Includes $123,000 appropriated in Second Supplemental Act, 1958, and $402,000 appropriated under title II of Public Law 85-472.

Includes $60,000 appropriated in Public Law 85-766 and $917,600 in pending supplemental for increased pay costs (H. Doc. 90).

Includes $45,500 in H. Doc. 100.

Mr. NORRELL. There are a few general questions I would like to ask, after which other members of the committee may ask whatever questions they would like regarding these matters.

Then we will take up the bill item by item as we usually do.

LIBRARY SPACE SITUATION

First of all, with reference to the situation of space. I know we have talked about it before, but what about your acute space situation at this time? You have to keep adding material each year and you keep asking, of course, for more people.

What is the situation?

Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, our space situation has been growing more acute steadily since last spring, and it is really critical at the present time.

We have undertaken to try to meet this by presenting the matter to the Joint Committee on the Library and trying to get some effort started looking toward a new building for the Library.

In the meantime, as a stopgap measure, we have requested GSA to request rental space for us because, obviously, it takes several years to plan and bring into being a new building.

However, in our request this year we are asking for additional staff for places where it would not aggravate the space problem.

For instance, the request for lengthening the hours of opening of the Library: These people would be working at different hours from those who work during the day-that is, during the evening and longer hours on Saturdays-so this would not complicate our space problem.

In the case of the Law Library, we have had a project financed by funds from an outside organization going on in foreign law, and this is being curtailed, so that the additional positions requested there would not present a problem of space. The situation is the same in regard to other requests. We have identified areas of need. We have not asked for additional staff where it would complicate greatly our problem of space.

Mr. NORRELL. I believe a bill has been introduced to make a study looking to a new building for the Library.

Mr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Representative Burleson has introduced a resolution authorizing the Architect of the Capitol to proceed to make plans for such a building and authorizing $75,000 for such work,

I believe that Senator Green intends to introduce a similar resolution in the Senate.

Mr. NORRELL. It has been introduced, but no action has been taken on it?

Mr. MUMFORD. That is right.

GROWTH OF COLLECTIONS

Mr. HORAN. At that point, can you tell us what the increase in total volume of documents, including books, pamphlets, and so forth, is over last year?

Mr. MUMFORD. We can give you the exact figures.

Mr. HORAN. Do you have a historical table there?

Mr. MUMFORD. Actually there was a decrease in the additions purchased for the general collections, Mr. Chairman. In 1957 the number of pieces was 444,776. In 1958 it was 373,768.

The corresponding figure for law was 62,681 in 1957 and 52,992 in

1958.

(The tables referred to follow :)

GENERAL INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

of

Mr. MUMFORD. Approximately 37 million pieces of material, which about 12 million are volumes and the remaining 25 million consist of historical manuscripts personal papers, largely relating to American history-maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and so on. The total number of pieces added to our collection in 1958 was 784,541.

As an overall picture, Mr. Horan, we can say that the collections of the Library have increased about 70 percent in the last 10 years.

MICROFILMING

Mr. NORRELL. I would like to ask you one general question regarding the microfilming problem. Is that working out well?

Mr. MUMFORD. We are pursuing an active program of microfilming, Mr. Chairman. During the current year we are spending about $60,000 a year for microfilming. Of that amount about $30,000 is for current material, such as newspapers which we acquire in microfilm form; the other half is for microfilming older materials which are deteriorating, going to pieces, which must be filmed in order to be preserved.

Of course, this effects some space saving, but in relation to our total collection it does not have a very appreciable effect.

RENTAL SPACE PROPOSAL

Mr. HORAN. We were dealing with the space problem in the Library. In the independent offices bill we denied the request of the GSA for some 200,000 feet of rental space in 1960 for the Library, did we not?

Mr. MUMFORD. That is right.

I was not at the hearing, Mr. Horan, but from reading the testimony I gather there was some confusion between the stopgap rental space being requested and a third building in years to come.

The report stated that the proper committee was giving attention to the matter, presumably referring to the Joint Committee on the Library.

Mr. HORAN. I understand Mr. Burleson introduced House Joint Resolution 352, dated April 27.

Mr. MUMFORD. That relates to a third building on Capitol Hill. It would be 5 to 10 years before this building could be brought into being.

We have an immediate problem right now, an extremely critical problem. Our request for rental space was designed to meet that, and we still have the problem.

I would be glad to have any expression from members of this committee regarding whether we should ask GSA to request this rental space in the Senate when its appropriations bill goes to the Senate.

PROPOSED THIRD LIBRARY BUILDING

Mr. HORAN. May we have a copy of that House joint resolution inserted at this point?

Mr. NORRELL. It may be inserted, along with any explanatory statement Dr. Mumford may have.

(The matter referred to follows:)

[H.J. Res. 352, 86th Cong., 1st sess.]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Te authorize preliminary study and review in connection with proposed additional building for the Library of Congress

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asembled, That the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, is authorized and directed to prepare preliminary plans and estimates of cost for an additional building for the Library of Congress. SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized to make such expenditures As may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for such purpose the sum of $75,000.

NEED OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FOR AN ADDITIONAL PERMANENT BUILDING

As one of the leading research libraries of the world, the Library of Congress must add substantial numbers of publications to its collections each year in order to maintain its effectiveness. This inevitably requires room for growth despite strenuous efforts to pursue a selective acquisitions policy. The Library Annex, completed in 1938, was originally equipped with book shelving only to the extent of approximately two-thirds of the space designed for that purpose. Over the years, the remainder of this bookstack space has been used for work operations, but now the pressure of the growing book collections is so great that the Architect of the Capitol is installing steel shelving in areas originally intended for books with the result that more space must be found to accommodate displaced work operations and to permit the orderly growth of the Library. Rental space_can, at best, provide only a stopgap, makeshift remedy. There is need now for a new building, and the need will become more acute with each passing year.

The original building and the annex were designed primarily for books, but in the course of the development of the Library, many materials have been acquired which libraries generally have accepted as appropriate for their operations but which do not conform to the ordinary conception of a book. These materials include sheet maps, phonograph records, newspapers, microfilm, and other formats requiring varying shelving to house them suitably and especially equipped facilities to service them properly and efficiently. The plan for a third building takes these changed conditions into consideration with a view to the logical location of collections and operations among three buildings.

There would be housed in the third building the Copyright Office and the Processing Department which acquire and process materials for the Library's collections; the branch Government Printing Office which works closely with the Processing Department in printing catalog cards, binding books, and laminating maps and manuscripts; the Legislative Reference Service for which suitable quarters thus could be provided for the first time in its recent history; the Division for the Blind; the collections, staffs, and reading rooms of the Manuscript Division, the Map Division, the Music Division, and the Prints and Photographs Division; the bound newspapers collection and the microfilm collection with their related reading rooms and staffs; and the motion picture collection.

There would remain in the present buildings the bulk of the book collections, with the staff and reading rooms relating to their custody and servicing, including the General Reference and Bibliography Division, the Hispanic Foundation, the Loan Division, the Orientalia Division, the Rare Book Division, the Science and Technology Division, the Serial Division in part, the Slavic and Central European Division, and the Stack and Reader Division; the Law Library with its collections and reading rooms; the Administrative Department in major part; and the principal administrative offices.

The proposed space distribution among three buildings is as follows:

Mr. HORAN. What is the situation in terms of renovation of the cellar?

Mr. GOOCH. Renovation of the cellar would give some very modest relief, but quite unappreciable over a 5- or 10-year period in terms of our need for 200,000 square feet as requested of the General Services Administration.