Research and reference libraries maintained by agencies that transferred funds to the Library of Congress in fiscal 1953-Continued

Facilities

Library costs

Mr. HORAN. I want to point out again that between the executive and the legislative branches of the Government we are supposed to have cooperative and amicable relationships. I would like to have us do that work for the executive department but maintain our autonomy here.

Mr. GARY. Could you give us a brief description of the nature of these transfers.

Mr. HORAN. I think we ought to have it in order to complete the record.

Dr. EVANS. I can give you, Mr. Chairman, a brief description of all of these projects. I have some of the material here. I think Mr. Rossiter left out the National Science Foundation project of $25,000.

Mr. HORAN. I am not necessarily being critical here; I am just trying to get at the facts.

Dr. EVANS. Mr. Chairman, to discuss some of these things, I would like to make a brief statement off the record.

(Off the record discussion.)

MONTHLY LIST OF RUSSIAN ACCESSIONS

Mr. BUSBEY. Dr. Evans, I would like to ask where this monthly list of Russian accessions, which I hold in my hand, comes into this picture. Is that under transfer of funds?

Dr. EVANS. That is partly under transferred funds. It is partly under appropriated funds. Congress included some years ago part of the cost of this in the appropriation. We started it with gift funds to begin with. The transferred funds support it and we get some from the National Committee for Free Europe.

Mr. BUSBEY. Dr. Evans, for what is this Monthly List of Russian Accessions used?

Dr. EVANS. It is used, sir, by people in Government who are doing research in this kind of material and a great many of them in several agencies. It is used by researchers in other institutions such as Harvard, some of whom are doing this kind of research for the Govern

ment.

Mr. BUSBEY. What, in general?

Dr. EVANS. The periodicals and the books that come out of Russia, primarily. We have another one that includes the satellite countries of eastern Europe.

Mr. BUSBEY. How are you able to get those books?

Dr. EVANS. We have a very extensive exchange arrangement with the Russians themselves, which the State Department helps us to operate. We spend some money purchasing books in Russia. We buy books, many Russian books, in New York. We buy them in Paris. We buy them in other places. The Russians apparently do not send the same books for sale to all of their different outlets and the Russians are allowing many of those books and periodicals to go out of the country freely. We buy some of them; we exchange some of them; get some of them on our exchange.

Mr. CLAPP. Mr. Busbey, may I add that many countries issue a list of the publications which occur in that country. There is 1 for the United States, 1 for England, 1 for France, Germany, and so on. So that if I am working with German materials, I can find out what German books are published and what German newspapers are pub

lished and what German documents are published. The Russians have since 1948 refused to let any such listing out of their country so that a man working at the University of Syracuse on problems of Russian geography would not know what books are published in Russia or what newspapers are published in Russia; we publish this thing because the Russians will not let their lists out. This is the substitute for a Russian publication of the same kind. It now serves not only the Government, as Dr. Evans said, not only the people of this country but it serves practically the whole free world as a source of information regarding what is being published in Russia. You do not have to believe what is in the publications after you see them but at least you want to know what is being published.

We are doing a service here, sir, with the assistance of some other agencies of the Government which is basic. It is essential for any real work in the study of Russian matters.

Dr. EVANS. Mr. Busbey, I am sure that if we were not doing this, some of the other agencies would do it. I really believe it is essential. I do not read Russian and I do not understand this research but I rely on what the users tell me.

Mr. GARY. Is that done with transferred funds?

Dr. EVANS. We do this partly from transferred funds, partly from appropriated funds; to some extent the National Committee for Free Europe is helping us with this operation.

Mr. CLAPP. You gave us five positions to begin with.

Mr. WAGMAN. I just wanted to add one minor point. The reason that some of these jobs are done by the Library of Congress is essentially because the Library has the know-how and the skill, the bibliographic tools, and so forth.

Dr. EVANS. The flow of books, too.

Mr. HORAN. You could come to us for funds, not the Air Force. Dr. EVANS. You gave us funds for that but we have expanded it by supplementing it with the funds from some of the others.

Mr. HORAN. I do not want you to be under the thumb of any other division of the Government. This subcommittee handles two of the divisions of Government; they are small divisions, the legislative and the judiciary. I do not want to get fouled up with the executive department at any point in our activities here because we have got to maintain a free legislative division and with approaching 20 percent of your funds, transfer, it is just a danger sign. I guess that is all. But let us avoid it, if possible. Would you continue?

Mr. CLAPP. Let me tell you how this kind of thing grows. You gave us funds to establish the basic operation, Monthly Russian Accessions List. We were putting it out with just Russian titles. Then the executive agencies came to us and said, "We cannot read Russian; it would save us an awful lot of time if you would translate those titles." We said that we did not have money for translation. They said that they would give us money for translation. accepted it. We are now putting titles not only in Russian but in English. That is how it grows.

