The following additional provisions: For resurfacing west driveway and repairs to stone curb in Library grounds, $4,000. For refitting of boiler room and coal vaults, $2,500. Library estimates, 1916-17: The following positions asked for in the estimates for 1916-17 were not granted: Semitic Division: Two assistants, at $900 each.. Increases of salary recommended, not granted: Library proper: 720 3,600 5 assistants from $900 to $1,200; granted to $960.. $1, 200 2 assistants from $900 to $1,080; granted to $960.. I telephone operator (reading room) from $660 to I assistant from $580 to $600; not granted. 143 positions. Copyright Office: IO clerks from $1,000 to $1,080; not granted..... 10 clerks from $720 to $900; granted to $780 2 clerks from $480 to $600; not granted... 5 junior messengers from $360 to $480; nɔt granted. 47 positions. 190 positions in total. 120 240 бо 3, 180 240 240 $1,800 240 20 480 I, 680 12, 020 800 2, 160 80 I, 200 240 600 5, 080 17, 100 Increase of Library of Congress (purchase of books): $100,000 recommended-$90,000 granted. COPYRIGHT: COPYRIGHT OFFICE The report of the Register of Copyrights appears in full as Appendix II, and is also separately printed by the Copyright Office. The principal statistics of the business done during the year are as follows: Total number of deposits received (material of all classes, including dupli- Total number of registrations.. Total communications received, including parcels, but excluding deposits Total communications sent out (including letters written). 146.50 112,986.85 201, 802 115,967 146,853 150, 353 The fees from copyrights are covered into the Treasury and not applied directly to the maintenance of the Copyright Office. They form a regular revenue of the Government, however, and a net revenue over the direct expenses of the office, as appears from the comparison following: RECEIPTS FICE: Receipts and ex- Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1915-16, as above.. $112, 986. 85 penses The amount expended for salaries ($102,552.47) includes the sum of $4,680 paid in salaries to certain employees who have been classifying and crediting the old deposits received prior to 1897. This expenditure is chargeable to arrears. The current expenses of the Office are therefore considerably more than met by the current receipts. The above statement includes all disbursements except the cost of furniture, of printing, and of binding, but only cash receipts. In addition to cash fees, the copyright business brings each year to the government, in articles deposited, property to the value of many thousands of dollars. During the past fiscal year 201,802 such articles were received. The value of those drawn up into the collections of the Library far exceeded the amount of net cash earnings. The work of the Copyright Office is divided into two parts: (1) The current business, covering applications received since the reorganization of the Office under the Register in 1897; (2) The arrears, the classification, crediting, and indexing of the entries and deposits prior to 1897 (i. e., from 1870, when the copyright business was first placed under the Librarian of Congress). right business On the 10th day of July, 1916, when the report of the Current Copyright Office was submitted, the remittances received up to the third mail of the day had been recorded and acknowledged; the account books of the bookkeeping division were written up and pòsted to June 30, and the accounts rendered to the Treasury Department were settled up to and including the month of June, while earned fees to June 30, inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. All copyright applications received up to and including June 30 had been passed upon and refunds made. The total unfinished business for the full 19 years from July 1, 1897, to June 30,-1916, amounts to but $1,383.27, against a total completed business for the same period of $1,649,776.15. сору Copyright business prior to July 1, 1897 Elimination of copyright deposits Panama-Pacific Exposition: Office At the close of business on July 10, 1916, the works deposited for copyright registration up to and including June 30 had all been recorded, as well as a large part of the publications received since that date. The Catalogue of Copyright Entries, which since the transfer of its publication from the Treasury Department to the Library of Congress has been issued in four separate parts, was continued in five annual volumes properly indexed. During the fiscal year about 2,150 articles received prior to July 1, 1897, were examined preparatory to being credited to their respective entries, and 1,037 were duly credited. During the past 19 years the business done by the Office was as follows: Total number of entries. Total number of articles deposited.... Total amount of fees received and applied. Net receipts above expenses for service. 2,051, 541 3,642, 856 $1, 649, 776. 15 $1, 409, 087. 75 $240, 688. 40 During the 45 years since the copyright work became a business of the Library of Congress the total number of entries has been 2,932,397. Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the Copyright act of 1909, 18,357 volumes have been transferred to the Library from the deposits in the Copyright Office during the fiscal year; 5,452 books have been deposited in governmental libraries in the District of Columbia, and 59,256 articles have been returned to copyright claimants, including 12,177 books, 19 photographs, 13,753 prints, 8,642 periodicals, 13 dramatic or musical compositions, and 9,917 motion-picture films. Under the act of Congress approved September 18, 1913, Branch Copyright for the protection of foreign exhibitors at the PanamaPacific Exposition, of articles within the domain of patent and copyright, a branch office was duly opened at San Francisco for the registration of such articles. of the $15,000 appropriated ($14,992.75) reverted Treasury on December 31, 1915. INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY: PRINTED MATERIA (From the report of the Order Division, Mr. Ashley in ge supervision until October 15, 1916) Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlet in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the L inclusive of the Law Library, at the close of the pa fiscal years, were as follows: Printed books and pamphlets. Manuscripts (a numerical statement not feasible). Maps and charts (volumes and pieces).. Music (volumes and pieces). Prints (pieces). I10, 564 5,336 23, 853 8,945 * For Manuscripts, Maps, Music, and Prints see under those headings i |