Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)—Continued Identification code 01-25-0127-0-1-704 11 2,524 1966 estimate 33 25.1 Other services... 26.0 Supplies and materials.. 223 5 220 9.8 $10,560 For necessary expenses for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, [$3,554,800] $4,103,000. [For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses, Distribution of Catalog Cards", $149,000, to remain available until June 30, 1965.] (2 U.S.C. 150; Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) Identification code 01-25-0128-0-1-704 27 mately 4,100 thousand titles, and fills orders from over 15 thousand regular subscribers-mostly libraries-in the United States and abroad. In 1964, 121% of this appropriation was recovered in the form of receipts from card and publication sales. Receipts of $3,680 thousand were deposited in miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury in 1964. The objectives for 1966 are: meeting the increased demand for catalog cards and maintaining a reasonable level of service and economy; and the continued development of the National Union Catalog as the country's major bibliographic and locational tool. 1. Supplying cards for the Library of Congress.-The number of cards supplied to the Library of Congress in fiscal 1964 was 5,990 thousand; estimated for 1965, 6,100 thousand; and estimated for 1966, 6,700 thousand. 2. Supplying cards for other libraries.-The number of cards sold in 1964 was 52,506 thousand, estimated for 1965, 56,000 thousand and estimated for 1966, 60,000 thousand. 3. Preparation, printing and distribution of publications related to cataloging. These publications are an integral part of the cataloging activities of the Library of Congress and include the Classification Schedules, lists of Subject Service Bulletins, and similar publications. Headings; Rules for Descriptive Cataloging; Cataloging 4. Preparation, printing and distribution of the National Union Catalog.-This catalog (a cumulative author list) is issued monthly and cumulated quarterly and annually. Subscribers also receive issues of Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (quarterlies with annual cumulation), and Music and Phonorecords (issued on a six-month basis and annual cumulation). There were 1,323 paid subscriptions for all issues in calendar year 1963 and it is estimated that there will be 1,400 subscriptions for 1964 and 1,500 for 1965. Included under this activity is the National Library of Medicine Catalog. 5. Preparation, printing and distribution of the Subject Catalog. This catalog is issued in 3 quarterly volumes with an annual cumulation. There were 526 paid subscriptions for calendar year 1963. It is estimated that there will be 580 paid subscriptions in 1964 and about 620 in 1965. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 303 397 3. Preparation, printing and distribution 2,083 2,360 2,413 of the National Union Catalog. of publications related to cataloging4. Preparation, printing and distribution 130 309 6. Contingency fund....... 5. Preparation, printing and distribution of the Subject Catalog 386 New obligational authority.. 3,042 3,810 4,103 Permanent positions.... 11.5 Other personnel compensation.. 44 Proposed supplemental due to civilian pay increases... Relation of obligations to expenditures: Total personnel compensation.. 12.0 Personnel benefits.... 131 166 173 106 21.0 Travel and transportation of persons. 4 22.0 Transportation of things.___. 3 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities. 39 74 Obligated balance, end of year... 72 Obligated balance, start of year.. 71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures). 24.0 Printing and reproduction.. 1.262 25.1 Other services.. 1 295 371 489 26.0 Supplies and materials.. 25 77 Adjustments in expired accounts. -604 92.0 Contingency fund.. 250 -7 90 Expenditures excluding pay increase 4.103 crease supplemental. Expenditures from civilian pay in The card division sells copies of the Library's printed catalog cards and publications. It maintains a stock of over 123,000 thousand catalog cards representing approxi Personnel Summary 77 Adjustments in expired accounts. This appropriation is used to acquire domestic and foreign trade publications, both current and non-current. The publications acquired by purchase constitute a very important part of the Library's acquisitions although they represent only a small portion of the material received annually. The objectives for 1966 are: to continue the program for procurement of important research materials to strengthen the Library's collections; to continue the acquisition of selected important foreign newspapers and periodicals; to continue the program for procurement of important materials from critical areas, particularly from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia; to continue to strengthen the Library's acquisitions in the fields of science and technology; to continue the purchase of selected current titles on microfilm as an economy measure in lieu of binding; to acquire a few important special collections long needed by the Library to fill gaps in the collections; to preserve important materials now on nitrate negative stills by converting them to a safety base film; and to continue the microfilming of deteriorating materials as a necessary preservative and space saving measure. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) This appropriation constitutes the only means of acquiring law books published in the regular domestic trade books published in countries all over the world. The (except for copyright deposits) and many foreign law legal publications acquired by purchase constitute a most important part of the Law Library's acquisitions, although a substantial part of the annual receipts is received by means other than purchase. The special objectives for legal materials by placing purchase orders for certain 1966 are: to continue the procurement of current foreign necessary publications now received only irregularly through exchange or gift; to improve the procurement of more readily available important Hispanic, African, of both current and noncurrent materials needed to and Far Eastern materials; to continue the procurement strengthen the Law Library's already comprehensive coverage of critical areas in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa; to continue the acquisition of photoduplicates of important research items, especially those from critical areas, which are no longer obtainable in the original; and to continue a program for the microfilming or acquiring of microreproduction of deteriorating legal materials as a necessary preservative and space saving measure. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 13 3 10 10 685 774 persons.. 23.0 Rent, communications, and utilities.... 31.0 Equipment (books and library materials). 711 2120 holdings of all libraries for the blind. The Division also maintains a unique collection (more than 30,000 volumes) of books in braille not available elsewhere for loan in the United States. During the past 5-year period, 1960-64, the number of readers throughout the country requiring catalogs from which to select reading matter has grown from 63,000 to 94,000 and circulation from 1,953,000 units (volumes, containers, and reels) to 3,446,000. The number of readers and circulation are expected to continue to increase in 1965 and 1966. Inquiries are received concerning library and related services available to the blind. Individuals throughout the Nation who are interested in transcribing or proofreading braille are trained and those qualified are certified. During fiscal 1964, 678 individuals were certified, and it is anticipated that this level will continue during 1965 and 1966. