Administrative Department A total of 89,600 square feet is provided for this department, primarily on the sixth floor, contiguous with the office of the Librarian, but with some service functions on the basement, grade, and first floors. The Photo Duplication Service is located near the main entrance on Independence Avenue, to maintain ready access by the Public. The Office of the Secretary, and the Communications Center are located on the sixth floor, adjacent to the office of the director of this department. Copyright Office The Copyright office, with an area of 150,790 square feet, will be located principally on the third floor, with certain elements located on the fourth floor, and in the basement. Law Library The Law Library, with an area of 179,860 square feet, occupies space for Collections on the sub-basement and basement floors. The Law Reading Room is located on the second floor, adjacent to the landscaped court and accessible to the public from the main entrance lobby. Legislative Reference Service The Legislative Reference Service, with an area of 104,700 square feet is located on the second floor. The Congressional Reading Room for the Members of Congress, their families, and staff, is contiguous with the Legislative Referencec Services Department, and is located adjacent to the landscaped court. Processing Department The Processing Department, with an area of 400,040 square feet, occupies part of the fourth, and extends its occupancy to all of the fifth floor, plus certain areas contiguous with the service facility on the ground floor at C Street and at other locations on that level, as well as some office space on the sixth floor. The brauch of the Government Printing Office is located with direct access to the truck dock on the ground floor at C Street. Reference Department The Reference Department, with an area of 503,210 square feet, will be located on the basement, ground, first, and third floors, with extensive public exposure maintained on the first floor, including the James Madison Reading room, the serial reading room, the rare book room, the music reading room. In addition to the provisions for the office of the Librarian and the six basic divisions of the Library assigned to this building, provision has been made for: General Building Facilities An assembly room for 200 is provided on the sixth floor. A Cafeteria, for approximately 1,000 seats, complete with kitchen and staff lounge, is provided on the southerly portion of the sixth floor, with ready access thereto by escalators, located in the center of the building, and serving the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, where there is the greatest concentration of employees. The serving areas of the Cafeteria have clerestory windows which give visual relief to these interior spaces. The table service and private dining rooms are located contiguous with the cafeteria for common basic service, and the credit union is contiguous with one of the cafeteria lounges for the convenience of employees. The convenience snack room and Lounge for employees, as a supplement of the cafeteria, is located off the public vertical circulation core, on the ground floor, in the next largest concentration of employees. The Welfare and Recreation Association is provided for on the sixth floor, contiguous with the Cafeteria. The health room is accommodated on the third floor. Miscellaneous. (The areas for which are provided for under the Administrative Department). An information center is provided in the main entrance lobby on the first floor at Independence Avenue. A public checkstand is provided nearby. The central guard stations are located near the main entrance from Independence Avenue and on the ground floor with a central substation in the center of the subbasement at the garage, a substation in the basement at the entry of the tunnel from the Cannon House Office building, five substations at the ground floor, located at the four means of egress on that floor (one each on First and Second Streets, and two on C Street), and one at the service facility on C Street (truck dock), and a central guard substation at the main public entrance from Independence Avenue. Conveyor and message tube stations are provided at each of the four basic serv ice cores, located at the four sectors of the building. (Cores A, B, C, and D.) Smoking lounges are provided at core B on the first and second floors, at cores A and B on the third floor, and at cores A and C on the fourth and fifth floors. Provision is made for the central telephone system in the subbasement. Storage and supplies are accommodated on the ground floor, conveniently contiguous with the tunnel leading to existing buildings. The repair and binding shop is located on the ground floor. The exhibits preparation room is adacent to the James Madison Memorial Hall. Building operation and maintenance