kind of riot around the Library, the collections would be exposed badly. Mr. ANDREWS. You are not anticipating any riots around the Library? Dr. MUMFORD. I trust not, sir. There is also the possibility of theft, because someone inside could pass out books through these windows. Mr. ANDREWS. What is your record of thefts over there? Have you had any recently? Dr. MUMFORD. Not identified as such, but with collections as large as we have, something could be missing for a long time unless it is called for. It is impossible to take frequent inventories of collections as extensive as those in the Library of Congress. Mr. ANDREWS. Have you had any known cases of theft over there in the last few years? Mr. BERRY. Thefts of materials or books? Mr. ANDREWS. Anything. Mr. BERRY. We have had some thefts of pocketbooks, of wallets, money from desks, and things of that sort. We have also had one or two thefts from the official mail for which people have been apprehended. Mr. ANDREWS. They are having to weigh down with lead the plants over here in the Capitol to keep them from being stolen-so we were told. What about outside police or guard patrols? How do you schedule those? To look for unauthorized persons around the windows? Mr. BERRY. Some of the Library's special police are assigned to outside duty and patrol the area around the buildings, but we are not able to cover every portion of the buildings all the time. It is a rather large perimeter to cover and something could happen in an area between patrols. Mr. ANDREWS. Your appropriation for 1967 for this project, structural and mechanical care of Library buildings and grounds was $1,411,800, and for 1968 for this same item you are requesting $1,166,900 for a decrease for $244,900; is that right? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Are there questions? Mr. LANGEN. I think most of these subjects have been well covered, but let me just make a couple of inquiries. One item is the installation of bronze handrailings. How long have those steps been there without the handrailings? Mr. MUMFORD. Since the building was opened in 1897. Mr. LANGEN. Somebody has recently slipped and fallen there? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes; there has been a recent instance of someone falling. There is an increasing amount of traffic over those steps. Busloads of tourists, particularly young people and children, come from the street up those steps to the ground floor of the Library. Mr. LANGEN. And the same thing is true with these grilles that were just discussed? They involve windows that have been there since the building has been built? Mr. MUMFORD. That is correct. Mr. LANGEN. Has there been broken glass? Mr. MUMFORD. I know of no instance we have ever had of any breaking in. Mr. LANGEN. You have no evidence, now, that there has been Mr. MUMFORD. It is merely a safeguard. Mr. LANGEN. There have been no attempts to get in or out of the building in that fashion? Mr. MUMFORD. No, sir. Mr. BERRY. Mr. Langen, if I may interrupt for just a moment, we have had instances of people passing materials out through those windows. Several years ago there was an instance of someone caught trying to pass a typewriter out. There may be other instances that we are not aware of when materials or equipment have been passed out through the ground floor windows. We hope that this is not true, but it is a possibility. Mr. LANGEN. I note also a tractor to be replaced. What kind of equipment is this? Mr. BERRY. This is chiefly for the maintenance of the grounds and areas around the Library. A tractor is a necessity, both in terms of snow removal and hauling heavy materials around the grounds, in buildings with such large grounds to maintain. Mr. MUMFORD. This is a replacement. Mr. LANGEN. This is a very small unit? Mr. LANGEN. How much equipment goes with it? Mr. BERRY. Grass-cutting attachments. Mr. LANGEN. Do you have snowplow equipment for this? Mr. BERRY. We do some of the snow plowing on the sidewalks ourselves, and there would be a snowplow that would be attached to this tractor for this purpose. The earlier item of $2,000 for snow removal is principally for the drive areas and the front, where there is so much expanse of walk that has to be cleared, but the walks around the building itself and some of the other sidewalks are cleared with our own equipment. Mr. ANDREWS. How about those sidewalks-we gave you some money last year or the year before to have them resurfaced. Have you completed that work? Mr. PINCUS. The bid invitations will be posted next week and bids will be opened on May 28. The work will start in the summertime. Mr. ANDREWS. We have already appropriated money for that? Mr. PINCUS. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Library, furniture and furnishings. Page 185—page 97 in the committee print. Last year you requested an appropriation for this item of furnishings for the Library of Congress, $325,000. This year you are asking $382,600, an increase of $57,600. Mr. HENLOCK. That is correct. Mr. ANDREWS. Please insert the blue sheets. Take up each item of increase. (The material follows:) Library buildings and grounds—Furniture and furnishings 1967 appropriation in annual act----- $325,000 DEDUCTIONS Card catalog cases, Copyright Office: 40 15-drawer sections to replace 4,000 5, 600 Adding and calculating machines, Stack and Reader Division and 2,500 Card catalog cases, Processing and Reference Departments: 143 15drawer, 3- by 5-inch, wooden sections for expansion and replacements in divisions in these departments__ Microfilm reading machines: 3 reading machines to provide better Bookkeeping machines, Copyright Office and Office of Fiscal Services: 26,000 1,600 3, 100 2, 700 81, 000 10, 200 Checkstand equipment. Buildings and Grounds Division: Replacement of old equipment, plus provisions for expanding capacity of the checkstand.. 13, 500 3,700 7,600 1,500 Chairs, law library reading room: Replacement of 126 wornout chairs -- Dictating and transcribing machines, Reference Department: One machine to replace obsolete equipment, two to handle increased correspondence Rotary power files, Loan Division: To accommodate the central charge file records__. Bookracks, Stack and Reader Division: 100 2-shelf units for installation on desks occupied by users of research and study facilities--Recording equipment: To replace old equipment, some of which was 25 years old and in unsatisfactory condition__. Total, deduction_. Base for 1968___ 10.500 2,500 5,000 -181, 000 144, 000 78-653-67- -11 ADDITIONS Typewriters, increased from $34,000 to $55,000. Of the total amount requested, $34,000 is for regular annual replacements and other recurring needs, and is the same as allowed for fiscal 1967. The remainder requested-$21,000-is a nonrecuring item needed to obtain suitable equipment in sufficient quantities to meet the demands of expanding operations in the Legislative Reference Service and Copyright Office, demands that cannot be met from the funds provided for regular annual replacements and other recurring needs. The larger part of this nonrecurring item would be used for the replacement of old typewriters, while the remainder is required to obtain equipment for additional clerical personnel. Card catalog cases, metal, Copyright Office and Science and Technology Division... Copyright Office: 88 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch sections are needed, 80 to accommodate growth in the copyright card catalog which is currently expanding at the rate of 625,000 catalog cards annually, and 8 to replace obsolete sections in the Office of the Register of Copyrights: 20 8-drawer, 4- by 6-inch sections needed for expansion of the assignment card file (record of the assignment of copyrights from one copyright holder to another). Science and Technology Division: 40 8-drawer, 4- by 6-inch sections are required for the orderly storage of microfiche and microcards, which are now kept in cardboard boxes and similar makeshift containers. Card catalog cases, wood, Processing and Reference Departments--- Catalog Maintenance and Catalog Publication Division: (a) 235 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch sections are needed for expansion of and relief of crowding in the official catalog which normally increases by more than 600,000 catalog cards annually but which is expected to increase at a much greater rate in the future due to expanded cataloging activities; (b) 50 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch sections are required for expansion of the main (public) catalog near the main reading room which is becoming crowded: (c) 16 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch, sections are needed to replace the old and wornout sections now housing the catalog of serial publications in the main reading room. Serial Record Division: 18 15-drawer, 3- by 5-inch sections are needed to replace old wornout metal sections containing parts of the serial record catalog. Descriptive Cataloging Division; 7 60-drawer, 3- by 5-inch cabinets are needed to replace existing obsolete equipment housing the music catalog shelflist. Reference Department: 48 15-drawer sections, 3- by 5-inch, are required to replace existing old, wornout equipment, to provide expansion space, and relieve crowding in special reference catalogs used in various divisions of the Reference Department. Visible file cases, Serial Record Division____. 10 18-drawer visible file cases are needed to accommodate entries being added to the catalog of new serial titles and to permit relief for overcrowded portions of existing file cases. File cabinets---. Approximately 200 5-drawer metal legal and letter-size file cabinets are needed for various divisions in the Library; most of these would replace wornout 4-drawer wooden and metal cabinets which have been in service many years, while a few are required to provide space for growth. $21,000 13,300 75,400 4, 200 10, 000 |