that half of its recommendations and specifically Nos. 1(d), 5, We point out that the Library of Congress Regulation 2018-2 We ask Congress to reduce the size and budget of the Library''s Medical Office and to consider placing it under the Office of the Attending Physician, Congress of the United States (whose budget request for FY 80 is commendably less than for FY 79) to control and eliminate abuses in the Library's Health Services Office. 5. The EELC is opposed to any further increase of the Library's Special Police and favors the hiring instead of guards as suggested by this Subcommittee, Mr. Chairman. We agree with your statement Mr. Chairman at the February 14, 1979 hearings that "we do not need a paratrooper battalion to protect the Library." Such hiring should be limited to about a third of the guard force for the Library's third building the JMMB. It should be noted that there has been misuse of the Library's Special Police by LC management - the LC. Police has been and is being used partly as an arm of improper management actions against innocent employees and dissenting employees - to intimidate them, harass them, and place them under surveillance. Such use of police has a demoralizing effect not only on the employees thus abused but on the morale of the LC police itself. We ask for a Congressional inquiry into the recent abuse by LC Special Police of the handicapped and minority employee Mr. Thomas Lewis. Already a concentration camp atmosphere of fear and intimidation exists in the Library created by management the almost doubling of the Special Police would increase that intolerable atmosphere it is frivolous and sickening to argue, as the Librarian Dr. Boorstin did at the House Subcommittee on the Legislative hearings on Feb. 14, 1979 that "the police make the people welcome" at the Library. The EELC favors strongly the amalgamation of the LC Special Police with the U.S. Capitol Police in order to control and eliminate present abuse. 6. The EELC strongly opposes the continued abnormal increase in Library staff positions. We ask that an annual ceiling of new positions at LC be set by Congress. We ask that serious examination be given to reducing the swollen, bloated staff of the Eibrary through attrition - retirement, etc. We ask that serious consideration be given by Congress to setting a ceiling in the increase to the Library of Congress budget such an annual increase not to exceed for example two or three percent of the immediately preceding annual budget and that an effort be made for an across-the-board cut of the entire budget. 7. The EELC opposes the abnormal growth of the Congressional Research Service; CRS staff has tripled in the last ten years and we believe that CRS has reached already its optimum size. We note that Congressional staff has also tripled in the last decade and we believe that it also has reached its optimum size. The problem of Congressional staff sloughing off or shifting their work onto the Congressional Research Service was openly discussed and confronted by the Subcommittee at its hearing of February 15, 1979. We heartily support Chairman Benjamin's proposal to charge Congressional Committees for work done by LC staff; this would discourage research requests from Committees to LC's CRS, Congressman Benjamin explained, and the EELC concurs. We also are opposed to too many meetings of Congressional Staff with CRS on how to "work efficiently with CRS": We are concerned that such CRS meetings, institutes etc. are an invitation for Congressional staffs to slough off their work onto CRS. We wish to warn of the following vicious circle: More Staff on the Hill creates more requests on EC's CRS which in turn has to hire more staff in response to the increased Congressional Staff. This situation must be faced seriously and stopped before it gets out of hand. The EELC will study the matter further and hopes to have additional suggestions in the future. 8. The EELC asks that serious attention be given by the Library administration to the deteriorating collections of the Library of Congress in terms of quality of holdings, gaps in holdings, physical deterioration and collapse of collections, theft of materials, misplacement of large numbers of materials, bibliographic control, cataloging of many important uncataloged collections, etc. 9. The EELC asks that a much more vigorous effort be made at selection of materials for inclusion in the collections of the Library in all receipts rather than almost indiscriminate acquisition of materials in various areas. The EELC recommends the hiring of fulltime specialist selection officers - this will eliminate the flood of worthless, frivolous material now entering and having entered into the Library's collections. 10. The EELC is opposed to public relations, image gimmicks The EELC is opposed to turning the LC Main Building into a Museum The EELC is opposed to turning the Library's Great Hall into a restaurant as has been repeatedly done by Dr. Boorstin. EELC protests the desecration of this hallowed area of learning and requests the immediate cessation of this activity. 11. The EELC is calling attention to the sizeable personnel that is assigned to serving the Librarian personally. 