DOCUMENT RESUME ED 260 712 IR 051 209, TITLE Annual Report of the Librarian'ofCongress, 1984. For the Fiscal Year Ending, September30, 1984. INSTITUTION , Washington,D.C. PUB DATE 85 NOTE 2.38p.; For the 1983 report,see ED 254 246. AVAILABLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents,U.S. Government, Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) "Books (010) EDR§ PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annual Reports; Cataloging; COpyrights;*Federal Programs; Information Science;Law Libraries; Library Administration; *Library Services;Library Statistics; *National Libraries;*Program Descriptionsr*Resevch Libraries IDENTIFIERS Congressional Research Service;Copyright Office; *Library of Congress ABSTRACT Fiscal year activitiesara summarized lor seven organizational' areas of the Libraryof Congress: (1) Administration: Offices of the Librarian and Associate Librarian forManagement; (2) National Programs: American FolklifeCenter, Children's Literature Center, Educational Liaison office,Exhibits Office, Federal Library Committee, Information Offic4National Library Service forthe Blind and Physically Handicapped, and PublishingOffice; (3) Congressional Research Service: member and committeerelations; labor-management relations; interagency activities;inquiry status and information systems; automated information services;assignment, reference, and special services; and researchservices; (4) Processing Services: acquisition's and overseas operations,cataloging, bibliographic products and services, networking, andstaff activities; (5) Research Services: administration,facquisitions,management of collections, preservation, services tc; readers,pUblic programs, pUblications, staff activities, and basic workload;(6) Lay Library: servicesto Congress, services to government andother noncongressionalusers, legal indexes and publications,collection' development, and'. personnel; (7) Copyright Office:outreach activities; consultative management; reporting to theU.S. Congress; monitoring intellectual property protection abroad; SemiconductorChip Protection Act of 1984; workload and production;regulations; and legislative; judicial, and internationaldevelopments. Also includedare an organizational chart; lists ofcommittees, consultants, officers, trust fund board, apd library committee,members; and informationon gift% and bequests. Statisticsare presented in 9 of the 15 appendices..(THC)

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Joint Committee on the Library i vi -Library of Congress Trust Fund Board % vi , Forms of Gifts or Bequests. to the Library\of Congress ,.. .vi Officers, of the Library .' vii Ccunmittees of the Library xii Consultants of the Library xiii ; Organization Chart ' ------xiv Letter of Transmittal , xvii Introduction xix

1Administration 1 2National Programs 3Congressional Research Service 37 Processing Services 58 5Research Services- 77 6Law Library 92 7Copyright Office, 99

Appendixes A-1 1Library of Congress Trust,Ftmd Board A-2 2Acquisitions and Acquisitions Work A-4 3Cataloging and Maintenance of Catalogs A-10 4Cataloging Distribution A1-13 5Reader Services A-18 6Services to the Blind and Physically Handicapped A-18 7Photoduplication A-21 8Preserwition and Restoration A-22 9Employment .. A-23 10Financial Statistics A-24 11Legiglation A-48 12Exhibits A-49 13Concerts, Lectures, and Other Programs A-51 14Library of Congress Publicatiohs A-55 15Litigation A-58

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9JOINT CO/skOTTEiON;T"HE LIBRARY, 98TH CONtRiSS, iST 'SESSION

Senator Glyn les McC. Mathias, Jr., Chairman Representative Frank Annunzio, Vico Chairman `Members of the Committee: SenatorsMark 0. Hatfield, John W. Werner, Dennis DeConcini, Daniel K. Inouye, Representatives-Al Swift, William J. Coyne, Newt Gingrich, Pat Roberts. Chief Clerk: John Childers.

.? LIBRARY OF CONGR,ES$ TRUST FUND BOARD

An approved March 3;1925, as amended, created the Library of Congress Trust Fund Boird, a quasicorporation with perpqualsuccession and all the usual powers of a trustee, including the power to "invest, or retain investments" and, specifically, thrtauthority to accept, receive, hold, and administer such' gifts, bequests, or devises of property for the benefit of, or 4n with, the Library, its collections, or its services. aimay be approved by the Board and by the Joint Committee on the Library" (2 U.S.C. 154-163). A notable provision of the act (Section 2, last paragraph) permits endowment funds, up to a total limit ' of $10,000,00e, to be treated as a perpetUal loan to the United States Treasury, at an assured interest of at least four percent per annum. Public Law 94-2891nakes possible a higher rate when national economic condi--': tions so dictate. Members of the Bard on September 30,1981: Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury; Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Chairman'of the Joint Committee on the Libraryr Daniel J. Boorstln, Librarian of Congress; Chair- man and*Secretary; Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. (term expires March 9, 1985); and Flora Laney Thornton (term expires March 9, 1988). .

FORMS OF GIFTS OR BEQUESTS TO THE' LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Of MATERIAL 5/ -To the United Statespf America, to be placed in the Library of Congress and administered therein by the authorities thereof."

OF MONEY FOR IMMEDIATE APPLICATION. General Gift: "To the UnitedStates of Ainerica, to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Library of Congress, subject to disbursement by the Librarian of Congress." Specific Gift: "To the United States of America, to be deposited with the TreaSurer of tie United States to the credit of the Library of Congress, subject'to disbursement by the Librarian of Congress in furtherance of [descrilid,Purpose which may be any specific purpose consistent with the general prpgram.of the Library of Cdniiressj." Example: Gift or bequest to the Library facsimile mogram'TA therUnited States of America, to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Library of Congress, subjectio disbursement by the Librarian of Congress in furtherance of the Library facsimile program."

OF ENDOWMENTS OF MONEY, SECURITIES, OR OTHER PROPERTY 'To the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, to be administered for thd benefit of, or in`connection with the Library of Congress, its collections, or its service.:

NOTE. Subject to federal statutes and regulatiois, gifts, bequests, or devises to the United Stains foithe. benefit of the Library of Congress, including those td the Trust FundBoard,and any income therefrom, generally are exempt from federal and District of Columbia taxes.

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Officers of the Library As of September 30, 1984

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Librarian of Congress Exhibits Office Wilda J. Welsh, The Deputy Librarian of Congress ,Donald C. Curran, The Assodate Librarian of Congress %William F. Miner, Exhibits Officer 'Federal Library Committee OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN James P. Riley, Executive Director Janet Chase, Special Assistant to The Librarian Information Office John Y. Cole, Executive Dfrector, Center for the Book Nancy F. Bush, Information Officer Jphn C. Flhzi, Director,' Collections Development .4 Office John J. Kominsld, General Counsel National Library Service for the Marjorie R. Kulisheck, Executive Assignment and Blind quad Physically Handicapped Classification Appeals Officer Frank Kurt Cylke, Director Arthur J. 'Jab, Executive Officer_ Mary Jack Wintle, Assistant Director Joseph M. Love, Personnel Security Officer Henry B. Paris, Jr., Chief, Materials Development Adoreen M. McCormick, Legislative Liaison Officer Division Jean B. Metz, Selection Officer Mary Berghaus Levering, Chief, Network Division William H. Mobley, Principal Evaluations Officer James W. McClung, Regulations Officer Publishing &rice John W. Rensharger, Chief Internal Auditor James R. Lew, Director, Library Environment Dana J. Pratt, Director Resources .Office Robert G. Zich, Director, Office of Planning and Development MANAGEMENT Glen A. Zimmerman, Associate Librarian for NATIONAL PROGRAMS Management Howard A. Blancher', ExeCutive Officer Carol A: Nemeyer, Associate Librarian for National Catherine M. Croy, Assistant Executive Officer Programs Eugene Walton, Affirmative Action Coordinator Arnold G. Bellefontaine, Executive Officer Stephen E. Bush, Safety Officer Morrigene Holcomb, Women's gren Officer American Folklife Center . Alfred E. McEwen, Chief, Equal ployment Oppor- Alan Jabbour, Director tunity Complaints Office Raymond L. Dockstader, Deputy Director 40. Joseph C. Hickerson, Head, Archive of Folk Culture ti Automated Systems Children's Literature Center Sybille A. Jagusch, Chief FredS. Croxton, Director, Automated Systems Office William R. Nugent, Assistant Director for Systems Educational Liaison Office Engineering and Operations Charlene A. Woody, Assistant Director for Systems John Henry Hasa', Educational Liaison Officer Development vil r'" Report of The Librarian of Conb,ress, 1984 P

... Management Services Elizabeth Yadlosky, AssociateDii.ctor for Research, / Analysis, aid MultidisciplinaryfiPrograml Buildidgs Management Division Hugh L. Elsbree, Jr., AssistantDirector for Policy, Planning, and Review Gerald T. Garvey, Chief Basil T. Owens, AssistantDirector for Assignment, John J. Laffe'y, Assistant Chief Reference, and SpecialServices Susan C. Finsen, Coordinatorof Management and Ad- geniis' Services Division ministrative Services (Vacant}, Chief Edward Mason, Coordinatorof Member and Commit-- Bobby F. Dove, Assistant Chief tee Relations James R. Price, Coordinatorof Automated Informa- Financial Management Office tion Services James W. Robinson, Coordiyitorof Review Richard H. Austin, Chief . John 0. Hemperley, Budget Officer American Law Division William C. Myers, Accounting Officer Edwin M. Krintz, Disbursing Officer Joseph E. Ross, Chief° 7----' Charles Doyle, AssistantChief Procurement and Supply Division Congressional ReferenDivision- Floyd D. Hedrick, Chief John G. Kormos, Assistant Chief Catherine A. Jones, Chief Margaret E. Whitlock, Assistst1t Chief Perionnel and Labor Relations Economics Division / Leon M. Cole, Chief Louis R. Mortimer, Director of Personnel Roger S. White, Assistant Chief Peter J. Watters, Counsel for Personnel Martin F. O'Donoghue, Jr., Labor Relations Officer Education 'Ad Public Welfare Division Barbara E. Young, Staff Relations Officef Raymon A. Noble, Health Services Officer William H. Robinson, Chief 1 Ralph L. Adams, Personnel Operetion.s Officer Earl Canfield, Assistant Chief' Donald R. Ware, Position Classification and Organiza- tion Officer vironment and Natural Resources Policy Division 'David D. Lombardo, Recruitment and Placement avid E. Gushee, Chief Officer t), Assistant Chief Sylvia Cooke Martin, Staff Training and Development Officer Foreign Affairs ecCrii;tiOnalIptfense Division Stanlerl. Heginbotham, Chief A P0 hotoduplication Service Louis C. Finch, Assistant Chief Go tAtiviscon to' Norman J. Shaffer, Chief Mary Ann Fernuese, Assistant Chief for Bibliographic Frederick H. Penis, Chief Services Daniel P. Mulhollan, Assistant Chief Cy Brownsteid, Assistant Chief for Technical Services LibAry Services Division t ' Jack McDonald, Chief' , CONGRESSIONAL4ESEARCH SERVICE Nancy A. Davenport. Assistant Chief Gilbert Gude, Director John P. Hardt, Associate Director for Senior Specialists Science Policy Research Division Thomas W. Novotny, Associate Director for Manage- James M. McCullough, Chief ment Studies Gail H. Marcus, Assistant Chief viii 8 k Officers of tit* Library

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COPYRIGHT OFFICE Ameritr-Brftish Law Division, Marlene C. McGuirl, Chief David Ladd, and Assistant) RBert L. Nay, Assistant Chief Librarian for Copyright Services Dorothy M. Schrader, General Counsel and Associate acant), Head, Law Libiary Reading Room Register of Copyrights forlegal Affairs European Law Division Richard . AssistantGeneral Counsel Michael R. Pe ssociate Register of Copyrights for Ivan Sipkoq: Chief Autom n and Management Information Systps- George E. Glos, Assistant Chief Michael D. Burke, Copyright Systems Analyst Waldo H. Moore. Associate Register of Copyriglitstqc Far Eastern Law Division Special Programs Mark A. Lillis, Attorhey for Research.Programs Tao -tai Haim, Chief Anthony P. Harrison, Assistant Register of Copyrights Sung Yoon Cho, Assistant Chief Grace B. Reed, Executive Officer Eric s. g. Reid, Senior Administrative Officer Hispanic Law Diyision ti Donette S. Vandell,"Administrative Officer Rubens Medina, Chief Lewis I. Flacks, Policy Planning Adviser Armando Gonzalez, Assistant Chief David E. Leibowitz, Policy Planning Advjaer Christopher A. Meyer, Policy Planning Adviser Near Eastern and African Law Division Marybeth Peteis, Policy Planning Adviser Zuhair E. Jwaidels, (lief Acquisitions and'Precessirig Division Anton Wekerle; Ailsistant Chief Robert A. Davis, Chief Orlando L. Campos, Assistant Chief PROCESSING SERVICES Cataloging Division Henrietta D. Avram, Assistant Librarian for Process- Susan.B. Afamayo, Chief ing Services Raoul leMat, Assistant Chief Susan M: Tarr, Executive Officer Examiningir)'vision Laurie E. Smith, Technical Officer Donald P. Panzere, Assistant Executive Officer Harriet Ole , Chief . ' .., Louis Berube, Executive Assistant . Jodi Rush.. Assistant Chief 0 Netivork Developmeat ou4LMARC Standards Office Informatiertand Reference Diiision ..- Sally H. McCallum, Head' Winstonlabb, Chief Joan Doherty, Assistant Chief Licensing Division Office of the Airy- tor for Acquisition's Walter D. Sampson, jr., Chief and Overseas OArations James P. Cole, Assistant Chief Robert C. Sullivan, Director Jr, Records Management Division (Vacant), Assistant to the Director Ann I.. Hallatein, Chief Cataloging in Publication Division Susan H.2(Chief Judy C. M rmott, Assistant Chief

Carleton W. Kenyon, Law Librarian Exchange & Gift Division LaVerne P. Mullin, Executive Officer Roberta I. Shaffer, Special Assistant to the Law Peter H. Bridge, Chief Librarian -Imre Army, Assistant Chief ti ix 4

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6 Order Division Subject CiitaloghtrDivision . (Vacant), Chief Mary K. Doves Pietris, Chief Jennifer V. Magnus, Assistant Chief Myr1 D. Powell, Assistant Chief ?A.\ Eugene T. Presto, Principal Subject Cataloget Overseas Operations Division .Rodney G. Serie, Chief James C. Armstrong, Assistant Chief Office of the Director for (Vacant), Field Director, Brazil Bibliographic Products and Services (Vacant), Field Director, East Africa Michael W. Albin, Field Director, Egypt Mary S. Price, Director. Ellis Gene Smith, Field Director, India (Vacant), Assistant Director John C. Crawford, Field Director, Indonesia . (Vacant), Assistant to the Director odor (Vacant), Field.Dhector, Japan Eunice S. Gupta, Field Director, Pakistan Automation PlanninOrnd Liaison Office a Barbara J. Roland. Chlief 44 Catalog Management and Vubligation Division Office of the Director forCataloging? Gloria H. Hale, Chief Kay F. Wexler, Assistant Chief Lucia J. Rather, Director Patricia S.Ileigasi, Assistant Chief Robert M. Hiatt, Assistant to the Director Patrick S. . Principal Editor

Cataloging Instruction Office Cataloging Distribution Service (Vacant), Chief (Vacant), Chief Instructor John J. Pizzo, Assistant Chief (Vacant), Customer Services Officer becimal Classification Division Johit P. Camaxoral, Chief and Editor, Dewey Decimal Serial Record Dividers Classification Kimberly W. Dobbs, Chief Melba D. Adams, Assistant Chief I Dorothy J. Glasby, Assistant Chief I Linda K Bartley, CONS Operations Coordinator DescriptiveC.at4ogingDivision Susan H. Riedel, Head, Siam' Serials DataProgram John D. Byrum, Jr:, Chief Marlin B. Abbott, Editor, New Serial Titles William it. Huntley, Assistant Chief

MARC Editorialtifivision RESEARCH SERVICES Michacel H. Shelley, Chief John C. Broderick. Assistant Librarian for Research Peter R. Young, Assistant Chief Services =3:1 Warren M. Tsuneishr, Directoreor Area Studies Office for Descriptive Cataloging PoliCy 4 Elizabeth F: Stroup, Director for General Reference Ben R. Tucker, Chief (Vacant), Director for Special Collections Carolyn H. Sung, Executive Officer Shared Cataloging Division Theodore E..Leach, Automation Officer Edward'A. D'Alessandro, Special Assistant for Plan- Dorothy Gregor, Chief ning Management Hugo W. Christiansen, Assistant thief Dorothy Denchy, Assistant Executive Officer' Special Materials Catalking Division Performing Arts Library David A. Smith, Chief Peter J. Fay, Head Librarian, x 10 Officers of the Library

Preservation Office Federal Reuter& Division Petee G. Sparks, Director for PreseiVation Earl L. Rothermei, Chief Lawrence S. Robinson, Asiistant Director for Pres7 Doriald H. Bonham, Assistant to the Chief ervation Matt T. Roberts, Binding Officer General Raiding R6ms Division Bohdan Yasinsky, Preservation Microfning Officer Ellen Z. Hahn, Chief daandht J. piaahani, Rerrch Officer (Vacant), Assistant Chief PeteeWirlieria, Conservatiiin Officer John W. Kimball, Jr., Head, Automation and Reference Collections Section . st Judith P. Austin, Head, Local History and Genealogy Section - ATek Studies Cary D. Junin, Head, Main Reeking Room Section Alan C.Solomon,Head,Microform.Reading Room African and iastsT Division Section m Julian W:Witherell, Chief Suzanne Th4in, Head, Research Facilities Sactien Beverly Arta Gray, Head, African Section ^4a, J E Stewart,Head,Social Science ?ceding Room Myron M. Weinsteib, Haid, Hebraic Section action George N. Atiyeh, Head, Near East Section aret McG ead, Telephone Reference, Cor- ' respondence, an. Bibliography Section Asian Division Loan Division omas Clilef ;Ho*aral, Assistant Chief -.Olive C. James, Chief Wang; Head, Chinese and Korean Section Thomas ,10-. Burney, AssistantChief Hisao Matsumoto, Head, Japanese Section Berbu Alit% Librarian in charge (If Library Station in Levis A. Jacob, Head, Southern Asia Section the Capital (Vacant), Head, Loan Reference Section European Division (Vacant), Head, Circulation Section havid H. Kraus, Acting Chief National Referral Center (Vacant), Aisistant Chief Edward N. MacConomy, aid '4" Hispanic Division (Vacant); Astistant Chief Staff/in Rosenberg, Head, Publi4tions Section Sara' Klaren, Chief John A' Feulner, Head, Referral Services Section Jo .Hebert, Assistant Chief Lloyd W.1Shipley, Head, Reiources Analysis Section Dolorqs M. Martin, Editor, Handbook of Latin Ameri- can Studies !ic0;nceand Technology Divisidn Georgettatei. Dem, Specialist in Hispanic Culture and Head, Reference Section :Joseph W. Price, Chief test r John F. Price. Assistant Chief Karl R. Green,Head,Technical Reports Section Constance Carter, Head,..Sciencar Reference Section 4 General Reference Gaza T. Thuronyi, Head, Special Projects Section Collections Management Division Serial ',Ind Gaverantent Publications Division Steven J. Herman, Chief Donald F: Wisdom, Chief Emmett G. Trainor, AssistantChief Bernard A. Bernier,Jr.,Assistaxii.Chiai Ronald J.Jackson;Head, Rook Service Sectior? Agnes Fercuso, Head, Government Publications . Diane E. Nester. Head,itollections Improvement Section Section Frank J. Carroll, Head, Newspaper Section Vacant), Head, Collections Maintenance Section Anthony, J. Kostreba, Head, Periodical Section Everett J. Johnsen, Head, Special Search Section' Katherine F. Gould, Coordinator of Reference Service * 1.

Report of The Librarian of Congress,

Special Collections Prints and Photographs Divisiod Geography and Map Division Stephen E. Ostrow, Chief Renate V. Shaw, Assistant Chief John A. Wolter, Chief Jerry L. Kearns, Head, Referfence Section , Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Assistant Chief Jerald Curtis Maddox, Collections Planner and Curator Richard W. Stephenson, Head, Reference and of Photography Bibliography Section David K. Carrington, Head, Technical Services Rare Book and Special Collections Division Section William Matheson, Chief Manuscript Peter VanWingen, Heed, Reference and Readei Ser- vices Section James H..lintsirn, Chief Don C. Marcin, Head, Processing Section (Vacant), Assistant Chief John D. Knowlton, Head, Preparation Section, Technical Officer Paul I. Chestnut, Head, Reference and Reader:Service Section COMMITTEE TO SELECT PRINTS FOR I. PURCHASE UNDER THE PENNELL FUND Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recoided ( Sound Division Donald J. Saff, Michael Mazur, and Stephen E. Ostiovi Robert Saudek, Chief (ex officio) Paul C. Spahr, Assistant Chief Gerald D. Gibson, Head, Curatorial Section Patricktheehan, Head, DOcumentation and Reference Section, PERMANENT COMMITTEE FOR THE Robe4B. Oiseal, Head, Laboratory Services'Siction OLIVER WENDtLL HOLMES DEVISE ltanietW. Harrison, Head, Processing Section Music Division Daniel J. Boorstin, The Librarian of Congress, Chair- man, ex officio Donald L. Leavitt, Chief Stanley N. Katz;Princeton University Jon W. Newsom, Assistant Chief Paul Mis;'eUniversity of California at Berkeley Elizabeth H. Auman, Head, Acquisition Roca's- Gerhard r, University of Chicago ingjection James H. Hutson, Administrative Officer, Office of the (Vac0.4.Head. Reade? Services Sectign Devise

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CONSULTANT IN POETRY IN ENGLISH Robert Fitzgerald (Reed-Whittemore is serving as Interim Consultant, 1984-85.)

HONORARY CONSULTANTS

Literature of Magic LS. Carlographic History Morris N. Young Welter W. Ristow

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The President of the Senate The Speaker of the House of Representatives

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It is my privilege to submit this report of the activities of the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, for the fiscal year end- ing September 30,1984. It is accompanied by a copy of the annual report of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board.

DANIEL J. BOORSTIN The Librarian of Congress

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Washington, D.C.

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An annual report for the year 1984 can hardly sheets and datamanigement systems. Inclusion avoid some passing reference to George Orwell's of CRS reference centers and research divisions novel 2984. The Library of Congress paid its in the Electronic Mail System network of the respects to Orwell and to the (possibly tempo- House Information Systems improved efficiency. rary) public fascination with his most famous The Service produced thirty-six new programs book with a two-day conference April 30/May for the House of Representatives cable television 1. Beyond that, so far as the Library is con- system and twenty-three new Audio Briefs on cerned, the parallels between the book and the cassette tapes. The CRS Selective Dissemination year do not seem particularly apropos. The tech- of Information service was expanded to reach nologically oriented society depicted in Orwell's nearly a thousand subscribers. book is fixed and definite, with only the slightest A special application oftechnology to library opportunities for freedom of thought and action problems is the Optical Disk Pilot Program,, and personal initiative, and these few systemat- described in last yea* report. In 1984 the Li- ically suppressed. The Library of Congress in brary appointed an outside advisory Committee 1984, on the other hind, was a beehive of intel- of publishers and librarians under the chairman- lectual activity, the year witnessing the culmina- ship of the Deputy Librarian. The committee, tion of years of planning in some projects and which held its first meeting in November 1983, the initiation of new venture's likely to have will advise the Library administration on the long-lasting impact upon the Library's physical pilot program and function as liaison to the condition, its services, its procedures, and its important communities which its members rep- collections. resent. During the year a public station was established in the Prints and Photographs Read- ing Room, providing readers with access to images from pictorial collections through the TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES, application of laser disk technology. Optical disk technology preserves library The year 1984 and Orwell's 1984 have possibly materials by converting their contents into a for- one thing in common: widespread use of tech- mat that can be made accessible more widely nology. A continuing trend in the Library, amply and without damage to the originals. To preserve substantiated in the following report, is increas- library materials in their original formats, the ing use of technology in performance of the Li- Library has for many years sought to develop a brary's missions and services. procedure for the mass deacidification of paper. Of these, service to Congress is the Library's These efforts culminated on September 2%,1984, first priority. In 1984 the Congressional Res when the President signed into law P.L. 98-427, Service experienced a 6 percent increasetilxats S. 2418, authorizing construction of a Mass Book workload,, completing more than 440,000 re-, Deacidification Facility at Fort Detrick, Mary- search assignments for the Congress. To meet land. P.L. 98-398, H.R. 604, appiopilated $11.5 this record demand, CM relied even more million for construction of the facility. It is antic- heavily than in the past upon technological im- ipated that the facility will be operational by provements, particularly the widespread intro- 1987. duction of microprocessors to the staff, who The Copyright Office, at the request of appro- were trained in the use of electronic spread- priate congressional committees, sponsored a 17 xix Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

symposium on copyright and new technologies. ACQUISITIONS And in March 1984 specialists in five cities par- ticipated in a teleconference on computers and Among the many noteworthy additions to the Li- \ copyright by means of satellite-transmitted video brary's special collections in fiscal- 1984, two and audio connections. The Copyright Office seventeenth-century printed globes one terres- also devoted a great deal of time and.energy this trial and one celestialby Vincenzo Coronelli year to assisting Congress in developing legisla- are of particular importance. Over three and a tion to provide copyright protection for cemicon- half feet' in diameter and resting in (heir original \ ductor computer chips, which may cost manu- mahogany stands, the globes make the Geogra- facturers millions of dollars to develop. The phy and Map Division's collection of Coronelll's \Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 Output virtually complete. received final approval from the Congress just A major addition to the Library's resources after the close of the fiscal year. in the performing arts this year was the Serge The National Programs department extended Lifer collection of materials relating/ to the life the Library's services to diverse additional pub- and work of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. The col- lies, among them blind.and physically handi- lection includes. Diaghilev's working library of capped individuals, specialists inItildren's music scores as well as letters, notes, set designs, literature, folklorists, the broadcasting com- and various bother items. The collection is munity, the press, federal librarians, visitors to sufficiently extensive to provide a detailed view the Library, and many others. of the great choreographer's artistic accom- plishments. Fiscal 1984 also sad' the addition to the Li- brary's rare book collection of the greatly sought- CATALOGING after 1501 edition of Virgil's works printed by Aldus Manutius. The Aldine Virgil represents No Library of Congress activity has become more both the first small-format edition of a classic reliant upon technology in its everyday routines text and the first book set entirely in italic type. than cataloging. Total Online Searching for Cata- Because of the dollar's strong position relative loging Activities (TOSCA) was described in last to other currencies, the Library was able to pur- year's report. In 1984 the Processing Services chase additional materials from sources abroad. department, partly because of the TOSCA Ap- Efforts to acquire items from foreign exchange proach, achieved an overall increase in many of partners also oiet with considerable success. An its activities. Fully cataloged titles emerging outside consultant completed an analysis of cur- from the cataloging_ustream" increased 12 per- .rent Acquisitions practices and procedures, a cent. Descriptive cataloging increased ,26 per- three-volume report that will aid Processing Ser- cent; new name authority records rose 97 vices in planning for the future automation of percent; and titles given minimA-level catalog- these activities. ing, 32 percent. The Cataloging in Publication Division achieved an 11 percent increase in the number of new entries prepared for participating LIBRARY BUILDINGS publishers and managed to reduce processing time for the average title to 6.5 working days. With occupancy of the Madison Building com- There was also a 17 percent improvement in effi- plete, attention turned to the Adams and Jeffer- ciency of serial titles cataloging. son buildings, long known to be in need of Another major landmark was online input/ restoration and renovation. Years of thought and update capability for the Geography and Map planning culminated when Congress enacted Division's computer-assisted map cataloging P.L. 98-396, H.R. 6040, which included an program (MARC Maps). appropriation of $81.5 million to the Architect

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of the Ca iitol for restoration and renovation of dinator, with responsibility for improving ser- the twolder buildings. Work was to begin vices for handicapped staff members. almost ediately and to continue through fis- Five Library of Congress officers visited cal 1990 4 beyond. This ambitious project, in May and June as guests of the National Library when completed, will enable the Library to offer of China. The delegation was led by the Deputy the finest and most complete library service in Librarian and included to libraries in Bei- the world. jing, Wuhan, Shangli,Hangzhou, and Guilin. Lectures were given an seminars conducted on such topics as preserven,-management, auto- mation, collections, andryices. PERSONNEL AND STAFF ACTIVITIES

Several high-level mahagerial positions were CONCLUSION filled in 1984. Henrietta D. Avram was appointed Assistant Librarian for Processing Ser- In George Orwell's 1984 "the mutability of the vices, Mary S. Price was named director for bib- past" is a central tenet of the society he depicts. liographic products and services, and Robert C. Works of nonfiction are continually revised at Sullivan, director for acquisitions and overseas the so- called Ministry of Truth, and ntw fic- operations. Dorothy Gregor, formerly assistant tional works are composed by machines accord- librarian for technical services at the University ing to standards set by the Party. Not so at the

'41 of California, Berkeley, became chief of the Library of Congress. In the Copyright Office, for Shared Cataloging Division, all In Processing example, where intellectual property is regis- Services. tered for protection against misuse, activity is In Research Services three new chiefs were at an all-time high, with annual registrations appointed, all new to the Library. Television passing the half-million mark and total registra- pioneer Robert Saudek, founding president of tions, from 1790 through 1984, standing just the Museum of Broadcasting, was named chief under twenty million. of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and In other respects the Library seeks to preserve Recorded Sound Division. Sara Castro-K.laren, the wisdom (and folly) of the past in virtually former chairman of the Department of Spanish whatever forin it is recorded, an ambitious and and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, me sometimes daunting task. The report that follows the fifth chief of the Hispanic Divisioin its indicates Ways the Library has adopted to meet near-fifty year history. And Stephen E. 0 w, this challenge and these that derive from it in recently executive director of the Poand behalf of its many constituencies: the Congress, (Oregon) Art Association, was appointed of federal agencies, the blind and physically handi- of the Prints and Photographs Division. capped, the legal community, the nation's librar- A Hispanic employment program cocirdinator ies, individual scholars the world over, and the was appointed in December to help the Library ordinary citizen who needs direct or Indirect increase the number of Hispanic applicants for assistance from his national library. its positions. The Library also established the The wonder is not that it could be done better position of part-time handicapped program coor- at times. Ti- ie wonder is that it can be done at all.

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A OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN signal Reading Room will be locatedon the street level floor. Renovation and Restoration of the Thomas The highly decorative areas on the west front Jefferson Building and the first and second floors will be completely restored to their original 'grandeur and used for Included in Public Law 98-396, H.R. 6040,an exhibitions, the Council of Scholars, and the act making supplemental appropriations for fis- Research Services department office. Three cal 1984, was an appropriation of $81.5 million pavilionq will honor former Librarians of Con- to the for restoration-and gress Herbertutnam, Archibald MacLeish, and renovation of the and John Luther Evans. Opposite the Rare 'Book and Adams buildings. The act was signed into law Special Collections Division, a renovated room by the President on August 22. The restoration will honor Lessing J. Rosenwald, the Library's and renovation work will result in the architec- rare book benefactor, and across from the tural and artistic features Of both buildings being restored Coolidge Auditorium a new music room restered and preserved. In addition,a number will be dedicated to George and. Ira Gershwin. of major mechanical, electrical, fire, and safety The entire top floor of the John Adams Mild- improvements will be undertaken, with the Jef- ing, opened in 1939, will be devoted to serving ferson Building in particular undergoing exten- the public. It will contain a renovated- Social sive restoration. Science Reading Room and a Science Reading Work will. egin in fiscal 1985:and continue Room, with a fully equipped Computer Catalog in two phases over a period of more than five Center located between them. Around the perim- years. During the first phase approximately one- eter of that floor will be over a hundred study half of the buildings, not including bookstacks, rooms for temporary assignment to visiting will be vacated and renovation work will begin. scholers.Elsewhere in the Adams Building there That phase will take approximately two andone- will be newly outfitted reading rooms for African half years, after which the renovated half will and Middle Eastern studies and Asian studies. be readied for occupancy by staff and for use by Upon completion, the Library of Congress readers and visitors. After a transition move-in three-building "multimedia encyclopedia"on period, the second phase of renovation will will offer the finest, most complete gin with the remaining half -of the buildings library services available anywhere to the Con- 11 also take approximately two and one- gress, the nation, and the world of scholarship. half yet s. Upon bompletion of tha-work, the Thomas Jef- Mass Boob Deaddification Facility ferson Building, which first opened in 1897, will contain a renovated Main Reading Room with on Septetaber 28 the President signedinto law additional seating, an enlarged Computer Public Law 98-427, S. 2418, an act authorizing Catalog Center, a completely equipped and directing the Librarian of Congress topro- Microform Reading Room, a new Humanities ceed with construction, operation, and main- Reading Room, and an American Reading tenance of a Masa Book Deacidification Room. The European Division, including its Funding of $11.5 milltonlor the design andcon- own reading room, will be located on the second struction of the facility was included in the 1984 floor, and a new and fully equipped Congres- first supplemental appropriation act.

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After many years of research and experimen- printed materials from the Library's collections. tation, the 1984 authorization and funding made The nonprint portion was to supply standard, mass aleacidification of books Zs:reality. Comple- commercially available analog yideodigk equip- tion of this facility will alloW diethyl zinc treat- ment for display of color images of pictorial Li- ment of the Library's collections, extending their brary materials, which would also be placed on useful life for hundreds of years. The facility will disk. In addition, two compact audiodisks of be capable of handling up to one million items concerts recorded in the Library's Coolidge from the collections a year. During 1984 NASA's Auditorium are to be made. Goddard Space Flight Center continued with The Library selected material te be puton disk small-scale experiments designed to produce ine and developed software to connect the new formation about the deacidification process and systems to existing equipment. During 1984 vir- how the plant facility should be designed. tually all of the equipment in the contract has Successful experimentation was carried out to arrived and bean put into *ration.. For the determine the optimum amount of zinc oxide re- digital optical disk project, the Library now has quired in the paper, to identify*optimuna daying a high-resolution scanner which in .7 seconds times, to develop tappropriate instrumentation records digitally a full -page scan of 300 points that could follow the treatment process and per inch bath horizontally and vertically. It also measure water content in the paper, andto deter- has many 12-inch gigabyte blank optical disks mine the best distillation rate for introducing capable of holding 10,000-15,000 pages of diethyl zinc into the chamber. digitized images, as well as the diskairives to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, was se- create and read them. Other equipment includes lected as the site for the facility, end formal site a "jukebox" capable of holding 100 disks, or the approval was obtained from the Department of equivalent of up to 1.5 million pages. Each page the Army. may be recalled by the patron in less than a An architectural and engineering design firm..minute. Eight high-resolution terminals, which was selected to design the facility, and the Bal- permit patrons to read even four-point type, will timore District Army Corps of Engineers was serve for the display of documents and as center- designated to oversee the building design arid pieces, beginning early in 1985, for six reader construction-as well as thermalhacuum systems stations in four public reading rooms and the procurement, installation, and testing. Congressional Reference Divisioa. Two Xerox The facility is expected to be operational in 2700 and one Xerox 5700 laser printers will 1987. make copies of images on the disk. Finally, there is a microfiche scanner for conversion of film microimages to digitized images on disk. Optical Disk Pilot Program The Automated Systems Office has overseen the installation of this equipment and was busy On June 15 the Library of Congress opened in at work at year's end completing systems, the Prints and Photagraphs Reading Room its acceptance testing. Preservation pffice staff had first public laser disk reader station. The event scanned and put on disk several thousand pages, marked a major stride toward completion of a mainly a sampling from the periodical articles three-year experiment, begun in September and government documents which will go an 1982, in the use of laser disk technology to disk in phase one. Phase one items will be ac- preserve the Library's collections and speed their cessible through use of tho bibliography file in delivery to patrons. The print portion of the proj- the Library's online retrieval system. All pages ect was tb supply advanced technology in the of 1983, 1984, and 1985 issues of more than form of digital optical disk equipment and re- seventy periodical titles will go on disk in phase lated software for capturing high-resolution two. Later disks will receive the images of a black-and-white images Qpcluding halftones) of selection of maps, printed sheet music, menu-

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1, scripts, and legal publications. -Machine- Chbarthe Deputy Libiarian led an official dele- . readable records in a special online file will gation that visited libraries in Beijing, Wuhan, describe and make accessible these materials. Shanghai, 1-langzhou, and. Guilin and met with The pilot program has been a subject of keen some eight hundred Chinese librarians to dis- interest in the library ax d publishing communi- cuss developments in American librarianship. ties. hi order to benefit from their advice, the The delegation included Henrietta D. Avrare, Library formed the Library of Congress Optical Assistant Librarian for Processing Services; John Disk Advisory Group. The group met three times C. Broderick, Assistant Librarian for Research . to consider such matters as a workable relation- Services; Tao-tai Hsia, chief of the Far Eastern ship between the private and public sectors in Law Division; and Wagren Tauneishi, director optical disk work and the need, if any, forsecur- for a studies, Research Services. ing licenses from and paying royalties to copy- The visit to China was in accordance with the right holders of materials put on disk. The group Culal ExchangtrAgreement of 1979, andspe- submitted draft preliminary recommendations in cifically in keeping with the third Implementing September. Accord to the agreement, signed by President The analog (nonprint) videtidisk project made Reagan during his visit to China early in 1984, equal progress. By the end of the year, the Li- which called upon China and the U. $. "to facil- brary had acquired the tw videodisk players itate the exchange of personnel, publications, and monitors and thamicroc inputer for which 'and library materials between the Library ofCon - it had contracted and which Were to go into the gross and the National Libiary of China." .Prints and Photographs Reading Room and the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room. Five of the six videodisks and the two compact Center for the Book audiodisks have been made. At ttre new video- disk station, readers have.access to the first of The ertnter for the Boole continuedits program two disks, which contains excellent electronic of symposia, lectures, projects, and publications. reproductions of color slides, political posters, Its National Advisory Board met in April to dis- photo albums, lantern slides, and architectural cuss the topics of technology, reading, and the renderings. Materials on the disks are accessi- role of the book in the future. The Executive ble through use of disk frame numbers and Committee's, major concerns during theyear through a menu system created by Library staff a were programs and fund xtrising. During the year and imbedded on the disk. Staff had begun work the Center for the Book received contributions on a third level of bibliographic access,.one pro- from sixty -nine donors totaling nearly $195,000. ilding a full description, in machine-readable On November 19 the Congress approveda form, of almost every image on the disk. The instructing the Librarian third level will enable users either to browse of Congress, with the help of the Center for the through images and retrieve associated biblio- Book, to report to the Congresson the state of graphic records or browse through bibliographic the book and its probable future. records and.retrieve associated images. The Executive.Committee approved thecen- ter's cooperation in the establishment ofa Flor- ida Center for the Book, based at the Broward The Deputy Librarian of Congress County Library. The Library of Congress /0Television "Read More About It" projerct William J. Welsh, theDeputy Librarian of Con- launched its sixth season in 1984. Since it gress, received an honorary degree of doctor of started more than eighty stars of major CBS laws from the University of Notre Dame at the television specials and other celebrities have university's commencement exerciseson May presented thirty-second reading messages in 20. At the invitation of the National Library of connection with the shows. This year the proj-

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ect was expanded toincludemessages during titled "Judeo-Christian Work Ethics," Joseph football, basketball, and tennis broadcasts. With Kitagawa of the University of Chicago spoke on help from Library subject specialists, the center the topic "Eastern Work Ethics," and Sayyed Hos- also prepared "Read More About It" messages to sein Nasr of Temple :University spoke on "Is- accompany major Library exhibitions. lamic Work Ethics." Dean Mary Catherine In September Cap'n 0. G. Readmore, the cen- Bateson. of Amherst College was the commen- ter's animated reading promotion personality tator. A session on aspects of work today developed with ABC Entertainment, began co- included the following papers: Prof. Michael hosting ABC Television's Saturday Weekend 'Maccoby, Project on Technology, Work, and Specials. Four new thirty-second reading mes- Character, "The Changed Meaning of Work"; sages featuring Cap'n 0. G. were developed dtue Prof. Ruth Iowan, SONY, Stony Brook, "Time's ing the year. He also is featured in a popular new Arrow Makes the Difference: The Inequality of children's book, The Adventures of Cap'n 0. G. Men's and Women's Work"; and Prof. Theodore Readmore, published by Scholastic, Inc. Caplow, University of , `The Division of Leisure in Contemporary Society." Prof. Nathan Glazer of Harvard was the commentator. Publi-; cation of selected symposium papers isplanned] Caticil of Scholars Ne ouncil members selected during the fis- . cal r for two-year terms beginning in October Established in 1980, the Council of Scholars is 19 are Dr. Simon Ramo, president of TRW; a group of some twenty-five distinguished schol- Prof. Gertrude Himinelfarb, CUNY; Prof. Cleanth ars, expert in the arts, humanities, sciences, and Brooks, Yale University; Prof. Robert Heilbronei, public affairs, which meets periodically to ad- the New School for Social Research; Prof. Joseph vise the Librarian on ways to strengthen rela- Kitagawa, University of Chicago; and Justice tions betwebn the Library and the world of schol- ,Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the arship. The council also surveys the Library's United States. collections to ensure that they can support the most ambitious scholarly activity in all fields, deliberates on large issues in the world of ideas, Collections Development Office and prepares an inventory of knowledge of these issues. \ The Collections Development Office launched During the year the council continued its ex- a series of Seminars on Foreign Acquisitions to amination of the subject of work, the second review, assess, and discuss current Library poli- topic in its inventory of knowledge. At its fall cies and goals and to explore the extent to which meeting, December 2-3, discussion focused on these policies meet the Library's needs. The the work of the scientist, specifically that ()Oho identification of problems and the planning for theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winner Steven their resolution lave been an equally important Weinberg of the University of Texai introduced part of this ffott'. Participants in this review in- the topic and presented a paper, "Beautiful cluded subject and area specialists from Re- Theories," which suggested various approaches search Services and the Law Library, represen- to it. tatives from Processing Services, and the staff In April the council concluded its examina- of the Collections Development Office. Seven tion of work by sponsoring a two-day sym- seminars were held during the year covering all posium on the topic. Prof. Robert Heilbroner of of Europe, Central America, the Caribbean area, the New School'for Social Research presented Japan, North and South Korea, East Africa, and , the opening lecture, "The Act of Work." At the part of South America. There was general agree- session on comparative work ethics Jarosiav ment that the Library's current policies are ade- Pelikan of Yale University presented a paper en- quate and do not require immediate revision.

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The necessary selectivity must depend, ulti- plans for expanded acquisitionsInd witnessed, mately, on the expertise, judgment, and bibli- in this area, one of the most fruitful years in the ographic 'knowledge- of the selection and history of the Library. recommending officers. Collections Development Office Guidelines Three new acquisitions polic3i.statements, pre- providedinstnections for making recordings for pared in coordinition with subject specialists the Archive of World Literature on Tape. Detailed throughout the Library, were presented to the procedures are given for recording outstanding Acquisitions Committee, approved by the Dep- foreign literary figural who visit the Library and uty Librarian, and distributed to the staff. The read their own works, and for recording overseas new statement covering religion encompasses with the cooperation of U.S. diplomatic posts and works of research value on the philosophy, his- the Library's own field offices. tory, law, liturgy, and organization of religion, A major project involved the office's overall on the relationship betwaen religion and soci- direction and coordination of the reselection of ety, and on related trends and developments. In descriptive arrearages, which had grown to ap- the statement on local history, the Library proximately 250,000 volumes, A detailed pro- assumes responsibility for maintaining compre- file -of the categories of materials no longer hensive coverage of United States history, in- needed by the Library was provided to the fifty cluding general histories of counties, cities, and% recommending officers of Research Services and towns and publications which contribute to the the Law Library. By the end of the year reselec- study of national events or-to historical, genea- tion of the descriptive cataloging portion of the logical, or iconographic research. errearages was essentially complete. Of the The rapid increase of publishing in machine- nearly 80,000 volumes reviewed, 15 percent readable formats, a large percentage of which are were discarded and a slightly larger number now being received as copyright deposits, pointed were transferred to divisional files or other insti- to the urgent need to formulate a workable policy tutions, primarily the National Agricultural for the selection and addition to the collections Library and the National Library of Medicine. of these materials. An Ad Hoc Committee on The remaining 54,000 volumes weref earmarked Selection Policy for Machine-Readable Materials for retention and will, in most cases, be given investigated this complex problem, prepared a minimal-level cataloging before being added to study report for the Deputy Librarian, and pro- the collections. vided the groundwork for the Collections Develop- Of particular mete was the preparation of ment Office to proceed to the formulation of the guidelines for increased microformatting of needed guidelines. The new Acquisitions Policy materials acquired by the overseas off(ces. Since Statement on Machine-Readable Materials pro- a substantial number of these materials are vides that in selecting and acquiring these mate- printed on poor-quality paper, almost all news- rialsior its collections, the-Library will apply the papers, gazettes, 'and government documents same criteria as to printed or microformatted mate- from South and Southeast Asia will be converted rials. Because of the rapidly developing tech- to microforth in the New Delhi office and added nology in the field, this policy statement will be to the collections in that form only. The first revised end updated periodically in response to phase of a joint venture with Research Publica- changing needs and Library requirements. tions to preserve the Library's large U.S. city The Library had at its disposal sufficient funds directories collection was completed with the to make a number of significant purchases of rare filming of the directories for eleven of the largest materials long desired for the Library's conk, cities, 1902-35. Work was initiated on filming tions, particularly in the fields of music, art, rare the directories of forty-eight additional cities for books, and cartography. The Collections Devel- the same period. opment Office framed and coordinated with the The director of the Collections Development appropriate Research Services divisions the Office continued to represent the Library on the

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Collection Management and Development Com- chive. Counsel again advised against the gift in- mittee of the Research Libraries Group and was ,strument containing such language. appointed as the Library). representative to a Periodically decisions are requested on standing committee on collection developmentwhetheecertain phonograph or tape recordings of the Association of Research Libraries. in the collections can be copied for useby others. To ensure uniformity in the advice given, a policy guides covering such situations and re- Office of the General Counsel quests was developed. in responding to a request to copy the Library's Jelly Roll Morton record- In 1984 the legal status of materials in the col- ings, the Motion Picture, 'Broadcasting, and" lections was a matter of considerable concern to'Recorded Sound Division used the guide to the office; Accessioned materials not in the-Li- determine that the Library received the Morton brary's possession, deposits not converted to gift, recordings only for the purpose of preserving and transfers of materials without authority to them, and, accordingly, any copying should be transfer area few of the problems that surfaced edimistent with that purpose only. this year. While formal opinion requests rose to 340, the The status of materials in the Historic Ameri- third highest total in the history of the office, the can Buildings Survey and the Historic American number of new lawsuits filed ageinst the Library L7righieefing Record has been a legal concern decreased twelve as compared to thirteen in ever sincethe collections were deposited by the the previous year. Twenty uses were disposed National Park Service. This year the National of as compared to twelve in 1983, and tWelve Park Service, National Archives and.Records cases were pending at year's end, do from Service, the American Institute of Architects, twenty in 1903. and Library of Congress reached an agreement In a decision of major import, Judge ing- which acknowledges the Library as a more ton DParker of the United States DistriCourt appropriate repository because the records are for the District of Columbia ruled that the Library still in active use by scholars and researchers and bad violated the constitutional rights of a former are continuing in nature. employee (Keeffe v. Boorstin, Civ. No. 82-0291, Counsel clarified the service and reproduction D.D.C. May 18, 1984). The employee attended rights in the Look Magazine Collection. The the 1980 Democratic convention as a delegate donor of the collection, Cowles Communica- despite being advised not to do so by her super- tions, gave all of its interest to the Library, in- visor on the basis of a Library of Congress Regu- cluding its copyright interest, which means that lation and a legal opinion by the General these photographs era in the public domain ex- Counsel's Office that the employee's attendance cept for interests that may be held by the photog- would create a possible conflict of interest. raphers themselves. With that legal impediment The Court held that the interpretation and ap- removed, the Library is able to reconsider its plication of the Library of Congress Regulation previous decision to does the collection. were unconstitutionally vague in that.they did Twice during the past year the Library was not give a person of ordinary intelligence a rea- asked to indemnify others because of uses made sonable opportunity to know in advance what of materials in the collections. In one case the conduct would be prohibited. The Library re- requester was merely looking for the Library's quested the Department of Justice to initiate an permission to publish materials trope the, appeal. The Solicitor General determined that an Thomas A. Edison Papers, which were consid- appeal on the merits would be presented to the ered to be in the public domain. In suchcase no United States Court of Appeals for the District permission is necessary. The question of indem- of Columbia. nification came up again when RICO General, In another decision United States District Inc., gave the Library the WOR AM Radio Ate Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson dismissed 8 25 Administration

five cases filed by a Library employee and Research Serkces. Hundreds of modifications to awarded the Library's attorney's fees in two of work. space, mostly in the Madison Building, the employee'stprevimis cases, accepting the Li- were made as a result of organizational an,d oper- brary's argumAis that the suits were frivolous, ational changes, and collections shifts continued vexatious, or harassing. in the stack areas of the two oldei buildings. Spe- cial projects included setting up an Optical Disk Project Center in the Automated Systems Office Office of Planning and Development (ASO) Computei Room and workstations in all three Library buildings; completion of a com- The two major concerns of the Office of Planning mand center for the ASO Computer Room, a CRS and Development this year were the Optical Disk audiovisual studio, and a special vault for the Pilot Program and a survey of Library users re- Library's flute collections; design and installa- questedby the House Subcommittee on Legisla- tion of the Copyright Office In-Process System tive Appropriations. For the pilot program the (COINS); relocation of the Pommel ty Of- office was responsible for planning and contract- fice an transfer of the octence and T ology ing for the research to be done on system users, Division's collection of hard -copy t =ical handling corresponderice with copyright holders reports to the fonith floor-of the Adams Building. from whom the Library was seeking permis- The Library Enviionment Resources Office sions, and creating and coordinating program coordinated a review of the September 1983 con- publicity. The user survey required definition of striction drawings and specificatibus for the a plan, development of the survey itself, and col-.renovationhusforation of the older Library build- lection of data. By year's end several question- ings and forwarded neceasary revisions to the naires had been printed and distribution to Li- Architect of the Capitol. The office began semi- brary users had begun. weekly meetings with the Architect of the -Capi- The office's projections on future space needs tol's Construction Management Division in May, indicated that there is adequate space for tEitcdl- establishing agency task forces for'the project `lections until the pear 2000. - and defining areas of reap:nisi i My and points Based on several months' of analy s, the of- of contact. Internal planning edures for in- fice prepared a study of the speedd compre-,'tabu occupancy wereinsta , ad and working hensiveness of recent acquisitio*of books gioupsbegan preparing dra gs. With funding reviewed in British and American periodicals. approvedin fiscal 1983, the Architect of the The findings revealed that althoughometimes Capitol began restorationpf the Jefferson Build- sloisin acquiring needed items, the Library ulti- ing's west terrace and steps. Functional systems mately did receive the most important titles. for the Adams and Jefferson sprinkler instilla- The staff of the office continued, completed, tion ware 91 percent complete at the end of Sep- or participated in projects that dealt with the tember. the office also coordinated plans for security of materials, automation of the Serial construction of the Mass Book Deacidification Record, .serials clairccIng, acquisition of small Facility. press publications, and public service. By the end of the fisad year, the General Set- vices Administration had completed a fire safety survey of the Taylor Street Annex but still had Library Environment Resources Office not set a beginning date for renovation of the building. Technical design problems associated As part of a special appropriation to replace old with plans for censtructing cold storage film furnishings still remaining In the James Madison vaults in bay 4 at the Landover Center Annex Memorial Building, the Law Library was com- were resolved and procurement of materials was pletely refitted with new furnishings and;initiated late in the year. The new shipping and replacement work was initiated for o f fide iii receiving facility for the film vaults at Wright- 7

