PROGRAM RECEIPTS

Senator BARTLETT. What are your receipts under this program for fiscal 1967 and fiscal 1968?

Mr. ROSSITER. It is $46,700 in 1967 and $50,000 in 1968.

Senator BARTLETT. What is the actual for 1966 ?

Mr. MUMFORD. I don't have that figure.

Senator BARTLETT. Would you please supply it for the record, then? Mr. MUMFORD. I will supply it for the record.

(The information follows:)

Receipts for 1966 were $34,200.

REQUESTED LANGUAGE CHANGE

Senator BARTLETT. Now, why are you asking for this language provision shown on page 245, and what was that for?

Mr. MUMFORD. The Library at the present time can pay in advance for subscriptions where it is limited to the cost of subscriptions. But in this program, title II of the Higher Education Act, it is necessary sometimes to obtain some additional services from the dealer in obtaining books and subscriptions. It is possible that the law at present would cover, but we are not entirely sure and we would like to have that authorization.

Senator BARTLETT. All right. (The justification follows:)

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Add: "Payments in advance for subscriptions or other charges for bibliographical data, publications, materials in any other form, and services may be made by the Librarian of Congress whenever he determines it to be more prompt, efficient, or economical to do so, in the interests of carrying out required Library programs."

Senator BARTLETT. That will end the questions which have lasted some little while. The subcommittee is very grateful to you, Dr. Mumford, and all of those who have appeared with you, for being so patient and for answering this detailed matter so informatively.

Mr. MUMFORD. We thank you and the other members of the subcommittee.

SUPPORT FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE AND LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Senator BABTLETT. I have received some communications relating to Government Printing Office and the Library of Congress which will be inserted in the record at this point.

(The communications follow:)

STATEMENT BY GERMAINE KRETTEK, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

The American Library Association is the oldest and largest non-profit professional organization of its kind in the world, with a rapidly growing membership of more than 35,000 librarians and laymen interested in the development, extension and improvement of libraries. These agencies are essential to the progress of our Nation in educational, economic, scientific, cultural and everyday aspects of life.

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On behalf of the Association, I should like to urge favorable action by your Committee on two items in the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill which you now have under consideration: (1) the Library of Congress budget requests for fiscal year 1968; and (2) adequate funds to implement fully in fiscal year 1968 the provisions of the Depository Library Act of 1962.

The ALA supports wholeheartedly the budget requests of the Library of Congress for FY 1968. It is essential and urgent that this important agency continue to serve at the highest possible level of effectiveness the needs of the Congress and the requirements of the intellectual, research and cultural progress of the Nation.

While the Association stands back of the entire program of the Library of Congress, it would like to emphasize especially a few of the national services rendered by it to the libraries of the country.

One is the request for an increase in funds for printed catalog cards. Since 1901, the Library of Congress has been distributing these catalog cards at a price to all types of libraries. The availability of such printed cards has enabled libraries to save countless dollars and to avoid needless duplication in cataloging. During fiscal year 1966, over 63,000,000 printed catalog cards were sold and the receipts went into the U.S. Treasury. The sheer enormity of the sales points to the value of this service. We urge that the funds requested for this program ($5,848,000) be appropriated in order that card orders can be dispatched promptly to the requesting libraries. Without an increase in funds for new positions so badly needed, it is doubtful that the Card Division can continue to meet the growing demands placed upon it.

The automation of the Library's bibliographic apparatus is fundamental to the information needs of libraries and scholarship. The library community has been encouraged by the progress being made at the Library of Congress in its longrange automation program which ultimately benefits the public. The project to provide machine-readable catalog copy (MARC) to libraries on an experimental basis has shown the advantages of automation in libraries. An extension of the MARC project and the continuation of the Library's central automation program is not only highly desirable, but, we believe, absolutely essential if librarians throughout the country are going to be able to meet their responsibilities to a large segments of our citizenry in future years. The American Library Association feels it is essential that this program be adequately funded if the target date (1972) set in the report of the survey team, Automation and the Library of Congress, is to be met.

