OBJECTIVES OF PLAN

Dr. BOORSTIN. If we are to avoid being drowned in our own intellectual productivity, if we are to make effective use of our wealth of knowledge, we must put this coherent scheme into effect as soon as possible. Under our plan, each of our three buildings is an essential integrated part. We have designed our plan to take advantage of existing spaces but relate them to one another in new ways-and so help all users find their way into our growing collections.

During the last year we have worked closely with the Architect and his staff to develop plans to renovate and restore the Library of Congress Building. Integral with our master plan is the program to make the Thomas Jefferson Building serve more effectively as the book-storage building for which it was originally designed. Our comprehensive plan has three objectives:

(1) to restore and renovate the Library of Congress Building to serve as an effective and inspiring centerpiece for a 3-building system, (2) to bring the original Library of Congress Building and the Thomas Jefferson Building into compliance with up-to-date lifesafety codes, and (3) to remove present fire hazards, eliminate present inappropriate uses of space, and refit exhibit halls, reading rooms, book stacks, and office and service areas for their proper

uses.

While adequate up-to-date fire protection is costly, it is a cost that we cannot avoid. We must protect our staff and the public from the hazards of fire and other safety defects. We would be remiss in our duty to preserve the national collections if we did not use the latest technology to provide protection from fire and other hazards. In the recent past lack of space and the need to keep space in constant use has made it impossible for us to provide such protection.

MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA

We now describe the 3-building Capitol Hill complex of the Library of Congress as a dynamic Multimedia Encyclopedia. That is the plan that I have shown you, Mr. Chairman. The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Building will serve as the "index" and will be the principal point of entry for scholars to the collections of the Library of Congress.

The large rooms on the first floor of the Library of Congress Building surrounding the Main Reading Room will be dedicated to culture and literature with appropriate reference specialists to assist readers, on the second floor in comparable space, specialists, services, and collections will be dedicated to American and European civilization. The first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building will provide reading rooms and collections on Asian, African and Middle Eastern civilizations. Science and Technology and the Social Services divisions and reading rooms will be on the fifth floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building. The Madison Building will house reading rooms, staff, and services associated with the Performing and Fine Arts, Geography and Maps, Law, Manuscripts,

Motion Pictures, Prints and Photographs, Newspapers and Current Periodicals.

When the two buildings are restored and renovated and added to the Madison Building and the above plan fulfilled, the Library of Congress "Multimedia Encyclopedia" will be an instrument of research for intellectual exploration and for the retrieval of knowledge and information unequaled anywhere on earth.

Thank you.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Do you think the same orations will be made on April 24th with the opening of the James Madison Memorial Building that were made back there in 1897?

Dr. BOORSTIN. I don't know how many people will still imagine themselves ever coming before the judgment seat of God, but with that variant it is possible that some reverent souls might express that view. We would hope so. We would like people to feel that way about our Library.

PLAN FOR RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS

Mr. BENJAMIN. There is $7 million requested for the beginning of the renovation and restoration of the Main and Jefferson Buildings. Last year the initial request was for $3.25 million. The committee allowed $250,000 and directed that a complete and comprehensive plan be developed so that the total cost and schedule would be known. Has the plan been developed? What are the main components of the plan, and what will the total cost be, and how long will it take to complete?

Mr. WELSH. I will begin to answer that question and then Mr. White will respond, Mr. Benjamin. We did develop the plan. We have presented the plan to your committee. It looks like this (showing published plan). It is a long-term plan from 1981 through 1985. Mr. White has affixed a total cost of $57 million to it, plus an amount of $3.5 million for additional costs for the Library of Congress.

COORDINATED PLAN DEVELOPED

Mr. WHITE. I might say, Mr. Chairman, that this detailed and diligent investigation was carried out as a result of some of the comments that were made at our hearing last year with regard to a total plan, so that there were no loose ends that we could reasonably foresee that wouldn't be included, so that the committee would be aware of the total dollars that we are talking about. Because we haven't had an opportunity to go further with the funds that were appropriated last year, we are still basing this on schematic information.

We tried as a result of many meetings among many of the people, both in the Library and in my office, to be as conservative as we can, and by conservative I mean to add additional costs where necessary, so that we wouldn't be self-deceptive with regard to the cost. We have added escalation over the period of time in which this is intended to be accomplished. We broke it down on the basis of so many dollars to be expended for each year, beginning with fiscal year '81 and extending all the way through to '87 for the entire program.