12. The EELC appeals to Congress for its support in ending the harassment of the EELC organization by the Library administration which has been occurring from the founding of the EELC in 1973 to the present. Specifically, the EELC asks that the Library grant the EELC office space and the dues check-off which EC has consistently refused to give to the EELC in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner while it has granted office space to such employee organizations as the_Welfare and Recreation Association (WRA) and the Library of Congress Federal Credit Union (LCFCU) both of which are in the same category of employee organizations (according to LCR 2022-2) as the EELC. While Dr. Boorstin denied office space to the EELC in 1977 on the grounds that there was none available as he informed Senator Cannon by letter the Library did find office space and granted such office space to AFSCME one year later in 1978. The FELC asks Congress to instruct the Library administration either to grant office space to all LC employee organizations or to deny office space to all employee organizations. The present discriminatory situation, at the expense of the EELC, must not be allowed to continue. If the Credit Union is assigned office space in the third builing as planned - the EELC hereby requests office space (in the third building? an officially recognized LC employee organization. also as - 6 13. The EELC asks Congress to instruct the Library's General Counsel Mr. John J. Kominski, to reply to the BELC-EELC memorandum to him of March 27, 1978 - which I am now introducing as an exhibit; this memorandum to Kominski was published as part of my testimony last year in the U.S. Senate in the official record of the Senate Subcommittee on the Legislative hearing entitled: Legislative Branch Appropriations for 1979. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session. /Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch. Part 2: ... Library of Congress 7 Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978, pages 541-543. Our memorandum to Kominski which Mr. Kominski improperly has not answered concerns possible conflict of interest of top Library of Congress management directing and operating an employee organization - the Credit Union - in violation of Library of Congress regulations. ... The EELC and BELC also calls to the attention of Congress the contrast between the silence of Kominski above as compared to his very talkative nature in statements of his on Cook and Perry (which I am herewith introducing as an exhibit to the Washington Post of Dec. 14, 1978, page A24, to the Federal Times of Jan. 1, 1979, page 18 and thus to the Washington Community and to the Nation. The EELC and BELC also call to the attention of Congress the BELC-EELC leaflet entitled "For Your Information" which we are introducing into evidence in this hearing. 14. We ask that new programs not be instituted unless consultations and/or hearings are held by the appropriate Congressional Committee where BELC-EELC employee organization representatives are given the opportunity to testify and to express their views on the desirability or necessity of new programs. 15. The EELC condemns unequivocally the continued blatant discrimination against racial, ethnic and other minorities inflicted by the present Library of Congress management. We ask Congress to take urgent measures in this area. EELC and BELC condemn the violations of the law by the Library: The Equal Opportunity Office has refused to conduct hearings and to process promptly many discrimination complaints as required by law. EELC-BELC consider the following top officials of the Library personally responsible for this situation: Librarian of Congress Dr. Boorstin, Deputy Librarian of Congress Mr. Welsh, Equal Opportunity Office Coordinator Mr. Brackeen, Equal Employment Opportunity and Special Programs Office Director Mr. Hutchison and Director of Personnel Mr. Zimmerman. We ask Congress to consider disciplinary measures against the above officials if violations of the law continue. The EELC protests its exclusion and the exclusion of the BELC by Dr. Boorstin in FY 1979 in violation of the law from the input process in the Library's affirmative action program. We will not tolerate our exclusion by Dr. Boorstin in violation of the law.. We ask Congress also not to tolerate the violation of the law by Dr. Boorstin.. We ask Congress to direct Dr. Boorstin and his administration to obey the law and to seek out the views of the EELC and the BELC on affirmative action and to implement the EELC proposals and the BELC proposals for the good of the Library as a whole. - 7 16. Mr. Chairman, the EELC-BELC are opposed to continued extensive rental of outside buildings by LC for storage purposes in view of the addition of a huge third building and we support you Chairman Benjamin in your efforts to control this situation. We believe that extensive rental of outside buildings under the new circumstances constitutes prima facie evidence of mismanagement and irresponsible waste of taxpayer funds by the Library administration and we strongly protest this situation. The EELC and the BELC ask that a determined effort be made to incorporate all of the LC collections into the Library's three buildings - which together constitute in terms of space one of the largest agencies of the United States Government. Mr. Chairman, we cannot exile the materials of the Library to the provinces (at considerable expense to the Government) and turn the Main Building and the Annex into Museum and Exhibit areas this irresponsible Boorstin course of action must be stopped by Congress. We ask that the Main Building and the Annex be used to house most of the materials now in outside rental space. We note that the Library of Congress administration made claims to the US. Congress in the past that LC will not need extensive outside rental space upon occupancy of the third building. EELC and BELC favor keeping the 158 Computer in the Annex Building instead of moving it to the Navy Yard as was done at the beginning of this month without the approval of Congress. 