ADDITIONS continued maintain temperatures between 45° and 55° F and between 15 and 25 percent relative humidity, which are the temperature and humidity conditions necessary for the proper preservation of the microfilm. The purpose of this request, therefore, is to obtain funds to install the necessary supplementary air-conditioning equipment to maintain the conditions desired. Replacement of garage doors, east side, main building.... These sectional wooden doors, 5 in number, are over 30 years old, weatherbeaten, warped, in generally bad condition, and can no longer be maintained in reliable operating condition. Reusing existing motors and drive mechanisms, which are still in satisfactory condition, it is proposed to replace the old doors with modern metal sectional ones. Fireproofing pipe and duct openings, annex.. Exposed drain pipes, air-conditioning ductwork, electrical conduit and steam and water pipes penetrate walls at numerous points in the annex subbasement and cellar. At a number of locations there are openings around the pipes, ductwork and conduit where they pass through the walls. In order to prevent the passage of fire through these openings, funds are requested to close them up with asbestos or other suitable fireproofing materials. Roof repairs, main building_. In fiscal year 1957, major repairs were made on the roof of the main building, consisting mainly of the replacement of four large skylights with copper roofing, replacement of gutters, valleys, roof drains, and glass, and the patching of existing copper roofing. There was not, however, a large-scale replacement of copper roofing at that time. Several leaks have now developed in various places on the roof, especially in areas not covered under the 1957 contract. Funds are requested to buy materials and employ temporary sheet metal mechanics to correct these defects in the roof so that it will provide more adequate protection to the interior of the building, including Library collections now exposed to the danger of damage from water seepage. Pointing exterior stonework, main building___ This item is requested to provide funds to point up the brickwork on the building wall and arches in the moatlike passageway located below ground, which encircles most of the exterior of the main building and the areas adjacent to it. Although it needs some attention, the building wall is in fairly good condition, but the brick arches spanning the passageway are in a serious state of deterioration. About 90 percent of the mortar joints in the arches need to be raked out and pointed up with new materials to prevent possible movement of the arches from continued action of weathering the freezing and thawing cycle. So far as is known, no work of this nature, except minor emergency repairs, has been done to this brickwork since the main building was erected in 1897. Replacement of book conveyors, annex.. The two vertical conveyors which provide book delivery service for the 12 deck levels of the north and south bookstacks in the annex have been in operation since 1939 and are now in bad condition. They are subject to frequent breakdowns, which delay service, some repair parts are no longer available, and others are obtainable only after long delays while they are being specially fabricated at excessive cost. The conveyor for the north stack levels has been continuously out of service for several months and an order for repair parts placed last July has not yet been delivered (as of Mar. 15, 1966) because the parts are obsolete, no longer included in the manufacturer's normal stock, and have to be made up by special order, including the production of new dies. Safety devices originally designed to prevent injury to personnel and books are now outmoded and ineffective. Replacement of these conveyors is needed to pro $3,500 3,500 5,000 9,500 200, 000 vide proper service to reading and study room patrons, congressional and other Government offices, and the Library staff. Studies have been made of the feasibility of overhauling the present equipment, but since replacement parts are not available and since parts used in modern conveyor systems are not compatible with this old equipment, it has been determined that overhauling this equipment would not be economically or technically practical. The funds requested for 1967 are based on dismantling and removing the existing conveyors, installing new conveyors, related construction work, and engineering and design services. Replacement of three passenger elevators in bookstacks, main building---- This item is requested to provide for the replacement of passenger elevator No. 3 (north bookstack, 9 decks), No. 4 (south bookstack, 9 decks), and No. 9 (southeast bookstack, 13 decks). These elevators are used for the transfer of books and other Library material from the bookstacks to various destinations, for their return to the shelves, and by Library and other personnel. About 30 years ago these elevators were overhauled by a company which is no longer in existence. The devices installed at that time are now obsolete, patterns have been destroyed, and when repair parts are needed they have to be custom made, which causes undue delay and excessive costs. Doors on the elevators are power operated but lack any form of safety protection and the cars have only single automatic pushbutton controls which enables one passenger to control the car and bypass several floors with passengers waiting to go in the same direction. In order to provide efficient service in the bookstacks, eliminate safety hazards, and reduce repair costs, funds are requested for 1967 to replace existing equipment with modern, safe-selective-collective-type