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Patterson- Air Force Base was completed, The President signed into law Public Law although some of the work was not in com- 98-427, S. 2418, on September 28. The act pliance with building codes and must be redone. authorizes the construction, operation, and main- An. additional 5,000 square feet of space as- tenance of the Mass Book Deacidification Facility. signed to the Federal Research Division at the S.Con.Res. 59, authorizing the Librarian of Navy Yard was preempted by the General Ser- Congress to study the changing role of the book vices Administration, adversely affecting that in the future, was agreed to on November 18. A division's ability to carry out its mission. The Li- planning meeting of the Joint Committee on the brary expanded its storage capacity at National Library was held on March 5. Progress reports Underground Storage in Pennsylvania, occupy- on restoration and renovation of the Library of ing a newly developed private record center cap- Congress Thomas Jefferson and John Adams able of hopsiig 6,048 cubic feet of records. buildings and on the Mass Book Deacidificaiian Facility were submitted to the committee. A number of legislative matters affecting the Li- Congressional Liaison brary were discussed during the year. Reports were submitted on draft legislation concerning In 1984 the Library of Congress, exclusive of the the Mass Book Deacidification Facility, reautho- Congressional Research Service, responded to rization of the American Folklife Center, and the 23,733 uests from Congress, and the Loan Library of Congress Special Police Pay Equity Divis p rocessed 39,032 congressional book Bill. There was a discussion on S. 192, a bill to loanquests. amend statutes relating to the Talking Books-Pro- On July 17 the President signed into law F.L. gram to include menially handicapped persons. 98-367, H.R. 5753, an act making appropria- The Library submitted a report on fiscal implica- tions for the legislative branch for fiscal 1985, tions of expanding the service to include the including funds for the operation of the Library mentally handicapped and learning disabled. of Congress in the amount of $236,010,000. In- There was also a discussion on naming the cluded in this appropriation were $137,492,000 Madison Congressional Reading Room the La for salaries and expenses, Library of Congress; Follette Congressional ReadingRoom,and the $39,833,000 for the Congressional Research Ser- committee concurred with this designation. The vice; $17,102,000 for the Copyright Office; committee approved a request by the Congres- $36,592,000 for Books for the Bliii and Physi- sional Research Service for eight supergxade cally Handicapped; $3,318,000 for collection positions. and distribution of library materials under the Special Foreign Currency Program; and $1,673,000 for furniture and furnishings. InternalAultOffice Public Law 98-392 was signed into law by the President on August 21. This law authorized Seven internal audit reports werR issued during $838,549 in aVpropriations for the American the year. These included a rppolt on advisory Folklife Center for fiscal 1985 and $867,898 for evaluations of gifts and deposits, an audit of the fiscal 1986. Nitrate Film Conversion Program, a review of the Orr August 22 the' President signed into law American Folklife Center, and an audit -of the P.L. 98-396, H.R. 6040, an act making sup- Lenora Jackson McKim Fund. plementail appropriations for the fiscal year end- A report on the evaluation of gifts and deposits ing "Sep ember 30, 1984. The act included concluded that evaluation methods appeared to appropriations for restoration and renovation of comply with regulations promulgated by the the Thomas Jefferson and John Adams buildings Internallevenue Service. The current system of and for the design and construction of a Mass preliminary evaluation review by the principal Book Deacidification Facility. evaluations officer, with final approval of eval- 8 Administration

nations over $1,500 by the Eialuations Commit- ment and Supply Division to the Financial Man- tee, was considered to be effective. The report agement Office. recommended improvements in committee doc- Highlights of equal employment opportunity umentation, management controls, cost effi- programs and the accomplishments of individ- ciency, 'and record keeping. An audit of the ual departmental units responsible for providing Nitrate Film Conversion Program recommended the Library's administrative and support services better long-range planning, imprdved coordina- are discussed in the following pages. tion of interrelated functions, and establishment of a management control system. A review of American Folklife Center opera- Equal Employment Opportunity Programs tions evaluated the management methods and controls used by the center in meeting program Affirmative Action Office objectives and goals. It was recommended that the center improve its long-range planning and Affirmative action programs were significantly formalize more of its policies. An audit of the expanded during the year while the effectiveness McKim Fund resulted in recommendations for of such ongoing programs as Affirmative Action stricter interpretation of the fund's provisions Fellowships, Graduate Cooperative Education, and for a review of all payments by the Account- affirmative action recruitment, and the Affirma- ing Office to ensure compliance. tive Action Applicants' File was maintained. New projects included an annual Target Series Job Information Fair, employment seminars, establishinent of a Career Interest Group Pro- OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE LIBRARIAN gram, and participation in the organization of FOR MANAGEMENT an Affirmative Action Roundtable for exchange of professional information among government As in past years the department's management agencies. objectives were directed primarily at responsive- Affirmative Action Fellowships were awarded ness to increasing demands for administrative in July to thirty-six staff members, from a total and support services to all Library organizations of sixty eligible applicants. The fellowships, and at providing essential improvements to such which carry a stipend of up to $1,200, will pay services,,In addition, considerable activity cen- for tuition and books in courses relating to the tered on affirmative action to support equal following positions: administrative officer, com- employment opportunity in the-broad program puter science specialist, copyright specialist, areas of personnel management and complaints foreign affairs specialist, intelligence research investigation. Supervision of the Equal Employ- specialist, librarian, social science analyst, and ment Opportunity Complaints Office was trans- technical information specialist. Of the fellow- ferred from the Deputy Librarian of Congress to ships awarded, twenty were for undergraduate the Associate Librarian for Management, bring- and sixteen. were.for graduate education. ing together the important activities of this office Affirmative action recruitment received a with related departmental functions, especially higher priority this year than in any previous those of the Personnel and Labor Relations Of- year of the Library's program. The Affirmative fice, with a view to better coordination and im- Action Office visited or sponsored visits to eight proved effectiveness. career days or job fairs on university campuses, Other organizational changes during the year providing potential applicants with general in- included establishment of the Office of Counsel formation on careers at the Library and specific for Personnel in the Personnel and Labor Rela- information on opportunities such as the Grad- tions Office and transfer of voucher examination uate Cooperative Education Program and tulir- functions previously carried oullin the Procure- mative Action Applicants' File. Recruittent

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trips were made to Atlanta University, Drexel Affirmative action staffs at the Library, the University, Florida A&M University, Florida General Accounting Office, the Government State University, Georgia State University, Har- Printing Office, and the Smithsonian Institution vard University, Hampton Institute, Howard set up an Affirmative Action Roundtable as a University, Louisiana State University, North clearinghouse for professional information and Carolina A&T University, Qtfemis College, Rut- forum for discussion of programs and problems. gers University, South Carolina State College, Benefits from the roundtable are expected to take Southern University, St. John's University, Stan- the form of improved affirmative action pro- ford University, Texas Southern University, grams at all four agencies. Texas Women's University, University of New Orleans, I Tniversity of North Carolina at Greens- boro, University of California at Berkeley, Uni- Women's Program Office versity of kennsylvania (Wharton and Computer Science schools), University of South Carolina, The Women's Program Office had Major respon- and Winston-Salem State University. sibilities during fiscal 1984 in developing the Seven graduate students participated in the Workforce Utilization Analysis and explanatory Graduate Cooperative Education Program be- documents and participating in meetings and tween January and April and fifteen between briefings to help managers understand the June and September. Four students from the change to the data-driven affirmative action ap- January-April group and three from the proach. The office also oversaw the development June-September group were awarded one-year of an automated report system for use while the temporary appointments, with the expectation integrated personnel system was being completed. that they would compete and win perrtranent Twenty-two Library staff members partici- career positions during that time. pated in the Administrative Detail Program, The Affirmative Action Applicants' File was which provided ninety-day assignments allow? purged this year to delete those applicants who ing women and minority-group members to gain had found other employment or were no longer administrative and managerial experience. interested in careers at the Library. Of the 940 To improve workload distribution for the in the file, 357 requested to remain active; 134 Women's Program Advisory Committee, the new potential applicants were added to the file term of membership was changed to begin and during the year. end in the spring. The committee sponsored two At the first Target Series Job Information Fair, staff programs, one a male perspective of the held in April, personnel staffing and development women's movement and the other.on issues asser specialists were available to discuss career fields, elated with being single, and cosponsored a pm- that included computer science,copyright gram during the Library's first Hispanic Heritage specialist, librarian, social science analyst, and Week. technical information specialist. A total of 210 staff The women's program officer helped the Of- members attended, 72 of whom indicated a desire fice of Personnel Management develop the gov- to participate in career interest groups designed ernmentwide Women's Executive Leadership to supply them with career information on a con- Program and presented a workshop at an 'OPM tinuing basis. In September such groups were national training conference. organized for the computer science, librarian, and The office distributed its annual report on technical information specialist fields. licensed clay -care centers, provided counseling An Employment Seminar Prograni was initi- and information referrals, and monitored sexual ated in September to provide participants in the harassment and other equal employment oppor- Affirmative Action Applicants' File with infor- tunity and affirmative action cases. The women's mation required for effective competition under program officer attended meetings on women's the Library's selection system. issues at the American Library Association

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3 annual meeting and assisted with the Library's time until a new, faster central processor can be recruitment effort. procured. The Engineering Planning and Developme t Office assisted in the development of Equal Employmfint Opportunity microcomputer-based cataloging work stations Complaints Office installed in the Library's New Delhi office Ito enable capture -ofpreliminary cataloging datalin The Equal Employment Opportunity Complaints machine-readable form. A project is under xnray Office (EEOCO) began the fiscal year with a total to determine the Library's communication re- of 140 complaints (51 informal and 89 formal)., quirements through the year k000, including During the year 128 new complaints were re- data, voice, and image transmission. ceived, bringing the total number handled' to For the Optical Disk Pilot Program's ent 268. Forty-two informal complaints became for- Storage and Retrieval System, Library staff re- mal. Of these, 99 were resolved and a total of duced design specifications, managed the d vel- 169 were pending at year's end. opment and integration of.allequip ent, New staff appointments were made to four developed the software, and trained operat rs to equal employment opportunity investigator/ input documents into the system. officer positions, one equal employment oppor- To assist ASO's Office Automation Task Force, tunity counselor position, and a part-time sup- several software packages were installed by the port staff position, bringing the staff complement System Programming Office for evaluation as of- to thirteen full-time and one part-time positions. fice productivity aids. Of these, E-Mail, an elec- To accommodate the additional staff, the office tronic mail system from Applied Data Reaearch, expanded into space on the sixth floor of the was deemed suitable for Library use and Was re- Madison Building formerly occupied by the Per- tained. Although only a pilot system, E-Mail has sonnel Security Office. The chief, EEOCO, also been widely accepted in ASO and elsewhere in relocated to this newly acquired space. the Library as an interoffice ceramun'cations system. The Technical Systems Cate produ ed sev- Automation Activities eral major products and enhanced rel es to the facility software which underlieislotIci2ser ap- As in the past, the Automated Systems Office plication programs. Work on the ent Pro- (ASO) continued to pursue the goal of providing cessor, a generalized facility which embodies efficient and effective computer service in sup- printing standards for creating andm;intaining port of Library operations. During fiscal 1984 the documents online and for printing th m on the Computer Service Center processed approxi- Xerox 9700 laser printer, was completed. The In- mately 3.9 million transactions each month formation Screen Facility was released, with while servicing twenty-two hundred terminals ASO and the Congressional ResearchService as located on Capitol Hill. During June the Com- the first users. Itallows a user depatent to set puter Service Center began replacing oldeiter. up a series of information display sreens and urinals with the new Comtenn terminals, which menus to provide current information on any will be used to support the online cataloging and subject. An enhancement to the P com- searching of the Library's various online, data mand endblms users of the SCORPIPrint Sub- bases. By year's end approximately one hundred system to receive a daily printed lo of all jobs of these terminals had been installed. In July that were printed. Crossfile Browse SCORPIO 1984 the IBM 3033AP online system was up- allows searching of up. to six data files simul- graded to expand the performance of the pro- taneously with one search conunand. Enhance- cessor and add 8 megabytes of memory. The ments were made to the Subject /Index Term upgrading was done to improve online response Subsystem of the CRS Bill Digest System.

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Underlying facility support was given to the and to improve the timeliness of reporting man- Maps Release 2.0 aid Music Release 1.0, both agement information regarding completed in- releases providing online inisut and update capa- quiries. The ISIS online tracking capability was bilities to users. Significant improvements in improved by providing the ability to review in- response time for users were made when the quiries by "date due" within a research division. MUMS-based FIND command was changed to The User Applications Office also worked on include query form evaluation and prioritizing developing microcomputer application systems, of "performance impacting" searches. evaluating microcomputer hardware and soft- In support of the Law Library, a contract was ware, providing user assistance, and maintain- completed under the direction of the User Appli- ing an inventory of all micro hardware and cations Office-to design a new data entry system software. Applications completed this year in- for the Hispanic Law Division which will pro- clude the Occupational Injury/Illness System, vide a more accurate and efficient input capa- Copyright In-process System, ASQ Hardware In- bility for records which' make up the Index to ventory System, and Parking Permit System. Latin American Legislation. More than two thousand problem reports and Modificatinns were made to the Automated work requests were handled by the User and Pro- Process Information File (APIF) application to duction Service during the fiscal year. allow inclusion of records from the Microform Reading Room collection and to allow online up- grade of APIF records to full MARC records. A General ManagementServices new MUMS application was placed in produce Lion to permit the online input and update of Buildings Management Music records. The Books system was upgraded to pelmit the inputting of records for "special The Buildings Management Division Office collections" such as pamphlets. formed an Automation Committee to establish In support of the Copyright Office, the first re- goals, 'budget projectionS, automation priorities, lease of COINS III was placed into production. and procedures for the orderly development of This extension to the COINS system supports a comprehensive and efficient office automation deposit accounts receipt-in-process control and program. As the reporting period clysed, the is a further step in 'automating the entire copy- scope of an integrated automation system had right registration process. Public terminals in the been defined. general reading rooms can now be used to search While the Library's attention to improving fire online copyright registration, data bases. safety continues undiminished, much of the re- Work proceeded on the adaptation of a com- maining work is the responsibility of the Archi- mercial personnel data system to the needs of tect of the Capitol under the renovation program. the Library. Initial implementation is anticipated Implementation of fire defensaplans for the'Jef- early in fiscal 1985. A contract has been award- ferson and Adams buildings is a major objective ed to develop a new logical model for the Li- of the renovation. Review of renovation plans brary's payroll system. A general ledger system and specifications received priority attention was procured and installed. The analysis of the from the Safety Office this year. Installation of requirements for an Accounts Payable and Pur- fire sprinkler systems in the Jefferson and Adams chasing System was completed. An improved bookstacks was nearing completion by year's system for inventory control for the Library's end. Only final connection to the water source leased and purchased office equipment and and completion of the annunciation system re- other serialized equipment types was installed. main. The recommendations of a consultant re- The CRS Inquiry Status and Information System garding food service in the Jefferson and Adams (ISIS) was enhinced to allow routing and remote buildings were incorporated into the renovation printing of inquiries to the research divisions plans for these buildings.

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Major improvements in the management of mechanical care of the Library's buildings and the` Madison Building shipping and receiving grounds, including $81,500,000 for the restora- dock are expected to result from a survey of the tion and renovation of the Jefferson and Adams activities and operation of that facility conducted buildings. Details of the Library's financial during the latter part of the year. Other buildings records for fiscal 1984 appear in the appendixes. management .activities this year included: For 1985 the Library requested appropriations' Installation of.electromagnetic security totaling $228,983,000. The Congress allowed devices on Madison Building entrancekedts $225,710,000 in new budget authority for 1985, to enhance security of Library collections and authorized the use of $10,300,000 in receipts for equipment. the Copyright Office and the Cataloging Distri- Improvements in the Jefferson and Adams bution Sprvice, and released for -obligation snack bars, including replacement of fur-,$300,000 which was withheld from obligation niture and relocation of vending machines. under the provisions of Section 311 of Public Complete interior refinishing of the Whittall Law 95-391. Pavilion to repair damage caused by severe Presented with the.1985 budget request were condensation problems. supplemental requests for 1984 of $11,500,000 Design and installation of electronic security for construction of the Library'sbook deacidifica- systems for the Pennell and atlas exhibits in tion facility, $4,333,000 for increased pay pur- the Madison Gallery and the Japanese callig- poses, and $1,025,000 for new Social Security raphy exhibition in the north and south gal- costs. The Congress allowed the funds for the leries of the Great Hall. deacidification facility and $3,601,000 for in- Activation of electronic security systems at creased pay and Social Security costs. the Navy Yard Annex and the Taylor Street A new general ledger software package ---the Annex. Federal Accounting and Reporting System Installation of closed circuit television sur- (FARS) was selected in a competitive pro- veillance equipment at the Madison Building curement and purchased from Computer Data ground floor entrances andtthe shipping and Systems, Inc. By year's end, new coding and pro- receiving dock. gram structure had been developed and the Modification of the Madison Building fire system had been installed. Testing and full start- alarm system on the floors wherefalse alarms up are planned for 1985. Consultants were have been most frequent so that smoke detec- engaged to plan the integration of LOIS, tion signals alert only the Special Police and Photoduplicatioa Service, FEDLINK, and Copy- engineer force, who then sound fire alarms right Licensing Division accounting with FARS. only upon finding an actual fire. Initial responses indicated that the largest sys- tem problems will be with LOIS. Work is under way to select an accounting package which will integrate automated payables functions with the Financial Management general ledger and automation-of procurement data. Funding available for operations of the Library Payroll activity included the beginning of full in 1984 totaled $238,215,000, which included Social Security withholding for all new staff $228,715,000 in available direct appropriations members and existing temporary staff in Janu- from the Congress and $9,500,000 in offsetting ary, supplementary retirement withholding for collections. Other available sources included new staff members beginning in January, and working fund advances, transfers, and gift, trust, Collection of post-1956 retirement contributions and service fees, which totaled appniximately for military personnel who can claim both Civil $25,700,000. In addition, the Architect of the Service and Social Security retirement benefits Capitol received $87,570,000 for structural and for the same period. 32 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Materiel Management and Support can now furnish the Composing Unit with disks from their own word processing equipment for Purchasing, contracting, and materials manage- conversion to the Compugraphic system with ment services provided by the Procurement and only a minimum of extra keyboarding. Data for Supply Division have undergone few major certain bibliographies, as well as copy for the LC changes over the past dozen years. Fiscal 1984 Information Bulletin and a number of other afforded an opportunity for a consciqus, concen- publications are now being routinely submitted trated, and dynamic revitalization of purchasing on disks. In the course of the year the unit pro- practices and philosophy, initially stimulated by duced 2,405 camera-ready pages, compared to a revision tothe Public Law which increased the 2,000 the previous year. threshold for formally advertised procurements Advisory service on records management was from $10,000 to $25,000. This change resulted provided in twenty visits to nineteen congres- in greater activity in the small purchases area but sional offices. Subject classification outlines and did not diminish the number of formally adver- indexes were prepared for eight of these offices. tised procurements. Implementation of the Fed: In the forms management program 798 forms eral Acquisition Regulations, which replaced the were processed, including 85 new forms, 160 Federal Procurement Regulations, changed the revised forms, and 553 reprints. In addition, 159 entire solicitation structure and necessitated forms were designed or redesigned and 44 forms revisionsto. several 'standard clauses and were eliminated. A total of 370 cubic feet of procedures. records were destroyed and another 688 cubic As the Library's Inventory Management Proj- feet were transferred to the Library's storage ect reaches a verifiable level, emphasis has been facility for evaluation and future disposition. A placed on labeling of all serialized equipment. total of 2,303 cubic feet of copyright records Simultaneously, leased equipment is being were transferred to the Washington National placed on the Automated Inventory Control Records Center in Suitland, Maryland. The Li- System. brary now has 35,656 cubic feet of records stored During the year there were fifty-one formally at that facility. Another 70 cubic feet of Individ- advertised procurements on a competitive basis ual Earning History records were transferred to and eleven procurements,advertised as an intent the National Personnel Records Center in St. to negotiate with a specific vendor. Important Louts, Missouri. Cpnstruction was completed on procurement activities in fiscal 1984 were asso- a 1,500-square-foot records center at National ciated with-the Optical Diek Pilot Program and Underground Storage in Boyers, Pennsylvania, the beginning of activities related to construc- to house some of the Library's important micro- tion of the Mass Book Deacidffication Facility at film records. A total of 1,114 boxes containing Fort Detrick, Maryland. 60,922 reels of microfilm are now stored at this temperature-and-humidity-controlled storage facility. Central Administrative Services The volume of visual information services work, including preparation of charts, posters, During the year heavy demands on the Printing flyers, covers, brochures, transparencies, illus- Unit of the Central Services Division continued. trations, and hand-lettered certificates, con- A total of 68,901,916 impressions were pro- tinued to increase, with a total of 4,371 separate duced, compared to 68,431,310 for last year. Ac- items processed als compared to 3,060 the wevi- quisition of a ten-station collator near the end ous year. In addition, 3,676. office identifica- of the fiscal year is expected to greatly improve tons, posters, nameplates, and other graphic the efficiency of the collating operation. The displays were processed through the Buildings Compugraphic MCS photocomposition system Graphics Facility in fiscal 1984, compared to became fully operational during the yeah Offices 2,271 last year.

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M a consequence of the General Services Ad- Final reports on the validation of selectio\\1 ministration's new policy of three-year automo- procedures were received from the contractor bile replacement, most of the Library's motor and at year's end were being evaluated and con- pool vehicles are now 1983 or newer models. sidered for implementation. The validation As a result of the telephone company divesti- study, conducted by Personnel Decision, Inc., ture, the Library will acquire ownership of the and Personnel Decisions Research Institute of exiiting installed telephone equipment on No- Minneapolis, Minnesota, began in early 1981 vember 15, 1984. Maintenance by the telephone and covered librarians, social science analysts, company will extend to January 1985, after computer specialists, attorneys, copyright ex- which it is planned that Library staff will per- aminers and catalogers, economists, technical form all equipment installation and maintenance information specialists, foreign affairs special- work. New equipment permitting telephone ists, and Special Police positions. In. order td communication with the deaf has also been meet its contract commitment to Local 2477 of purchased. the American Federation of State, County, and A total of 12,000 classifications .were per- Municipal Employees that written tests would formed during the year, and 34,000 records were not be used as a selection device unless vali- , filed. More than three cubic feet of records were dated, the Library also contracted with Psycho- reviewed and integrated into the Library of Con- logical Services, Inc. (PSI), of Washington, D.C., gress Aichives. A total of 194 requests for rec-_ to determine whether a battery of Basic Skills ords reference service were received from Li- Tests developed by them for selecting staff mem- brary staff and the public. bers for clerical-related occupations was "trans- portable" for use by the Library. The study, which covered virtually all clerical-related posi- tions in the Library, found That the PSI tests Personnel and Labor Relations could be used as part of the Library's selection process for clerical positions. Significant progress in a number of affirmative The number of recruitment trips increased action programs ranked high among the many from six last year to more than forty this year; accomplishments of the Personnel and Labor with special emphasis being placed on affir- Relations Office during the year. mative action recruitment. Fifteen vacancies A program to increase the number of Hispanic were filled under the Target Series Program, employees at the Library began with thb appoint- recruitment for which is on a limited in-house ment in December of a part-time Hispanic em- basis for affirmative 'action purposes. ployment program coordinator. To heighten During the year, the Office of Counsel for Per- bicultural awareness at the Library, the Library sonnel was established with responsibility for participated for the first time in the observance both the functions of the former staff position of of National Hispanic Heritage Week, with activi- legal adviser and those functions related to dis- ties ranging from a panel discussion to an indoor ciplinary actions formerly assigned to the Staff concert. Relations Office. In July a part-time position of handicapped The employment picture in the Library re- program coordinator was establisktd, with mained relatively unchanged as compared to the responsibility for improving Library services for previous year. Applications received increased by handicapped staff members. The program got 96 for a total of 38,199. Vacancy announcements under way with the director of personnel nam- issued totaled 874, an increase of 4 percent. ing a task force to review, update, and develop Appointments made totaled 811, up from 783 last proposed regulations dealing with the handi- year, and a total of 450 staff members resigned, capped staff member and reasonable accommo- an increase of 39. Promotions for the year totaled dation of individuals with disabilities. 997 as compared to 951 in fiscal 1983.

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The major emphasis during the year in the.1Federal Executive Institute to the 80-hour pro- area of labor relations consisted of full-scale grams offered by the Federal Executive Seminar bargaining with American Federation of State, Centers and the University of Maryland Library County, and Municipal Employees Local 2477 Administrators Development Program. in the area of master contract renegotiations with The Staff Relations Office provided essential the Special Police and negotiations for an initial counseling services to staff members in a total contract with the of 8,162 contacts. Noteworthy trends in counsel- United Association of Employees. Both negotia- ing referrals included increased job frustration tions were suspended, however, when petitions and lack of career enhancement opportunities, were filed by other labor organizations seeking a rise in emotional health problems, and a sharp the right to represent these staff members. increase in financial. hardship cases; An addi- The Health Services Office sponsored its first tional 207 individual contacts were recorded in annual Health Fair for Library staff on April 17, the areas of reasonable accommodation for work- 1984, inviting eighteen public and private health related personal or medical conditions, job re- organizations to participate. Health Services staff structuring, and community referrals for medical have become more involved in teaching staff and/or psychological evaluations and assess- members how to stay well and are offering more ments. There were also 8,150 contacts with one-to-one counseling with emphasis on thedmanagers and supervisors covering a variety of wholistic approach to the maintenance of good areas such as interpretation of regulations, in- health. Through addition of a Weight/Nutri- centive award and suggestion issues, managing tion Group, Bereavement Group, Fresh Start the troubled staff member, leave abuse, and Smoking Cessation Program. and Techniques of human relations at the worksite. The greatest Lifting course, the office is emphasizing greater need among supervisors appeared to be in devel- self-responsibility for remaining well. oping effective strategies in resolving problems A Management Working Group on Incentive with staff members in accordance with sound Awards was established to review and examine personnel management practices. Eight training major issues relating to the awards program and sessions on supervising the troubled staff mem- to develop specific recommendations for im- ber were conducted, with approximately 155 proving the overall efficiency and effectiveness supervisors, union stewards, and other Library of the program. The Staff Relations Office issued staff,attending the one-day session. revised procedures for submitting award recom- Seven applicants were selected from partici- mendations and a policy memorandum which patinglibrary schools and five from the staff for clarified the criteria for evaluating group award the 1984-85 Intern Program. In the 1983-84 pro- recommendations. gram, six were from the staff and four from The Staff Training and Development Office of- outside. fered for the first time such courses as the The Recruitment and Placement Office staff Secretarial Symposium, Special Search Tech- interviewed 2,636 persons, `738 for 'careercoun- niques, Basic and Advanced Compucorp Train- seling (corresponding figures for 1983 were ing, Stress Management for the Staff Dealing with 2,250 and 766, respectively). They also held the Public, How to Communicate under Pressure, 1,571 meetings with management personnel, as and Techniques for Taking Telephone Inquiries. compared to 1,564 in 1983. Twenty-six students As an adjunct to the classroom activities, the of- were hired during the year under the College Co- fice began to acquire audiovisual training mate- op Program, as compared to forty-one in 1983, rials for use by staff members thrgb, the Career and eighty high school students were hired Resource Center. Sixteen senior managers parti- under the Work-Study Program, a significant in- cipated in more than 1,500 hours of intensive crease over the Thirty -four hired last year. Pre- leadership training, ranging from the 120-hour paring responses to requests for equal employ- programs offered at Harvard University and the ment' opportunity (EEC) data, giving deposi-

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lions, developing an EEO data collection system on five of these cases. In one carry-over case from for applicants, and related support activities ac- last Tear, the FLRA issued a notice of posting counted for a total of 3,479 work hours of and Ole Library filed one ULP charge which was Recruitment and Placement Office staff time. withdrawn with FI,Rapproval. Threenegotia- In addition to completing three maintenance bi4ty decisions weArendered by the FLRA. reviews and three classification surveys, the The Office of Counsellor Personnel disposed Position Classification and Organization Office of/twelve appeals through trial, as compared to took classification actions that, included estab- sixteen in 1983. One was settled (as compared lishing 214 new positions, redescribing 171 to six in 1983), six were withdrawn by the existing positiondr canceling 81 positions, opposing parties (two in 1983), and seven were amending 157 position descriptions, and pro- dismissed. Final decisions were rendered in cessing four reconsiderations. Eleven reorgani- ;fourteen appeals during the year, twelve of zations were also processed. I which were favorable to the Library, as corn- The Personnel Operattons Office processed ' pared to nine decisions in 1983, all of which two salary adjustments (one retroactive) under were favorable to the Library. Dispositions were the General Schedule and five under the Wage made in thirty-six adverse action cases which Systems during the year, which affected prac-i resulted in four reprimands, nine suspensions, tically all staff members. More than 700 counsel- six transfer/demotions, two demotions,, and ing sessions were held with staff on retirement eight- removals. No action was taken in) two matters and 255 retirement computations were cases, one case was dismissed, one staff member made, with 72 staff members retiring during this accepted a voluntary demotion, and three staff period as compared to 77 in 1983. The office members resigned before a final decision was held its annual Health Benefits Fair during open made. A total of 110 warnings, 120 counseling season for the Federal Employees' Health Bene- memoranda, 40 notices of proposed adverse fits Program. Some 2,500 health insurance ap- action, 30 reply officers' reports, and 42 final plications were processed during the open decisions were reviewed. Iii the equal employ- season and an additional 360 at other times dur- ment opportunity. area, attempts at resolution ing the year. A total of 332 "Outstanding* ratings were made in twil'iity-nine cases, fourteen of

(as compared to 201 in 1983), 300 quality step which resulted in settlement: k increases (247 in 1983), and 27 denials of within- The Health Services Offiee 'reported that the grade increases (one less than in 1983) were number of walk-in visits to the Health Room processed. facilities decreased during the year to 17,229 The Labor Relations Office handled forty-tivo from 19,320 last year. The number of counsel- grievances, with the preponderance of the deci- ing sessions decreased from 3,134 to 2,598. sions sustaining the position of the Library. One There was also a 12 percent &bruise lathe num- arbitration hearing was conducted under the ber of reported work-related injuries and a 33 provisions of the Library's grievance procedure. percent decrease in the number of reported Last year, fifty-four grievances were processed occupational illnesses. However, despite the and seven arbitration hearings held. Twenty un- reduced number of reported injuries, there was fair labor practice (ULP) charges were filed by an 18 percent increase, to a total of 177, in in- labor organizations at the Library during the juries requiring medical expense or loss of time. reporting period, a decrease of three from the The Emergency Medical Response System was previous year. The Federal Labor Relations updated during the year with the purchase of Authority (FLRA) approved the withdrawal re- new equipment and continues to be effective in quests by the labor organizations in ten cases, fully utilizing the medical, staff and Special dismissed the charges in four cases, and issued Police officers for providing emergency medical a complaint in one, case which has been care to Library staff. Cardiopulmonary resuscita appealed: By year's end no action had-been taken tion (CPR) was taught to 221 Special Police 36 Report of The Libiarian of Congress, 1984

officers and several other staff members at the Significant equipment purchases in the Photo- various Health Room facilities. Health Forums duplication Laboratory during the year included covered such subjects as sexually transmitted an Extek 105 Silver Card to Roll Duplicator diseases, why health care is so expensive, which allows the service to produce. silver . avoiding sports injuries, hypertension, and the microfiche distribution copies of cut microfiche aging worker. asters; three Weinman Pumps to pump chemi- c Is from the mixing area to the processors Photoduplication Services ( eplacing pumps purchased in 1949); and a PolarOid Miniportrait Camera for producing in- Staffing levels decreased significantly in the stant color passport photos. Photoduplication Service during the fiscal year. Financial projections for the year indicate a A continuing decline in the level of correspon- surplus of $380,000. A positive result of this dence received resulted in the abolishment of financial picture is that the service has been able three positions in the Reference Section and one to increase substantially its balance in the Trea- in the Information Unit. Staffing in the Micro- sury to a more reasonable reserve figure in light photographic Section was also reduced as a of annual expenses. This financial success was result of less material being available for film- due primarily tp careful control of salary costs ing. By year's end the staffing level of the and more consistent productivity- in the Photoduplication Service stood at 130 full-time laboratory. poaitioirs, as compared to 144 last year. ... The master negative microform vault now The service issued thirteen new circulars in contains 299,164 reels. Significant additions to fiscal 1984 to announce the availability of col- this collection include the Records of the Rus- lections microfilmed under the Library's preser- sian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North vation program. The circulars covered such America (376 reels), the Booker T. Washidgton materials as African newspapers available on Papers, Series Four, Caeral Correspondence positive microfilin; the pqpers of Frances Ben- (296 reels), and the Library's holdings of all pre- jamin Johnston, Ray Steward Baker, and Felix 1801 published writings concerning music and Frankfurter; Portuguese pamphlets; and Russian related topics as cited in Repertoire International Imperial Government publications. des Sources Mupicales (220 reels). Coin-operated copying service in the Library Substantial progress has been made in film- continued to be augmented and upgraded. ing the Latin American Gazettes. Backflies are Twenty-seven copiers are now available to the now available for fifteen of the twenty countries public, as compared to twenty-five last year. in the program. The filming of the reports ofe , Four new high-capacity Standard Change- South Manchurian Railway Company, carried Makers were purchased and installed and twt) on with the support of Japan's National Diet Li- existing Standard Changerwere modified to in- brary and the Library's Asian Division, was com- crease their capacity. pleted. In all, 3.270 titles were microfilmed.

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It is the goal of the National Programs depart- serve of New jerseygot into full swing. By the ment to reach out tq serve the needs of diverse time the fieldwork drew to a close in mid- publics; blind and physically handicapped in- November, team members had made 206 hours dividuals; adults woo work with and write for of sound recordings, produced 14,240 color and children; folklorists and others concerned with black-and-white photographs, and entered the preserving our cultural heritage; librarians, stu- equivalent of 1,700 pages of field notes into per- dents, and other people ofthe book and the writ- sonal computers. In early February-the' center ten word; the broadcasting community; special presentee, u project briefing for representatives guests and the press; federal' librarians and in- of the New jersey congressional delegation, formation specialists; and the general public members of the center's Board of Trustees, and who visit the Library of Congress, buy and read Library of Congress staff. Center director Alan its publications, view the exhibits, or simplyen- jabbour described the project's genesis and joy the architectural beauty of the Library's goals, noting that it was conducted partly as,a Thomas Jefferson Building. . follow:up to an earlier study entitled Cultural The sections that follow reveal a year of chal. Conservation: The Protection of Cultural Heri- lenges met, of enerptic and creative participa- tage in the United States, and that the center tion by the department's managers and staff. hopes to amplify the broad, somewhat abstract Fiscal 1984 was a "more" year: more visitors, points made in that report by undertaking a few more seminars. more federal networking activ- experirnentalstudies that deal with the uestion ity, more programs, more books and bibliog- of cultural conservation at the local le` I. Susan raphies, more special events, more awards for Samuelson, field coordinator for tb-, project, staff and the products of their work, more sales then outlined some organizational aspects. Dur- of Library products, more press attention, and ing the final portidn of the briefing, staff project more television coverage of Library of Congress director Mary Hufford offered an overview with programs. slides of the Pinelands National Reserve. Since the conclusionof the Pinelands Folklife Project, the data collected have been used to develop public presentations on cultural censer. AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER, vation at the First World Conference on Cultural Parks:, Preservation and Use, in Mesa Verde Wa- One of the busiest months of fiscal 1984 for the tional Park, Colorado; at the Parks in the West Arnericart Folklife Center was the usually slow conference in Sun Valley, Idaho; and at state and _month of August, when the center's reauthoriza- regional meetings in New Jersey and along the tion was considered, amended, and passed by East Coast the House of Representatives ( August 8), con- In the for February 6, sideredand passed by the Senate (August 9), and 1984, Congressman John F. Seiberling of Ohio signed by the President (August 21) as Public described Cultural Conservation as "an attrac- Law 98-392. This act authorizes the center'sap- tively printed and well-illustrated volume. More propriationk£or fiscal years 1985 and 1986. important, it addresses in a comprehensive man- In October 198) the Pinelands Folklife Proj- ner a range of issues of immediate relevance to ecta field survey of folic technology, craft, and historic preservation and related cultural efforts folk expressign in the Pinelands National Re- ground the United States."

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On December 5 and 6, 1983, nearly four hun- The first volumes of The Federal Cylinder dred folklorists, art historians, collectors, dealms, Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections historians, and folk art enthusiasts gathered at the in Federal Agencies (Studies in American Folk- Library of Congress for the Washington Meeting lIfe, No. 3) were published. Volume 1, Introduc- on Folk Art, an event sponsored jointly by the tion and Inventory, contains an indexed listing, Museum of American Folk Art in City by collection of more than ten thousand field- and the American Folk life Center. recorded wax cylindersfor which preservation The Washington Conference on Folk life and tape copies exist at the Library of Congress. Vol- Automated Archives: Interdisciplinary Ap- ume 8, Early Anthologies, describes Benjamin proaches, held April 26-28, 1984, was the sec- Ives Gilman's cylinder recordings from the 1893 ond ma or conference hosted by the Folklife World's Columbian Exposition and the Ingemon- Center uring the fiscal y Richard S. Thill stration Collection" edited by Erich Moritzvon from the University of N raska at Omahawas Hornbostel and issued shortly after World War the organizer, with fuing from the L.J. and I by the Berlin Phonogramm Archly. Other vol- Mary C. Skaggs Fo ation. The structure of umes will follow. manual archiving sy ems, approaches to ctassi- Two pictorial "fbodways" books appeared this fication of folklore .eriab3 for automation, auto- year Cranberries and Watermelon. Cranberries mated archiving pacts with which the Library combines recipes gathered from residents of* of Congress hes n involved, and standardiza- New Jersey Pine Barrens with color photographs tion of follelme data basest were discussed. and a glimpse of cranberry cultivation anduse Reference librarian Gerald E. Parsons provided in the Pinelands. Watermelon, by Ellen %olden, extensive research- support to the House Sub- includes historical and dietary facts, recipes, committee on Census and Population, whichh humor, color and black-and-white illustrations, was considering a bill proposing that the sqtrare poetry, and a touch 'of serendipity to capture dance be designated as the country's national something of the good-times feeling that water- deuce. Staff members Peter Bartis, Elena Bra- melons seam to produce. dunes, and Mary Huffbrd began a long-term ini- Due to restoration work that the Architect of tiative focusing on folklife and higher edtication, the Capitol has been overseeing this spring and The initiative encompasses five prOposed proj- summer to reinforce the Masonry arches sup- ects, the first of whicha two-day colloquium porting the Library's Neptune Plazathe Midi- of folklore educatorstook place on September tional location of the center's annual outdoor 13 and 14, 1984. The sixteen participants invited concert, seriee the center developed &limning" by the Folklife Center and the American Folklore series for 1984. It began on May 4 with a con- Society discussed such topics, as the current cert by the renowned local bluegrass group strength of folklore programs at the university Doyle Lawsen and QuiCksilver, performed in the level, employment opportunities, and how the Mumford Room of the Library's Madison Build- societrand the center can increase support for ing. On June 14 Flora Moltorr and the Truth folklore and higher education. Carl Fleischhauer Band, joined by Archie Edwards, playedcoun- continued to assist the Library's Optical Disk try music and the blues in the Whittall Pavilion. Nonprint Pilot Program during 1984; as chair- Gange, a folk music group from Bengal, India. man of theonprinteExperiment Design Com- played a wide range' of folk music from northern e mittee. This saw the first user station, set up India for the July concert in the Coolidge Audi- in the Prints d Photographs Reading Room, torium. The fourth and final concert of this year's Copyright ssioras for motion-picture mate- series, also in the Coolidge Auditorium, featured rials were sout and a video press release was the Veliones, four young men from northeast developed. More user stations are expected in Washington Who sing popular songs from *nee., the next year, along with captions for the disk 1950s to the present without instrumental now in operatidn. accompaniment. 20 39 National Programs

On August 16; in connection with the Li- stage of processing-which ,occurs after the brary's "Words In Motion: Modem Japanese Cal- ,collection has been copied by the Library's ligreph3r" exhibit, the center presented a special Recording Laboratory.eThe archive logged in enoontime 'Concert of Japanese music by Kyoko twenty-one new collections totaling 1,72,,5 items. Okamoto and menibers of the Washington Toho The archive revised the reference aid tolklife Keit°. Society and a workshop on brush writing and Ethnomusicology Archives and Related Col- conducted by Mrs. Okamoto and Tamae Brock- lections in the United States and Canada and man. On September 13 the center presented a produced a new finding aid, Maryland Field special concert of Puerto Rican music by Yomo Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture. Are Tom and his Conjunto_Tipico Puertorriqueno, chivb staff also compiled a revised edition of f as part of the Library's col bration of National Researchers in the Washington, D.C., Area Hispanic Heritage Week. p. Robert Garcia of Familiar with the Collections and Indexes of the New York, chairperaon ofa_C.ongiessional His- Archive of Folk Culture and submitted 1,426 en- panic Caucus, introduced the-goupeami pro- tries for the "Current Bibliography" section of the vided background on the island's customs and,journal Ethnomusicology. musical heritage. APrir-Carl Fleischhauer installed high- fidelityequipmentforehepublic to use in listen- ing to.P'sin the arcltive--reading room, Archive of Folk Culture replacing the old yellow plastic-re-C-6rd player acquired as a surplus item from the Library's The archive's growing interest in nonmusic Talking Book gram. The new equipment con- materials was exemplified by Joseph C. Hicker- sists of a Tho ns TC 166 MKII turntable, a' %on's July trip to Coluinbia, South Carolina, to Yamaha A-5070-watt amplifier, and 'Senn: acquire and transport some thirteen hundrede Heiser HD424 ea dphones. disc recordings and related manuscript docu- mentation pertaining to the Linguistic Atlas of N rth America. These materials, most of which CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CENTER, wirerecorded between 1933 and 1936 in New land and Virginia, were given to the Library In all aspects of its operation-from special hye American Dialect Society in exchange for events and programs, user setvicas, and poblica- a tape copy. Also included. in this transaction tions to staff development--:the Children's Liter- were more than 150 tape recordings given di- ature Center (CLC) enjoyed an active, pro:Meetly° rectly to the Library by dialect scholar and past year, which began with two well-attended spa- ADS preaident Raven McDavid. bird events: In cooperation with the Center for A large and especially interesting coil on the Book, the CLC sponsored a Children's Book from the Tombigbee Historic Townsites Oral Weekelecture by award-winning writer Made- tory Project was forwarded to the archive by leine L'Engle, who chose as her title "Dare to be Stephanie Rodeffer of the National Park Service. Creative." And with ABC Entertainment, are, Reminiscences collected along the Tennessee- Center for the Book and the Children's Literature Tombigbee Waterway-particularly in Clay Center presented the premiere of ABC Televi- County. Mississippi-are recorded on 117 cas- sion's 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," based settes and are supported by 1,590 pages of indexed on the popular book btBarbara Robinson. Spe- verbal transcripts, maps, and photographs. cial guests included 7"V star Loretta Swit, as well Tha archive has been reaming its backlog of as the author and her Harper & Row editors. in-process collections niaudio recordings (cyl- Staff members from throughout the Library inders excluded).' In fiscal 1984, collections celebrated the center's twenty-first birthday on. totaling 1,448 items have been fully processed. March 2. The center also greeted approximately An additional fifty-five items are in the final fifty librarians, editors, teachers, an(other

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N' children's book specialists at an open house held newly created slide presentation, to LC staff, in January during the Midwinter Conference of visitors, teachers of children's literature, and the the American Library Association in Washing- Publisher's Library Marketing Group (New ton. Throughout the year, the center welcomed York). a steady stream of national and international vis- itors, introducing them.to its functions- and ser- vices and facilitating their use of the Library's4. EDUCATIONAL LIAISON OFFICE rich but Scattered collections of children's books. The Center publishedits annu,.I annotated bib- As the Librarian of Congress recently noted, the liography, Children's Books, for 1983, and began Educational Liaison Office "educates people preparing an illustrated guide to children's about the Library of Congress." This statement books at the Library of Congress. In cooperation is particularly appropriate for fiscal '1984: ELO with the Asian Division, the center initiateda has had a busy year attending to the Library's publication that will highlight the Library's many-special publics, and education has been holdings of Japanese children's books. one of the primary ways of serving them. Additional support was obtained this year The office arranged special tours, programs, from a University of Maryland intern and are- appointments, and other forms of orientation for search assistant from that university's American thousands of visitors to the Library of Congress Studies Program. Toward midyear the center this year. Participants in the Library's Official welcomed Suzanne Levesque as its permanent Visitors Program numbered 5,577, an increase library technician. of 12 percent over last year's program totals. The senior reference specialist, Margaret More official visitors came in October 1983 (828) Coughlan, and the chief, Sybille Jagusch, en- and Apri11984 (808) than in any previous month gaged in numerous professional activities which ever recorded. cormected \the center with its national and Professional librarians and students of library int*nationar constituents. Margaret Coughlan science visiting the Library numbered 1,804, a deeyed a paper on stimulating the child's third of the total number of official visitors, and imagination _through books to students and an increase of 5 percent over the prevlbus fiscal tea at Northern University at year. Library students came from the University DeKalb, Illinois, and introduced award-winning of Toronto, Sam Houston State University, Cath- author Cynthia Voigt at the annual Maryland olic University, Kent State University, the Book and Author Luncheon. During the annual University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, conference of the American,Library Association's Syracuse University, the University of North Committee on National Planning for Special Col- Carolina afiChapel Hill, Drexel University, North lections, she planned and presented a program Carolina Central University, and Prcftinstitute. on computer access to special children's book Again this year, the associates at the National collections. Library of Medicine visited the Library on an ex- Mrs. jagusch served on the New York Times change with our interns. jury of the annual Best Illustrated Books selec- Six national librarians called on the Library tion, chaired the Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Com- during the year, from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Haiti, mittee of the Association of Library Service to Indonesia; Tanzania, and Chile. The list of na- Children, a section of the American Library tional librarians was revised for distribution to Association, continued.as executive board mem- LC officials. ber of the United States Board on Books for During-the American Library Association Mid- Ydung People, and attended the General Con- winter Meeting ?held in Washingtonirom Janu- ference of the International Federation of Library ary 7 to 12, the Library maintained service to Associations and Institutions in Nairobi, Kenya. conferees through thls Information Place, a She gave numerous talks, often using the center's reception center in theMadison Building whicht\ 22 41 National Programs

coordinated tours, computer demonstrations, ALA midwinter reception, antisocial gatherings appointments, optical disk discussioria,,and in connection with the COSLA Sixth Assembly, other services for visiting librarians and pub- Children's Book W k, the WashingtoMeeting fishers. On January 8, with support from the on Folk Art, the to House News Photogra- Baker & Taylor Company, the Library held a gala phers exhibit, the ymposium on Work, His- reception in the Great Hall for the conferees. panic Heritage Week, and various other special Official visitors of note during the year in- occasions. cluded Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, wife of the presi- The ELO was host to numerous visiting schol- dent of the Arab Republic of Egypt, who met ars who were conducting research at the Library with LC officials to discuss the delivery of library and arranged"for Library staff to serve as "faculty services to rural Egyptians. In connection with associates" for these scholars, in addition, ELO the Library's exhibit on 150 years of relations placed twenty-two student interns in ten Library with Thailand, several imporjant Thai visitors divisions through its Student Internship Pro- came to the Library, including Princess Galyani 8raro and arranged for an exchange visit by Dr. Watlana, sister of the reigning king, and the for- Gerhard Hahn, deputy director of the German eign minister and ambassador of Thailand, with Bundestag Library, who spent three months in their wives. Pri)cess Mele Siulikutapu Kalaniu- the Law Library, Congressional Research Ser- valu Fotofilrof Tonga, guest of -American vice, and Processing Services. Samoa's , visited the Library The educational liaison officer, John Ifenry in August. Hass, worked on and participated in the Plan- Ambassadors to the United States from China, ning and execution of the Sixth Assembly of Japan, Algeria, Yugoslavia, , Costa Rica, Chief Officers of State Library Agencies Paraguay, and Uruguay were guests ,of the Li- (COSLA), held at the Library in April. ,'Imary during the year, as were ministers and Members of Parliament from Bavaria, , Japan, the Kingdom of Lesotho, India, Korea, Bermuda, Austria, Uruguay, Great Britain, The EXHIBITS OFFICE Congo, Mexico, Sicily, Denmark, The Nether- lands, Zimbabwe, Benin, Cameroon, Venezuela, In fulfilling the goal of sharing the collections China, Mauritania, Brazil, Malaysia, Trinidad, of the Library of Congress with its many publics, Botswana, Zaire, Liberia, Taiwan, and the Ivory the Exhibits Office presented twelve major Coast. exhibitions and five special exhibitions in fiscal Services provided to other visiting publics in- 1984 that featured diverse items spanning four cluded hourly tours of the Library every work- centuries. ing day. A 31/2-minute recorded tour was Honoring U.S, -Thai cooperation, "Amity and installed in the Visitors Gallery overlooking the Commerce: 150 Years of the United States and Main Reading Room. In fiscal 1984 the Tour Of- Thailand Accord" exhibited a copy of thetwelve- fice gave 1,920 regular tours to 37,742 visitors foot-long treaty between the two countries, the and 779 specially arranged tours to 18,252 of- first treaty to be signed between the United ficial visitors, school groups, and others, an States and an Asian nation. In this cooperative overall increase of more than 5 percent from last spirit, the king of Thailand donated musical in- year's total. All told, it was a busy year for the struments and loaned an abstract that he had Tour Office, and certainly the busiest spring painted for the exhibit, while the Thai Silk Com- ever, when nearly 40 percentof the total number pany donated silk on which to mount the ex- of the year's tours ware given. hibit, which also included books, artifacts, and The two job-sharing special events coordina- photographs. tors had their most demanding year yet, taking "Steamer Prints" displayed nineteenth-century responsibility for the LC retirees luncheon, the prints yf trans-Atlantic and inland waterways

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steamships, a popular and practical mode of competition. In contrast to these modern car- transportation until they were displaced by the tographic materials, atlases dating back to the railroads. - fifteenth century were exhibited in the Madison As the depository for the Historic American Gallery for "Images of the World: The Atlas Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection, whose Through History." Among the many rare items purpose is to record the country's architectural displayed was the twelfth and final volume of heritage, the Library of Congress celebrated the the largest and most elaborate atlas ever pro- fiftieth anniversary of HABS with an exhibit duced, Le Grand Atlas, published in France in depicting the diversity and utility of the col- 1667. lection. A very popular exhibit this year was "The A major exhibition in the Madison Gallery, Grand Interpreters: Personalities in Opera in `The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuries of Print- America" at the Performing Arts Library. Cele- making," displayed more than 250 fine prints as brating the centennial tour of the Metropolitan a tribute to printmaker and collector Joseph Pen- Opera Company, photos of opera stars from the nell, who bequeathed to the Library of Congress Library's Charles Jahant Collection and cos- the Pennell Fund for use in purchasing prints tunes, costume designs, and set designs on loan "of the greatest excellence only." In addition to from the Metropolitan Opera were exhibited. enabling the Library to purchase tine prints, Another popular attraction was the forty-first Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell also bequeathed annual White House News Photographers Exhi- their own collections of books, manuscripts, and bition, recalling some of the important events of printmaking plates, as well as Mrs. Pennell's col- the past year throughout the world with award- lection of valuable cookbooks. winning photographs and videotapes. Posters from the Prints and Photographs Divi- A major exhibition in the Great Hall was sion formed the basis. for several exhibitions. "Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Callig- "The Poster as Art in the 1890s" reflected an raphy," cosponsored by the Japanese newspaper artistic movement that combined art with adver- Yomiuri Shimbun. Examples of calligraphic art tising. "All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing: by contemporary Japanese masters were ex- Early Hollywood Musicals," an exhibit at the hibited on a specially designed free-standing ex- Performing Arts Library, featured posters of film hibit system. musicals during their heyday from the mid- The Traveling Exhibitions Program scheduled 1930s to the early 1940s. Two separate special elevexhibits to be shown in over thirty-five exhibits featuring film posters and stills were in- lions in the United States and Canada and stalled in the lobby of the : at U.S. embassies in several foreign countries. "Paramount Studios: The- First 30 Years" and The Exhibits Loan Program coordinated the "Flight in Film." lending of 719 items from the Library's collec- Cartoons, caricatures, and drawings were the tions to supplement exhibitions at sixty institu- sources from which two other exhibits were tions in the United States and five foreign drawn. "Wit's End: Drawings from the Swami countries, , Collection of Caricature and Cartoons" is the sec- A complete listing orall exhibitions produced ond to be installed in the Swami Gallery. 'The or concluded in fiscal 1984 appears in appen- Truman Era: Issues and Images" marked the cen- dix 1;. tennial of the birth of Harry S. Truman with political cartoons conveying the major issues of the Truman era. Award-winning maps from the 1984 annual FEDERAL LIBRARY COMMITTEE competition of the American Congress on Sur- veying and Mapping were exhibited, commem- A major task of the Federal Library Committee orating the ten-year anniversary of the during fiscal 1984 involved planning for a 24 43 National Programs

reorganization. Proposeds anges were initiate services to the government, and to the nation at by members of FLC's ecutive Advisory,to large, and efficient and Cost-effective use of mittee, chaired by s Associate Librari for federal library and information resources and National Programs, I A. Nemeyei;- At 's services. Further, the committee promotes im- December 20 busin ss meeting, FLC offial rep- proved access to information, continued devel- resentatives voted o approve changes oqf the FLC opment and use of the Federal Library and purpose stateme t and name and els to expand' Inform:1010n Network (FEI)LINK), research and the members .Proposed chang s were re- development in the application of new tech- viewed with the Office of Managenient and Bud- nologies to federallibrarie.a and information cen- get in May. In July, the Librarian of Congress ters, improvements in the management of federal approved the plan, and it was published in the libraries and information centers, and relevant Federal Register just after the close of the fiscal educational opportunitieS. year, on October 3, 1984. PLC's new name is the This fiscal year the crmittee sponsored a Federal Library and InforMation Center Om:mit- forum entitled "FederalInformation Policies: tee (FLICC), and its 'expanded memBership Emerging Issues on Mai aginginformation Re- includes the Defense Technical Information Cen- sources" on February 15 4ct the Library of Con- ter, Government Printing Office, National Tech- gress. Over two hundred participants from the nical Information Service, Office of Scientific private and public sectoof the library and in-- and Technical Information (Department of formation community hard and questioned a Energy), and Administrative Offices of the U.S. distinguished roster of s eakers. New York Con- Courts. The Library of Congress, National Agri- gressman Major R. Owiam, a -former librarian, cultural-Library, and National Library of Medi- was the keynote speer, and panels were cine remain as members, as do each of the chaired by Dr. Joseph F. ponio, Director of the executive departments and the National Ar- National Technical Infoation Service; Sarah chives end Records Service, National Aero- T. Kedge, Director oflh Information Manage- nautics " and Space Administration, National ment and ServicesDivisi,n, Environmental Pro- Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, tection Agency; and Dan; M. T 'Icy, consultant to Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Infor- McGraw-Hill, Inc. mation Agency, and Veterans Administration. An Online Serials Management Control Sub- Rotating members were increased from six to committee was established this year to review ten, and selections are made from the three online serials systems and to advise committee branches of government, agencies, boards, com- members of the services !available. Pilot agree- mittees, and commissions. In addition to the Of- ments were signed with EBSCO and Faxon com- fice of Management and Budget, observers status panies to provide online serials managerhent includes the General Accounting Office, General control. Services Administration, Joint Committee on A number of FLC seminars' on theaplicafion Printing, and National Commission on Libraries of OMB Circular A-76, coVering contracting for and Information Science. commercial services, were held at the Library of The committee makes recommendations on Congress. A study entitled, What A-76 Means to federai library and information policies, pro- Federal Libraries, by Jose Becker of Becker gram* and procedures to federal agencies and and Hayes, Inc., Santa Mo ca, California, was to others concerned with federal libraries and in- submitted to the ExecutiveDirector's office and formation centers. It also coordinates coopera- _distributed to committee members. The study in- tive activities and services among federal cludes a review of the historical development of libraries and information centers and serves as A-76, an explanation of the growth of library a forum to consider issues and policies that af- contracting in federal libraries, a presentation of fect federal libraries and information centers, concerns raised by federal library managers, and needs and priorities in providing information a summary of procedures for federal agencies to

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follow in order to comply with the provisions vices for online research data base searching, as of A-76. well as online cataloging, interlibrary loan, ac- Lee Power, FLC senior program analyst, served quisitions, and serials control. on the General Services Administration, Na- During fiscal 1984 FEDLINK participation tional Archives and Records Service,Task Group grew nationwide to approximately six hundred on Electronic Recordkeeping, which addressed agency libraries, information centers, and offices issues relating to the management of records cooperating in the use of thirty contractual created, stored, or transmitted using .personal services that resulted in 1,248 interagency agree- computers, word processors, and other elec- ments (947 renewals and 299 new) for approx- tronic office equipment and drafted guidelines imately 20 million dollars of service. The large for electronic recordkeeping. number of new agreements resulted from pro- motional efforts during the marketing analysis study completed this year. Federal Library and Information Network Use of online retrieval services, as indicated by interagency agreements, increased by 41 The Federal Library and Information Network percent in fiscal 1984. Working with its infolie (FEDLINK) is a network organization of cooper- matron retrieval vendors, FEDLINK made a con- ating libraries and information centers which certed effort to inform federal libraries of its derives its authority from the Federal Library services through special, mailings, demonstra- and Information Center Committee. Through tions, and workshops. Utilization of these ser- FLC/FEDLINK, federal agencies have cost- vices over the past five years is reflected in the effective access to a number of automated ser- table below.

