Mr. NORRELL. We shall now turn to page 74 of the committee print and take up for consideration the item entitled "Furniture and furnishings, Library of Congress." Will you please insert into the record at this point pages 191 and 192 of the justifications and then tell us about the additions? (The insertions referred to follow :) Library buildings and grounds: Furniture and furnishings 1960 appropriation in annual act__ Deductions: $140,000 Carpeting for Information and Publications Office____ $1,900 13, 400 Steel trays for Card Division__ 20, 200 Microfilm reading machines for Serial Division (2) and Calculating machines for Card Division and Legislative 2, 200 Addressograph-Multigraph machines for Card Division, Copyright Office and Central Duplicating_ Electric adding machines, Card Division_. 1,500 11, 000 2,800 4, 000 1, 600 -58, 600 Base for 1961_____. Additions: 81, 400 Annual office machine and equipment repairs-increased Conversion of typewriters and office machines in the main Carpeting for offices of Directors of Processing, Adminis- 3,000 3, 100 6, 800 6, 400 3 microfilm reading machines for Serial Division__-- Motion picture projector, 2 editing machines, varityper, for 6, 150 +41, 900 Total estimate for 1961__ 123, 300 Mr. STEWART. This request represents a net decrease of $16,700 under last year. EXPLANATION OF INCREASES The addition would be first under annual office machine and equipment repairs, which shows an increase of $1,000, from $9,500 to $10,500. Then, there is the conversion of typewriters and office machines in the main building to 60-cycle alternating current, which reflects an increase of $4,000. Mr. NORRELL. As we go along, if there are any questions by the members of the committee, I would like you to ask them at that time. It looks like that is a lot of typewriters to have to buy in one fiscal year. Mr. STEWART. They were built and equipped for 25-cycle current and now we have installed 60-cycle current in there, and the only answer to it is to convert them. A lot of times it is cheaper to buy them new than to try to get them converted. The next item is the recovering of seats in Coolidge Auditorium, and that amount is $3,000. The next item is carpeting for the offices of the Directors of Processing, Administration, Legislative Reference, Librarian's reception room and executive assistant to Librarian, in the amount of $3,100. The next item is in an increase of $6,800, which is for 60-cycle alternating current fans for the Main Building, which applies the same as it does to the typewriters; $4,200 is available for the purchase of 200 fans in 1960; $11,000 is required to purchase in 1961 the remaining 500 fans needed for the main building. The difference of $6,800 represents an increase for 1961 over the amount for 1960. Then the card sections for the Copyright Office, 35-60 drawer file cabinets for expansion of the Copyright Card Catalog, is at a cost of $12,600. MICROFILM READING MACHINES The sum of $6,200 was made available for 1960, for 18-60 drawer units, the difference representing the increase for 1961 over 1960 of $6.400. Then there are three microfilm reading machines for the Serial Division, in the amount of $3,150. Mr. NORRELL. It seems to me that we have been buying a lot of microfilm machines. It looks like we ought to have enough of them by this time. Dr. MUMFORD. May I speak to that, Mr. Chairman? Mr. NORRELL. Yes, sir. Dr. MUMFORD. Last year we requested, I think it was, three microfilm reading machines, but the Library is constantly acquiring more material, particularly in the form of newspapers on microfilm, and as we acquire such material on microfilm, we have to have the machines for people to use the material. In order to avoid undue delays in waiting for material, we need a sufficient number of machines to utilize the material. As you know, microfilm not only helps to preserve the material but it also reduces space. Therefore, all the material we can get on microfilm is desirable, including the current newspapers as well as our deteriorating materials. Mr. NORRELL. I am afraid of your persuasive presentation. Dr. MUMFORD. I am just trying to state the simple facts, Mr. Chair man. OTHER ITEMS OF INCREASE Mr. STEWART. The next item is for two calculating machines for the Legislative Reference Service, in the amount of $1,900. 