In fiscal 1980, CRS is expected to require the addition of 120 new terminals to provide for data entry and data base creation, research, and reference retrieval. The new CRS applications are described in the section titled "CRS Project Support."

The growth of data bases supporting CRS is expected in fiscal 1980 to require the addition of approximately 3.6 billion characters of on-line storage. This new storage will be used for expansion of the Bill Digest System and Citation file, the installation of new data bases, storage for research data, and other project-supportive files.

Some management reports, statistical summaries, and analyses performed for the Congress are best presented in graphic form. Numerical data that would normally be output in successive page printouts, can instead be composed into bar charts, pie charts, histograms, history curves, future trend lines, and other forms more directly comprehended. A small number of special graphic terminals and output devices will be required in fiscal 1980.

There are several areas requiring ASO to support CRS research and analysis, most of which require central computer support, terminal and dedicated storage allocations, and programming and systems analysis support.

Systems analysis, programming and operating services are needed to provide major enhancements to the Major Issues System and the associated publication, Major Legislation of the Congress (MLC). These include such improvements as automated tracking of legislative steps in bills cited in Issue Briefs and MLC as well as a much-needed bill number index for the MLC. An analysis of the applicability of Computer Output Microfilm to a variety of CRS products is required to improve information availability economically.

Improved data entry procedures are required. A systems study emphasizing the possible use of minicomputer-based entry as a replacement for ATS must be conducted. Extra terminals and storage are needed for the Bill Digest and Congressional Record data bases. A procedure is required which will permit on-line update procedures. Bill Digest enhancements underway include (1) Subject Index Term changes that improve the cross referencing in the printed publication; (2) machine comparison of identical, cross reference, and companion bills to aid in accurate indexing; (3) changes to improve the accuracy of citations to the U.S. Code and laws to be amended. Further enhancements will be needed in fiscal 1980 to bring the Bill Digest into closer synchronization with Senate-House LEGIS, including a more detailed chronology, more detailed status reporting, and some hearings data. Extensive analysis and testing is required to permit use of data from the House and Senate computer centers together with that held in the Library as a single integrated Capitol Hill system.

Improvement in the software supporting the CRS Bibliographic Citation files and the Legislative Indexing Vocabulary is needed to permit efficient extension of the SDI service to all Senate and House offices. A study underway in fiscal 1979 will lead to recommendations and a design to be implemented in fiscal 1980.

A review is needed of alternative means of accessing various outside data bases, including those managed by commercial as well as governmental agencies. Assurance of compatibility with the plans of the House Information System and with Senate plans is essential. Analysis of other data bases of potential use is also required as is the installation of mathematical and analytical facilities including a general graphics capability. This includes considering in-house use of software packages for statistical analysis, e.g., SPSS, OSIRIS, and the like.

The expansion and improvement design for the minicomputer-based Inquiry Status Information System (ISIS) is being defined in fiscal 1979. In fiscal 1980 ISIS needs to be expanded into a full management data system to include the introduction and processing of researcher-time-based data as well as inquiry-based data, and to support the generation of a variety of management reports. This will provide for improved service to Congress and improved control by CRS managers but will require both software and hardware support--the latter primarily in the area of disk storage.

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House and Senate requests for enhancements to the on-line information retrieval system developed by LC and initially known as SCORPIO will continue to be implemented by LC, with particular emphasis on retrieval, command extensions, and the facility to sort responses and search across several data bases. major effort will be made to assure that it is very easily understood and used. Response time improvements will be made to the software to speed up long-running commands. Assistance will be provided as required to Senate and to House Information Systems personnel in the installation and operation of the Library developed systems on their computers. Additional documentation will be developed and additional training sessions will be conducted for users.

In fiscal 1980 additional services are to be provided to the Copyright Office in support of its continued implementation of the Copyright Act of 1976. Major emphasis will be four areas which are discussed briefly below. Three of these relate to direct requirements of the Copyright Office and the fourth to the improved integration of the activities of that office with the remainder of the Library of Congress from a data management point of view.

The current system for handling information about registrations requires improvements before it can be expanded. These include, but are not limited to, improvements to avoid data loss, improvements in communication between terminals in the Copyright Office and the central computer, connections between the central computer and the minicomputer, and general improvements in response time for users of terminals located in the Copyright Office. Those improvements which cannot be completed in fiscal 1979 must be promptly made in fiscal 1980.

Extensions of the current support system for the Copyright Office being provided by means of the central computer system and associated minicomputers will provide for tracking of the several hundreds of thousands of registration requests anticipated in fiscal 1980. Improved control of correspondence with registrants and a smoothing and acceleration of work flow in the registration process will be achieved primarily by the addition of work-in-process and location-control systems associated with individual registration requests.

In fiscal 1980 the renewal licensing of jukeboxes will be placed in an on-line environment for more efficient management within the Copyright Office and greater convenience to the jukebox owners. Fiscal 1979 procedures involve an off-line batch process which is less efficient than is possible in an on-line environment.

Some materials received and processed by the Copyright Office are also cataloged by Processing Services. Some are received first by one office and some by the other. Systems analyses must be conducted in fiscal 1980 to define automated procedures by which the work of one organization can be used effectively in the other. This coordination of Library programs will have major long-term economic benefits and will improve the information available to users of the Library because it will be possible, once the cataloging procedures are coordinated, to manage access to the data bases relating to copyright registration in the same manner as the data bases relating to the other materials. Thus, the collection of copyright deposits may be considered to be one of the usable collections of the Library of Congress.

The fiscal 1980 efforts in support of the National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped will emphasize the application of computer techniques to the rapid dissemination of information regarding availability of materials in braille and recorded format to the more than one hundred regional libraries and thence to the users of the library service. It will be also emphasize improvement in inventory control for both reading machines and recorded and braille materials, thus helping to assure the most economical services practical to the more than 600,000 users of this service. Analysis and programming will primarily be associated with systems operated on a minicomputer which is attached to the central computing facility, which provides both dedicated and shared computing services to this national program.

The use of the computer is inextricably woven into the provision of library services in the Library of Congress. It is used to support the ordering, receiving, cataloging and reference services. There are terminals in reading rooms available to the public. The results of the vast majority of the cataloging are distributed in machine-readable form to libraries and library networks throughout the world, thus making the bibliographic products of the Library of Congress widely available. It is anticipated that support requirements in fiscal 1980 will be characterized primarily by growth in systems already in place.