Division Salaries and cxpenses, Library of Congress-Continued ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT Function 1961 1962 Principal workload, 1960 Principal workload, 1961 9 113 7 Maintained budgetary controls on 10 Reviewed and entered 6,231 encumbrances, Issued 32,287 checks, prepared 50,110 cash 43 Classified, alphabetized, and filed 73,724 Maintained budgetary controls on 10 Reviewed and entered 6,309 encumbrances, Issued 34,862 checks, prepared 50,324 cash Classified, alphabetized, and filed 69,126 Maintained 36 acres of floor space and 51⁄2 | Maintained 36 acres of floor space and 51⁄2 Investigated, coordinated, or supervised Office of the Director. Direction of all Administrative Department operations. 6 314 323 Total. Salaries and expenses, Copyright Office COPYRIGHT OFFICE 1961 1962 staff staff 122 72 64 Principal workload, 1960 Received and dispatched 538,073 pieces of 62 Examined 293,875 cases for registration, 28 28 21 247 247 Handled various legal problems arising in connection with the administration of the copyright law and conducted numerous studies relating to revision of the law. Principal workload, 1961 Received and dispatched 540,369 pieces of Examined 277,337 cases, issued 247,014 Cataloged 247,014 registrations, prepared Handled various legal problems arising in Examining. Examining all applications, deposits, and assignments, to see that they satisfy the requirements of the copyright law. 62 Cataloging.. Cataloging of all registrations and the compilation and publication of complete and indexed catalogs of these registrations. 64 NEW POSITIONS-BINDING PREPARATION Dr. MUMFORD. The first item is concerned with request for 3 additional staff, $13,458, in binding preparation and control due to the accelerated commercial binding program. Binding and rebinding needs have grown as the Library's acquisitions and collections have grown. In order to have as many materials bound as economically as possible, the Library has turned increasingly to commercial contractors offering the lowest bids and has had materials bound in the least expensive styles still deemed suitable for the types of use and preservation required. As a result and despite mounting binding costs, there has been a general increase in the number of pieces transmitted for binding. There continues to be a vast and unfilled binding need in a collection as old and large as that of the Library of Congress. To adequately perform the necessary functions connected with preparing, transmitting, receiving, and checking of materials being bound, these three additional positions are requested. On page 21 of the justifications there is a table showing the additional amount of binding that we have been able to obtain in recent years. This necessarily creates an additional workload in preparing it and getting it to the bindery. Mr. STEED. I think we will make that table a part of the record at this point. (P. 21 follows:) Statistics of binding, 1957 to date Mr. STEED. Can you give us some idea about the relative costs of commercial binding versus that of the GPO? Mr. ROGERS. It is roughly $1.50 for commercial binding. Mr. COFFIN. There are two classes that we send for commercial binding: Economy binding which this year costs $1.30 per volume, with a 1-percent discount for payment within 20 days, and a class A binding which costs $1.74, with a 2-percent discount for payment within 20 days. Mr. STEED. That is the commercial rate? Mr. COFFIN. That is the commercial rate. We have bids each year on this. Mr. STEED. How does that compare with the charges by GPO? Mr. COFFIN. They are not exactly comparable because we have six classes that we send to the Government Printing Office. The costs there range from $1.13 per volume to $12.41 per volume. The latter is the cost for binding newspapers. The overall average, which again cannot be compared strictly with the average on the economy and class A, commercial, for this year is running at about $4.10 per volume for all classes. Dr. MUMFORD. From the Government Printing Office. Mr. STEED. Can you give us an overall picture of the magnitude of your whole rebinding needs? Dr. MUMFORD. As to the amount of material that is on the shelves that might need rebinding? Mr. STEED. Yes. Dr. MUMFORD. I am afraid I could not offhand. That is a very difficult question. Mr. ROGERS. The need is so vast in a collection of this age that we could easily double the binding program and still not exhaust the books that need binding. As we told the committee last year, we are also using microfilm for preservation of deteriorating materials. This helps us out somewhat. But the true fact of life is that all books, with practically no exceptions, that have been printed since 1870 have paper in them that deteriorates with time. The Library of Congress is composed mostly of books that were printed since that time, both in the United States and abroad, and some of the papers produced abroad are even worse than the book papers produced in this country. Therefore, we have a problem of really tremendous magnitude. NEW POSITIONS- -ORIENTALIA EXCHANGE Mr. STEED. I believe on the next item you have asked for three new positions, $16,012, in connection with your exchange of publications. Could you comment on that and give us some idea how many people all together are involved in this? Dr. MUMFORD. I would like to request that page 22 be placed into the record and also the top of page 23. Mr. STEED. They will be made a part of the record at this point. (The pages follow :) To support increases in programs for the exchange of publications: At present the Orientalia Exchange Section, responsible for exchange acquisitions from Asia and from most of Africa, consists of a staff of two. The emergence of many new African countries and the crucial role which it appears Africa may play in the East-West balance was recognized by the recent establishment of the African Section in the General Reference and Bibliography Division and the Near Eastern and North African Division in the Law Library. An active acquisitions program for this area is essential, and the nature of the publishing industry there is such that the major share of the acquisitions workload must fall on the Exchange and Gift Division. This workload is heightened by the fact that bibliographic controls are almost nonexistent in many of these new nations. In order to ascertain and establish sources for the acquisition of materials published in limited quantities and soon out of print, the creation of many new and effectively managed exchanges is vital. For this purpose GS-9 assistant head and African specialist is requested. A GS-5 accessioner is required to carry out the clerical functions connected with this program including the preparation of form requests |