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 25 Unobligated balance lapsing- 6 The Division for the Blind is responsible for administering a national program to provide reading material for the blind of the United States, U.S. Territories and Insular Possessions. It has two closely related operations. 1. Procurement and distribution.-It provides books in embossed characters, and talking books with their associated reproducers. The books are distributed through 32 regional libraries which assume responsibility for their custody and circulation. The reproducers are distributed through 54 State agencies. The maintenance and procurement of these books are shown in the following table: Average GS salary. (a) New titles and magazines. 355 366 366 (b) Old titles re-recorded.. Identification code 01-25-0142-0-1-704 braille titles. Embossed books and magazines: Press Talking-book machines: Program by activities: Purchased.. 10 Organizing, arranging, indexing, and microfilming (obligations)....... Repaired. 20,000 Salvaged-scrapped.. Objectives for 1966 are: (1) the sustained procurement of braille books and talking books, (2) procurement of a sufficient number of machines to equip newly registered blind readers and to replace additional obsolete machines, (3) replacement of a quantity of two-speed motors with three-speed motors in talking-book machines, and (4) the procurement of a limited quantity of tape-cassette machines with books to play on them. 2. Cataloging, reference, circulating and training services-Catalogs of talking and braille books are prepared and maintained, including a Union Catalog of Hand 90 Copied Books in Braille which brings together a record of 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year. 40 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year... LIBRARY OF CONGRESS—Continued General and special funds-Continued ORGANIZING AND MICROFILMING THE PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS-Continued SALARIES AND EXPENSES-Continued Public Law 85-147 (71 Stat. 368), approved August 16, 1957, authorizes an appropriation of $720 thousand to remain available until expended, to arrange, index, and microfilm the Papers of the Presidents of the United States in the collections of the Library of Congress. This Law was amended by Public Law 88-299 (78 Stat. 183), approved April 27, 1964, which removes the $720 thousand limitation and authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of Public Law 85-147. The purpose of the program is to preserve the contents of the Papers of the Presidents and to make them more readily available for research. It was started in fiscal year 1959 with an appropriation of $107 thousand. The objectives for 1966 will be to provide negative and positive service copy on microfilm of material arranged and indexed, and to continue publishing indexes by photooffset in editions of 1,000 copies each. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) Total number of permanent positions. 1 3.0 $3,994 7 1 1 7 7 25.2 Services of other agencies. 1 COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIBRARY For necessary expenses for carrying out the prov 104(n) of the Agricultural Trade Development and A 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(n)), to remain expended, [$1,541,500, of which $1,417,000] $2,2 $2,102,000 shall be available for payments in for which the Treasury Department shall determine the normal requirements of the United States: Pro appropriation shall be available to reimburse the State for medical services rendered to employees of Congress stationed abroad. (Legislative Branch Act, 1965.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollar 1964 actual 1965 1966 estimate estimate 695 40 126 83 944 50 50 50 Financing: 50 50 59 50 50 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year. 24 Unobligated balance available, end of -84 118 year. 40 New obligational authority (appropriation) – Relation of obligations to expenditures: 71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures).. 72 Obligated balance, start of year.. 74 Obligated balance, end of year..... 50 50 50 23 -23 77 50 Total obligations................ 944 1,547 2,279 Personnel Summary Section 104(n) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (established by Public Law 85-931, approved September 6, 1958) authorizes the Librarian of Congress to use foreign currencies accruing under this act to provide information of technical, scientific, cultural, or educational significance to the United States through the collection of foreign library materials and the distribution of copies thereof to libraries and research centers in the United States. The program is being continued on a full year's basis in six countries in 1965: Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, and the United Arab Republic. It is proposed to continue the program in 1966 on a slightly expanded basis in these countries. Also the initiation of a similar program in Brazil and of 6-month pilot programs in Poland and Yugoslavia is proposed. Of the total amount requested, $2,102 thousand will be used to purchase foreign currencies, while $177 thousand will provide U.S. dollar support. 1. Acquisition of books and other library materials.Based upon the information received during the exploratory stage concerning materials available in the three additional countries and the requirements of other Federal agencies and certain research libraries in the United States, publications and other library materials will be purchased in multiple copies from nine countries and distributed to selected libraries and research centers in the United States, including the Library of Congress. 2. Bibliographic listing.-Accessions lists currently published covering materials acquired in India, Pakistan, Israel, and the United Arab Republic will be continued and distributed to libraries and research centers in the United States to inform scholars of the range of books, serials, and other library materials available under this program. It is also proposed to publish an accessions list in Indonesia. Cataloging information will also be provided. 3. Operation of centers.-Centers staffed with foreign nationals and a limited number of U.S. personnel will handle acquisition, listing, and cataloging, 4. Program support (U.S. dollars).-U.S. dollars are required to pay certain expenses which cannot be paid by foreign currencies, such as salaries and personnel benefits of U.S. personnel abroad, salaries of the coordinating staff at the Library of Congress, travel in some instances, and equipment and supplies which cannot be procured abroad. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) 71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures) - Relation of obligations to expenditures: 72 Obligated balance, start of year.. 90 Expenditures.. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ས 5 7 5 Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty of Library employees; special and temporary services (including employees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any of the categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. (Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1965.) ALLOCATIONS RECEIVED FROM OTHER ACCOUNTS Note. Obligations incurred under allocations from other accounts are included in the schedule of the parent appropriation as follows: State, "Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Activities." Health, Education, and Welfare. "Operations, National Library of Medicine, National Science Foundation, "Salaries and expenses." |