9. New positions required-Continued To provide additional clerical assistance: 1 GS-4. Contribution to retirement.... Contribution to health insurance. Group life insurance_. Subtotal___. Total, processing department- Reference department (19).—To provide for the continually growing acquisitions, reference, and bibliographic activities relating to the African countries: 1 GS-9, 1 GS-5, and 1 GS-4_. Contribution to retirement__ Contribution to health insurance_. Subtotal__ To strengthen reference and circulation services: 1 GS-9, 1 GS-7, 3 GS-5, 1 GS-4, and 4 GS-3-- $4,639 301 50 15 5, 005 252, 194 17, 306 1,125 150 58 18, 639 Contribution to retirement. Contribution to health insurance_. Group life insurance___ Subtotal____. To organize material for service to readers: 2 GS-9, 1 GS-6, and 3 GS-4---- Contribution to retirement__. Contribution to health insurance.. Subtotal___‒‒. Total, Reference Department----- Law library (3). To provide assistance development, maintenance, and servicing of American-British law collections: 1 GS-9-- Contribution to retirement__. Contribution to health insurance_ Group life insurance__. Subtotal______. To provide assistance in the preparation of records and briefs in the American-British Law Division: 1 GS-5--. Contribution to retirement-- Contribution to health insurance.. Group life insurance.. Subtotal___. 50, 481 3, 281 500 168 54, 430 34, 592 2,248 300 115 37, 255 110, 324 7,488 487 50 25 8, 050 5, 179 337 50 17 5,583 9. New positions required—Continued To provide assistance in the application of Class K (Law) classification to the collections of the Law Library: 1 GS-4. Contribution to retirement. Contribution to health insurance__ Subtotal__- Total, Law Library-- Administrative Department (4).-To provide additional book cleaning and general labor in order to maintain cleanliness, relieve congestion, and improve serv ice: 4 WC-3-- Contribution to retirement_ Contribution to health insurance__ Group life insurance Subtotal---- Total increases__ Net increase__ $4, 639 50 16 5, 006 18,639 16, 640 200 55 17,977 +$2,347, 828 +2,347, 300 PERSONNEL INCREASE Senator MONRONEY. Last year, Mr. Lorenz, you requested a total of 137 new positions and you were allowed 86 I believe. This year you are requesting 235 new positions throughout the Library. That seems to be quite an acceleration in personnel requirements. Would you please explain the reasons for this substantial increase in positions? Mr. LORENZ. The demands upon the Library continue to accelerate, Senator, just as the demands upon all universities and colleges and research organizations continue to accelerate. I believe that our request for positions is only a response to the increasing demands which are being made upon all of the departments of the Library. This would include the Copyright Office and Catalog Card Distribution Service, as well as the Reference Department, the Processing Department, and the Legislative Reference Service. Senator MONRONEY. I think the House allowed 155 new positions, did it not? Mr. LORENZ. That is correct. Senator MONRONEY. And cut out only the 64 jobs that were asked for to continue the monthly index of Russian accessions? Mr. LORENZ. Plus 23 positions of the 46 requested for the Legislative Reference Service. Senator MONRONEY. On these increases that you are asking for, the 235, I would like to put that table in the record at this point. (The table follows:) Summary of budgeted positions 1965, 1966, 1967, House allowance 1967, and employment May 22, 1966 NOTE.-The total number in each instance includes the full-time equivalent of part-time positions. DISTRIBUTION OF CATALOG CARDS Mrs. HAMER. A great many of those are for the distribution of catalog cards, Senator, and that is a self-supporting service. Senator MONRONEY. Where do I find that? That is in the fourth item in the table? Mrs. HAMER. It is item 21. Senator MONRONEY. You now have 400, is that correct? And you bring it up by 39? Mr. WELSH. Yes, sir. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE Senator MONRONEY. And the Legislative Reference Service goes up by 46? Mr. LORENZ. The House allowed 23. Senator MONRONEY. Out of the 46 requested. You have 242 aboard at the present time. COPYRIGHT OFFICE Mrs. HAMER. We have also requested new positions for the Copyright Office. Senator MONRONEY. That has picked up, has it not? Mrs. HAMER. Yes; it has. Senator MONRONEY. The service is better, I understand? Mrs. HAMER. Mr. Kaminstein, would you like to comment? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. We have been falling behind in the time it takes to process a claim because the number of applications has increased. The new fee bill, which the committee recommended last year, was enacted and came into effect at the end of November and although it added to our workload it also adds substantially to the money we turn over to the Treasury. With the additional positions the House allowed us we hope to be able to catch up and make the period the issuance of the certificates shorter than it is right now. Senator MONRONEY. Is it self-sustaining now with the fee increase? Mr. LORENZ. It is more than self-sustaining. LIBRARY REVENUES CARD CATALOG SYSTEM Senator MONRONEY. You have in your statement probably the income from the money-making operations of the department. The card catalog system distribution is at least self-sustaining, is it not? Mrs. HAMER. It returns more than 100 percent. Mr. WELSH. The information is on page 137 of our justification, sir. We anticipate as of