Utilization of Online Information Retrieval Services

Service Number of Interagency Agreements

FY 1980 FY 1981 FY 1982 FY 1983 FY 1984

BRS 78 104 125 ) 156 180 DIALOG 66 120' 168 221 283 ORBIT 10 55 58 63 88 LEXISINEXIS 24 42 59 86 146 LEGI-SLATE 3 18 21 24 32 WESTLAW 2 a 17 44 74 DOW JONES 2 5 ) 9 7 POLITECHS 3 3 3 1 ISI 5 21 19 DMS ( 3 TECH-NET 2 CONTROL DATA 3

TOTALS 186 352 461 625 837

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Use of the online products and services con- The Market Analysis Project was completed tract with OCLC continued to expand in fiscal during the year and the final report submitted 1984. The number of federal libraries increased by RMG, Inc. The report recommended that from 360 in fiscal 1982 to 390 in fiscal 1983 to FEDLINK consider developing an FLC/FEDLINK 429 in fiscal 1984. In addition to using the cata- bibliographic data base with subject access and loging subsystems, federal libraries have made interlibrary loan, an FLC/FEDLINK Serials increasing use of interlibrary loan, acquisition,'Union Catalog with federal library serials hold- and seriali control subsystems. ings, an expanded program of seminars and Access to OCLC's data base of over 12 million workshops on library automation and library and records and 150 million holding symbols input information center management (particularly by thirty-six hundred members is available to procurement), microcomputer/minicomputer in- FEDLINK members through the OCLC telecom- tegrated library systems which support capa- munications netweirk and also through Tymnet bilities as terminals and/or local access to mass and Telenet by dial access. The federal records storage devices for possible distribution of bib- added to the OCLC data base consist of over 5 liographic and other data bases, contracted ser- million logical records that are growing at a rate vices for document retrieval and delivery, and of 65,000 a month. These federal records are an active program of library and information available to the membership for production of center consultation services for the planning and customized products through FLC contracts with acquisition of automated library systems by fed- Blackwell North America, Informatics General eral libraries. At the request of the Project Corp., and Library Systems. and Services, Inc. Review Group,'RMG also investigated alterna- Contracts were continued with the Biblio- tives to a comprehensive bibliographic data base graphical Center for Research (BCR) in Denver, or a serials data base. the Wisconsin Interlibrary Services (WITS), the In December 1983 FEDLINK opened its Miew- Missouri-Library Network (MLNC), the SOLINET computer Demonstration Center, which initial- Southeastern Library Network in Atlanta, and ly contained only three microcomputersan the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council in Dallas to Apple It, a BMCif800, and an IBM PC. By train FEDLINK members located outside the year's end, the center had added a Compaq por- Mid-AtlantiC region. table computer and a Tandy TRS-80 Model To offer members alternative or additional 2000. After an initial purchase of basic software online cataloging and related services, contracts for word processing, electronic spreadsheet, were also' continued with the Washington (State) telecommunications, and data base management Library Network (WLN), the ResearCh Libraries (and a welcome acknowledgment in Govern- Group (111..G) for subject access to its Research ment Computer News), severil software vendors Libraries' Information Network (RUN), and provided demonstration kits and, in some cases, M/A-COM Sigma Data Corporation in Rockville, fully operational copies of the software. The cen- Maryland. ter also has access to two OCLC M300 (IBM PC) To support shared retrieval services, vendor termini's in the FEDLINK offices. These ter- contracts were continued with Bibliographic Re- minals have been used to test various software trieval Services, Inc., DIALOG Information Ser- packages for compatibility with the M300. vice, System Development Corporation, Mead In September the center began offering Data Central, Inc., and West Publishing Com- computer-based bulletin board services. The bul- pany. Twenty-five member agreements were letin board operates on the BMC if800 computer processed allowing members to load their own with a Hayes 1200 auto-answer modem. Any user-defined data files on a vendor's system to FEDLINK member library may call in, sip) on retrieve information using the full range of as "GUEST," and register as a user. Users may search capabilities of the respective contractor's leave messages and questions for the system system. operators or other users.

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INFORMATION OFFICE in D.C." During the ALA reception in January, sales were brisk and the layout and products of Poetry readings at the Library celebrating the fif- the shop received high marks. In a joint effort tieth anniversary of the Academy of American with the Publishing Office, changes were made Poets received extensive press coverage, with a to the sales catalog, including an improved self- quarter-page photograph of the distinguished mailer order form for speedier service. The poets who participated in the readings carried mai) lger of the information and sales facility by the Washington Post and stories in Time served as a consultant for organizers of a Pratt magazine and other national publications. Other Library sales counter and also participated in a stories that met with more than usual interest Museum Stores Association annual meeting. were a concert marking the seventy-fifth birth- New products of note were leather bookmarks, day of composer Elliott Carter, the American new slide sets of Library views, needlepoint kits Folk life Center's Pine lands project, the Pennell featuring workg in the Library's collections, a and American Congress on Surveying and Map- limited-edition LC stamp paperweightillows ping exhibitions, performance of three Beckett copying a violin and African design from the plays, an opera exhibit at the Kennedy Center, collections, and coasters and puzzle postcards the "Work" symposium, a press briefing held for of LC views. the Book Industry Study Group on their reading The Information Office responded to 3,547 re- survey, the 'Harry S. Truman centennial, the quests for information from the news media in press briefing on the occasion of the opening of fiscal 1984, compared to 2,879 calls in 1983. . a user station for the Optical Disk Pilot Program, Clippings from newspapers and magazines men- the Japanese calligraphy exhibition, and presen- tioning the Library increased from 6,555 to tation to the Library by the Compact Disc Group 8,342. The office replied to 108 questionnaires of all of their music discs. A story in the National about Library services and gave assistance to Enquirer reporting that the Library was a 'good divisions in the Production of eight brochures source of free information" flooded the Informa- and similar printing projects. The Library of tion Office with 6,850 requests. Congress Information Bulletin was published The Information Office distributed public af- and distributed to more than twelve thousand fairs announcements to area television stations institutions and individuals on a regular weekly on' the Japanese calligraphy exhibition "Words basis. The Library's Calendar of Events was in Motion" and is producing a filmograph for the published and distributed to sixteen thousand Federal Research Division. Slide presentations subscribers each month, and 147 news releases for orientation purposes were created by the of- were distributed. fice staff for the Associate Librarian for National The office received a first prize Blue Pencil Programs and the Children's Literature Center, Award for the Calendar of Events in the twenty- and a videotape production on the CX terminals second annual competition sponsored by the Na- was produced to accompany the calligraphy ex- tional Association of Government Communicators. hibition. The office assisted the Preservation Of- fice in coordinating film proposals and held preproduction meetings with the M.:eclat° Li- brarian for Management to discuss an informa- NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE tion and training audiovisual. BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDIVAPPED The sales and information counters in the Thomas Jefferson Building and the James Madi- Improvements to the Library of Congress reading son Building received an accolade in the July program for blind and physically handicapped 1984 Washingtonian magazine, which noted individuals were focused in two major areas dur- that "among museum shop aficionados the main ing fiscal 1984: automation and reorganization gift shop at the Library of Congress ranks first of the national staff.

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Automation highlights included continued Office of the Directqr . development of new NLS/BPH management in- formation systems designed to provide better This year's NLS Automation Conference, held in service to readers. Software for the new Reader New York City in July, had the largest atten- Enrollment and Delivery System (READS), which dance ever. The highlight of the conference was should improve service to readers through in- a handszon demonstratioa of the READS system. creased library efficiency in enrollment, circula- The participants asked for speedy completionnf tion, and routine functions, was delivered in the pilot tests and quick release of the software April 1984. Testing of both the- software and to the network. hardware of the READS system, which is de- In conjunction with the READS system, the signed to operate on a, microcomputer-based NLS telecommunications network (NLSNET) Local Area Network, is scheduled for fiscal 1985. will 114 local library systems with the NLS A second major system, the Pioduction Con- computer systems. Detailed requirements for trol/Management Information System (PC/MIS), NLSNET were written iii fiscal 1983 and incor- is in the final stage of development and is- porated into a request for proposal issued this scheduled for installation and testing in the last year. Award of a contract is awaiting approval quarter of calendar 1984. The PC/MIS will allow from Congress to procure equipment. the Materials Development Division much greater A study on potential automation of the work control over the selection, cataloging, produc- of the Publication and Media Section was ini- tion, and quality-assurance functions of the book tiated and a line-item accounting procedure was and magazine production programs. As a result, developed, for quarterly reporting on the books will be produced by contractors- and section's $3 million annual budget. A major delivered to readers in a more timely manner. streamlining of contracting procedures included In addition, managethent information for bud- consolidation of multiple bid solicitations into geting and contracting will be more readily one bid package for each format. The section available and have a higher degree of accuracy. coordinated exhibits at fourteen national con- The NLS/BPH reorganization, which took ef- ferences which attracted someihirty-four thou- fect on April 30, 1984, achieved several goals. sand visitors, in addition to publishing and Major accomplislgaents include centralization distributing 226 publications that included net- of all efforts and projects relating to braille under wdtk bulletins, magazines, bibliographies, cata- a new Braille Development Section and provi- logs, brochures, news releases, and other items sion of a central point for inventory manage- to support the national program. ment, supply logistics, liaison with multistate In an effort to bring together a composite over- centers (MSCs), and related functions through view of the needs of individuals unable to use the creation of a new Inventory Management print resources and to describe current and his-- Section. The Braille Development Section, which toricel practices designed to meet these needs, combines the functions of the Braille Codes Sec- NLS published That All May Read, a collection tion and braille-related efforts of the previous of original essays and history of library service project coordinator, is part of the Materials for blind and physically handicapped-individ- Development Division. The Inventory Manage- uals. The book's authors received the President's ment Section, under the Network Division, con- Committee on Employment of the Handicapped solidated MSC functions to allow the Network,book award for 1984. Services Section to focus more precisely on net- Two international directories were published work libraries. this year, the International Directory of Libraries During the fiscal year the NLS/BPH program and Production Facilities for the Blind and the served a readership of 630,000; circulation of International Directory of Braille Music Collec- braille and recorded books and distribution of tions, both of which provide unique coverage of magazines approached 19 million. their respective areas. Publications Procedures,

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a manual giving step-by-step instructions on sources aimed at providing quality library ser- how,NLS publications are produced from the vice to the blind and physicallx handicapped. time the manuscripts are developed to final dis- The Cqnsumer Relations Section continued to tribution of printed materials, was completed gather and monitor comments from library users this year. through active liaison with organizations of Other public education activities included dis- blind end physically handicapped persons as tribution of new radio and.television public ser- well as individual library patkonss Letters re- vice announcements featuring Pearl Bailey and ceived and answered from consumers increased others. Several news features were developed by more than 36 percent over last year. A pro- and distributed to the nation's print media to cedure for logging patron comments was ini- educate the public on the program. The section tiated whereby letters, telephone calls, and other also coordinated the national media publicity on consumer input received by NLS are compiled the historic recorded-cassette dictionary pro- monthly by subject area. Each quarter an duced by the NLS staff. analysis of significant trends is prepared. The section produced or updaterlseveml pub- lications, including the Introductory Handbook for Patrons, fact sheets on international in- Network Division terlibrary loan and magazine sales to overseas organizations, and two issues of Overseas Out- The Network Division continued to strengthen look. The section also coordinated the editorial its services to patrons and network libraries. The content of three issues of Update and prepared division's new Inventory Management Section and submitted to the Publication and Media Sec- was one result of this effort. In addition, the tion the manuscript for the 1984 edition of assistant chiefs of the Materials Development Volunteers Who Produce Books. Division and Network Division exchanged posi- A new publication, Maps and Graphics for tions as a means of bringing new perspectives Blind and Visually Handicapped Individuals: to production and network library functions. A Bibliography, prepared in cooperation with a Multistate centers, which serve as geograph- bibliographic consultant, was released. Re- ical centers of distribution for the NLS program, sponding to the increased interest in tactile maps confirmed to play a major role in assisting net- and graphics that led to production of thtsbib- work libraries in providing quality service to llogiaphY, the section established policies and patrons. A ;najor highlight of the year was suc- procedures relating to the acquisition and cir- cessful completion of the Quality Assurance Pro- culation of the NLS tactile map collection. On gram for Network-Produced Magazines. Sixteen September 21, 1984, the section hosted a meet- locally produced magazines were upgraded in ing of experts who discussed current NLS tac- quality and are now routinely distributed through ,tile map activities, potential users of tactile MSCs. Inventory reporting was improved, as maps, acquisition priorities and sources, and in- were logistical support and communication be- ternational cooperation in the cataloging and tween network libraries and the MSCs. distribution of tactile maps. The American Library Association approved As a service to citizens living abroad, 3,408 and issued 9svised Standards and Guidelines disc books, 6,50t cassette books, and 205 braille for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries volumes were circulated to overseas patrons. for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, The section answered about eight hundred let- 1984, a project coordinated by the Network Divi- ters from overseas patrons, other individuals, sion and funded by NLS. Based on input from and institutions. Nearly five hundred interna- patrons, librarians, and administrators, the tional interlibrary loans were made to libraries guidelines are the backbone of a cooperriffie and agencies serving blind and physically hand- relationship among federal, state, and local re- icapped users abroad. This was an increase of 30 s 49 National Programs

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monk than 100 percent over last year. The sec- and use for circulation of all materials to tion has begun cpordination of the sale of NLS- ders. produced magazines to eligibleoverseas arts 1 and II of the Braille Scores Catalog- organizations. Vo were published in braille. A Music Library The Network Services Section, in addition to forind and Physically Handicapped Individ- providing standard support services, increased uals print) was revised, and Introduction to its productibn of bibliographies, facilitated reno- Braill Music Transcription: Addenda b-F, by vation of network recording equipment, commu- Mary Turner De Garmo, was published in print nicated with network libraries and NLS staffon and braille. Music Circulars lif-3 were revised the impact of automation activities, and adapted and distributed and the new Music Circular 4 its consultant program to the newly approved was issued. Anierican Library Association Revised -Stan- Formal arrangements were completed with the dards and Guidelines. Statens Bibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinde (Den- On-site visits and consultative reviewswere mark) Jo receive all their current braille music made to twenty-eight regional libraries thisyear. production 4.9 issued. Press braille music orders In following up last year's visits, eleven regional were received from the following foreign braille libraries were phoned to discuss progress made presses: StatensSibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinds in implementing consultant recommendations. (Denmark), Royal National Institute for'the Blind Substantial progress was made toward review- (Great Britain), and Association Valentin Hauy ing and standardizing information on all locally (France). produced applications for NLS service. Thirteen Reference Section staff responded to 13,200 in orientations to NLS, lasting one to three inquiries, including requests for-program infor- days, were coordinated by the network consul- mation and copies of NLS publications, and pro-. tants for twenty-two representatives from net- cessed a total of 31,745 pieces of incoming mail. work agencies, eleven NLS staff members, and Automated data bases were used for350 separate forty-eight other individuals. searches. Staff training in the use of DIALOG and Bibliographers selected, arranged, and edited BRS was continued to ensure expertise in refer- titles for inclusion in Romances, a two-disc ence service. Publication projects continued to special-subject-matter bibliography. Bestsellers be a major activity of the section, involving the 1979-1983 was drafted as especial supplement skills and participation of every staff member. to the Bestsellers bibliography produced in A total of twenty-one new or revised publica- 1979. Fourteen mini-bibliographies were dis- tions were issued during the year. tributed to libraries. Bibliographers produced Comprehensive Mailing List System activities, some of the fourteen reading lists for the Library this year included complete revision of the of Congress/Columbia Broadcasting System 170-page CMLS Handbook, creation of the "Read More About It" project. Magazine Master File as a transitional step in Approximately 4,020 interlibrary loan search merging all magazine subscription files for those requests by title, author, or subject were an- libraries meeting established criteria, creation of swered, a decrease of ii percent from thepre- a separate file to use in distributing Reference ceding year. A total of 938 searcheswere Section publications, and completion of the completed in response to telephone calls from magazine merge for regional libraries in Idaho, libraries, outside organizations, onindividuals. Maine, Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, and The Music Section finished adding magazine Utah. By the end of the fiscal year, therewere publication codes for some ten thousand music 910,000 subscriptioos in the system. magazine subscriptions to the Comprehensive The Inventory Management Section was created Mailing List System (CMLS). through the merger of the Materials Malutgement Planning progressed on the READS system, Unit and the Facrtties and Materials Handling which the section will pilot test in 'fiscal 1985 Section under the NLS reorganization. The sec-

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tion staff coordinated the Automated Reserve book and cassette machines, donating approx- System used to accomplish interlibrary loan of imately seventy thousand hours of labor valued books among the multistate centers, producing at more than one million dollars. and distributing to all network libraries the The automated inventory control system was monthly "Books Wanted List" and purging out- completed and now contains the entire inven- standing requests at the end of each month. In tory of cassette and talking-book niachines pro- addition, the section prepared and shipped 516 duced and distributed by NLS. The equipment volumes of new handicapped braille titles to control officer conducted nine visits to machim- multistate centers, continued to add material to lending agencies to audit inventories of NLS the meaty archival file, and provided pickup equipment. The equipment and materials main- and delivery service for repair of machines and tenance coordinator conducted fourteen work- braille duplication. shops on machine repair for volunteers and library staff in eleven states. ityg, Materials Development Division The Bibliographic Control Section surveyed, cataloged; and made available to patrons a col- A resolution from the Midlands Regional Con- lection of twenty-four hundred titles in braille ference of Librarians Serving Blind and Physi- donated to the Library by the Jewish Guild for cally Handicapped Individuals, lisild le May the Blind. In addition, the section cataloged 1983, recommended that a committee be-formed more than twenty-four hundred other titles to advise NLS/BPH on equipment production, added to the national collection and processed distribution, and repair. In response, NLS cataloging for nine thousand titles added to the created an advisoryicommittee composed of con- cooperative cataloging project. The additions sumer representatives, Telephone Pioneer rep- brought the number of NLS and union entries resentatives, and a network librarian from each in the catalog to more than seventy-seven thou- of the four regions to improve communications sand bibliographic records. relating to current and projected equipment. The Braille Development Section, created this In November 1983 the first annual meeting of year, took over the responsibilities of th'e former the Audio Equipment Advisory Committee was Braille Codes Section for training and certifica- held. The committee made recommendations re- tion as well as responsibility for development garding current production of equipment and and evaluation projects concerning braille pro- related materials; prototype and preproduction duction,distribution,and use. The section also equipment; long-term plans for design, procure- established the braille code requirements of ment, repair, distribution, and retrieval of equip- NLS's specifications for braille -books, maga- ment; and the communicati n system among zines, and pamphlets. NLS, patrons, network lib ans, and repair The first phase in developing a high - speed, groups on machine-related ormation. braille embosser was completed, and plans were NLS contracts with producers efbraille mate- made for a field evaluation to determine the rials were extensively revised during the year, embosser's reliability, ease of operation in and in May a meeting to review substantive library setting, and acceptance by braille readers. changes was held for braille producers. Also of an experimental nature, a small, one- Production levels of cassette machines were volume mailing container for braille books, pre- satisfactory, and there was a suffiqient supply pared by the American Printing House for the of machines by the year's end. The shortage ex- Blind, was tested by about twenty patrons of the perienced in fiscal 1983 because the contracted Lansing, Michigan, regiOnal library. manufacturer went bankrupt was alleviated by A formal evaluation of the Kurzweil Data contracting with another manufacturer. Entry Machine in a-braille production facility Telephone Pioneers and other volunteers was undertaken to determine the most efficient repaired more than ninety thousand talking- uses of the optical character reader; bperational

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efficiency, and time and cost savings. The disks, which are stored and maintained at an off- machine scans the print more or less automati- Ara site facility. Production of the E-1 'cassette cally and translates print into machine- readable machine, designed for ease of operation by characters for further processing. severely physically handicapped and elderly A new venture for NLS involves preparation patrons, began with a pilot run of fifteen units. of the second edition of World Braille Usage, The microprocessor program used in this machine first published in 1953. NLS was asked tocarry will be adjusted, hased upon patron response, on this task, begun by another contractor, afterbefore full production begins in fiscal 1985. project planning bas been completed. Under the 'Various manufacturers end volunteer organi- auspices of the World Council for the Welfare zations produced and distributed in braille or of the Blind and Unesco, the project will require recorded' form a total of 2,050 titles. Seventy-five NLS to construct as complete a list of braille- mass-circulation magazines were produced and alphabet signs es possible from as manycoun- distributed in braille or on flexible disc. Studio tries as possible. staff recorded seventy -five books and eight spe- Over the next two years, seventeen officibl his- cial projects and participated in the production tories of the war in Vietnam will be produced of twelve voice-indexed books for the national on cassettes and made available through the collection. NLS/BPH service network and Veterans Admin- Two copies of the voice-indexed Concise Her- istration libraries. Multiple copies of the titles itage Dictionary were shipped to each network were obtained-from the armed services and pre- library. In addition, the American, Printing sented to NLS by the Goitern4ent Publications House for the Blind, under contract with NIS, Interest Groups of the District of Columbia sold at cost more than nine hundred copies of Library Association. the dictionary to eligible persons or institutions The NLS Collection-Building Policy was com- in the United States and abroad. pleted thib fiscal year and implementatign is The Quality Assurance Section implemented planned for October 1, 1984. This policy supple- a full-time program of inspacthig NLS cassette manta the existing NLS Selection Policy on machines to ensure that only the highest quality Reading Materials, providing more specific in equipment is being shipped to the network. on current holdings and proposed Quality requirements in NLS contracts and spec- future developments. Creation of the policywas ifications were upgraded, enabling NLS to eval- a joint effort involving staff and members of the uate more accurately the present and past Ad Hoc Advisory Group on collection-Building performance of all manufacturers involved in Activities. production:10r NLS. Efforts were also made to Hoak -of-the-Month Club and Literary Guild further improve the quality-control programa of main selections are now appearing on flexible the various braille producers. discs, along with titles from major bestseller lists. Alternate selections of thesebook clubsare also being Toutinely considered and added to PUBLISHING OFFICE the collection, as are award-winning titles. Arrangements were made to replace Blind Data Among the many and varied objectives of the Processor in the periodical collection witha Library's outreach programs, one of the broadest braille edition of Popular Computing, a monthly involves the publication of major reference automation magazine. Distribution begins in Oc- worksthat both facilitate access to the Library's tober 1984. vast collections and serve as important sources The Engineering Section completed drawings in themselves. FLcal 1984 saw the publication for use in C-2 cassette machine procurement. All of several landmark volumes that should be of specifications for equipment, talking books, braille permanent value not only to scholars and re-, books, and related material are now on computer searchers but to students and generalistsas well. 52 33 I Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

An especially innovative proach to the with the revolutionary pe. riod but for anyone preparationeef a major guide IA evident in His- interested in learning mane ,about the nation's toric America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites origins. -.- Recorded by the Historic American Buildings The Publishing Office also beaught gout two Survey and the Historic American Engineering major guides to important collections inehe Li- Record, a volume that celebrates the fiftieth brary's Geography and Map Division. Railroad enniOersary of HABS/HAER. Seventeen essays, Maps of North America: The First Hundred edited by C. Ford Peatross, cover the survey's Years, by Andrew M. Modelski, hes been, first half-century and indicate the range of enthusiastically received by railroad buffs, map architectural materials available at the Library lovers, historians, and Ihe general public. The of Congress. In addition, a comprehensive book provides a historfaed record and also dis- checklist of TUBS photographs, measured draw- plays a sampling of the Library's cartographic ings, and data sheets, compiled by Alicia and photographic treasures in an oversize for- Stamm, lists 16,738 buildings, structures, and mat (14 x 11 inches). An introductory essay sites documented by HABS and Totaling, traces The history of railroad mapping on the 708 pages and containing 447 illustrations, the continent, and ninety-two maps ore reproduced volume represents a lignificant achievement hi which both record the achievenents of the early providing both background Information on one railroaders and illustrate the development of car. of the Libretry's outstanding collections and a tographic style and technique. means of access to that collection. The second edition of Panoramic Maps of. A publishing milestone was reached in May Cities in the United States and Canada: A when the office brought out the tenth volume of Checklist of Maps in the Collections of the Li- Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, brary of Congress, Geography and MapDivision, edited by Paul H. Smith. With this most recent compiled by John R: Hebert and revised by compilation, which includes documents from Petrick E. Dempsey, includes 609 new entries, June 1 to September 30, 1778, the series now bringing the total to 1,726. An introduction totals 7,735 pages and covers four of the natien's describes the panoramic map industry in Vic- most crucial years. Still a decade away Rim torian America, and twenty-seven illustrations completion, Letters of ,Delegates has already offer a representative sample of panoramic maps become an indispensable source of firsthand in- from the collections. formation on the ideas and men that shaped the In 1979 the Library's American Folklife Center American Republic. inaugurated the Federal Cylinder Project, a pro- Results of another major effort in connection gram to organize, catalog, duplicate for preser- with the celebration of America's Bicentennial vation, and ultimately disseminate the contents were made available this year in Revolutionary of early cylinder field recordings in federal col- America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography, compiled lections. The results of this effort are being by Ronald M. Gephart. This definitive guide to published in a series entitled 'The Federal bqth primary and secondary sources relating to Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Col- the American Revolution will undoubtedly lections in Federal Agencies, edited by Dorothy become a standard reference. Compiled over 11 Sara Lee. This fiscal year the Publishing Office ten-year period, the two-volume, 1.672-pa4e brought out two volumes in this series, an in- bibliography includes 14,810 entries citing per- troductory volume and a volume covering the tinent monographs, doctoral dissertiVons, col- Benjamin Ives Giliaan Collection and the Berlin lected' works, festschriften, peraphlets. and Phonograram-Archiv Demonstration Collection. serial publications in bqih the geneial and spe- Gourmets, rare book aficionados, and social cial collections. Revolutionare Auitxf ra pro- historians will find food for thought in Leonard vides an essential framework not only for N. Beck's "Two Loaf-Givers,* or A Tour Through scholars and historians whose research deals the Gastronomic Libraries of Katherine Golden 34 53 A. O

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Bitting and Eliza eth Robins Penna.- The title, ing Office brought out Theories of Criticism: ference to Jo'Ruskin's proposed derivation Essays in Literature and Art, which included err of ate 'Word lady from "bread-giver" or "loaf- essay by M. H. Abrams entitled "Litere,ry Criti- giver," is a tribiltle the two ladies who pre- cism in America: Some New Diractions'and one sented their super and extensive collections of by James Ackernian entitled" Interpretation, Re- cookboolcto the leibrary of Congress. The author sponse: Suggestions fo a Theory of Art' Criti- reviews the niost important books in these col- cism." Other lecturedthatbecame books this year lections and records the connection of cookery included Book Collecting: Personal Rewards and with significant historical events and with Public Benefits, by William P. Barlow, Jr., the famous men and women in politics, literature, ninth in the series of Engelhard Lectures on the and the arts. Book; The Book Enchained, by Harrison E. Again in fiscal 1984, a numbetof special pub- Salisbury; 'and United States-German Relations, lications were devoted to -.persons and per- Past and Present, three papers presented by sonages of international note. Kemal Atatiirk: A Willard Allen Fletcher, Stephen F. Szabo, and Centennial Bibliography (1881 - 1981), compiled Stanley R. Sloan at a symposium cceitmemorat- by Abraham Bodurgil, is a definitive reference ing the 300dranniversary of German settlement tool with more th\m two thousand entries-listing in the United States. pertinent works published in western languages The, officesublished three reports in the Li- and Russian. Robert Lowell: A Lecture Delivered bmry of Coneess..kequisitions series, covering at the Library of Congress on May 2, 1983, by recent additiens to collections in the custody of Anthony Hecht, payi tribute to the late Ameri- the Geography and Map Division, the Manu- can poet who, as the author phrases it, "is, first script Division, and the Rare Book and Sfilecial of all, clearly and singularly, Robert Lowell Collections Division. The annual Children's which, as a poet, is riot abed thing to be." Ignacy Books list for 1983, compiled by Margaret N. Jan Paderewskl, 1860-1941, by Janina W. Coughlan and a committee of children's book Hoskins, provides a biographical sketch and a specialists, describes 176 works selected for selective list of reading materials relating to the literary merit, usefulness, and enjoyment. great concert pianist and composer who was also The new titles cited thus far provide some in- prime minister of Poland immediately after World dication of the breadth and diversity of the Li- War I. The office published two additional lectures brary's publishing program, which is designed delivered at the Library under the auspices of the to reflect the goals of the institution itself. A Gertrude Clarke Whitten Poetry and Literature number of additional books for 1984 further em- Fund, Richard Bilmann's Oscar Wilde at Oxford phasize that the Library's fields of interest are and Reed Whittemore's William, Carlos Williams: virtually limitless. For example, Curtis G. Ben- 'The Happy Genius of the Household.' jamin's U.S. Books Abroad: Neglected Am- The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Con- bassadors, prepared for tha Center for the Book, gress ceased publication With its Pall1983 Issue, advocates a cooperative approach that would which included articles on the Turkestanskil bring together disparate parts of the U.S. pub- Albone (a collection of photographs document- fishing community to help fulfill the immediate ing nineteenth-century life in Central Asia), the educational and economic needs of Third World development of the written Spanish language countries. Federal Information Policies: Emerg- over the last millennium, collections within the ing Issues on Managing Information Resources, Library that originated in the Federal Arts Proj- prepared for the Federal Library Committee by ects of the 1930s, and the classic horror films Nancy E. Gwinn, is a narfative report of a con- produced by Universal Pictures between 1930 ference sponsored by the committee and held at and 1936. the Library in February. Czech and Slovak Liter- As the second in a series of occasional papers ature in English: A Bibliography, by George J. of the Library's Council of Scholars, the Publish- Kovtun, covers translations of prose and poetry, 54 35 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

criticism- and literary history, and works by brary of Congress 5blected Publications, 1984, individual authors. The Card Catalogs of the an illustrated sales catalog listing some of the Library of Congress: A Brief Description, by Bar- most important LC books produced through the bara Westby and William J. Sittig, is a compre- Government Printing Office, and The Library of 'her sive guide to the Library's general and special Congress Card and Gift Catalog, 1984-1985, pre- catalogs. Antarctic Bibliography: Indexes to senting such additional Publishing Office prod- Volumes 8-12, edited by Geza T. Thuronyi, in- ucts as greeting cards (twenty new designs this cludes studies on Antarctica abstracted in Antarc- year, as well as thirteen of the all-time favorites tic Bibliography from 1976 through 1982. And from years past), photograph reproductions, Paper and Its Preservation: Environmental Con- books about the Library and its collections, and trols (Preservritionteafiet No. 2), prepared by the map facsimiles, tagethpr with a variety of other Preservation Office, is an informative summary gift items. The office is also responsible for com- intended for librariansairchivists, book collec- piling and publishing the Annual. Report of the tors, and others concerned about preventing the Librarian of Congress and for publishing the sum- deterioration of works on paper. mary annual report prepared for general dis- In addition to its overall responsibility for the tribution by the Information Office. editing, design, and production of the pbrary's A complete list of the Library's publications publications, the Publishing Office prepared Li- for fiscal 1984,can be found in AppendiO4.

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Nineteen eighty-four was an exciting and pro- tionally, the Service conducted training and out- ductive year fore Congressional Research Se- Leach programs for 12,639 participants. vice. With a 6 nt increase in workload to an, all -time high of 442,247 inquiries cleared, considerable effort was made in the application MEMBER AND COMMITTFX RELATIONS of new technologies. The director convened an ad hoc study group to plan for the large-scale in- Member and Committee Relations (MCR) staff troduction of microprocessors. By the end of the conducted twelve institutes for Member and year, training for staff in the use of electronic committee staff having legislative respon- spreadsheets and data base management systems sibilities, five for field office staff, and one for had begun, and the first increment of micro- administrative assistants. The Capitol Hill Infor- processors was being ordered. mation Seminar was offered five times. Atten- To expedite the assignment of revests, the dance at these programs numbered 1,730. Electronic Mail System network, devolved by During the first two weeks of January the fifth Himse Information Systems, was expanded to in- annual Public -Policy Issues Institute was held clude the CRS reference centers and research twice, with 739 legislative staff participating, divisions. The Inquiry Status a:id Informaton and the Service again offered an array of issue- System was expanded to made reporting tech- oriented seminars for Members of Congress and niques more efficient and to enhance the . The seminar on the Presi- distribution of statistical data to CRS manage- dent's fiscal 1985 budget submission drew 134 ment. The research divisions' capabilities in attendees. The House and Senate Agriculture quantitative analysis were also enlarged by Committees, the Farm Foundation, and CRS co- the development of several new statistical sponsored a 11/2 -day Agricultural Policy Con- models. ference in which seventy congressional staff The Selective Dissemination of Information members participated. (SDI) service was expanded to a total of nearly Among other topics covered in seminar pro- one thousand subscribers, conversion of the CRS grams were the deregulation of financial institu- serials operations to Faxon's LINX system was tions, the future of Medicare, disarmament in completed, and a series of topic-specific micro- Europe, administration policy in federal R&D, thesauri were developed. The Service produced political broadcasts, the invasion of Grenada, in- thirty-sinew legislative issue programs for air- dustrial policy, monetary policy, education ing on the House cable television system and in- policy (a six-segment forum), subminimum troduced twenty-three new Audio Briefs on wage for youth, agricultural trade issues, and cassette tapes. deficits, interest rates, and the economic These technical developments were managed recovery. An eighteen-part "Federal Law Up- as the CRS staff continued its support of date" series covered recent decisions handed Members, committees, and congressional staff down by the Supreme Court. A total of 1,866 by providing research, analysis, and factual in- Members and staff participated in the sixty-six formation on myriad subjects. To enhance this seminar events. support in an area of particular concern, a new The MCR staff gave 214 briefings for 4,632 interdivisional team was being formed on inter- congressional staff members to aid them in ef- national and domestic space activities. Addi- fectively using CRS resources. A total of 4,347

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students attended the 151 programs conducted for Association (CREA) entered into a significant congressionarintems through the year. The 2,924 agreement which established a "New CRS Cross- summer interns represented a 3 percent decrease over Program." This program contains: an Edu- as compared to-the same period last year. cational Grants Component, which provides The MCR staff also conducted 245 briefings on "CRS employees who are 'not in professional CRS's mission and services for 1,517 noncongres- positions and who lack the educational qualifi- sional visitors, an increase of 33 percent over the cations to compete effectively for professional previous year. Among these visitors were 302 positions in CRS an opportunity to obtain the members of foreign parliaments and parliamen- qualifications necessaryto compete for such pro- tary librarians, 258 cabinet-level officials from fessional positions either under regular postings forty-seven nations, and 957 U.S. government or under special Library programs," and a Posi- employees and librarians from research, academic, tion Component, which provides "CRS and Li- state, and local public libraries nationwide. brary employees not in professional positions an A membei of the Orientation and Briefings opportunity-to compete [under postings where Section staff also traveled to Japan at the invita- competition is limited to Library employees] for tion of the Japan Economic Foundation and the professional positions at or above grade GS-5 National Diet Library and to Australia, New Zea- with, education and experience appropriate to 1 land, and Thailand at the invitation of the U.S. that grade and to be considered fully qualified Information Agency and the respective national professionals covered by a professional career parliamentary libraries to conduct seminars on ladder." legislative reference and research services for Also during the past fiscal year, management parliamentary library and research staff in those and CREA bargained to impasse over the estab- countries. lishment of an "Employee Assistance Program" In compliance with P.L. 88-246, the Service which would have covered all CREA bargaining compiled the manuals for use in high school and unit members. This program, the implementa- college debates during the 1984-85 school year. tion of which will now be delayed by the time The high school debate _manual, How Can the needed to resolve the negotiability claims and Federal Government Best Decrease Poverty in the matters at impasse, will eventually, when all the -United States?, was issued as Senate Docu- legal issues are resolved and final agreement is ment No. 98-25. The manual on the bollege reached, be the agreed upon framework under debate topic, Should the U.S. Federal Govern- which appropriate Library' offices will "help ment Significantly Increase the Exploration employees resolve their behavioral/medical and/or Development of Space beyond the Earth's problems through prevention programs, coun- Mesosphere?, was sent to the Public Printer to seling, assessment, and referral to organizations be published as House Document No. 98-257. and individuals in the community for treatment The CR1 Review, published for the Congress ten and rehabilitation." times a year, now has a circulation of approx- imately seven thousand copies. It is also available from the Government Printing Office in single copies or by subscription. The monthly publica- INTERAGENCY ACTIVITIES tion Update, available only to congressional of- fices, has a-circulation of over sixty-five hundred. Cooperative activities between the Service and the Congressional Budget Office, the General Ac counting Office, and the Office of Technology LABOR - MANAGEMENT RELATIONS Assessment continued to expand. Meetings with all four agencies' specialists attending were held In January of the past fiscal year, management on industrial and employment issues, telecom- and the Congressional Research Employees munications, education, privacy, and herdth. 38 57 Congressional Research Service

Additionally, the interagency coordinating Computer and Computen-lielesed Services group met approximately every six weeks to dis- cuss coordinating activities generally and to The number of congressional and CRS staff review all new major studies. The Service also trained by the Information Systems Section (ISS) continued to assist its sister agencies by respond- increased some 5 percent to a high of 2,115. The ing to their 4,400 requests for information. number of SCORPIO searches also increased 9 An interagency video/slide show for agency percent to a total of 286,893. At year's end there staff and congressional audiences was produced were 156 computer terminal stations in the Ser- by the Service in conjunction with the other vice and 1,581 in congressional offices making three congressional agencies. To enhance effec- nearly 24,000 SCORPIO searches per month. tive liaison, the show, which discusses the agen- ISS staff_ participated in District/State In- cies' missions, was shown-to'all CRS staff. stitutes, Capitol Hill Information Seminars, and "computer literacy" seminars for congressional administrative assistants. They also worked INQUIRY STATUS AND INFORMATION closely with the Library's Automated Systems SYSTEM Office on the new SCORPIO PRINT command a major enhancement of the system. The section The Inquiry Status and Information System also contributed to development of improved (ISIS) reports the status of inquiriesand prepares HELP facilities in SCORPIO that will render the official CRS statistics. ISIS staff refined andex- systein more self-evident and ease problems of panded management reports and enhanced com- training new SCORPIO users. munications with divisions. Timely-distribution Computer graphics support to the CRS re- of statistical data to CRS management wasem- search divisions continued to increase. ISS'sex- phasized; and new monthly reports and revised pert in this field _designed and implemented a reporting forms and instruction manuals re- servicowide training program, produced scores sulted in the development of easier andmore of graphs and charts for the research divisions, efficient reporting techniques. Six ISIS clerks in- and brought into production a new stand-alone put a total of 442,247 completed congressional_ graphics system within the Service to supple- requests. ment the existing system. To place these computing tools in the hands of the researcher, ISS has held classes in ROSCOE, SAS, and SAR/GRAPH programming AUTOMATED INFORMATION SERVICES languages, prepared associated special docu- mentation, conducted specialized one-on-one Automated information services include on-line sessions, and offered a continuous trouble- information systems, batch searching and pro- shooting service for CRS staff developing divi- cessing services, systems analysis and program- sional projects. The ISS technical staff also ming, statistical analysis, computer graphics, applied computer technology to a number of word processing systems, support of personal other CRS-wide projects and administered the computer applications, micrographics, copier Service's network of computer terminal work technology, communications, and a variety of stations. audiovisual systems and products. General coor- Data processing support was provided both for dination, as well as considerable operational internal CRS management activities and for re- responsibility, is exercised by the Office of search activities on behalf of Congress. Three of Automated Information Services (AIS). AIS per- these deserve special. mention: MS provided sonnel are also active participants in informa- data processing suppost to the Foreign Affairs tion systems groups within the, Library and and National Defense Division in compiling the throughout Capitol Hill. annual index to "Legislation on Foreign Rela- 58 39 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1964

tions" and developing a system containing sta- The Audiovisual Unit produced thirty-six new tistical information about the U.S. foreign aid legislative issue programs for airing on the programs over the years. AIS programming staff House cable television system and scheduled also supported the Government Division in viewing by interested House and Senate staff. developing and implementing a model to il- Seven of these programs dealt with congres- lustrate the effects of various congressional ap- sional oversight, and a major production covered portionment formulas on selected states, given the subject of legislative procedures in the Rouse a range of probable future population. of Representatives. Twenty-one of the television programs were Office Automation also produced in Audio Brief format and are being distributed upon request in cassette form. The Audiovisual and Office Systems Section Two original Audio Briefs were also produced. staff devoted a major effort to providing tech- nical and logistical support to the CRS Man- Major Issues System agement Committee on Microcomputers. The committee sponsored a preliminary study by the The Issue Brief Section edited 192 new Issue Arthur Young consulting firm to define the Ser- Briefs and entered them into the SCORPIO sys- vice's requirements and then added its own tem during the year. These briefs covered such analysis to that of Arthur Young to complete the current issues as housing assistance to low- and determination of how CRS might best proceed moderate-income households, superfund, anti- to equip its research and support staff, withethis satellites, Central America and U.S. foreign new and powerful tool. assistance, the turmoil in the Philippines, health By the end of the fiscal year, the-Service was care cost containment, and selected legislative in the process of ordering the first increment of issues of the 98th Congress. microprocessors and a substantial beginning had Over the past year, the on-line Issue Brief file been made in the training of the research staff averaged some four hundred titles, each kept in the use of electronic spreadsheets and data current by analysts in the CRS research divi- base management systems. sions. In conjunction with the research divi- The Service's workload was reflected in the sions, the Issue Brief editorial staff published steady increase in the demands placed upon the five editions of Major Legislation of the 98th Selective Dissemination of Information system Congress, a periodic status report on congres- and upon Issue Briefs and other components of sional activity across the spectrum of public CRS Info Packs. The Service's photocopying policy issues. capacity was taxed to the extreme in meeting In response_to direct congressional demand, these demands, which required a total of some approximately 51,000 Issue Briefs were sent to thirty million impressions during the fiscal year. congressional offices by the Issue Brief Section Although efficient utilization of copying equip- staff. Another 217,180 were distributed through ment kept unit costs low, the total volume of Info Packs and as portions of broader CRS copying output was sufficiently high to con- responses to Congress. stitute a significant item in the CRS budget. Con- siderable care and effort were expended in redesigning the copying function for the forth- ASSIGNMENT, REFERENCE, AND SPECIAL coming year. SERVICES Participation in the Library's Optical Disk Pilot Program also involved significant effort on the Inquiry Section part of the CRS automation staff. It is hoped that this program will result in applications of direct The Inquiry Section processed 244,120 congres- use to the Service in the future. sional requests, a 4 percent increase over fiscal

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1983. Requests that are to be assigned in writ- Lion Center, and a room for handling deliveries ten form are entered into ISIS, which was and storing microform reference materials. enhanced Awing the year to permit the direct Renovation in the division's main offices was electronic transmission of inquiries between the begun in September to provide more efficient Inquiry Section and the divisions. This develop- work and storage space for the Info Pack pro- ment allows the section to assign a request to the gram. Work stations for the production team, "answering division" within seconds. were consolidated in the frog of the division, In addition to receiving congressional requests and the Info Pack team was moved to the ,center by telephone, in person, and in writing, thesec- of the division and outfitted with assembly tion received requests from House offices through tables. This operation produced 201,051 Info the Electronic Mail System (E-Mail) developed by Packs, distributed primarily through the Infor- the House Information Systems Office. This has mation Distribution Centers and mini-Ile:- in been especially useful for district offices in time the reference centers. The program reached an zones other than eastern standard. all-time High le August when 20,738 Info Packs were distributed. The Info Pack team also supports the CRS sem- inar program by providing Info Packs for the in- Congressional Reference Division stitutes and seminars throughout the year. Info Packs continued to reflect the areas of most in- The Congressional Reference Division (CRD) tense congressional interest, some of the more reached a new high as it cleared 280,738 requests popular subjects being the Grace Commission, in fiscal 1984, moving these inquiries more the budget process, acid rain, Central America, quickly and with lower backle3s than in any pre- and school prayer. vious year. The division continued to use estab- Innovation in CRD's lines of communication lished streamlining techniques, such as transfer has provided division staff with new resources. of appropriate requests to reference centers and Expansion of E-Mail to the division's operations the production of anticipatory prepackaged team enables the reference centers and reading rooms kits and Info Packs, to handle the ever-increasing to send inquiries instantirto the Inquiry Section volume of requests more 'efficiently. and allows quick communications between the Renovation Was the keyword this year as two centers and other parts of the division and the 4of the division's reference centerseend a portion Library's Loan Division. Development of re- of its main offices underwent changes. The source manuals for the centers had helped stan- Longworth Reference Center was refurbished, dardize procedures and made it easier for and structural changes and rearrangement pro- fill-in staff to locate instructions and materials vided additional space for files and shelving in any center. a large improvement in the capabilities of the Two microfiche projects begun last year one smallest reference center. of annual reports of the Fortune 500 corporations The Senate Reverence Center (SRC) was ex- and the other of publications of the various panded after space in the Russell Building groups that rate Members of Congress on their became available with the shift of many Senate voting recordswere completed. CRD staff also offices to the aew Hart Building. The SRC dou- served on the CRS Microcomputer Study Group bled in size from two rooms to four and now has and the Library's Optical Disk- Pilot Program adequate space for the CRD staff assigned there Committee. The division will be a site for one and can better accommodate the large numbers of the optical disk terminals used in the pilot of Senate staff who visit the SRC (27,048 in fiscal program. 1984). The newly renovated space has a main In addition, an innovative program with area reference room, a reading room for congressional library Fchools brought five students to CRD over staff, a room for the Senate Information Distribu- the course of the year. These students provide

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support to the division in handling the high public opinion polls on the featured policy area. volume of requests and enjoy a rich learning ex- Thirteen issues-were produced during the fiscal perience in reference librarianship. year. The division made several changes in the Main Reference Files. A staffed checkout desk Library Services Division helps to better control the materials taken from the division for research use and provides a During fiscal 1984 the Library Services Division record of which files need the most attention and took action to make its products and services which are the most used. more "user friendly." Several publications were The files were supplemented by two new ac- revamped to facilitate use by congressional quisitions. The division accepted the U.S. News clients. Locational signs for special collections and World Report biography files and completed were added throughout the division, reference the task of choosing materialithat were lacking. files were more closely monitored, and materials (And under an ongoing arrangement with the on high-interest topics were relocated to make , the division is sub- them more accessible. scribing to the editorial page only of 100 U.S. The Subject Catalog of CRS Reports in Print newspapers. Editorials dealing with national was wholly revised before the January edition issues are added to the files. Both of these acqui- was printed. The catalog's new arrangement by sitions are important because of congressional broad subject terms has reduced the number of interest in policymakers and editorial opinion pages: The January edition included 1,065 re- on policy issues. ports in 122 pages, and the midyear supplement The Selective Dissemination of Information carried 245 reports in 36 pages. (SDI) service expanded from 538 to 621-congres- The fifteenth edition of the Legislative Index- sional subscribed and from 355 to 378 CRS sub- ing Vocabulary (LIV) was printed and made.scribers. Requesftlor the full text-of documents available in January. A derivative of the UV is increased from 72,482 in fiscal 1983 to 76,392 the series of topic-specific microthesauri that the in fiscal 1984. division has produced to assist CRS and congres- The SDI also was changed to enhance its util- sional staff in locating items in the CRS data ity: congressional subscribers now receive a bases. Each microthesaurus is devoted to one reusable preaddressed envelope each week to topic and includes searchable terms, cross- use when requesting the full text of any item in references, and examples of pertinent legal the SDI. The bright yellow envelopes are distinc- cases, laws, and corporate bodies. Also, the divi- tive, and the resulting requests can be .expedited sion was invited to evaluate the utility of a through the assignment-process. computer-based thesaurus. management system, Several new profile terms were added to the LEXICO. SDI to better highlight various kinds of informa- The division expanded its production of bib- tion. The authorizations and appropriations pro- liographic tools, with 5,960 new products rang- cess can now be tracked using the term "budget ing from preliminary bibliographies on the documents." Congressional subscribers can flat-rate tax to report bibliographies on Congress monitor activities of their state using the state and foreign policy. Several bibliographies were name and can also track their region. To make prepared for inclusion in committee publica- biographical information ram accessible, the tions, and research guides were prepared for the SDI now includes the profile term "current biog- high school and college debate manuals and for raphy," which features citations on policy- five other topics. The division became a co- makers, journalists, and world leaders. author of a new series entitled Overviews, each At the close of fiscal 1983, the division began issue of which is devoted to a single topic and to record its receipts of magazines and journals consists of full-text newspaper editorials and using the Faxon LYNX system. By the end of

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fiscal 1984, the entire serials operation had been guages, served as interpreters in congressional converted to LINX, and the system is producing offices and assisted with congressional phone management and financial reports as well as the calls to foreign countries, analyzed films pro- CRS Magazine Manual, which was printed in duced in Spanish, and tutored some Members September. The next development we expect with regard to pronunciation of foreign phrases from the system is an accounting package com- and terms. Staff also filled requests for foreign patible with the division's needs. language research and information. Acquisition of library materials remains a cen- The trend toward more Spanish translating tral responsibility of the Library Services Divi- continued. More than 125 Members sent re- sion. The division's efforts have been focused on quests for documents to be translated from Spar - exploring and developing methods of obtaining ish into English, and the number of Members needed research materials proniptly an& to the who regularly send documents for translation in- extent possible, inexpensively. To this end, the to Spanish now exceeds sixty. amount the division is permitted to obligate by Language Services worked with the Library telephone order was raised for the first time in Services Division this year to enter translations eight years. of timely and general interest into the SDI system The division has also made extensive. use of so that they will be available to specialists and the LC Exchange and Gift Division's collections Members. Efforts on this promising project will of surplus federal and state documents. Using be strengthened in the months to come. these sources meant savings of at least $15,000 One new full-time member was added to the in the department's materials budget and also staff, a specialist in German, French, Italian, and meant that the Library Services Division could Latin. Tree ninety-day temporary positions were provide materials to CRS researchers faster than also filled, primarily for work in Spanish, bring- would hive been possible through ,purchase. ing the total number of translators in the section The collections within all CRS divisions are at the end of the fiscal year to six, in addition controlled through a union catalog maintained to the secretary and supervisor. The section now by the Library Services Division. An inventory handles requests for a total of thirteen languages, of the catalog was undertaken this year to ensure with each translator working with a minimum that the collections are intact, to update any, of two foreign languages. superseded materials, and to establish a foun- dation for even greater resource sharing within the department. Several other projects, such as union lists of newspapers and newsletters, were RESEARCH SERVICES also completed and now provide additional 'crea- tional information to researchers when needed Interdivisional Teams for responding to congressional requests. Interdivisional teams bring together CRS staff who have different professional skills and a Language Services Section mutual interest in areas being considered by the Congress. This year there were teams on appro- Thee Language Services Section cleared approx- priations, authorizations, and budget processes; imately nineteen hundred requests and three agriculture, food, and nutrition; bicentennials thousand.pages of written translations. In addi- of the Constitution and the Congress; civil rights; tion to translations of a number of documents education; energy; executive organization; fore- such as newsletters, speeches, reports, and news sight; housing; information resources, tech- articles, Language Services provided foreign lan- nology, and policy; international economic guage assistance in other ways. Staff members policy; oceans; retirement income programs and transcribed a number of tapes in foreign lan- issues; taxation; and women's issues. A new 62 43 Report of The Librarian bf Congress, 1984

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team on international and domestic space political and economic situation; the food situa- activities was being formed at the end of thetion in the Third World; supply, demand, and year. price of natural gas; status of the federal statis- Numerous team meetings, seminars, and work}tical system; the economics of the Peoples shops were held, many of which were attended'Republic of China; background for tha1985 Re- by staff of the other congressional support agen- view Conference on the Nuclear Nonprolifera- cies and by congressional staff. These.activities tion Treaty; Latin American economic problems, provide a forum at which experts from govern- policies, and prospeets; and the impact of earn- ment and the private sector can present their ings on Aid to Families with Dependent views on recent developments over a wide range Children (AFDC) grants. of areas.

