On page 33 of the justification book we are asking for one position for the microfilm reading room. As the Library acquires more and more material on microfilm and microprint or microcards, it takes some additional staff. We have not had any addition here for many years, while the number of microfilm reels, microcards, and microprints in the collection has increased from 186,445 to 359,833.

We are asking for a deck attendant at GS-3 to locate and serve items to readers and shelve new items, reshelve used materials, accession and perforate newly received microfilm, label containers, and arrange and file cards in the special catalogs in the room.

I request that the table at the top of page 34, showing the increase in workload here, be inserted in the record, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. STEED. Without objection, the table will be inserted at this point.

(The table follows:)

In the last 5 years there have been the following increases:

Mr. MUMFORD. We now come to the Manuscript Division, for which we are asking four positions. The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress has one of the largest and richest collections in the country. Therefore, it seems essential that its collections be included in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, which is being compiled under a grant from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., to which the principal historical societies and principal libraries of the United States are contributing descriptions of their collections.

The fulfillment of the responsibility of the Library of Congress to list its manuscript collections in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections requires additional staff. At the present time there are almost 1,500 collections and 3,300 single items in the Manuscript Division for which no description exists. These collections need describing or arranging or both preparatory to submitting manuscript data sheets to the catalogers of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections for the preparation of cards.

There are 841 collections sufficiently well arranged so that qualified personnel could draft descriptions which would be satisfactory for cataloging purposes. After this is completed, we contemplate the remaining 640 unarranged collections can be worked off gradually. This National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections is and will be an extremely valuable tool to research workers and scholars throughout the country in ascertaining where material is located in manuscript form. We have had a National Union Catalog of Books for many years, but it was possible to bring this National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections into being only through a grant from the Council on Library Resources.

Mr. HORAN. Who compiles that?

Mr. MUMFORD. The Library compiles it with staff that is sup

ported by the grant from the Council on Library Resources.

Mr. BASLER. I might add this. It will not simply mean that this National Union Catalog will make the material more available for scholars elsewhere; it will help in serving the material to the people who come to the Library of Congress. We have acquired a great many collections of manuscripts over the past, and this is the first time we have ever been put under the gun, so to speak, to catalog our own collections. We have had the collections there. If people come in, they say, "What do you have?" We say, "You can look."

This movement by all the manuscript depositories in the country to make this national catalog has placed on us the obligation to do something. We have never had the staff to arrange and describe these collections for cataloging. These positions will put this material in a catalog form where it will be much more readily available for service in the Library itself.

Mr. HORAN. This appropriation then is for manuscripts in your own possession? Mr. BASLER. That is right.

Mr. HORAN. But the National Union Catalog includes other libraries and their materials?

Mr. BASLER. Yes, sir.

Mr. HORAN. Even private libraries in the city of Washington?
Mr. BASLER. Yes, and State historical libraries, and so on.

Mr. STEED. Once you have completed this cataloging and have it in

being, will you need this much staff to keep it current?

Mr. BASLER. The continuing process here is one which will go over many years. It is going to be an awfully long time before we get all our material cataloged and arranged for cataloging.

Mr. MUMFORD. I think the committee is familiar with the type of collection we are talking about. For instance, the personal papers of Admiral Leahy or the papers of the Wright brothers. We have the papers of 23 of the Presidents, but provision has already been made for arranging and microfilming them. We are concerned here with the papers of people who have been prominent in our national life, who have made an impact upon the national scene, such as Cabinet officers, military leaders, or outstanding scientists and literary people.

The purpose of this catalog is to describe the collection, not to inventory every piece in the collection, but to describe the collection in such a way that it can be better serviced here and that the person at a distance will know where the material relating to a particular person is located.

Mr. MUMFORD. Shall I proceed?

Mr. STEED. Yes.

POSITION FOR ORIENTALIA DIVISION

Mr. MUMFORD. We are asking for one GS-5 processing and reference assistant in the Near East Section, Orientalia Division. The Near East Section covers a wide area. I will not read all the countries, but on page 36 of the justifications you will see the area that the Near East Section covers.

The staff now consists of the Section Head, responsible for administrative and high-level reference work, and a staff of three reference

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librarians and a clerk. Each of the reference librarians has a language and area specialty-Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. The position requested will free the reference librarians for higher level and more prompt reference, bibliographical, and acquisitions recommending duties in this important geographical area.

This position is needed primarily to perform custodial and processing duties, including the receipt and recording of incoming materials in the several languages, shelving and reshelving material, searching items in connection with acquisition recommendations, sorting by title newspapers and periodicals in the various languages, preparing material for binding-some 500 to 600 serial titles, including newspapers, are currently received and bringing up to date the serial record of the Near East Section. At present there are 250 serial titles for which the issues received are completely unrecorded.

The collection in the custody of the Near East Section comprises about 33,400 volumes and over 1,000 bound newspaper volumes. There is a workload table on page 38 which shows the increased use in this area. I would request that the top part of page 38 be inserted in the record.

Mr. STEED. Without objection we will include it at this point in the record.

(The table above referred to follows:)

Increases in workload are shown below:

Mr. MUMFORD. The next items are to provide adequate clerical assistance in the Map and the Science and Technology Divisions. We are asking for one GS-4 clerk-typist in the Map Division, and one GS-5 secretary in the Science and Technology Division.

The Map Division, with a staff of 19, has only one secretarial position to provide secretarial and clerical services for the entire Division. This includes serving as secretary to both the Chief and Assistant Chief of the Division, keeping time, leave, and payroll records, serving as receptionist, answering more than 500 telephone calls per month, typing between 160 and 175 letters, memorandums, or publications per month, maintaining the files, et cetera.