is housed with buildings and grounds on the ground floor. The service area, with truck docks, including nine dock spaces, receiving, fumigating, bailing, and mail and delivery, is located at the center of the building off C Street, directly adjacent to the principal center of vertical transportation for freight. The important cores of vertical services, four in number, and supplemented by the public access and freight cores, with their attendant facilities have been disposed geographically in the four sectors of the building to minimize horizontal circulation, and to make the vital services which they provide readily accessible. The building will be air-conditioned, and provided with extensive materials handling and communications facilities. It will be constructed with the mechau ical/electrical services on a modular system that will enable easy conversion from book occupancy to personnel occupancy. James Madison Memorial The main and public entrance to the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building is from Independence Avenue across a paved landscaped plaza. The great bronze entrance gives onto a two-story, monumental lobby which extends into a three-story landscaped inner court which serves as a focal point of entrance. The James Madison Memorial Hall is entered from the main lobby, and is a two-story room, approximately 46 feet by 60 feet, with a ceiling height of approximately 23 feet leading to exhibition areas on the first and balcony floors. which provide display space for Madison memorabilia. The total area is ap proximately 15,200 square feet. The Memorial Hall will be provided with an administrative office, private toilets, and a service area and facilities for light refreshments off the easterly end of the hall. On entering the Madison Memorial Hall, a handsome and dignified two-story room, the visitor will see at the far end a white marble panel reaching from floor to ceiling, and on which will be inscribed the most famous of Madison's speeches. A statue of Madison, on a dark marble plinth, will be placed against this background. The ceiling will be richly coffered and painted, supported on either side of the center aisle by piers. The floor of the Hall will be marble in a simple mosaic pattern. The lighting will be so designed that an intimate feeling of warmth will prevail in the Hall, with the accent lighting provided for the display cases and windows. The acoustics of the Hall will be engineered to project a speaker's voice without amplification. There will be murals on the north and south walls of the Hall depicting the events in the life and times of James Madison. Display cases for the showing of intimate documents will be located in the exhibition areas. Information and checking facilities will be available to the James Madison Memorial Hall off the entrance lobby. The James Madison Reading Room, with its Presidential papers and rare books, and with its outlook on the landscaped inner court, will extend the scope of the memorial to James Madison to a point where the public focal point of the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building will, in fact, be a memorial to James Madison, where scholars may come and have access to the materials of his and related times. Estimated cost of work Excavation Concrete Masonry Waterproofing and dampproofing Stone Roofing and sheet metal.. Metal windows__- Ornamental and miscellaneous metal... Carpentry and millwork.. Hollow metal-- Furring, metal lath, and plaster_. Terrazzo Quarry tile___ Ceramic tile_ Acoustic Glass and glazing.... Resilient flooring. Toilet partitions and accessories- Hardware Painting Art allowance‒‒‒‒‒‒ Site work.. Vertical transportation__ Kitchen equipment--. Conveyor systems- Tunnels Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning-- Miscellaneous contract work....... Total General contract overhead and profit__. Total Administrative, architectural, and engineering costs--- Total 4-year cost escalation at 3.2 percent-- Total Contingency Total $1, 465, 000 14, 250,000 1,859, 900 450, 000 6, 000, 000 450,000 115,000 1, 600, 000 750,000 135, 000 400,000 75,000 100,000 225,000 1,650, 000 95,000 740, 000 87,500 100, 000 600,000 150,000 450,000 1, 100, 000 400, 000 1, 825,000 600, 000 8,750,000 1, 000, 000 8,250,000 1,700,000 55, 372, 400 5,537, 240 60, 909, 640 4, 263, 690 65, 173, 330 8,751, 235 73, 924, 565 1,075, 435 75, 000, 000 Time required for further planning and construction Architect-engineer time for preparation of contract drawings and specifi- FUNDS REQUIRED AT THIS TIME Months 21 32 44 If this project is to proceed in an orderly manner, now that the preliminary plans and estimates of cost have been completed and approved, funds are required for architect-engineer fees for preparation of contract plans and specifications. for exhibits consultants for the Madison Memorial Hall, and for administration costs. The amount required is computed as follows: Estimated construction costs as shown in the cost detail_. Architect-engineer fee at 5 percent of construction cost (5 percent Less: Amount paid architects-engineers for preliminary $61, 000, 000 3,050,000 $435, 000 Amount paid architects-engineers for schematics and studies several years ago when site east of Library Annex was considered__. 