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III. CIRCULATION COUNTED BY VOLUMES (EMBOSSED BOOKS), AND CONTAINERS (TALKING BOOKS), CALENDAR YEAR 1942 (RENEWALS NOT

COUNTED)

Braille

Moon

Talking books

Foreign Music Maga

Total Fiction

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Non

Non

types

bossed

Fiction

fiction

Total

circu

guages

books

lation

1.....

2,628 692

13,601

2,588

24

77

2, 633

22, 243

2,082

605

395 3,082

37

25, 362

12,876

5,851

18,727

44, 089

2.

284

222

2,894

1, 412

795

5,607

79

79

5, 686

13, 558

6,514

20,072

25,753

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150

36

186

3, 211

5, 664

1,991

7,655

10,866

4.

5,020

2,797

8,919

3,993

94

59

6,302

27, 184

1,755

591

136

2,482

29, 666

23, 134

9,720

32,854

62, 520

5

6,518

2, 438

15, 564

6, 223

111

161

3,653

34, 668

752

114

21

887

35, 555

9,718

6,311

16,029

51, 584

6_

2, 255

1, 273

5, 170

2,765

11

9

8,370

19,853

870

463

452

1,785

17

21, 655

14, 476

10, 306

24,782

46, 437

7.

653

138

2,667

797

512

4,767

348

30

45

423

2

5, 192

8,599

4,626

13, 225

18, 417

8

721

69

5,323

2,758

3,208

12,079

71

71

12, 150

3,545

2,349

5,894

18,044

9

1, 435

765

2,333

1, 199

226

1,886

7,844

27

12

39

7,883

9,580

5,711

15, 291

23, 174

10_

(2)

(2)

(2)

(2)

246

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934

6,107

2,042

5, 112

1,518

7

3, 273

18,059

150

26

176

18, 235

24,060

19,012

43,072

61, 307

12.

8, 197

1,363

5,789

1,467

170

863

17,849

17,849

6,036

2, 363

8,399

26, 248

13_

52

37

1,892

803

2

444

3,230

294

61

9

364

3,594

6,593

4,278

10,871

14, 465

115

1,296 434

580

2,425

553

113

28

694

3, 119

5,612

2,526

8,138

11, 257

15

2,856 2, 182

9, 116 4,514

141

3,149 6, 254

28, 212

832

178

373

1,383

29, 595

17,366

13, 113

30,479

60,074

16.

3 260

3 2,454

805

3,519

3,519

(2)

(2)

8,675

12, 194

951

12,931 3,218

2

4

5,828

25,733

4,849

1,512

2,905

9,266

5

35,004

31,965

17,626

49, 591

84, 595

421

3,450

1,072

2

15

1,051

7,742

1,385

193

152

1,730

9,472

11,866

6,375

18, 241

27.713

19.

59

27

487

266

1

103

943

91

40

131

1.074

3,445

2,463

5,908

6,982

20.

4,882

1, 437

5,941

2,472

45

19

1,818

16,614

6,714

2,099

728

9,541

56

26, 211

10, 991

5, 197

16, 188

42, 399

21.

1,639

820

4,919

2,459

1 2,000

11,837

626

209

1 150

985

12,822

10, 242

6,828

17,070

29,892

12

22

1,014

29,910

299

76

375

30, 285

20,503

5,182

25,685

55,970

23.

84

46

576

314

1

374

1,395

1,395

3,304

2,492

5, 796

7, 191

24.

610

561

3,207

1,941

1,644

7,963

287

115

51

453

8,416

11,048

7,426

18,474

26,890

25

11,988

4, 225

5.245

2,005

105

115

391

24, 074

1,754

200

1,954

664

26, 692

8,380

2, 232

10,612

37, 304

26

2,865

811

2,524

1,265

99

6

529

8,099

48

2

9

59

8,158

4,272

3, 221

7,493

15. 651

266

47 1,715

25

24,966 10,895

5,930

16,825

41, 791

824

3,865 61,903 368,345 25,418

6,915

5,527 37,860

806 407,012 288,146 159,913

456, 734

863,746

Library

Grades 1 and 1/4

Grade 2

lan

zines

Fiction

Fiction

fiction

fiction

11.

14.

17.

2,799

18.

1, 731

22.

12, 933

8,979

5, 694

1, 256

27.

5,553 3,873

4, 137

2, 123

7,540

23, 226

1,402

Total...

