been carried for a number of years and which you propose be cortinued in 1969 without change. The first one relates to expenses of investigating the loyalty of Library employees. What do you do under this authority, if any thing, and what have you turned up in recent times? Mr. MUMFORD. As a part of the general program of the Govern ment each employee is checked as far as a national agency check is concerned. This means information the Civil Service Commission may have available or may obtain. If derogatory information regarding the employee is shown or developed, a further investigation may be initiated. This is a part of the general security program that was begun under President Truman and later was continued with some modification by President Eisenhower under Executive Order 10450. Mr. STEED. What use do you make of the provisions for special an temporary services? Dr. MUMFORD. This provision is used to employ specialists for tenporary periods of time, such as nurses. We may have a nurse wh works 4 hours in the evening and is not employed as a full-time regular employee. Sometimes it includes special technicians, wher it is not viewed as a continuing position on a full-time basis. Mr. STEED. To what extent do you use the services as authorized': 5 U.S.C. 3109 and what are the provisions as to payment under the provision? Dr. MUMFORD. This is authority to use occasionally the services consultants and experts we may bring in for a day or two to adri us on a particular thing. It may be to advise us regarding the weak nesses or strength of a particular subject collection and what we nee to do to improve it. Mr. STEED. You are authorized to employ not to exceed 10 aliens. To what extent does the Library make use of this authority? Dr. MUMFORD. At the present time we have eight in this categor This provision was made originally to enable us to obtain aliens wher we could not find citizens with the qualifications necessary. Usua they are in the linguistic field. Mr. STEED. You also have a provision for reimbursing the Stat Department for medical services rendered to Library of Congress er ployees stationed abroad, which I assume is an administrative ar facilitating provision. In addition to those engaged in the specia foreign currency program, do you have any other employees involve in this? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes. We have some personnel abroad under title II of the Higher Education Act. In this program we have made arran ments with the national bibliographies abroad to provide their catsloging so that we do not have to do the complete job of cataloging in Washington, and in several places it has been necessary to have American employee, but the total number is limited in both the Pub Law 480 and the special foreign currency program. Mr. STEED. In the matter of purchasing or hiring passenger und” vehicles, what is involved? Mr. WELSH. We have 16 overseas offices and utilize 11 vehicles! those offices, such as jeeps and small trucks, to pick up materials are acquiring. It is usually necessary to pick up these materials. Mr. STEED. Mr. Langen. Mr. LANGEN. No questions. Mr. STEED. Mr. Andrews. Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota. No questions. Mr. STEED. Dr. Mumford, do you have any further comments you would like to make? Dr. MUMFORD. I would like to make one additional brief statement. In recognition of the national fiscal situation we have tried to keep our requests to bare minimum. All of the items are urgently needed but I would like to emphasize there is the greatest need, in additions to the the mandatory increases, for moving forward on the third building by having the money for the final working drawings and specifications. As you know, this does not relate to construction. The second item of top priority would be to be able to continue with our automation program, because this is our best hope of being able to control the vast volume of material which is being collected and to diseminate information about it. Mr. STEED. Gentlemen, on behalf of the committee I want to express my appreciation for your cooperation. Dr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, for myself and my colleagues may I express my appreciation for your patience and attention." AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Mr. STEED. The subcommittee is in receipt of a letter from the American Library Association expressing support for certain fiscal 1969 budget items for the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents. They ask that we incorporate the material in our hearings and, without objection, we will do that. (The material follows:) Hon. GEORGE W. ANDREWS, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, House Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. ANDREWS: On behalf of the American Library Association, may I request that the attached statement be made a part of the record of the hearings being held currently by your Subcommittee on appropriations for the Legislative Branch for fiscal year 1969. Sincerely, GERMAINE KRETTEK, Director, ALA Washington Office. STATEMENT BY GERMAINE KRETTEK, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The American Library Association, an organization of over 39,000 librarians and laymen devoted to the devlopment of library services for this Nation, appreciates the opportunity to file a statement on the legislative branch appropriations for fiscal year 1969. The Association wishes to urge favorable consideration on three items: One, the Library of Congress budget requests; two, the $2.8 million item in the budget of the Architect of the Capitol to continue work on the James Madison Memorial Library of Congress Building; and three, adequate funds for fiscal year 1969 to implement the requirements of the Depository Library Act of 1962. The effective operation of the Library of Congress is of the utmost importance not only to the Congress but also to American libraries. The services of the Library of Congress