17. The BELC and EELC submit to the Subcommittee as an exhibit the report entitled: The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress: The Planning vear. John Y. Cole, Executive Director. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1978. We ask the Subcommittee to examine this document and share our dismay with the chaotic, diffuse, vague nature of this Boorstin frill which cannot be excused by claiming that it is privately funded - which is only part of the story. The EELC and the BELC believe that the nature of this "Center" was disguised when presented to Congress by the Librarian and its impact was not fully understood by Congress. Section 5703 of Title 5, United States Code, which provides for travel expenses, including per diem may have been abused for the benefit of many individuals who exhaled hot air at the Library of Congress in four meetings in 1977 and 1978 about everything and anything under the sun sponsored by the Center for the Book. We ask for an investigation by the Subcommittee.. The BELC and the EELC informed Dr. Boorstin early that Dr. John Y. Cole the Executive Director of the Center for the Book7 was the person who falsified the Librarian's Annual Report for FY 1974 by stating that there were organizational changes in the Slavic and Central European Division in FY 1974 and the Annual Report dropping the name and title of George Perry from the list of officers in that Annual Report while in fact no organizational changes had either been announced or taken place in the Slavic Division during FY 1974 and Perry was an officer of the Library (Head of the Slavic Room and Greek Area Specialist) during that entire Fiscal Year. After Dr. Boorstin was informed of the above by BELG-EELC he appointed Cole Head of the Librarian's Task Force and later Executive Director of "The Center for the Book". - 8 18. The BELC and the EELC wish to state that the Deputy Librarian The truth is that even though five members of Congress on behalf of Cook and Perry for a negotiated settlement at the The EELC and the BELC ask that the Welsh statement of Feb. 21, 1979 before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative with the above claim be made part also of the hearing record of this House Subcommittee. It indicates something about the character and conduct of the second in command official of the Library of Congress who was designated the spokesman in this instance for the first in command official of the Library of Congress - the Agency Head Dr. Boorstin - who was present just before Cook and Perry testified before Senator Sasser on Feb. 21, 1979 but left the hearing room when Cook and Perry were in the course of testifying before Senator Sasser that day. Mr. Chairman, 19. The BELC and the EELC support you in your suggestion that น member of the Joint Committee on the Library become a member of the Moving Committee of Mr. Paul L. Berry now Director of the Library Environment Resources Office. The BELC-EELC wish to inform the Subcommittee that Mr. Berry is the Library official who covered up BELC and EELC charges of mismanagement and corruption in the now defunct Reference Department headed by him and who returned to EELC-BELC documents concerning false claims by a high Library official and a subordinate of his as irrelevant to Mr. Berry's internal investigation of himself in 1973. 20. We strongly support you, Chairman Benjamin, in your request of the Library administration on February 15, 1979 that the Library ought to be compensated for services provided by the Library to clients institutions as well as individuals throughout the Nation. The era of the free ride for these Library of Congress clients at the expense of the American taxpayer - must end as soon as possible. We also support you in your emphasis on Audits of Library of Congress activities and the BELC-EELC ask for a much overdue and needed Library-wide audit by the General Accounting Office as well as by an Auditing Organization outside the Legislative Branch. We ask also that the LC administration request and obtain reimbursement from the Welfare and Recreation Association for Audit 136 done by the Library at the request of the Welfare and Recreation Association. Mr. Chairman, for too long the Library of Congress administration has bestowed favors without compensation - at the expense of the American taxpayer upon certain EC employee organizations favored by the Library. The BELC and the EELC that are true service organizations serving LC employees gratis believe |