1 Estimate.

82, 190 36, 255 130, 293 50,056

2 No separate count kept.

3 Items not included at foot of columns.

AGENCIES LENDING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TALKING BOOK MACHINES

Alabama, Talladega:

Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind.

Department for Adult Blind.

Alaska:

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Wash. (acting for Alaska).
Library for the Blind.

Arizona, Tucson: Arizona State School for Deaf and Blind.
Arkansas, Little Rock:

Department of Public Welfare.

Rehabilitation of the Blind.

California, Sacramento: California State Library.

Colorado, Denver: Colorado State Department of Public Welfare, Services for

the Blind.

Connecticut, Hartford: State Board of Education of the Blind.

Delaware, Wilmington: Delaware Commission for the Blind.

District of Columbia, Washington: Dictrict of Columbia Association of Workers

for the Blind.

Florida, Tampa: Florida Council for the Blind.

Georgia, Atlanta : Kriegshaber Library for the Blind.

Hawaii, Honolulu: Bureau of Sight Conservation and Work with the Blind.

Idaho, Boise : Department of Education.

Illinois, Chicago: Division of Visitation of Adult Blind.

Indiana, Indianapolis: Board of Industrial Aid for the Blind.
Iowa, Des Moines: Iowa State Commission for the Blind.
Kansas, Topeka :

Department of Social Welfare.

Division for the Blind.

Kentucky, Louisville: Kentucky Workshop for Adult Blind.
Louisiana, Baton Rouge:

State Department of Public Welfare.

Division of Services for the Blind.

Maine, Augusta : Bureau of Health and Welfare.
Maryland, Baltimore: Maryland Workshop for the Blind.
Massachusetts, Boston:

Department of Education.

Division of the Blind.

Michigan (Wayne County), Detroit: Wayne County Library.

Michigan (outside Wayne County), Saginaw: Michigan Employment Institu

tion for the Blind.

Minnesota, St. Paul:

Department of Social Security.

Division of Social Welfare.

Bureau of Aid to the Blind.

Mississippi, Jackson :

Mississippi State Department of Public Welfare.
Division for the Blind.

Missouri, St. Louis: Service Club for the Blind, Inc.
Montana, Helena:

State Department of Public Welfare.
Division of Services for the Blind.

Nebraska. Nebraska City: Nebraska School for the Blind.

Nevada: California State Library (acting for Nevada), Sacramento, Calif.

New Hampshire, Concord:

Department of Public Welfare.

Division of Blind Services.

New Jersey, Newark: New Jersey Commission for the Blind.

New Mexico, Santa Fe:

Department of Public Welfare.

Division of Services to the Blind.

New York, New York City: New York State Commission for the Blind.

North Carolina, Raleigh: North Carolina State Commission for the Blind.

North Dakota, Bathgate: State School for the Blind.

Ohio, Columbus: Ohio Commission for the Blind.

Oklahoma, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Commission for the Adult Blind.

Oregon, Portland: Oregon Blind Trade School and Commission for the Blind. Pennsylvania, Harrisburg: State Council for the Blind.

Puerto Rico, San Juan: Blind Institute, Department of Health.

Rhode Island, Providence:

State Department of Social Welfare.

Bureau for the Blind.

South Carolina, Columbia: Association of the Blind of South Carolina.

South Dakota, Pierre:

Department of Social Security.

Division of Public Assistance.

Tennessee, Nashville:

Department of Public Welfare.

Division of Public Assistance.

Texas, Austin: Texas State Commission for the Blind.
Utah, Salt Lake City: Utah School for the Adult Blind.
Vermont, Montpelier:

State Department of Public Welfare.

Home Teacher for the Blind.

Virginia, Richmond: Virginia Commission for the Blind.

Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas: Superintendent of Public Welfare. Virgin Islands, Christiansted, St. Croix: Superintendent of Public Welfare.

Washington, Olympia:

Department of Social Security.

Division for the Blind.

West Virginia, Charleston: State Department of Public Assistance.
Wisconsin, Milwaukee :

State Department of Public Welfare.

Division for Adult Blind.

Wyoming, Cheyenne:

Department of Education.

Division for Deaf and Blind.

Distribution of talking-book machines | Nebraska.

to the States, Feb. 23, 1944

156

Nevada__

17

New Hampshire_.

