Dr. MUMFORD. There are, in addition, a group of new positions requested in the Reference Department. Mr. ANDREWs. What do they total? Dr. MUMFORD. That is the 45 you are referring to. They are part of the total of 98. We have mentioned the positions for extending the hours of opening of some of the special reading rooms. TWENTY-TWO NEW POSITIONS TO STRENGTHEN REFERENCE AND CIRCULATION SERVICES Then on page 47 of the white sheets we are asking for 22 positions to maintain and strengthen the reference, bibliographic, and circulation services, and to organize material, which is increasing at the rate of some 1 million items yearly, for service to readers. There is a breakdown on page 48: Two positions in the Geography and Map Division, two positions in Hispanic Division, one in the Loan Division, two in e Manuscript Division, and one in the Music Division, four positions in the Orientalia Division, one in Prints and Photographs, one n the Rare Books Division, and three in the Serial Division of the Reference Department. This is where the service on the serials is provided to the reader. Finally, five positions in the Stack and Reader Division are requested. Mr. ANDREWs. That makes a total of 22. Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. Those are identified as 22 positions in the Reference Department, cost, $133,909. Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. This is for strengthening the service and ping to organize an increasing amount of material and providing rvice on it. Mr. ANDREWs. What is next? Dr. MUMFORD. I do not know whether you want me to go into any ore detail on these particular positions. Mr. ANDREWS. No: you have identified the number requested. THREE NEW POSITIONS IN LAW LIBRARY Dr. MUMFORD. The next item is the Law Library. We are asking rone position in the Hispanic Law Division. Mr. ANDREWS. Is that library in the main building? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Mr. ANDREWS. That is on page 71? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. For one legal specialist, a GS-12 and for a GS-5 Library Assistant The Near Eastern and African Law Division. Mr. ANDREWS. A total of three, cost $23,214. What use is made of your Foreign Law Library? Dr. MUMFORD. Mr. Coffin, the Law Librarian is here and he may aborate on that. Mr. ANDREWS. Has there been an increased use of the library durg the past 12 months? Mr. COFFIN. Yes, sir; there has been quite an increase in the use fthe Law Library in the main building during the past year. I have gares if you would care to have me read them. Mr. ANDREWS. Just put them in the record. (The information follows:) ALL DIVISIONS OF THE LAW LIBRARY IN MAIN BUILDING Mr. COFFIN. This is on reference and circulation in the main building. So far as foreign law is concerned we have one of the finest and largest collections in this country and maybe the finest aggregation of foreign law in the whole world taking all countries together. We have five divisions in the Law Library in the main building. One of those is for American and British Law, one for European Law, one for Hispanic Law, one for the Near Eastern and African Law and one for Far Eastern Law. Mr. ANDREWS. Is there another foreign law library in America comparable to the one you have in the Library of Congress? Mr. COFFIN. The one that would come closest, I suppose, is the Law Library at Harvard, which is smaller than ours, in number of volumes, but an extremely important law library. Mr. ANDREWS. I believe you told us last year that your Foreign Law Library was used by the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. COFFIN. It is used some by the Supreme Court. Last year we talked about the size of the Supreme Court Library and the content of that library. We said that it had around 205,000 volumes as compared to something over 1,250,000 volumes in the Law Library at the Library of Congress. Mr. ANDREWS. Then you consider you have the finest law library in the United States? Mr. COFFIN. We have the largest, and we think it is about the finest, sir. Dr. MUMFORD. For that matter, I think, Mr. Chairman, it could be safely said that it is the largest aggregation of legal materials in any library in the world. Mr. ANDREWS. Is that library used much by lawyers? Mr. COFFIN. The Law Library overall is used a lot by lawyers, for foreign law especially. In American Law, as you know, the attorneys are likely to have their own collections of books that they use from day to day, and will come to the Library to do research in depth. It is used a lot by the Members of Congress, their staffs and the committees of Congress. If you would care to have me do so, sir, I could insert in the record examples of the kinds of requests that we have had from congressional offices. Mr. ANDREWS. Will you do that, please? (The information follows:) EXAMPLES OF LEGAL RESEARCH REQUESTS FILLED BY THE LAW LIBRARY, Comparative study of government conflict of interest statutes in foreign countries. Survey and report on laws of foreign governments in aid of small business. Detailed report on constitutional rights and privileges extended to citizens and resident aliens in all other countries around the world. Survey and report on draft laws and procedures in major foreign countries, determining obligation to serve in armed forces, whether there are deferment techniques as in the United States and how obligation is made universal and enforced. Survey of court systems in which a panel of judges is used instead of a jury, in civil and/or criminal proceedings. Survey of restrictions for Americans owning land in countries of South America. A study of the law of Panama requiring a work permit of any kind for alien labor and the terms for the issuance of such permits, and a copy of the laws or regulations setting forth such rules. Survey of the laws of various South American countries concerning administration of estates. Information concerning English statutory and case law on misprision of felony in 1780 (at the time of the adoption of U.S. Constitution) and the present day situation in England on the same. Summary of legislation in force in Canada and Australia to provide incentives for the mining industry. Information on two British laws which authorize payment of money from the central treasury to local police force. French legislation pertaining to price-fixing between dealers of art objects (antitrust angle). In what East European countries does the church receive a stipend? How much and for what service? Applicable law covering intestate succession according to laws of Rumania. Information and bibliography on administrative law in China from 1926 through 1948, especially the effect of administrative law on the people of China and the law's relation to the domocratic system of law and government. Information on judicial system in Asiatic communist countries with emphasis on North Korea, North Vietnam and China. Study of Turkish