TOTAL

$24,000.00

$16,000.00 $51,000.00 $11,000.00 $10,150.00 $29,750.00 $30,250.00 $41,850.00

$6,000.00 $11,500.00

$54,000.00

$285,500.0

Mr. CURRAN. It translates into what the shows are, the product rather than the object classes. It accounts for a significant part of both of those items. Disposing of that, the balance of the $157,000 for other services, a portion of that, as you can see, these are fees we pay to access either other Federal or commercial computer data bases.

The first one there is for the legal data bases, JURIS and LEXIS, and for the New York Times Information Bank, requiring an increase of $86,000. We are also asking for $36,000, part of which is to support the specialized and technical support in the Law Library for consultants.

We have a provision for a broader health services program, including expansion of the service at our Navy Yard facility, for $20,000. I mentioned the $9,500 which is part of the exhibits program for proper signs, directions, getting in and about the existing Library buildings.

Mr. Applebaum mentioned $3,000 for cost of rotation of overseas field directors. The balance of supplies and materials account that is above and beyond the $252,000 as part of the exhibits program is $23,000 for office supplies and custodial supplies to support the new positions, and $5,000 for medical supplies.

HEALTH PROGRAM DISCUSSION

Mr. BENJAMIN. Let me ask about health care for a minute. You obviously have in-house health care. You have asked for new personnel, you have asked for an additional $20,000 to expand your facility at the Navy Yard. Is it that they do not have any health insurance where they can go into the private market?

Mr. CURRAN. First of all, we do not treat employees. Unlike, for example, on the Capitol you have a physician who treats people, treats members or other qualified persons; we do not treat staff but we do have a rather extensive preventive health program, a wide assortment. This is partly what we are talking about augmenting here, preventive health programs, screening, cancer screening, blood pressure, heart control programs, various influenza and shot programs, testing for glaucoma.

That is where most of our energy is in health, also health counseling of employees, troubled employees, alcohol prevention programs. So you get an assortment of health counseling programs and preventive health programs which are not covered, simply what we think a Federal agency, indeed any modern and progressive employer, should provide to their staff. These things pay dividends in themselves.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I do not deny that, but my question is whether we are duplicating services available to the employees of the Library of Congress elsewhere in the Federal system.

Mr. CURRAN. In the Federal system?

Mr. BENJAMIN. Yes.

Mr. CURRAN. No, I believe it is the responsibility of agencies to have their own services. These are not services in lieu of the Public Health Service programs. If an employee, for example,were injured, other than immediate first aid that might be supplied, we would not treat the injury or follow through the treatment. They would either go to Public Health Service for treatment or their

private physician at their option, which is why the costs are higher these days; people are preferring their physicians as authorized under the 1974 act.

I do not think we are duplicating services provided by other Federal agencies, no, sir.

USE OF DATA BASES

Mr. BENJAMIN. This $86,000, you already have the use of the data bases. You explain that for the expanded use of JURIS, LEXIS and New York Times Information Service, you need $86,000. Can you explain what you mean by expanded use?

Mr. CURRAN. For the most part those data bases are currently available to the Congressional Research Service, and to the extent they are accessed by the Congressional Research Service and the Congress and their staff it is reflected in the CRS budget. But there are other applications elsewhere in the Library, particularly in the Law Library, where JURIS, LEXIS and the New York Times Information Bank, would be considered helpful to the reference staff. What we are asking is that we make the information contained in those data bases more broadly available to the community of users who come into the Library in addition to the congressional users. We are asking that we be permitted to use them in support of our other readers.

Mr. BENJAMIN. You are not in any way suggesting that if the Congressional Research Service gets the services, which you explain they do, that they are not making it available to the rest of the Library of Congress?

Mr. CURRAN. What I meant is a terminal at a service point in the Congressional Research Service is not available in the main reading room or in the Law Library reading room, to one of their researchers. It is just a matter of more such terminals in different places for use of the Library staff and the users of the Library. Mr. BENJAMIN. For the record, would you mind submitting a list of the new terminal locations?

Mr. CURRAN. That are being requested in this sum?

Mr. BENJAMIN. Yes. I guess you had better explain where you have them now in terms of our present program.

Mr. CURRAN. All right, we will give you a table.

[The information referred to follows:]

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AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER

Mr. BENJAMIN. The next item is salaries and expenses, Library of Congress. For the American Folklife Center, a total of $684,975 is requested for 1979, which is $379,935 above the 1978 level.

Dr. BOORSTIN. May I introduce Dr. Alan Jabbour, Director of our Folklife Center, which is a new undertaking, as you know, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Tell us briefly the scope and nature of the activities of the Center, what is the status of your authorizing legislation?

Mr. JABBOUR. Let me start with the authorizing legislation, H.R. 5981, which is now before the House. It is due to be voted on soon. It was reported out from the House Administration Committee, sponsored by Mr. Brademas, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Nedzi.

The Senate bill, S.1636, will be handled, we are told by the staff there, as soon as possible after the House acts, but if at all possible before April 15. So that is the status of the authorization bill. As for the scope of the Center, the Center was established, as you know, Mr. Chairman, by the Congress itself; it was established, in the words of the legislation, to preserve and present American folklife. Its mandate was a broad mandate. It was charged with documentation and preservation; "preservation" not only in the pickling sense, but also preservation and presentation in the broader sense of providing programs and activities that offer nourishment to the various folk cultural traditions of the United Sates. In the first full year of the Center's activities, which is just completed now, the Center has undertaken a number of projects and programs. It has engaged in two major field projects around the country; one in the Greater Chicago area, the other in South Georgia. Those projects have brought to the Library a large body of documentation of the folk cultural traditions of this country, urban and rural.

At the same time those projects have provided for the region, State, or localities involved the impetus toward developing programs that continue on there after the Center has departed. So we feel we are developing techniques whereby our projects both help in the locality and, as national models, assist in a national effort to fructify the nation's folk cultural traditions.

GEORGIA EXHIBIT NOW IN LIBRARY

The Center has also undertaken exhibits, including an exhibit up now at the Library of Congress called Folk Art and Folklife. We have worked closely with the Exhibits Office on that, and we hope that will be the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with them. That exhibit features folk cultural traditions in the State of Georgia and was drawn partly from our project in South Georgia. At the same time, the Center is developing a number of ongoing programs such as an equipment loan program, consultancy services, and a variety of other services to the field of American folklife around the country.

We have begun developing a publication program. We have shortly forthcoming from GPO a publication entitled "Folklife and the Federal Government," a directory of all government agencies