is required in the Legislative Reference Service to help handle its expanding work in science, public welfare, economics, and fiscal affairs requiring the preparation of reports to Congress, statistics, tables, and charts. A great deal of this kind of work goes into reports and studies that are made for the Congress and it would be of great assistance to them to have these adding and calculating machines. FILE CABINETS The next item is file cabinets, metal, Office of the Secretary and Prints and Photographs Division. First, in the Office of the Secretary, 143 five-drawer cabinets are requested to replace old wooden and metal four-drawer cabinets in the Library's central files; the fivedrawer cabinets will also increase capacity within the same floor area. Naturally, the five-drawer cabinets do save space, but this is not the only factor in requesting them because the old ones are in very poor condition. Mr. ANDREWS. Are you planning to buy those filing cabinets new or look around with GSA? Dr. MUMFORD. This would anticipate the purchase of new cabinets for this purpose. These are the Library's archival records and it is extremely important they be well protected. For the Prints and Photographs Division, 125 five-drawer cabinets are requested to replace a like number of old deteriorated four-drawer cabinets and at the same time provide needed expansion space within the same floor area. Mr. ANDREWS. All right. What is the next item? CHECKSTAND EQUIPMENT Dr. MUMFORD. The next item is checkstand equipment for the Buildings and Grounds Division. This equipment is desired to replace existing equipment, most of which is over 10 years old, in unsatisfactory condition, and inefficient. The new equipment desired will also increase the capacity of the checkstand from 535 to 800 coats. CHAIRS FOR LAW LIBRARY READING ROOMS The next item is chairs for the Law Library Reading Rooms. Last year you gave us an appropriation to replace the chairs in our Main Reading Room. Replacement is badly needed for the Law Library Reading Rooms. These reading rooms are very much used and the chairs are unsightly and splintered and are not very safe, actually, from minor injuries. DICTATING AND TRANSCRIBING MACHINES The next item is dictating and transcribing machines for the Reference Department. For the Division for the Blind, two combination machines are requested to handle increased correspondence and reports more efficiently. For the Stack and Reader Division one combination machine is requested to replace present equipment which gives poor service and is beyond economical repair. ROTARY POWER FILES The next item is $10,500 for rotary power files for the Loan Division. Six rotary power files are requested to accommodate the Central Charge File records which have recently been merged with the existing Loan Division's discharge files where similar equipment is already being used. CARD CATALOG CASES Then we come to card catalog cases for the Processing and Reference Departments. These are requested for the following offices: For the Manuscript Division, 28 15-drawer sections to complete the replacement of old cases in the Manuscript Reading Room. For the General Reference and Bibliography Division, 40 15-draw sections requested to replace wornout sections housing the catalog in the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room. This is a room that is very much used and the catalog cases are in very bad condition. In the Catalog Maintenance and Catalog Publications Division, 75 15-drawer sections to replace 5 wornout sections and provide 70 additional sections for expansion of the Official Catalog which will result from a greatly expanded cataloging program into additional space to be obtained on deck 7, south, annex. The Official Catalog is used by the technical staff, the cataloging staff, and by those who are compiling the catalogs for publication. Mr. ANDREWs. You make the statement here: "The backbone of a library is its card catalog." Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, Mr. Chairman. It is the key to the resources of the Library. It is absolutely essential to maintain a good card catalog. Someday this may be a computer instead of a card catalog but at the present time it is important that we maintain the card catalog. OTHER INCREASES REQUESTED Mr. ANDREWs. The next few items are in the record: Adequate card catalog cases, $26,000; microfilm reading machines, $1,600; recording equipment, Music Division, $5,000; motion picture equipment, Prints and Photographs Division, $3,100; Bookracks, Stack, and Reader Division, $2,500; exhibit cases, Exhibits Office, $2,700. EQUIPMENT AND OFFICE MACHINES, CARD DIVISION The last and biggest item is equipment and office machines, Card Division, $81,000 increase. This is the largest item of increase. You might discuss that. Dr. MUMFORD. I think all the members of the committee know about our card distribution service which is rendered by the Card Division. We are supplying to most libraries throughout the country the work performed by our Library in the form of printed cards. are selling over 60 million catalog cards per year with a return to the Treasury of over $4 million. Mr. ANDREWS. You have the figure here of $4,664,739, which reflects an increase of nearly 20 percent over 1964 sales. Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. This is a moneymaking department of the Library? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, The Card Division has been returning 115 to 120 percent of the appropriation for the past several years and this equipment is absolutely necessary in order for us to continue to render prompt service to the people who buy the cards. Mr. ANDREWS. We have completed our questions directed to the Architect and the Librarian on the two items that come under the Architect's budget but affect the Library of Congress. One is for repairs and care of the buildings and the other is for equipment. Mr. Steed, do you have any questions on these two items? Mr. STEED. No questions. Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Slack? Mr. LANGEN. Just a question or two. OVERTIME AND HOLIDAY PAY I noted the reference of the chairman earlier in the testimony relative to overtime. Let me see if I have this right. Is the total amount of salaries $573,700? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes, sir. Mr. LANGEN. And out of that is $105,000 for overtime and holiday pay, or one-fifth, 20 percent of the total for overtime and holiday pay? How much is overtime and how much is holiday pay? Mr. HENLOCK. For 1967, $102,000 is for overtime and $3,000 is holiday pay. Actually, we have to maintain in all our buildings on the Hill a minimum of a 52-day workweek. The Library is open on Saturdays and Sundays and time and one-half for work on those days increases the appropriation by 15 percent, normally. Where it is a 48-hour work week basis, it increases it 30 percent. So it averages about 20 percent on the whole. Under the wage board system, wage board employees must be compensated in accordance with the contract work hours of 1962 at time and a half for such overtime. Mr. LANGEN. The overall situation is that almost 20 percent of the total salary expense is for overtime? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes, sir; that is correct. Mr. LANGEN. And what percentage of the total number of employees participate in overtime? Mr. HENLOCK. Virtually all of them. Mr. LANGEN. Just about all of them? Mr. HENLOCK. Sixty-two out of sixty-four employees at the Library are under the wage board system. Mr. LANGEN. How many new employees are you requesting this year? Mr. HENLOCK. None for the Library, under our estimates. FURNITURE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES Mr. LANGEN. I notice an item for new furniture for new employees. How many new employees does that cover? Dr. MUMFORD. This will come up in our statement week after next. The total will be 175 but it includes a large number for this card distribution service which is self-supporting, plus an increase in the Copyright Office, also self-supporting and an increase in the Legislative Reference Service to meet the unprecedented increase in workload. Mr. LANGEN. So it is associated with a request for additional employees that will come at a later time. Dr. MUMFORD. If the committee allows the additional employees then we will need some additional furniture for them as listed here. OVERTIME Mr. LANGEN. One more question in regard to overtime. Is this time and a half? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes sir. That is a requirement of law. Mr. LANGEN. You say practically all the employees participate in some overtime. What is the average week for the whole bulk of employees? Mr. HENLOCK. You mean how much per year? Mr. LANGEN. Yes. Mr. HENLOCK. The workweek for about two-thirds of the employees averages about 44 hours and, for the other third, 48 hours. Mr. LANGEN. In hours? Mr. HENLOCK. In hours, 33 percent of them average about 48 hours a week and the rest average about 44 hours a week. Mr. LANGEN. That is all, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Reifel. Mr. REIFEL. No questions. Dr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, may I thank you and the other members of the committee for arranging for this hearing this afternoon so I could meet my commitment in Boston. I am very grateful to you. Mr. ANDREWS. We were glad to do it, Doctor. The committee will adjourn until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr. ANDREWs. The committee will come to order. We shall continue our hearings with the Architect's Office. I believe for your central office you asked a total of $647,700, an increase of $46,200. Mr. STEWART. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. We will insert the blue sheets from page 10 and following. Increased pay costs due to Public Law 89-301, approved Oct. 29, 1965, Federal Employees Salary Act of 1965, to cover increases which went into effect Oct. 1, 1965, under authority of that act and must be met on a full-year basis in 1967 Wage-rate increases and other changes authorized by Public Law 763, 83d Cong., for wageboard employees... Within-grade salary advancements and other changes authorized by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.. 12,872 1,943 Overtime and holiday pay increased by $6,500 to meet increased pay costs under this allotment resulting from base pay increases and the proposed addition of 2 positions.. 4,970 6,500 |