54877-60-7 Then there is an item for 12 numbering machines for the Copyright Office in the amount of $1,800. There is an item for an addressing machine and file cabinet for the Office of the Secretary in the amount of $2,600. Then there is a crisscross stacker attachment for the collator in the Office of the Secretary, in the amount of $1,000. There is an item of a Rotary records unit for the Loan Division, in the amount of $1,000, and the last item is for a motion picture projector, two editing machines and a VarieTyper, for the Motion Picture Section, in the amount of $6,150-or a total increase of $41,900, which reflects a credit in the entire request of $16,700 as against last year's appropriation. MOVABLE PARTITIONS Mr. NORRELL. I note that you repeat the request for $10,000, movable partitions. Pretty soon you will have all the area walled off, will you not? Tell us something about that. Dr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, as we tried to point out last year, we are constantly trying to make the best use of the space that we have in those two buildings. As activities increase or decrease, they require some changes and we erect these temporary partitions. Sometimes they are in the form of bookcases and sometimes they may be a grill to preserve special materials. Sometimes, as we pointed out last year, or the year before, we can reuse these when they are taken down, but not always and, in fact, in the majority of the cases, I think, they do not fit necessarily the new places where they are needed. We are not trying to create the maximum number of cubbyholes for people or for work activities. But there is a constant need for this kind of temporary structure. Mr. NORRELL. Is that because the Library is constantly being used more and more? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir; because it is being used more and certainly because we are trying to make use of every available nook and cranny in the building because we are so pressed and are in desperate need of space. ADDITIONAL BUILDING FOR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mr. NORRELL. What is the status of the resolution to authorize a study looking to the third Library Building? Dr. MUMFORD. The House passed the Burleson resolution at the last session. About 2 weeks ago, I believe it was, the Senate called up Senator Green's resolution, Resolution 97, I believe, and adopted, with an amendment, the language of the House resolution and passed it. As I understand now, it must come back to the House to be repassed in a modified form, or else to go to conference. I am not sure, technically, which. Mr. HENLOCK. The Senate substituted the language of the Senate resolution for the House resolution, and it is just a minor change in language-technical language-adding the words "and supervision” where we had simply "under direction of the Joint Committee on the Library." It is now back before the House and I understand it is. expected to be taken up and passed by the House in the coming month. Mr. NORRELL. Until the resolution is passed and signed by the President and becomes law, this committee has no right to appropriate money. Mr. HENLOCK. The only way you have done it in the past is that you have provided an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the resolution, contingent upon its being enacted into law. Of course, it has passed the House once. Mr. Bow. But, there is no request in this budget for any money for this purpose? Mr. HENLOCK. No, sir; that is why we did not put it in, because the law had not been enacted. Mr. Bow. But the House bill did not give you the $75,000? Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir; both the House and Senate resolutions did. Mr. NORRELL. Are there any questions? ADDRESSING MACHINE AND FILE CABINET, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Mr. Bow. How about this addressing machine and file cabinet in the Office of the Secretary, in the amount of $2,600? For what is that? Mr. GOOCH. The Office of the Secretary of the Library administers the Library's central duplicating plant in which there are issued various items during the course of a year on multilith machines. It also has the responsibility Mr. Bow. Is this a replacement? Mr. GooCH. This is a replacement. Mr. Bow. It is the replacement of an existing machine? What is the condition of the existing addressing machine? Mr. Gooch. It is in very poor condition and repairs on the machine would cost, perhaps, 60 percent of the cost of a new machine. There Would still be uncertainty as to its longevity. Mr. Bow. My recollection is that we appropriated not too long ago money for some calculating machines for the Legislative Reference Service. Are these replacements also? new Mr. GooCH. No, sir. There was one machine, I believe, provided for the Office of the Director of the Legislative Reference Service last year. There are in the Legislative Reference Service a total of six machines, of which only two are in really acceptable condition. One and another is about 4 years old. The other four-in fact a couple of them are of such vintage that they are essentially useless. The Economics Division needs one new one to replace a 12-year-old machine and the Natural Resources Division, which has been borrowing from the Economics Division, needs one of its own for the processing of data in connection with the work for Congress. Mr. Bow. So these actually will be replacements? Mr. GOOCH. These will be essentially replacements; yes, sir. |