SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1977 SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania, Chairman WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Kentucky EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois Henry A. Neil, Jr., Frederick P. Pfluger, Robert L. Knisely, Nicholas G. Cavarocchi, Michael Stephens and Bettilou Taylor, Subcommittee Staff TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1977. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, FISCAL YEAR 1978 AND THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 1977 SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST WITNESSES MRS. BESSIE BOEHM MOORE, VICE-CHAIRMAN, NCLIS ALPHONSE F. TREZZA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NCLIS JERRY MANOLATAS, WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE PLANNER Mr. FLOOD. We will take up the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and for the attention of the committee, we are going to hear both your regular 1978 request for the Commission, that is and your 1977 supplemental request for the White House Conference on Libraries. In order to expedite the hearings we will combine these two requests into one hearing. The presentation will be made by Bessie Moore, the Vice Chairman of the NCLIS, and we have a biographical sketch of you which we will place in the record at this point. [The sketch follows:] NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Name: Frederick Burkhardt. Position: Chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. (1) Birthplace and date: New York, N.Y., September 13, 1912. Education: Columbia University, 1933, B.A.; Oriel College, Oxford University, 1935, B. Litt.; Columbia University, 1940, Ph. D.; University of Michigan, 1968, LL.D. EXPERIENCE 1971-Present: Chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. 1975: President-emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies. 1967: Vice chairman, National Advisory Commission on Libraries. 1957-1974: President, American Council of Learned Societies. 1947-1957: President, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt. 1946-1947: Associate professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin. 1945-1946: Department of State. 1943-1945: Office of Strategic Services. 1937-1943: Assistant professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin. Association memberships: Phi Beta Kappa, American Philosophical Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Bessie Boehm Moore.-Vice Chairman, NCLIS. Commissioner since 1970. Degrees.-BSE State College of Arkansas, Conway, Ark., MA University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Experience Chairman, Arkansas Library Commission. National Advisory Commission on Libraries, 1966–68.. Executive director, Arkansas State Council on Economic Education, State department of Education, 1962— —. State coordinator of environmental education, State Department of Education, Little Rock, Ark., 1970–74. State supervisor of economic education, State Department of Education, Little Rock, Ark., 1962-74. State supervisor of elementary education, State Department of Education, Little Rock, Ark., 1958–65. Honors Arkansas women of the year, 1952. Awarded honorary doctor of laws degree, University of Arkansas, 1958. Appointed in 1961 by Secretary McNamara to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS), 1961-64. Only woman speaker at Southern Governors Conference at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., August, 1963. Awarded Distinguished Service Award, American Association of University Women, May, 1966. Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Arkansas, 1974. Name: Alphonse F. Trezza BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -. Degrees.-University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1948. Library Certificate, Drexel, 1949. University of Pennsylvania, M.S., 1950. Experience Executive Director, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, 1975 Director, Illinois State Library, 1970-75. Associate executive director for administration services, American Library Association, 1967–70. Associate executive director of American Library Association, and executive secretary, Library Administration Division of American Library Association, 1960-67. Executive director of the Catholic Library Association, and Editor of “Catholic Library World," 1956-60. Head, circulation department, University of Pennsylvania Library, 1950–56. Lecturer, Graduate Department of Library Science, Drexel University, 1951-60. Honors Outstanding Alumnus Award, 1963, Drexel Graduate School of Library Science. Special Librarian's Citation, Illinois Library Association, 1965. Mr. FLOOD. Now, you have some people with you you would like to introduce to us? Mrs. MOORE. Yes, sir, Mr. Chairman. The Chairman of our Commission, Dr. Frederick Burkhardt on my left; Executive Director, Mr. Alphonse F. Trezza on my right, and Mr. Jerry Manolatas, who has been helpful in planning previous White House Conferences, and Mrs. Mary Alice Hedge Reszetar our Associate Director. They are all here hopefully to answer any questions which the committee has. Mr. FLOOD. You understand, it's been made very clear to you now, for obvious reasons, we are covering the supplemental and the 1978 request. And I see you have a prepared statement. How are you going to handle that? Mrs. MOORE. I will read a brief statement. Mr. FLOOD. You are going to submit it for the record? Mrs. MOORE. Submit it for the record, yes. Mr. FLOOD. Won't you have two statements? OPENING STATEMENT Mrs. MOORE. Yes; I will submit them both and make a correction in one of them before I submit it. But let me read the very brief statement about what I plan to do. Thank you for this opportunity to appear today on behalf of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. We are here today to testify on two budgets: The regular appropriation for support of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the budget request for the White House Conference on Library and Information Services, and the preceding State conferences, which the National Commission will conduct with the aid of an advisory committee. We have submitted budget justifications for each of the requests. In the interest of saving time, I will not read the testimony I have prepared for the National Commission's regular budget but will summarize the highlights. With the chairman's permission, may we ask that the complete testimony be inserted in the official hearing record. This year, the Commission's request is for $563,000, a $55,000 increase over fiscal year 1977. The increase includes funds for one additional secretarial position and funds to cover normal cost-of-living increases in salaries and in such items as telephones, postage, maintenance, etc. This committee, last year, approved our request for two additional secretaries. You will recall that in the House-Senate Conference Committee, based on recommendation of the Senate, there was a compromise, and we were allowed only one secretarial position. We are again requesting the secretarial position because it is very important to efficient operation of our agency. I would like to state at this point that we have a national constituency which requires a great deal of correspondence in all of the States and territories, in addition to our continuing relations with other Federal agencies, and the regular work of the Commission with its task forces and committees. The Commission has continued on its work toward implementation of the various objectives of the National Program Document, "Toward a National Program for Library and Information Services: Goals for Action." The written testimony summarizes not only the activity for the current year but describes some of the major activity we intend to undertake during fiscal year 1978. I do not wish to deal too briefly with the Commission's budget because it is most important, but because of the limited time and unless there are questions, I will now proceed with my testimony on the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Before I start with this, for the record, I would like to make a correction. On page 3 at the end of the first paragraph, I would like to insert this paragraph which I will read. Mr. FLOOD. Without objection, that will be done, yes. Mrs. MOORE. It should be noted that the proposed schedule calls for the conference to be held late in 1979. The date set by Public Law 93568 was 1978, and in 1974 that provided ample time for the States to organize their conferences, and to plan the national conference in which they will culminate. Now, in order to have the planning time we need, it will be necessary to change the date to 1979 and the Commission will request that this be done as soon as this supplemental appropriation is approved by the Congress. The reason this change was made, of course, was to be able to adequately prepare for the State conference and territorial conferences of which there will be about 57, and the planning time required to have those conferences effectively will necessitate this change. There are a few States now ready to proceed, but most of them will have conferences in 1978 and will be ready then for the 1979 confer ence. I would like to also say, Mr. Chairman, that because of the Commission's work and the fact that we have prepared this National Program Document, and also the studies which the Commission has commissioned, we have a body of materials which will allow for a commonality for the States to study issues that we hope will have them assess where they stand in their library developments as relates to a national network and national program, and by studying the same documents and raising the same issues they will do a far better job than they would if we hadn't had this material. So really, I think it's quite fortunate we have waited as long as we have in many respects to do this conference, because we think it will contribute better to a national policy. [The statements follow:] |