now that the return to the Treasury will be 123 percent of the appropriation during the current fiscal year. Senator MONRONEY. What in dollars was income that you had in the last fiscal year? Mr. WELSH. In fiscal year 1965 the income was $4,354,637 and the obligations were $3,784,935. Senator MONRONEY. For a net of what? Mr. LORENZ. This is a return of 115 percent. Senator MONRONEY. Does that allow anything for general library overhead? Mr. WELSH. No, sir, it does not; but the card division does provide services to the library. Senator MONRONEY. This is on the cost of operations of that particular division I would presume. Mr. WELSH. Yes, sir. Senator MONRONEY. I mean the difference between that and the income it brings in. Mr. WELSH. Yes, sir. COPYRIGHT OFFICE Senator MONRONEY. And the other money-making operation of the Library would be the Copyright Office. Is it on a net basis? Mr. LORENZ. That is correct, sir. Senator MONRONEY. What is it? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Mr. Chairman, the ratio of income to costs had been falling, but with the passage of the new fee bill we expect it to go up to something like 76 percent, and if you include the cost of the materials that are selected by the Library, and transferred to it, this goes up to 133 percent of the obligations for 1967. Senator MONRONEY. You are on a net basis, is that correct? Senator MONRONEY. By nearly $800,000, 133 percent. What is the personnel figure again on the Copyright Office? That is an increase of 25 and the House allowed that? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right, sir. Mr. LORENZ. I might say, Senator, of our total appropriation, about 25 percent is returned to the Treasury, including the income from the Card Distribution Service and the Copyright Office. PERSONNEL AND MIRA JUSTIFICATIONS Senator MONRONEY. I would like to insert this summary of budgeted positions in the record at this point if I have not done so and also the information on the Russian accessions, the pages of the justifications. (The justification follows:) To continue the monthly index of Russian accessions1 Cyrillic bibliographic project, monthly index of Russian accessions: 26 new positions requested (financed by other sources in 1966). 23 positions financed by transfer from National Science Foundation in 1966 plus cost of pay raise ($5,600) --. Total direct financing requested in 1967 $223, 361 162, 200 385, 561 1 The cost of printing this publication, $28,000, is partly covered by an $18,000 transfer of funds from the National Science Foundation administered under the appropriation, "Distribution of catalog cards." The other $10,000 is provided by direct appropriation to the "Distribution of catalog cards" appropriation. A request for direct appropriation of $18,000 is included in the "1967 distribution of catalog cards" appropriation. Direct appropriations to the Library of Congress are also allocated to the support of this project. Financial support for the Monthly Index of Russian Accessions (MIRA) has come from several sources since its inception in 1948. It is now proposed that the total support for this publication be provided by the Library of Congress. This would add 49 positions to those [15] already in the direct appropriation to the Library. During the past two years, this project has been supported by direct appropriation to the Library of Congress and by funds transferred by the National Science Foundation at the direction of Congress, and the remainder of the work required to produce MIRA has been a byproduct resulting from utilization of other work undertaken by the Cyrillic Bibliographic Project on a transfer fund basis. Discontinuance of this other work beginning with fiscal 1967 has resulted in a review of total requirements if the Library is henceforth to produce MIRA entirely under its own auspices. New positions requested (now being supported from other sources) 1 GS-14-5, chief cyrillic bibliographic project_ 5 GS-9-8, subject cataloger translators at $9,256 1 GS-9-7, subject cataloger translator_. $16, 703 46, 280 9, 006 8,757 1 GS-9-6, subject cataloger translator_. 1 GS-9-5, subject cataloger translator_-_ 6 GS-9-4, subject cataloger translators at $8,237. 2 GS-9-2, subject cataloger translators at $7,738_. 1 GS-9-1, European exchange specialist (exchange and gift division). 1 GS-7-8, subject cataloger translator. 1 GS-7-1, subject cataloger translator. 1 GS-6-4, administrative secretary 1 GS-6-1, cataloger----. 1 GS-6-1, library assistant-searcher. 1 GS-5-1, proofreader_. 1 GS-44, clerk-typist.. 1 GS-3-2, filer arranger_. Total__ Personnel benefits--- Positions (26) --- 8,486 49, 422 15, 476 7,488 7,717 6, 261 6,282 5, 699 5, 699 5, 179 5, 117 4, 285 207, 857 15, 504 223, 361 The value of this publication to scholars and other researchers has frequently been cited. It records the Russian language materials which the Library of Congress and more than 300 other libraries throughout the country receive, and it serves as both a research and a bibliographic tool. It is used extensively by Library of Congress staff as well as by specialists elsewhere in the country. An independent "consumer use" study of MIRA was financed by the National Science Foundation in 1961. The Diebold Group, Inc., which did the study, issued a report at the end of 1962 showing that at that time there were approximately 4,000 individual users of MIRA, including some 2,400 users in the physical sciences. The survey further found that 63.5 percent of the users would be critically |