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Mr. KEITT. As I said, these items of research which I just gave you took these people away from their normal duties or from their other duties of processing the material so it could be used. By processing, I mean selecting and cataloging books.

ADDITIONAL POSITION, HISPANIC LAW

Mr. NORRELL. As briefly as is possible say something about the two additional jobs you are requesting.

Mr. KEITT. There is just one there, is there not, for Hispanic Law Division. This Division performs services of the same character as the Far Eastern Law Division for the countries of Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and their colonies, and for the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

Statutes and other legal materials of those jurisdictions, particularly in Latin America, are not indexed so that they can be readily found, and for a number of years the Hispanic Law Division, as a part of its work, has prepared an index so that material could be readily found by them and for readers.

Because of other workloads and their other work increasing they have had to fall behind in this particular activity; therefore, they are asking for an additional person.

ADDITIONAL POSITION FOR LAW LIBRARIAN OFFICE

There is one other position, and this is in the Office of the Law Librarian, and that is the position for one GS-4 clerk-typist.

The increase in the workload for the whole Law Library has increased to the point

Mr. NORRELL. I think you have covered that sufficiently.
Questions?

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION PROPOSAL FOR A NEAR EAST LAW SECTION

Mr. STEED. I wanted to bring up the question of the American Bar Association and discuss whether or not you have had a chance to consider their recommendations and what is involved in adopting their suggestions.

Mr. MUMFORD. I did not initiate this request, nor was I aware of the fact that the chairman of that committee was going to approach this committee until 2 days ago when I received a letter from him.

However, the Law Librarian has been aware of a need in this area. for a considerable period, and as you know, I think, there is an increasing interest in matters relating to Africa and the Near East. We have been conscious of this throughout the Library and we have undertaken to strengthen our resources for acquisition of materials and in the use of them.

This is an area where the need for attention to law from the countries represented by this area is very real.

This Committee on the Facilities of the Library of Congress of the American Bar Association was established, I believe, in 1932, and over the years it has undertaken to advise the Library with respect to needs and to appraise needs and problems concerning the Law Library. I would say it is a meritorious proposal.

Mr. STEED. What would be the amount of money you would need in addition to what you have asked?

Mr. MUMFORD. I would think it could be begun with one person as we did with the Far Eastern Law Division. In time it no doubt would need to be supplemented, but there is not the large amount of material involved here that was involved in the Far Eastern transfer. There may be several thousands of volumes of law from this area.

Mr. STEED. In their presentation to me they were somewhat concerned about the fact that until you have the facility to do it, a lot of donated material now being published may be forever lost to you, the sooner you get started the better access to material you would have; and until something like this was set up you would be in the position of perhaps losing many valuable contributions from this area.

I do not know whether or not that is true, but if the other experiments you have tried have worked out so well it seems to me you might as well cover the waterfront and include this area, too.

Mr. MUMFORD. Certainly special attention to it would assure obtaining to a greater degree the important materials that are being published.

Mr. STEED. What grade of person would you need? What would the rating be?

Mr. KEITT. He would have to be a high-level person, someone who was familiar with this field of law, someone who is legally trained and has the necessary competence in languages. I would like to say a few words to supplement what the Librarian has said.

The legal material for the Near East and North Africa covers Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, and Syria. There are other countries but these are the countries we have in mind particularly.

The law publications for those countries are today located in the Orientalia Division which is in the general Library and not in the Law Library.

The reason for that location is that the Law Library has not had the linguistic competence in the past, and the demands for service in that area have not justified having a person devoted exclusively to law.

A Federal statute provides that the books in the Library of Congress shall be divided into two different parts-the General Library and the Law Library.

In having this material outside the Law Library, we have departed from that principle. I am not criticizing the action in having the material in the Orientalia Division in the past because it was a practical necessity, but today, with the Near East and the Arabic countries being a critical area of the world, and with the emphasis being put on our relations with those countries and on the relations of the free world with those countries, we feel special attention should be given to the law of the Near East and North Africa.

Mr. STEED. Insofar as this part of the American Bar Association resolutions and recommendations are concerned, then, you are in accord with their recommendations, and it is a matter of having one additional expert?