Senior Specialists' Activities Major ResearchProjects Senior specialists provided major analyses; led In fiscal1984, 754 major research projects were interdisciplinary and interdivisional teams; ad, completed, of which 21 percent were interdivi- .vised and consulted with Members, committee's, sional. The subject and policy reports which are and staff; briefed andlraveled with fact-finding statutorily mandated to be submitted to all com- delegations to foreign countries; assisted the mittee chairmen at the beginning of each new Senate and House in major program initiatives; Congress were initiated for the 99th Congress. and provided a bridge for the Congress to various Another interdivisional/interdisciplineay effort academic and professional communities. which has proven to be a valuable resource to Major Studies were completed on the social the Congress is a continuously updated survey security and government retirement systems, the Issue Brief on selected active legislative issues. U.S. military planning system, international debt, recession, deregulation, nuclear prolifert Lion, the implications of Supreme Court deci- External Research sions for legislation, arms negotiations and diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in The needs of Congress for wide-ranging and spe- Europe and the Third World, and East-West cialized research require the Service to occa- commercial relations. sionally draw on outside sources to respond Interdivisional studies involving senior spe- fully to requests. Through its contracting au- cialists focused on entitlement programs, Soviet thor/ Service has available a spectrum of space programs, inflation and recession: in the reso es from the private and academic re- U.S. economy, indusLiel policy and innova- search communities that could not be economi- tions, information and computer usage, domes- cally maintained on a permanent basis. This tic housing, energy demand and conservation, ability to draw on, outside expertise for both and "_,,islative-executive relations. quick-resPonse and longer -term projects greatly St eior specialist lawyers advised Members, enhances the capacity ef the Service to meet con- committees, and 'staff on such constitutional gressional needs. issues as election laws, foreign tax and commer- Seventy-five contracts were let in fiscal 1984 cial laws, and treaties. Many Members and com- to EL,.,ist the Service in carrying out fifty-three mittees were assisted in their meetings with projects, at an average cost of approximately foreign officials and specialists through brief- $11,000. Contract efforts reflected major con- ings, background papers, and other types of cerns of the Congress. Assistance was obtained assistance. for studies of such issues as restructuring of the Efforts of the Congress to improve its function- civil service retirement system; the Mexican ing in procedures and rules, proposeilstelevise 44 63 Congressional Research Service

ing of the Senate, handling the budgetary pro- siderable demand for assistance from the Ad- cess, and reacting to Exec Oive and Supreme ministrative Law Section. Court decisions and Court rulings all drew heavily on senior spew the legislative proposals which evolved in re- cialists associated with the GoVernment Division. sponse, involving the legislative , bank- With respect to the broader professional com- ruptcy and bankruptcy judges, pay equity, Outer. munity, meetings and joint research efforts were Continental,Shelf oil and gas leasing, and civil arranged with outside specialists -and executive rights, required substantial work. 4 agencies on government finance and taxation, Other issues analyzed by the section dealt with education of American Indians, energy policy, problems associated with drunk driving, the and election laws. Workshops, briefings, and , regulation of communications media, hazardous meetings were also held to discws in detail issues wastes, the financial difficulties of nuclear power tied to the congressional calendar on weapon plants, cable television, and proposals to amend systems choices and on decisions concerning the Constitution to make English the official U.S. support _of international organizations. language of the United Stites. Among the topics analyzed by the Consumer Law Section's attorneys during the year were the American Law Division effect of proposed federal products liability law. on existing state law, modifications of FTC juris- Th,e American Law Division provides commit- diction, the antitrust liability of municipalities, tees and Members of Congress with requested substantive bankruptcy reforms, credit card sur- legal research and analysis. During fiscal 1984, charge legislation, banking industry regulation, the division also continued preparation of the and tax questions associated with consideration decennial revision of the Constitution of The and passage of the Deficit Reduction Act. United StatesAnalysis and Interpretation (the Analyses and consultations provided by the Constitution Annotated); participated in in- Congress Section dealt with the Simpson- stitutes for Members and their staffs designed to Mazzoll immigration proposals, the invasion of illuminate the intricacies of contemporary legal Grenada, administration proposals to revise developments, congressional operations, and OMB Circular A-122 concerning the use of major policy issues; published and maintained public funds by federal grantees to lobby, the the Digest of Public General Bills and Resolu- pocket and item vetoes, export administration, tions; assisted in the preparation of several con- conflicts between Congress and the Reagan ad- gressional publications; and provided support ministration over congressional access to infor- for other CRS divisions. mation, and questions concerning upcoming The division made extensive use of paralegal elections. assistants, including several temporary em- In addition, members of the Special Assign- ployees during periods of particularly high con- ment Unit associated with the section assisted gressional demand. Section heads continued in the preparation of committee prints.entitled cross-sectional assigrunent and review in order Nomination and Election of the President and to adjust to the shifting interestsaf Congress and Vice President of the United States, Senate Elec- to ensure the most effective use of the division's tion Law Guidebook: 1984, and Ethics Manual resources. Contributions of the division's ex- for Members and Employees of the U.S. House panded Special Assignment Unit and associated of Representatives. senior specialists enabled the division to furnish The Courts Section devoted considerable ef- in-depth, authoritative assistance bn rapidly fort to issues which were subsequently treated changing issues of intense congressional interest. by enacted parts of the continuing appro- Congressional concerns over executive ap- priations resolution: bail reform, sentencing pointments and nominations to various agencies' Modifications, obscenity and child pornog- regulatory and advisory positions generated con- raphy, forfeitures, the insanity defense, amend- 45 64 a Report of The Librarian.of Congress, 1984

e.- meats to the Controlled Substances Act, witness The Business/Government Relations Section protection, trademark counterfeiting, computer responded to strong congressional interest in crime, career criminals, and attorneys' fees. repercussions of the divestiture by the American Equal access and questions involving the separa- Telephone and Telegraph Company of local tion of church and state also generated a operating ciompanies4leports treating this sub- considerable number of requests, as did congres:.....ject included a glossary of terms, a broad back- sional efforts to deal with compensation for the ground paper, and an analysis of the impact of victims of toxic waste and child abuse. the divestiture on shareholders. Issues relating The Bill Digest Section is responsible for to broadcasting included national regulatory analysis of legislation and preparation of the policy for cable television, National Public Digest of Public General Bills and Resolutions. Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Every public bill, resolution, and amendment in- and the Federal Communications Commissikm's #oduced in Congress is digested, tracked, and broadcast deregulation activities. indexed as it proceeds through the legislative Section members were active in industrial process. The published Bill Digest is distributed policylisues, proiriding an extensive analysis of by G ento every congressional office as well as the proposed yodexa Industrial Mortgage Asso- to gov oent depository libraries, public librar- elution. 44110. kraluating the Reagan ad- ios,ies, and private subscribers. ministration% economic revitalization strategy The information is also avalythle online and capital investment byl corporations and an 0 through SCORPIO. The online files, covering the updated bibliegraphy or 'government policy 93rd through oath Congresses, are thif most fro- relating to wags and prices were completed. quently used of all the CRS data bases, being The section also responded to inqt.iiries on cor- accessed an average of over ten thousand times porate merger developments and contributed to a month. Member and committee offices often reports on merger credit and leveraged buyouts. use the file's legislative summaries and index- A variety of.reports and memoranda zon- ing terms in the publication of their journals and corned with securities industry topics were reports. completed. In addition, the division provided The section also tracks terminating programs. frequent consultations in c It5iffeetton with a wide This information, compiled on all activities spectrum of business-related activities. scheduled to terminate at a future date, is main- Tho Housing and Traniportation Section's re- tained in another online computer data base and port on the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery \ is sent at the beginning of each congre&Tonal Act of 1983 resulted in a series of breakfast session to the appropriate committee with juris- meetings With the chairman of the Subcommit- diction over the. \program or *activity. tee on Housing and Community Development of the House Commitke on Banking, Finand\ and Urban Affairs. , Economics Diiision The section also tracked legislation on mort- gage subsidy bonds; the omnibus housing The Economics Division responded to more than authorization and appropriation legislation; reg- 16,000 requests, an increase of 10 percent over ulations related to S%urities and Exchange Corn- iest year. More than 1,000 analyses were com- mission authority affecting. privately issued, pleted, as were 175 major projects, 46 of which publicly sold, mortgage-hacked securities; trusts involved substantial coordination with other for investment in mortgages; and revisions to the divisions, support agencies, or committeer. of Federal National Mortgage Association and Congress. The division also provided personal Federal Home Lban Mortgage Corporation char- briefings, consultations, and expert testimony at ter acts. Other work ranged from an explanation hearings and sponsored 30 seminars' and olhome equity coinversion financing 4 workshops. k homeowners to li%port entitled Trends i Fund-

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ing and 'Slumbers of Households in HUD. erated ch work. A report was prepared on Assisted Housing, Fiscal Years 1974-1984. foreigndebteciness to the 'Milled States, briefs The transportation area was dominated by the were maintained on the international banking consequences of porde' economic deregulation system and, during part of/the/year, on the IMF of freight and passenger transportation. Other quota increase, and reports were prepared on the Issues included proposals to increase the user debt crises in Brazil, Greece, and Argentina. fees for navigation on the Inland waterways and Reports on Japan's market access liberalization to initiate fees for the commercial use of ports, initiatives and the internationalization of the yen railroad ownership of trucking companies and were also completerAdditionally, trade rela- barge lines, increaseekin Tine railroad rates, and tions with specific *ups of countries, espe- the question of whethbr to further deiegulate the cially the European Community, the newly interstate trucking industry. indusWalizing countries, and EasSWest trade, Requests handled by, the Jnduqtry Analysis stimulated many requests. and Finance Section related to industries pro- Comparative economic statistics for major in- ducing basic commodities, machinery, high- dustrial countries, U.S. exportsrby state, and technology products, consumesogoods, services, exporting and the wood products industry were and energy. Analyses dealt wph the econqmic subjects of reports. Briefs were maintainedon health of industries, competition with impbrts, trade reciprocity and trade reorganization, and the impact of government policies, regulation, extensive supp was provided to congressional antitrust issues. and corporate finance. committees, Odboth general and specific topics Steel and automobile industry issues were in international trade and finance. major areas of activity. The section also corn, Research in the Labor Section focused on na- plated several studies on antitrust policy and tional labor issues and regional economic issues. mergers, the competitive problems of the tita- Increased internationaLeompetition glue chang- nium and copper industries, new product devel- ing technology t home have contributed to sig- opment In high-technology industries, growth nificant change in the domestic, labor market, of basic manufacturing industries, prospects for notably by crow ng out some long-established expansion in the U.S. manufacturing sector, and domestic industries. Reports highlighted prob- the economic effects of growth in the semicon- lems of dislocated workers, reflected on the ductor industry. (un)changing position of women, and discussed Economic aspects of major energy policy issues employment problems of youth and Hispanics., related to supply stability, demand, tax policy, Issue Briefs examined the labor force from the and the Unending of public utilities. Insurance various perspectives of component members. issues continued to generate many requests from Several Labor Roundtable Seminars addressed Congress, as did edministration policies toward wage issues, ficusing on such topics as wage imports of shoes and textilu products. Industrial ,givehac.ks, youth subrainimtun wages,nd com- competition with Japan attracted continuing parable wages between men and women. attention, with reports written on sources of cap- Papers prepared by the section and included ital for corporations in the United States and in the hearings records of various committees Japan, competition in the machine tool industry, dealt with the effectiveness of the Occupational and comparative economic performande. Safety and Health Act in reducing workplace in- Several items of trade legislationstimulated juries, methods for avoiding or easing the im- requests to the International Section, including pact of reductions in force, and comparison of renewal of the generalized system of prefer- management practices of the Synfuel Corpora- ences, a proposed U.S.-Israel free trade area, and tion with those of the National Science Founda- a major trade remedy reform bill. tion and the Ford Foundalion. An analysis of The large, growing trade and currenccount hearings on biological clocks and shift work deficits and the appreciation of the dol ar gen- scheduling was included in a committee print,

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. ..- of and an analysis of a go'vernmerit study examin- responded to nearly 19,500 inquiries; completed ing the allocation of funds to areas with high 155 major projects, 52 of which involved inter- unefaployment"rates was included in the Con- divisional coordination; produced 33 new Issue gressional 116cord. Seaton members, also gave Briefs; and maintained an average active file of a briefing for twenty-five House staff on the sub- 78 Issue Briefs throughout the year. More than ject of plant closing legislation. 73,000 copies of the division's Issue Briefs were "The Money, Banking, and Quantitative Anal- distributed. ysis Section prepared papers on deregulation of Public and private pension issues domina the financial services industry and organized and the work of the Income Maintenance Seon. participated in a seminar and videotape presen- The section continued to provide substantial teflon on financial deregulation. Additionally, assistance in the design of a supplemental retire- reports were prepared on both monetary and ment system for new federal employees who fiscal policy with the use of econometric models. were covered under the 1983 Social Security e action analyzed the-measurement and be- amendments. Analysts prepared a majoereport ha or of real interest rates, the distribution of and presented a series of briefings to congres- familyancome, U.S. economic performance dur- sional staff on this topic, ing 1983, and the relationship between unemploy- The section was deeply involva4 in private ment and the real gross national product.'Other pension issues, including the Retirement Equity subjects included brokered deposits, the redesign Act of 1984, which amended the Employee Re- of U.S. currency, debit cards, money market tirement Income Security Act by changing pen- funds, electronic funds transfer, the underground sion rules for workers, spouses, and their eoonomy, and the internationalidebt crisis. dependents. Assistance was also provided to Reports were prepared by the Taxation and'amend the federitl program of child support .Government Finance Sectibn en the fistal 1985 enforfament. budget; theregects of deficits on interest rates; The section's work covered a variety of other deficits, taxes, and monetary policy in the con- topics, including the Deficit Reduction Act of text of- an economy open to international eco- 1984, women's pension equity, individual retire- nomic flows; and the concept of the structural ment 'accounts, pensions for Mainbers of Con- deficit. the section also prepared a number of gress, railroad retirement and railroad . papers relating to the Tax Reform Act of 19484 unemployment compensation, taxatton of Social and other tax reform proposals, including the Security benefits, planned increases in the Social Bradley-Gephardt Fair Tax Act as compared to Sequrity retirement age, and child support en- 'the Kemp-Kasten "Fair and Simple Tax," a tax forcement. Substantial time Was devoted to on consumption, and na onal sales tax as cora- reports on the fiscal 1985 budget and trends pared to a value-add d t . the size and characteristics of the population in In the area of energyd public utilities texa- poverty, as well as to compilations of back- s lion; testimony was prepared for hearings pn the group d material on programs under the jurisdic- tax treatment of producers of oil and gas, public tion of the House Committee on Ways and utilities. and the cost of decommissioning Means. nuclear power plant Other work dealt with cor- Concerns about the quality cS.American edu- poration income tax and the U.S. economy, tax cation remained at high levels, with the specific amnesty prbgrams, taxation of elderly Ameri- focus shifting to federal and state legislative cans, U.S:* estate and gift tax.laws, and the actions in response to these concerns. Major economic benefits of the space program. federal legislation included the Education for Economic Security Act and the Carl Perkins Education and Public Welfare Division Vocational Education Act. Section analysts.were deeply involved in every stage of the develop- The Education and Public Welfare Division ment of these acts. V 4 67 Congressional Research Service

4 Other topics addressed by the section in-1term health care, and uncompensated hdspital cludedbilirigual education, adult education, aid Care. to public libraries, and school assistance in fed- Social' Services Section analysts provided erally assisted areas ("impact aid"). Analysts also broad assistance on legislation-involving older provided significant support on the reauthoriza- Americans, develppmental disabilities, Head tion of the Higher Education Act, the proposed Start, and child abuse programs. This support Civil Rights Actof 1984, and assistance for included defining a wide range of legislative` educational technology in the schools. issues and alternatives, preparing detailed com- Section staff produced reports on education- parisons of various proposals,.and drafting por- related budget proposals and the impact of, tions of comniittee reports, as well as providing budget changes on federal education programs regular technical assistance on the during theileagan administration: Wholly new Significant support was provided on major types of products developed by jhe section in- immigration and child nutrition legislation as cluded computer models for illustrating the ef- well as on youth employment I the dein)rtitu- fects of proposed amendments tolhe Pell Urant tionalization of the-mentally retarded. student assistance prograit' and for analyzing the Section analysts also prepared a presentation long-term impact of higher edecation student of data on handicapped persons; a description loan consolidation proposals. Also presented of over seventy federal programs benefiting was a well-attended Public Policy Institute sea- children; issues (elated to community -based Mon on recent reports on the quality of American long-term care for the elderly; history, descrip- education. tion, and discussion,of issues on the veterans' Health Section analysts concentrated on the pension program; and a description of federal Medicare program and the reauthcirization of a employment and training programs.. number of major Public Health Service Act pro- The Methodology Section continued to apply grains. Section analysts"worked closely with and expand its computer support system caps-, committee staff on a wtrke range of issues related bilities developed over the past several -ears. to. physician reimbursement, prOspective pay- Section staff spent a significant amount of time ment rates for inpatient hospital servicep, capital assisting the Income Maintenance Section with financing, the financing of graduate medical analyses of designissues for a new federal civil education, and hospice care. service retirement system. Thil led to the devel- The section joined with staff of the House opment pf an innovative computer model that Committee on Ways and Means and the Cowes- allows the costs and benefits of alternative Metal Budget Office to amajor confer- designs for retirement systems to be analyzed. ence on the future of Medicare, which served as The model was designed hy Methodblogy Sec- a forum for health experts frOm across the na- tion analysts working together with an indepen- tion to discuss the prindipal issues confronting dent actuarial firm. the Medicare program and possible solutions. Extensive material was isrovided to the House Section staff contributed to We development Committee on Ways and Means for hearings on of Public Health Service Act legislation to recent poverty trends, resulting in a committee reauthorize the Primary Care block grata; the print. The section also prepared a widely quoted Preventive Health and Health /Services block' committee print 2n the impact on poverty of the rant, and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Ms: recent recession and the Oinnibus Budget --tat Health. Services block grant. Other legislation Reconciliation Act of 1981 and began en in- which the section worked on included the Na- depth analysis of the special situation of children tional Health Service Corps, health professions in poverty. edtication, and nurse training. Analysts also Section staff providedtimely and compre- ''assisted committee staff on Indian.hs3alth care, Lunsive analysis of federal spending for human organ transplants, defensive medicine, long- resources programs in the context of the Presi-

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dent's budget request. A report analyzing the Senate Committee on Agriculture in the prepara- President's fiscal 1985 budget request was com- tion of Farm Policy Perspectives: Setting the pleted within two weeks of the budget's release. Stage for 1985 Agricultural Legislation. A com- The section also provided technical support prehensive history of the committee was also to other division staff on a variety of legislative prepared for publication at the committee's issues rahging from low-income energy assis- request. tance to Indian health services. This support in- The section provided ongoing assistance to cluded estimation of state and local government the House Committee on Agriculture in prepara- grants awarded under various proposed federal tion for the 1985 farm bill, including a major fund allocation formulas. project that involved summarizing anticipatory hearings on agriculture issues. Briefings were conducted on trade and barter, general farm Environment and Natural Resources Policy policy, and other topics. The section also Division assisted the newly formed Select Committee on Hunger with regard to foreign food assistance The year's congressional agenda included exten- and surplus conunbdity disposal options. Addi- §ive consideration of many vital national issues tionally, reports and Issue Briefs were prepared within the areas of the Environment and Natural on such issues as international grain and dairy Resources Policy Division Analyses, timely gen- trade, international barter, food assistance to eral background and topical Issue Briefs, a range foreign countries, -farm debt problems, farm of seminars and Public Policy Institutes, several support programs, and commodity promotion video' and audio programs, and extensive brief- programs. ings for Members and their staffs provided sup- The Environmental Protection Section han- port on the key policy issues relating to the dled requests across the spectrum of pollution environment and natural resources. issues. Hazardous waste management and clean- The and Agriculture Section devoted its up issues focused much of the section's efforts attention to farmcredit, agricultu?al trade and on legislative proposals providing continued international food aid, and federal price and in- authorizations for the Superfund and the Re- come support programs. In addition, the section source Conservation and Recovery Act. Other assisted Congress in its preparation for the 1985-'analyses dealt with toxic chemical regulation, farm bill legislation. insecticide and pesticide regulation, ground- Th6 section conducted a continuing series of water contamination, and clean air and clean well-attended luncheon seminars entitled "To- wet ar issue generally. ward the '45 Farm Bill" and held a major con- The section devoted much of its attention to ference on farm and food policy in Hagerstown, the matter of acid rain. A committee print that Maryland, for congressional participants. These incorporated the significant literature on the sub- seminars, along with Public Policy Institute ses- ject was prepared for the House Committee on sions on agricultural trade and domestic agricul- Energy and Commerce, which circulated it tural policy, were important means of initiating widely to the public. In addition, hearings held discussion of likely issues in the 1985 farm bill. by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Two institute programs were videotaped for later Resources on acid rain were summarized in a viewing by the Congress. committee print that achieved significant public The section played a major role in Joint visibility. Economic Committee hearings on agriculture The Fuels and Minerals Section assisted sev- and the General Agreement oriTariffs and Trade eral Senators in connection with substantial but and prepared a report on the topic for circula- unsuccessful efforts to reach a compromise on tion to theettire Senate by the committee chair- new natural gas legislation. Section studies man. Major assistance was provided to the analyzed the effects of various alternative natural Congressional Research Service

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gas proposals on several regions of the country, Congress, and prepared Issue Briefs summariz- as well as aspects and effects of the costs of acid ing the current status of the legislation. rain mitigation on regions and specific electric Timber contract reliet, urged in the face of a utilities. widespread slump in timber prices, was the Federal coal leasing policy was of major in- topic of two papers and numerous briefings. A terest to the Congress, which established the major report examined U.S. Forest Service tim- Linowes Commission on Fair Market Value to ber sale management costs and revenues for the study the matter. A section study on coal leas- period 4973 to 1983 for eleven sample states. ing was used and cited by thecommissionin its A comprehensive report on outer continental fmal report, and a follow-up report was prepared shelf issues was prepared with the assistance of on the commission's recommendations for use other CRS divisions for the House Subcommit- as a basis for congressional inquiry at hearings tee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf of on the commission's report. the House Committee on Merchant Marine and -A majoatsue related to emergency petroleum Fisheries. Analyses in the water resources area planning and, in particular, possible uses of the covered federal and state cost sharing in water strategic petroleum reserve in the event of a cut- projects, flood control, and the omnibus water

off of oil supplies from the Persian Gulf. Several projects bill. '',i treports and a committee print were prepared to Other issue., included national park protection analyze alternative policy options. legislation, proposals to establish a national out- The continuing increase in the cost of nuclear door recreation review commission, wildlife electrical generation facilities was the focus of protection, sport hunting in Alaska, the fur seal a hearing for which a member of the section pro- treaty renegotiation, various fisheries issues, vided significant preparatory assistance and tes- rangeland issues, and effects of acid rain on timony. A study on the measurement of the forests. potential market for smaller-sized nuclear plants was useful to the Congress, and the analyst was asked to testify on the results of the study before Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division a committee. Nuclear waste management was also the subject of much analytical work, exten- Foreign and defense policy issues were shaped sive Member briefings, and video presentations. by a number of key developments: the deaths of The Oceans and Natural Resources Section more than two hundred Marines in the terrorist worked on several important resource manage- bombing of their barracks in Lebanon; the U.S. ment issues. One of the most controversial was invasion of Grenada; growing conflict over that of wilderness area designation, a state-by- the size of the defensebudget; questions about state process used to set aside areas to be waste, fraud, and abuse in defense procure- preserved in their natural state. The section pro- ment activities; and congressional reliance on vided economic and policy analyses of several continuing resolutions to fund a foreign aid individual state bills and comprehensive analy- program. ses of issues common to the consideration of all Among the valuable retrospective analyses the wilderness bills. that the division provided this year, the first Other work covered general economic consid- fruits of a full-scale analysis of the congressional erations relevant to the wilderness debates, role in the Vietnam War appeared in the form analyses of designation reconsideration pro- of volume 1 of a projected four-volume study en- cedures, and assessnionts of the impact of legis- titled The U.S. Government and the Vietnam lation on resource use. The section briefed staff War, published by the Senate Committee on and Members, provided detailed analytical Foreign Relations. Also, the final fruits of memoranda assessing state and local impacts, another major endeavor, the concluding and prepared a CRS Review article, testified before summarizing volume of an eight-part study of

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congressional-executive relations in the area of of strategic nuclear forces with and without foreign policy, was published by the House SALT constraints. The latter report, the execu- Committee on Foreign Affairs. tive summary of which was published in the Analysts in the Manpower, Budgets, and Congressional Record, instigated a request bya Policy Management Section produced Issue Member of the Senate that this section conduct Briefs on the defense budget and a fiscal 1985 a seminar in the near future to specifically defense budget data summary. Major analytical address the issues it raised. studies included Analysis of Congressional. Other reports covered such diverse topicsas Changes to the FY 1984 Defense Budget, The deployment of the Navy's Tomahawk cruise mis- Defense Spending Debate: Compdring Recent siles, sale of the Stinger air defens\weapon to Defense Appropriations with 1981 Projections, Saudi Arabia, the status of the Navy's Aegis air and Estimating Funding for Strategic Forces. defense system, and potential gains fromsuper- Other research dealt with estimates of Soviet hardening ICBM silos in the face of continued defense spending, measuring congressionalac- improvements in missile accuracy. tion on the defense budget, and working capital Consultations were provided on possible alter- funds in the Department of Defense. natives for proceeding with production of the Heightened activity in the defense procure- MX ICBM, ramifications of the administration's ment and contracting field resulted in reports Strategic Defense Initiatives, and assessments of dealing with cost overruns in major weapon the readiness of D.S. armed forces in general and systems and U.S. weapons procurement. the Army in particular. An Issue Brief tracked authorization, appro- The Asia/ Section's workre- priation, and other substantive legislation on flected the intensity of congressionalconcerns military manpower strength levels, military in 41:+ese regions. Issue Briefs on El Salvador and compensation and retirement policies, and mil- Nicaragua were repeatedly updated and revised itary personnel management. Inquiries on bene- to meet the continuing high demand. Theywere fits for the divorced spouses of military retirees supplemented by an Issue Briefon the presiden- dominated the flow of short-term requests in the tial election in El Salvador and a report analyz- military mane wer and personnelarea. ing the findings of the bipartisan "Kissinger A substantia volume of requests dealt with Commission." Other support included a work- problems at, d the leadership of, the United shop for two congressional committeeson the States Informat on Agency (USIA), including the prospects for Mexico and their implications for rejected nomination of Leslie Lenkowsky for the the United States. position of deputy director and the policies and Strong interest in the unstable situation in the practices of Charles Wick as director, as wellas Philippines following the assassination ofoppo- retirement and survivor benefits for divorced sition leader Benign Aquino in 1983 was met spouses of Foreign Service personnel. with close staff support and two Issue Briefs that The Defense Policy and Arms Control Section have been repeatedly cited on both sides of the provided support on strategic arms control and Pacific for their insights and balance. A major specific weapon systems. The section prepared report on the possible implications of regional a very popular series of Issue Briefs containing instability in the Indian Punjab won theappre- cost data and policy questions on some twenty ciation of our clients and the respect of counter- major weapon systems, including the Army's parts in the executive branch. Interest in China Division Air Defense gun (DIVAD) and the B-1B and japan was reflected in Issue Briefs, and strategic nuclear bomber. reports on Japanese defense spending, Chinese A major study analyzed implications of theso- nuclear weapons, the situation in Hong Kong, called build-down formula on U.S. and Soviet and Chinese food production. strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. Another ex- The Europe/Middle East/Anise Section's work amined possible U.S. and Soviet deployments dealt in part with the issue of aid to Turkey and 52 4

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the Cyprus question. The ongoing war in the on a proposal to increase U.S. assistance to Afri- Persian Gulf as well as regional security efforts can regional organizations. continued to be of special concern. Other Mid- Staff development was an important aspect of dle East topics included the proposed Transfer the section's work. One section member spent of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, the problem the year at the National Defense University of triirorism in Lebanon, and the question of studying security issues immediately relevant to Israel's economy and the issue of U.S. aid. Arms her work. Two others enhanced their knowledge sales to Jordan and possible rapid deployment of aid and issues through official force (RDF) deployment to Saudi Arabia were lecture tours supported by USIAto five African also areas of interest, as was the Moroccan- countries in one instance and to countries in Libyan alliance. both Africa and South Asia in the other. Work on Europe covered issues relating to NATO's intermediate-range nuclear force (INF)- deployment, U.S.-Soviet dialogue nn anti- Government Division satellite negotiations, and Soviet policy toward Japan. A report on the Reagan administration's Researchers in the Government Division re- new antiterrorism policy and a policy alert ana-. sponded to almost eleven thousand requests dur- lyzing the significance of the Canadian election, ing fiscal 1984. Of these, eighty-eight involved were also produced. major projects, fifty-three of them interdivi- Several Issue Briefs were prepared as the sec- gwenty-seven major projects were com- tion's primary response on major areas of U.S. pleted and twenty-three were pending at year's interest in Africa. Congressional attention end. focused on Namibia and the effects of the Reagan Division members servedas the core staff for administration's approach to South Africa. A the Service's basic, advanced, and graduate report on the new South African constitution legislative institutes and contributed signifi- was also published. cantly to the District/State Institutes. They also The International Organizations, Develop- participated, at times together with other CRS ment, and Security Section produced a major divisions, in videotape presentations on such study on the world food situation, which was topics as parliamentary procedure, the economic published as a 779-page print of the House Com- status of blacksin the United States, and the pro- mittee on Foreign Affairs. Two world food work- cess for selecting delegates to the national party shops were also held. -nominating conventions. The section was active on foreign aid issues. Division specialists continued to fide sub- One report reviewed the entire range of aid stantial assistance to the Office of a ersonnel issues before Congress, while another concen- Management's Government Affairs Institute sem- trated on aid issues in Central America. An Issue inar series and to other seminars for upper-level Brie; tracked foreign assistance throughout the executive officials on congressional operations year, and a seminar on administration policies and procedures. In addition, division staff have with respect to foreign aid for population plan- briefed visiting delegations from Argentina, ning was conducted. Brazil, Canada, China, the Federal Republic of In the international organization field, the , Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, section responded to requests on the U.S. noti- Thailand, and Venezuela on congressional oper- fication of withdrawal from UNESCO and on ations and procedures and delegations from President Reagan's request that the Senate ratify Australia and the United Kingdom on executive the Genocide Convention. An Issue Brief was branch organization and operations. produced on UNESCO, while existing materials In the Administrative Section, the specialist were updated when the genocide convention in executive organizations coordinated a issue arose. The section also produced a study seminar on proposals to establish an Office of

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Federal Management independent of an Office The Civil Rights Section prepared reportson of the Budget. The work and reports of the Presi- civil rights policies since 1980, the reconstruc- dent's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control tion of the Civil Rights Commission, Indian have also been the subject of congressional affairs legislation, legislative issues of impor- interest. tance to women, U.S. insular territories, and The specialist in legislative institutions orga- religion and public policy. One section member nized a three-day workshop on congressional contributed to a committee print on Hispanics oversight and investigations and supported the in the United States. Subcommitee on Accounts of the Committee on Section members provided consultations House Administration in reviewing committee on nondiscrimination in employment, affir- budgetary requests and activities. Assistancewas mative action, D.C. statehood, territorial issues, also provided to the new Temporary Select Com- Japanese-Americans, religious conflict in mittee to Study the Senate Committee System. Lebanon, the history of certain Indian tribes, The specialist in legislative-executive rela- school prayer, and "equal access" to school facil- tions continued working with several commit- ities. The section also cooperated with the Li- tees on the legislative response to the Supreme brarian's office in preparation for a visit by the Court's legislative veto decision. He maintained Dalai Lama. a report which captured all of the legislative, The Executive Organization and Administra- executive, and judicial developments that have tion Section responded to requests dealing with occurred since INS v. Chadha, including legis- federal pay, employment, and personnelman- lative vetoes that continued to be passed and agement issues; the vice presidency; presiden- signed into law and various committee-agency tial inaugurations, tenure, and succession; understandings that are the functional equi- terrorism; federal contracting procedures and valent of the legislative veto. policies; information policy and regulatoryprac- The Congressional Organization and Opera- tices; drug control; and alternatives to the legis- tions Section prepared reports on congressional lative veto.. foreign and domestic travel, congressional sala- The section also assisted in the preparation of ries and allowances, outside earned income, the hearings on broadcast regulatory policy, advised House restaurant, the cost of Congress, commit- congressional staff on media ethics issues, and tee jurisdiction and assignment procedures, leg- produced a major report on the access policies islative commissions, lobbying, the line item of the major television networks and government veto, special orders, continuing business from regulations of political broadcasting. session to session, the , con- The newly created Federal Budget Process gressional pages, , suspensioq of the Section assisted in legislative and oversight rules, and the Senate amending process. activities dealing with congressional and execu- Members of the section testified before the tive budget procedures, examining such topics House Committee on Rules regarding expedited as the use of waivers under the Congressional procedures and the line item veto and before the Budget Act of 1974, spending controls tied to Committee on House Administration regarding debt limit adjustment procedures, the emergence legislative. commissions. One member of the of obligation limitations for particular annual section served on detail with the Senate Com- appropriations, and recent trends in the use of mittee on Governmental Affairs which was supplemental and continuing appropriations. studying lobbying law reform. With the senior Section analysts supported special panels in specialist in American Government, the section the Senate and House examining reform of the has provided ongoing assistance to the Tem- congressional budget process and undertook porary Select Committee to Study the Senate studies of efforts to curtail year-end spending Committee System in the areas of committee as- proposals and to establish regulatory budget and signments and jurisdiction. sunset processes, as well as tabulation of his- 54 73 Congressional Research Service

torical data comparing executive budget requests tance from a contractor, simulated apportion- with enacted amounts. ments to examine the possible biases of various An Intergovernmental Relations Section spe- apportionatent methods. The effect of excluding cialist testified on federal interest in metro- aliens from apportionments was also examined. politan governance for Senate subcommittee The possibility of two-thirds of the states re- hearings. A history of the judicial system in the questing a constitutional convention generated District of Columbia was written for inclusion queries on the mechanics of such a convention, in the record of hearings before the House Com- if held, as well as-the historical background of mittee on the District of Columbia. Assistance the Constitution's provisions for such a conven- Was also provided for hearings on the District's tion. One major project resulting therefrom was appropriations and emergency management in a legislative history of all the applications for a the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. constitutional convention to balance the budget. Another specialist helped with hearings before The section pit tided assistance for Senate and the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and House committee hearings on campaign finer cc Rural Development of the House Committee on reform proposals and responded to numerous re- Agriculture by preparing reports on rural devel- quests for analyses of campaign finance activity opment strategies and rural development budget and related legislation. A major report on politi- trends and by summarizing the major issues cal action committees was updated, and a study raised during the hearings. Assistance' in urban of proposals for public financing of congres- community development included contributions sional elections was completed. to a CRS analysis of the President's National The Survey Research, Public Opinion, and Urban Policy Report, an analysis of amendments Federal Statistical Policy Section worked on the to community development block grant and development of an online file of public opinion urban development action grant legislation, and data with a view toward making that data avail- a review of issues related to, the preservation of able to congressional offices through SCORPIO. the White House as a historic property. The section also assisted committees with issues In the areas of crime and law enforcement, the relating to the federal statistical agencies. For section analyzed numerous legislative proposals example, it managed a contract by Baseline Data for controlling illicit drug traffic and assisted Corporation that resulted in a report entitled The committees considering pending gun control Federal Statistical System: 1980 to 1985. legislation. Reports on murder rates in states, The section helped the Subcommittee on Cen- sentencing policy options, Criminal fine collec- sus and Population of the House Committee on tions, and the impact of budget cuts on federal Post Office and Civil Service prepare for hear- fires programs were also issued. ings on the 1990 census, collaborated with the The work of the Political Institutions and Pro- Library Services Division on a new series of CRS cesses Section reflected the increased interest in reports summarizing public opinion poll find- issues related to the nomination and election of ings, and prepared reports of public opinion the President and other officials, including the results an the *gender gap," spending, taxes, and delegate selection process. The section contrib- al.:, balanced budget. uted to the 1984 edition of Nomination and Elec- The section also worked with the Planning tion of the President and Vice President, and Development Office and the Legislative Liai- prepared by the American Law Division for the son Office in developing a survey of users of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Library of Congress. Section analyses covered such timely issues as the second, or runoff, primary in effect in ten Science Policy Research Division states, and access for handicapped voters. Another area of interest was apportionnient and The Science Policy Research Division covered redistricting. The section, with technical assis- broad range of science and technology issues,

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including energy policy, materiels policy, civil- Studies of the safety of various modes of trans- ian and some military space issues, biotech- portation resulted in an Issue Brief on airline nology, health issues, R&D and industrial safety and a report on child restraints in motor innovation, and science manpower. The division vehicles. Issues relating to air traffic control, provided extensive hearings assistance and other passive restraints, and auto and truck safety were tailored committee support work and in addition also addressed. The section's capabilities in produced numerous committee prints, CRS transportation were expanded late in the year reports, Issue Briefs, seminars and workshops, with the addition of a new analyst. and hundreds of memoranda and shorter reports. Support activities for Members and commit- The multidisciplinary nature of many requests tees by the Geosciences, Materials, and Indus- resulted in an extensive involvementin interdivi- trial Technology Section were concentrated on sional projects and increasing emphasis ,on energy policy and technology, transportation of addressing problems at the broadest levels. hazardous materials and fire safety, materials Energy and space work dominated the activi- policy, and the geosciences, ties of the Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation In energy policy, seminars were conducted on Technology Section. Major areas addressed in- methanol fuels and on national synfuels policy cluded nuclear energy, conservation and renew- and the U.S. Synfuels Corporation. Reports were able energy, civilian and military space activities, prepared on the future of the U.S. Synfuels Cor- and- transportation safety.Section members poration, electrical energy conservation policy, testified athearings on the Department of Energy's Mexican petroleum, projected U.S. oil and uranium enrichment program and the President's natural gas production to the year 2000, and the strategic defense initiative and prepared four new program history and status of the Energy Secu- Issue Briefs and numerous reports, rity Act of 1980. Seminars were held on the prospects for The section also contributed to a major CRS nuclear power and the Public Utility Regulatory study on U.S. offshore oil and gas development Policies Act (PURPA). Reports or Issue Briefs durrng the 1980s with chapters on continental were.prepared on methanol fuels, the effects of shelf oil and gas resources and development capacity credits on wind energy development, technology, the causes and prevention of risks the solar'energy and conservation bank, nuclear to personnel and the environment in offshore power plants emergency planning, and nuclear operations, and interactions of oil and gas with regulatory reform. Additional support was pro- the offshore environment. vided in the areas of cogeneration, solar energy The section continued to provide analyses and tax credits, energy planning in insular areas, other assistance to Members on materials policy. nuclear reactor safety, and uranium enrichment. Reports were prepared on materials availability, A seminar was held on U.S. military space the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling activities, and several briefings were given on Act, new steel-making technologies; end the U.S. and Soviet military space activities. The nonfuel uses of natural gas. Support in the areas section prepared a committee print on commer- of hazardous materials and safety included prep- cialization of space, an Issue Brief on a space sta- aration of a major report on nuclear materials tion and space commercialization, and reports transportation, a new Issue Brief on fire safety on prospects for the sale ofweather satellites.and and toxicity of burning materials, and an analy- satellite remote sensing operations. Military sis of requirements for inert gas systems in space activities included analysis of the strategic tankers. Assistance was also provided for hear- defense initiative, control of space weapons, and ings on hazardous an0 nuclear materials safety, relations between NASA and DOD. In addition, at which CRS testimony was presented on comprehensive reviews of the space activities of nuclear materials'transportation. benching" and "nonlaunching" countries were Geosiences support included assistance for prepared. hearings on earthquakes, carbon dioxide and 58 75 Congressional Research Service

climate change, ocean research, and Antarctic The Policy, Information, and Behavioral Sci- policy. Reports includedasnmmary of hearings ences Section contributed to committee prints on Hurricane Alicia and studies on carbon diox- on science, technology, and American diplo- ide and climate, the "nuclear winter" threat, the macy and on improving the research infrastruc- International Geophysical Year, and possible leg- ture at U.S. universities and colleges. Other islative actions for improving weather services. products included studies on the "Grace Report" The Life Sciences Section's analyses covered on research and development, the science and biotechnology, nutrition research and food technology program in UNESCO, and critical safety issues, developments and ethics in issues in agricultural research and teaching medical research, health effects of low-level ex- programs. posure to toxic chemicals and radiation, and The section also produced an Issue Brief on drug research and approval policy. Cancer re- research and development funding for fiscal search policy, food preservation, animal welfare, 1985 and coordinated preparation of questions and organ procurement and donation were of for the National Science Foundation's fiscal 1985 particular interest. authorization hearings. Substantial hearings Among 'other studies were two committee support in the area of industrial innovation and prints on genetic research in Animal sciences and high-technology development was provided in plant sciences; contributions to the bill report response to continued congressional interest. op the Organ Transplant and Procurement Act; Two new Issue Briefs on the antitrust implicv Issue Briefs covering food safety policy, animals tions of joint research and develbpment funding in biomedical research, and human gene and government policies for industrial innova- therapy; and CRS Review' articles on the tion also were prepared. acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), Congress continues to focus increased atten- preservation of food by irradiation, and ethylene tion on the topics of computers, telecommunica- dibromide (EDB). In afidition, the section pro- tions, and information policy, and the section duced reports on hunger in America, sulfites and prepared a number of products in these areas. food preservation, the Delaney Clause, food Contributiohs were made to several committee preservation by irradiation, blacks and nutrition, documents, including those on computer secu- holistic medicine, aspartame, raw milk and rity and privacy, international electronic mail, health-related issues, legalization of heroin, depository library access to fcderal automated EDB, health effects of video display terminals, data bases, and office autorwtion in the U.S. radiation effects of high-voltage power trans- Senate. mission lines, and organ procurement and Other major committee support included a transplantation. report on future directions in educational tech- Other support includebackground analyses nology and a background report for hearings on and questions for appropriation hearings on the information technology and the elderly. The sec- NIH programs and budget and assistance with tion provided substantial hearings assistance on hearings on EDB, hazardous waste pleanup, the topics of supercomputers, international tele- human embryo transfer, childhood vaccine in- communications and information policy, and jury compensation, Agent Orange, Alzheimer's access to Japanese scientific and technical infor- disease, groundwater contamination, release in- mation. The section also continued to participate tthe environment of genetically altered mate - in an interdivisional effort to prepare a glossary ri certifiedraw milk, and nutritional of telecommunications terms for congressional status and monitoring. 'use.

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Shortly after the beginning of the fiscal year, forts were successful in acquiring additional Henriette D. Avram was appointed Assistant Li- receipts from exchange partners. Cataloging in brarian for Processing Services. The resulting Publication (CIP) data were provided to more vacancy in the position of director for process- titles than ever before. A report completed this ing systems, networks, and automation planning year by an outside consultant documents current was filled temporarily by Mary S. Price until her acquisitions practices and procedures and will appointment as ..permanent director in Septem- serve as a basis for planning the automation of ber, when the directorate was reorganized and acquisitions activities in the future. named Bibliographic Products and Services. In the Bibliographic Products and Services Robert C. Sullivan was appointed director for ac- Directorate,significant new products were quisitions and overseas operations in September; issued, primarily as a result of the implementa- the position had beenvacant since the retirement tionof now online systems and changes to the of Frank M. McGowan in December 1982. internal data base files. New distribution ser- Imre T. Jarmy was appointed assistant chief vices were initiated for MARC Music tapes and in the Exchange and Gift Division in January. music catalog cards, for name and series author- Dorothy Gregor, formerly assistant librarian for ity records in the new format, and for abbre- technical services at the University of California viated MARC records to support retrospective at Berkeley, reported as the new chief of the conversion projects in other institutions. The Shared Cataloging Division in March. She suc- Serial Record Division maintained-the tec nical ceeded Nathalie Delougaz, who had transferred support functions for the CONSER prof and to the Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy for the United States Newspaper Project (ded in October 1983. In June, Sally H. McCallum was by the National Endowment for the Humanities). appointed head of the newly reorganized Net- A report on current serial record activities was ;work Development and MARC Standards Office. completed and formed the basis of a study of the Peter R. Young, formerly customer services of- means of converting the Library's manual serial ficer in the Cataloging Distribution Service, was control files to an automated system. appointed assistant chief of the MARC Editorial In older to meet the challenges facing the de- Division in September. partment, the Assistant Librarian for Processing Staff in the Cataloging Directorate and the Services appointed a Planning Committee in Serial Record Division concentrated successfully May. The committee researched various ap- on substantially raising cataloging production proaches and techniques used in strategic plan- during this fiscal year. Reevaluating proceddres, ning and developed recommendations for a decreasing the number of major revisions to rule planning process to meet the department's interpretations, and continuing the efficiencies needs. Committee members explored the avail- in routine procedures introduced in the previous able literature and attended seminars offered by fiscal year all led to an increase in the number several management associations. The commit- of titles cataloged and pieces processed. tee's final product was a manual which provided, In the Acquisitions and Overseas Operations guidelines and forms to qurvey the department's Directorate, significant additions to the Library's strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities as well collections were acquired from a variety of as to formulate mission statements, goals, objec- sources. Purchases increased as the U.S. dollar tives, and action plans for the department and held firm compared to foreign currencies and ef- its constituent divisions. A consultant was hired

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in, September to work with the committee in the hancement of the icquisition of non-U.S. library preparation of their final recommendations, materials. which were submitted to Mrs. Avram at the end The Acquisitions and Overseas Operations of the fiscal year. Processing Services is con- divisions concentrated on several studies and fident that the strategic planning process will surveys of internal acquisitions procedures. ensure effective decision uprising and facili- With considerable help from and consultations tate implementation of specificgoals and with the staffs of the four divisions, a contrac- objectives. tor prepared a three-volume analysis of current Foreseeing the need to plan for office auto- acquisitions operations. In addition to descrip- mation in Processing Services' department and tions and pictorial representations of activities division offices, the Assistant Librarian for Pro- in the Acquisitions and Overseas Operations cessing Services retained a contractor to evaluate divisions, the report described in detail the current activities which could benefit from of- acquisitions work performed in the Copyright' fice automation, to interview staff representing Office, Congressional Research Service, and Law department and division offices, to evaluate rec- Library, as well as related activities'in Research ommendations to meet office automation needs, Services and the Collections Development Of- and to suggest implementation procedures. De- fice. This comprehensive study not only docu- livered in January, the consultant's report was ments current practices but can also be used as evaluated by an Office Automation Committee the basis for evaluations of future directions and appointed by Mrs. Avram. The committee in potential modifications for automating acquisi- turn developed implementation guidelines for tions activities. The contractor made several the department. A detailed technical study of Library-wide presentations on the contents and potential equipment and appropriate software use of the documentation. By the end of the followed as the task for a second consultant, who fiscal year the contractor was working on func- was hired at the end of the fiscal year. tional requirements for automated acquisitions operations, particularly in Processing Services but also throughout the Library. A draft outline of goals and objectives was completed and a pre- liminary draft of the functional requirements is ACQUISITIONS AND OVERSEAS being developed further by the Automation OPERATIONS Planning and Liaison Office (APLO). The Acquisitions Throughput Study Commit- As mentioned above, one of the significant tee consulted staff in the four divisions and highlights of the year occurred in September evaluated alternatives in order to define an ef- with the appointment of a permanent director fective sampling technique to study throughput for acquisitions and overseas operations. The in the multiple acquisitions processing streams. vacancy since the retirement of the previous di- At the same time, field offices in the Overseas rector had been filled in rotation by the chiefs Operations Division evaluated the throughput of of the four acquisitions and overseas operations publications in process in those offices. divisions. The Acquisitions and Ovetheas Operations Frank M. McGowan, the former director, was divisions contributed significantly to the series honored by the Library with its Distinguished of area acquisitions review SI:miners coordinated Service Award in November 1983. The award by the Collections Development Office. Detailed was given in recognition of Dr. McGowan's note- background surveysand evaluations were pre- worthy career at the Library devoted to the pared for each seminar, and Limit divisions have advancement of cooperative acquisitions instituted post-seminar reviews to evaluate the programs', effective communication and coordi- issues raised in the seminars and to generate ap- nation with 'the library community, and en- propriate responses and activities.

