Mr. BERRY. There are some 70,000 nitrate prints that we want to convert. We have been spending approximately $15,000 a year for the past 3 years, I believe.

Mr. STEED. Supply figures for the record about how much you have accomplished and the scope of the work remaining to be done Is it fair to say your policy and plan are, as soon as you can, to convert all nitrate to safety film?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. The greater part of our motion picture collection has been converted. Out of approximately 90 million feet of film, there remain somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 million or 16 million to be converted. We are also acquiring old motion pictures all of the time to fill in gaps in the collection. We have that continuing program, as you know. We have had it for several years.

Mr. STEED. Does this mean that your consolidation of all this preservation work has been continued?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEED. Is this separate from that, or still a part of it?

Dr. MUMFORD. We have consolidated our preservation activities into one program.

(The information follows:)

NITRATE NEGATIVE STILL PHOTOGRAPHS

Since 1966 we have copied nearly 11,000 of the nitrate negative still photographs under the preservation program. An average of $15,000 a year has been expended for this purpose during fiscal years 1967-69. Some 60,000 nitrate negative stills remain to be copied under this program.

ACQUISITIONS AND CATALOG WORK UNDER HIGHER EDUCATION

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Mr. STEED. It is my understanding that under part C, title II of the Higher Education Act, you have been receiving $5 million plus a year for acquisition and cataloging of materials.

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEED. Has this helped your problem?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir, it has helped some, but I would say the emphasis of that program is on cataloging, not upon acquisition though we do have to acquire in some cases where we don't have the material in order to have a copy to catalog. A relatively small propor tion of that money goes for acquisitions.

It has supplemented, to some extent, our general appropriation but it does not substitute for it.

Mr. STEED. How does this become a useful factor to you in addi tion to the cataloging that is a basic part of your function?

Dr. MUMFORD. It has enabled us to obtain some publications tha we would not have been able to obtain under this general appropria tion. We would have had to ask for much larger increases in the genera appropriation to achieve the same end.

Mrs. HAMER. It speeds up our cataloging, which is the most impor tant element to other libraries throughout the country. In the past, w were cataloging the material but doing it 6 months to a year afte other libraries really needed the printed cards.

The purpose of title II-C of the Higher Education Act was to enabl the cataloging of foreign materials especially to be centralized. TH emphasis was on prompt cataloging. That is where the bulk of th title II-C appropriation has gone to build up the cataloging servic

Mr. STEED. With this extra resource, what does this make now in terms of your total activity for acquisition and cataloging added on to your regular appropriation?

Dr. MUMFORD. As you have suggested, for the current year 1969, there was $5.5 million appropriated under title II-C, but this included about $500,000 for the Monthly Index of Russian Accessions. So, we had about $5 million for the cataloging program and for acquiring those publications we needed in order to catalog them.

Mr. STEED. Then for the year, what sort of package are we talking about in total?

Dr. MUMFORD. In terms of money spent for acquisitions only?
Mr. STEED. And cataloging, for the whole operation.

Dr. MUMFORD. Our general cataloging what we were doing before title II-C came along has been continued, naturally, and title II-C has enabled us to step up that cataloging program. I could not give you figures offhand of what our total cataloging costs are.

Mr. WELSH. The total is probably in the neighborhood of $8.5 million, including $5 million from title II-C. Our regular cataloging staff costs about $2 million. Add to that $700,000 for acquisitions staff and $800,000 for purchase of materials. The total is in the neighborhood of $8.5 million.

Mr. STEED. Title II-C is not a one-time thing?

Dr. MUMFORD. No, sir. It was authorized for 3 years at the begining, and the authorization has been extended. It is intended to go on because of the benefits to the libraries throughout the country.

The situation, Mr. Chairman, was that research libraries in particular throughout the country were receiving quite a bit of foreign material which they could not catalog. They did not have the cataogers with the linguistic skills and abilities, and catalogers are very arce, in any event. It was being duplicated. Different university abraries were undertaking to catalog the same items.

It made very good sense to have it done in one place at one time. This program has resulted in savings of millions and millions of dolars to the research libraries. They get their cataloging information promptly. Their materials do not collect in arrearages. They are available to faculty and students more promptly.

Mr. STEED. Are you saying, then, in this particular area you are Fishing a service to libraries that you normally would not?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. It was an extension of a service that we had been providing since 1901 in making available our catalog cards to ther libraries but, as Mrs. Hamer said, we could not catalog everying promptly and we did not acquire everything that other libraries quired.

Mr. STEED. Is the allocation for a program of this sort automatic, do you have to present a justification for the amount that you are > receive?

Dr. MUMFORD. It goes into the budget request of HEW. The law rovides that the money be appropriated to the Office of Education, be transferred to the Library for this purpose.

We supply a budget figure to HEW. I testified before the HEW propriations committee, Mr. Flood's subcommittee, on title II-C, s to the needs for this.

Mr. STEED. Once the money is appropriated, you get the entire amount from that point on?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.

Mr. STEED. The life of it then depends upon the reaction to that function.

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.

I might add that the original budget request for 1970 for that program was $7,356,000, and the present administration has reduced. that to $4.5 million. We have urged that this figure be raised, and hope that it will be, because it will curtail some of the benefits that are going out to other libraries.