2,550,000 250,000 Amount requred for architect-engineer fees---. Madison Memorial exhibits consultants and administrative costs__ 2,800,000 Total amount required at this time___ The need for a third building for the Library of Congress has been firmly established and is well known to this committee. We are sure that the Librarian and his staff are prepared to testify on the matter of need and the urgency of proceeding with contract plans and specifications without undue delay. Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Architect, since the action of the Congress last December, has there been any new direction or new initiative on the part of the various commissions to the effect that the project should proceed notwithstanding our critical fiscal condition? Mr. Roof. Mr. Chairman, before we resubmitted this item we took it up with Senator Jordan, chairman of the Coordinating Committee, and he directed that we resubmit the estimate for plans. He considered whether we should also ask for money for excavation and perhaps the marble but concluded that we should not include those two items at this time because of the critical financial situation. BASIS OF THE $2.8 MILLION REQUEST Mr. ANDREWS. Dr. Mumford or Mr. Stewart, could you tell us whether the $2.8 million requested at this time is all for architectural and engineering fees? Mr. Roor. It is substantially all for architectural and engineering fees and a small amount for administration. Mr. ANDREWS. Nothing for construction? Mr. ROOF. Nothing. Mr. ANDREWS. Including excavation? Mr. Roof. No, sir. Dr. MUMFORD. May I ask Mr. Roof or the Architect to elaborate further? It is true, is it not, that not all the architectural fees would be paid in 1 year but the full amount needs to be appropriated to make a contract? Mr. Roof. That is right. We do not have authority to contract on this project before appropriation. Mr. ANDREWS. How long would it take you to spend the $2.8 million? Mr. Roof. It would run throughout the planning and construction - periods. Mr. HENLOCK. On page 203 we show the time required for preparation of contract drawings and specifications and the checking of same by the Architect of the Capitol as 21 months; the total construction time based on proceeding with the work in three phases as approved by the various commissions or committees would be an additional 32 E months; so the total time to completion of the project would be 44 months. Actually, we pay between 70 and 75 percent of the fee at the time of the letting of the building construction contract, so, within a period of 21 to 24 months, close to $2 million out of the $2.8 million would be paid. Mr. ANDREWS. If you had money in hand today for architectural and engineering fees and you were given the green light, it would be roughly 2 years before you could start construction; is that right? Mr. HENLOCK. Yes, sir. LIBRARY SPACE RENTALS Mr. ANDREWS. Dr. Mumford, what new space have you rented or otherwise occupied in the last year or two? I know we are providing you with rental money of a considerable amount for that purpose. Dr. MUMFORD. We have acquired through the GSA and are occupying a building at 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE. Mr. ANDREWS. Since you were before us last year? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. We have moved one complete division and parts of two other divisions to that building. In February 1967 we acquired space at 13th and Taylor Streets NW., to which we have moved the division for the blind and physically handicapped. We have also been negotiating for some space on Duke Street in Alexandria for the removal of certain materials, particularly bound newspaper materials. I would like to ask Mr. Berry to comment on that and on our efforts to find additional space. We are trying to get the GSA to find space within a reasonable distance from the Library. Mr. ANDREWS. Before Mr. Berry makes a statement, do you reimburse GSA for the space? Dr. MUMFORD. For 1 year and then GSA includes it in their own budget. Mr. ANDREWS. Will you have sufficient funds for more space without an increase? Dr. MUMFORD. This year and next we are able to operate within the limits you have authorized, but in fiscal 1970 we will require more funds for additional rental space. Mr. ANDREWs. Mr. Berry. Mr. BERRY. There is very little I can add unless you want the details of the rental space. Mr. ANDREWS. We will get to that later. 92-655-68-19 |