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Purchases istence of online order data (currently input by staff in the Shared Cataloging Division but Because the dollar remained strong in relation to scheduled to be shifted to the Blanket Order Sec- nonU.S. currencies, the book budget was ade- tion in fiscal 1985) resulted in a decrease in the quate to support the Library's needs for currant number of titles which need to be searched in materials. Funds were also available for special the blanket order processing stage. All mono- purchases of noncurrent materiels for the Li- graphic series were placed on subscription and brary's collections. Among the special purchasesere now in the Extended Order File, monitored in fiscal 1984 were a set of seventeenth-century by the Continuations Unit. This has led to bet- tlobes by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, a 1757 wall ter control over the monographic series orders map of America by Gaspard Baikal, the Opera and a reduction in the time required to prepare of Virgil printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, an lists of monographic series on order. autograph notebook of Sergei Diaghilev, a portrait In March a Faxon Company LINX terminal of, Nijinsky, and a costume design for Sleeping was installed in the Continuations Unit. The ter- Princess by Leon Bakst, manuscripts of Igor minal is being used to monitor subscriptions Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev, a holograph placed with the. Faxon Company (including violin concerto by Alban Berg dated 1935, and those requested by the Congressional Research selected videodisks of American motioh pictures. Service) and has also proved useful in a special Titles received in the Clearing SectioiNlf the research projettinitiated to improve the receipt Order Division rose 21 percent (from 104,242 in of current periodicals for the Law Library fiscal 1983 to 125,999 in 1984). The number of Reading Room. invoices processed in the Fiscal Section rose Acquisitions travel by staff in the Order Divi- nearly 6 percent (from 22,111 in fiscal 1983 to sion was possible this year. A trip to Scandinavia 23,453 in 1984). Serial costs rose approximately allowed the first consultations in person bya Li- 5 percent worldwide; the estimated cost per copy brary official with the relatively new blanket increased from $79.29 in fisce11983 to $83.06 in order dealers in Derimark and Sweden anda 1984. In the United States and the United King- return visit to the blanket order dealer in Nor- dom, book and serial prices rose 22 percent; the way. A visit was made to the blanket -rude,: cost of legal matenals.worldwide rose 28 percent. dealer for Canada (who is located in Niagara Special ordering activities increased, par- Falls). to the Faxon Company in Boston (fer con- ticularly because of purchases of noncurrent sultations retarding use of the LINX terminal), materials. The Librarian's Special Reserve Fund to University Microfilms in Ann Arbor (for con- was used to purchase an 1812 specimen of print- sultations on microform orders), to the R. R. ing types from the foundry of Benny and Ronald- Bowker Company in New York (for consulta- son and sixteen signed designs by Robert Fulton tions on subscription orders), and to South for his experiments with submarine boats and Africa (to improve acquisitions from that coun- naval armaments in 1806. Of the bids placed for try and to investigate the possibilfty of contract- 277 items at fifty-eight auctions, 186 were suc- ing with a new blanket order dealer). New cessful. In the previous year 170 out of 233 bids blanket order arrangements were concluded at fifty-one auctions were successful. with dealers for Russian émigni publications, for In fiscal 1983, the number of recommenda- Greek law books, and for publications from the tions received for blanket order processing rose Philippines, Nigeria, South Africa, and Turkey, significantly, which led to speculation about future trends. In fiscal 1984 the number of these recommendations returned to about the 1982 Exchanges level. The increase in 1983 appears to have been transitory and reflective of a different level of The number of pieces received on,exchange in activity among recommending officers. The ex- fiscal 1984 increased by 7 percent in the African- 80 79 O

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Asian Exchange Section, by 6 percent in the Europe in fiscal 1984 at 126,517 (compared to- American and British Exchange Section, and by 118,299 in 1983). AlliSoviet receipts wr,re 3 percent in the European Exchange Section. entered as acquisitions records into the Library's Ninety-seven new informal exchange agree- online in-proceis file for the second year. ments were concluded by the African-Asian 6cquisitions arrangements coordinated by the Exhhange Section in fiscal-1984. This led to an His`panic Acquisitions Section are functioning increase in receipts for the section which was well. Special negotiations with this National Li- balanced by a decline in receipts from the Na- brary of Chile were concluded in September tional Library of China (16,988 pieces in Meal 1984 with an agreement which specifies that the 1983 as compared to 12,355 in 1984). This Library of Congress will furnish retrospective decline in Chinese materials was anticipated by machine-readable cataloging records in ex- both exchange partners and indicates a more change for current Chilean commercial publica- normal level of receipts. There is still some tions of equivalent monetary value. duplication of receipts from both exchange and Acquisitions trips this year to Switzerland and purchase sources for Chinese materials. This Portugal made possible personal meetings with problem was addressed by an interdepartmental exchange partners in both countries. Such trips committee, and steps have been taken to limit stimulate expansion of exchange coverage, allow selections by the purchase sources. In addition, more efficient resolution of problems, and pro- a six-month trial was initiated during which the mote Alio continuing success of the exchange National Library of China agnied to supply spe- agreements. cially prepared hardbound, embossed copies of the monographic titles they forward on exchange (the majority of which are published in paper- Gifts back editions). The trial period will be moni- tored tell see ifthe special preparations In fiscal 1984 the Gift Section in the Exchange significantly delay the delivery of shipments. A and Gift Division (E&G) coordinated the acquisi- newly appointed representative to acquire ex- tion of gifts and deposits such as the RKO Gen- change materials from Turkey was responsible eral Radio WOR Archive, the H. Dunscombe Colt for a nearly 300 percent increase in pieces from Kipling Collection, the American Studies Asso- that country (461 pieces in fiscal 1983 and 1810 ciation Papers, linguistic atlas recordings of the in 1984). American Dialect Society, the Hans J. Morgen- Thp American} and British Exchange Section than Papers, and a unique collection of original recoqled an increase of 38 p,rcent receipts music manuscripts by George Gershwin. from international organizations this year, with A statistical analysis of gifts received over the a total of some 47,000 pieces. Special question- past eight years shows that the overall number naires and additional offerings of duplicates of pieces received fluctuates greatly, sewing which are surplus to the Library's needs Wife largely to the varyin* number of manuscripts stimulated the higher level of receipts from these received. Not counting Manuscripts, the total organizations. Similar actions have been insti- deviates only slightly from an average of 500,000 tuted with nonofficial exchange partners in pieces annually. With manuscripts included, it Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United fluctuates from 3,642,510 down to 768,760. Gifts- Kingdom. received in fiscal 1984 totaled 1,125,890, a The receipt of exchange materials from East- decline from the previous year's 2,037,525. ern Europe and the USSR compares favorably The Tax Reform Act of 1984 mandates the Sec- with that from Western Europe. The European retary of the Treasury to prescribe a new set of Exchange Section receded receipts from Eastern income tax regulations for the evaluation of Europe and the USSR in fiscal 1984 at 84,280 charitable contributions for tax purposes. The (Compared to 85,986 in 1983) and from Western new regulations will incorporate provisions that

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stipulate that a gift valued in excess of $5,000 Surplus duplicate publications exchanged for will not be accepted by the Internal Revenue See- reprographic materials and microform supplied vice if the appraisal is prepared by the instifu- by book dealers and collectors decreased by 39 tion that receives the donatipn. The regulations percent (fronl 269,000 pieces in fiscal 1983 to will become effective in 1985. There are other 64,250 in 4.984). The dollar value of this mate- implications in the new Tax Reform Act whose rial was $64,536.98 in 1984 and $129,0E18 in precise impact cannot immediately be assessed. 1983. The major reason for this declinethe ex- As a eesult of a report prepared by the Inter- clusion by law of current copyright deposits nal Audit Office last year, the Library has from the surplus duplicates made available foi a decided that it will no longer provide advisory this program. appraisals for materials placed in Lei- collec- Approximately 3,800 selectors partibipated in tions on deposit. Reciliests for evaluations re- the surplus book disposal program this year. ceived before March 221 p84, will still be There were 247,17§, pieces donated to educa- honored. tional institutions, public bodies, end nonprofit tax-exempt organizations. On behalf of a).1 fed- eral agencies, 554,400 pieces were sent to the Documents Universal Serials and Book Exchange. A total of 78,887 pieces were transferred to other federal The trend of declining receipts of state docu- agencies for addition to their collections, and Mita was reversed this year. The State Docu- 6,342,000 pieces were transferred to the General ments Section in E&G recorded ti net increase of Services Administration for disposal. * 3,288 pieces (116;813 pieces were received in The first subscription rate increase in ten years fiscal 1983 compared to 12 ,101 in 1984). It for participants in the Documents Expediting would be premature to conclude that this in- Project was approved in fiscal 1984 and will be crease indicates a new upwar trend, however, phased in on a monthly basis in 1985. Seven since a review of previous years' statistics slxri'vs libraries joined the project in fiscal 1984, and that receipt of documents from §tate central nonpayment forceithe cancellation of 23 sub- sources and individual agencies remains scribers, leaving 324 active accounts. The proj- constant. ect distributed 2,598 federal document titles in The Monthly Checklist of State Publications 394,405 pieces to member libraries. averaged 2,365 entries per issue as compared to 2,415 entries in fiscal 1983. December 1984 will mark the Checklist's seventy-fifth continuous Special Foreign Acquisitions year of publication. A number of claims have been received from Worldwide inflation and the strength of the dol- recipients of full and partial sets of official U.S. lar abroad were major factors in the overall in- federal documents for missing microfiche. Close crease in pieces acquir,d' through the Library's to 50 percent of these titles are also missing from field offices. By summer 1984, it was determined the official microfiche set received by E&G for that Indian rupees would be availablja only the purpose of filling such claims. Alleviation through fiscal 1985 and Pakistani rupees possi- of this problem is under discussion with the bly through 1988 or 1987. The Library's field Government Printing Office. There hlibeen no offices in both countries have been actively pre- change in the number of the Library's ocial for- paring for the end of the era of spacial foreign eign exchange partners receiving full ue partial currencies. sets of U.S. government documents. GPO reports A meeting with participants in the South that mailings of thirty-el eht partial and thirty full Asian progr vas arranged to coincide with sew are currently bele:, sent to official exchange the consulted° o ew Delhi field director partners. Gene Smith in October . InMarch represen- 62- 8 1 A

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tatives fried theOverseas Operations Division Women's Division, and a speech by President met with conferees at the annual meeting of the Zia ul Haq) were acquired this year. 'Association for Akan Studies. At both meetings A major highlight of the year in New Delhi the critical issue was whether special foreign-*was the indallation of three microcomputers and carrenciee would continue to be available for theNieraplementatiop of the filet phase of a pror- support of the South Asian programs'itard what ect td\provide machine-readable bibliographic Impact would be on participating institu- data freni the, field office to LC. Staff from the tions and the field office when the rupees are no Library'utomated Systenireffice traveled to longer available. The Library of Congress is come NeWqiDe Pto coordinate installation Of the mitted to a cdntinued presence in South Asia equipmen.By Aptil the' field office staff had because of the vital 'and unique nature of the keyed anshipped toe first disk, Which con- materials acquired in this strategically important taineklte bibliographic records. Betweeti April and volatile area, where the local institutions for and September the staff created and keyed 3,523 procurement of books and other librery materials bibliographic records for monographs acquired are inadequate to meet the research'needs of LC bythe New Delhi office. br. conjunction with this and the information community. Significant eco- effort, the New Delhi Overseas Cataloging Prbj- nomies can be effected with local staff in New ect (NEWDOC) initiatealnajor component in Delhi proViding processing and preservation India when the, heaft the South Asian Lan- services. guages Section Jn' the Descriptive Cataloging The Karachi field office concentrated on refin- Division traveled to Nevi Delhi in February 1984 ing appl Lion selection policies while to lead training sessions in the pAparation of alsobnprog coverage. As a result, the number worlAheets for personal and corporate name of titles selected dropped 12 percent (from 2,733 authority regorilee The worksheets are trans- in fiscal 1983 to43,401 in 1984), but the pieces*mitted to LC for inOlnsion in the machine- acquired rose 15 percent (from 125,646 in fisitel readable name authority data base. These 1983 to 145,073 in 1984). Marginal publication,' sessions are the first of a series of training were given greater scrutiny and participants modules intended to provide the New Delhi staff were surveyed on-their needs for particular titles. with theleacessary expertise to assume expanded Greater emphasis was placed on scanning the cataloging responsibilities. The first name media for book reviews and notices df cantle -,authority records created by the New Delhi staff ences or events .that generate publications. Nine- .were received in August for review in the De- teen exchange partners were added in fiscal scriptive Cataloging Division. By the end of the, 1984, bringing the total to 216. A greater effort fiscal year, the ,Vew Delhi office had prepared is being made to include publications exchanged nearly.seVen hundred name authority records. with international organizations based in Paki- In spite of adjustments for the new cataloging stan. Afghani Publications were so difficult to procedures, the New Delhi office acquired 14 ecquiro in Pakistan this year that special percent more piecee (558.352 in fiscal 1984, as arrangements were machete transfer this respon- compared to 491,088 in 1983). Wider coverage siity to the New Delhi office, which is able to was sought of publications from state govern- ac uire the publications with leis difficulty. LC ments, universities, research institutions, reli- representati,yes located in Peshawar, Quetta, and gions and cultural groups, end author-publishers. Lahoirewere. particularly successful in locating A musicologist aided the field office staff with multiple copiett of materials for LC and the par- recommendations for 308 sound recording's ac- ticipants and in locating missing issues of serial quired for LC and the program participants. publications. Office staff made effective use Transportation of materials from the New Delhi of seven acquisitions trips to loop, region- office was interrupted in March during the strike allyavailable 'publicatiOns. Two videocas- of Indian port and dock workers. Shipments settes (Women at Work, produced by Pakistan's were delayed in Bombay for over two months. '82 63 4 Report of The Librarian of Congress. 1984

In anticipation of the change to dollar funding director. The field- director and his family from special foreign currencies, the New Delhi returned to NairobLin time to greet the LC dele- office prepared detailed studies of costs of mate- gation attending the annual meeting of the Inter- rials acquired in recent years, by language and national Federation; of Library Associations and subject category. The cost comparisons were Institutions (IFLA) in August. The acquisition made available to program participants to help of regional publications was aided by two of the them consider which categories of publications acting field directors who were able to travel to to acquire if adjustments must be made in the twelve of the seventeen countries in the Nairobi level of cove /age. region. Overall acquisitions remained at about The Jakarta field office marked its twentieth the same level as in the previous year, but mono- anniversary in December 1983, having acquired graphic acquisitions rose 90 percent. A new con- over 3.2 million publications from Indonesia, tract representative was hired to cover Tanzania Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei during those and, by year's end, Zimbabwe was added to two decades. The total number of pieces it- Nairobi's area of coverage. spiire d by the Jakarta office decreased from The Rio de Janeiro office concentrated on sim- 99,567 in fiscal 1983 to 98,141 in,1984. The of- plifying routines, eliminating unnecessary tasks, fice forwarded 1,458 pieces to New Delhi for reorganizing files, and identifying measures to microfiching. The University of Michigan re- improve the effectivenessoftheoffice's joined the Southeast Asia program, effective in resources. Successful completion of these fiscal 1985. activities enabled the office to expand its ser- The Cairo office expanded its coverage of vices. At the Library's request, the LC represen- materials for the Middle East Cooperative Acqui- tative made exploratory trips to Paraguay, sitions Program (MECAP) through the addition Uruguay, and Bolivia. The office also assumed of exchange partners and through new agree- blanket order responsibility for.acquiring Brazil- ments for acquiring noncommercial publications ian musical recordings and became involved in from agents in Jiddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. the task of reviewing and recommending Brazil- A representative has been hired to acquire ian television programs for possible acquisition Moroccan academic and government publica- by LC. tions. The Cairo office expanded its cataloging In response to the needs and concerns of dif- operations to cover the publications selected by ferent Library divisions, the office began a the Library's blanket order dealer in Iraq. The review and evaluation of its serial acquisitions, blanket order dealers in Lebanon and Morocco identified new sources of posters of artistic also ship their publications to Cairo for process- value, investigated the availability of current ing before they are fOrwarded to LC. The :lumber newspapers in microfilm, studied the possibility of titles acquired by the Cairo officerose 30 per- of expanding LC's exchanges with the Biblioteca cent, while the number of pieces declined 19 Nacional, and made plans for issuing a pub- percent because of greater selectivity in cate- lishers' directoryin 1985 which will supply in- gories of materials chosen for the participants formation on 1,500 noncommercial sources of and subscriptions to fewer serial titles. publications. The Nairobi office operated for most of the fis- The Brazilian publishing industry is healthy cal year without a full-time field director. James in spite of the depressed and inflationary econ- Armstrong served in the Washington office as omy. The Rio office acquired 15 percent more assistant chief until July. In his absence, four LC pieces this year- 37,773 as compared to 32,775 staff members (Julian Witherell, Beverly Gray. in fiscal 1983. Two-thirds of these came from ex- Rodney Sarle, and Alice Kniskern) served as act- change and gift sources and one-third from com- ing field director for varying periods. Eunice mercial sources. The office effectiveness routines Gupta, the field director in Karachi, spent con- enabled the cataloging staff to stay current with siderable time in Nairobi as principal acting field the increased level of acquisitions. 64 83 Processing Services

The Tokyo Shared Cataloging Center acquired Publishers' workshops were given-in Chicago 2 percent more titles and 3 percent more pieces for midwestem publishers and at the annual than in the previous year. This parallels the conference of the Association of American Uni- growth rate of 2.6 percent for the publication of versity Presses. Special visits to two multina- new and reprint titles in Japan. The average tional publishers in the Netherlands (Kluwer and price for new Japanese titles dropped 4.2 per- Elsevier) also provided the CIP Division with the cent this year. opportunity to increase publisher awareness of the procedures of the U.S. CIP program and the uses to which the library community puts CIF' Cataloging in Publication bibliographic data. The general result of the workshops has been more accurate CIP catalog- The number of new Cataloging in Publication ing through increased cooperation between pub- (CIP) entries prepared for participating pub- lishers and the Library of Congress. lishers was 34.579 in fiscal 1984, an 11 percent increase from the 31,933 entries created in 1983. It is estimated that CIP entries are now prepared for 70 percent of the eligible titles published. CATALOGING Through a major effort by the cataloging divi- sions that work with the CIP Division, only 7.1 Descriptive Cataloging percent of the CIP titles took longer than 10 working days to process. The average title com- The Cataloging Directorate developed six ad- pleted the processing cycle in 6.5 working days. ministrative goals in February 1984 which pro- Publishers reported,prepublication changes at vided a framework for staff activities for there- nearly the same rate as last year. The most fre-, mainder of the year. The goals were to enhance quently reported changes are for date of publica- use of the Library's automated system, to review tion, International Standard Bibliographic cooperative cataloging endeavors, to increase Number, ansc title. Productivity/production, to increase foreign- The CIP Division's claiming activities showed language cataloging, to improve staff morale, a high success rateby the end of fiscal 1984, and to reduce throughput time. The pursuit of 97 percent of the CIP titles scheduled for these goals led to a 12 percent increase in the publication in 1983 had been received. For over number of fully cataloged titles whichcom- 50 percent of the CIP titles, claim notices had pleted the entire cataloging process (159,498 to be sent to publishers reminding them to sup- titles in fisebl 1983 compared to 179,168 in ply the printed book. In fiscal 1984, 31,702 1984). published CIP books were received in the CIP The number of fully cataloged titles which Divisions completed the desciiptive cataloging stagerose In March the CIP Division and the Descriptive 26 percent (from 169,406 titles in fiscal 1983 to Cataloging Division began a pilot project with 214,225). The number of new name authority the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to test records rose 97 percent (from 102,253 in fiscal the feasibility of transferring responsibility for 1983 to 201,768 in 1984). And the number of preparing descriptive cataloging for biomedical titles given minimal level cataloging rose 32 per- titles in the CIP program to NLM. Based on the cent (from 22,435 titles to 29,604). The catalog- success of the project, it was agreed that NLM ing staff benefited from greater experience and will process all biomedical titles received by the expertise in the use of the online data base and CIP program (approximately 3,000 titles from fewer changes in cataloging rules and annually). The transfer eliminates costly dup- procedures. licative descriptive cataloging in the two li- A major event of the year occurred in March braries. with the implementation of the Music Online

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System. Catalogers in the Music and Audio- Printing Office in September, with copy for the visual sections of the Special Materials Catalog- index volume to follow in mid-October. Mean- ing Division received intensive training in the while the first installment of 435 entries for the new procedures for online creation and input of 1984 volume were cataloged during the first half records for both printed and manuscript music of the fiscal year. and sound recordings. Actual operation began Two tasks are under way that will improve on March 19 and the first distribution of Music access to over twenty years of descriptions of machine-readable cataloging tapes took place on manuscript collections. A British firm is com- April 25. By the end of the fiscal year over six piling a cumulated personal name index to thousand online records had been created. In NUCMC. All personal names from the published anticipation of the distribution of MARC Music volumes for 1959 through 1982 have been input, tapes, printing of music cards was interrupted and a merged printout will soon be available. in late 1983 and a backlog of unprinted music Once this printout has been compared against records developed. The first two thousand rec- the section's files for conflict resolution, a tool ords added by the Music Section to the Music to unlock one major category of access to the Online System were taken from the backlog of cumulated series of catalogs will be-at hand. unprinted records. A long-term goal is to input Beyond this, the task of interfiling the section's the remainder of these retrospective titles. five separate card files of subject and corporate The success of the Music Online System pro- name indexes to the NUCMC cumulations was vided the impetus for planning and develop- completed. All cards for the entire run of the ment of an\ online system for audiovisual catalog's indexes are now in two alphabetical records. The initial Visual Materials Online files, one for personal and family names and System application will also accommodate the the other for topics (subjects) and corporate input of bibliographic records by staff in the names. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded The Shared Cataloging Division increased its Sound Division for archivalfilms and the Prints foreign-language cataloging productivity by 25 and Photographs Division for graphic materials. percent this year. The Descriptive Cataloging Nearly sixty thousand audiovisual records Division staff improved production in Hebrew, already existing in a machine-readable file will Arabic, and Turkish and increased cataloging in also be converted to the Visual Materials Online the romance languages by 33 percent and in Chi- System. nese and Korean by 32 percent. -N. Ceremoies were held on May 17 to celebrate The accumulation over several decades of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Special Mate- nearly six thousand titles in over four hundred rials Cataloging Division's Manuscripts Section lesser-known languages and dialects (including and its primary creation, the National Union North and South American Indian, African, and Catalog 0-Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Creole languages, among others) was addressed The catalog's major users (librarians, historians, this year in a special project. The materials had archivists, genealogists, and scholars) gathered been housed without bibliographic control to honor the publication. Once the festivities because there were no staff available with were over, the staff returned to their customary appropriate language expertise. Means were NUCMC preparations. The 1982 volume of the developed for processing of these materials by catalog (twentieth in the series) and its' accom- a contractor working with the Descriptive and panying 1980-82 index were published in Subject Cataloging divisions. Materials in each March 1984. Editing of both the 1983* volume language are gathered together in a collection and the cumulated 1980-83 index began in record for bibliographic control and, once April. Copy for the catalog volume, containing cataloged, the materials are transferred to the descriptions of 1,853 collections held by eighty- appropriate custodial divisions for servicing. two repositories, was sent to the Government Collection records for books will be made avail- 08 80 Processing Services

able in the MARC Distribution Service in Other Descriptive Cataloging Division studied the spe- the Books or Minimal-Level distribution sei vice cial problems of cataloging legal materials and and are included in the National Union Catalog issued a report with recommendations on their (NUC). future handling. The director for cataloging con- As an extension of the JACKPHY/MARC pro- cluded from this mod that legal materials gram developed last year, the preliminary cata- should be concentrfifed in one of the English lan- loging records for Arabic and Persian materials guage sections in the Descriptive Cataloging produced in the Karachi and Cairo field offices Division in the future. A study of minimal-level began to be supplied on cataloging worksheets cataloging (MLC) led to several decisions to with full romanized and vernacular descrip- improve the quality and utility of these records. tions. This change has allowed more efficient Added entries for persons and corporate bodies and cost-effective production of the vernacular will be included for those MLC records which portion of these records. are entered under title, and additional fixed-field The Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy information will be included in the MLC/MARC took part in discussions on revisions to the records. These enhancements, designated "MLC Anglo- American Cataloguing Rules, 2d edition. Plus," have been adopted as LC's standard for Major topics involved addition of new provi- less-than-full cataloging. sions for the description of material for the visually handicapped, improvement of the rules for music (both description and uniform titles), andaddition of a stipulation for Indonesian per- sonal names that will avoid initials as entry Subject Cataloging and Classification elements. Simplification of rule interpretations and procedures led to nvisions of the interpreta- The Subject Cataloging Division also concen- tion for cross-references (to cease making some trated on increasing production in fiscal 1984. corporate name'references that now seem rela- Titles given LC classification and subject head- tively useless and to make the instructions for ings totaled 184,286 (including music), a 15 per- personal name references easier to apply) and a cent increase over the previous year's 160,594. new interpretation for handling signs, symbols, The number of shelflisted titles rose 4 percent and other normally unprintable characters that this year, from 164,623 in fiscal 1983 to 170,647 may appear in the transcription of data belong- (including music). Volumes shelflisted declined ing to bibliographic description. 13 percent, from 229,817 to 199,892. Annota- NeW romenization tables for Kashrairi and for tions and subject headings for the Annotated classical Mongolian, developed by the Library's Card Series were assigned to 3,750 titles (a 26 New Delhi office, were approved by the ALAI percent increase over 2,985 in the previous RTSD Committee on Cataloging: Asian and Afri- year). New classification numbers totaled 4,245, can Materials were published in Cataloging with 486 numbers changed. Service Bulletin, no. 24 (Spring 1984). Subclass KM, KGKH, Law of the Americus, Several studies were conducted to evaluate Latin America, and the West Indies was com- potential cataloging improvements. The Shared pleted and forwarded for publication in July. A Cataloging Division worked with the Network new cumulated edition of Class L, Education Development and MARC Standards Office to was forwarded for publication in August. The evaluate the utility of cataloging data produced index for a new cumulated edition of Subclass by national bibliographic agencies in other coun- BL BCC is nearly complete. The quarterly lists LC tries. Machine-readable cataloging data from Classification: Additions and Changes pub- Great Britain, Australise Canada, France, and lished this year included a revision of Serbo- Japan are being analyzed for compatibility in for- Croatian literature, a new development for mats and cataloging practices. Staff in the renewable energy sources, and a revision of the Se 67 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

maps of Canada area in class G. The Office of Machine-Readable Cataloging the Principal Subject Catalogerproduced a pre- liminary edition of the Subject Cataloging The MARC Editorial Division was responsible Manual, published in June. The updatable loose- for the conversion of 146,784 monograph rec- leaf publication, partially funded by the National ords and 197,705 authority records. The autho- Commission on Libraries and Information Sci- rities data base increased to 1,129,165 authority ence, consists of internal memoranda relating to records and 62,900 series authority records, the LC subject heading (LCSH) policies and prac- books data base rose to 1,954,891 records, and tices (e.g., authority work, construction of head- the films data base increased to 68,855 records. ings, cross references, and assignment of LC The division monitored work by a contractor subject headings to individual works). to replace older forms of name headings, in A committee to study "see also references was MARC book records with AACR 2 equivalents. created as an outcome of deliberations in the This project, called Bibliographic Flip (BibFlip), previous fiscal year on the future of LCSH. The resulted in changes to 107,092 book records and committee members (representatives from the the identification of 22,034 map and 7,263 serial Subject Cataloging Division and the African and Middle Eastern Division, Prints and Photographs records as candidates for later changes. It-is Division. Library Services Division, and Auto- estimated that the BibFlip project will conclude mated Systems Office) met eighteen times dur- in late 1985 or early 1986 with nearly 230,000 ing the year and developed a draft memorandum book records having been changed. A contract which was circulated to technical services direc- was also awarded for a SeriesFlip project that tors of large research libraries, to the Commit- will update those series in MARC records iden- tee on Bibliographic. Control of the Association tified as needing replacement with AACR 2 for Research Libraries, and to participants at a forms, leading to changes in an estimated 80,000 meeting on the future of the LCSH held at the book records. An additional contract was Library in January. Based on comments from awarded to make subject heading changes in these and other sources, final policy decisions 50,000 MARC book records; by the end of the were issued in August which are being incor- fiscal year 23,709 of these records had been up- porated into new principles to be applied begin- dated. The MARC Editorial Division worked ning in December 1984. With the Law Library to determine requirements The Decimal Classification Division com- for a contract which covers updating of 6,000 pleted work on schedul9 004-006, Computer MARC book records to include shelf locations Science and Data Processing. At its fall 1984 in the Law Library. meeting, the Decimal Classification Editorial MARC Editorial staff weathered several Policy Committee recommended that this sched- changes to the Library's internal system which ule be published as soon as possible. The divi- required adaptations to new proceduresand doc- sion also revised the area table for Japan and umentation. Online record migration, imple- South Africa. mented in December 1983, allows moving of The number of titles assigned Dewey Decimal Classificatiowerumbers reached an all-time high MARC records from one active file to another of 123,439 titles this year (a 5 percent increase and eliminates the need for MARC Editorial staff over the previous year's 117,535); the hourly pro- to rekey data. A major modification to the Name ductivity rate also rose by 7 percent. The divi- Authorities System, introduced in March, imple- sion classifies all works In Chinese, English, mented the revised authorities format and distri- French, and Spanish and as many titles as possi- bution of full record updates. A revised edition ble in other European languages. Workshops on of the Name Authority Conversion Manual was the Dewey Decimal Classification were given in published and made available through the Cata- June in Houston, Austin, and Arlington, Texas. loging Distribution Service.

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Cooperative Cataloging In February Harvard University Library up- graded online the first in-process cataloging rec- A pilot project was begun in October 1983 to test ords to fully cataloged records. Upgrading from alternative workflow patterns for materials cata- brief to full cataloging for low-priority books in loged in the CJK Project. Nine desciiptive cata- Les arrearage began with readers' requests at Har- logers, three preliminary catalogers, three vard and ended with the creation of new biblice subject catalogers, and one decimal classifier 'graphic records for inclusion in the MARC Dis- took part, creating records in the Research Li- tribution Service. This joint activity provides braries Information Network (RLIN) for Chinese, substantial savings in processing costs and time Japanese, and Korean monographic publica- for both institutions. tions. The She Misting Section in the Subject The Library of Congress is now also making use Cataloging Division integrated the pilot project of original Harvard cataloging records. If a Har- materials into the regular workflow, so that all vard record is found to match a new acquisition, staff could participate in the project. In all, 4,151 the book bypasses normal descriptive and sub- records were input on twenty terminals specially ject cataloging routines. designed for the CJK Project by the Research The Entry Vocabulary Project, monitored by Libraries Group (RLG). The remaining CJK staff the coordinator of cooperative subject cataloging will receive training and LC's cataloging of all projects, received contributions from Duke Uni- CJK monographic publications will be input to versity. Evaluation of "see" reference proposals RLIN. The LC CJK MARC records input in RLIN led to approval of 116 "see" references, 11 "see will be returned to LC on tape. The romanized also" references, and. 56 subject headings. portions of the records will be loaded for use on Under the OCLC Music Online Users Group's LC's internal system and for inclusion in the Na- REMUS (Retrospective Music) project, twelve tional Union Catalog. A separate MARC-Distri- member libraries will submit name headings to bution Service will make available the LC CJK the REMUS project director, who then submits records with both vernacular and romanized the headings through NACO. Training was pro- data. Printed cards will continue to be printed vided in June to the REMUS project director, and in the mixed vernaculartead romanized format. REMUS authority records began to be submitted The thirty-one Name Authority Co-op (NACO) in the summer. participants produced 34,533 authority records 'I he Shared Cataloging Division provided (a 41 percent increase) and 12,176 bibliographic minimal-level-cataloging records to the National records (a 250 percent increase). In addition, Library of Medicine on a contract which covered NACO implemented the previously described CIP French and Scandinavian languages. Minimal- bibliographic project with the National Library---level-cataloging specifications were defined by of Medicine and four new name authority proj- NLM for the 1,325 records cataloged. ects with the University of Illinois at Urbana- At the semiannual meeting of the LC-spon- Champaign, the National Library of Agriculture, sored Cooperative Name Authority Discussion South Carolina State Library, and a group of Group held during the ALA Midwinter Meeting, libraries participating in the REMUS (Retrospec- cost was considered a factor in limiting contribu- tive Music) project coordinated by the University tions to the national data base. After the discus- of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Seven additional librar- sion, each NACO participating library was ies, having undergone quality review according invited to designate a representative to serve on to NACO guidelines and sustaining a very low an ad hoc basis to investigate potential savings. error rate, became independent NACO partici- The Library surveyed the NACO pexti6ipants, and pants, bringing the total number to twenty-four. the replies of the twenty-six respondents were Recently, a study of the authority file indicated compiled into a single document for discussion. that LC catalogers have used 28 percent of the Fourteen libraries sent representatives to LC for records contributed by NACO participants. the NACO cost meeting in April. This group con- 88 69 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

sidered suggestions that addressed technical definition for an automated serials management matters and procedural moolfications. Some system whose components include acquisitions, simplified procedures were adopted immedi- check-in, claiming, routing, reference, binding, ately-and others will be implemented in the near preservation, and collection control. The divi- future. sion prepared a comprehensive budget proposal for fiscal 1986 that focused on securing the re- sources needed to implement the task definition. Microform Cataloging To give LC a head start on converting data to machine-readable form for the future serials In March the division chief of the Shared Cata- management system, Serial Record and APLO loging Division was appointed coordinator for defined a subsystem (SERLOC) that will allow LC's microform cataloging. Processing Services conversion of basic Serial Record data. Thirteen has decentralized the creation and input of data elements were identified for inclusion in minimal-level-cataloging recordsformicro- the SERLOC file, which is being developed in forms, which are prepared in the Microform ASO and is expected to be available.for input Reading Room and the Preservation Microfilm- early in 1985. ing Office. However, the department retains The cataloging staff in the Serial Record Divi- responsibility for providing cataloging expertise, sion increased the number of serial titles catalog- coordinating appropriate training, setting stan- ed by 17 percent (from 8,753 titles to 10,200). dards of quality control, and disseminating This increase was particularly noteworthy in a changes in cataloging policies and procedures. year that also saw changes in procedure atten- Under development is a procedure for the full dant to the implementation of online serials cata- cataloging of microforms, an exception to the loging, in which catalogers provide content normal MLC treatment given these materials. designation and key their own data into OCLC, O rather than having these tasks performed by paraprofessionals. Implementation of the new BIBLIOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES cataloging procedures was begun under a phased approach with senior catalogers in the Serials English Language Serials Cataloging Section fol- lowhd by those in the Foreign Language Serials Automation of serials processing continued to Catbloging Section. Extensive documentation occupy the Serial Record Division in fiscal 1984, preceded intensive training in the provision of An interdepartmental committee reviewed the"content designation for the serial cataloging division's evaluation of experiments in the records. previous fiscal year with the Faxon Company's The Serial Record Division also provided tech- LINX and the UCLA Technical Processing nical support to the United States Newspaper systems. Project (USNP). The first printing of the News- Based on knowledge gained from a number of paper Cataloging Manual: A CONSER/USNP authorities, it was determined that development Edition, published in the spring and distributed of en automated serials management system by CDS; was immediately sold out. should proceed following internally produced The USNP Technical Procedures Committee, requirements and specifications. Processing Ser- chaired by LE staff, was formed in November vices and the Automated Systems Office created and held two meetings this fiscal year. Com- a Serials Automation at the Library of Congress posed of representatives from active USNP par- Committee (SALC), which invited a number of ticipating institutions, the committee serves as divisions to outline their particular concerns a problem - solving, information-gathering, and regarding serials management. Using these dis- advisory group for bibliographic and other cussions as background, SALC drafted a task technical matters. Th Library formalized its

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cooperative relationbhip in USNP with the Na- to 377,102. Staff contributed 6,815 new records tional Endowment for the Humanities by means and 92,541 added locations to the CONSER data of an interagency agreement. Funding for biblio- base for publication in New Serial Titles. Pro- graphic grants in six states and one repository duction delays for 1984 issues of New Serial. was granted by NEH. Training for staff from five Titles occurred in conjunction with software \\, of the new projects was given at LC in September. modifications for the publication's printing \ Authentication by CONSER participants was programs. initiated this year to supplement the authentica- The- Cataloging Distribution Service sent a tion of CONSER records that are within the New Serial Titles Needs Assessment Survey to purview of the Library of Congress. (CONSER all 1982 and 1983 NST subscribers. The participants will not authenticate Canadian rec- responses were compiled and evaluated by a ords, which are the responsibility of the National product planning committee composed of repre- Library of Canada). Participant authentication sentatives from APLO, CDS, and the Serial Rec- will allow LC to reduce existing backlogs of ord Division. The committee recommended unauthenticated records, to authenticate on a changes in future cumulation patt&ns and for- more timely, basis those serials held by the mats for implementation inseal 1986. Library, and to resolve reported problems in The ninth meeting of directs of International CONSER records more quickly. One of the Serials Data System (ISDS) ce tars was held at advantages of participant authentication is that the Library of Congress in October 1984. Discus- it accelerates the distribution of CONSER records sions centered on means to promote the services to MARC serials tape subscribers, since partici- of ISDS and a final review of the ISDS Manual. pants can add to CONSER records those ele- The National Serials Data Program instituted ments necessary for the record's selection and a Foreign Pending File Project to implement an distribution. The National Library of Medicine ISDS policy for foreign serial titles. When re- and the University of California at Los Angeles quests for International Standard Serial Numbers inaugurated the new procedures on an experi- do not result in responses within two months, mental basis. By the end of the fiscal year, the the requests are searched in the ISDS self-authenticating institutions included Har- Register/Bulletin or resubmitted to the Interna- vard University, UCLA, Indiana University, Uni- tional Center if not found. Of the researched versity of Florida, and University of Pittsburgh. titles 2,315,(about half o the outstanding re- The Processing and Reference Section, concen- quests) were found ina Register/Bulletin. trated on improvements and refinements in pro- cedures to streamline operations. As a result of efforts to avoid excessive handling of materials, the section accessioned 1,452,951 pieces during Automation, Planning and Liaison. fiscal 1984 with less reliance on overtime then in the past. Procedures were developed to reduce Staff in the Automation Planning and Liaison arraarages of volumes and pieces for which cata- Office (APLO) 'were integrally involved in the loging has not yet been completed. Instead of completion of several automation projects de- holding the later receipts in a growing arrearage, scribed elsewhere in this chapter. The Recbrd the pieces are given a higher priority and cause Migration modifications to the Automated Pro- the previously received piece to be cataloged cess Information File were implemented in immediately. A special effort was made to im- December 1983, the Collection Records capa- prove the quality of telephone reference service. bility was completed in mid-1984, the Music The Now Serial Titles (NST) Section received Online System was implemented in January, the 16(3,937 reports in fiscal 1984 (a 1 percent (e- modification to the Name Authorities System crease from the previous year). The numher was introduced in March, and the Overseas Data reports on hand grew 19 percent, from 317,689' Entry System was fully operational by Fall.

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In addition, work by APLO staff continued on fiche, were printed. Four quarterly issues of projects which are still under way in coopera- NUC: Audiovisual Materials were published, tion with ASO and various user divisions. An consisting of 41 register fiche and 116 index online application for input and update to the fiche and containing 64,726 records of motion Library's PREMARC file (retrospective LC bib- pictures, videorecordings, filmstrips, transpar- liographic records derived from an earlier micro- ency sets, and slide sets cataloged by LC. Five filming of LC'sshelflist) is being developed. An quarterly issues of the NUC: Cartographic Mate- online visual materials application which will rials, containing 12,242 records on 6 register replace the current batch processing system is fiche and 375 index fiche, were sent to sub- also under development. An application for Sub- scribers. The four issues of the RAL contained ject 'Authorities Online (including product 2,535,333 new location's on 496 fiche. The RAL development and distribution requirements) is data base now contains 33,681,758ocations for in the planning stages. The second phase of the 4,239,084 entries. Five issues of the Name National Union Catalog system is being defined Authorities Cumulative Microform Edition were and designed so that reporting libraries can send sent to subscribers in a total of 2,204 fiche. records in machine-readable form for loading The final bookform editions were produced into the NUC files. Improvements and refine- and issued for the National Register of Micro- ments to retrieval commands and displays for form Masters and Newspapers in Microform. A several online applications occupied APLO staff cumulated edition of entries for foreign and U.S. this year. Newspapers in Microform (1948-83) was prepared for printing in three volumes contain- ing 65,343 entries. Catalog Publications A new publication, NUC: Newspapers, was planned by a committee of representatives from Staff in the Catalog Management and Publica- APLO, CDS, CMP, and the Serial Record Divi- tion Divisiop (CMP) input 20,919 bibliographic sion. The publication is expected to be issued records to the online National Union Catalog in 1985 and will contain bibliographic records (NUC) file; at the end of the fiscal year the NUC for newspapers derived from the CONSER data file contained 25,644 records, base, including those contributed as part of the Total NUC receipts of pre-1956 imprints from U.S. Newspaper Project. As currently planned, all sources numbered476,631 reports. Approxi- the publication will be arranged in three sections mately 40 percent of the outside reports were (U.S., Canada, and International), by country of duplicates of LC entries and were forwarded for publication. inclusion in the Register of Additional Locations (RAL). Reports of post-1955 imprints numbered 3,489,869; nearly 80 percent of these duplicated LC records and were eligible for inclusion in the Catalog Management RAL. Twelve cumulative monthly issues of NUC: A major microfilming project was initiated this Books, containing 293,782 bibliographic records year when the Library of Congress signed a con- in 143 register microfiche and 1,220 index fiche, tract with K.G. Saur, Inc., to have the Library's appeared in a computer - output - microform (COM) Main Card Catalog reproduced in microform. format during fiscal 1984. The bibliographic The oldest of LC's card catalogs is located in the records are listed in random'order in the register Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson portion, with access provided in title, name, Building and contains 25 million cards which subject, and series indexes. Eleven cumulative represent cataloging performed by the Library monthly issues of NUC: U.S. Books, containing for 7.5 million titles added to the general col- " 79,837 records in 46 register fiche and 370 index lections from 1898 to 1980.

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Through the use of high-speed computer- A distributionser,vice for records created by driven photography, it will be possible to com- the Boston Public Library was made available plete the project in four years. Filming began in this year. The Boston Public Library and World- March with the end of the alphabet, since the wide Books collaborated on a project to provide expansion room available in that portion of the greater bibliographic control of art exhibition card catalog will facilitate physical preparation catalogs. The bibliographic records are created of the cards for filming. The Catalog Manage- as minimal-level cataloging, except for titles ment and Publication Division staff prepares the selected by Boston Public Library as meriting cards for filming by correcting major filing ..drors fuller cataloging because of their higher research and anomalies. value. CDS makes these records available to sub- scribers as a separate MARC distribution tape mace. Cataloging Distribution The Customer Services Section in CDS pro- vided representatives to exhibit the products and The Cataloging Distribution SerVice (CDS) coop- services of CDS and the Library at the New erated with other divisions in Processing Ser- England Library Association fall conferences in vices to create new products and services and 1983 and 1984, at the American Library Associa- to improve or modify others. Programs were tion conferences in Washington, D.C., in January developed to establish a distribution data base and Dallas in June, and at the Pacific Northwest for name and series authority records in the new Library Association in Billings, Montana, in Name Authorities format. A reformatted master August. The MARC Distribution Service will file of one million retrospective records wao con- change from the traditional April-to-March sub- verted and sent to subscribers in April. scription year to a calendar-year basis by 1986, Products for sound recording and music rec- with April-to-December 1985 as a transitional ords changed with the implementation of the subscription period. Music Online System. The first distribution of Early in the year the Cataloging Distribution music records on machine-readable tape was Service also began an examination of the poten- sent to subscribers in April. By August 'modifica- tial of the videodisk for storing MARC biblio- tions had been completed to allow photocompo- graphic records. This internal examination is sition of catalog cards from the MARC Music analyzing the potential of the videodisk medium records, which were included in the CDS Alert for application to LC's internal requirements as Service (a weekly notification service that pro- well as for the distribution of machine-readable vides current LC cataloging in subscriber- bibliographic records. selected subject fields) and in the standing card order service. Using the new process, nearly two thousand music cards were printed from a NETWORKING cataloged-but-not-yet-printed backlog. To support retrospective conversion projects, In June the Network Development Office was the MARC Distribution Service added a new reorganized and combined with the MARC S MARC Abbreviated Searching Records Service dards Unit of the Automation PlaAning and Li this year. The service provides records from the son Office. The reorganization brings tbgethe MARC Books files in an abbreviated form to be the coordination of LC projects in standards used as an intermediary search tool for libraries' development, MARC formats, and cooperation conversion efforts. Once the needed records are with libraries in automation and networking identified, the subscriber orders full MARC rec- activities. ords for the appropriate titles. To date, CDS has Staff in the Network Development and MARC completed conversion projects for three libraries, Standards Office (ND/MS0) serve an the secre- and four more are in progress. tariat for the Network Advisory Committee

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4,a (NAC). A program meeting of NAC held in Wash- Sound DiVision to sponsor a meeting in February ington, D.C., in October 1983 dealt with telecom- of film and video catalogers and computer ad- munications and-explored major changes under visers representing thirty film archives, film way in the telecommunications industry, the rela- studios, and television networks. The attendees tionship between governments and the industry, met to further plans for a national data base of specific problems effecting library networking, archival moving-image material. Henriette and the possibility of a consensus of appropriate Avram jointly chaired the meeting with the action by NAC member organizations and the director of the National Center for Film and advisory committee itself. At followup meetings Video Preservation at the American Film In- held in Washington in January and February, stitute (AFI). General requirements for the NAC members met withrepresentatives of national data base system were agreed to at the, American Telephone and Telegraph to discuss meeting and were used by the AFI National Cen- the impact of the then pending divestiture of ter as a basis for further planning. AT&T and the resulting rate increases for A series of discussions were held this year libraries and bibliographic utilities. with the British Library coireerning a .revised In April NAC met in Washington, D.C., to dis- agreement for exchange of MARC tapes. After cuss electronic information delivery systems and considering such difficult issues as international. their effect on the publishing, abstracting, and copyright of MARC records and trade principles indexing environments. Nontraditional informa- in the European Economic Community, by the l: 'lion sources, new equipment and applications, end of the fiscal year'LC was close to an agree- and the library/patron interface were discussed ment with the British Library which would in terms of electronic document delivery sys- allow distribution of UK MARC records in the tems. A collection of papers presented by invited United States by early 1985 and continuing speakers at the April NAC meeting was made redistribution of LC MARC records by the British available from the Cataloging Distribution Ser- Library under revised terms. vice (Electronic Information Delivery System, Content designation for machine-readable data Network Planning PCII) Dr no. 9). files (MRDF) was added to the MARC Formats Processing Services' staff (particularly in ND/ for Bibliographic Data as part of its Update num- MSO, APLO, CDS, and the MARC Editorial Divi- ber which was made available though the sion) worked closely with the Automated Sys- Catalqing Distribution Service in September. tems Office on the Linked Systems ,Project, a This Update also provided new content designa- cooperative effort of the Washington Library Net- tion for certain call number and subject added work (WLN), the Research Libraries Group (RLG), entry fields formerly used only by LC, NLM, and and the Library of Congress, to implement other ''authoritative" agencies so that these fields computer-to-computer links. Major progress was can now be used generally by other institutions. made this year as LC completed its Standard Net- The new USMARC Format for Holdings and work Intercommunication software (SNI) and its Locations was given final review by the inter- Record Transfer software. The SNI will enable th,e divisional Committee on Machine Representa- different computer systems of the participating tion of Bibliographic Information (MARBI) of institutions to communicate; the Record Transfer ALA and the Library of Congress. The format software supports LSP's first application using supports the requirements of the National SNI the online distribution of name authority Information Standards Organization (NISO) records from LC and the online contribution of standards for serial and nonserial holdings state..., authority records to Les authority file. By the end monts, as they have been established so far. The of 1984, online authority record distribution to format will be available froth the Cataloging RLG is expected to begin. Distribution Service. Annual updates to the Na- Staff in ND/MSO collaborated with staff In the tional Level Bibliographic Record (NLBR) stan- Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded dards for films and for music were completed 'Processing Services

in ND/MSO and issued by CDS; the NLBR docu- paper at the International Conference on Re- ments set out standards prescribing data ele- search Library Cooperation in Stanford, Cali- ments to be included in records created for a fornia, and attended a meeting on the Linked nationwide data base. Systems Project with the Council on Library Re- sources and a meeting of the Committee on Bib- liographic Control. Lucia J. Rather, the director for cataloging, ST IT ACTIVITIES also delivered a speech at the October Associa- tion of Research Libraries annual meeting in Communication with the library and information Chapel Hill. She attended meetings of the community is an integral function of Processing Research Libraries Group's Standing Committee Services' staff. Attendance at seminars and work- on Library Technical Systems and Bibliographic shops provides an opportunity for continuous Control (BIBTECH) as LC's liaison in January and dissemination of information about the June and chaired the first meeting of the Library adcomplishments, goals, and objectives of the of Congress Advisory Committee on the Law department. Classification. In September she attended a Henriette D. Avram actively pursued these meeting with the Council on Library Resources goals in fiscal 1984. She attendedand delivered on the establishment of a retrospective conver- a speech at the AsSociation of Research Libraries sion project for music. annual meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mary S. Price, director for bibliographic pro- in October. She also attended meetings of the ducts and services, attended a meeting on the Programme Management Committee and the Ex- International Union List of Vietnamese Publica- ecutive Board of the International Federation of tions held at Harvard University in*November. Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in She attended meetings of the International The Hague. She attended meetings of the Amer-, .Serials Data System's General Assembly and ican Standards Committee/Information Systems Governing Board (to which she was appointed and Standards Board in New York City and of vice president) in Paris and the IFLA Working the Network Advisory Committee in Washing- Group on Newspapers in London in March. ton, D.C. She met with the International MARC The LC delegation to the IFLA annual confer- Network Committee in London in April and also ence held in Nairoloi, Kenya, in August included attended meetings of IFLA's Professional and Ex- Mrs,. Avrarn, MrSARather, and Mrs. Price. ecutive Boards in The Hague. She attended the Siff in the Network Development and MARC April meeting of the Network Advisory Commit- Standard's Office participated in the1vork of the tee. In May and Jane Mrs. Avram traveled to National-Information Standards Organization China with a five-member LC delegation heeded '(NISO) ZS9 Subcommittee 1) (ColDputer-to- by the Deputy Librarian, lecturing at workshops Compufer Protocols), NISO Z39 Subcommittee and seminars for Chinese librarians. In February IN (Nonserial,Holdings Statements l, the Cana- and June she attended sessions with the Biblio- dian Talc Group on Computer Protocols, NISO graphic Service Development Program of the, Z39 Subconimittee N (Character Sets for Biblio- Council on Library Resources in San Francisce graphic Use), and the International Organiiation and Washington, D.C. In July Mrs. Award and for Standardization, Technical Committee 46, several other Processing Services staff traveled Subcommittee 4, Working Group 1 (Character to Minnesota for discussions on the report (spon- Stfor Bibliographic Use). soredby the Council on Library-Resources) on Two final subject headings institutes(were a national plan for retrospective conversion of held this fiscal ybar, one in Seattle in April and bibliographic records. A separate meeting after- one in Chicago in September. -No more are wards concerned retrospective bonversion proj- schedtiled. Eighteen staff members (seventeen ects for music. In September she delivered ti from the .Subject Cataloging Division and one c:\ 94 75 Report of The I,ibrarian of Congress, 1984

"e from the Special Materials Catalogipg Division) meetings in ,Washington, D.C., and Dallas, were involvaln. those institutes, which were Texas Other ALA activities by Processing Ser- sponsored by ALA's Resources end, Technical vices staff ranged this year from membership in . Services Division. ALA's Council to participation in a wide variety Many of the department's staff attended and of committees and discussion groups within thec participated in the American Library Association Resources and Technical Services Division.

