which is an increase of $36,836,900 and 526 additional positions over the 1978 appropriations and pending supplements for 1978.

INTRODUCTION OF STAFF MEMBERS

Dr. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress and members of his staff are present. Dr. Boorstin, I would appreciate it if you would introduce the people that you have with you.

Dr. BOORSTIN. On my right is Mr. Donald Curran, the Assistant Librarian of Congress. On my left is the Deputy Librarian of Congress, Mr. William Welsh; on the other side of him is Mr. Joseph Howard, Director of the Processing Department.

Other people present-shall I introduce them now, Mr. Chairman?

Dr. BENJAMIN. Please do.

Dr. BOORSTIN. Alan Fern, Director of the Research Department; and Carleton Kenyon, who is the Law Librarian; Fred Croxton, Director of the Reader Services Department; Mr. Gilbert Gude, Director of the CRS; Mr. Frank McGowan, Assistant Director (Acquisitions and Overseas Operations), Processing Department; Mr. John Hemperley, Budget Officer; and Carol Nemeyer, who, by the way, has never been to one of these hearings before. She has just joined us in the last few months. She is our Assistant Librarian of Congress for Public Education.

Edmond Applebaum, Director, Administrative Department; and Mr. Alan Jabbour, who is the Director of the new American Folklife Center.

There are some other staff in the other room, and I will introduce them, if I may, when they come in.

[The following was supplied by the Library of Congress:]

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Biographies

Carol A. Nemeyer, Assistant Librarian of Congress for Public Education

Carol A. Nemeyer, well known in publishing, library, and education circles, joined the staff of the Library of Congress as the Assistant Librarian of Congress for Public Education in September 1977. Long a friend of the Library, she had been a member of the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Advisory Committee since 1971 and had served in 1976-77 as a member of the Publishers Advisory Group to the Librarian of Congress.

A native New Yorker, Dr. Nemeyer attended Berea College in Kentucky and Long Island University, receiving a B.A. from the latter in 1949. She earned a master's degree and a doctorate in library science from Columbia University. From the beginning of her professional career she has combined publishing and librarianship. She was reference and cataloging librarian of McGraw-Hill, Inc., from 1962 to 1964 and assistant librarian 1964-68.

From 1971 to 1977 she was Senior Associate at the Association of American Publishers, Inc., coordinating education and library services and activities and serving as Director of the General Publishing Division and the Direct Marketing/Book Club Division. In 1971-72 she was program coordinator of the Educational Media Selection Centers Program and in 1971-75 the Research Director of the National Book Committee, Inc. A member of the American Library Association, she received the Association's Esther J. Piercy Award in 1972 and in 1976 she shared the Resources Scholarship Award of the Resources and Technical Services Division of ALA. She is a member and officer of the Special Libraries Association and holds membership also in the New York Technical Services Librarians, the New York Library Association, the American Society for Information Science, and the American Printing History Association. She currently serves as chairman of the ALA RTSD nominating committee and is a member of the RTSD board. Recently she was elected to a five-year term as trustee member of the board of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO).

A frequent contributor to professional journals, she has been an assistant editor of the Special Library Association's What's New in Advertising and Marketing and was co-author of a Guide to the Development of Educational Media Selection Centers (1973). In 1972 the R. R. Bowker Company published her Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, the first in depth study of the reprint industry, for which she did the basic research as work toward her doctorate.

Dr. Nemeyer and her husband, Sheldon Nemeyer, a television news producer, reside in Falls Church, Virginia.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Biographies

J. Michael Carrigan, Jr., Exhibits Officer

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J. Michael Carrigan, Jr., joined the staff of the Library of Congress as Exhibits Officer in January 1977. Mr. Carrigan came to the Library from the National Portrait Gallery where he had designed over 135 exhibitions.

A native of Atchison, Kansas, Mr. Carrigan studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and then spent three years at Hallmark International in Kansas City, where he was Director of Design for their three fine arts galleries. There he designed a wide variety of exhibits, including "Greco-Roman Antiquities" and "The Art of Steuben."

He joined the Smithsonian Institution in 1967 as Chief of Design for the Sales Exhibition Galleries, designing three museum shops and 61 major gallery sales exhibitions. In 1971, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Exhibits Design and Production and, in 1973, Chief of Exhibits for the National Portrait Gallery, where he was responsible for the interior design of the Grand Hall, a restoration project that took three years to complete. His exhibits there include "The Dye Is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence, 1774-1776" and "Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914."