In addition we strongly urge that your Subcommittee provide for the funds requested under the Public Law 480 Book Procurement Program. With the use of U.S.-government owned foreign currencies, research institutions in every State of the Union have been the recipients of important research materials heretofore unavailable. This program has been carried on by the Library of Congress with imagination and dispatch, and has had an enthusiastic reception from not only librarians but the entire scholarly community. The extension of the program to Tunisia and to the Congo would, we believe, enhance greatly the value of this program.

One of the most heartwarming of library programs is the National Books for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped Program. Certainly, since its inception in 1931, the Congress of the United States has shown special concern for this reading service. Now that the program has been expanded to include the physically handicapped, a portion of the citizenry which heretofore has had inferior library service, we look to the Congress to continue this support. We are pleased that the Librarian of Congress has requested additional funds ($6,085,000) to serve the handicapped. The Library Services and Construction Act Amendments of 1966 contain authorization to provide funds to the States for the purpose of servicing the materials in the fields of the blind and the physically handicapped. If both of these programs are fully funded, library service to the handicapped has a bright future.

In the case of the Depository Library Act of 1962 (P.L. 87-579), the Association recommends to the Subcommittee that it grant sufficient funds in FY '68 to enable the Superintendent of Documents to implement fully the requirements of this revised legislation.

This Act was passed to benefit the public-business, industry, science, research, and other walks of life-by increasing the number of designated depository libaries in the United States to which government documents are distributed

regularly, and by including, also, publications printed by federal departments and agencies outside the Government Printing Office, generally referred to as non-GPO documents.

Citizens need the valuable information about research and operations of the federal government contained in both GPO and non-GPO publications and resulting from huge expenditures of federal money. The process requires printing, listing, and distributing of the materials by the government and the servicing of them by the libraries, all of which costs money. But the public for whom all is intended, profits. The usefulness of these documents to citizens is illustrated by three public library memoranda sent to us in April of 1967, which we are asking you to include in the record of the hearings following this statement.

For the adequate functioning of the revised Depository Act of 1962, several additional features should be noted, not as luxury provisions, but as essential. One is the inspection of the depository libraries by the Public Printer; another is the development of regional depository libraries; and still another is a fully operating advisory committee on depository libraries to the Public Printer. These activities will cost additional money, but not a great deal in view of the good to be accomplished. Funds for these essential services should be provided in the appropriation.

In view of the preceding facts regarding the Depository Library Act, it is urged that the Subcommittee grant sufficient funds to enable the Superintendent of Documents to put fully into effect the provisions of the law.

In addition, we wish to take this opportunity to request this Committee to reinstate the $25,000 for the Library of Congress' highly essential program for the preservation of deteriorating materials, which has been deleted by the House Appropriations Committee, according to House Report 323.

In conclusion, we would like to again emphasize to you the importance of the services of the Library of Congress to the entire Nation, and the significant utilization of government documents by the public. Accordingly, we urge the Subcommittee's approval of the Library of Congress' budget request and increased funds to the Public Printer to permit the full implementation of the Depository Library Act of 1962.

MEMORANDUM BY DONNA LEMON ON THE USE OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS IN THE BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND REFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF THE TULSA CITY-COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, OKLAHOMA

Government documents, through their authoritative, up-to-date coverage of a wide variety of topics, play a vital role in the reference services extended by the Business and Technology Department.

Within this department, emphasis is placed on making documents readily accessible to patrons. Reflecting unique local interests, many document series are cataloged and placed with reference books on the same subjects. U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines publications are examples of cataloged mate rial. Older series of documents, shelved in a central storage area, can be immediately retrieved or patrons are free to work right in the storage area if necessary. As an added service, government documents are loaned for a period of a week to Tulsa business and professional persons for office use.

Each staff member is trained in effective document usage and is prepared to recommend these publications for specific patron needs. When possible, the staff also makes use of the opportunity to instruct patrons in the use of the Monthly Catalog and the procedure for locating documents on the shelves.

In brief, many requests for information from Oklahoma citizens are being fulfilled by means of accessible government documents and a library staff trained in their use.