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The year,wes one of celebrations and anniver- Three reorganization proposals were approved, saries: President Harry Truman's centennial, as in the Music Division, the Prints and Photo/ well as that of Niko Kazantzalds; the fiftieth graphs Division (P&P), and the Collections Man- anniversary ofthe Academy of American Poets agement Division (CMD), thelast of these being and the Historic American Buildings Survey; the ready for implementation at year's end. The chief year when everyone wondered whet George purpose of the CMD reorganization is to provide Orwell would have thought of the real 1984. In for careful monitoring of the automated systems all these celebrations and more, Research Ser- fiy means of which requests are relayed and vices had a central role to play because its col- books are transported for reader and staff use. lections are worldwide and all-embracing. There In the futuie such Monitoring will be the respon-, is virtually no observance for which the collec- :Ability of a Collections Control Center, staffed tions are wholly irrelevant. That is-one glory of throughout the Library's hours of opening. Some the Library of Congress. delays were expe;ienced.A negotiating the But glories have their own imperatives, chiefly impact of the P&P .eerganization, so that the in the field of preservation-dAnd 1984 was a entire package could be reviewed. y the ,new landmark year for advances in preservation or, chief of that division. more accurately, in setting the stage for advances Three high-level appointments were made in to come. Authorization was granted for a sepa- Research Services in fiscal 1984, bringing to the rate facility to deacidify paper products, chiefly Library new chiefs for the Hispanic Division, the books. By 1987 the Library hopes to be able to Motion. Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded show the world how best to care for deteriorating Sound Division, and the Prints and Photographs books. Division. The other essential element in the equation is The first to arrive, on December 12, 1983, was people, and in 1984 Research Services replen- Robert Saudek. A television pioneer himself, Mr., ished its pool of talented employees with some Saudek was responsible for some of the most dis, remarkable appointments, both at the level of tinguistked programs during the so-calledk division chief, describea'beloV, and at lower Golden Age of Television as creator and pro- levels of responsibility as well. The interaction ducer of *Omnibus" and other award-winnhig of people (readers, staff, scholars) and collec- series. Mri Saudek, who has ten Emmy awards, tions is the dynamic of Research Services. In and four Petbudy awards' to his credit, intro- these respects, 1984 was a very good year. duced to American television such household names as Leonakd Bernstein, Peter Ustinav, Sir Kenneth Clark, and Mike Nichols and Elaine May. In recent years he had served as the found- ADMINISTRATION ing president of the hlusqum of Broadcasting in New York. Mr. Saudek is the second chief of his From January through June 1984, the head of the division, which was created by the reorganiza- African Section and the chief of the African and tion of 1978. He succeeds Erik Barnouw, who Middle Eastern Division were in charge, suc- resigned in 1982. - cessively, of the Library's Nairobi field office Sara Castro-Klaron was appointed chief of the during the home leave of the director, James Hispanic Division, effective July 2. Dr. Castro- Armgtrong. Klaren comes to the Library from Dartmouth Col-

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lege, where she taught Latin American and com- ACQUISITIONS parative literature and also served as chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Two new pamphlets were published in the Li- She has served as a consultant to the Social Sci- brary of Congress Acqiisttions series, covering ence Research Council, the National Endowment Manuscript Division ecquisitions for 1982 and for the Humanities (NEH), and the U.S. Depart- Rare Book and Special Collections Division for ment of Educe on and has held grants and 1981-82. The reader is referred to these publica- fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, NEH, tions for extensive treatment of acquisitions in and the WOodrow Wilson Center. The fifth those divisions. person to hold the position, Dr. Castro-Klaren Receipts of material for the unholmd and succeeds the late William E. Carter, whosecon- microfiche'cOlections in the Serial and Govern- tributions to the Library were summarized in last ment Publications Division increased by 24 per- yeses report. cent, with the greatest increase occurring in Also arriving at the Library July 2, as chief of receipts of the U.S. Depository Microfiche Col- the Prints and Photographs Division, was' lection, up 58,827 pieces. This substantial in- ,crease results chiefly from the recent inclusion Stephen E. Ostrow, formerly dean of the School of Department of Energy publications, 1977 19 sir Fine. Arts at the University`of Southern Cali- date, in the depository set. Receipts of current' fornia and most recently executive director of the newspapers increased by 44,712 issues. Other Portland (Oregon) Art Association. A specialist increases in periodicals and government publi- in the Italian printmaker Agostino Carracci, Dr. ca ons were modest. Ostrow was formerly associated with the Rhode Island School of Design, where he was succes- sively chid curator and director of the art Some Notable Acquisitions museum, serving .concurrently as lecturer at Brown University. He succeeds Oliver 0. Jensen, !The Libraryacquired some outstanding rarities who resigned in December 1982.. in 1984 and added to existing strengths through- Paul N. Boswell, senior reference specialist in:out the collections. the Serial and Government Publications Divi-, Leading the-list of rare acquisitions are two sion, retired after forty-seven years of federal ser-i globes constructed by the seventeenth-century vice, the largest part of it in the Serial Division. master FatherAlincenzo Coronelli. They are the Mr. Boswell, a familiar face behind the division largest printed globes made by Coronelli,mea- reference desk for thirty-five of those years, was suring 110 cm in diamet4r and standing 13/4 almost as well known to Library employees for meters high on their original mahogany stands. his characteristic art work and drawings, which The globes; one celestial and one terrestrial,are graced many Libiary publications. George Hall, dated 1688-93. They are the only pair in North executive assistant in the Preservation Office, Americkand their acquisition makes the Geog- retired after 43 years of federal service, all but raphy aniviap Division's collection of Cor- onelli's output virtually complete. the first six months of Which were spent in the Another notable acquisition was the varied Library, of Congress. Shortly before his. retire- collection pertaining to Sergei Pavlovich ment, he was the recipient of a Superier Service Diaghilev, the Russian kapressario and choreog- Award-and a cas award for his long anctdedi- rapher who founded the Ballets Runes. The col- cated service to the Library. Leander Williams lection, which had been in the possession of retired as supervisory library technician in the Diaghilev's protégé Serge Lifer, contains his Music Division after thirty '.two years of federal working library of music scores, a notebook service. He received a Meritorious Service covering the last three years of his life (1926-29), Award for his work in the Music Division. and a number of letters from Otto Klemperer, 78 9 7 A

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Sergei Prokofiev, and others. There are also large The greatest growth in Prints and Photographs drawings, with. color, showing set designs for Division collections occurred' through transfers particular productions. The notebook, annotated from the National Park Service of-material from scores, and other materials in the collection will the Historic American Buildings Survey (NABS) permit intensive study of Diaghilev's artistic and the Historic American Engineering Record practices and theories. The acquisition of this (HAER). Altogether, nearly seventy thousand collection greatly enhances the Library's original items were added to the two collections. Some sources for the study of dance. early historic engineering drawings by Robert Atit special program September 29 honoring Fulton of his conceptions of the submarine and George and Ira Gershwin, Mrs. Ira Gershwin torpedo mines were also added to the P&P .announced the gift of the manuscript of George collections. Gershwin's two-piano arrangement of An Ameri- The Library is exceptionally strong in its hold- can in Paris, described in last year's report. The ings of caricature and satiric drawings, partly arrangement had its North American prernierathat because of its acquisition of the collection of evening in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium. Caroline and Erwin Swarm. This segment of P&P The single most valuable book acquired by,the holdings was erlhanced by the acquisition of a Rare Book and Special Collections Division in drawing 'dating from about 1750, Pier Leone 1984 was the 1501 edition of Virgil's works Ghezzi's Madame Langlois with Her Daughter, printed. by the great scholar-printer Aldus th&Chevalier de Bebelat, and Monsieur Chere- Manutius. Rare and greatly sought after, the venski. It is now the earliest caricature drawing Aldine Virgil is the first printing of a classic text owned by the Library. in a small format and the first book in which For several years the fastest growing segments italic type is used throughout. The series, of of the Library's special collections have been which this was the first volume published, was those in the custody of the Motion Picture, a revolutionary step in the history of printing, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Everyman's Library, the ModermLibrary, and the (M/B/RS). That growth continued in 1984, modern paperback book all trace their lineage brought about by the familiar forces of copyright. to Aldus's edition of Virgil in 1501. - deposits, donations of archival collections, and One of the glories of the Library's Rosenwald transfer to the Library of film collected by the Collection is its collection of twentieth-century American Film Institute (AFL). To these were livres d'artiste, a strength to which the Library added a sizable transfer from, the National will seek to add. Two important spIrcimens Archives'and Records Service of NBC News and acquired in 1984 are Guillaume Apollinaire's Le ABC News television broadcasts for the years Bestiaire, ou Cortege d'Orphee, containing Raoul 1977-82. The Library continues to receive taped Dufy's first published and most important illus- archival copies of news `broadcasts recorded by trations, and the last work illustrated by'Georges the Vanderbilt Television Nkt,ws Archive. The Braque, the Lettera amorosa of Rene Char. Library also received from AFL a copy of "Streets Since the 1930s, as a result of earlier gifts, the of New York," an experimental television broad- Library of Congress has been an essential stop cast made by NBC in 1939, one of the earliest. for Rudyard Kipling scholars. That role has been surviving television broadcasts. strengthened by the deposit by Mrs. H. Duns- About one thousand commercially produced combo Colt of her late husband's Kipling collec- compact discs were donated to the Library by the tion. Rich in correspondence and manuscripts, Compact Disc Group, an organization of equip- the Colt ColleZtion has given the Library the ment manufacturers and record companies. The second strongest holdings of Kipling letters, Library also received tape copies of broadcasts according to the editor of Kipling's corre- by New York radio station WOR-AM. spondence. Only the University of Sussex sur- To assess the Library's acquisition programs passes the Library's holdings. in M/B/RS, Mary V. Ahearn, formerly of the 79 98 Report of The Librarian of Congress; 1984

Museum of Broadcasting, was, engaged to con- Hebraic Section, were donated by. his widow. . duct a yearlong study. HeI report will provide Among noteworthy additions to Near Fot hold- a basis for reassessing the Library's practices in ings were four eighteenth-century titles printed this important area-of the collections. by Ibrahim Muteferrike, the first Muslim to use The Manuscript Division continued its un- a movable-type press in Turkey, and al-Durr al- equaled assemblage of original soqrces for study Muntakhab Min Maqalcit Yuhanna Fam al- of the.New Deal era. In last year's report, acquisi- , Dhahab (1707), one of the earliest printed books tion of the papers of .Thomas C. Corcoran and in the Arab world. Robert H. Jackson was announced. This year the Because receipts from the People's Republic prize acquisition in this area is the papers of Ben- of China come from a variety of exchange part- jamin Cohen, often associated with Corcoran in ners and blanket order dealers in both Beijing early New Deal initiatives. Important additions and Hong Kong, there has,been significant dup- were also made in 1984 to the papers of Robert lication of individual titles. Some 26,000 Chi- Jason and to those of James A. Farley. The nese monographs were received in 1984, but papers of Russell Davenport also merit mention only 15,300 selected and added to the perma- in this context. Davenport, editor of Fortune, nent collections. Some duplication was tolerable was a leading supporter of Wendell Wilikie, at the outset to ensure broad acquisition cover- FDR's Republican opponent for the presidency .age, but -several steps were taken 'this year to jn 1940. Among organizational records, the most refine the acquisition process and reduce such notable were those of the Nationel Council of duplication. Jewish Women', the first installment of which The Wen-yuan-ko copy of the eighteenth- was received in 1984. century Chinese manuscript Ssu ku ch'uan she (Compendium of the Four Categories) is being published in Taiwan in a projected fifteen Foreign Language Acquisitions hundred volumes. In 1984 the Libraiy received the first installments in this undertaking; about Officers of the African and Middle Eastern Divi- four hundred volumes. There was an increase sion conducted three acquisition surveys, one in in Korean-language additions to the collections Turkey and two in Africa. The African trips were but a disturbing decline in exchange receipts, ,1 undertaken by the chief and the head of the Afri- which come chiefly from the Central National can Section in connection with their temporary Library. . assignments to the Nairobi field office. The trip Additions to the Southern Asia collections in to Turkey in October ,1983 by the head of the 1984 totaled some five thousand bound vol- Near East Section resulted in appoiitment of a umes, 465 reels of microfilm, and more than' new blanket order dealer in Ankara and a bib- twenty thousand sheets of microfiche, a tenfold liographical representative, in Istanbul. These increase in fiche receipts. These proportions actions led to a markedincrease in receipts of.reflect policy decisions and practices affecting Turkish monographs and serials. It is customary the Library's overseas office in New Delhi, which for area specialists to prepare a detailed sum- has significantly increased its activities in micro- mary of such survey trips, for limited distribu- formatting, preliminary cataloging, and the pub- tion. The African bibliographer at Columbia lication of accessions lists. The division of University, who received Dr. Witherell's report, collection development and other responsibili- described it as "a mine of useful information and ties between the Southern Asia Section and the addresses, not only for the Library of Congress overseas offices is not entirely resolved. but for those of us around the country endeavor- The first acquisitIons survey trip to Italy by the ing to serve an African studies clientele." European Divisimi was undertaken in 1984 by Hebrew books and manuscripts from the col- the then-chief, Clara Lovett. The trip had lection of Lawrence Marwick, former head of the immediate results in establishing new avenues 80 9.9 4 a.

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T of exchange and strengthening procurement pro- have sought to bring the dreara to fulfillment. cedures. In addition, some, two hundred titles Recently, chiefly through the assistance of Fran- were received as gifts to the Library. Three area cisks Safran of State University College of specialists also visited libraries and dealers in New York (Fredonia), a negative film was pro- France and Italy while on private tFifis to Europe. duced,and a positive film,made available. The Among the results of these trips were acquisi- original recurds, 'Amsterdam, have been con- tion of µfilm of the Polish newspaper Czas sulted, but it is expected that the Elvailabilitz of (1850-1939) and an exchange offer of 350 the microfilm will enrich research into\Amencan . volumes from the Bibliotheque nationale in history. Paris. Another acquisition of interest is the rare Other microform collections added this year Czech periodical Hozpravy Aventine, published include Phanefiche, white- and yellow-page in Prague 1925 -32. telephone books in microfiche for more than A.gift to the Library of 300 workson Roma-. forty thousand- American communities, begin, nian historyand culture was made by the Roma- ning in 1976; Foreign Statistical Serials, nian ambassador. in behalf of the Nationalstatistical abstracts formore than a hundred Library of Romania. Other notable gifts-included nations; and National Development Plans. All the foreign-language periodical collection of the these microform sets are !heated in the Micro- Association of American Railroads and a private form Reading Room. gift of 500 volumes of Hungarian material. A significant acquisition new to the Library More than seventeen thousand titles were rec- and the collections of the Science and Tech- ommended for addition: to the collections by nology Division is a complete set of current and4 z. Hispanic Division specialists. An extensive ac- retrospective federal and military specifications quisitions survey trip was made to the Eastern and standards in microforin, comprising some Caribbean by the assistant chief. Twenty-five 184,000 pieces. This collection is updated new inters were recorded for the Archive of weekly by a commercial firm. Hispanic Literature on Tape. Positive microfilm of the Dublin, Ireland, Irish Although not precisely a "foreign-lpguage" Times for January 1907June 1982 were acquired acquisition, the nine-volume KodanshAncyclo- from the publisher. Before this acquisition,. the pedia of japan (Tokyo, 1983) merits mention for Library had virtually no holdings of the Irish its coverage of virtually every aspect of Japanese press for the first decades of the twentieth life and culture. With more than ten thousand century. entries, the encyclopedia has been described as "the greatest work of reference ever devoted to a single nation." MANAGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS

The Science and Technology Divisioh was able Microform Acquisitions to consolidate its collection of hardcopy tech- nicid reports on the fourth floor cf the John The Library concluded a fifty-seven-year seg- Adams Building, bringing to Capitol Hill collec- ment of its history in 1984 with the purchase of tions formerly stored at Landover Center Annex. 201 reels of positive microfilm of Holland Land These included Office of Scientific Research and Company records, do important source of in- Development (OSRD) reports (30,000 items), the formation about the early history of New York Synthetic Rubber Reports (8,000), and the Tech- and adjacent areas. Since the late Julian. Boyd nical Translations Collection (21,000). Some first suggested the desirability of securing a copy 46,500 reports deposited by the Atomic Energy of the records in 1927, a succession of Manu- Commission from 1948 to 1962 and held in the script Division chiefs and other Library officers Photoduplication Service were also transferred, 100 81 r

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Thegersteps have made possible interfiling and conclusion of the Russo-Japanese .War. Until discarding of duplicate reports. Steps were also 1945 it dominated the economic life °Man- 4 taken to accelerate conversion of OSRD .hard- churia. Its research departmeht,. at one time copy reports to microfiche. numbering three hundred employees, prepared Special. attention was given to the Science reports on all phases of mainland Asia. Some Reading Room refekencncollection. Some twelve\sixty -two hundred of these reports still exist. The hundred new titles were added and more than NDL/LC project captures on film all materials not seventeen hundred titles were discharged. The already in the Diet Library. The project was fur- mathematics section-was completely revamped thered by the three-year assignment to the Li- and the psychology, genetics, and natural his- brary -ef Congress of an NDL researcher, Yuri tory sectichrs augmented to reflect current schol- Chiyo, whose tour of duty ended. in April. arship and trends. The Serial and Government Publications Divi- sion undertook two surveys during the year designed to improve controls over its collections Progress----- of the Inventory and to provide guidance for current practices. The first, "Survey of 200 Periodicals on Micro- As indicated in last year's report, it proved form," issuecLin April, has affedted priorities in impossible to complete the ambitious inventory accessioning of microforrns by the Microforpr.of the Library's general collections within the Reading Room staff and preparation of mere reg- three years originally estimated. Accordingly, ular reports on microform receipts. Research Congress approved the extension of thirty-two Memorandum Number 2, "Survey of Use of Peri- indefinite positions authorized for the inventory odicals and Government Publications.. pro- for two additionaL years, until September 30, vides useful information on high-use periodicals. 1986. At the present rate of progress, theinven- (In the three-month test period, Business Week tory will be virtually complete by thatdate. Any was the most frequently requested periodical.) remaining tasks wilbe finished by the perma- It also provides data on the distribution of nent staff in the following year. requests among alphabetically arranged periodi- The major accomplishment in 1984 was com- cals, affecting deck attendant assignments. pletion of the inventory of class H (Social The divisian, with additional holdings made Science), containing nearly two million vol., available from Yale, Cornell, and the University umes. Other classes completed were L (Educa- of Wisconsin, also assembled and microfilmed tion), N (Fine Arts), and S (Agriculture). a virtually Complete set of Cambia 16 for the Approximately half of the inventory of the gen- period November 1971December 1982. Con- eral collections has been completed. Some sidered Spain's leading independent news maga- thirty-six thousand volumes were weeded from zine, Cambio 16 bridges the transitional period the collections and more than forty-three thou- between the government of Francisco Franco sand obsolete charges removed from the Central and the current Spanish government. Sixteen Charge File, in the Loan Division. More than research libraries have now acquired the film of seventy-seven thousand shelf markers were pre- Cambia 16. pared during the year.' In 1984 the Library. completed &five-year pro- In a related activity, 84 percent of the general gram in cooperation with the National Diet collections had been relocated in accordance Library (NDL) of Japan to film South Manchuria with the Library's encyclopedia plan by year's Railway Company titles in the Library of Con- ensl. Only two ,classes arestill awaiting gress. A total of 3,270 titles were filmed in relocation: P (Literatuke) and T (Technology). approximately half a million exposures. The Relocation of the collections in advance of the South Manchuria Railway Company, founded in inventory speeds the work of the inventory staff. 1906, was acquired by Japan from Russia at the Such relocation assignments in the general col- 82 101 is

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r`i . lections are only part of the duties of the Col- was employed to analyze and shelflist a substafi- lections Maintenance Section of the,Collections tial amount of undescribed material in the col- 'P Management Division, whose staff must often lection. In 1978 the state of Alaska made remove all kinds of Library units and materials available a sum of money to assist' the Library and, before doing so,'must frequently erect the in further organizing and describing the collec- shelving or build cages to secum particularly thin, preparatory to producing a microfilm edi- valuable items. Fiscal 1984 marked-the end of tion. The project hap been celminataciltiis year the authorization of thirty indefinite positions with the completion of a 250-page guide to the which had beeri granted for a five-year period eight series in the archive and the issuance of of intense relocationnctivity associated with the a 401-reelanicrofilm edition. The collection has move to the Madison Building and realization engaged the efforts of many persons, inside and of the" encyclopedia plan.. Fortunately, both of outside the Library, for more than two decades, these major tasks are near completion. and the results are gratifying to-all concerned. n A project to reproduce and dispose of selected material from the division's German Captured Documents Collection advanced during the year. Special Collections Two shipments of nearly seventy-five thousand items were made to the Bundesarchiv, follow- The 'Geography anti Map. Division (G&M) ing completion of microfilm editions of their computer-assisted map cataloging, program contents. Other important microfilm editions (MARC Maps), initiated in 1968 with a grant completed in 1984 were the Felix Frankfurter from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., Papers and the large general correspondence achieved its major goal on March 26 when the series of the flookr T. Washington Papers. In online input/update capability became available. all, twenty-two collections in the Manuscript The bibliographical control of cartographic Division were filmed, in whole or in part, in materials by machine methods is now a reality, 1,1,33 reels. ,/ one with wide impact. Still to come, and A supplemental grantfrom the Cafritz,Founda- expected in early 1985, is a search capability tion has pernaitted`wprk on the Washingtonian under SCORPIO. ,Project in the Prints Sand Photographs Division Partly because of this development, G&M cata- (P&P), described in last year's report, to continue loged 8,792 cartographic items (maps and through fiscal 1985. Three additional major col- - atlases) in 1984, thehighest total in division lections will be included: the C. M. Bell, Fran es history. The figure is 32 Percent higher than the Benjamin Johnston, and National Photo Com- preceding year and 40 percent higher than tfie pany collections. average of the preceding five years. Another fac- The Optical Disk Pilot Program has had con- tor in these gains is the less-than-full map cata- siderable impact upon P&P. Two disks have loging development program in the division. been created, one of which has been put to use The quarterly publication National Union Cate- in the reading room. It contains thirty-seven c)g: Cartographic Materials now has more than thousand various images in the public domain, two hundred domestic and international several formats drawn from the William Henry subscribers. - Jackson and Detroit Publishing Company collec- This year marked the successful conclusion of tions, color slides and transparenclesfrom the a twenty-year effort to make the records of the Farm Security'Administration and Office of War Alaskan Russian Orthodox Church in the Manu- Information files, lantern slides from the World script Division available through a variety of Transportation Commission (1894-98), plans finding aids and formats. In 1964 the first of six and drawings from the architectural collections, volumes of indexes to the vital statistics was and poster?. The promise of disk storage for published. In the mid-1970s a church histhrian visual images, along 4vith other developments '). 83 102 a

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r sucji as the anticipated Visual Materials Online one large scale. The year 1984- was devoted to System, augurs well for new and effectivemeans exteusiverexperimeritetion preliminary to enter- of coritrolling the vast P&P collections. ing a production phase and to justifying the need' re nitrate preservatitin program continued to and completing the plans for a separate deacidi- .make progress this year. A special project to load fication facility. These efforts culminated in minimal records into an automated data bait) for approval of construction of sucha facility, to be every title in the nitrate collection was virtually built at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. It completed by year's end. A total of 18,200 titles'is projected that the plant will be operational by were put into the system. The nitrate control sys- late 1987. The plant is designed to treat hun- tem has eliminated some paperwork and made dreds otthelusatids of bcoldvannually, including mare efficient the Aelection of titles for conver- all of the Library's incoming receipts andmany sion. A total of 1,334 titles were selected and volumes already on its 'shelves, in a systematic 1,018 titles converted (3.6 million feet) in 1084. program. Approval of the mass deacidification The staff of the Magnetic Recording Labora- facility by the Congress representsa major step tory, M/B/RS, converted 7,578.acetate discs to forward in,addressing one of the most insidious magnetic tape. Three hundred videotapes of Li- problems facing all libraries: the silent and here- brary of Congress literary prograthswere rerec- tofore irrevocable deterioration of bookson their orded onto VHS cassettes. A Rank Cintele shelves. Telecine Mark CM, a sophisticated machine for A condition survey ofthe general and law col- transferring motion picture film to videotape, lections-was conducted from January to March has permitted the conversion ofsome older tele- 1984. Designed by King Research, Inc., the sur- vision programs to tape and archival storage of vey sought to determine the strength of paper originals. and its acid and lignin content. These data, The Dayton C. Miller Flute Collectionwas along with such information as imprint date, call moved at the end of the fiscal year to specially number, and binding condition,were recorded. designed and prepared quarters in the Madison A wealth of information was generated through Building. The-books and manusgiptain the col- statistical analysis of thdata, helping to iden- lection are being prepared for preserVatien tify brittle paper as well as paper thatcan benefit microfilming. A full-time curator was recruited most from deacidification procedures.'T'1-1 and appointed,' to report early in fiscal 1985. results will guide the Library in its approachto a full-scale deacidification program in the com- ing yeari. For example, it has been shown that some Library classes have a higher proportion PRESERVATION of embrittled books than others, which could -give them priority in the deacidificationqueue. In 1984 a number Ofpreservation pljectswere The County Atlas Project was completedone either brought to satisfactory, completionor year ahead4tof schedule at a savings to the gov- raised to a level at which new Nitiatives could ernment of more than $150,000. Some 1,300 he tindertaken. Four of thesewere the mass atlases have been cleaned, deacidified, and deacidification program, the related survey of bound over the life of th6 project, the Library's the condition of the general and law collections, first majoreffort tomntrect,ona large scale for the county atlas project, and online cataloging specific conservatlea serviceti (otherlhan bind- of titles filmed in the Library's preservation ing). It is likely that future projects of this type microfilniing program. will be proposed, because of the fiscalecono- Constant readers of the Annual Report of the mies to be realized. Th6 atlases themselves, Librarian of Congress have been able to follow among the most frequently used materials in the Library's progress in developing a chemical Geography and Map Division custody,are show- means and a procedure to deacidify book paper pieces of the collection; able to withstand 84 Research Services

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repeated use by researchers /without further vation Leaflet No. 6 was published, Audiovisucit deterioration? Resources for Preserving Library and Archival For many years a large-scale preservation Materials, and a new ten-minute slide show with ` microfilmingoperation has been conducted by synchronized 'tape was produced: Handling the Library of Congress. In 1984, after extensive Books in General Collections. Completed in staff training, the Preservation Microfilming Of- April, it was shown to a number of Library of fice (PMO) assumed full responsibility for pre- C6ngress groups and has been made available pining minimal-level cataloging (MLC) records outside the Libraries well. The second of three online for preservation master microforms and conferences jointly sponsored With the Re- input into the Library's machine-readable sys- sources and Technical Services Division tid the tem. This approach replaces a system whereby American Library Association took place in St. catalog information was recorded in PMO and Louis on April13 and 14. Seventy-eightvegis-, transmitted to the Processing Services depart- tants from twenty-six states. and two Canadian ment for incorporation into the Library's data provinces heard eleven speakers, three of them base. The prompt preparation of MLC records from the Library's Preservation Office. and their incorporation into, first, the LC system and, soon thereafter, the national, bibliographic networks lead toward elimination of duplication SERVICES TO READERS in filming. The Library's cooperative filming agreement with the Research Libraries Group On October 4, 1983, the SocialiScience Reading (RLG), was described in last year's report. PMO Room (SSRR) in the John Adams Building was handling of MLC monographic records is an dedicated. Formerly an unspecialized reading essential ingredient of a national system, with room, a counterpart to the Main Reading Roorri, subsequent incorporation of the catalog informa- the SSRR has been fashioned especially for those tion into the Research Libraries Information studying business and economics, pollticalsci- Network (RL1N). Previously, although their con- ence, education, and sociology. Thus the ency- dition warranted filming, some brittle materials clopedia plan is one step closer to realization. had to await cataloging. The new system will The new reading room has specialized reference widen the scope of retrospective conversion and materials and is staffed by reference librarians will also result in the creation of analytic records specializing in the social sciences Because the to improve access ,to titles in large special col- relocation of the general collections is bringing lections yet to be filmed. most social science classes into the Adams In other developments, the Joint Committee on Building, it is expected that those whose re- Printing denied the Library's request for a waiver search is concentrated in social science materials that would have left procurement of commercial will in the future make the Adams Building and binding services in LC hands rather than those the SSRR their preferred locations. (Old-thters of the Government Printing Office. Instead, new will recall that the S§RR has gone through ratury.. procedu:res for contracting were worked out be- name changes since the.Adams Building7-4hon tween GPO and the Library, so that the Library's "the Annex"--,opened in 1939. It was the technical advice will be made available in the Chaucer Room, so Called because of thera awarding of contracts. The Binding Office com- Winter murals, thp North !feeding Room, an pleted the restoration ar rebinding of 1,100 art most rtce4tly and most confusingly, the Thomas folios in the N collection, a project in progress Jefferson Reading Room.) f6r several years. The physical layout of the European Reading The National Preservation Program Office con- Room was changed to permit the addition of tinued to create products of use in its efforts to some West European reference books without disseminate preservation information in the reducing the existing collection. West European most efficient and cost-effective *Iran. Preser- newspapers and periodicals were added to those

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readily available in the reading rbom. These An unusualk large number of conSplimente steps plus the addition of a reference librarian were, received for the reference staff in the with. French specialization are helping to create Science and Technology Dhdainn. One cor- a genuine "European" reading room, a goal for respondent wrote, "The Library is truly a na- the past several years. tional treasureforlts Woks and nollectionse- The General Reading Roams Division begiin and even more, I think, for the staff," a neva public training program for users of the A continuingsproblem for reader service is the Library's online systems. To accommodate an in- velar performance of the Antornated Book creased need for training.and to provide an effi- Conveyor system, upon which make to the cient alternative to individual training in the three Library buildingse elepends. Problems Computer Catalog Center, the staff designed ranged from mechanical lerealedownato usability group training sessions An basic and advanced of the system to "read" a part:WO/3r box's destina- SCORPIO and MUMS and presented them in the tion. It is hoped that the Collections Control Cen- new Automation Orientation Center. Over a ter established wider the reolgerieation 'of the thousand users and itaff received training in this Collections Management Division will enable new facility during ,the year. the Library to eliminate many of these Penh/ems Through a contractual agreement, the News- in the near future. paper and Current Periodical Reading Room be- came one of several test sites for Wilsonline, the automated data base for periodicals published by H. W. Wilson Co. The test was succaseful, Loan Division Activities enabling reference staff to provide additional ser- vices to readers while accumulating for the pub- Service to Congress, the Library °s principal MI- . fisher information about the strengths end setuetcy, was improved through greater tree weaknesses of the system. An orientation slide of the House Information Systeraa -network. show prepared for the Local History and Gene - Although most congressional loan revolts cone alogy'Reading Room vas shown first on Novem- tinue to be received by telephonen thane is grow- ber 3 to a suburban Maryland adult education ing use of the electronic mail system for its class studying Irish genealogy. hr addition to inherent advantages (no busy signals; trensmis- screenings for visiting groups, there is ee daily sion of requests even when therejs no one there showing for users of,the reading room. t, to receive them, speed and accuracy, etc.). the For the first time in its histoty, the National diitiS1011'd Capitol Station, which by law is open Referral Center (leiRC) answered at least 1,000 whenever either house of Congressillin sosion,"' referral requests each month. The yearly total also made gNwd Ilse of the Reese Idols-Wien reachect17,680, an increase of more than 80 pei- Systems in a year when lateapight,, earlY morn- cent in:the past two years. The number of orga- ing, and even all-night seslions were on the nizations currently described in NRC's data base increase. The degree of reciprocity between the now exceeds 14,000. Because NRC was one of Loan Division and congressional offices is Wile- the first Library units to explore automation worthy. For example, when Sen. Donald Riegle extensively in its routines, management of its learned that congressional demand for 14s book automated systemsis proving to be troublesome 0 Congressaes outspPing the Loan Division's for both the division and the Automated Systems ability.to meel it, he Ontsibuted extra copies for Office. (Potholes are most noticeablein oldhighe circulation, Congfessional borrowing remained ways, not new.) Nevertheless, the division con- steady, about 49,000 requests,. with a tuccess tinues to issue its publications, by-products of rate of 71 percent. its data base, and increase its direct reference ser- To assist government agency borrowers, a vice year by year. comprehensive document was prepared to

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explain Loan Division services, policies, and lery Chamber Orchestra which included two of resources especially eannarked for agencies. his own workse:Mr, Bales was cited for hislife- This category of loans was also almoseconstant, long chatepionship of his country's music." Also about 50,000 Ranee, with a success rate of 65 per- °tinter-est was Joel smite:, "The Cello: cent. For another 32.5 percent, alternative loca- A Twentieth Century American Retrospective." tions were suggested. The first of live concerts was given in January The loan Division now uses OCLC, Inc., RI,DI and the final 'one is scheduled for November (Research Libpries Inforreation*etwork), ITT 1984. A full list of concerts appears in appen- Malcom (ALAnet), and Ontyme Was part of its dix 13. Robert Marshall, the first Harold Spl- normal resources in receipt and- satisfaction of vacka Consultentitethe Musiic Division, helped interlibrary loan reapiests. But numbers and net- that division anticipate the Bach tricentennial works 'alone cannot measure this important with a lecture in. September. He is to return in isservice. During fiscal 1984, for exarePle. twenty- Mara 198 for a second. lecture on Vac two years of Import-Report Bulletins; were made With the approval of the Librery's Trust and available to a law firM which was Board, the Kindler Foundation was established oarty to s case involving asbestos litigation and in the Library this year. It will support both corn- for which the bulletins were indispensablesbut extissioning and perforroances:- scarce, There is a similar story be and many of the loans made by the division: Literary Pengrams Lei PUBLIC IIROGRAMS On November 14 and 15, 1983, the Library was host to a celebration commemorating thefiftleth The 4ixteentb. Coolidge Festival ,pf Chamber anniversca, year of the Academy of Ainefican Music took place October 28-31, 1983, with five Poets. During the course of two eyenings, four- concerts in the four -day period. World premieres teen leading American poets, including siseCon- of eight Works were performed. all commis- sultantain Poetry to the Library, read from their stoned by three foundations In the Library of works tc packed audiences in the Coolidge Congress: the Coolidge Foundation, the Kowa- Auditorium. The academy, founded in 1934, vitzky Foundation, end the McKim Fund. rhrbegan its yearlong celebration with the Library first Coolidge FestiVal was hold-in October 1925. program"' A. I kS.equent festivals haveenscheduledirreg- One of those present for the celebration and War.averyYis gears, Man adieus twentieth- reading was Robert Fitzgerald, a chancellor of cen walks' hays, bean 'first heard at these the academy. In May the Librarian appointed festiv in the Coolidgeuditoritran including him ConNultant in Poetry to succeed Anthony Rartnk ' Fifth String artet (1934), Aaron Hecht. By late summer, however, the distin- Cokiland's Applachion S ring (1944);Gban Carlo guished poet and translatbr of the classics was lvf6notti's The Unico,the Gorgon, altd the seriously ilt and unable to assumeehis duties as . Manticona (1956), anti George Crumb's Annie consultant. Reed Whittemore, who had served " Voi &s of Children (1970). This year's lastly as Consultant in Poetry for 1964-65, agreed to featured new works by Morton Gould? Robert fill in as interim consultantepending Mr. Fitz- Hall Lewis. ger Rpyrtolds,. arid Morton Subot -' gerald's recovery, and began the 1984-135 season . nickiif the U tod State:a:X=3i SheOff and Josef in his stead. It was the first time in the n fifty- Tal of Israel;andor Balassa of Hitagary; and year history of the consultantship thatante, Yoritsune Matsudaira of Japan. consultant had been appointed. 4 The First' Festival of American chambet In March, three short S 1 Beett plays Music, held April 27-May 25,'opene'd with were presented at the Lib a special two- program. by Richard Bales and his National Gal- night engagement by theNw,ork cast, a pro-. 46. 87

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duction that had bean labeled one of New York's nail Legacy: Two denturiesPrin g," fea- "ten best" of the season. Ot4er literary programs tured prints tryjeseph Pe o fro s coy of note were readings by Bernard Makesud, IOW= and some of tiipse puase' with funds ShirlHazzard, and JosepliBrodslcy, lectures from the Pennell Ftmclestablished in the 1930s. by Ri bard Eilmann, Reed I'Vbittereere, and No It was accompanied bya symposium on contem- thropx -.rye, a re- creation of Thomas Edison porary printmaking, sponsored by the Prints and actor Hingle, and a two -day conference on Photogmhs Division. The next Madison Gallery Georgemall ,and 1984. A complete list of exhibit was 'Images of the World: The Atlas literary ifogVns- appears in appendix 13. Through History," drawn from the unsurpassed collections tithe Geography and Map Division. An international symposium on the atlai was to Other Programs occur in late October 1984. Among othersym- C sposia held in 1984, tkAt sponsored by the Euro- In its first full year .of operation, the Mary pean Division onMornGreek literature was --Pickford Theater showed 101 films, primarily notab16:trIeld in NoveMber 1983, it commemo- from the Librag's collections, on seventy-one rated the huridredth annivefary of the birth of *: evenings throughout the year. There were five Nikes Kazantzalcia and wasit rganizedin coop- separate series: "Paramount Silents," films pro- eration with the Embassy of Greece. Kazant- . duced fro1n 1914 to 1950; "Canadian Docu- zakis's widow attended aril spoke movingly mentaries"; "Technicol4 Cinematographers"; about her. Jate husband's life and work. "Neglected Recent Ye tutee "; and "American A musical eventoponsored by the Hispanic Society in-the Kore ar ." In addition, Division in' cooperation with the Embassy of a second series Of Pickford films was Spain featured ftederick Marvin,r specialist on shown, most of them prints lent by the Mary the eighteenth - century Spanish composer and Pickford Company. The Motion Picture, Broad- performer, Antonio Soler y Ramos. Mr. Marvin's casting, and Recorded Sound Division also piaxio concert drew upon unpublished Soler began series of weekly presentations by members manuscripts from the Cathedral Archives in of its staff to acqueliat their colleagues -with the Madrid. resource§ of. the division. JS The Lincriln-arez lecture series under the sponsorship o r U.S. Department of State and Exhibi the Mekican F Ministry was.initiated in 1984. On June 2l Am. : :sador Antonio Gomez A wide variety of Library materials from Ro ledo of Mexico lectured in the Coolidge Research Services-collections were on exhibit ditorium, the counterpart to a lecture during the year. .Mentioned earlier wed the delivered in Mexico in February by Librarith f major exhibitions of atlases, Pennell prints, and Congress Daniel J. BoOrstin. Japanese calligraphy. It was the Library's first Two symposia were held in connection with major exhibition of atlases,, of which the Li- major Library exhibits, and a third was tooccur brary's collection is one if the world's largest ' soon after the close of the fiscal year. The Civet some forty-seven thousand items. Likewise, the Hall exhibit "Words in Motion: Moderir Japanese Pennell print exhibit was the lint extensive Calligraphy" opened on July 14. On the next day showing.of one of the great strengths of the col- the Asian Division, in cooperation with the Cen- leclitrs, aneye-opener to many 'ewers. ter for the Book, sponsored a symposiam and Other materials extensively displed, to cite calligraphy demonstration with lectureson Jape- onlsti sampling, were politick' cartoons for the nese calligraphy, literature, and art and-demon- axhibit'Inarking the Truman centennial; photo- strations by two artists represented in the graphs highlighting the great opera stars in an exlejbit. The Madison Gallery exhibit 'The Pen- exhibit at the Performing Arts Library marking , 88

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the hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Railroad Maps of North America: The First Opera; railroad maps and award winning map uridred Years, compiled by AndreW Modeiski epriee in the Geography and Map Division the Geography and Map Division, contains dchibit space; posters in several separate ex- ety-two maps and some eightyrelated hibits;.japariese children's books and their trans- illustrations. More than four thousand copies htions; Gershwin manuscripts and memoyabilia; were sold during its first six months of avail-- and, aselways, caricatures from the Caroline and ability. (An exhibit of some of this material was Erwin Swann Collection, displayed in the Oval slestribecrin last year's report.) A publicatibn Gallery. about the extensive cookery collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Was 2 Two Loaf-Givers, by Leonard Beck of the,divi- PUBLICATIONS sion s taff. i The European Division continued to A major.two-v lure publication; ten years in timely or anniversary bibliographical pamphlets, preparation,as published in 1984: Revolu- including two of the latter variety compiled by tionary Ame ca, 1763-1789: A Bibliography, Janina Hoskins: Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Vic- , co iled by onald Gephart of the Manuscript tory at Vienhar The Ottoman Siege of 1683. The Diion, formerly a bibliographer in the General division, in cooperation with editorial staff Readtlig Rooms Division, where much of the employed by the American Association for the compilation was done. Initially a project of the Advancement of Slavic Studies, is making stem- Library's former American Revolution Bicenten- uout efforts to bring up to date the American Bib- nial Office (ARBO), the biblicgraphy lists hun- liography of Slavic and East European Studies. dreds of books and articletiwiitten about the Considerable progress was made in 1984, when American Revoltit1on from the eighteenth cen- volumes covering 1980 and 1981 werepublished. tury' to 1972. Another, moretunbitious project Among other continuing bibliographief, volume which originated in ARBP but continue= ip the 44 (Humanities) of the Hispanic Division's Hand- Manitscript Division is the multivolume Utters book of Latin American Studies was published. .0 of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Volume V. No new volume of the Scietace and Technology of the Letters was published in 1984, covering Division's Antarctic Bibliography appeared, but the wartime summer of 1778. the staff pre d published a, cumulative Another Major publication of the yam, its ink= to volumes 12.

lir.ation date \ coinciding with the Li Mubibliographical effort In Research Ser- _ M.:member-714, 1883, 'celebration-of the fiftieth vices s into shorter reading lists and guides anniversary of the Historic American Buildings designed to provide a brief but soujad introduc- Sury(liABS), Is Historic America: Buildings, tion td d specialized subject. The best known of Stractbres, and Sites..It contains essays and these are the Tracer Bullets, prepared bt the stiff . 1 remarkable illustrations and a checklist corn?.7 of the Science and Technology Division. Eight piled by Alicia Stamm of the National Park Ser- new titles appeared in 1984, bringing that total i- vice, documenting more than sixteen thbusand 'to 168. All told, more than a quarter million !HABS projects_..,Themassive volume. which Tracer Bullets have been distributed. The Na- quickly wentikto eaecond printing, was edited tional ReferralCeaterigsued ilx newtitles in its by C. ForcLPeatross, curator of HABS collec- Who Knows? series. The General Reading Rooms lion in the Library's Prints and PhotographsiDivi- Division published more than twenty-five biblio- 'sion. HABS documentation, created by the Park graphical lists in 1984, including several pre- ..AN Service, is pellaanently housed in the Library , pared for the CBS/Library of Congress series of Congress, through a tipaliite af taement - "Read More Abort Itvw volving those two agencies and the Argerican In- Three lsctures.given recently in the Library's stitute of Aichttecti. ongoing literary program and published in 1984 a. Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

give interesting views by prominent poets and Association. Both the ctirector for preservation critics of three major literary figures of the past and the chief of the Science and Technology century: Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde at Ox- Division devoted considerable administrative ford; Anthony*Hechrs Robert Lowell; and Reed time during the year to the Optical Disk Pilot Whittemore's William Carlos Williams: 'The Program. - . Happy Genius of the Household." The chief of the Manuscript Division delivered' Two "outside" publications merit mention the introductory lecture, "The Treaty of Paris and because of their relevance to the history of the the'International State System," at the inaugural Library of Congress and its tellec4ns. The great symposium of the Folger Shakespeare Library's five-volume Catalogue of the Library of Thomas i new Center for the History of British Political offerson, compiled by E. Millicent Sowerby and published by the Library in 1952, haNrow been Thought. Dr. Hutson also serves on the advisory reprinted by the University Press of Virg 411a. A committee for the 1987 Exhibition at Indepen- second publication, Oscar Sonneck and Ameri- dence National Historical Park in Philadelphia can Music, edited by former Library employee celebratimi the bicentennial of the U.S. Con- William Lichtenwanger.- gathers Writings by and .stitution. about the first chief of the Library's Music Clara Lovett, then-chief of the European Divi- sion, was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Di Vision. . International History Conference on Regionalism and Federation in Florence, Italy, October STAFF ACIIVTITES 25-27, 1983. The chief of the Loan Division was elected to the Board of Directors of the Reference The Assistant Librarian.for Research Services and-Adult Services Division of the American Li- and the director for area studies were members brary Association and to the editorial board of of an official five-person Library of Congress `College and Researdh Libraries News. The chief delegation that visited China in late May and of the Geography and Map Division is serving early June. The director for area studies served a three-yearterm as vice-president of the Society as secretary of the delegation, which wieaded for the History of Discoveries. The chief of the by the Deputy Librarian of Congress. Tgroup,- Rare Book and Special Collections Division was under the sponsorship and at the invitation of appointed to the visiting committee of the Ann- - the National Library of China, traveled to mary Brown Memorial Library at Brown Univer- Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guilin, sity. The assistant chief inf the Hispanic Division Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, visiting libraries, giving lectures, and holding seminars for library completed his term as' president of the Seminar staffs and professional library groups. The Assis- on the Acquisition of Latin American Library tant Librarian also met with Spanish and Latin- Materials (SALALM), American national archivists in Seville in late Princeton University Press published On the June to discuss international cooperative. projects Art of the No-Theater: The Major Treatises of to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Zeami, translated by J. Themes Rimer, chief of Columbus voyage in 19.92, especially a possible the Asian Division, and Yamazoki Masakazu. project for increased preservation microfilming The same university press published volume 2 of the manuscript records in the ArchiveGeneral of The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by de Indies in Seville.. Robert Sattelmey9r. The series is under the gen- The director for general reference ' led a eral editorship of the Assistant Librarian for workshop on improving reference management Research Services. 'Tribute to the American in Atlanta May 10-12, sponsored by the Ameri- Civil Servant," for narrator and-wind quintet, can Library Association Reference and Adult composed by Jon W. Newsom, was performed Services Division and the Southeast Library in January at Washington's Constitution Hall. ------__

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BASIC WORKLOAD brary's foreign language collections. Although its number of "readers" is small, the National More than one million readers used the seven- Referral Center nearly doubled that total this teen reading rooms9fResearch Services for the year. second year in a row, though the total number In the Madison Building the surge in reader- {1,015,542) was'.down slightly from 1983. All ship that invariably followerelocation has sub- four Area Stttdies divisions experienced in- sided, with only the Prints and Photographs creases in tlle numbers. of readers served, rang- Division experiencing a significant increase (19 ing from ,Small (Hispanic) to large (European, percent) while other divisions marked slight in- more than 20 percent). There is no single iex- creases (Serial, Manuscript) or slight declines planaticin for these particular increases. The (Geography and Map,, Music). Iran/Lreiq war, the continuing crisis in Lebanon, Throughout the department there has been an and trans-Pacific trade issues demonstrably increase in exhibit preparation and processing accounted for some of the interest, to be sure. activities and a decline in bibliographic activity, The increased activity on the part of Area Stud- despite the fruition this year of projects and ies divisions in sponsoring scholarly symposia products begun some years *go. This is a trend has also undoubtedly increased the visibility of that is easy to account for on a short-term basis these divisions and called attention to the Li- but not one that should be perpetuated.

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In fiscal 1984, three benchmarks were reached legal information that would affect the com- that are symbolic of the Law Library's continuity prehensiveness of their work products. and its future. First of all, this year marked the To keep pace with the increasing information- completion of the Law Library's three-year tran- delivery demand, the Law Library procured an sition into its new physical location in the Madi- additional word processor, thereby substantially son Building. Secondly, the Law Library staff reducing the time and effort involved in docu- reached its largest size ever 101 in terms of ment generation, editing,. and updating. The- the total number of allocated staff positions. Of Law Library uses the Library-wide electronic course, it is not merely size that is important but mail system to expeditethe flow of interdepart- the fact that the added positions represent new mental communications and, in, particular, to and expanding services to be offered by theLaw ease the exchange of information with other Library. The responsibilities of the new staff Library unitsthe Loan Division, for instance. members will involve generation of bibliogra- Three of the four public terminals in the Law phies, strengthening our collection, an ongoing Library Reading Room were moved to give them exhibits program, assistance in using foreign more visibility and to enable users to easily, legal materials, increased use of automation and interact with computerized Library systems computer-assisted data bases, a variety of public without requiring extensive staff assistance. This information projects, and-more editorial support is particularly important in a year when there for reports and publications. Finally, the Near have been marked improvements in online Eastern and African Law Division celebrated its access to call numbers for legal monographs and twenty-fifth anniversary as one of the five divi- serials through the addition of this information sions of the Law Library. Since its creation in on AACR2 records classed "LAW" and subse- 1959, it has providedalong with the four older quent elimination of the Law Library Add-on divisionsa wide variety of continuing services Catalog. In all, some six thousand monographs to the Law Library's diverse constituencies. and two hundred serials were added. Th't, Law Library staff as a whole not only The interest taken in Law Library services and offered its traditional reference and research per= activities in fiscal 1984 as compared to fiscal vices but also explored ways to augment the sup- 1983 was evidenced by an 11 percent increase port that it offers to its users. In order to evaluate in readers, a 57 percent increase in the number the quality of that serviceistaff members partici- of bibliographies generated, an 8 percent in- pated in a Library-wide user survey requested crease in materials circulating in the depart- by Congress. In keeping with the idea of assess- ment's reading rooms, and a rise in the number ing the Law Library's service in order to improve of requests for photoduplication of Law Library it, an in-depth analysis of automated serials- materials. This interest is also apparent from the control systems was undertaken, as was a review number of notable foreign visitors whom the of office automation software. Some twenty staff Law Library has hosted during the year. members took part in the inhouse subject- Included among them were judges fr&n Nepal, oriented training sessions on' the use of the Zaire, South Africa, Australia, Denmark, LEXIS/N'EXIS data bases. The concept behind Nigeria, Congo, and Brazil; professors from the sessions was to broaden the base of resources Argentina, Egypt, Costa Rica, Italy, Greece, that staff members might turn to in finding Yugoslavia, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Canada, and highly current social, political, economic, and Venezuela; and government officials from Nor- 92 Law Library

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brary. A total of twenty-eight translations were What is the law on possession of marijuana in prepared in fiscal 1984. materials that Tasmania? required translation were a n ber of letters sent May a civil liberty suit be brought by a child to Congress regarding an assom to of the Rever- against his parents in Bahrain? end Sun Myong. Moon. In addition, Burmese Who were the jurors and what were their legal specialist Mya Saw'Shin translated text from backgrounds in the John Peter Zenger libel case? the_ Congressional Record concerning interna- What states give the authority to arrest a sheriff tional narcotics control for use by Sen. Paula to the coroner? Hawkins during her trip to Southeast Asia. Other What is the wiretapping law in Mexico regard- translations were used by Congress to achieve a ing private conversations? better understanding of Yugoslav joint venture What is the immigration status of foreign investments and Poland's economic plight. children adopted by American citizens? Is it possible to verify the academic training of a Vietnamese person? Briefings What is the Thai law of marriage and legitimacy? The Law Library once again offered its congres- Often, the Law Library's services include testi- sional staff orientation program in fiscal 1984. fying for a court or providing a legally binding This year 204 staffers from 160 congressional statement to be used in a formal legal pro- offices were briefed by Law Library personnel. ceeding. The assistant chief of thelfispanic Law A representative of the Law Library also attended Division, Armando Gonzalez, testified in a case the introductory Congressional Research Service involving Exxon Corporation's claim to $27.4 briefing and answered questions about the Law million as a bad debt deduction under the Inter- Library and its services. nal Revenue Code. French legal specialist Mo- hammed T. Ahmedouamar served as a French law expert witness in Security and Exchange SERVICES TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHER Commission v. Rogers. British legal specialist NONCONGRESSIONAL USERS Kersi B, Shroff was called as an expert witness in a Tax Court case dealing with oil production The Law Library provides service to government in the North Sea. administrative agencies, the judiciary, the bar, legal scholars, librarians, students, representa, tives of foreign governments, and the general LEGAL INDEXES AND PUBLICATIONS public. During the course of the year, these groups received an aggregate of 1,106 special The Index to Latin American Legislation under- studies, 17 translations, and 556 bibliographies. went a positive transition in this fiscal year In addition, there Ws a constant flow of letters through a change in the computer inputting sys- and telephone calls relating to a broad array of tem. Under the now program, and with the use questions to which inquirers assumed the Law of more advanced hardware, the system can Library'should have answers. These are exempli- cross - check its index terms with those used for led by the following: other Library-wide computer systems. In addi- What is the status of the children of con- tion, simplification of the process made it posit- cubines in Taiwan? ble to enter more documents at a faster rate. rty Does an assault conviction in Great Britain the end of the fiscal year, 3,478 records had been constitute a crime of moral turpitude? input and the index was more up-to-date than What is the oath an alien takes in becoming it has been in theinst five years. a naturalized citizen of Canada? Does it include The Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries renunciation of foreign citizenship? Spanish Legal Documents 'Project was corn- 94 1 1 3 Law Library

plated in March 1984. The items from this for non-English language materials on period are the last of the Law Library's largesep- American law. The drunk driving laws publica- arate holdings to be incorporated into its general tion was in great demand and will be reprinted. collection. Some 2,597 docualents were identi- A collection locator pamphlet was produced fied and indexed under six categories. The briefs as part of an effort to make Law Library Reading category had the largest number of documents, Room use and procedures more self-explansnerie followed by laws and statutes, opinions and In addition to the publication, illustrated" signs judgments, canon law, and notarial instruments. have been posted to reduce the nee(for staff \ The sixth category included approximately 200 assistance Tor directional informatlo 'toms of a thiscellanemis nature. Because of their The Law Library's paperback pylst ons ate' p tential research value, 609 documents were dis'aibuted without charge. Copi, ofch pub- se d for further scrutiny and categorization lication are sent to the 230 lib e.g. d organi-. as follows: 1) laws, statutes, instructions, and -Leland in the Documents Expediting Service decrees of kings and government agencies; and on the department's mailing list. Whilesup- 2) documents pertaining to the Spanish Inquisi- plies lot, copies are also provided to any in- tion; 3) papal bulls and concordates; and dividuals who request them.- In fiscal 1984, 4) documents involving' well-known historical 2989 publications were distributed. persons. kfr A second group of documents consisted of 798 items from colonial and post-independence His- panic America, specifically from the regions that COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT are today included in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico. These documents were as- The number of volumes added to the permanent signed to four separate categories: ,laws and collection during fiscal 1984 totaled 41,165. Of statutes, canon law, briefs, and miscellaneous. these, 26,344 volumes were classed InK and 551 The Hispanic Law Division assisted the Law were classed in J. With 2,446 volumes being dis- Library Processing Section and the Restoration carded from the collection, the Law Library's OffiCe of the Research Services department in holdings had reached 1,812,634 volumes by the preparing these materials for microfilming and end of the fiscal year. In addition, 5,696 reels other preservation procedures. They arecur- of microfilm and 22,017 sheets of microfiche rently being microfilmed. were added to the collections, bringinhe total The following publications were issued Sr the holdings in raicrotexts to 34,583 reels and Law Library during fiscal 1984: 585,354 fiche. Bibliografia de obras sabre el derecho de los Estados Unidos de America en longues extran- feras: Entrega hispdnica, by Marie-Louise Ber- nal, Rubens Medina, and Ivan Sipkov Exchanges and Gifts The Chinese Communist Party Constitution of 1982: Deng Xiaoping's Program for Modernize: The Hispanic Acquisitions Section of the Ex- tion, by Tao -tai Hsia and Constance A. Johnson change and Gift Division exerted substantial Drunk Driving Laws in Various Foreign Coun- efforts this year to help the Law Library acquire tries, by the Law Library staff gazettes from difficult areas such as Cuba, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judg- Nicaragua, Jamaica, Suriname, and Haiti. mcets in Various Foreign Countries, by George The U.S. News 8 World Reporanionateda Roman large collection of congressional hearings, many The Bibliografia is part of a continuing proj- from the 1970s, which enabled the Law Library ect under the direction of the European Law to replace several volumes that had been miss- Division to address inquiries received from ing from its collections. ' 95 11 4 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Selection andAcquisition The House` Committee on Appropriations raised certain questions about the tpleteness Tie Law Library recommending officers re- and currency of the Law Library's aerials. As a viewed 6,156 lists and offers. As a result of this result, the Order Division was ,instructed to review, 9,524 items were recommended for change the shipping address for approximately acquisition. Thij figure represents, an increase 282 legal periodicals retainedn the.l.aw Library of more than 75 percent over the previa= year. Reading Room. These will be mailed directly to Among the unique materials added to the Law the reading room and will be checks in there. Library collections were: The system will better serve-the needs o th the An 1824 printing of "an Act to organize, govern staff, and the users. In addition, the Coright and discipline the Militia of the State of Maine" Office was given a list of these titles to add to the Microfilm editions of the Kordan High Court Serial Claiming Project list for priority handling. Report Range finders for legal periodicals (LAW PER Selected issues of the&officialTranslation and class K 1-30), Central and"Soutb American of the Laws of the Republic of Koiea materials, and the serial set were added to the Compendia and treatises of Vietnamese legal ROSCOE line library and were printed for materials on twenty-three microfiche sheets mounting on the individual ranges. Chartraponstitutionnelle des Francois, ou la The Processing Section searcher took over the Constitution Francoise .law 5 /tout 1791 marking of incoming serial receipts from all [together with] Supplement a in Constitution_sources and expanded the title card control file Frangpise, le Septembre 3, 1791. A Paris et a for that purpose. A total of 16,471 incoming Liege, chez J.A. Latour, 1791. (the text of the serial items requiring "LAW," "LAW PER," JX, French Constitution as it was read and approved or K call numbers were marked before being by the Assemble° Nationale on August 5, 1791). routed to the stacks through the Law Library Special efforts were made to arrange for the divisions. deposit of records and briefs from the Seventh, Discussions were continued with the Serial Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Federal Courts of Record Division Processing and Reference Sec- Appeals. The Eleventh Circuit responded posi- tion on ways to change their accessioning tively to.a letter received frOm the Library of Con- routines to be more accommodating to Law Li- gress. The Tenth Circuit is reviewing the matter. brary shelying and call number requirements for In addition, 72,900 pieces from the Ninth Cir- beeped and unbound materials' classed in K, cuit were received from the Center for Research 41 W," or JX. Libraries. D ring the fiscal year, 937,753 pieces were Arrangements for the acquisition of needed sheled, as compared to 809,841 for fiscal 1083. materials wore made as a result of Law Library This 115 percent increase is attributed in part to staff trips to England, japan, China, Cyprus, the IA, ceipt and shelving of over 80,000 United Greece, Turley, Austria, and Poland. -Karel States Courts of Appeals records and briefs. Weimink, the department's Dutch legal special- Much staff time was spent in major shifts within ist, went on a special acquisitions trip to the the collection associated with continued receipts Netherlands Antilles and Suriname. of these items. Some 2,275,163 loose-leaf inserts were'filed, a 10 percent rise over the previous year; 32,944 pocket parts were filed. There was Collection Access, Organization, and a decrease, however, in the number of shelves Maintenance read. The number of volumes prepared for binding Total receipts in the Law Library increased by decreased slightly as compared to the previous 29 percent in fiscal 1984 as comparqd to fiscal fiscal year, with a more noticeable decline in the 1983. number of pieces prepared for binding. The 96 115 X