Mr. Carrigan's free lance design clients have included the Nelson Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art and the B'nai B'rith Bicentennial Exhibition. He has also been a consultant to the U. S. Treasury Department, the National Armed Forces Museum, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Mr. Carrigan resides with his wife, Lisa, and two children in Alexandria, Virginia.

Thomas William Novotny, Deputy Director of the Congressional Research Service

He came

Thomas William Novotny joined the staff of the Library of Congress in April 1977 as Deputy Director of the Congressional Research Service. to the Library with more than 20 years of experience in business and government.

From 1974 to 1977, Mr. Novotny served as director of the Office of Reports and Management of the U. S. Department of State's Office of the Inspector General, Foreign Assistance, an inspection oversight arm of the Secretary of State. The Office of Reports and Management oversees the quality control of inspection efforts, liaison with executive agencies, and drafting of Congressional testimony.

Before joining the State Department, Mr. Novotny was employed for four years by the Civil Aeronautics Board as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Accounts and Statistics. From 1963 to 1970, he was a consultant in the areas of executive recruiting, manpower planning, and financial operational and public affairs. Concurrently, he served as treasurer for Telemart Communications Systems, Inc., a development firm.

Earlier, Mr. Novotny was employed by the A. C. Nielsen Company, a marketing research organization; Booz, Allen and Hamilton, a management consulting firm; and the Stewart-Warner Corporation. He served in the U. S. Army's Audit Agency as a senior cost auditor from 1951 to 1953.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Novotny holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in accounting, and a master's degree in business administration with an emphasis on finance and economics, both from Northwestern University.

He serves as a trustee on the Insurance Advisory Board of the American Society for Public Administration and is active in professional organizations including the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association and the Association of Government Accountants. He also has been involved in civic affairs at the local, state, and national levels, in Toastmasters International, and is acting treasurer of the quarterly publication The Bureaucrat.

Mr. Novotny resides with his wife and two children in Potomac, Maryland.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

Mr. BENJAMIN. Dr. Boorstin, I know you have a general statement. Would you like to read it or would you prefer to insert it in the record and highlight it for us? Whatever you would like to do will be agreeable to us.

Dr. BOORSTIN. It is long and I may abridge it as I go along. Mr. BENJAMIN. Very well.

Dr. BOORSTIN. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee. I welcome the opportunity to appear here today with my colleagues to present the fiscal year 1979 budget request for the Library of Congress.

No other library or institution provides the same scope of service to the Nation. The Library of Congress is a fountain head for information in the United States. We are most proud of our service to Congress which in many ways is unique in the world. The Congressional Research Service is the backbone of that service ably assisted by the Law Library and the specialized divisions of the Research and the Reader Services Departments. The staff of all rely on the unexcelled collections of the Library.

LIBRARY PROGRAMS REVIEWED

Serving the Congress is our primary mission, but also the Library of Congress has de facto become the national library. Last year you asked us to look carefully at all our programs to see if they were appropriate for the Library to continue. I believe that the services provided by the Library of Congress and supported by this budget request are essential services to the Congress and the Nation and now are best provided by the Library of Congress. Having the Copyright Office a part of the Library clearly benefits the collections of the Library and all who use those collections. I believe the community of blind and physically handicapped citizens are efficiently and well served by having that program part of the national library.

The national bibliographic service we provide to libraries and to the information industry-and sometimes this is not widely enough. known among laymen-is essential to the bibliographic control of library materials, and required by every library in the nation if it is to know what it possesses, what it might acquire, and is to guide readers all over the nation. The Library of Congress is the principal center for cataloging the world's books, serials, music, motion pictures, maps, and other forms of information. Libraries and other centers of information depend on the Library of Congress printed catalog cards, machine readable catalog records, and book catalogs. The benefits of these services reach into every community in the United States. The cost savings that accrue to the nation's libraries-primarily publicly supported institutions-by the cataloging that we provide to them may well be greater in the aggregate than the total cost of operating the Library of Congress.

LIBRARY NETWORKS SUPPORTED

The nation's automated bibliographic distribution networks depend on the intellectual and technical expertise which resides in