to the Nation are innumerable, and, while the ALA stands behind the entire program of the Library, it would like to make special reference to certain of these national services. AUTOMATION PROGRAM First, the automation program. It is the conviction of the American Library Association that the efforts of libraries throughout this country to apply com puter technology to their operations will, to a large extent, be dependent up the Library of Congress' success in this field. The pilot project to provide machine-readable cataloging data to libraries on an experimental basis bas been met with a great deal of enthusiasm by the participating libraries. The second phase of this program-MARC II-holds even greater promise. The format prepared and developed by the Library's automation experts was a cepted as a proposed national standard by two ALA divisions during its 19 midwinter conference. The extension of the MAR II program, with the distribution of more and more cataloging information on magnetic tape, and the appropriation of funds requested by the Library for its overall automatio program are imperative if libraries are to keep pace with the information explosion. SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY BOOK PROCUREMENT The Public Law 480 book procurement program, which utilizes United States-owned foreign currencies, can be described as a model for the cooperative acquisition of books and other materials from foreign lands. Since Con gress first approved funding for this program in 1961, over 8 million items inportant to researcch have been acquired for libraries in all 50 States of the Union. The ALA urges strongly that your subcommittee approve the requests for this program. CATALOG CARD SALES The Library's catalog card distribution program is essential to the library economy of this Nation. Funds requested for this operation are returned in fall to the U.S. Treasury and the Association strongly commends the request before you in order that the speed and efficiency of the program will not be impaired by the ever-increasing workload resulting from orders by American libraries for catalog cards. BOOKS FOR BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED Certainly no librarian in this country can forget library service to the blind and physically handicapped. The Congress has been generous in its support of the national books for the blind and physically handicapped program and the Association urges you to continue this support. MADISON MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING The American Library Association has gone on record as strongly supporting the Library of Congress' need for a third building and the appropriation of funds to insure this end. At its Midwinter meeting in January, the Association adopted the following resolution: Be it resolved, That the American Library Association, a professional organization with a membership of more than 37,000, hereby urges the Congress of the United States to take immediate action to make appropriations to further the construction of the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building in the interest of economy and efficiency, because, due to escalation in prices, 1:3 delay only adds to the cost of the building, which is generally recognized as essential. Funds now necessarily being expended for rental space could be saved. and services vital to the library world, the research community and the pat would not be endangered because of lack of appropriate space; THEREFORE L American Library Association calls upon the Congress to act swiftly in the national interest on behalf of the Library of Congress, which serves as the national library of the United States and whose services are central and essentia. to the welfare of the Nation's libraries and all the people they serve. We cannot stress too strongly the necessity for this building if the Library ✔ Congress is to be truly a library for the Nation, if it is to serve libraries communities throughout the land. As the situation now stands, overcrowds and dispersement of activities are hampering the Library's services and efficien Escalation in construction costs coupled with the bill for rental space are stan reminders that economy will not be served by delay in appropriating the nort DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM Finally, to continue the operation and development of the Nation's depository library program, the Association recommends that the subcommittee provide the $1.879 million recommended in the 1969 Federal budget to enable the Superintendent of Documents to further the implementation of this essential program, authorized by the Depository Library Act of 1962. Federal funds allocated to this program of making Government-produced facts available to all who need them are an investment in an important share of the Government's output of information resources. One of the main objectives of depository libraries is to assist the taxpayer in his search for current and reliable data. The benefits derived from this activity accrue, in turn, to business, industry, science, research, and ultimately to the United States as a whole. By developing and increasing the number of designated depository libraries, Congress will be strengthening the country's information network. In addition to GPO publications, other prime sources of objective information, which contribute to the depository library knowledge bank, are the so-called non-GPO documents. These are publications printed by Federal departments and agencies outside the Government Printing Office. They are the results, in many cases, of Government research and study, and contain data of great value for the users of libraries. These documents should be distributed as part of the depository library system. In view of the preceding facts concerning the great value of these programs and services to the Nation, it is urged that the subcommittee approve the budget requests of the Library of Congress, allow the budget item for the continuance of work on the James Madison Memorial Library of Congress building, and authorize adequate funds for the implementation of the Depository Library Act of 1962. ADDITIONAL HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING PROJECT FURTHER PROPOSED REMODELING ITEMS, FISCAL YEAR 1969 (CLERK'S NOTE.