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decreased production level for bindingprep arri. days ancta follow-up telephone call is made to tion resulted from the introduction of a epvidw the user. process in October 1983 to ensure .quality con- Circulation service via the Book Paging Sys- trol on work submitted by the binding tem was upgraded to facilitate communication .technicians. between the Law Library and Research Services. The number of items perforated, plated, and machine marked by the Processing Sectionmes- senger dropped as these tasks were assumed bx the Binding Office. Staff members in that office Preservation provided priority services on Law Library refer- ence material referred to them on a daily basis, Rare Book Restoration in addition to handling other labeling, and thus freed the messenger for other distribution The Restoration Office completed approximately responsibilities. 2,400 hours of work for the Law Library. The The Carrollton Press proposal to incorporate most intense project involved preparing 7,000 "LAW" bibliographic records in the RE-MARC Hispanic legal documents for microfilming. The Project was accepted by Processing Services in original documents will be retainedas a unit and May 1984. During July and August thecompany are housed in acid-free folders in mantiscript microfilmed "LAW" entries from 844 Law Li- boxes. Twelve items received full conservation brary shelflist card catalog trays. These data will treatment, including an 1824 Justice Taney let- be submitted for keying by input operators in ter, an 1839 Lincoln legal writ, and a 1639 Fer- Scotland, as was done for the classed shelflist dinand DI-decree. Thirteen items received minor in the late 1970s. repair and were appropriately boxed. The Law Library also participated in the Cata- The valuable 1931 Code Civil d'Haitiwas sent loging Arrearages Review Project conducted by to the New England Document Conservation the Collections Development Office. The project Center for mylar encapsulation and rebinding ran from June 8, 1983, to June 1, 1984, and into five volumes. covered materials in Arabic, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese. PERSONNEL

The Law Library enhanced its staff expertise in Circulation the jurisdictions for which it.providps research, reference, and collection devekipment. Newly The total circulation of Law Library holdings hired legal specialists include: Zigmas A. But- rose to 979,133 items in fiscal 1984, a 7 percent kus, Russian and Soviet law specialist, who had increase over fiscal 4983. Of these, Congress bor- been a former District Judge in Lithuania before rowed 10,994 volpmes from the Law Library in he emigrated to tbe United States; Petru the Capitol, and 10,967 were sent out on inter- Buzescu, Aomanian and Swiss law specialist, library loan. The deck attendants responded to who received a master of laws degree from New 75,491 call slips for items to all requesters, in- York University immediately before taking his cluding the Loan Division. A total of 1,313 books position at the Library; and Thai specialist were circulated from the rare book room to 167 Thanes Sucharikul, who is working part-time Leaders. while pursuing graduate studies at George Bechuse the not-on-shelf rate rose slightly, to Washington University. 16,273 items, a revised special search procedure Donna Brusoski joined the Law Library Read- was instituted for users receiving "NOS* call ing Room staff as an assistant reference librarian. slips. Now, searches are completed within three She had been working at Indiana University Law 116 97 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Schdol Library while studying for her law degree . Another event of importance for there. Roberta I. Shaffer-left a teaching position future communications of a different kind Was at the University of Houston Law Center to assume the visit of the official Library- of Congress her duties us the special assistant to the Law delqgation to the People's Republic of China. The Librarian in June. Jane Norton, the new editor in chief of the Far Eastern Law Division was a the HispanioLaw Division, had been employed member of that group. by the Michie Company, a lawbook publisher. The Law Library staff was involved in schol- arly legal publishing outside the official publica- tion program of the Library. Ivan Sipkov, Training European Law Division chief, was the author of an article entitled "United States Research of the Twenty-five staff members participated in in- Laws of the Cominunist-Ruled States in Europe," service training courses offered at the Library of published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transna:. Congress. The courses covered a broad spectrum Vona! Law. Another article by Dr. SipkOv, on the of topics that ranged from health assistance to new regulations concerning Bulgarian pass- basic legal citations to automation and data pro- ports, was- published in International Legal cessing. Fourteen staff 'members took part in Materials, a publication of the American Society university classes, workshops, continuing edu- of . His\translation of the cation programs, and special courses outside the bylaws of the Bulgarian Cominunist Party, with Library. These activities also reflected the an Introductoly note, was reprinted in Law-in diverse duties of the Law Library staff and their ("The Party Statutes of the Coin- need to obtain current information in a variety 'munist World"). Dr. Sipkov also publishO, of areas. The subjects covered included office several book reviews in the International /oaf- productivity, the requirements for doing busi- nal of Legal Information and American Journal ness in Australia, foreign language proficiency of International Law. in Spanish and Japanese, and the study of law teorge Glos, assistant chief of the European in the People's Republic of China. Law Division, published an article entitled "The Ciechoslovak Law of Conflict of Laws" in the Professional Activities Review of Socialist Law. In addition, four of Dr. Glos's book reviews appearad in The Interna- Many members of the Law Library staff teach tional Journal of Legal Information. and lecture at local universities and for programs Petru Buzescu, Romanian legal specialist, was conducted within the Library of Congress itself. the author of an article entitled loint-yentures Others participate in seminars, conferences, and in Eastern Europe," published in The American programs sponsored by such organizations and Journal Qf Comparative Law. institutions as the Asia and World Institute (Tai- Miklos Radvanyi, Germati and Hungarian legal pei, Taiwan), the University of Kiel (Federal specialist, published an article on the downing' Republic of Germany),, the Lnternational Mone- of Korean Mr Lines flight 007 in the ABA Jour- tary Fund, the American Association of Law Li- nal for National Security and an article on the braries, the Association of Asian Studies, and "Kissinger Report" in United States Times. the American Society of International Law. Two books dealing with Australian law were Of particular none because of its implications critiqued by Kersi 'B. Shroff, British legal for future communications was' a telepress con- specialist, in Law Books in Review. ference via satellite. Hispanic Law Division chief The fiscal year ended with plans developing Rubens Medina participated in the conference, for increased participation in scholarly meetings which was sponsored by the United States Infor- and with excellent prospects for filling key staff mation Agency. The two earth stations were the vacancies that have arisen during the course of Law Library and the Law School of Tegucigalpa, the year. 98 117 nage

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"People serving people," the theme of a photo- Using new technologies to commnnicate montage mounted during fiscal 1984 in the halls about technological issues, the Copyright Office of the Copyright Office, is also the phrase that in March 1984 cosponsored a teleconference that best describes the Copyright Office during that allowed participants in five cities across the'. year. For it was a year in which the office United. States tten and speak via satellite- reached out tolhe communities it servedto transmitted video and audio connections. Work- autho and creators of original works, to the`in- ing together with Legal Times and Law and . ternatibnal copyright community, -and to the Business, Inc., and in cooperation with the Co#gress of the United States, as well as to its Copyright Society of the United States of Amer- owh staff. Ica and the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Copyright Office invited par- ticipants to consider "Software Protection: The U.S. Copyright Office Speaks on the Computer/ itEACIIING OUT Copyright Interface" at the Hall of Flags of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, The Copyright Office was host to many interne- D.C., and in four other cities. Teleconference Heusi visitors this fiscal year. In November 1983, panelists discussed the registration of software, before the Intergovernmental and Berne Conven- copyrightability of data bases, international pro- tion executive meetings on international copy- tection oicomputer software, and recent devel- right issues, guests arrived at the Copyright opmentslin these areas of the law. Office to share their concerns about issues as In the Copyright Office preparations were diverse as home video and audio recording, made for a major permanent exhibit.displaying computer software protection, and the Brussels the many contributions that th4 concept ofcopy- Satellite Convention. In June 1984, when the right has made to American letters, artondcom- t office hosted aiymposium on the sources of in- merce. Entitled "By Securing to Authors: Copy- ternational copyright law, distinguished guests right, Commerce, and Creativity in America," the f rom various executive agencies attended as well exhibit features landmark copyrightcases as as guests from overseas. well as unusual items illustrating those cases, In February 1984 the Copyright Office, at the one of the most notable of which is the "Maltese request of the committees of the Senate and Falcon." House of Representatives that deal with issues During the fiscal year the Copyright Office relatirig to copyright, hosted a Congressional developed and began using a multiprojector Copyright and NeTechnologies Symposium slide show entitled "Authors, Artists, and Copy- which brought together congressional represen- right." The show emphasizes both the impor- tatives with Vuturists, representatives of high- tance of copyright to authors and artists and the tech industries, and copyright experts. Register complexities of copyright registration, of Copyrights David Ladd welcomed the oppor- tunity to provide a forum where issues could be approached "not polemically, but thoughtfully." CONSULTATIVE MANAGEMENT The symposium featurechibits of new tech nologies ranging from satellite disks to optic Fiscal 1984 was the year in which the Copyright and audio laser-read dsks. , Office took major steps toward establishing

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consultative management as the dominant view, was presented to the Congress by Register of among managers and staff and toward improv- Copyrights David Ladd at a hearing on Sep- ing productivity based on this model. In July tember 25. 1984, management representatives of the Copy- right gleffice signed a three-year agreement with AFSCMELocals 2910 and 2477 to extend the life MONITORING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION ABROAD .of the Labor/Management Working Group orga- nized to consult weekly on staff concerns. Consultafive management, defined as a clear During fiscal 1984 the Register of Copyrights articulation of employee involvement in an orga- visited Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, and nization's goalsand efforts toward those goals, thei People's Republic of China, where he con- was proposed by the Copyright Office manage- ferredIvith local officials on issues related to the ment team in 1981 as a Solution to ongoing- protection of intellectual property. In March Mr. -backlogs and other problems related to produc- Ladd delivered.a lecture entitled "Securing the tivity. Initial workshops held in 1982 with Copy- Future of Copyright: A Humanist Endeavor" at right Office management crystallized a commit- the annual meeting of the International Pub- I ment to installing consultative management as lishers Association in Mexico City, and in April a modus operandi. The office followed up that he headed a U.S. trade delegation visiting Tai- commitment by offering training in the tech- wan and Sfngapore, where the progress of niques of consultative management to all mana- measures to curb international piracy was the gers and staff. subject of much discussion. In the People's -Task,forces organized along the principles of Republic of China, where he participated in a consultative management attacked problems training program on copyright sponsored by associated ivith Copyright Office automation, UNESCO, Mr. Ladd found, promising progress ' redesign of application forms, and reorganiza- toward the goal of developing a copyright law tion of document registration. A pilot project for in the next five years. recording documents begann September 1984, and another for handling serials on a product- SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PROTECTION ACT line basis is scheduled for fiscal 1985. OF 1984 Fiscal 1984 saw the development of protection REPORTING TO THE U.S. CONGRESS fora new form of intellectual propertythe semiconductor chip. In October Congress give' In September 1984 the Copyright Offi final approval to the Semiconductor Chip Pro: mitted a report to the United Stateern gresi.tection Act of 1984 and sent it to the President entitled "To Secure Intellectual Pro . :rt Rights for signature. The new act, which becomes part in Foreign Markets." The report, rep uested by of Title of the*United Ceates Codethe title Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a member of the Senate Which hotises the Copyright Act Of 1976, con- Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, andgers an entirely new kind of short-form fedtral Trademarks, Committee on the Judiciary, and protection to the intricate circuit designs% that Congressman Michael Barnes, chairman of the computer-chip manufacturers spend millions of Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, dollars to degelop. Because the new act is.to be House Committee on Foreign Affairs, dealt with administered by the Copyright Office, the (40 the piracy of American works, including books, devoted much effort this year not enly to advis- sound recordings, and motion pictures, in vari- ing the House and Senate copyright committees ous regions of the world. The report, which on the best form of the act, but also to develep- identified and described problem areas and pro- ing in-house procedures for administering -the vided a specific agenda for congressional action, new law. The new law provides for rI ten.year

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term of protection after mandatory registration cedures both for examining and for reporting with the Copyright Office. progress enabled the division to maintain cur- 1 r rency in most sections. A pilot project for tile recordation of docu- 1y0R19.0AD AND PRODUCTION ments related to copyright was introduced in the Renewals and Documents Section and featured Acquisitions and Propessing Division cooperation between the Examining and Cate-- loging divisions and an effort to experiment vith As the office took steps toward improvedcon- a product-line approach. trol over the registration process through instal- The.chief of the Examining Divisi., and sev- lation of an online tracking system dubbed" eral staff members iook part in the, arming for COINS M (Copyright Office In-Process System), the implementation of the Semi. 4nductor Clip j'-the Acquisitions and Processing Division under- Protection Act of 1984 in th4IC pyright Office. took a major reorganization to adapt to thenow Examining Division staff members were respon- system. Several units were combined into one, sible for procedures, development of anapplica- and certain functions were transferred between tion form, and the drafting of a circular. sections so that assignment of tasks wouldcor- The Examining Division office issued final yespo0 more closely to the COINS processing practices and, guide letters for works that were *uence. The Examining and Scheduling Unit published without a copyright noticeor with a and Master Index Unit are to be cotnbined into defective notice more than fiveyears before a Data Preparation and Recording Unit that will receipt in-the Copyright Office 4 perform the initial iinput of information. Another 'sane dealt with this year was the The first half of COINS III began operation in problem of confidential treatment for compiter February 1984 when a full Receipt in Process programs cbntaining tracje secrets. Requests foe record was created for all deposit account claims special relief from other deposit requirements received. The cash phase of COINS III is to be also increased dur& g the year, and resuants for installed in fiscal 1985. special handling reached an all-timegh. Three The Co *right Acquisitions Unit continued td major task groups convened to so a blerns add significantly to the collections of the Library related to application forms, 6 thing prace, , e of Congress as new emphasiswas plated on tices, and suggestions. Othe staff members works of local hietory and genealogy,as well as served on interdivisional tisk ramps. on Hebraic works. The unit monitors works pub. The division welcomed Grae eteci, executive fished with a notice of copyright of which two officer, as interim division chief m Septentber copies by law should be deposited with the Li- 1983 to March 1984. and Harriet Oler, formerly brary of Congress. A successful demand for the senior attorney-adviser on the staff of the general "Dick Cavett Show" was completed; othercases counsel, as chief beginning in March. were referred to the Department of justice for legal action. Information and Reference Division - t Examining Division. increastng both the quality and quantity ofset;, vice to the public remained the most important During a year in which the number of annual task of the Information and Reference Division registrations completed exceeded half a million in flical 1984. Tice division handled a 34per- for the first time in the history of the Copyright cent increase in calls to the hotline recorders in ,,. Office, the Examining Division continued to the Public Office and an increase of 17 percont seek way to increase its efficiency while main- in inquiries made about the servIcat of the Cer- taining a high level of quality. Streamlined pro- tifications and Documents Section, Without an

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'e If increase in personnel. To solve the problem of major move of deposits.during the year involved continually engaged information lines, a.con- the transfer of hundreds of boxes of duplicate tract for a phone system which will innlude an prints and labels to the National Park Service. automatic call distributor with queuing capabil- Even witlethe removal of these deposits and ities was awarded near the end of the fiscal year. others to the main collections of the Library. of New publications issued during-the year in- Congress, the Deposit Copy Storage Unit grew. cluded Copyright Registration for Sound Record- closer to reaching maximum occupancy of its ings , Copyright Regierntion for Computer Pro- space as more th4n 270,000 deposit copies ware . grams, and The Copyright Card Catalog and the added tcethe Deposit Collection during the year. Online Files of the Copyright Office. Certificates The microfilming o certain depositscon- of copyright registration ware also designed and tinued apace ah the ervation Section com- printed, providing an alternative to hand- pleted the filming of m sic from 1870 to 1885 stamped or photocopied certificates. and of unpublished lectures, 'One of the most The Reference and- Bibliography Section interest; reg items in the lattertategory was the created new procedures to respoard to the many original manuscript of the I Have A,,Drearn" requests for searches of COPyright Office records, speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.

including a 'blitz" procedure calculatedao com- .The introduction of presealed certificate paper pieta more basio searches. The Certifications and in the registration process improved the effi- Documents Section worked out new procedures cieney of the Certificate Production Unit and to deal with the increasing number of "miming enhanced the quality of its products. elements' cases, During the year Joan Doherty, assistant chief, served as actiliV chief until the appointment of Cataloging Division Winston Tabb, previously assistant chief of the /General Reading Rooms Division, as chief in It was a year of cooperation for the Cataloging Mini x1984. Both* the. chief and assistant chief Divisioncooperation with AFSCME 2910 in in- served on various task groups and were respon- augurating a nevepromollon plan to allow staff sible for coordinating 'several facets of a .major members to gain a higher/rating after demon- Copyright Office exhibit scheduled to open in strating skills, and cooperation with other divi- December 1984. Implementation of the Semicon- sions in organteing a Documents Pilot Project to ductor Chip Protection Actof 1984 and an effort process/Deurnents on a product-line basis. to revise the sent' application forms were also. During January and February the automated a concern of the division office. systems equipment was updated as eighty-four new terminals ware tested and installed in the division. Six issues of the Catalog of Copyright Records Management Division \Entries in microfiche were publithed and twenty-seven additional issues were prepared During fiscal 1914 the Records Management for publication. Division began implementing its retention schedule for deposits by arranging for a reselec- tion by Library of Congress selecting officials of Licensing Division Copyright Office deposits. Collections which were traneferred en masse to the Library fix- /Changes in copyright policies regarding com- eluded sheet music (to the Wein Division), early pulsory licenses made 1984 a year of challenge title pages (to the Rare Book and Special Collec- for the Licensing Division. To deal with the tions Division), videotaped choreography (to the major rate adjustment put into-eeffect by the Performing Arts Library), and the last of the Yid- Copyright Royalty Tribunal in late 1982 and dish drama!! (to the Hebraic Section). Another upheld by the courts in December 1983, the divi-

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/1 sion established a Cable TV Task Force that 29, 1984. On August 20, 1984, the cable regula- .developed policies, schedules; and forms to han- tions were amended to _extend from 00 to 120 dle the increased. efforts that the special royalty days, the period blowing normal filing dead- computations entailed. The division continued lineduting which the CopyrightOffice would to be responsible for the more thant157 million refund overpayments of royalties at the request in royalty fees held for copyrightt owners pend- of cable systems for the accounting period end- ing regular distribution by theCopyrightRoyalty ing June 30, 1984. Tribunal. preparations were made dtitingtfie year to develop automated'accountingnend nensing systems. The' Wowing Division also developedani, Mierefilming Documents audioirisual presentation on the compulsory 0 license systems to show to public groups-such By notice published in the Federal Register of as jukebox owners and cable television system August 7,1984, the Copyright Office announced operators. Late in the fiscal year the Librarian that it had- decided, effective July 9, 1984, to \ 4 ge of Congress accepted theAmusement and Music discontinue its practice of microfilming depu- Operators A!? sociation's donation ofa 1948 Reck-ements and any -accompanyipg material, in- Ola vintage jukebox for parmaeint display &the eluding transmittal letters, upon their receipt in Licensing Division. the office, Thereafter, the °kw would micro only recorded documents submitted unders tion 204 of Title 17, U.S: Code. The policywas COPYRIGHT OFFICE REGULATIONS changed when the. office determined that the farmer practice was notion ye method of Cable television hanOling these materials. Ma of the public bad experienced difficulty in using the micro- During the fiscal year, several regulationswere filmed documents, and material unrelated to 'a published pursuant to section1111 of the Copy- recorded document was often microfilmeO with right Act, which prescribes conditiones under the document so that it was not possible If deter- which cable systems may obtain a cotapulsory mine what indeed had been recorded. Ma result license to retransmit copyfighteworki. Obtain- of the change of policy. recorded documentscan ing a compulsory license reqnires the filing in now be made publicly available an a more timely the Copyright Office, of Notices of Identity and basis than was previously possible,. Signal Carriagb Complement asd Statements of Account, as well as submission of royalty fees. During the fiscal year, several regulationswere Cohandium of Copyright OfficePractices published pursuant to section 111. initially,.on Apia 2.1984, the office published a final regula- On June 4, 1984, the Copyright Office gave the tion revising and clarifying certain requiremente public notice that it Intends to issue a new Corn- governing the form and content of Noticesaof\---pendlinn of Copyright Office Practices under the Identity and Signal Carriage Complement and Copyright Act of 1976, designatedas Compen- Statements of Account. A later interim regula- dium II. The public was invited to submit writ- tion followed on April 16, 1934, implementing ten comments on the proposed new edition of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal's. October 20, this manual, which is intended priniarily for the 1982, cable rate adjustment. The interim regula- use of the staff of the Copyright Offide as a gen- tion, notifying cable systems of revised forms eral guide to its examining and related practices. and procedures and providing guidance to them The first Compendium was iesue'd a number of regarding payment of royalties, was published, years ago to-reflect office practices .undoe the with minor changes, as a final regulation on June Copyright Act of 1909, as amended.

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-LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS future adjustments of copyright royalty rates for- cable television. Record Rental On June 27, 1984, Rep. Don Edwards introduced Works Made for Hire the Record Rental Amendment of 1984; H.R. 5938, 98th Cong., 2d Sess. (1984), a successor Two identical bills were introduced in the 98th bill to H.R. 1027. In the same Congress the Congress to amend the copyright law regarding Senate passed similar legislation, S. 32, 98th works-made for hire. S. 2138, 98th Cong., 1st Cong., 1st Sess. (1983). These bills, which are Sess. (1983), introduced biSen. Thad Cochran, I supported by the CopyrightOffice, would and H.R. 5911, 98th Cong.; 2d Sess. (1984), amend the "first sale" doctrine,,, codified' in 17 sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, would amend U.S.C. section 109(a), so as to require the con- the work made for hire provision of the act by sent of copyright owners before sound record- deleting specific categories of works from the list ings could be commercially rented. The House of works subject to work made for hire agree- bill, which has a five-year sunset provision, ments. Additionallys the term employee in the expressly exempts nonprofit libraries and educa- act would be redefined to comply with federal tional institutions from inclusion and would per- tax withholding Jaws. ' mit copyright owners of the underlying musical work to share proportionately in the royalties from rentals. The House and Senate versions dif- Semiconductor Chips fer in two significant respects: the Senate ver- sion would be a permanenamendment which Semiconductor chips were given intellectual would apply the criminal provisions of the property protection for the first time in the Semi- Copyright Act to violations of the record rental conductor Chip Protection Act of 1984. A Senate amendment, while the House version is of bill, S. 1201, 98th Cong., 2d Sess. (1984), would limited duration and does not provide for crimi- have given chips copyright protection. A House nal penalties for unauthorized rental or lending bill, H.R. 5525, 98th Cong., 2d Sess. (1984), by of copyrighted sound recordings. The Senate contrast, provided for a sui generis form of pro- version was enacted and signed into law as P.L. tection. A compromise version later passed the 98-450 by President Reagan on October 4,1984. Senate as S. 1990 and the House as-H.R. 6163; the latter will go to President Reagan for signa- ture. Under this bill, sui generis protection is Cable and Communications accorded under the aegis of neither patent nor copyright. However, the act amends Title 17 of The second session of the 98th Congress also the U.S. Code by adding a new Chapter 9, and saw the introduction of two, substantially iden- the Register of Copyrights has been given the tical bills, H.R. 5878,end H.R. 6164, by Repre- responsibility of administering the new act. The sentatives Robert W. Kastenmeier and Jack F. act protects the three-dimensional layered cir- Kemp, respectively, which would amend the cuitry designs of semiconductor chips, known provisions of the Copyright Act relating to the as mask works, against unauthorized duplica. Copyright Royalty Tribunal. Specifically, the tion fora term of ten years. Protection begins on bills would decrease from five to three the num- the date of registration of the mask work or the ber of members of the tribunal, provide for the date of first commercial exploitation, whichever appointment to the tribunal of a general counsel occurs earlier. The protection terminates if an and chief economist, and streamline judicial application for registration is not 'filed within review of tribunal decisions. The bills also con- two years after the date of first commercial ex- tain criteria intended to guide the tribunal in ploitation. Unauthorized duplication would be

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permitted solely for the purposes of teaching, introduced a companion bill, H.R. 3878, 98th analyzing, or evaluating conceptsor techniques Cong., 1st Sess. (1983), which differed from the embodied in the mask work, circuitry,or orga- Senate version. The House amendment would nization of the components used in the mask have substituted the text of H.R. 5041, 98th work. The act is fully effective upon enactment, Cong., 2d Sess. (1984), for the Senate version. but the registration and enforcement mech- A conference of the two houses resulted ina new anisms are held in abeyance for sixty days to version, the National Cooperative Research Act Allow adequate time for the Copyright Office to of 1984, signed into law fts P.L. 98-462 in the prepare to receive applications for registration.'second session of the 98th Congress. Thenew law provides for similar rule-of-reason-analysis b for joint research and development ventures, and Protecting U.S. Intellectual Property Rights limits recovery for antitrust violations to actual damages and reasonable attorney's fees if the The Intellectual Property Rights Protedtion and U.S. Attorney General and Federal Trade Com- Fair Trade Act of 1984; S. 25'49, 98th Cong., 2d mission are notified of the joint venture. Sen. Sess. (1984), and two similar bills introduced in Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., also introduced the the HouseH.R. 5324, 98th Cong., 2d Sess. National Commission on the Public Lending of (1984) and H,R. 5634, 98th Cong., 2d Sess. Books Act of 1983, S. 2192, 98th Cong., 1st Sess. (1984) would condition preferred trade status (1983), to establish a commission to study the with the United States, under the Trade Act of feasibility of compensating authors for the lend- 1974, on the protection by certain beneficiary ing of their books by lending institutions. developing countries of 'U.S. patent, copyright, The Brussels Setellite Convention adherence and trademark rights. H.R. 4288 would amend was reported ouf of the Senate Foreign Relations the infringement provisiens of the copyright law Committee on September 25, 1984, andwas rati- to provide that no copyright owner otherwise en- fied by the full Senate in the twilight hours of titled to relief from infringement would be the 98th Congress. The convention obligatesa denied relief or deemed goiltyof misuseor contracting state to "take adequatemeasures to illegal extension of its copyright unless itscon- prevent the distribution on or from its territory duct violated* the antitrust laws.. H.R. 6024 of any programme-carrying signal byany distrib- would amend the definition of publication in the utor for whom the signal emitted to or passing Copyright Act to provide that thepresence of a through the satellite is not intended." The choice notice of copyright on a work does not in itself of method of implementation is left to eachstate. constitute publication or public disclosure; this The state's obligations cease, however, subse- bill would further amend the act to provide for quent to the authorized terrestrial distribution expansive protection of computer software. of a satellite-derived signal. Moreover, thecon- None of these measures were enacted. , vention expressly does not apply to signals which "are intended for direct reception from the Other Legislative Acttities satellite by the general public." San. Strom Thurmond introduced the National Productivity and Innovation Act of 1983, S. JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS 1841, 98th Cong., let Sess. (1983). Dorothy M. Schrader, the general counsel of the Copyright The Copyright Office is involved in threecases Office, testified before the Senate Judiciary Cara- challenging the validity of its regulations with mittee in support of this bill, which would have respect to the liability of cable systems forsec- modified the antitrust laws with respecto the ondary retransmission of primary broadcasts.In licensing of copyrighted works permitting,scru- late 1983, the Court of Appeals for the District thty under a rule of reason inquiry. therHouse of Columbia, In National Cable Television 124 105 Report of The 'Librarian of Congress, 1984

Association v. Copyright Royalty Tribunal, 724 subscribe to all optional tiers of service contain- F.2d 176 (D,C. Cir. 1083), upheld the rate adjust- ing one or more broadcast signals, even though ment of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal (CRT) not all subscribers to the lowest tier subscribe as applied to distant signal carriage and syn- to the optional tiers. In April the defendants' dicated program exclusivity. The CRT rate motion to dismiss was denied, and the court adjustments were made under authority of the ordered plaintiff to join the CopyrightOffice as Copyright Act and resulted from the decision of a defendant in the action since its regulations the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) address the tiering issue. The Copyright Office to deregulate those aspects of cable carriage of has filed a motion for summary judgment with distant signals. The court held that the CRT used a supporting brief. In a parallel case, Cablevision its expert judgment to devise what it considered Systems Development v. Motion Picture Asso- fair and reasonable royalty rates to reflect the ciation of America, Inc., Civ. No. 83-1655 FCC rule changdS. The Copyright Office then (D.D.C. 1983), plaintiff seeks a declaratory judg- issued regulations to implement the changes in ment that it is correct in its interpretation that royalty rates made by the CRT. section 111 of the Copyright Act requires the In an action for a declaratory judgment, 'Na- payment of royalties based only on the revenues tional Cable Television, Inc. v. Columbia Pic- received from its "basic service" tier to which all tures Industries, Inc., Civ. No. 83-2785 (D.D.C. its customersmust,subscribe if they are to 1983), the plaintiff asked the court to decide the receive any cable service. The defendants' posi- manner in which royalty payments must be cal- tion is similar to that of the defendants in the culated under section 111 of the Copyright Act, NCTA case. The Copyright Office has also been in order for the plaintiff to retain its compulsory made a party defendant in this case. Suit was license to retransmit copyrighted broadcast brought against the Register of Copyrights in Cox material owned by the defendants. At issue is Cable Tucson, Inc. v. David Ladd, Civ. No. the method of calculating the gross receipts on 84-534 (D.C. Ariz. 1984), for review of the which the cable system must pay royalties for Copyright Office final regulation issued on June "tiers" of service that are supplied to subscribers 29, 1984 (49 Fed. Reg. 26722). The regulation in addition to the "basic service." The additional was issued to implement a rate adjustment tiers of service may contain nonbroadcast pro- authorized by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal as gramming, for which the cable system pays a a result of the FCC's partial deregulation of the fee, as well as distant broadcast signals which cable industry. Plaintiff objected to one par- are governed by the compulsory license. The ticular aspect of the regulations, i.e., the cir- plaintiff believes. that cable systems are permit- cumstances under which it is permissible to add ted by the Copyright Act to allocate the sub- a new television signal as a replacement for a scriber fees for the additional tiers of servIce "grandfathered signal" (a distant signal that a between nonbroadcast anadistantbroadcast cable system was authorized to carry under the nals and that royalties must be paid only on that rules of the FCC before March 31, 1972, which portion of the fees ascribable to the retransmis- was in excess of the distant signal complement sion of distant broadcast signals. The defendants authorized by the 1972 regulations). The Copy- take the position that all revenues received from right Office regulations provide that the substi- any tier in which any broadcast programming tuted signal would be considered a "newly appears, should be considered "gross receipt? added signal" and be subject to the new 3.75 per- for broadcast retransmission.. The Copyright Of- cent rate established by the tribunal for such fice regulations support this position. Defen- signals. Plaintiff believes that like signals dants also insist that "Form 3" systems, those substituted for "grandfathered signals" should with semiannual "gross receipts" in excess of not be treated as "newly added signals" since no $214,000, should be required to pay a royalty change in the number or kind of signal carriage calculated as though all customers elected to results. At year's end, the Copyright Office had

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replied to the complaint and submitted inter- First Amendment of the Constitution, and that rogatories to the plaintiff. Science and Health is "inherently uncopy- During the fiscal year th$ Copyright Office rightable" since it embodies the teachings and entered several cases under the authority of sec- faith of Christian Science. The Copyright Office tion 411(a), of the Copyright Act, which permits filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the the Register of Copyrights to become a party in complaint failed to state a claim for which relief an infringement action involving a work which can be granted, fails to join a party required by was refused registration. Brandir International, federal rules to be joined, namely the copyright Inc. v. Columbia Cascade Timber Co., Civ. No. proprietor, and does not allege a case or con- 84-1411 (S.D.N.Y.), was one such case in which troversy with defendant David Ladd, Register of the works involved were actually bicycle racks Copyrights. The motion to dismiss as to defen- that had been submitted for registration under dant David Ladd was granted. the title "Ribbon Sculpture." Earlier in the year As the fiscalyear ended The Authors League the court heard arguments on the defendant's of America, Inc. v. David Ladd, 82 Civ. 5731 motion for a change in venue, but the year ended (S.D.W.Y. Aug. 30; 1982) was still in the prelimi- without any ruling im.the motion. Likewise, the nary stage of discovery. The suit was brought by Copyright Office has entered Duffey-Moses the plaintiff, questioning the constitutionality, Design v. Sunset Productions, Inc. et al., Civ. under the First and Fifth Amendments of the No. 83-5365 ER (C.D. Cal.), to explain to the U.S. Constitution, of the "manufacturing clause" court its refusal to register a claim to copyright of the copyright law. The provision in question in a de minimis logo for a television magazine. prohibits, with certain exceptions, the importa- The Copyright Office motion for nunnery judg- tion into and public distribution in the United; ment. was denied without prejudice, and the States of copies of any work consisting prepon- plaintiff has filed an amended complaint. In all derantly of copyrighted nondramatic literary, probability, the Copyright Office will renew its material in the English language authored by na.i motion for summary judgment early next year. tionals or domiciliaries of the United States, The third case in this category in which the the copies are manufactured in any country other Copyright Office is involved is Designpoint than the United States or Canada. The plaintiff Industries, Ltd. v. Bolivar Arellano Trading alleges that this prohibition violates the First Corp., 83 Civ. 9132 (CLB) (S.D.N.Y.). The work, Amendment by restricting the importation anid in this instance, consists of the words "Puerto distribution of First Amendment protected liter- Rico" 'with two curved lines beneath them ary works and that it violates the Fifth Amend- printed on a "muscle" shirt. This case went to ment by imposing a discriminatory prohibition triak and after hearing Copyright Office testi- on importation and distribution of a redtricrd mony the judge held. the design not copyright- class of works. able and dismissed the copyright issue. In David Ladd v. Law & Technology Press, In a suit brought against the Copyright Office, Civ. No. 83-6855 TJH (C.D. Cal.), the RegiSter United Christian Scientists v. David Ladd, Civ. of Copyrights brought suit to enforce the depbsit No. 83-3486 (D.D.C. 1984), the plaintiff sought requirements of section 407 of the Copyright a declaratory judgment to declare unconstitu- Act. That section requires, unlessexcusedby tional a private law that grants copyright to the Copyright Offic regulation, the deposit for use trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy in of the Library dt Congress of copies of Works various editions of the work Science and Health published with notice of copyright in the United with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. States. The works in question are technicat jour- Science and Health is the text used for the study, nals. Judgment was entered in favor of the Regis- teaching, and practice of Christian Science. The ter, and the defendant has filed a notice of plaintiffs allege that the private law violates the appeal. Defendant's position has been that sec- , the Fifth Amendment, and the tion 407 violates the First Amendment right of 126 107 '- Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

free speech by imposing ct deposit requirement designs and, therefore, need not.contain notices for the enjoyment of copyright in the work and of copyright to preserve the copyright. The,court that section 407 has been: enforced in a discrimi- did not elaborate on this conclusion. It said fur- natory manner. ther that in any event plaintiff added notices to The Copyright Office became involved in its catalog after discovery of its omission, and American Express Credit Corp. v. X.RT, Inc., that hence the notice was valid in any case. Civ. No. 83-5603 (E,D. Pa.), when the defendant A district court denied copyright protection secured a temporary restraining order which re- to a telephone company's white-page directory quired the office to refuse access to deposits sub- in Hutchinson Telephone Company v. Fronteer mitted for registration of the claims that were Directory Company of Minnesota, Inc., 586 beingiitigated between the parties. The deposits F.Supp. 911 (D. Minn. 1984). The court said allegedly contained trade secret material. The that, in general, white page listings meet the parties; including the Copyright Office, reached requirements of the Copyright Act and are pro- a settlement which resulted in cancellation of teictible by copyright. It stated, however, that the registrations in question and return of the under the facts in this case, protection is not war- deposit copies to the defendant. ranted. The court observed that the copyright An omission of the copyright notice was held,law was enacted to encourage works of the intel- to be curable in Innovative Concepts in Enter- lect arid to secure the general benefits which tainment, Inc. v. Entertainment Enterprises, inure to the public through the author's labors, Ltd., 576 F. Supp. 457 (E.D.N.Y. 1983). h this and that ithepresent case the plaintiff's publi- case the plaintiff omitted notice of copyright cation of its white pages is a requisite condition on its coin-operated miniature hockey game to the operation of its state-guaranteed monop- because its legal counsel did not advise it of the oly. The court said it is guided by the purposes availability' of copyright protection. Plaintiff did of the law, and must consider these purposes in not become aware of the possibility of copyright determining whether a particular work is copy- protection until it consulted other counsel after rightable and that, because the plaintiff is the first publication without notice had required by lair to publish its white pages, occurred. Notice was then added and copyright allowing copyright protection would only registrations were made. The court said it was extend the benefit of plaintiffs monopoly qnd not aware of any cases deciding the issue of anwould not serve any purpose of the Copyright omission of notice resulting entirely from a mis- Act; as a result, the court felt compelled to con- take of law. The court said suchnn omission is clude that plaintiff's white pages do not consti- "deliberate" and cited the legislative history of tute an original work of authorship within the section 405(a)(2) of the Copyright Act of 1976 meaning of the-act. In another interesting deci- for the proposition that a work published with- sion, the copyrightability of maps submitted to out copyrightnotice will still be protected for the Interstate Commerce Commission as part of at least five yells% whether the omission was par- the filing of statutorily mandated Sniff schedules tial or total, deliberate or unintentional. It said was upheld in Rand McNally v. Fleet Manage- that the allowance in section 405(a)(2) of a ment Systems, CCH Copr. L. Rptr. 25,624 (N.D. period as lengthy as five years in which to cure Ill. Dec. 31, 1983); the defendant argued to no an omission suggests that Congress wished to be avail that sincn, carriers and shippers are . solicitous of the actual intent of the author. expected to know the contents of the filed tariffs Sherry Manufacturing Co. Inc. v. Towel King of they have the force of law, and that consequently Florida, Inc., 220 U.S.P.Q. 855 (S.D. Fla. 1983), they are similar to a statute or judicial opinion, also involved the issue of omission of the copy- both of which are uncopyrightable. The Court right notice, but there the court held that pic- of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found fault with tures of designs printed on towels depicted in the district court's analysis in Apple Barrel Pro- a catalog did not constitute a publication of the ductions, Inc. v. Beard, 730 F.2d 384 (5th Cir. 108 127 Copyright Office

1984), where the plaintiff claimed copyright in tion between programs which are used in the its originaexpression of the idea for a country production of further copyrighted works and music show performed by children. The plain- those' which are not. The Congress enacted tiff applied for copyright registration in the work CONTU's recommendations in amending the as a whole, not in its component parts. The dis- Copyright Act in 1980 to include computer pro- trict court, however, did not view the show as grams explicitly. a whole but divided it into its component parts The right to exercise control over the work was of script, design, and format and concluded that emphasized as a key element in finding a "work sinclitthe parts were not separately copyrightable for hire" relationship in a number of cases. The the show in its entirety was not subject to copy- Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Aldon right protection. On appeal the court disagreed Accessories Ltd. v. Spiegel, Inc., 738 F.2d 548 with this analysis and held that despite the fact (2d Cir. 1984), upheld the instructions given to that the individual parts of the show were not the jury in the district court that "within the copyrightable in themselves, the work was pro- scope of employment," in the present Copyright tectible as a compilation. Copyrightability was Act, means a person acting under the direction also the issue in Lone Ranger Television, Inc. v. and supervision of the hiring author, at the hir- Program Radio.Corporation, CCH Copr. L. Rptr. ing author's. instance and expense. The'instruc- 25,691 (9th Cir. July 26, .1984), where the court lion said that it does not matter whether the "for found that the defendant's duplicating, remix- hire': creator is en employee in the sense of hav- ing, and distribution of plaintiffs uncopyrighted ing a regular job with the hiring author. What tapes constitutes the making of a derivative work matters is whether the hiring author caused the based on the underlying copyrighted scripts. work to be made and exercised the right to direct Plaintiffs tapes were created before the 1972 and supervise the creation. In Schmid Brothers, phonorecord amendment and were therefore not Inc. v. W. Goebel Forzellanfabrik K.G., CCH protected by federal statutory copyright. How- Copr: L. Rptr. 25,687 (E.D.N.Y. June 20,1984) ever, the scripts on which plaintiffs tapes were the issue was whether Sister Berta Hummel based were all copyrighted. The court found that created certain artistic works as an "employee for defendant's activity resulted in new derivative hire" of her convent. The court said that the works based on the copyrighted scripts in the essential factor determining whether a work is same manner as if the defendant had worked made by an "employee for hire" is whether the from the scripts. Copyrightability of a computer employer had the right to direct and supervise operating program was the issue in Apple Com- the actual performance of the work. It said fur- puter, Inc. v. Formula international, Inc., 725 ther 'that even if hdr relationship to the convent F. 2d 521 (9th Cir. 1984). The district court had was one of employee and employer for some held that copyright protects computer programs purposes, her contributions to the figurines in of all types, whether they are operating programs question were not made as an employee for hire or application programs. The defendant argued since she had full artistic control over the works on appeal that operating programs, because they which bore her name. In a replevin action to control the internal operation of the computer, recover possession of photographic negatives were only 'ideas" or "processes" and therefore not made at plaintiffs request at her home, an copyrightable. The Court of Appeals said that Illinois state court In Sykee v. Roulo, 461 N.E. the legislative history reveals that defendant's 2d 480 (Ill. App. Ct. 1984), had to decide if the arguments were considered and rejected by Con- photographs were works made for hire. It said gress when copyright protection-was extended that the crucial question is whether the plain- to computer programs. The 1975"Final Report tiff had theeright to control the work even if she of the National Commission on New Technologi- did not exercise it. The court noted that the evi- cal Uses of Copyrighted Works (the CONTU dence showed, that the plaintiff did exercise con- Report) stated that there should be no distinc- trol over the manner in which the photographs

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were made and that the inference was that the mit a supplemental pleading alleging submis- photographs were produced by the defendant in sion of the document to the Copyright Office, the capacity of an employee for hire. In Arthur reasoning that receipt of a transfer document in Bet law & Associates, Inc. v. Travenol Labora- the Copyright Office does not mean the docu- tories, Inc. 582 F.Supp. 1010 (N.D. Ill. 1984), ment is automatically accepted for recordation. the plaintiff published a newsletter on behalf of The case was dismissed for lack of subject mat- defendant. The court said that there is ter jurisdiction. In Meta-Film Associates, Inc. v. sumption that the copyright belongs to theer- MCA, Inc., 586 F. Supp. 1346 (C.D. Ca. 1984), son at whose instance and expense the work was the court said that the literal language of section done and that this presumption can only be 205(d) of the Copyright Act suggests that recor- rebutted by an expiess "contractual reservation dation is a condition precedent to instituting of to the contrary." Plaintiff claimed there was an a suit, but that the courts have not strictly con- "understanding" that it was to own the copy- strued the filing requirements of the act. The right. The court said that an "understanding" court stated that subsequent recordation will be does not satisfy the requirement of the law that allowed to relate back, so that the assignee the parties must expressly agree to the owner- acquires a right to sue as of the date of the filing ship in a written instrument. of the action. In a New York state court case, In seemingly similar circumstances, the courts Myers v. Waverly Fabrics, CCH Copr. L. Rptr. reached different conclusions on the need to 25,684 (Sup. Ct. N .Y . May 22, 1984), the court record a document regarding a transfer of copy- ruled that while a nonexclusive license permit- rights before suit can be brought. In Northern ting defendant to reproduce plaintiffs design Songs, Ltd. v. Distinguished Productions, Inc., was not required to be in writing under the 581 F. Supp. 638 (S.D.N.Y. 1984), defendant Copyright Act since it did not constitute a trans- sought dismissal of the infringement action fer of ownership, the nonexclusive license in against it, contending that plaintiff had failed to this case was required to be in writing under the comply with the recordation requirements for New York Statute of Frauds since, by its terms, transfers under the Copyright Act in that the it could not be performed within one year of its recorded documents did not contain the name making. The complaint was dismissed. of the songs involved in the suit. The court ruled The much-publicized Supreme Court decision for the plaintiff, stating that the import of the in Sony Corporation of America v. Universal recordation requirements of the law is to provide City Studios, Inc., 104 S.Ct. 774 (1984), was record notice of transfers before suit is brought. rendered during the fiscal year. The case in- The court said further that the effectiveness of volved the off-air home videotaping for private transfer documents is not related to the question use of television programs, many of which were of notice and that in the present case the defen- copyrighted. The copyright proprietor had dant had actual notice of the transfers and the brought suit against the manufacturers, distribu- alleged failure to receive constructive notice tors, and retail vendors of videocassette re- under the act cannot constitute a bar to an in- corders used to tape the works off the air. The fringement suit. In Patch Factory, Inc. v. Broder, district court held for the defendants, and the 586 F. Supp. 132 (N.D.Ga. 1984), the defendant Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed asked for dismissal of the action because plain- by holding that Congress did not intend to create tiff had not alleged recordation of the copyright a blanket exemption for home videorecording, transfer document by which it acquired the as was done for home sound recording, and that copyright. The court said that section 205(d) of home videorecording was not a fair use. It held the Copyright Act explicitly mandates recorda- further that the corporate defendants were guilty tion of the transfer of rights in a copyright as a of contributory infringement on the ground that prerequisite for filing suit where such transfer home videotape recorders are manufactured, ad- is the basis of the suit. The court refused to per- vertised, and sold for the primary purpose of

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reproducing television programming, virtually 1983), the defendant used verbatim language in all of which is copyrighted. The Supremo Court its television advertisements that was from reversed in a five-to-four decision, holding that plaintiffs copyrighted publication. The defen- the sale of videocassette recorders to the general dant's advertisements stated that its Regina public does not constitute contributory infringe- vacuum cleaners were found by Consumers ment of the copyrights in the broadca,st material. Union to be the highest rated of their kind. Con- The record below had shown that the predomi- sinners Union sought injunctive- relief to prevent nant use of home videocassette recorders was for such use on the grounds of copyright infringe- time shifting. The Court said that the sale of ment. The district court granted an injunction copying equipment, like the sale of other articles which was later vacated by the Court of Appeals of commerce, does not constitute contributory for the Second Circuit, which found the defen- infringement if the product is widely used for dant's use to be a fair use. The court said that legitimate, unobjectionable purposes. The Court in some cases an advertiser may copy some also indicated that the time shifting was fairuse. ekcerpts from a copyrighted work to advance his In another case involving alleged noninfring- commercial interests as long as the purpose is ing use, Atari v. ISS.A. Group, CCH Copr. L, to report factual information and that since Con- Rptr. 25,613 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 6, 1983), the defen- sumer Reports is "primarily informational rather dant was charged with contributory copyright than creative," the scope of permissible,use is infringement because of its sale of a device greater. The court said that the defendant used called Prom Blaster. The purpose of the device Consumers Union's exact words in the interest was to.make duplicate copies of computer pro- of accuracy, not piracy, and that use of the exact grams used in video games. The device could words may be the only valid way to precisely copy plaintiff's games among others. The defen- report the evaluation. Fair use in news reporting dant argued that copying the video games is was the issue in Diamond v. Am-Law Publishing legal and that, even if it is not, the court may Corp., CCH Copr. L. Rptr. 25,627 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. -not enjoin the sale of the Prom Blaster because 4, 1984). The plaintiff, an attorney, wrote a let- it has other uses that are lawful. As to the sec- ter to the defendant taking issue with en article ond defense the court said that Prom Blaster can which appeared in defendant's magazine. The perform only two functions, to copy other's defendant published an excerpt of the letter in video games or duplicate the plaintiffs games. its magazine, disregarding the plaintiffs instruc- The court said that the test is not whetherthe tion that the letter could only be printed in full. Prom Blaster has some noninfringing use, brit The court found that the defendant's use of the wheer it has a substantial noninftinging use. letter was legitimate news reporting relating to The ab found that it did not. The court fur- the type of news featured in the magazine and ther found that-the purpoSe of section 117 of the that the plaintiff had no right to impose the con- Copyright Act, which permits the owner of a dition that only the entire letter could be printed. computer program to make an additional copy Fair use in news reporting was also an issue in for archival purposes, is to protect the use of a Guccione and Penthouse International, Ltd. v. computer program against the risk of destruction Flynt, CCH Copr. L. Rptr. 25,669 (S.D.N.Y. June or damage by mechanical or electrical failure. 1,1984), where the defendant published plain- The court ruled that the defendant failed to bring tiff's copyrighted photograph as an illustration itself within the section 117 exception, since it in an article claiming that the plaintiff had fre- did not show that the programs intended to be quently been photographed with nude models. duplicated by the Prom Blaster were suscepti- The court found that the unauthorized publica- ble to destruction through mechanical or elec- tion of a single photograph was not a taking of trical failure when used in the video games. a substantial part of plaintiff's published work In Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. which consists of a large number of photo- General Signal Corp., 724 F.2d 1044 (2d Cir. graphs, and that there was no showing that the

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defendant's use affected the market value of 720 F.2d 733 (2d Cir. 1083), the author's heirs plaintiffs magazine, where the photograph origi- terminated their license with Mills Music pur- nally appeared. In a trial on the merits in Finan- suant to section 304(c)(6) of the statute. Mills had cial Information v. Moody's, CCH Copr.Rptr. licensed recording rights to a record producer, 25,617 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 10, 1984), the court con- and the question was whether Mills has any cluded that the defendant's use of plaintiffs col- right to the royalties-earned by the derivative lected data was a fair use. The plaintiff collects recording after Mille's license had been termi- and publishes daily information reseeding the nated. The court- held that the derivative works redemption of bonds. At the end of the year all exception goes only to the maker of the deriva- of the daily information is gathered and pub- tive work, namely the record producer, and that lished in a single work. The court: held that both the henefitfrom the continued use-of the licerqe the daily and yearly compilations were copy- goes only to the author's heirs. During the fiscal rightable. The court found that the defendant year, certiorari was granted by the Supreme uses the plaintiff's published data as one of its Court, with one, argument scheduled early in the sources in creating its own reports. Also, the next term of ehe Court. court stated that the facts on the plaintiffs The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit individual cards are in the public domain, and banded down an important,decision with that the plaintiff's compilations, which were the respect to the activities of performing rights basis of the copyright claims, were not copied. societies when it found in Buffalo Broadcasting In City Consumer SerVices, Inc. v. Home, 10 Company, Inc. v, American Society of Com- F.R.D. 740 (D. Utah, Dec. 21, 1983), ihe posers, Authors and Publishers, CCH Copr. L. tiff sought to prevent defendant from obt ng Rptr. 25,710 (Sept. 18, 1984), that the plaintiff, its records by discovery by claiming copyright an independent television station, did not pre- in its compilation of the records. The court said sent evidence-to sustain a conclusion that the it appeared that plaintiffs compilation of records blanket licensing to perform copyrighted music is worthy of protection,under the copyright law, involved in this cans is an unlawful restraint of but the court ruled that the defendant's examina- trade. Several years before the court had reached tion of such work is fair use. In V/POW, Inc. the same conclusibn in regard to network sta- v. MRLJ Enterprises, 584 F. Supp. 132 (D.D.C. tions in Coltimbia Sroadcosting System, Inc. v. 1984), the court found defendant's copying of American Society of Compeeera, Authors and site specifications submitted by plaintiff to the Publishers, 620 F.2d 930 (2d Cir. 1980), cert. Federal ComMunications Commission as part of denied, 450 U.S. 970 (1981). an application for a license to construct a radio transmitting facility was not a fair use. Although the defendant had argued that construction spec- ifications for a specific site would necessarily INTERNATIONAL FOCUS have to be similar, the court found that a number of different engineering solutions could be pro- The Copyright 0 ti ce continued to be concerned-- posed for that site and that plaintiff's report was with issues that were international in impact. protectible as an original expression of its idea. Early in the fiscal year Assistant Register of The court said the FCC rules, which may encour -' -Copyrights Anthony Harrison traveled to Geneva age competing applications to be similar, can- to represent the United States at a meeting of a not affect the protection afforded by the panel of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Copyright Act to an engineering firm's original Trade (GATT). The issue before the panel was work product. the extension in the United States of a manufac- In a case involving an interpretation of the ter- turing clause in the copyright law, an extension mination of transfers provision of the copyright which several nations of the European Economic law, Harty Fox Agency, Inc. v. Mills Music, Inc., Community claimed was illegal. 112 131 Copyright Office

