of the author indexes. We hope eventually to provide more effective aid to researchers who urgently need all of the available information in subject fields.

For instance, those working in "Pesticides" should be able to quickly locate, through the indexes, all of the references in each issue of the bibliography. This is not now possible, and a scientist can only locate these articles by laboriously checking page by page through the bibliographies. The above report is a preliminary and general one, indicating steps that are now being taken. In our hearings next year, we will report further on the accomplishments resulting from our present efforts.

No program increases are requested for fiscal year 1965. We are, however, requesting $20,860 for increased pay act costs (Public Law 87793).

APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE CHANGE

We have also requested that our salaries and expenses appropriation language be changed to provide the necessary authority to contract for personal services for translations of publications and possible developmental activities relating to the mechanization of library functions. The requested authority would permit us to obtain personal services for these activities when it is not possible or practical to do so through employment under civil service rules and regulations.

Frankly, we are not sure to what extent we shall use the authority in fiscal year 1965, since the activities we contemplate would have to be financed from funds currently available to us. However, we would like to begin on a limited basis to contract for the translation of some foreign scientific publications, and to have the authorization to contract for the personal services of machine experts when we progress to the point where such assistance is required.

NEW LIBRARY BUILDING

A few weeks ago when President Johnson signed the Library Services Act he said, "Chances are that the public libraries are among the oldest buildings in any community ***. We need better housing for