-The following proposals for consideration in connection with the budget for 1969 were submitted after the close of the formal hearings:) Hon. GEORGE W. ANDREWS, hairman, Legislative Subcommittee, House Committee on Appropriations, Vashington, D.C. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL, MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: When I appeared before your committee on March 28, 1968, I presented a justification of a budget estimate of $6,975,000, subnitted through the Bureau of the Budget at the direction of the House Office Building Commission, for remodeling the Longworth House Office Building and ther work necessary in connection therewith, detailed on pages 256 and 257 of he House hearings. When I appeared before your committee on April 2, 1968, I presented to your ommittee items of work, estimated to cost $700,000, necessary to be done in the scal year 1969 in the three House Office Buildings and the Congressional Hotel 1 the event the Longworth remodeling program is deferred, detailed on page 298 f the House hearings. FIREARMS PRACTICE RANGE FOR THE CAPITOL POLICE, RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING One of the items included in the estimate of $700,000 was $113,500 for installaon of a firearms practice range for the Capitol Police in the lowest garage level the Rayburn Building, which would cause the loss of only about eight parking aces. This item was not included in the remodeling estimate of $6,975,000. At e hearings, you will recall, we stated that this item had not been heard by the ouse Office Building Commission, but that we understood the Commission viewed sympathetically. At a meeting of the House Office Building Commission, yesterday, the Comission unanimously endorsed the proposal for installing a firearms practice range in the proposed location in the Rayburn Building, and requested the Arche tect of the Capitol to advise your committee that the Commission considers this an urgently needed item and to request your committee to give favorable ecz sideration to the inclusion of the funds requested for this item in the legislative branch appropriation bill for 1969. The Chief of the Capitol Police also makes an urgent plea for this item, and I fully concur in the urgency of need. Prior to approving this item, the same was discussed with the select committee in charge of the House garages, appointed under authority of House Resolution 514, 90th Congress, and the three members of this committee (Congressma Sisk, Congressman Hays, and Congressman Gross) also endorsed use of the garage space in the Rayburn Building for a firearms practice range. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT Since we appeared before your committee, need for another item has arise estimated to cost $25,000. At the meeting of the House Office Building Com mission, yesterday, Congressman Price and other members of the House Com mittee on Standards of Official Conduct appeared before the Commission request that their committee be assigned space on the third floor of the Rayburn Building, identified as room 2360; that the Commission endorse a request for an appropriation of $25,000 to make necessary changes in this one large room to accommodate their committee, in accordance with a layout prepared by the Architect of the Capitol at the request of the committee. The Commission unanimously approved the requests of the committee and directed the Architect of the Capitol to request the House Appropriations Committee to give favorable consideration to the inclusion of $25,000 for this purpose in the legislative branch appropriation bill for 1969. If funds for the remodeling program are not allowed for the fiscal year 199 then it is requested that this item of $25,000 be added to the amount of $700,000 for the items of work recommended to be done in the fiscal year 1969, increas ing the total amount, requested, to $725,000. In testifying before your committee, we advised that the only unfinished spaces in the Rayburn Building, suitable for committee use during the re modeling of the Longworth Building, were rooms 2358, 2360, and 2362 on the third floor of the Rayburn Building; that these rooms are now being used fr the storage of furniture by the Clerk of the House; that, approval of either funds for a complete remodeling program or, in lieu thereof, $700,000 for wors recommended to be done in the fiscal year 1969, in any event, would provide other storage areas for the furniture and permit these rooms to be vacated for committee use. Assignment by the House Office Building Commission of room 2360 to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct would leave rooms 2358 and 2362 available for other committee use when the Longworth Building is re modeled, and would not interfere with the remodeling program. Under the amount of $25,000, it is proposed to subdivide room 2360, which e tains approximately 1,600 square feet of space into seven rooms by erection st masonry and metal partitions. The plans provide for a conference room, a rem for the staff director, a room for the assistant staff director and staff, a roz for a secretary, a room for a records clerk, a clerical and reception room, and a storage room for files. Breakdown of estimate Masonry and plastering work.... Metal partition work.... $6. Electrical work (including relocating lighting fixtures, electrical and telephone installations). Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning_. Acoustical work (including removal and replacement of existing ceiling) 3 Carpentry and millwork_. 3.52 2.90 Painting 2.30 Miscellaneous and contingency- Total Yours very truly, 1. 1.00 J. GEORGE STEWART |