The GS-4 clerk-typist requested is needed to relieve higher level personnel from typing their own work and from performing timeconsuming clerical tasks.

Then in the Science and Technology Division, a secretary is urgently needed for the two GS-15 science specialists who work on congressional requests with the senior specialist in science of the Legislative Reference Service. These specialists conduct studies on scientific subjects requiring high level research and reference work. The typing workload alone for these two science specialists is illustrated by the fact that in the fiscal year 1960 they prepared in final form nine special studies, some of them for Congress, which totaled 2,120 pages, and each study required from one to three drafts so that more than 5,300 pages had to be typed.

Mr. STEED. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.)

ADDITIONAL POSITIONS IN LAW LIBRARY

Mr. MUMFORD. We are asking for one position at the GS-13 level and one GS-5 secretary to enable the Law Librarian to meet his responsibilities as General Counsel for the Library.

The Law Librarian directs the work of the Law Library and, as the General Counsel of the Library, he advises the Librarian on a variety of important legal matters, involving questions concerning the use of appropriated, transferred, gift, and trust funds, the settlement of claims arising under the Federal Torts Claims Act, and the interpretation of decisions of the Comptroller General. He collaborates with the Department of Justice in the preparation of cases for trial in which the Library is a party in interest, represents the librarian in conferences on legal matters, and prepares or reviews proposed legislation affecting the Library. He has had no assistance in this vital work over the years except for occasional help from the Chief of the American-British Law Division.

The increasing magnitude and variety of Library operations, and the growing complexity of Federal operations generally have resulted in an increasing number of legal problems which require high-level attention on a full-time basis. The Law Librarian, who serves as General Counsel, has given untold hours of voluntary overtime to these legal problems because his normal working days must be largely devoted to the administration of the Law Library. A full-time lawyer with broad legal knowledge and experience is very much needed to assist in work on the variety of complex problems of law that arise from day to day and secretarial assistance must also be provided.

I could give you some examples of the type of things that the Law Librarian is called upon for. This is not exhaustive by any means. In fact, Mr. Chairman, I would like to request permission to insert a list in the record, but I would just like to mention a few types of things he is called upon to render an opinion on :

The Federal Tort Claims Act: tort liability arising from Government agency projects undertaken by the Library. Opinion accepted by the Department of Defense.

Claim of Library of Congress against National Library for the Blind, Inc., for payment of certain corporate funds. Comment on Department of Justice memorandum, 14 pages.

Claims of DeWald Radio Manufacturing Corp. for additional compensation under a contract for the manufacture of talking book machines.

Problems relating to bonding of Library employees under Public Law 323, 84th Congress.

Sorgenstein v. United States et al., power of Librarian to remove by reduction in force.

Barger v. Mumford, a 30-page letter discussing issues with the Department of Justice.

Memorandum setting out the position of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board on H.R. 7415. This was the Vermont trust and involved the question of whether the Trust Fund Board should or could waive its interest as a contingent beneficiary.

Every day and week there are many questions that arise of a legal nature as to the operation of the Library, and the Law Librarian, in addition to his regular duties in administering the Law Library, simply does not have the time to devote to this, and we need a separate position for this purpose.

I would like to request permission to put a list in the record.
Mr. STEED. We will accept it at this point.

(The list follows:)

SOME RECENT ADVISORY OPINIONS AND LEGAL MEMORANDUMS

Federal Tort Claims Act; tort liability arising from Government agency projects undertaken by the Library.

Claim of Library of Congress against National Library for the Blind, Inc., for payment of certain corporate funds-Comment on Department of Justice memorandum, 14 pages.

Proposed bill to amend an act to provide books for the adult blind (2 U.S.C. 135a), 2 pages. Legal justification.

Employment of blind employees by the Division for the Blind, pursuant to an agreement between the Library of Congress and the National Library for the Blind, Inc., 20 pages.

Legal principles having relevancy to the Library's talking book program, 10 pages.

Personal injury in Coolidge Auditorium-Application of Federal Tort Claims Act, 4 pages.

Comments on proposals regarding registration and deposit in the copyright revision, 27 pages.

Depository library bill, H.R. 13140-Analysis of certain provisions of bill, 30 pages.

Legislative history of recent amendments to section 104 of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (Public Law 480), 16 pages.

Legislative history of subsections (k) and (n) in section 104 of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480), 31 pages. Problems related to bonding of Library employees under Public Law 323, 84th Congress, 11 pages.

Sorgenstein v. United States et. al.-Power of Librarian to remove by reduction in force, 27 pages.

Barger v. Mumford (letter discussing issues with Department of Justice), 30 pages.

Barger v. Mumford. - Comments on draft of appellee's brief. Two memos, 21 pages and 6 pages.

Barger v. Mumford. - Brief for appellee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit No. 14653. Leslie L. Barger, appellant, versus L. Quincy Mumford, appellee, 65 printed pages. (General Counsel of Library named as participating author).

H.R. 764, a bill to amend section 170(b) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain charitable contributions to libraries, Two memos, 14 pages and 7 pages.

Memorandum (to House committee) setting out the position of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board on H.R. 7415, 27 pages. (Also to Senate committee on S. 1321.)

Fine arts chair-Proposed application of cy pres doctrine to fine arts trust, 10

pages.

Comments on H.R. 4059 (copyright infringement bill).

Draft of general order concerning policies and procedures governing grievances and appeals, 28 pages.