Mr. Bow. Where are we likely to get into trouble? Mr. ROSSITER. This is where we lose control. Mr. Bow. Explain reallocation. Just what is done on a reallocation? Mr. MUMFORD. A classifier reviews a position, the duties and the functions of a position, in the light of the standards promulgated by the Civil Service Commission and reaches a determination as to whether the position is undergraded, overgraded, or correctly graded. Mr. Bow. Who is the classifier? Is it an employee of the Library of Congress or of the Civil Service Commission? Mr. MUMFORD. Of the Library, but the Civil Service Commission audits the actions of the Library. Mr. Bow. You have people who are classifiers in the Library of Congress? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes. Mr. Bow. They make a study of a particular job? Mr. MUMFORD. They are trained and experienced in the application of the standards of the Civil Service Commission. Mr. Bow. How does this classifier determine what classification an employee should be? What are their yardsticks and benchmarks? Mr. MUMFORD. They have manuals of classification with lengthy descriptions of the jobs and the degree of responsibility and duties which are their guideposts. Mr. Bow. Is that determined from what other libraries are paying in similar positions? Mr. MUMFORD. It is determined by what has been adopted by the Civil Service Commission as a standard for that type of position, including library positions; yes. Mr. Bow. That is all. Mr. HORAN. I notice on page 117 that your average GS grade there is 8.7. Is that determined by the Library or by the Defense Department largely? Mr. MUMFORD. In these divisions are a great many specialists requiring scientific backgrounds, linguistic backgrounds, so that it is rather natural that the grade level would be higher than the average. Mr. HORAN. You do have control of that? Mr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir. Mr. HORAN. There is one other question brought up by the matter of cleaning the building. What is the main material of which the exterior of the old Library of Congress Building is made? Mr. Gooch. Granite. Mr. HORAN. That will not yield to the same treatment we had on portions of the Capitol, will it? Mr. Gooch. I doubt that it would. As a matter of fact, it is very rough surface granite and may take some special technique that goes. beyond that used on some of the other buildings. Mr. HORAN. That is all. Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, before we leave the matter of reallocations, I cannot emphasize too much how important this matter is to the library because otherwise, if we do not have the money to meet this gap, it means the loss of approximately 40 positions and more next year. The Mr. STEED. Now we will go to the budget, item by item, the first being the main item, "Salaries and expenses of the Library." first item and main appropriation is on page 5 of the justifications and page 89 of the committee print. We shall insert pages 5 through 10 at this point in the record. (The pages follow:) 1961 regular bill____ 1961 adjusted____ 1962 estimate____. Net increase_ $7, 667, 800 455,000 8, 122, 800 8, 510, 200 +387,400 Analysis of increases 1. Ingrade increases, reallocations, and wage board increases For projected increase in salary level for 1962 over 1961 +$175,000 For reallocations to meet deficiencies resulting from reallocations in fiscal years 1959 and 1960 in excess of amounts appropriated therefor___ Total requested__. 2. Binding-pay increase at Government Printing Office____ Women binders at the Government Printing Office were granted an 8-cent-an-hour pay increase effective in May 1960. Men bookbinders were granted an 11-cent-an-hour pay increase effective in August 1960. The GPO estimates the annual costs for these pay increases at $3,300 which will be passed on to the Library of Congress in the form of increased bills for binding services. 3. Rental of additional tabulating equipment____ To meet additional workload due to overall increase in Library staff, application of equipment to new projects and increasing complexity of Federal procedures, increases annual equipment rental costs from $34,800 to $47,800. 4. Rental of space__ An additional $55,000 required to provide space rental and related costs for 1962 for 12-month period as compared with provision for 9-months for 1961. This amount is offset by $52,000 in nonrecurring costs to be financed from 1961 funds. 5. New positions requested__. To maintain currency in filing in the card catalogs, 2 GS-4 and 2 GS-3 Contribution to retirement fund____ Group life insurance. Contribution to health insurance__. Total, Processing Department (10 positions) Reference Department: To maintain adequate reference and circulation service and 1 GS-7, 3 GS-5, and 1 GS-3__ Contribution to retirement fund__ Group life insurance__ Contribution to health insurance____ +3,300 +13,000 +3,000 +193, 100 $15, 642 52 221 16,932 18,407 61 221 19, 885 6, 406 6,954 43, 771 22, 172 73 275 Total. 23, 961 To provide secretarial and processing assistance in the 1 GS-5 Contribution to retirement fund____ Group life insurance__. Contribution to health insurance_. Total Total, Law Library (4 positions). Administrative Department: To strengthen tabulating staff to meet new and expanded requirements, Accounting Office: 1 GS-4 and 1 GS-3. Contribution to retirement fund. Group life insurance_. Contribution to health insurance__ Total. To provide minimum staff for general labor and house- 8,403 27 111 9,087 $62, 431 14, 997 49 111 16, 132 7,571 492 25 55 8, 143 4, 347 282 14 55 4, 698 28,973 7,821 111 8,466 Total... 11, 575 Total, Office of the Librarian (4 positions). 29, 395 Total positions listed above (38) - 193, 100 Total increases. +387,400 Mr. STEED. This shows that for 1961 the regular bill totals $7,677,800, with the supplemental of $455,000, bringing that to a 1961 adjusted total of $8,122,800. The budget estimate for 1962 is $8,510,200, making a net increase of $387,400. REALLOCATION AND INGRADE INCREASES You have already discussed at some length the ingrade increases, reallocations, and wage board increases accounting for $175,000 of this increase. Are these reallocations already in effect or are they anticipated to come, or just what is the situation? Mr. MUMFORD. Those for which we are asking money for 1959 and 1960 are already in effect. The others are in progress at the present time, and the additional figure is based upon the estimate of reallocations in progress and for the coming year. Mr. STEED. Is it your estimate then that this $175,000, if approved, would take care of those now in effect and those that you see coming up during this period? Would that put you on a current basis? Mr. ROGERS. The amount we have requested would just take care of us through this fiscal year and should take care of next year's ingrades, but for reallocations we may be low in our estimates for next year as we were in 1959 and 1960, which we now have had a chance to review and have a firm figure to give to the committee. We are looking ahead and know we have some heavy increases coming up, but we are not yet asking for those increases. We know that next year there are some reallocations that are going to cover a great many people in certain classifications. Mr. STEED. In other words, this item deals only with those now in effect? Mr. ROGERS. 1959, 1960, 1961, and what we know so far about 1962. Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, would it be inappropriate for me to ask that the statement regarding reallocations, which is on pages 62 to 65, be placed in the record so it will give an integrated picture of this? Mr. STEED. Without objection, we will insert that. (The pages follow :) Increases requested, $175,000 From year to year the general salary level of employees increases from a variety of causes apart from general Government salary increases. These causes include ingrade increases, wage board increases, and reallocations of positions and similar Classification Act actions. During recent years Congress has generously granted requests made by the Library for increases justified on the basis of these causative factors. For example, $64,215 was authorized for fiscal 1959 under this appropriation head, $68,245 for 1960, and $77,244 for 1961. However, an analysis of funds available to finance all the positions authorized by Congress indicates that the amounts requested in recent years to meet the cost of ingrades, wage board increases, and reallocations fall substantially short of meeting actual costs. This is due for the most part to the failure of the Library to recognize the impact of a somewhat accelerated reallocation program which was mandatory for the Library in view of clear findings of existing grade levels very much below levels existing elsewhere and very much below the levels authorized by classification standards. |