law prohibiting dissemination of religious propaganda and efforts to proselytize. Study and marriage and divorce law of Afghanistan. Study of legal system of Saudi Arabia. All available information and prepared materials on countries which have acts similar to Buy American Act of 1930 of the U.S. (Countries covered: Great Britain, France, Japan, Netherlands, Canada and West Germany). Bibliography of works in English, French, Spanish and Italian concerning word "Possession". Legislation in major foreign countries regarding government employees in political activities. A comparative study of the voter-registration laws of France and England? Are all voters automatically registered by the government? Information on qualifications for candidates for elections to what is equivalent in each of our Senate, House, State Legislature, Presidency and Vice-Presidency in England, Italy, Germany, France and the Soviet Union. JUSTIFICATION FOR NEW POSITIONS IN REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Dr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, for this group of positions we are asking in the Reference Department, may I ask that certain pages go in the record that provide more background in this? Pages 45 and 46 and the table on page 53. Mr. ANDREWS. Without objection, they will be inserted in the record at this point. (The pages follow:) 78-653-67-29 BACKGROUND The various unique collections of the Library of Congress should be readily accessible to the scholarly publics in order to capitalize on the large investment of time and money which has been made to develop them and which has created the leading research library in the nation and in the world. However, at present, many of the reading rooms are closed in the evenings and on Saturdays, and scholars in the Washington area employed on a normal work schedule are unable to pursue independent research. Scholars and visitors from other parts of the country are frustrated because of the limitation on the service which prevents them from working in the special reading rooms for more extended periods. The urgent need to provide better service to the Government and to the academic and research community in this area, as well as to visiting scholars, coincides with efforts by other agencies of the Federal Government to render more adequate service, and with the request of the President of the United States that public facilities be administered in a manner that will enable the various publics to take full advantage of them. Also there is a pattern of extended service for research purposes throughout the country. Evening and Saturday service is generally given in research libraries such as New York Public, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of California. Chicago, and Michigan. The Library of Congress should offer reader services comparable to those in other research libraries. For fiscal year 1968, 14 positions are requested to make possible the extension of service in six special reading rooms: Local History and Genealogy, Manuscript, Music, Newspaper, Periodical and Government Publication, and the Microfilm Reading Room as follows: Mondays through Fridays: Service extended from 5:45 to 10 p.m.: Local History and Genealogy, Manuscript, Music, Newspaper, Periodical and Government Publication. Service extended from 5:45 to 9 p.m. : Microfilm. Saturdays Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Music. Open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. : Microfilm. Service extended from 1 to 6 p.m.: Periodical and Government Publication. The hours of opening of the above reading rooms for the days shown would then be nearly comparable to those of the Main and Thomas Jefferson reading rooms from which service is given from the general classified collections, and in conjunction with which readers often require related material from the special collections. The present staff of three available for these specific duties cannot keep current. For example, overdue notices to the some 600 Congressional borrowers can be sent only every six weeks or two months, although they should be sent on a monthly basis. This would speed up the return of books and cut down the number of special recall notices. SIX NEW POSITIONS FOR RENTAL PROPERTY AND GUARD SERVICE FOR READING ROOM Dr. MUMFORD. We now come to the remainder of the positions that make up the 98 under this appropriation. In the Administrative Department, which is recorded on page 85 of the white sheets, we are asking for three positions. I would like to ask Mr. Berry to testify on that, if he will. Mr. BERRY. Mr. Chairman, we have asked for three positions at this point to provide for backup support for the rental of space outside of the library buildings. We find that we need a truck driver, and some clerical positions to handle the moving of mail and materials between the main Library buildings and rental space. Cost, $15,961. Mr. ANDREWS. What is next? Mr. BERRY. We have also asked for three guard positions, if the hours of opening of the Library are extended as requested and described earlier by Dr. Mumford, we would need three additional guard positions to provide the coverage during those extended hours. Mr. ANDREWS. At a cost of what? Mr. BERRY. $13,832. Mr. ANDREWS. What about the decision to open on Saturday and after 6 p.m. on weekdays? When and by whom will that decision be made? Dr. MUMFORD. We would make it as soon as money became available. Dr. MUMFORD. We have made a decision we would like to open it, but we cannot with our present funds and staff. Mr. ANDREWS. We can understand that. You do hope. Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, we hope. Mr. ANDREWS. What is next? NEW POSITIONS FOR OFFICE OF LIBRARIAN Dr. MUMFORD. We now come to some positions that are in our Publications Office, Information Office, and Exhibits Office, a total of five positions. I would like to ask Mrs. Hamer, who is directly in charge of those units, to testify on them. Mr. ANDREWS. We will be glad to hear from you. Mrs. HAMER. It might save the committee's time if pages 89 through the middle of page 93 went into the record. Mr. ANDREWS. Without objection, we will insert those pages. Five positions are requested for the Office of the Librarian chiefly to handle increased workloads growing out of the Library's program responsibilities. They are as follows: Publications Office: 1 GS-7 editor__ 1 GS-5 editorial assistant___ Total_----- $6, 451 5, 331 11, 782 6, 451 Exhibits Office: 1 1 GS-9 exhibits specialist (loan exhibits). Information Office: 1 GS-7 public information specialist_ 1 GS-11 exhibits specialist (historian). 9, 221 7,696 16, 917 35, 150 2,652 37, 802 The Publications Office is responsible for the preparation of the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress and its supplement, the Quarterly Journal, for the Library's facsimile productions, for planning and coordinating various publica |