Funds are requested to cover within grade increases ($1,066,446) and to achieve a + $2,835,646 Salaries ........ Personnel Benefits B. Annualization of pay raises This increase is necessary to provide for annualization of the 1981 pay raises for General Schedule employees, effective October 6, 1980, and for Wage Board employees effective in October 1980. Funds have been requested in the fiscal 1981 supplemental request to cover the increases from the effective dates through September 30, 1981. Salaries......................... Personnel Benefits .............. ..... $ 173,144 14,556 $ 187,700 C. Accident Compensation reimbursement to Employees' Compensation Fund The Library's reimbursement to the Bureau of Employee's Compensation for benefits and other payments for fiscal 1980 was more than the amount budgeted for those purposes as follows: The Purchase of Books category is administered by the Office of the Assistant Librarian for Processing Services and provides for the acquisition of books and other library materials for use in the Library of Congress. It covers the purchase of materials for the Library's general collections and for the Law Library. Although materials come to the Library through copyright deposits, transfer from Federal agencies, gift, domestic and international exchange, and by provisions of State and Federal law, the material acquired through purchase augments these other sources of library materials in an important way. Through the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging (NPAC), the Library acquires promptly current books of research value from foreign countries, catalogs them, and disseminates this cataloging data widely, in order to meet the urgent needs of American libraries. This centralized cataloging program uses bibliographic descriptions prepared by foreign national bibliographies. Also, NPAC regional programs cover over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America where acquisition is more difficult than elsewhere. Management objectives for 1982 are to improve the quality of the Library's acquisitions, providing a better selection of material, more rapidly, for the Library's staff and readers, and a more effective response to the cataloging requirements of the nation's libraries. Net additional resources required in fiscal 1982 to accomplish these objectives total $214,040. This amount provides funds to meet an inflationary rate of growth of 12.8 percent in the cost of purchasing books and other library materials, less a decrease in the sum requested for bibliographic services under the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging. 13. + Books and library materials (GEN) ....... + $ 317,747 Books and library materials (Law) Books and library materials (NPAC) ...... + 137,786 Catalog card subscriptions (NPAC) Net increase ... ....... 52,560 + $508,093 An increase of 12.8 percent, or $508,093, is requested in the funds for book purchases to offset the inflationary rise in the cost of books. This increase is needed to maintain reduced purchasing power for Books for the General Collections, for the Law Library, and for the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging at a level reflecting reductions in book funds over the past two years. The decrease in the sum requested for bibliographical services under the National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging reflects a deduction of $142,000 from the fiscal 1981 base as a funding transfer (see page 18 for an explanation of this) and a reduction of $179,487 additional savings resulting from transfer of cataloging services from overseas. A 12.2 percent inflationary increase of $27,434, computed on the revised base of $224,866, is requested. This results in a net reduction of $294,053. 14. Special Reserve Fund As requested by the Subcommittee, a brief description of some of the items purchased in fiscal 1980 from 15. |