Mr. KEITT. That is correct. I feel we should have someone who would devote all of his time to this collection.

I made a preliminary survey of the state of the collections over there.

I found that for those countries-Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, and Syria-there were something less than 2.000 law books in the collections.

This is not a final check but it was checked with a person who is in the best position to give the facts.

At any rate, it is a pitifully low amount of legal material for that part of the world.

I understand the money for the general increase of the Library of Congress, which is an appropriation for purchase of books other than law, has not been available to purchase retrospective materials. Retrospective means various things to various people. You can go back 5 years, 10 years, and whatnot, but lawyers know that the older material is essential, in many cases, to fill out the law as implemented by recent statutes, and that would be particularly true of a country where Moslem law was the basis of the legal system and where that law had been added on to by statute from time to time as modern necessities arose.

My thought is that this particular area, for pretty obvious reasons, deserves special attention, and this one person would be able to give it that attention.

Mr. STEED. Since this item was not included in the budget request, is there any particular reason why it was omitted?

Mr. KEITT. The American Bar Association passed a resolution in the winter just past. That does not mean we were unaware of this problem of research in law of the Near East and North Africa, but we did not want to bite off too much at once.

Back in 1954 we set up the Far Eastern Law Division. We have it operating successfully now, and recent events of the last year or two have made the Law of Egypt and surrounding countries much more important to the United States.

Perhaps we should have brought the proposal to you a year or two

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Mr. STEED. The information given to me was that they felt this was a critical time and time was of the essence if you are to get your hands. on some of the most valuable documents that this section naturally would want.

Mr. KEITT. I agree.

Mr. STEED. That is all I have on that..

Mr. NORRELL. I think, gentlemen, we had better recess until 2 o'clock and we will continue the hearings at that time.

(Afternoon Session)

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT

Mr. NORRELL. We reached, I believe, page 43 of the appropriation

reanest.

Dr. MUMFORD. The actual justifications begin on page 47..

There is an outline statement on page 43 and the justification follows.

Mr. NORRELL. There are 12 jobs that you want there, is that right? Dr. MUMFORD. I think it is 10.

Mr. Goocн. I believe there are two for the auditor in the Chief Assistant Librarian's office.

Mr. NORRELL. Do you not request 12 jobs for a total of $66,934?

Dr. MUMFORD. That is true, with the two in the Office of the Chief Assistant Librarian. It does make 12.

Mr. NORRELL. The first item on page 47: You discuss this matter and I may ask a few questions later.

Dr. MUMFORD. If it is in order, if I may suggest, Mr. Chairman, that it would give a complete story if we could insert pages 47-54. Then we could speak briefly to each item.

If I might suggest, it might save time in not elaborating completely. Mr. NORRELL. We will do that.

(The pages referred to follow :)

To provide necessary assistance in the personnel security program

Personnel Division: 1 GS-11 deputy personnel security officer---------- $7, 030 In 1953 the Director of Personnel was designated to serve as personnel security officer for the Library in addition to his regular duties. Experience under the provisions of the Library's general orders, which are based on the President's Executive orders on the national security, has demonstrated the necessity for a deputy to work full time under the direction of the personnel security officer on the numerous problems encountered in the analysis and evaluation of employees' investigative files, the designation of employees to have responsibility for handling security classified materials, and liaison with other agencies of the Government concerning procedures in matters relating to personnel security. The present preoccupation of the Director of Personnel with personnel security matters deprives him of the time needed for the constructive direction of the normal personnel program.

Auditing staff:

1 GS-11 auditor

1

To strengthen fiscal management

1 GS-7 administrative assistant to audit officer 1.

Accounting Office: 1 GS-9 accountant................

Office of the Chief of Fiscal Services: 1 GS-5 secretary..

Total 4 positions---.

1 These 2 positions would be assigned to the Chief Assistant Librarian.

$7,030

4,992

5,990

4,056

22, 068

At the end of fiscal year 1958, the Library reorganized its fiscal functions in order to provide better fiscal controls, closer coordination of the varied fiscal operations throughout the Library, a continuing and independent review of all fiscal activities by an internal auditing staff, and in general to improve the business management of the agency.

