Analysis of increases 1. Ingrade increases, other anticipated increases in salary costs, and For ingrade increases and reallocations. Total.. $14, 971 836 15, 807 $14,971 is the estimated amount required for increases in salary level in 1960 over 1959 due to mandatory periodic ingrade increases and reallocations. Of this amount, it is expected that 50 percent will be needed for ingrade increases and 50 percent for reallocations. The additional amount of $836 represents the additional contributions for retirement resulting from the anticipated increase in salary level. 2. Regular pay in excess of 52-week base_ During During fiscal year 1959 there are 261 paid days. 3. Printing: Pay increases at Government Printing Office_ Printers at the Government Printing Office, including those working in the GPO Branch at the Library of Congress, were granted a pay increase of 13 cents per hour for printers and 11 cents per hour for pressmen effective August 18, 1958. The Government Printing Office estimates the annual cost of this pay increase at $11,452, and the increased cost is passed on to the Library in the form of increased bills for card printing. 4. Printing: For an increase in the number of cards printed___ The printing budget for 1959 is predicated on the sale of approximately 28,300,000 cards, which is the same as the number actually sold in 1958. Sales during the first 6 months of 1959 indicate annual sales of 31,300,000 cards and the 32,000,000 cards is the projected figure for 1960. The additional 3,700,000 will require an increase of $15,000 in printing funds. 5. New positions requested... +$15, 807 +3, 896 +11, 452 +15, 000 Salaries and related expenses. +56, 510 Salary costs, 15 new positions. Contribution to retirement fund on new positions. 1 Amendment to regular estimates for 1960 (H. Doc. 100) contains the following requests: 8 additional positions to meet workload increase.. Increase in contribution to retirement fund on additional positions.. Total in amendment.. +102, 665 $28, 704 1, 796 15,000 45, 500 Mr. MUMFORD. Item 1 corresponds to the previous items we have had in the other appropriations, and so does item 2. No. 3 is concerned with pay increases at the Government Printing Office. I mentioned that this morning. With the matter inserted in the record, I do not think we need to comment further upon it. INCREASED PRINTING OF CARDS No. 4 is concerned with the printing of additional cards. I mentioned this morning the volume of increase in the sale of cards. The printing budget for 1959 is predicated on the sale of approximately 28.300,000 cards. Sales during the first 6 months of 1959 indicate annual sales of 31,300,000 cards, and 32 million cards is the projected figure for 1960. In other words, if we sell more cards, we have to print more cards, and it takes money to print the cards. NEW POSITIONS REQUESTED Coming down to item No. 5, the new positions, this is predicated upon workload, and I would be glad to have Mr. Cronin, if you will permit, testify in respect to that. I might request that pages 80 and 81 be inserted in the record. They tell the story there. (The pages referred to follow :) Statistics show that card sales, during the first 6 months of fiscal 1959, have exceeded, by 10.5 percent, sales for the same period last year and there is no reason to believe that this increase recorded for the first 6 months will not obtain for the full fiscal year. If we are to maintain a reasonable delivery schedule in the filling of regular orders, which the subscribers expect, it is necessary to request nine additional positions to meet the increased workload in the arranging, searching, and card-drawing operations. The increase in card sales affects the Inventory and Accounting Sections, as well as the Orders Section, where the orders are processed and filled. There are many functions throughout the Library where daily operations and work assignments are dependent upon the work of the Inventory Section. In fiscal 1958, 40,945,162 cards were received from the printer as compared with 36,801,862 cards in fiscal 1957, for an 11-percent increase. Based on figures for the first 6 months of fiscal 1959, cards received from the printer have exceeded those received during the same period last year by 7.3 percent. The maintenance of an inventory of over 130 million cards, receiving and checking new stock, storing, and reprinting stock as it becomes depleted, requires an adequate staff to meet The established time controls for the filling of orders and supplying cards for se in the general catalogs and special files of the Library of Congress. Three Dew positions are requested to meet the increased workload and maintain control of the stock. In conjunction with the increase in card sales, all final activities in the AcCounting Section have increased proportionately. The present staff is unable to cope with the increased workload in billing cards, examining and listing remittances received, checking and mailing monthly bills to each subscriber, and preparing invoices, vouchers, claims, etc., required by subscribers to comply th State or city regulations. In order to meet these fiscal obligations, three new positions are needed. The 15 additional positions are urgently needed in order to provide staff durthe fiscal 1960 to meet the