COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR 1976 AND THE BUDGET ESTIMATES Item FOR 1977 [Excludes Senate items and items under Architect of the Capitol for the Senate] Expenses.. $62, 181, 000 $46,904,000-$15, 277,000 Capitol Guide Service Salaries and expenses.. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR 1976 AND THE BUDGET ESTIMATES Item FOR 1977 [Excludes Senate items and items under Architect of the Capitol for the Senate] Structural and mechanical care... Budget estimate, 1977, compared with 1976 (enacted to date) (4) Copyright Office, salaries and expenses. National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, Congressional Research Service, salaries and expenses.. salaries and expenses. Distribution of catalog cards, salaries and expenses.. Books for the general collections... Books for the law library. Books for the blind and physically handicapped, salaries and expenses.. 15, 872, 000 564,000 20, 329, 000 12, 263, 000 1,760,000 286, 000 22,637,000 +11,066, 200 +1,097, 500 +227,000 +3,723, 000 +978,000 +65,000 +35,000 +6, 765, 000 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1976. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WITNESSES DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS WILLIAM J. WELSH, DEPUTY LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ELIZABETH HAMER KEGAN, ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS JOHN G. LORENZ, SPECIAL ASSISTANT IN AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER PLANNING PAUL L. BERRY, DIRECTOR, REFERENCE DEPARTMENT EDMOND L. APPLEBAUM, ACTING DIRECTOR, PROCESSING DEPARTMENT CARLETON W. KENYON, LAW LIBRARIAN F. E. CROXTON, DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT NORMAN BECKMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR, CONGRESSIONAL RE- ARTHUR J. LEVINE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON NEW TECHNOLOGICAL USES OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS FRAZER G. POOLE, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR PRESERVATION, ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT WILLIAM R. NUGENT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT JOSEPH H. HOWARD, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (CATALOGING), PROCESSING DEPARTMENT L. CLARK HAMILTON, DEPUTY REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS FRANK KURT CYLKE, CHIEF, DIVISION FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, REFERENCE DEPARTMENT WALTER KRAVITZ, SENIOR SPECIALIST IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE DONALD C. CURRAN, CHIEF, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OFFICE JOHN O. HEMPERLEY, BUDGET OFFICER WELCOME TO NEW LIBRARIAN Mr. SHIPLEY. Today we will commence consideration of the budget requests for the Library of Congress. We have a new Librarian of Congress who was sworn in since the last meeting of this subcommittee. I know, Dr. Boorstin, that you sat in ex officio during the supplemental hearings last year and we had the opportunity to meet you. We certainly are looking forward to many years of working with you on the budget and other matters and problems as they come up. You are the 12th Librarian of Congress, succeeding L. Quincy Murnford who retired on December 31, 1974, after 20 years of service in that position. During the interim period John G. Lorenz served as Acting Librarian. I understand he is leaving the Library too after 10 years of service. This is your first appearance as Librarian and we want to welcome you to the committee. We want to assure you that we will do everything we can in our power to make your job successful and make the Library of Congress successful and continue to give the tremendous service the Library has rendered over the past years. BIOGRAPHY OF DR. BOORSTIN It is customary, Doctor, for the committee to insert in the record a biographical sketch, so we would appreciate it if you would furnish that to the committee. [The biographical sketch follows:] BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS Daniel J. Boorstin, the 12th Librarian of Congress in the Library's 175-year history, was sworn in at the Library of Congress on November 12, 1975. Dr. Boorstin, distinguished American historian, educator, and prize-winning author, comes to the Library from the Smithsonian Institution. He served there as Director of the National Museum of History and Technology, 1969 to 1973, and then as senior historian until his nomination by the President to the Librarianship June 20 and his confirmation by the Senate on September 26. Born in Atlanta, Ga., on October 1, 1914, Dr. Boorstin grew up in Tulsa Okla., where he attended public schools and Tulsa Central High School. In 1930, he entered Harvard College, which awarded him the bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1934. A Rhodes scholar from Oklahoma in 1934, Dr. Boorstin entered Balliol College, Oxford, from which he received his B.A. in jurisprudence (first class honors) in 1936 and his bachelor of civil laws (first class honors) in 1937. At the same time he was enrolled as a student at the Inner Temple, London, and passed the English bar examinations. He was called to the bar and became a barrister at law in 1937. He is one of the few Americans qualified to plead in Her Majesty's high courts. Dr. Boorstin returned to the United States in 1937 as a sterling fellow at Yale University Law School, where