PLAN SHOWN IN MATRIX FORM

We have it broken down in a matrix form which involves various items, such as cleaning and renovation of the exhibit and public areas, alteration for interim occupancy, restoration of the interior, including the restoration of the art work and statues, a fire protection system, broken down also into sprinklers and into other kinds of fire protection work.

The renovation of the Coolidge Auditorium, the renovation or the restoration of the exterior of the building where necessary, and various miscellaneous improvements, such as the cleaning of the bronze doors, audiovisual connections between the new building and the old building, refurbishing the elevators, the installation of storm windows, a master lock system, graphics, data cabling system, the revolving-door replacement. That is in the main building.

Then we went to the Jefferson Building and have a similar list. It varies, of course, in detail, so that we tried to include everything that we could possibly think of that would be necessary over the next half-dozen years. We think we have encompassed it all. We may have missed something, but we have a contingency factor built in for that purpose of 20 percent, and in some cases 15 percent, in some cases only 10 percent, where we felt we were closer to knowing the actual amount that would be necessary. This number that we proposed, or the dollar amount that we have come up with, Mr. Chairman, is based upon our doing the bulk of this work with so-called in-house forces, as we did House Office Building Annex No. 2. We feel that the experience we have gained there has enabled us to save a great deal of money not only there but in this building as well, particularly since the building will remain occupied, as well as because of the kind of work that needs to be done in restoration.

We believe that the kinds of charges that outside contractors will make as unknowns arise and as time delays occur because of changes necessary in scheduling in an occupied building, would result in massive cost to the government through claims on the part of contractors as the contract itself begins to vary. That is how we are proposing to do it. This is probably $14 million less than the estimate we made the other way, that is, through the use of outside contractors.

We estimated it being done by an outside contractor or outside contractors, and it was an additional $14 million beyond this $57 million. That is without presuming claims but merely direct costs that we think would accrue as a result of our inability to tightly control the activities of the construction process ourselves. We think we have done an extensive, a diligent and a responsive amount of work in order to present the committee with a full picture of what is involved.

In terms of the Library's needs, as I mentioned last year, it turns out that they are compatible with what we believe are the needs, architecturally, for the restoration of the building. It is indeed a national treasure. As the Librarian described, except for the Capitol building, it is a unique building and a treasure of the United States.

Mr. BENJAMIN. I don't think we disagree, except we have also got to worry about all of the national Treasury.

Mr. WHITE. Of course, and we are certainly cognizant of that. I would say, however, that if there is to be restoration done, as I think you may agree, the longer it is postponed the more it is going to cost. Now, individual items here the committee might in its judgment decide ought to be either deferred or eliminated, but certain items we feel are a necessity.

FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAM

The fire protection program in particular, for example. The elimination of the partitions and some of the ceilings, which are destroying the appearance, and were installed for a valid purpose at the time will result in needed repair. Once those are removed there is repair work obviously going to be necessary in order to restore those places where the building has been damaged in some way by the installation originally.

ART WORK PROGRAM

Some of the repair of the art work, for example, might be deferred; some of the frescoes or some of the paintings on plaster that aren't frescoes but that need to be restored are an item that the committee may conclude is not a necessity. There are some judgments of that nature that could be made to reduce the initial cost.

We have prepared this budget for the total program, and we have tried to break it down over a period of time in which we felt that the funds necessary each year would be within a reasonable range in terms of budgeting. We tried not to postpone those items which would in our judgment escalate more than others. On the other hand, we felt that because the building is going to be occupied, we can't do it all at once anyway, and therefore we ought to proceed in stages a minimum of 5 years, and we extended it then to 1987 for those items which could be deferred that long without appreciably increasing cost based on escalation.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Let me see if I understand what has happened. We have appropriated $250,000 for planning and design work which have not been used.

Mr. WHITE. That is correct.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Instead, you have come up with the basis of a plan in the program statement that you have submitted to the subcommittee. You say if we don't get started, we are going to lose some $6 million, if I recall your figures.

Mr. WHITE. That is correct.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT DIVISION

Mr. BENJAMIN. Due to inflation. The first year you would propose to spend about $4.5 million for architect and engineering fees, $250,000 of which was the consulting fee that we thought you needed. The CMD services are what?

Mr. WHITE. Construction Management Division. That would be our Construction Management Division which would be involved in