We

Mr. HORAN. Confession is always good for the soul. Instead of coming to us and telling us your problems, you accepted their money, did you not?

Mr. CLAPP. That is absolutely true.

Dr. EVANS. I would like to assure you, Mr. Chairman, that we are very tough in dealing with the executive agencies and we make them work with us on our own terms.

SUPPLEMENTAL DATA REGARDING FUND TRANSFERS

There are a few other projects but I will be glad to complete the statement that was asked for and put it in the record. I have covered most of them, sir.

(The statement follows:)

Projects at the Library of Congress financed by working funds from other agencies

Source

Department of State..

of the Government

Exchange of materials..... To enable the Library to select appropriate

Department of the Air Force.... Air research.......

Do...

Do...

Department of the Navy....

materials from its surplus duplicates for exchange with institutions in foreign countries.

To provide to the Directorate of Intelligence of the Air Force, according to specific requirements, the results of studies based on the examination of significant materials, which include to a large extent the pertinent collections of the Library of Congress.

Air research special project. To prepare a study requested by the Direc

torate of Intelligence, based on the collection and review of specialized engineering materials which include those located in the Library of Congress.

Air information project....(To prosecute special studies, based on

Air materials command

project..

Air university project.
Technical information
project.

National Science Foundation.... Compilation of lists of

Department of Defense..

scientific and technical
publications.

materials found exclusively or chiefly in the Library of Congress, to meet intelligence requirements of the Air Force. To provide the Department of Defense with special bibliographic services with respect to the unpublished, scientific research and development reports issued by the Department of Defense and its contractors. Acquires, catalogs, abstracts, and controls reports defined above; disseminates cataloging information and abstracts to users; lends reports to user agencies; provides reference service on report literature.

To compile up-to-date, complete and accurate lists of the scientific periodicals published in the U. S. A. and U. S. S. R., making use of punched card techniques, making use of the special facilities of the Library for securing information of this kind, especially in connection with its publication New Serial Titles.

Chinese science and edu To compile information regarding the cation study.

status of scientific and technical manpower, the overall scientific and technological effort, and the financial support for science and education in Communist China has been requested making use of the Library's collections of Chinese language publications.

Department of the Army (Corps Snow, ice, and permafrost. To prepare a continuing bibliography on

of Army Engineers).

the basic properties and applications of snow, ice and perennially and seasonally frozen ground based especially on the collections of the Library of Congress. All items carry abstracts. The bibliography is issued in 2 forms-catalog cards and semiannual book catalogs. To prepare a union catalog of books sent to the foreign information center libraries. This working tool is based on inventories submitted by the foreign libraries and on the record of publications purchased by the Information Center Service, and makes use of the experience of the Library of Congress in developing and maintaining union catalogs.

Projects at the Library of Congress financed by working funds from other agencies of the Government-Continued

Dr. EVANS. Have we completed your question, Mr. Busbey?
Mr. BUSBEY. Yes.

Mr. HORAN. I think we are still on the first section here. I do not know whether we are going to complete this hearing this morning or not; it has been a very interesting hearing so far, for me at least.

Dr. EVANS. Mr. Chairman, I do not want to take much of the committee's time. The statement here is really very brief, and the positions are explained, I hope, clearly. I think the best thing would be, if the members wish, for me to reply to any particular questions.

POLICE

Mr. HORAN. I would like to point up one thing, Dr. Evans. On page 12 of your justifications, you indicated a guard force of 79. You have a complete and integral police department over there. We have 17 complete police departments here in the District of Columbia. We have 157 policemen who guard the Capitol. The Capitol Police, however, who are presumably in charge of everything outside of the Justice Building and the Library of Congress buildings, have jurisdiction and the responsibility for everything from the powerplant clear down to Union Station. And yet, in the one building you have almost half as many guards as they do. I would like to see some integration of our police departments up here on the Hill and I am very serious about this.

Dr. EVANS. We would look on that with favor, sir.

Mr. HORAN. Our present position is defined by statute, I understand, and like Topsy, some of these things just grew. We have a captain and force of 33 in the Supreme Court building. We have a separate police department and captain over in the Library of Congress. We have a separate police department and captain over here in the Capitol.

Mr. GARY. How many do you have in your police department? Mr. HORAN. Seventy-nine as against one hundred and fifty-seven for all the rest of the area up here excluding the Supreme Court Building.

I am not complaining about this. I am not complaining at all, but there should be some integration.

Mr. GARY. The Supreme Court has now many?

Mr. HORAN. I believe the number given us yesterday was 33.

Dr. EVANS. Ours are needed mostly for inspection of the various areas, particularly the stock areas where there might be a fire.