Mr. ANDREWS. On page 100 of the print and page 156 of the justifications we find a request for Library furniture and furnishings. For furniture and furnishings you ask for $349,000, a net increase of $75.000. Mr. STEWART. That is right. Mr. ANDREWS. Let us insert the blue sheets, pages 156 through 162. (The pages follow:) Library buildings and grounds-Furniture and furnish ́ngs 1966 appropriation in annual act... $274,000 Deductions: Motion picture equipment, Prints and Photographs Division: Primarily to replace obsolete 9,600 Rotary files, Copyright Office: 4 units for current working files. Card catalog cases. Copyright Office: 100 15-drawer sections for current additions and replacement of obsolete sections in the Copyright Catalog, 3d-year allotment under a 5-year replacement program.. 12,000 8,700 Microfilm reading machines, Stack and Reader Division: 2 reading machines to provide better service in microfilm reading room.. 1,800 Adding and calculating machines, various divisions. 1,200 Card catalog cases, Processing and Reference Departments: 34 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch 2,600 5,800 37,700 16,000 Chairs, readers' desks, main reading room, main building: To replace existing chairs which Duplicator, offset, Office of the Secretary: To replace esixting model 1250 which is 10 years old. Rotary filing equipment, Office of Fiscal Services: 1 10-foot unit to modernize and automate fiscal records, and save floor space. 10,000 3,900 5,000 are worn out. Carpeting, rare book room, main building: To replace existing worn rugs and improve acoustics.. 12,000 Tables and chairs, Manuscript Division: To replace existing tables and chairs in the manuscript reading room which have been in use over 25 years. 4,000 8,000 Distribution table, Stack and Reader Division: To replace wornout wooden tables in use over 25 years.. Book trucks, Stack and Reader Division: To replace several wornout trucks and to handle expanded reader service. 1,800 Stage curtain, Coolidge Auditorium: To replace present curtain over 10 years old, worn, and not flameproof... Repairs to office machines and equipment, increased from $25,000 to $30,000: This increase is needed to provide sufficient funds for adequate maintenance and repair of typewriters, office machines, and related equipment. The growth in personnel has resulted in an increased inventory of typewriters and office machines, and the machines themselves are becoming increasingly complicated. Expenditures for this purpose amounted to $29,000 in 1965 and will equal that figure in 1966. Typewriters, increased from $25,000 to $35.000: This increase is needed to meet minimum replacement needs, to provide sufficient typewriters for proposed new employees, and to cover increased costs resulting from price increases and the expanding use of electric typewriters in place of manual machines.. Furniture for new employees requested for fiscal year 1967: This item is needed to provide furniture and equipment for new positions requested by the Librarian in his estimates for fiscal year 1967. No stock of furniture exists for this purpose and funds for the annual purchase of furniture and equipment are needed for replacements and other requirements of existing operations.... Card catalog cases, Copyright Office: 40 15-drawer sections are requested to replace obsolete equipment in the Copyright Card Catalog; this will complete the replacement program 1 year earlier than originally proposed.. Bookkeeping machines, Copyright Office and Office of Fiscal Services: This item is requested Duplicator, offset, Office of the Secretary: To replace an existing machine which is about 130,000 5,000 10,000 23,000 4,000 10, 200 5,600 2,500 Library buildings and grounds-Furniture and furnishings-Continued File cabinets, metal, Office of the Secretary and Prints and Photographs Division: Office of Chairs, Law Library Reading Rooms: This item is requested to permit replacement of 126 Rotary power files, Loan Division: 6 rotary power files are requested to accommodate the Bookracks, Stack and Reader Division: 100 2-shelf units are requested to install on the tops Exhibit cases, Exhibits Office: 1 exhibit case is requested for the proper display of the Li- Subtotal.. Total estimate for 1967.--. INCREASES REQUESTED $13,500 3,700 7,600 1,500 10, 500 26,000 1,600 5,000 3, 100 2,500 2,700 81,000 +219, 000 349,000 Mr. ANDREWs. Now we will take up the increases. Mr. STEWART. May I ask Dr. Mumford to explain these items, as our estimates in this case are based on needs determined by the Librarian? Mr. ANDREWS. All right, Dr. Mumford. Dr. MUMFORD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all I would like to say that much of the movable equipment and furniture in the Library is old and worn. It has been acquired 63-051-66- -3 at different times, often surplus from the GSA, and was not in very good condition to begin with. Practically all of the items requested are designed to replace older equipment. In some cases we requesting increases, such as for typewriters. REPAIRS TO OFFICE MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT are We are asking for an increase of $5,000 for repairs to office machines and equipment to provide sufficient funds for adequate maintenance and repair of typewriters, office machine,, and related equipment. As our staff has grown larger we have needed more machines; they have become more complicated and the cost of maintenance goes up. Expenditures for this purpose amounted to $29,000 in 1965 and will equal that figure in 1966. Mr. ANDREWS. And you are asking $30,000 for 1967? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Who does your maintenance work? Dr. MUMFORD. GSA does most of it. Mr. BERRY. Some maintenance is handled by the manufacturers. Mr. ANDREWS. Place in the record the percentage of manual typewriters and electrical typewriters. (The information follows:) Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have any computing machines or do they come under this category? