Quite frankly, I think the Library has been very lucky in the past, to have escaped major damage to some of the treasures; lucky that we have not encountered some lawsuits because we have not had the manpower to take the kinds of preventive measures necessary to insure the safety of our collections.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I guess what you are really telling me is that this increased request for 9 people is not because of the fact that the James Madison Building is going to open, but just to bring you up to where you think you should be at the present time with your present facilities, is that correct?

Mr. CARRIGAN. That is partly the case, for there also is planning underway and will be during 1979, in connection with major Madison exhibits.

Mr. BENJAMIN. If I understand Dr. Boorstin, we are also planning ahead for the renovation of the Library of Congress Main Building. That is why I was trying to find out if you are really relying on what is going to happen in 1980 and the few years thereafter, but you are not. You say you are understaffed now and this is the number we should have now?

Mr. CARRIGAN. That is right.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION SOUGHT

Dr. BOORSTIN. May I add something?

Mr. BENJAMIN. Yes.

Dr. BOORSTIN. I would like to urge the committee to give special consideration to this request, because it is not really so much an expansion as it is an effort to capitalize on and make beneficial to the widest possible audience the collections we have been spending these millions of dollars to collect and house over the years.

In many ways our exhibits program simply provides windows to the Library to make this material available both to people who come to Washington and to people throughout the country. These are complementary considerations, because if we awaken the interest of people through traveling exhibits, then when they come to Washington they want to see the Library. We do not want to disappoint them by having inadequate exhibits. This is a program which has been terribly neglected in the past.

As part of our outreach efforts, we do want to develop the exhibits program and we hope the committee will consider this favorably, Mr. Chairman.

CURRENT LEVEL COSTS OF NONPERSONALS

Mr. BENJAMIN. Thank you.

For nonpersonnel services you are asking an increase of $1,493,026, $889,741 of which is for current level. Is this to cover increases in prices of items currently consumed? Please explain.

Mr. CURRAN. $206,000 of that is not an increase. It is a comparative transfer from the furniture and furnishing account for repair of machines, we think it is more appropriate in this area and is not an increase.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I guess I just explained your request for transfer of $206,000, because you feel it more appropriate here?

Mr. CURRAN. It is a repair, rather than a capital expenditure.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Under growing workload we have a request for travel and transportation, $60,685; would you justify that?

Mr. APPLEBAUM. Part of that has to do with the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging; the rotation of overseas staff has been instituted and that does require transportation of household effects as well as travel.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Rent, communications and utilities, $62,300.

Mr. APPLEBAUM. $12,000 of that is for rental of exhibit space and equipment at professional conferences, $32,300 for word processing equipment and $18,000 to provide additional local telephone service.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Printing, $43,300.

Mr. APPLEBAUM. This increase includes $28,300 to satisfy greater demands for photoduplication work and $15,000 to reprint Library publications no longer in print but still in demand.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Other services, $157,000.

Mr. CURRAN. This amount, the other services, first of all, comes back to exhibits; of that $157,000, $21,000 is part of the exhibits program, to help plan exhibits, lighting and security, and of course the special signs, $9,500. In the next item, supplies and materials, $280,000, $252,000 of that is for the exhibits program. So we have in these 2 items, other services $157,000, supplies and materials $280,000 together, $282,500 of that is for the exhibits program and is in support of the new positions which Mr. Carrigan was talking about; the wherewithal, the supplies and materials, contract efforts. He has a list of those that he can elaborate on in more detail if you like, or we can supply it for the record.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I would appreciate that for the record. [The information referred to follows:]

Mr. CURRAN. It translates into what the shows are, the product rather than the object classes. It accounts for a significant part of both of those items. Disposing of that, the balance of the $157,000 for other services, a portion of that, as you can see, these are fees we pay to access either other Federal or commercial computer data bases.

The first one there is for the legal data bases, JURIS and LEXIS, and for the New York Times Information Bank, requiring an increase of $86,000. We are also asking for $36,000, part of which is to support the specialized and technical support in the Law Library for consultants.

We have a provision for a broader health services program, including expansion of the service at our Navy Yard facility, for $20,000. I mentioned the $9,500 which is part of the exhibits program for proper signs, directions, getting in and about the existing Library buildings.

Mr. Applebaum mentioned $3,000 for cost of rotation of overseas field directors. The balance of supplies and materials account that is above and beyond the $252,000 as part of the exhibits program is $23,000 for office supplies and custodial supplies to support the new positions, and $5,000 for medical supplies.

HEALTH PROGRAM DISCUSSION

Mr. BENJAMIN. Let me ask about health care for a minute. You obviously have in-house health care. You have asked for new personnel, you have asked for an additional $20,000 to expand your facility at the Navy Yard. Is it that they do not have any health insurance where they can go into the private market?

Mr. CURRAN. First of all, we do not treat employees. Unlike, for example, on the Capitol you have a physician who treats people, treats members or other qualified persons; we do not treat staff but we do have a rather extensive preventive health program, a wide assortment. This is partly what we are talking about augmenting here, preventive health programs, screening, cancer screening, blood pressure, heart control programs, various influenza and shot programs, testing for glaucoma.

That is where most of our energy is in health, also health counseling of employees, troubled employees, alcohol prevention programs. So you get an assortment of health counseling programs and preventive health programs which are not covered, simply what we think a Federal agency, indeed any modern and progressive employer, should provide to their staff. These things pay dividends in themselves.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I do not deny that, but my question is whether we are duplicating services available to the employees of the Library of Congress elsewhere in the Federal system.

Mr. CURRAN. In the Federal system?

Mr. BENJAMIN. Yes.

Mr. CURRAN. No, I believe it is the responsibility of agencies to have their own services. These are not services in lieu of the Public Health Service programs. If an employee, for example, were injured, other than immediate first aid that might be supplied, we would not treat the injury or follow through the treatment. They would either go to Public Health Service for treatment or their

private physician at their option, which is why the costs are higher these days; people are preferring their physicians as authorized under the 1974 act.

I do not think we are duplicating services provided by other Federal agencies, no, sir.

USE OF DATA BASES

Mr. BENJAMIN. This $86,000, you already have the use of the data bases. You explain that for the expanded use of JURIS, LEXIS and New York Times Information Service, you need $86,000. Can you explain what you mean by expanded use?

Mr. CURRAN. For the most part those data bases are currently available to the Congressional Research Service, and to the extent they are accessed by the Congressional Research Service and the Congress and their staff it is reflected in the CRS budget. But there are other applications elsewhere in the Library, particularly in the Law Library, where JURIS, LEXIS and the New York Times Information Bank, would be considered helpful to the reference staff. What we are asking is that we make the information contained in those data bases more broadly available to the community of users who come into the Library in addition to the congressional users. We are asking that we be permitted to use them in support of our other readers.

Mr. BENJAMIN. You are not in any way suggesting that if the Congressional Research Service gets the services, which you explain they do, that they are not making it available to the rest of the Library of Congress?

Mr. CURRAN. What I meant is a terminal at a service point in the Congressional Research Service is not available in the main reading room or in the Law Library reading room, to one of their researchers. It is just a matter of more such terminals in different places for use of the Library staff and the users of the Library. Mr. BENJAMIN. For the record, would you mind submitting a list of the new terminal locations?

Mr. CURRAN. That are being requested in this sum?

Mr. BENJAMIN. Yes. I guess you had better explain where you have them now in terms of our present program.

Mr. CURRAN. All right, we will give you a table. [The information referred to follows:]