The reorganization of the fiscal staff to accomplish these purposes has disclosed some significant gaps which should be filled if the Library is to keep in step with the most recent legislation on fiscal management and with the recommendations emanating from the joint program to improve accounting in the Federal Government under the sponsorship of the General Accounting Office, the Bureau of the Budget, and the Treasury.

The two auditing positions are requested to increase the internal auditing staff from one position to three positions. The authorization of the one auditing position by your committee for fiscal year 1957 has been amply justified by the results already achieved in areas where audits have been completed. However, it is impossible for a single auditor to cover sufficient ground in areas where audits are very much needed, and to follow up on audits previously made. The immediate need is for a second auditor at grade GS-11 who, with a minimum of supervision from the present audit officer, will be able to undertake independent assignments, and for a junior assistant at grade GS-7 to assist on audit assignments and preparation of reports and to perform miscellaneous administrative and clerical duties.

In order to preserve the complete independence and integrity of the internal audit program, it has been placed in the Office of the Chief Assistant Librarian. The new positions are justified here to place them in the context of the overall fiscal operations.

The GS-9 accountant position is requested to provide an assistant head of the Accounts Section in the Accounting Office. The Accounts Section is responsible for maintaining the central system of accounts for the entire Library. The section head is currently the only professionally qualified accountant in the section, the remaining members of the staff of the section being basically at the accounting clerk level. It is particularly important to add this position at this time because of the need for improving the overall accounting controls in line with developments under the joint program to improve accounting in the Federal Government.

The Chief of Fiscal Services, who is responsible for directing the budgetary, accounting, disbursing, and related fiscal activities through the Library, has no secretarial assistance, but must rely on the limited assistance that can be spared by the Budget Office which itself has only the minimum staff needed for budgetary operations. Since the activities of the Chief of Fiscal Services cannot be carried on without adequate secretarial support, a GS-5 secretary is requested.

To provide more adequate staffing in the Department Office

Office of the Director:

1 GS-14 Assistant Director of the Administrative Department--- $11, 357 1 GS-4 secretarial assistant_‒‒‒‒‒

Total 2 positions____

3,765 15, 122

The staff of the Administrative Department Office consists of the Director of the Department and his secretary who also serves as department secretary, and an Assistant to the Director. Provision was made for the latter position in the appropriation for fiscal year 1957.

The Administrative Department Office staff must be cognizant of manifold activities throughout the Library. It is involved extensively in security, protective, personnel, fiscal, and housekeeping matters. The staff is not adequate at the level required to meet all of the office's responsibilities. The addition of a GS-14 Assistant Director would balance the staff required to exercise the normal administrative responsibilities concurrently with active participation in policy matters.

One additional position, GS-4, secretary, is requested to afford a reasonable and necessary balance in the secretarial staffing as the current volume of secretarial work in the Department Office exceeds the capacity of the one assistant who combines the duties of secretary to the Director and department secretary. To provide more adequate administration of the Library's program of preservation and custody of the collections

Keeper of the collections: 1 GS-13 Assistant Keeper of the Collections--- $9, 901 The Keeper of the Collections has one assistant, GS-9, and one secretary, GS-5. He lacks the high-level assistance necessary to accomplish the important duties of his position as the problems inherent in the custody and preservation of vast and growing collections and dwindling space for their expansion become more urgent and complex. The Keeper formulates policies, plans, and recommendations for the location of the several collections, the preservation and safety of the collections, the restoration of treasures and of materials in the collections Denerally, and the proper custody and housing of materials, and serves as the Library's security officer with responsibility for insuring conformity to security regulations throughout the Library. As the Keeper's time is more and more taken up with special studies and problems relating to insufficient space and plans for Immediate as well as long-term provision of facilities for the collections. neglect of fundamental matters of preservation and protection can be forestalled only be the provision of an Assistant Keeper to work in close collaboration with the Keeper.

To provide staff for the proper cleaning of the collections Buildings and Grounds Division: 4 WB-3 book-cleaner laborers‒‒‒‒‒‒‒

$12, 813

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