he spent a year focusing on American law and working toward a doctor of juridical science degree, which was awarded in 1940. From 1938 to 1942, he was an instructor on the faculty of Harvard, where he taught English and American history and literature, and also legal history at the Harvard Law School. He took the bar examination and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1942. After a brief tour as a lawyer with the Lend-Lease Administration that same year, Dr. Boorstin joined the faculty of Swarthmore College, where his duties included instructing Navy V-12 students in American history. He left Swarthmore for the University of Chicago in 1944. During his 25 years on the faculty at Chicago, Dr. Boorstin served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Rome, Kyoto University, the Sorbonne, where he was the first incumbent of a chair in American history, and Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Trinity College and Pitt professor of American history and institutions and where he was awarded a Litt. D. degree in 1968. Leaving the University of Chicago in 1969 as Preston and Sterling Morton distinguished service professor of American history, Dr. Boorstin was appointed Director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution, a position he was to hold exactly 4 years until October 1, 1973, when he relinquished his duties as Director to become senior historian. In that capacity, he has acted as advisor to the Secretary on all-Smithsonian projects. Dr. Boorstin's public service assignments have included membership on the Board of Visitors of the Air Force Academy (1968-70); on the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (appointed by President Johnson in 1966 and reappointed by President Nixon in 1968); on President Johnson's Commission on Travel; on the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans (1973-); and on the State Department Indo-American Subcommission on Education and Cultural Affairs (1974-). He has been a trustee of Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla., since 1974 and of Colonial Williamsburg since 1969. An active editor and author, Dr. Boorstin's many publications include the three-part work, "The Americans-The Colonial Experience" (1958), which won the Bancroft Prize, "The National Experience" (1965), which won the Parkman Prize, and "The Democratic Experience" (1973), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Dexter Prize last year. Other books include "The Mysterious Science of the Law" (1941), "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" (1948), “The Genius of American Politics" (1953), "America and the Image of Europe” (1960), "The Image" (1962), “The Decline of Radicalism" (1969), "The Sociology of the Absurd" (1970), and "Democracy and Its Discontents" (1974). He is the author of the two-volume "Landmark History of the American People" for young readers, "From Plymouth to Appomattox" (1968) and "From Appomattox to the Moon" (1970). He has served as editor of "Delaware Cases, 1792-1830" (1943), "An American Primer" (1966), "American Civilization" (1971), and the 27-volume series, "The Chicago History of American Civilization." Dr. Boorstin is a past president of the American Studies Association and also a member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and International House of Japan. RETIREMENT OF MR. JOHN LORENZ Mr. SHIPLEY. As I mentioned earlier, Mr. Lorenz is leaving the service of the Library after 10 years as Deputy Librarian. I understand he will be with you for a while as a special assistant for planning the implementation of the recently enacted American Folklife Center legislation before assuming the position of executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. Mr. Lorenz, we certainly wish you the best in your new endeavor. APPOINTMENT OF NEW DEPUTY LIBRARIAN Another change in personnel has been announced, Dr. Boorstin, that involves a member of your staff who has been testifying before us regularly for the past few years. That is William Welsh, Deputy Librarian succeeding Mr. Lorenz. Mr. Welsh has served as director of the Library's Processing Department since 1968 and has been on the staff since 1947. We wish you well in your new capacity, also, Mr. Welsh. BUDGET REQUEST The Library of Congress budget for fiscal year 1977 totals $140,408,200 and includes a budget amendment of $284,000 for the establishment of an American Folklife Center within the Library. This is an increase of $23,864,800 over the 1976 appropriations enacted to date, and excludes the 1976 proposed pay raise supplemental. The 1976 figures in the justifications include the pay raise supplemental of $2,694,000, as well as a reappropriation in the 1976 supplemental bill of $300,000 of unobligated 1974 funds, and reflect a net increase of $20,870,800. The request also proposes a total of 4,656 permanent budgeted positions in fiscal year 1977, an increase of 295 over 1976. Are there any general questions before we proceed with the general statement? Mr. Coughlin? COMMENDATION OF NEW CHAIRMAN Mr. COUGHLIN. Mr. Chairman, before Dr. Boorstin begins his statement, I want to say that I congratulate my friend and colleague on assuming the chairmanship of this committee. We have worked together for a long time. I look forward to many more years of working very closely with him. He has done an outstanding job as a mem |