increased workload. The total increase in positions requested for 1960 in this appropriation, with a statement of the number available for 1959 by major organizational unit, is presented in summary form below: Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Cronin may wish to comment on particulars. Mr. CRONIN. At present, it looks as if our total net sales for the year will average over $2 million for the first time. This is in excess of the appropriation. I just do not know where all the business is coming from. It keeps increasing all the time. Through the month of March our sales ran $1,526,385. Yesterday I had a report on sales for the month of April, and they ran $184,609. This represents an increase from 28,300,000 cards to about 32 million cards at the rate we are going at the present time. In order to go ahead and meet that workload, it is absolutely necessary to get these additional positions. At the present time, instead of giving a 3-day service on card orders, we are averaging a week on card orders, but with these additional positions we feel we can bring it back to the 3-day schedule which we should be giving the subscribers in order to give them the best service. Mr. KIRWAN. You are taking a week now instead of 3 days, is that right? Mr. CRONIN. Yes. Mr. KIRWAN. This pays its way? Mr. CRONIN. Yes, indeed. Mr. MUMFORD. In rceent years the sales of the cards have returned 90-odd percent of the appropriation each year to the Treasury. The difference between that return and 100 percent was for the cost of the cards to the Library for its own catalog. As Mr. Cronin has indicated, it looks as if the receipts from sales will approach 100 percent, returning the whole appropriation. Mr. KIRWAN. Like the other items that you have in here, the request for 15 new jobs is based on need, or you would not be asking for them. Is that correct? Mr. MUMFORD. That is quite correct. Mr. KIRWAN. The Department is doing a good job supplying libraries and everybody throughout the Nation who is asking for your assistance. Mr. MUMFORD. Libraries throughout the country benefit greatly from this service. As we pointed out before, it saves them a great deal on cataloging costs. Mr. KIRWAN. That goes for all the libraries. It saves them the work and they do not have to get into that business. Mr. MUMFORD. The public libraries, school libraries, university libraries, and all of them. It puts at their disposal and for their benefit the skills and knowledge of our expert catalogers, which in many small libraries they would not have. Mr. KIRWAN. That is good news. If it will pay for itself, they are entitled to the 3-day delivery rather than the 1-week delivery. Mr. MUMFORD. I think they are entitled to good service. Mr. KIRWAN. Are there any questions? Mr. HORAN. No questions. CARD RECEIPTS AND SALES, 1949-59 Mr. KIRWAN. We shall put this document in the record at this rary," which is your book purchase account. You ask for $350,000, Mr. KIRWAN. We next turn to the item "General increase of the Lian increase of $30,000. We will insert page 83 in the record at this $14,496 $20,000 $20,000 1,693 3,400 8,400 9,705 9,400 9,400 3,939 1,050 1,050 50 50 303, 023 290, 152 332,856 324, 052 1. Air cargo shipments from Moscow__ For the Library of Congress share in the cost of a Federal agency cooperative undertaking under the Department of State for shipment by air cargo from Moscow of Russian periodicals and newspapers. 2. Increased volume of current materials___. To purchase an increasing number of items, both serials and monographs, especially in the fields of science and technology, which are available and required because of the increase in publication activity in foreign countries as well as in the United States. 3. Price increases_. To compensate in part for the steadily increasing prices, worldwide, of library materials. +$5,000* +15, 000 +10,000 Net increase AIRCARGO SHIPMENTS FROM MOSCOW +30,000 Mr. KIRWAN. Please proceed with the several items. Because of the need and demand of several Government agencies for more rapid receipt of Russian periodicals and newspapers, the Department of State arranged for aircargo shipment from Moscow.. This was done some time ago. It gets the material here within about 3 weeks instead of about 8 weeks ordinarily required by surface mail. This means a great deal to people in the Government who are working with this material. Mr. KIRWAN. What departments have asked for this? Mr. KIRWAN. Yes. (Off the record.) ADDITIONAL PURCHASES Mr. KIRWAN. Proceed to the next item. Mr. MUMFORD. The second item of $15,000 is to purchase an increasing number of items, both serials and monographs, especially in the fields of science and technology. We mentioned this morning the increasing production of publications, both in this country and abroad, and the fact that the Library was losing ground with its present appropriation for the purchase of materials. In order to hold our own, we feel this is a minimum amount that we need in addition for this appropriation. Mr. ROGERS. I think you put it very well. It is not just the fact that we are able to buy fewer pieces of material, but the available pieces of material that could be brought are going up as our purchasing power is going down; so it is a double action which causes us to lose headway. |