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes we have a computer, but its maintenance is not included in this item. Mr. HENLOCK. On page 165 we show the Library now has about 1,900 machines of various types, an increase of approximately 100 over the number reported in the 1966 justifications-1,420 typewriters, 280 adding and calculating machines, and 200 other types, including duplicating machines, collators, microfilm readers, copying devices, bookkeeping machines, rotary filing equipment, and the like. Mr. ANDREWS. And all that machinery will be maintained under this appropriation of $30,000? Mr. STEWART. That is right. TYPEWRITERS Mr. ANDREWs. We will now take up the next item, typewriters, an increase of $10,000, from $25,000 to $35,000. Is that about the normal yearly increase of typewriters? Dr. MUMFORD. No, sir. We have not had any increases for typewriters since 1963. As this item indicates, an increase is needed to meet minimum replacement needs, to provide sufficient typewriters for proposed new employees, and to cover increased costs resulting from price increases and the expanding use of electric typewriters in place of manual typewriters. Mr. ANDREWs. What about the price increases? Dr. MUMFORD. I think that applies more to electric typewriters, which are more efficient. Mr. ANDREWS. What about the price? Would you place that in the record? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. (The information follows:) TYPEWRITER COSTS, FISCAL 1965 AND 1966 Electric typewriters (13-inch carriages) One make increased from $409.50 to $414; another from $436.50 to $445.50; with corresponding increases for other comparable makes. Manual typewriters (13-inch carriages) One make remained at $209.25 for both years; in general, the price of other makes remained about the same for both years. (Based on GSA Federal Supply Service contracts.) Dr. MUMFORD. I might say our rate of replacement of typewriters covers a longer span than normally accepted standards. Mr. ANDREWS. Give us a figure or two on price increases. Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. We estimate we will buy about 90 additional typewriters out of this. We now have 1,420. Mr. ANDREWs. What is the cost of an electric typewriter compared to a manual typewriter? Do you buy any manual typewriters any more? Mr. BERRY. This year about half are electric and half are manual. Mr. ANDREWs. Do you have the cost? Mr. BERRY. Our average is about $200 for a manual typewriter and between $400 and $500 for an electric typewriter. The actual cost depends on whether special keyboards are required. FURNITURE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES Mr. ANDREWS. The next item is furniture for new employees, $23,000. Dr. MUMFORD. This is related to the Library's estimates for new employees. The money we have in the item for "Annual office furniture" is needed for replacement of present furniture. This is a nonrecurring item. Mr. ANDREWS. What type of furniture? Dr. MUMFORD. It might be a desk, chair, lamp, and possibly a bookcase. Mr. ANDREWS. Do you have a list of the furniture you intend to buy? Dr. MUMFORD. It is based roughly on an estimate that a new employee needs about $170 of new equipment. Mr. ANDREWS. Have you conferred with the Clerk of the House to see if he could help you out? Mr. Stewart bought between $3 million and $3.5 million worth of new furniture and furnishings for the Rayburn Building and I expect the Clerk has furniture and furnishings running out of his storage places where Members and committees turned in their other, older items. Dr. MUMFORD. We will be glad to explore that. Can you tell us about that, Mr. Stewart? Mr. STEWART. I do not know what the inventory is of old furniture. For instance, some of the former occupants of the George Washington Inn still have their old furniture with them. I do not know if there will be any replacements or not. Mr. ANDREWS. You might check to see if there is anything else in the storage rooms. Dr. Mumford, could you furnish the committee with a list of the items of furniture you propose to buy if you are granted the $23,000 appropriation for furniture for new employees? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. (The information follows:) FURNITURE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES Of the 175 new positions requested in the Library's 1967 estimates, 135 are in the category that require office furniture. The $23,000 estimate for furniture and furnishing is based on the following items with average unit costs: Dr. MUMFORD. The next item is card catalog cases for the Copyright Office. Forty 15-drawer sections are requested to replace obsolete equipment in the Copyright Card Catalog; this will complete the replacement program. Mr. ANDREWS. All right. The next item. BOOKKEEPING MACHINES Dr. MUMFORD. On page 159 there is an item of $10,200 for bookkeeping machines for the Copyright Office and the Office of Fiscal Services. This item is requested to replace two bookkeeping machines, one in the Copyright Office, which is 15 years old, and one in the Office of Fiscal Services, which is 8 years old. Both machines have had heavy use and are now beyond economical repair. DUPLICATOR The next item of $5,600 is for a duplicator, offset, for the Office of the Secretary, to replace an existing machine which is about 10 years old and is in unsatisfactory operating condition. If you wish elaboration on any of these, Mr. Berry can supply it. This comes under his department. ADDING AND CALCULATING MACHINES The next item is adding and calculating machines. One adding machine is needed in the Stack and Reader Division for use in preparation and maintenance of reports and statistics of reader services, volume of business, and use of the collections; a calculating machine |