Mr. WELSH. Although the program was initially designed and conceived of as helping the major research libraries, it is of great importance to the Library of Congress in that it enables us to discover the availability of materials which are quite useful to the Library of Congress and to the Congress itself and, most importantly, as Mrs. Hamer has said, it enables us to catalog promptly all the materials we are acquiring, the materials we are acquiring in our basic program and the additional material, and thereby making the information on the material available also for research in the Library of Congress. Mr. STEED. Have you any more questions on this particular item before we proceed? Mr. Andrews?

Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota. No questions.

Mr. STEED. Mr. Reifel?

Mr. REIFEL. No questions.

Mr. STEED. Now we go to the item "Books for the Law Library as shown on page 129 of the committee print and page 152 of il justifications.

Here you are requesting an increase of $15,000, bringing the 191 estimate to $140,000.

The purchase of law books and other legal material _ _ _

No increase in this appropriation has been requested since 1966. Prices for current and noncurrent law books and materials have increased to such an extent that it is necessary to request an increase of $15,000. Approximately 67 percent of this appropriation is used to purchase foreign law materials and it is in this area that the greatest increase in price has occurred. For example, prices of older materials in the Far Eastern Law and Near Eastern and African Law-relatively new Divisions-have risen since fiscal 1966 from an average of $8.45 to $18.55 for books, and from $2.92 to $4.07 for serials and periodicals.

+$15,000

The purchase of law books and other legal material, increase of $15,000, from $125,000 ta $140,000

This appropriation provides for the purchase of materials for the Law Library, perhaps the largest and most comprehensive collection of law books ever asbled. This fund is the principal means by which the Law Library can acquire Lose essential materials not received through copyright deposit, international and domestic exchange, transfer from other Government agencies, and gifts. Approximately 67 percent of the appropriation is used to purchase foreign law materials. The Congress, the Executive departments and agencies, and the Fedral courts are dependent upon the Law Library as the most complete and most accessible source of legal information on all subjects for all countries of the world. Continued development of the foreign law collections is imperative for the protion and advancement of Government interests in foreign activities and interational relations. Continued preeminence of the Law Library in all fields of law, mestic as well as foreign, prevents wasteful duplication in the working libraries of many Government agencies.

There has been no increase in this appropriation since fiscal 1966. Since that Fear the world wide average cost of current law books has increased from $4.53 ach to $4.79, or 5.7 percent. The average cost of current issues of serials and Periodicals increased from $1.30 an issue to $1.53, or 17.6 percent. Examples of some of the prices paid for subscriptions on recent and immediately previous alings are as follows:

The greatest increases have come in the prices paid for non-current materials, so Try to fill gaps in the collections of research materials in relatively new diviFar Eastern Law and Near Eastern and African Law. Prices of older erials from these areas have risen since fiscal 1966 from an average of $8.45 $15.55 for books, and from $2.92 to $4.07 for serials and periodicals. To maintain parity in the face of these regular price increases the amount of $ is requested, an increase of 12 percent over our appropriation in fiscal

Dr. MUMFORD. The same reasons prompt this request as were given the request for the general appropriation.

You are aware of the very extensive collection of legal materials that we have, and what our Law Library is. In order to keep pace with increasing prices and additional new publications, it is important that the Law Library have additional funds for this purpose.

Mr. COFFIN, the Law Librarian, is here if you would like further elaboration.

Mr. STEED. Why don't you give us a general review of what you are talking about here in terms of what you acquire?

Mr. COFFIN. As indicated, we have not had an increase in this appropriation since fiscal year 1966. At that time we had a $15,000 increase raising it to the current $125,000. In fiscal year 1966, overall, we spent $118,000. The next year we spent $129,000.

This is no-year money, as you are aware, sir. Last year we spent $136,200. So, we are getting to the point where we will have practically no carryover at the end of this year.

In fiscal year 1968 from this appropriation we paid $67,216 for just serials and periodicals. Moreover, we had blanket order arrangements, mostly for materials coming in from abroad, which cost us in the neighborhood of $40,000 a year.

You can see that we have little discretion in connection with use of over $100,000 because of these automatic arrangements that we must have.

For books and pamphlets, in 1968 we spent $62,028. For microfilm, $1,075. Photostats, $715. This all added up to $131,000. Then when we add to that the $5,000-plus that we had to spend for communications services and for bulk rate shipments, and so on, it came out to the $136,000 that I mentioned.

INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS IN LAW LIBRARY

Mr. STEED. A few years ago we went along with the request of the Library to provide more manpower funds to enable the Law Library to take on, for practical purposes, an international posture. Are you able to maintain your international collections with $40,000 a year? You are dealing with 100-some-odd different nations now.

Mr. COFFIN. Not just $40,000, sir. Some of the materials and periodicals coming from abroad-did you say $40,000?

Mr. STEED. For the acquisition of materials.

Mr. COFFIN. That is for the acquisition of monographs on an automatic basis, but we have in there also the periodicals and serials materials from abroad. The total request is for $140,000.

Mr. STEED. What I am getting at is, once having established the level of proficiency as an international law library, you are able to maintain that quality with this resource?

Dr. MUMFORD. The answer is, generally, yes. We do not get all the foreign law materials that we would like to get. Sometimes they are just not available. We also get quite a bit through exchange. This fund is very important to enable us to get materials which we canno get in exchange.

Mr. STEED. Now that you have had this expanded type of facility for several years, do you feel that the benefit and the use of it hav been as good as you had anticipated when you planned it?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.