controls, modern master power door operators with proper door protective devices, top-of-car operating devices and all other safety equipment necessary to meet present-day elevator code requirements. Installation of additional elevator, annex. When the annex was built nearly 30 years ago, only 2 passenger elevators were provided on the east side of the annex (4 were installed at that time on the west side), but 2 additional elevator shafts on the east side were installed for future use. Although the Library staff in the annex outnumbers that in the main building by about 1,800 to 1,000, there are the same number of elevators in both buildings for general passenger use. The annex elevators also serve more floors in the annex than they do in the main building except for 2 in the latter location, with the result that waiting time in the annex, especially on the east side, is greater than it is in the main building. Recently the entire annex 4th floor, previously a storage area, has been renovated and converted to office space. When fully occupied in the near future, traffic to this floor will increase greatly, but only 4 of the 6 passenger elevators can stop at this level. In order to provide better service for the increasing staff, for the public who use the 7 reading rooms in the annex, for visitors to the Copyright Office and users of private research facilities, and others, it is proposed to install a new elevator in 1 of the empty shafts, to be tied in with the other 2 automatically operated elevators on the east side for automatic group operation of all 3 elevators. Construction changes, cellar areas, annex.. At present, the Library has very little storage space on the premises to house such items as semiactive records not yet due for disposal, reserve stocks of publications, materials for the collections awaiting screening and selection, and a reserve stock of furniture and equipment to fill urgent requests. The annex 4th floor, previously a storage area, has recently been converted to badly needed office space, and numerous cellar areas in both $136,000 125,000 115,000 ADDITIONS-continued buildings have in recent years been taken over for staff work space or, in the case of the main building, occupied by the new heating, cooling, and ventilating equipment. There is, therefore, a critical shortage of storage space to house materials, furniture, and equipment needed to support the day-to-day operations of the Library. This item is a request for funds to make necessary construction changes in unfinished areas adjacent to the cellar area in the northeast, north, and northwest sections of the building. Work contemplated includes leveling and grading the dirt floor, pouring a slab to furnish a concrete floor throughout, better illumination, adequate ventilation, and improved access. Installation of fire sprinkler systems, cellar areas, annex... This item is requested to install fire sprinkler systems in annex cellar areas where none now exist but should because of the fire hazards involved in these locations: room assigned for the storage of oil used in the maintenance of mechanical equipment, east end of tunnel between the 2 buildings used for the temporary parking of box trucks filled with wastepaper awaiting pickup by the wastepaper contractor; receiving and shipping dock at the subbasement, entire annex garage area; and small storage room next to electrical substation A in the northwest section of the cellar. It is also proposed to replace old-type sprinkler heads in the paper baling room with modern ones and relocate them for more effective and efficient coverage. These improvements are a continuation of a program to provide proper fire protection for the buildings, their occupants, and the valuable materials housed in them. These improvements have been recommended by the Safety Engineer for the Architect of the Capitol and are endorsed by the Librarian. Materials handling and cleaning equipment.. The following items are requested for the purposes indicated: 1 set of storage batteries to replace a set about 10 years old in an electric truck; 1 battery-powered floor scrubbing machine to supplement existing equipment and thus provide more frequent floor cleaning; 4 magnesium flat trucks used with the electric truck to replace 4 wooden trucks over 30 years old; 2 floor buffing machines to supplement existing equipment and thus provide better floor maintenance service; 2 vacuum water pickup machines to supplement 1 existing machine and thus provide better protection in the event of flooding conditions; 1 manual hydraulic lift to replace 1 about 25 years old and now worn out; 2 battery-operated, mail-distribution trucks to speed up the distribution of an ever-increasing volume of mail; 2 heavy-duty vacuum cleaners to supplement 2 existing machines and thus provide better coverage in the important book-cleaning operation. Repairs and replacements, sidewalks surrounding main building-- $35,000 provided in fiscal year 1966, although not yet under contract, will, it is estimated, permit the necessary repair and replacement of approximately 3,500 square yards of concrete sidewalk on the grounds of the main building. A good deal more needs to be done, however, and it is therefore requested that $35,000 be allowed again in fiscal year 1967 to continue, if not substantially complete, this essential work. Many cracked and broken sections of sidewalk now remain, which create safety hazards and expose the Government to the dangers of costly damage suits under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Only temporary patching is now possible, but this does not hold up under various traffic and weather conditions. Subtotal‒‒‒ Total estimate for 1967. $30,000 10,000 35,000 +839, 200 1, 538, 000 1967 BUDGET REQUEST AND HOUSE ALLOWANCE Senator MONRONEY. Budget estimate is in the amount of $1,538,000. The House allowed all but $21,000, which reduction you volunteered. There are a number of major items of expenditure proposed in your request. Please itemize them for us. This is the lowest request that has been made in several years, is it not? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes, sir. STATUS OF AIR-CONDITIONING AND PLUMBING PROJECTS Senator MONRONEY. Have you completed the renovation of the Library and the installation of the new plumbing and things that have to be done that were so costly? Mr. RUBEL. The new air-conditioning facilities are completed, sir. The plumbing project is in progress. One contract has been completed. The second contract is almost completed. There will still be a third contract to complete the balance of the improvements. It will be another 2 years at least before the project is completed. Senator MONRONEY. You are not asking for anything like as much as you have in the past. Mr. RUBEL. No, sir. Senator MONRONEY. I was wondering, you are not going to haul off and let it run behind and then have it all hit us suddenly in 1 or 2 years again? Mr. RUBEL. No, sir. Senator MONRONEY. This was deferred maintenance, I believe, which is why it was so costly before. IMPROVED LIGHTING PROGRAM Mr. RUBEL. Yes, sir. The improved lighting program is continuing from year to year. We are again asking for $50,000 to carry on part of this program. We can do only a limited amount of work in a year because it does disturb the occupants to some extent. We will continue to ask for more money in the future to complete the lighting program. You know, of course, the lighting in the reading room has been completed and the room has been redecorated. Senator MONRONEY. It is beautiful, too. I compliment you on the beauty that has been restored to that building, the painting and goldleaf, and the lighting. LIGHTING IN THE BOOKSTACKS Mr. RUBEL. For the new lighting in the bookstacks an amount of about $300,000 was appropriated a few years ago. That project is about 75 percent completed. We are continuing to improve the lighting in both buildings in locations where it is needed the most. BOOK CONVEYOR REPLACEMENT Mr. HENLOCK. There are four items that make up approximately $600,000 of our total increase for 1967. The first item starts on page 123. It is a large item of $200,000 for the replacement of book conveyors. Mr. RUBEL. In the Library Annex there are two vertical book conveyors that were installed when the building was constructed in 1935. Again, we have a problem of obsolescence. The present book conveyors are models that are no longer produced by the industry. They were originally designed for operation on 25cycle alternating current. When we changed the electric service to the Library Annex in 1954 to 60-cycle alternating current, we tried to interest the book conveyor manufacturer in supplying the necessary equipment to convert the old conveyors from 25-cycle to 60-cycle operation. They were not the least interested because the conveyors already were obsolete models at that time. We had to employ a temporary expedient and provide a very special frequency changer to convert the new 60-cycle power to 25 cycles. That machine is still in operation. However, the conveyor parts are wearing out rapidly, in fact so rapidly that in order to keep one conveyor we have to cannibalize the second one. The result is that one of the conveyors has been out of service for more than 6 months because we simply cannot get replacement parts. Senator MONRONEY. You will replace that with new equipment? Mr. RUBEL. Yes, sir. It is proposed to install two new conveyors. REPLACEMENT OF PASSENGER ELEVATORS IN BOOKSTACKS Senator MONRONEY. The next item is $136,000 for replacement of three passenger elevators in bookstacks. Mr. RUBEL. Yes, sir. That again is a matter of obsolescence. I think I have the date they were originally installed if you should happen to be interested. These three elevators were manufactured by a company that was known as the A. B. See Elevator Co. They went out of business more than 10 years ago. So again we can't get the replacement parts except at exorbitant prices and lengthy deliveries. I have a sample here of one of the small switches which normally should cost about $10, and we now pay $40 to have it handmade. Senator MONRONEY. Are these high-speed elevators? Mr. RUBEL. No, sir. Speed in this case is not important. In the bookstacks the floor height from one deck to another is only about 7 feet. Consequently, speed of travel is not significant at all. These elevators are used primarily by the bookstack attendants in sorting and delivering books to and from the main reading room. They are frequently used by readers who are authorized to go into the bookstacks, such as research people and scholars. Because of their old design the elevators are very unsafe. The doors are heavy steel doors without safety edges, a mandatory requirement of the elevator safety code. If they should close on a person's hand or arm, there is great danger of a serious accident. We are faced again with old equipment that should have been replaced sooner. INSTALLATION OF HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER ELEVATOR IN ANNEX Senator MONRONEY. The next item is installation of additional elevators, that is in the annex, $125,000. The same story on that. Mr. RUBEL. This is a passenger elevator installation. The shaft was provided in the original construction. Consequently, the empty |