100

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

451 New Jersey.

758

14 New Mexico__

74

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Arkansas

California

257 North Carolina

852

969 North Dakota

97

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REPAIR OF TALKING BOOK MACHINES

The obligations under the appropriation of $20,000 for the current fiscal year for the maintenance and replacement of talking book machines, as of January

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7,859.29

Balance Feb. 1, 1944.

Estimated obligations through June 30, 1944.

(At the average cost for repairs of $5.09 during the first 7 months of the current fiscal year, this will permit the repair of about 1,545 machines for the period February through June 1944.)

It is estimated by our 55-State lending agencies that there will be at least 1,608 additional machines requiring repairs during the balance of the current fiscal year.

The estimated cost would be : 1,608 machines, at $5.09 each, $8,184.72. Moreover, the 9-year-old machines from the first and second lots (distributed in 1935-36) are now beginning to wear out rapidly. Many of them must be withdrawn from circulation. We may be obliged, therefore, in the near future, to request additional funds for this purpose.

Complementing and supplementing the selection, procurement and distribution of press-brailled books is the work of the Volunteer Braille Transcribing Service which enables the Library to provide hand-copied books in single copies, produced by volunteer groups instructed and directed by the Library of Congress. This service, formerly under the joint sponsorship of the Library and the American Red Cross, has been administered solely by the Library since January 1, 1943. During the fiscal year 1943, the Braille Transcribing Service produced 827 single-copy books and gave approximately 2,016 lessons in braille transcription. FEBRUARY 24, 1944.

EQUIPMENT

Mr. O'NEAL. I notice the item of "Equipment" is $326,270. That represents the material that you send out, does it?

Mr. ROGERS. Yes, sir; those are the books.

Mr. O'NEAL. There is nothing else included but the books and the records?

Mr. ROGERS. That is correct.

PRINTING AND BINDING, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Mr. O'NEAL. We will take up the item, "Printing and binding," for which in the fiscal year 1944 there was appropriated $270,000. Your revised estimate for 1945 is in the amount of $350,300. Prior to your revised estimate you had submitted an estimate of $395,875.

We would be glad to have you explain that.

Mr. MACLEISH. This is the largest single item we have, and I think I can summarize it very quickly.

URGENT NEED FOR REBINDING OF BOOKS

This is an old story to the committee, it is an old story to us, and it is a sad story to us. Briefly, the situation as regards binding is this: As a general rule, we take in about 60,000 volumes of new material which we have to bind. That material cannot be used unless it is bound.

Over and above that, however, there is a continuing binding of material, such as Dr. James has described, material which must be rebound because otherwise it cannot be used. It has deteriorated to such an extent that, if it is not rebound, it cannot be used.

We brought over some examples of these books, that I can show you, but I will not stop now unless the chairman would like me to do so.

EXTENT OF BINDING NECESSARY AND COST OF BINDING

The picture, under the appropriation act, is briefly that we had formerly an appropriation which enabled us to handle our new binding and also to rebind about 10,000 volumes, which is the rate of mortality, as we figure it, of old volumes which need rebinding. That appropriation was cut last year. At the same time, binding costs went up, with the result that, last year, when we got through with our new binding, we were only able to rebind something over 3,000 volumes of old material. When we first made our estimates for this fiscal year that is, for the bill which is now under consideration-we did not have before us unit costs. The Government Printing Office did not give us unit costs. It gave us general bills for the work. We figured out as well as we could what we thought the unit costs were and used those in the figures which we originally put in.

We have now gotten unit costs from the Government Printing Office. They have told us that $4 will cover a full binding; $1.50 will cover a quarter binding, and for newspapers the cost is $3.50. On the basis of those costs we are able to cut the figure from the original one of $395,000 to the one that is now submitted of $350,300. For the $350,300, we could do the following things next year. We could give full binding to about 54,000 volumes. We could give quarter binding to about 13,500. I will not go into the technical differences between these two, except to say that the quarter binding is binding in which the stitching is by machine and the cover is pasted on. The life of the volume is not long. Full binding is necessary for valuable books and it is certainly necessary for old books which require rebinding.

Mr. O'NEAL. What is the cost per book?

Mr. MACLEISH. On page 47 of our estimates as they are now redrafted, the full binding is submitted at $4 per unit; the quarter binding at $1.50 per unit, and the newspapers at $3.50.

Mr. O'NEAL. And who does that work?

Mr. MACLEISH. The branch-binding office of the Government Printing Office.

Mr. O'NEAL. What was the unit cost before?

Mr. MACLEISH. This is the first time we have ever gotten any unit

costs.

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