Government documents of a general nature are considered a part of the general reference collection. As such, they are generally treated in a similar manner to other reference materials.

Students, both high school and college, are the major users of the general documents collection. As they seek information concerning the topics of their papers, the reference librarians frequently refer the students to the Monthly Catalog for additional material. This is particularly true in cases where the subject under consideration is one on which the government may have published information.

MEMORANDUM BY EDWARD DI ROMA, CHIEF, ECONOMICS DIVISION, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, N.Y.

For many years and at close range I have had the opportunity to observe the nature and the extent of the research done with U.S. government publications by businessmen, government officials, educators, teachers, students and other members of our society. Several hundred people use the New York Public Library depository collections of U.S. government publications every day. Though I cannot produce statistics to indicate the value of the research made possible by our depository collection and by all the other heavily used depository collections throughout the country, there is no doubt in my mind that this research contributes profoundly to the welfare of the Nation, economically, politically and socially.

In deed, I feel that the depository library program is so important that the Superintendent of Documents should be appropriated not only the amount of money he is requesting, but sufficient additional funds as well, so that he may implement fully the charge of the Depository Act of 1962. This law empowers the Superintendent of Documents to distribute to depository libraries not only the publications printed at the Government Printing Office, but also all the documents produced in the field publishing units of executive agencies. These latter materials, often referred to as non-GOP publications, have been estimated to be at least as numerous as the items printed by the Government Printing Office.

The Superintendent of Documents is not unmindful of this part of his responsibility and in the last several years he has undertaken to distribute to depository libraries the non-GPO publications of the Bureau of the Census and of the Department of the Interior. If he hasn't done so already, he will begin shortly to distribute the non-GPO publications of the Department of Labor as well. Further, it is my understanding that the plans to begin distributing the non-GPO publications of one additional executive department each year.

But I submit that the research needs of the nation cannot wait that long. Too many important non-GPO publications have not received the circulation they deserved, and as a result much valuable information has been lost. The recording and the distribution of all the non-GPO publications of all executive agencies should start next year.

Money appropriated by Congress for the distribution of federal publications is more than matched in expenditures by depository libraries in making the documents available to the public.

These libraries must not only (1) record the receipt of the publications, but (2) provide space for the storage of the publications, (3) organize the publications in some meaningful way for use, (4) provide reading areas for readers using the publications, and (5) most importantly, provide reference and bibliographic assistance to these readers.

MEMORANDUM BY RICHARD L. WATERS, HEAD, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY, TEXAS

Government documents are vital to the service this library provides. The depository program of the Superintendent of Documents has been, and is, a lifesaver. Anything which enlarges and improves this program will be for the good of our patrons. We use government documents so often and in so many ways that there is no way we can measure the total use made of them. The following statistics on government documents reflect only those totals that our two documents librarians record:

Size of collection: 24,000 bound volumes; 60,000 unbound pieces.

Recorded usage: 500 per month, either in person or by telephone. In addition to this, we average about 60 reference loans per month.

Most popular items: In addition to the other items mentioned here, Congressional publications are important, being used most often in compiling legislative histories. Statistics published by the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior and Labor are most often requested and/or used.

Users: Equally divided between the following-businessmen and lawyers, students, and the intelligently curious.

Cost to house and service:

Salaries-Two full-time (40 hours) professional librarians with salary ranges of $6,192 to $7,788.

Binding-$1,000; Equipment-$17,050.

Floor Space to House: 3,500 sq. ft.

Not reflected are the countless times we refer to such items as the Statistical Abstract, the Monthly Labor Review, Survey of Current Business, International Commerce, and many other basic tools we try to keep right at our fingertips. Additional usage is made of documents in other departments of the library, particularly the Community Living Department which includes the subjects of education, government, law and political science. Where would they be without the Congressional Directory, the Education Directory or the United States Code? SUBCOMMITTEE RECESS

Senator BARTLETT. The subcommittee will adjourn until a date to be announced later.

(Whereupon, at 5: 15 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, 1967, the hearing was recessed, subject to call of the Chair.)