In September 1983 a forum on public lending The origins and importance of international rights was held in the- Whitten Pavilion. Copy- copyright law were the focus of a symposium right Office General Counsel Dorothy Schrader held in the, Copyright Office in June 1984. Guest was one of the speakers at the forum, which in- speakers included Dr. Gyolgy Boytha, director cluded a number of international guests. The of the Copyright Law Divisigi of the World Intel- forum listened to discussions of the public lend- lectual Property Organization, Copyright Office ing rights laws that already exist in ten staff, and various representatives of other gov- countries. ernmental departments, as well as private In November 1983 the Copyright Office held attorneys. a preliminary conference for visitors 'from more After visiting the People's Republic of China than a dozen Oatentries attending meetings of the in July to attend a copyright training seminar in Intergovernmental Copyright and 13 eme Conven- tion executive committees. The purpose of the Shanghai, Mr. Ladd predicted that the Chinese preliminary conference was threefold: to allow would develop a national copyright statute with- a more leisurely exchange of views on current in three to five years. Speaking before the Ameri- copyright issues before the more formal interna- can Bar Association in Chicago in August, he tional meetings, to. acquaint participants with commented that the Chinese clearly intend to significant legislative and policy initiatives develop a copyright statute that will fulfill the within the United States, and to enable U.S. purposes of the bilateral Agreement on Trade copyright specialists to learn of important ne.e Relations of 1979 and the Trade Act of 1974. developments in Europe. The guests included Important progress toward worldwide cooper- representatives of the Federal Republic of Ger- ation in the international protection of copy- many; the Patent Office in London, England; the righted programming carried by satellites was Ministry of 3ustice of Austria; the Embassy of taken in late 1984 as the Australia; the Swiss Federal Intellectual Prop- worked toward ratification of the Convention erty Office; and Canada, France, and the United Relating to Distribution of Programme-Carrying States. Issues discussed included off -air taping, Signals Transmitted by Satellite, also known es computer software, piracy, and the Brussels the Brussels Satellite Convention. As unautho- Satellite Convention. rized reception and distribution of television In March 1984 Register Ladd delivered a lec- signals has become more widespread, interest in ture entitled "Securing the Future of Copyright; this convention, developed in 1974 and consist- A Humanist Endeavor" at the annual meeting of ing of nine member states, has increased. The the International Publishers Association held irrconvention obligates contracting states to take Mexico City. adequate measures to prevent unauthorized dis- In April 1984 Register of Copyrights David Ladd led a copyright delegation to Taiwan and tribution of programming carried by, satellite on Singapore to discuss the problems of copyright their territories. piracy with authorities in both states. Accom- In September 1984 the Register of Copyrights panying him Were Lewis Flacks, policy planning delivered to the United States Senate a major adviser, and representatives from the Depart- report entitled 'To Secure Intellectual Property ments of Commerce and State, from the Office Rights in Foreign Markets." The report, which of the U.S. Trade Representatiee, and from the addressed the question of how the United States private sector. Mr. Ladd reported that the meet- could protect the intellectual property interests ings had had pesitive results and that he had of its nationals in foreign countries, had been found reason to hope that both Taiwan and solicited by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a member Singapore were "taking a good step forward" of the Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Copy- toward the development of stronger systems of rights, and Trademarks, 4nd by Congressman copyright. Michael Barnes, Chairman of the House Sub-

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committee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the on the part of the United States and by inter- Committee on Foreign Affairs. The 169-page national organizations dealing with copyright. report dealt With the piracy of American works, including books, sound recordings,,,and motion Respectfully submitted, 4. pictures, in various regions of the world; the N problems of fostering adoption of copyright laws DAVID LADD throughout the world to accommodate new tech- Register of Copyrights and nologies for use of copyrighted works; and the Assistant Librarian of Congress avenues to those ends, both in unilateral action for Copyright Services

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International Copyright -Relations of the United States as of September 30, 1984 This table sets forth U.S. copyright relations of clibent interest with the other independent nations of the world. Each entry gives country name (and alternate name) and a statement of copyright relations. The following code is used:

Bilateral Bilateral copyright relations withlhe United States by virtue of a proclamation Or treaty, as ofe date giveri. Where there is more than one proclamation or treaty, only the date of the first e is given. BAC Party to the Buepos Aires Convention of 1910, as of the date §.iven. U.S. ratification deposited with the goveriFment of Argentina, May 1, 1911; proclaimed by the President of the United States, July 13, 1914. UCC Geneva Party to the Universal Copyright Convention, Geneva, 1952, as of the date given. The effective t date for the United States was September 16,v1955> UCC Paris Party to the Universal Copyright Convention as revised at Paris; 1971, as of the date given. The effective date for the United States was July 10, 1974. Pbonograra Party to the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograins against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms, Geneva, 1971, as of the date given. The effective date for the United States was March 10, 1974. tUnclear Became independent since 1943. Has not established copyright relations with the United States, but may be honoring obligations incurred under former political status. tf None No copyright relations with the United States. a Afghanistan Austria Benin None Bilateral Sept. 20. 1907 (formerly Dahomey) Albania UCC Geneva July 2, 1957 Unclear Phonogram Aug. 21. 1982 None Bhutan Algeria Bahamas, The None UCC Geneva Aug. 28, 1973 UCC Geneva July 10, 1973 UCC Paris Dec. 27, 1976 Bolivia UCC Paris July 10, 1974 MC May 1,5, 1914 Andorra Bahrain None Botswana UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1935 Unclear Bangladesh Angola Brazil Unclear UCC Genova Aug. 5, 1975 UCC Paris Aug, 5, 1975 Bilateral Apr. 2, 1957 Attlitta.Barbuda MC Aug. 31, 1915 Unclear Barbados UCC Geneva Jan. 13, 1960 UCC Geneva June 18, 1983 UCC Paris Dec. 11, 1975 Argentina UCC Paris June 18, 1983 Phonogram Nov. 28, 1975 Bilateral Aug. 23, 1934 Phonograna July 29, 1983 BAC April 19, 1950 Brunei UCC Geneva Feb, 13, 1958 Belau Ljnclear Unclear Phonagram June 30, 1973 Bulgaria Belgium Australita UCC Geneva June 7, 1975 Bilateral July 1, 1891 UCC Paris June 7, 1975 Bilateral Mar. 15, 1918 UCC Geneva Aug. 31, 1960 UCC Geneva May 1, 1969 Burkina Faso UCC Paris Feb, 28, 1978 Belize (formerly Upper Volta) Phonagram June 22, 19744 UCC,Genava Sept. 21, 1981 Unclear

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Burma Czechoslovakia Gabon Unclear Bilateral Mar. 1, 1927 Unclear UCC Geneva Jan. 6, 1960 Burundi UCC Paris Apr. 17, 1980 Gambia, The Unclear Unclear Denmark Cambodia Bilateral May 8, 1893 Germany (See entry under Kampuchea) UCC Geneva Feb. 9, 1952 Bilateral Apr. 15, 1892 UCC Geneva With Federal Repub- Cameroon Phonogram Mar. 24,. 1977 UCC Paris July 11, 1979 lic ofGennany Sept. 16;1955 UCC Geneva ,May 1, 1973 UCC Paris'whh Federal Republic UCC Paris July 10, 1974 Djibouti of Germany July 10, 1974 Canada Unclear Phonogram with Federal Repub- Bilateral Jan. 1, 1924 .Dominica lic of Germany May 18, 1974 ' UCC Geneva Aug. 10, 1962 Unclear UM. Geneva with German Demo- cratic Republic Oct. t, 1973 . . Cape Verde Dominican Republic' UCC Parli with German Demo- Unclear BAC Oct. 31, 1912. cratic Republic Dec. 10, 1980 Central African Republic UCC Geneva May 8, 1983 UCC Paris May,8, 1983 Ghana Unclear UCC Geneva Aug. 22, 1962 Ecaader Chad Greece Unclear BAC Aug. 31, 1914 UCC Geneva Nile 5, 1957 Bilateral Mar. 1, 1932 Chile Phonogram Sept. 14, 1974 UCC Geneva Aug. 24, 1963 Bilateral May 25, 1896 Egypt a Granada AC June 14, 1955 Phonogram Apr. 23,, 1578 Unclear UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 For works other than sound re- Phonogram March 24, 1977 Guatemala' cordings, none BAC Mar. 28, J913 China El Salvador UCC Geneva Oct. 28, 1904 Bilateral Jan. 13, 1904 Bilateral June 39, 1908, by virtueof Monogram Feb. 1, 1977 Colombia Mexico City Convention, 1902 .Gatti-it BAC Dec. 23, '1936 UCC, GeneVa Mar. 29, 1079 UM Geneva Nov. 13, 1981 UCC Geneva June 18, 1976 UCC Paris Mar. 29, 1979. UCC Pari,a Nov. 13, 1981 Phonogram Feb. 9, 1979 UCC Paris June 18, 1976 ' CubistKam Comoros Equatorial Guinea Unclear Unclear Unclear Guyana Ethiopia Congo . Unclear Now) Unclear Haiti Fiji Costa Rica' BAC Nov. 27, 1919 UM Geneva Oct. 10. 1970 UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 Bilateral Oct. 19, 1899 Phonogram Apr. 18, 1973 BAC Nov. 30, 1916 Honduras' UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 BAC Apr. 27, 1914 UCC Paris Mar. 7, 1980 Bilateral Jan. 1, 1929 Phonogram June 17, 1982 UCC Geneva Apr. 16. 1963 Hungary Phonogram Apr. 18, 1973 Bilateral Oct. 16, 1912a Cuba France UCC Geneva Jan. 23, 1971 Bilateral Nov. 17, 1903 IICC Paris July 10, 1974 UCC Geneva Juno 18, 1957 Bilateral.fuly 1, 1891 Phonogrem May 28, 1975 UCC Genava Jan. 14, 1956 Cyprus UCC Parr July 10, 1974 Iceland Unclear Phonogram Apr 18, 1073 tiCC Geneva Dec. 18, 1956

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India Lehanort Morocco Bilateral Aug, 15, 1947 UCC GenevaOct. 17, 1959 UCC Geneva May 8, 1972 UCC Geneva Jan. 21, 1958 UCC Paris Jane 28, 1976 Phonogram Feb. 12, 1975 Lesotho Unclear Mozaxabique Indonesia Unclear Unclear Liberia UCC Geneva July 27, 1956 Nauru Iran Unclear None Libya Unclear Nepal Iraq None None Liechtenstein "e7 UCC Geneva Jan. 22, 1959 Netherlands Ixe !stud Bilateral Nov. 20, 1899 Bilateral 'Oct. 1, 1929 Luxembourg UCC Geneva June 22, 1967 UCC Geneva Jan. 20, 1959 Bilateral June 29, 1910 New Zealand Israel UCC Geneva Oct. 15, 1955 Bilateral D. 1, 1916 Bilateral May 15, 1948 Phonogram Mar. 8, 1976 UCC Geneva Sept. 11, 1964 UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 Madagascar Phonogram Aug: 13;1976 Phonogram May 1, 1978 (Malagasy Republic) Nicaragua' Italy Unclear BAC Dec. 15. 1913 Bilaieral Oct. 31, 1892 Malawi UCC Geneva Aug. 16, 1961 UCC Canova Jan. 24, 1957 UCC Geneva Oct. 26, 1965 Phonogram Mat 24, 1977 Niger, UCC Paris Jan. 25, 1980 Malaysia Unclear Unclear Ivory Coast Nigeria Unclear Maldives; UCC Geneva Feb. 14, 1962 Jam': lea Unclear Norway None Mali Bilateral July 1, 1905 Japan Unclear UCC Geneva Jan. 23, 1983 UCC Geneva Apr. 28, 1956 UCC'Paris Aug. 7, 1974 Mita Phonogram Aug. 1, 1978 UCC Paris Oct. 21, 1977 UCC Geneva Nov. 19, 1968 Phonogram Oct. 14, 1978 Oman Mauritania None Jordan Unclear Unclear Pakistan Mauritius UCC Geneva 'Sept. 16. 1955 Kampuchea UCC Geneva Mar. 12, 1968 UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 Panama Kenya Mexico BAC Nov. 25, 1913 UCC Geneva Sept. 7, 1966 Bilateral Fob. 27, 1896 UCC Geneva Oct. 17. 1962 UCC Paris July 10, 1974 BAC Apr. 24, 1964 UCC: Paris Sept. 3, 1980 Phonogram Apr. 21, 1976 UCC Geneva May 12, 1957 Phonogram June 29, 1974 UCC Paris Oct. 31, 1975 Papua New Guinea Kiribati Phonogram Dec. 21, 1973 Unclear Unclear Monaco Paraguay Korea -Bilateral Oct. 15, 1952 Unclear BAC Sept. 20, 1917 UCC Geneva Sept. 16. 1955 UCC Geneva Mar. 11i 1962 Kuwait UCC Paris Dec. 13, 1974 Phonogram Feb. 13, 1979 Unclear Phonogram Dec. 2, 1974 Peru . Mongolia BAC Apr. 30, 1921 UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 Nene UCC Geneva Oct. 16, 1963

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Philipeinee Solomon Islands Trinidad and Tobago Bi Zatertl Oct. 21,-1948 Unclear Unclear UCC atatera undetermined by Unetee. (i:',opyrieht Office con- Somalia Tunisia :edam that UCC relatioree do notUnclear UCC. Geneva June 19. 1969 UCC Paris June 10, 1975 exists) South Africa Bilateral July 1, 1924 Turkey ft* leed None Bilateral Feb, 18, 1927 `Soviet Union ,Tuvalu /kr Geneve Mar_ 9, 1977 UCC Geneva May ,27, 1973 UCC. Paris Mar. 9, 1977 Unclear Spain Teeringal Uganda Bilateral July 10, 1895 Unclear Militant) July 20, 1893 UCC Geneva Sept. 16, 1955 UM Geneva Dec- 25, 1956 UCC Paris July 10, 1974 United Arab Emirates UCC MIS July 30, 1981 Phonogram Aug. 24, 1974 None United Kingdom Qatar Sri Lanka None Bilateral July 1, 1891 (formerly Ceylon) UCC Geneva Sept. 27, 1957 Uelakit14 UCC Geneva. Jan. 25, 1984 UCC Paris July. 10, 1974 Bilateral May 14, 1928 UCC Paris Jan. 25, 1984 Phonogram Apr. 18, 1973 Rwanda Sudan Upper Volta . Unclear` Unclear (See entry under Burkina Faso) Saint Chriatephar end Nevis Suriname Uruguay Unc laar Unclear B.AC Dec. 17, 1919 Phonogram Jan. 18, 1983 St1415; LUC - Swaziland Unclear. Vanuatu Unclear Unclear Saint I/lament andelite-GnanaliiinesSweden Vatican City Bilateral June 1, 1911 Urc tear (Holy See) UCC Geneva July 1, 1981 UCC Geneva Oct. 5, 1955 San Marino UCC Paris July 10, 1974 Phoneme: july 18, 1977 None Phonogram Apr. 18, 1973 UCC Paris May 6, 1080 Sko Tame and Principe Switzerland Venezuela Unc Bilateral July 1, 1891 UCC Geneva Sept. 30, 1968 UCC Geneva Mar. 30, 1956 Sandi Arabia Phonogram Nov. 18, 1982 None Syria Vietnam Unclear Unclear Senegal Uta: Geneva July 9, 1974 Tananeta Western Samoa UCC Paris July 10, 1974 Unclear, Unclear Yemen (Aden) Seychelles Thailand Unidear Bilateral Sept. 1, 1921 Unclear , Yemen (San's) Sierra Leone Togo None None Uncle ae Yugoslavia Singapore Tonga UCC Geneva May 11, 1966 Unclear None UCC Paris July 10, 1974

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Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe Phonogram Nov. 29, 1977 UCC Geneva June 1, 1985 Unclear For works other than sound re- cordings, unclear a

I Belize notified the Director-Gcrneral of Unesco on December 1, 1982, of its decisionto apply "provisionally, and on the basis of reciprocity" the Universal Copyright Comeon as adopted at Genova on September 6, 1952. the application of which had been extended to its territory before the inment of independence from the United Kingdom on September 21, 1981. 2 Effective June 30, 1908. this country a party to the 1902 Mexico City Convention, to which the United States also became a party effective the same datc regards copyright relations with the United States, this convention iscon- sidesed to have been superseded by aciheco of this country and the United States to the Huai= Aires Convention of 1910. 3 Bilateral copyright relations betsn Japan and the United States, which were formulated effective May 10, 1908, are considered to have been abrogated anduperseded by the adhereoc.e of Japan to the Universal Copyright Convention,Geneva, .1952, effective April 28, 1956:

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Number of Registrations by Subject Matter of Copyright, Fiscal 1984

Category of material Published Unpublished Wel

Nondramatic literary works Monographs and machine-readable works 113,020 34,156 147,176 Serials 113,603 113,603

Total 226,623 34,156 260,779 Works of the perforraing.arts, including musical works, dramatic works, choreography and pantomimes, and motion pictures and filmstrips 37,744 ' 102,442 140,186 4 Works of the visual arts, including two-dimensioniil works of fine and graphic art, sculptural works, technical drawings and models, photographs, cartographic works, 6ommercial prints and labels, and .- works of applied art 29,260 13,515 42795

Sound recordings- 8,638 12,949 21,587

Grand total 302,285 163,082 465,347

Renewals 37,281

Total, all registrations 502,628

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Disp sitionof Copyright Deposits, Fiscal 1984

Received for / /Iceived for copyright copyright registration Acquired registration and forwarded or depgsited and ad , to other without to copyrightdepartments of copyright Category of material collection the Library registration Total

Nondramatic literary works Monographs and machine-readable works 96,852 99,981 9,637 I 206,470 Serials 227,206 225,361 '452,567 Total 96,852 327,187 234,998 .659,037

Works of the performing arts, including ' musical works, dramatic works, choreography and pantomimes, and motion pictures and filmstrips 123,763 43,560 ,197 167,520 Works of the visual arts, including two-dimensional works of fine and graphic art, sculptural works, technical drawings and models, photographs, commercial prints and labels, and works of applied art 34,770 39 179 34(.1_ 'I Cartographic works' 660 14242 1,902

Total 34,770 699 1,421 36,890

Sound recordings 17,545 6,184 925 24,654

Total, all deposits 272,930 377,630 237,541 888,101

I Of this total, 23,522 copies wore transferred to the Exchange and Gift Division foruse in its programs. 2 Of this total, 80,557 copies wore transferred to the Exchange and Gift Division foruse in Its programs.

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Estimated Value of Materials Thmsferred to the Library of Congress

Items Items accompanying submitted for Total Average Ibtal copyright deposit only items unit items registration under 407 transferred price transferred

Docks 83,350 9,637 92,987 $17.20 $1,599,376 Books, periodicals (for Exchange and Gift) 48,711 55,368 104,079 2.27 236,259 Periodicals 193,126 169,993 363,119 3.43 1,245,498 Motion Pictures 7,312 616 7,928 480.00 3,805,440 Music 43,560 197 43,757 19.00 831,383 Sound Recordings 6,184 925 7,109 12.60 89,573 Maps 660 1,242 1,902 20.20 38,420 Prints, pictures, and works of art 39_ 179 218 12.10 2,637

Total 382,942 238,157 621,099 7,848,586

Total estimated value of materials $7,848,586 Fees transferred to appropriation 5,200,000 Fees transferred to miscellaneous receipts 180,500 Fees transferred to miscellaneous receipts for annual cost of Licensing Division 680,000

Total 13,909,686

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Financial Statement of Royalty Fees for Compulsory Licenses for'Secondary nansmissions by Cable Systems for Calendar Year 1983

Royalty lees deposited $66,697,432.82 Interest income paid on investments 3,978,798.47

$70,676,231.29 Less: Operating costs 508,848.00 'Refunds issued 83,786.12 Investments purchased at cost 69,922,863.76 Copyright Royalty Tribunal cost for services 50,000.00

70,565,497.88

Balance as of September 30, 1984 110,733.41

Face amount of securities purchased 73,635,000.00 Cable royalty fees for calendar year 1983 available for distribution by the Ccipyright Royalty Tribunal 73,745,733.41

Financial Statement of Royalty Fees for Compulsory Licenses for Coin-Operated Players (Jukeboxes) for Calendar Year 1984

Royalty fees deposited $4,788,715.00 Interest income paid on investments 272,448.25

$5,061,163.25

Less: Operating costs 134,216.00 Refunds issued 5,485.00 Investments purchased at cost 4,869,312.07

5,009,013.07

Balance as of September 30, 1984 52,150.18 Face amount of securities purchased 4,240,000.06 Estimated interest income due September 30, 1985 1,010,840.630, Jukebox royalty fees for calendar year 1984 available for distribution by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal 5,302,990.81

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Copyright Registrations, 1790-1984

Patent Offill District Library of Courts' Congress' Labels Prints Total Total

1790-1869 150,000 150,000 1870 5,600 5,600 1871 12,688 12,688 1872 14,164 14,164 1873 15,352 15,352 1874 16,283 ... 16,283 1875 15,927 267 267 16,194 1876 14,882 510 510 15,392 1877 15,758 324 324 16,082 1878 15,798 492 N 492 16,290 1879 18,125 403 403 18,528 1880 20,686 307 307 20,993 1881 21,075 181 181 21,256 1882 22,918 223 223 23,141 1883 25,274 618 618 25,892 1884 26,893 834 834 27,727 1885 28,411 337 337 28,748 1886 31,241 397 397 31,638 1887 35,083 384 384 35,467 1888 38,225 682 682 38,907 1889 40,985 312 312 41,297 1890 42,794 304 304 43,098 1891 48,908 289 289 49,197 1892 54,735 6 6 54,741 1893 58,956 1 1 58,957 1894 62,762 * 2 2 62,764 1895 87,572 6 6 67,578 1896 72,470 1 11 12 72,482 1897 75,000 ' 3 32 35 75,035 1898 75,545 71 18 89 75,634 1899 80,968 372 76 448 81,416 . 1900 94,798 682 93 775 95,573 1901 92,351 824 124 948 93,299 1902 92,978 750 163 913 93,891 1903 97,979 910 233 1,143 99,122 1904 103,130 1,044 257 1,301 104,431 1905 113,374 1,028 345 1,373 114,747 1906 117,704 741 354 1,095 118,799 1907 123,829 660 325 985 124,814 1908 119,742 636 279 915 120,657 1909 120,131 779 231 1,010 121,141 1910 109,074 / 176 59 235 109,309 1911 115,198 576 181 757 115,955 1912 120,931 625 268 893 121,824 1913 119,495 664 254 918 120,413 1914 123,154 720 339 1,059 ' 124,213

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Patent Office' District Library of Courts' Congress' Labels Prints 'Nal e'" lbtal

1915 115,193 762 321 1,083 116,276 1916- 115,967 833 402 1,235 117,202 1917 111,438 781 342 1,123 112,561 1918 106,728 516 192 708 -107,436 1919 113,003. 572 196 v 768 113,771 1920 126,562 622 158 780 127,342 1921 135,280 1,118 367 1,485 136,765 1922 138,633 1,560 541 2,101 140,734 1923 148,946 1,549 592 2,141 151,087 1924 162,694 1,350 666 2,016 164,710 1925 165,848 1,400 615 2,015 167,863 1926 177,635 1,676 868 2,544 180,179 1927 184,000 1,782 1,074 2,856 186,856 1928 193,914 1,857 944 2,801 .. 196,715 1929 161,959 1,774 933 2,707- 164,666 1930 172,792 1,610 723 2,333 175,125 1931 164,642 1,787 678 2465 167,107 1932 151,735 1,492 483 1:975 153,710 1933 137,424 1,458 479 1,937 139,361 1934 139,047 1,635 535 2,170 141,217 1935 142,031 1,908 500 2,408 144,439 1938 156,982 1,787 519 2,306 159,268 1937 154,424 1,955 551 2,506 156,930 1938 166,248 1,806 &09 2,415 168,663 .0. 1939 173,135 1,770 545 2,315 175,450 1940 178,997 1,856 614 2,470 179,467 1941 180,647 180,647 1942 182,232 182,232 1943 160,789 160,789 1944 169,269 169,269 1945 178,848 178,848 946 202,144 202,144 947 230,215 230,215 1 48 238,121 238 121 1 49 201,190 2011190 1950 210,564 210,564 1951 200,354 200,354 1952 203,705 203,705 1953 218,506 218,506 1954 222,665 222,665- 1955 224,732 224,732 1956 224,908 224,008 1957 225,807 225,807- 1958 238,935 238,935 1959 241,735 241,735 1980 243,926 243,926 144 . 125 s

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1 Patent Office' District Library of Courts' Congress 2 Labels Prints Ibtal Tbtal

1961 247,014 247,014 1962 254,776 .254,776 1963 264,845 264,845 t. 1964 278,987 278,987 1965 293,617 293,617 1966 286,860 288,868 1967 294,406 294,406 1968 303,451 303,451 1969 301,258 301,258 1970 316,466 316,466 1971 329,696 329,696 1972 344,574 34.4,574 1973 353,648 353,648 1974 372,832 372,832 1975 401,274 401,274 1976 410,969 410,969 1976 Tran.sonal qtr. 4 108,762 108,782 1977 452,702 452,702 1978 531,942 531,942 1979 429,004 429,004 19130 464,743 464,743 1981 471,178 471,178, 1982 468,149 468,149 1983 488,256 488,256 1984 502,628 502,628

Total 150,000 19,603,518 55,348 18,098 73,446 19,826,964

*Estimated registrations made. in the offices of the Clerks of the District Courts (so pamphlet entitled Records in the Copyright Office Deposited by the United States District Courts Covering the Period 1791870, by Martin A. Roberts, Chief Assistent Librarian, Library of Congress, 1939). Registrations made in the Library of Congress under the Librarian, calendar years 1870-1897 urce: Annual Reports of the Librarfan). Registrations made in the Copyright Office under the Register of Copyrights, fiscal years 108-1971 (source: Annual Reports of the Register). 3 Labels registeredsin Extent Office, 1875-1940: Prints registered in Patent Office, 1893-1949 (source: memorandum from Patent Office, dalafFeb.13, 1958, based on official reports and computations). 4Registrntio.as made July 1,1978, through September 30,1976, reported separately owing to the statutory change mak- ing the fiscal years run from October 1 through September 30 instead of July 1 through June 30. 3Reflects changes in reporting procedure.

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.Appendix 1.,ibrary of Congress Trust Fund Board

SUMMARY OF

MEMBERSHIP. Members of the Library of Congress Roseh Services; Mary Ann Adams; special Trust Fund Board during fiscal 1984 were: assistant to the Deputy Librarian of Congress; and Anthony Harvey, Senate Committee on Rules Ex Officio and Administration. unanimSlkily Daniel J. Booratin, LibriZrian of Congress, Chair- A quorum present, the board voted to reaffirm actions previously taken by poll man and Secretary; Donald T. Regan, Secre- Ow votes and accepted the investment of gifts made tary of the Treasury; and Senator Charles McC. by Mrs. Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Mae and Irving Mathias, Jr., C.hairthan. of the Joint Co ttee Jurow, Rose Marie Spivacke,the Picidord Foun- on the Library. dation, Sialrbaternational Business Machines Corporation, and the Mellon Foundation. The Appointive 'board also reaffirmed Dr. Boorstin's 1978 appoint- Mrs. Charles William Engelhard, Jr. (term ex- ment as trustee on the Huntington Trust. pires March 9, 1985). The board approved an increase in investment Mrs. Charles Bates Thornton (term expires management fees for services pf the American March 9, 1988). Security Bank for its management of the McKim and Louchheim funds. MEETING OF THE BOARD. The Library of Congress The Kindler Foundation, a nonprofit corpora- Trust Fund Board met on October 20. Attending tion in the District of Columbia, is being dis- the meeting were members Flora Laney Thorn- solved and has proposed that its assets be turned ton, Gerald Murphy (Deputy Fiscal Assistant over to the. Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. ,Secretary, Department of the Treasury, statutory Income from the created trust fund would be designee for the Secretary of the Treasuwj, and used by the Library to sponsor an annual Kindler Daniel J. Boorstin. Others attending were Donald Concert, to commission biennially a musidal C. Curran, Associate Librarian of Congress; John composition to be performed at these concerts, J. Kornieski, Library of Congress general coun- and to deposit the compoier's manuscript of the sel; John C. Broderick, Assistant Librarian for commissioned work in the Library's collections.

Sulfrary of Income and Obligations'

Permanent Investment loan account accounts Total

Unobligated funds carried forward from fiscal 1983.. $934,684.57 $620,330.77 $1,554,995.34 Income, fiscal 1984 583,961.13 787,993.75 1,341,954.88 Available for obligation, fiscal 1984 ...... 1,518,625.70 1,378,324.52 2,896,950.22 Obligations, 1984 668,484.63 246,307.30 914,791.93 Carried iiirward to fiscal 1985 850,141.07 1.132,017.22 1,982,158.29

'See appendix 10 for a detailed statement on the trust funds, as well as for income and obligations from the Ger- trude M. Hubbard bequest. A-2 147 4

Appendix 1

Thatoard unanimously voted to accept the deed of bibliography, medieval history, religion, and of trust. French literature. The boa0 also voted to transfer half the funds The above funds were placed in permanent of the Swami Memorial Fund from the Perma- loan in the U.S. Treasury. nent Loan Account in the U.S. Treasury to a A total of $500,000 from the Swann Fund was management investment finn. The remainder, deducted from the Permanent Loan Account in approximately $500,000, will be left in the U.S. the U.S. Treasury and invested with ASB Capital Treasury. Management, Inc.

ACTIVITIES. A contribution of $1,000 was AGTIVITIES.SUPPORTED BY. FUNDS HELD BY THE BOARD. awed from Philip C. McKenna to augment the Income from funds held by the board was used Boris and,Sonyl-Kroyt Memorial Fund. to suppink the Council of Scholars' Symposium. Gifts of $15,000 froM Vivian McCreary and on Work, the conference "George Orwell and $1,000 from Ana C. Moody were received to 1964," the performance of three plays by Samuel establish a trust fund known as the Raye Virginia Beckett, a "George and Ira Gershwin Celebra- Allen Trust Fund. The income from this trust tion," the Sixteenth Festival of Chamber Music, will be used to support folklife projects and and the inaugural concert of the Kindler Foun- activities administered by the American Folklife idation. Funds were also used for the purchase Center. of prints for the jOseph and Elizabeth Robins A bequest of $25,000 was received from the Pennell Collection, letters of Johannes Brahms estate of John W. Cronin, former Director of the and Clara Schuraann4and a collection of letters Processing Department, to establish a fund inlis written by composers and musical personalities name. The income from the investment will be living in the 19808 to the lexicographer Richard used for the acquisition of books ea the subject J. Potts.

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14s A-3 x Appendix Acquisitions (Inc( AcEluisitions Work

THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY

Titles Volumes/items Category 1983 1983

.'Classified Book Collections Class A (General Works) 73,786 1,854 Class B-BJ (Philosophy) , 124,254 4.06,952 Class, BL-BX (Religion) 321,804 465,776 Class C (History, Auxiliary Sciences) 85,620 174,415 Class D (History, except American) 597,853 865,705 Class E (American History) V 113,301 197,269 Class F (American History) .176,672 310,863:04 Class G (Geography, Anthropology) 284,108 281,658 Class H (Social Sciences) 929,342 2,021,424 .Class J (Political Sqlence) 20%552 628,990 Class K and "LAW(Law) , 487,068 1,590,827 Class L (Education) a a a 174,001 399,178 Class M (Music) 373,703 533,819 Class N (Fine Arts) 224,854 317,517 Class P (Language and Literature) 1,380,206 , 1,791,841 Class Q (Science) i. 450,160 793,874 Class R (Medicine) 189,324 329,809 Class S (Agriculture) . 147,785 331,588 Class T (Technology) 952,462 cs .1. 486,985 Class U (Military Science) , 61,504 141.072 Class V (Naval Science) 32,476 81,741 Class Z (Bibliography) 203,777 470.570 Total classified book collections - ...... 7,104,735 13,247.804 Nonclassified Collections Audio material Discs Recorded sound collection ., 854,861 Talking Books 11,251 13,521 Tapes and wires Recorded sound collection 119.309 Talking Books .10,404 11,035 Other recorded formats 4,805 Total audio material ...... 1.003,531 Manuscripts Manuscript Division 34,391.279 Music Division.' 315.710 Other 334,316

Total manuscripts 35,041,305 A-4 14 Appendix 2

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Titles Volumes/items Titles Volumeigitems added added withdrawn' withdrawn 'Titles Volumes/items 1984 1984 1994. 1984 1984 1984 ,

1,049 5,715 27 31 74,808 357,538 4,819 4,678 i168 ( 94 128,905 211,5S6 8,183 9,590 ' 245 150 329;742 . 475,216 3,111 4,598 3 42 68,692 178,571 13,755 17,626 311' 514 611,297 882,817 1,572 2,366- 212 101 114,661 199,534 4,826 6,493 . 142 140 181,356 3'17,2'164- 5,020 8,002 78 1,399 289,050 288,261 28,946 50,067. 820 '426,156 957,468 2,045,335 4,330 9,348 209 415 209,673 637,923 .14;989 37,975 35 720 502.V.22 1,628,082 5,005 6,088 708 2,720 178,300 40-2,546 A911 4,355 2 36 377,612 538,138 9,305 10,779 154 3,354 234,005 324,942 44 29,202 31,224 472 261 1,388,636 1,822,824 11,546 18,248 489 2,408 461,817 809,716 5,876 6,820 287 462 194,913 336,167 3,146 5,091 87 3,976 150,844 332,703 11,184 18,534 200 287 497,049 970,709 1,551 2,287 .20 74 63,035 143,285 595 1,231 18 16 33,053 82,958 4,968 9,477 233 279 208,512 488,788

176,869 270,592 4.854 43,633 7,276,650 13,474,783

27,185 882,046 416 416 11,667 13,937

29,187 130,496 1,428 1,433 11,922 12,468 306 5,111

42,S27 1,053,058 1013OIDWX:1111.malre

265,792 , 25,288 34,631,783 1,994 316,774 5 334,321 7 269,861 25,288 35,282,878

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Titles Voluraes/items Category 1983 1983

Nonclassified CollectionsContinued Maps (classified aid nonclassified) 3,749.684 3,801,247 7=1,..J211MC4171roprIM100241111111INIIIMIIIMMEMMCMCOM Microforms Microfiche' 1,581,239 3,177,615 Microfilm' 364,834 1,698,518 Micro-opaquos 72,966. 502,561

Total microforms 2,019,039 5;378,694 Print material/print Products Books in large type 54 8,551 Books in raised characters , 20 57,543 Incunabula 4,690 5,690 Minlmal-leyel cataloging (monographs) 37,192 37,192 Music . 370,195 3;691,377 Newspapers (hound) 8,931 4,-,721 Pamphlets 154,943 154,943 Technical reports 597,094 1,320,750 Other t 3,012,445 6,600,488 \,. Total print materials 7,391,497 11,924,253

Visual material Motion pictures 79,198 314,651 Photographs (negatives. prints, and slides) 8,732,624 Posters 55,219 Prints and drawings 219,928 Videotape and videodisc 10,864 14,334 Other (broadsides, photocopies, nonpictorial material, photostats, etc.) 1,0,862 Total visual material 10,401,618

Total nonclassified collections 67,550,648

Grand total 80,798,452

'Includes newspapers and technical reports. Luse microfiche sets ere reported u k sieglelitle.

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Titles , Volumes/items Titles Volumes/items added added withdrawn withdrawn Titles Vo luores/items 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984

----9,401 _.---- 50,431 1.1,224 11,224 3,747,861 3,840,454

259,248 353,233 1,066 1,066 4 1,839,421 3,529,782 ,29,704 33,488 18 18 394,520 1,731,988 1,470 1,459 74,436 504,020 290,422 388,180 1,084 j 1,084 2;308,377 5,765,790

484 8,551 355 817 5,575 58,360 5 3 4,695 5,693 20,540 20,540 57,732 57,732 2,289 2,289 3,572,784 3,693,668 375 2.774 8,556 44,947 8,287 8,287 910 910 162,320 162,320 92,336 92,338 33,846 33,846 655,584 1,379,240 18,889 18,88G 282 1 282 3,031,055 6,619,093

142,701 143,161 35,413 37,812 7,498,785 12,029,602

3,791 6,759 82,989 321,410 43,418 38,987 8,737,055 1,606 620 56,205 19,239 10 239,157 9,202 11,223 20,086 25,557

17,750 2,645 1,079,967

4. 99,995 42,262 10,459,351

995,155 117,670 68,431,133 VEIMME11111. 1,268,747 161,303 81,905,916

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(.1 RECEIPTSBiSOURCE,SEPTEMBER 30, 1984

Piaces,( 1983 Pieces, 1984

By purchase --- Funds appropriated to the Library of Congress Books for the blind and physically handicapped 1,631,652 1,705,522 Books for the Law Library 61,852 Books for the general collections 793,425 762,196 Copyright Office 6,466 6,432 Copyright OfficeLicensing Division 211 154 Congressional Research Service 307,252 278,235 Special Foreign Currency Program 33 Salaries and expenses Library of Congress Reprints and books for office use Q,260 5,145 Microfilm,of deteriorating materials, 7,630 Microfiche of deteriorating materials 1138,19883 29,675 Motion pictures 3 51 NPAC t .."-- 1 t, 6. 're,.

6.., Funds transferred from other government agecies Federal Research Division 42,883 90,67,8 Other working funds 70 , 501 Gift and trust funds American Council of Learned Societies

Babine Fund I 1 1 Center for the Book . 97 48 Documents Expediting Project 52 52 Evans Fund - 59 31

Goff Memorial Fund 1 0.-0 2 Gottscho Fund .,940 4,875 Heinemann Fund 3 Hubbard Fund ,, -. 105 8 Huntington Fund 217- 1,172 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Kostelanetz Fund 448 McKim Fund 63 ')..' Mellon Fund 1 Miller Fund 2 Morrow Fund 42 Mumford Fund 1 NYPL -East African Acquisitions Program 2 1 Pennell Fund , 12 Rizzuto Fund 5 Rowan & Littlafield 9 17 Schwartz Fund . 23 Stern Fund 3 13 Swann Foundation (interest) 161 166 Time-Life Balks 1 1

A-8 153 Appendix 2

RECEIPTS BY SOURCE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1984Continued

Pieces, 1983 Pieces, 1984

Various donors _ 3 2 Whittall Foundation 5 Wilbur Fund 11 371

Total 2,876.073 2,950,771

By government source Local agencies 328 743 State agencies 2 1 1 6 , 8 1 3 120,101 Federal documents (GPO jacket) 432,459 531,839 Federal documents (agencies and non-GPO) 134,720 247,904 Copyright deposits 620,135 645,442 Books for the adult blind *4 211 167

Total 21,304,666 1,546,196

By transfer from other government agencies 2,654,982 2,464,229

By gift 2,037,525 1,125,890

By exchange Domestic 22,489 20,363 Foreign and international exchange 468,421 500,482

Total 490,910 520,845

Total receipts 29,364,156 8,607,931

ACQUISITIONS ACTIVITIES LAW LIBRARY AND RESEARCH SERVICES

Law Library Research Services 1983 1984 1983 1984

Lists and offers scanned 6,956 6,156 20,427 27,813 Items searched 8,638 12,600 132,175 160,909 Items recommended for acquisition., 5,360 9,524 249,445 254,132 Items accessioned 2,712,608 2,070,518 Items disposed of 3,163,813 2,994,784 1,535,295 1,154,572

2 Adiugted figure.

154 A-9 Appendix Cataloging and Maintenance of Catalogs

CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION

1983 1984

Descriptive cataloging stage Nei* titles fully catalogede 169.406 214,225 Titles recataloged or reviied 5,237 3,911 Name authorities established 102,253 201,768 Name authorities changed 58,858 38,339 Minimal level cataloged, 22,435 29,604

Subject cataloging stage ,, Titles classified and subject headed 160,594 184,286 Titles shelflisted, classified collections 164,62; 170,647 Volumes shelflisted, classified collections 229,817 199,892 Titles recataloged 5,244 5,425 Subject headings established 8,383. 7,552 glass numbers established 2,897 4,245

Decimal classification stage .... Titles classified ..- 117,535 123,439 Full level cataloging completed 159,498 179,168

RECORDS IN THWARC DATA BASE

Ibtal records Additions Total records September 30, 1983 1984 September 30, 1984

I. Books,... 1,740,082 '214,809 1,954,891 Films 65,858 2,997 68,855 Maps 79,998., 4,926 84,924 Music 116 5,736 5,736 Name authorities 2994,360 197,705 1,194065 Serials 180,623 30,500 211,123

Total 83,060,921 456,673 3,517,594

'Includes migrated records plus converted records. 2 Adjusted figure.

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Pieces processed 1,573,369 1,452,951 Volumes added to classified collections 29,698 31,566

GROWTH OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GENERAL CATALOGS

Cards New cards in catalogs added Total cards September 30, 1983 19843 September 30, 1984

Main Catalog 24,748,202 198,103 24,946,305 Add-ok..,Main Catalog 123,931 102,211 226,142 Officig catalog 29,001,454 50,838 29,052,292 Add-on Official Catalog 1,294,487 204,257 1,498,744 Catalog of Children's Books 329,170 329,170 Far Eastern Languages Catalog 1,379,720 63,790 1,443,510 Add-on-Far Eastern Languages Catalog... 56,158 56,158 Music Catalog 3,428,034 19,722 3,447,756-' Add-on Music Catalog 622 14,830 15,452 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections 83,586 83,586 Law Library Catalog 2,408,768 1,176 2,409,944 Add-on Law Library Catalog 11,273 5,080 16,353

Total 62,809,247 716,165 63,525,412

3 Name authority preliminary cards, early notice records, refiles, corrected replacements, and reprints are not Included.

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GROWTH OF THE UNION CATALOG

1983 1984

CARDS RECEIVED (Pre-1956 imprints)

Library of Congress cards _ Printed main and added entry cards 2,202 2,400 Corrected and revised added entry cards 733 291

,Total 2,935 2,891

Cards contributed by other libraries 5.'3,3813 473,940

Total cards received 556,321 478,831

CARDS RECEIVED (Post-1955 imprints)

Library of Congress cards Printed main entry cards 54,005 Corrected and revised reprints for main entry cards 886 Printed added entry cards 4,627 Corrected and revised added entry cards 1,430 Printed cross-reference cards 137,341 4,152

Total 198,289 4,152

Cards contributed by other libraries 4,028,042 3,4813,869

Total cards received 4,228,331 3,494,021 IMISMICIAMIZi

CARDS IN AUXILIARY CATALOGS

Chinese Union Catalog 646,850 851,850 Hebraic Union Catalog 1670,099 673,883 Japanese Union Catalog 725,272 790,633 Korean Union Catalog 72,857 77,457 Near East Union Catalog 133,255 145,545-' Slavic Union Catalog' 442,456 442,456 South Man Union Catalog 41,200 41,200 Southeast Asian Union Catalog 22,512 22,512 National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 imprints, supplement 2,068,997 2,066,997 National Union Catalog: Post-1955 imprints 11,973,524 11,977,676

Total cards in auxiliary catalogs =16,795,022 18,890,209

A-12 157 Appendix4 Cataloging DistriutioK

TOTAL INCOME-FROM SALES OF MARC TAPES, CARDS, AND TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS, AND MICROFICHE CATALOGS -

1983 1984

General $4,235,221.80 $4,553,859.34 k."To U.S. government libraries r 175,092.42 211,909.07 To foreign libraries 456,728.08 519.578.29

Total gross sales before credits and adjustment 4,867,042.30 5,285,346,70

ANALYSIS OF TOTAL INCOME Card sales (gross) 1,158,914.23 1,236,614.07 Technical publications 734,410.90 743,990.45 Nearprint publications 161,351.50 205,702.75

BOOK CATALOGS National Union Catalog, including Audiovisual Materials and Music. Books on Music, and Sound Recordings 321,165.00 266,890.00 0 Monographic Series 18,410.00 7,285.00 New Serial Titles : 695,801.00 698,311.00 Subject Catalog 49,380.00 34,505.00 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections 86,160.00 89,090.00

MICROFICHE CATALOGS NUC Books 402.340,00 398,141,39 NUC U.S; Books 27,300.00 29,652.75 NUC AV Materials 18,814.00 45,595.00 NUC Cartographic Materials 28,245.00 30,287.00 Register of Additional Locations 64,411.00 . 73,928.00 Name Authorities 157,100,00 228,440.00 Subject Headings 98,530.00 122,185.00 Chinese Cooperative Catalog- 1,220.00. 1,405.00 MARC TABS. 843,489.67 1,073.324.29

Total gross sales before credits and adjustments...... 4,867,042.30 5.285,348.70 11112=631211111.1CCo V.M:=LINEZO=111:31212=22ra

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U.S. Credit government ADJUSTMENT OF TOTAL SALES returns discount

Cards . $25,331.71 $7,983.77 Technical publications 10,723.85 2,727.33 Nearprint publications 1,815.01 716.59

BOOK CATALOGS: National Union Catalog, etc. 11,720.00 258.19 Monographic Series 1,015.00 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections 420.00 411.81 New Serial Titles 3,440.00 2,866.01 Subject Catalog. 4,895.00

MICROFICHE CATALOGS:.... . NUC Books 3,198.00 1,17747 NUC U.S. Books 1 1,780.00 113.44 NUC AV Materials 744.00 66.08 NUC Cartographic Materials 795.00 104.53 Register of Additional Locations 1,125.00 268.20 Name Authorities 7,430.00 697.72 Subject Headings. 2,635.00 420:90

MARC TAiss 48,786.14 931.56

Total. 125,853.71 18,743.60 Total adjustment $144,597.31 Total net sales 5,140,748.39

CARDS DISTRIBUTED

1983 1984

Cards sold... 13,098,980 11,469,747

Other cards distributed Library of Congress catalogs 4,579,159 2,467,444 Cataloging Distribution Service catalogs 137,886 86,118 Other accounts 7,420,383 7,977,797

Total 12,137,428 10,531,659

Total cards distributed 25,236,408 22,001,406

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CARD SALES, 1973 TO 1984

Gross Fiscal year Cards sold revenue Net revenue

1973 73,599,751 $3,875,134.48 $3,813,375.15 1974 58,379,911 3,068,073.58 3,011,182.41 1975 44,860,670 2,741,596.05 2,700,969.62 1976 39,821,876 2,618,271.74 2,561,223.69 July 1-September 30, 1976 8,238,642 635,673.05 822,505.84 1977... 30,799,708 2,109.816.24 2,050,860.00 1978 23,318,278 1,672,955.50 1,637,891.87 1979 p2,555,290 1,614,497.43 1,581,388.92 1980 19,536,019 1,347,513.12 1,314,485.28 1981 15,643,303 1,120,886.97 1,094,625.80 1982 15,355,512 1,292,490.61 1,227,000.67 1983 13,098,980 1,158,914.23 1,132.018.12 1984 4. 11,469;747 1,236,814.07 1,203,298.59

PRINTING OF CATALOG CARDS

1983 1984

NEW TITLES AVAILABLE FOR PRINTING:

Monographs . MARC '123,507 161,588 .. Non-MARC '3,623 3,103 Films 2,355 3,060 Maps 5,468 5,425 Sound recordings 2,345 21,015 Far Eastern languages 20,490 19,007 Serials 6,252 7,717

Total 164,040 201,008 lAci lusted figure. .... 2 Production of these cards was delayed by implementation of Music Online System.

16 A-15 Appendix5 Reader Services'

Bibliographies prepared :00

411.160. Number of Number entries 3

rational Programs American Folklife Center (Archive, Folk Culture) . 6 1,636 Children's-Literature Center 1 175 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped'. 22 1,672

Totyl 29 9,483 Research Services Performing Arts Library

African and Middle Eastern Division 4 3 7,448 , Asian Division ',.9,563 / European Division 41 cit 10 24,508 ,,,y Hispanic Division 60 25,803 S '`,17 Collections Management Division General Reading Rooms Division 15 6,660 / Loan Division 3 National Referral Center 2,991 Science and Technology Division 8 831 Serial and Government Publications Division 1 ,/185 ( Geography and Map Division 53 .14,647 Manuscript Division / 3,206 Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division 1 , / 95 21 *Music Division /% 1,108 Prints and Photographs Division 23,, a 1,740 Rare Book and Special Collections Division ;1* \ Total 98,703' Law Library 7.7843"-"'"-72:7877-1" Law Library in the Capitol Processing Services

Grand total-1984 SO7 174,32.3

CoefporatIve totals-1983 /,, 869 130,742 1982 473 99,471 1981 419 91,550 1980 413' 227,933

I Not included here are ttattstics foitbe Congressional Reserath r,?'reice, wIlirh answered 442,247 luquirlot kr members and_commIttees of Congress In fiscal 1934. =See apc 'ndix 6 for addit:onel statistic: 3Includei entries for continuing bibliographies, A-16 Appendix 5

Circulation of volumes and Direct reference service other units For use within By the Library Outside loans' In person correspondence By telephone Total

13,500 7,000 7.000 27,500 fit7 418 950 2,255 1,035 19,839 5.13 26,007 15,422*, '27,257 13,083 55.762 Mil.=MLIICIC=MIZINISMINMF .171121EIMMEC, ..

2,058 )-- 4 93 2,096 4,247 9,845 735 11,604 1 1,345 16,681 29,630 57,820 3,176 15,604 1,117 31,022 47,743 57,709 219 13,857 1,901 20,019 35,777 17,119 1,307 19,739 8,032 34,554 62,325 704,433 24,193 14,406 6,689 45,198 425,336 1,634 193,796 8,491 63.1781 265,463 2,654 5 156,964 3,114 11,263 11.145 25,542 2,239 134162 3,227 18,718 14,483 28,197 4,164 8,650 41.0111. 500,121 13,694 89,222 904 24,727 114,853

. 108,173 512 18.258 11 2,207 9,120 27,585 60,947 1,680 10,988 4,908 29,200 45.096 78,480 3,499' 27,588 18,784 20,281 1 66,653 42,930 881 10,681 1,873 13,628 26,180 108,638 3,137 .48,045 3,805 22,841 72,691 30,716 6,875 1,258 7,396 15,529

2,217,404 156,864 522,018 97,823 324,400 944.241

988,139 387,362 3,602 1102.648 493,612 10,994 6,348 7,178 2,730 9,908 9,493 119,560 129.053'

3,196,537 ,163,312 931,980 138,175 562,421 .1,632,578(

3.079,405 '152,268 674,525 149,752 507,756 1,532,033 2.840,050 118,456 751,857' 98,670 436;927 1,287,4t4 2,659.405 140,871 714,498 147,801 489,705 1,352,002 2,132,726 151,465 836.179 136,908 492,629 1,265,716

4All loans except those made by the Law Library in the Capitol are made by the Lean Division; figures for other divi- sions (shown-in italics) represent materials selected for loan. 'Includes 16,089 copies of item: sent to borrowers in lieu of lending. Corrected figure. 4 162 A-17 Appendix6 Services to the Blind and Physically Handicapped

1983 1984

Purchase of sound reproducers . 50,000 57,000 A . I Acquisitions Hooks, including music Recorded titles t 1,674 1,742 (containers)1 1.493,100 1,629,103 Press- braille titles . 390 355 (volume)' 62;800 59,1540 Hand-copied braille titles 302 115 (volumes). ., 9,584 4,150 Cassette titles produced by volunteers . 199 209 Cassette titles produced at bILSTSPH 65 94 Commercial music recordings (containers) 1,218 1,200 Large print music (volumes) Magazines, including music Recorded titles 411. 40 40 (containers), 5.648,700 6,199.100 Press/braille titles . 36 38 tolumes) i 736,400 753,890 Music sc r17.4(1 Press braille titles 704 352 , (volumes) 2.110 1,675 Hand-copied braille masters 1 Hand-copied braille volumes 13 20 1 Ltirge-type masters produced by volunteers 3 Large-type volumes produced by volunteers 3

Includes materials deposited in network libraries.

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1983 1984

) Certification of volunteers Braille transcribers 366 247 , Braille proofreaders 10 14 Tape narrators 20 N.,...,10.

Circulation Regional and subregional libraries Reorded disc containers 10,882,100 11,037,000 Recorded cassette containers L , 6,601,800 7,222,800 Braille volumes ..661,500 , 675,000 NL4/BPH direct service (overseas) Recorded disc books ...... 4 7, 3,700 3,400 Recorded cassette books '7,000 6,500 Brain" books 200 200 NLS/B12ii music direct service Recorded disc containers 700 500 Recorded cassette containers ir 9,000 6,200 Braille volumes 2 4,100 4,700 Large-type volumes 1,900 1,900

Interlibrary loan

Multistate centers 0. Recorded disc containers...... It. 20,800 25,600 Ratorded cassette containers 28,100 28,100 Tapes (cassette .and open-reel) 48,200 37,500 Braille volumes '13,000 1340 NLS/BPH Recorded disc containers 400 300- Recorded cassette containers 200 7'460 Braille volumes 700 7-i-700 ...._Duplication (cassette or opmleel) 3,400.7 1 1,000 /AcIlusted total, / .7-

A-19 a a ,a Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984 . i .,.. 1983 1984

..0* Readership Regional and subregional libraries Recorded disc 289,860 284,070 Recorded cassette .307,360 322,190 Braille 16,290 14,980 NLS/BPH direct service (overseas) Recorded disc 290 240 Recordedcassette, 320 320 Braille 30 20 NLS/BPH music direct service Recorded disc-, 1 100 100 Recorded cassette 35,600 5,200 Braille =1,800 2,000 Large-type 600 800

f's, 1

4,

A-20. ., 1 65 , "r

Appendix7. Photoduplication

Total Total 1983 1984

Photostat exposures. 9,855 11,682 Electrostatic prints Catalog cards 8,347 3,153 Other material 338,443 300,558 Negtitive microfilm wiriosures Catalog cards 7,104 Books, etc. Filmed at Library of Congress 11,286,379 9,080,435 Filmed in New Delhi 610,838 696,530 Positive microfilm (in feet) 3,929,380 4,993,197 Enlargement prints from microfilm 2,060 832 Photographic negatives (copy, line, and view) 9,828 9,358 .Photographic contact prints 22,889 18,058 Photographic projection prints A, 11,659 11,840 Slides and transparencies (including color) 7,601 7,033 Black line and blueprints 1,468 751 Diazo (microfiche) 290,799 239,042

166 A-21 Appendix8 Preservation and Restoration

1983 1984

IN ORIGINAL FORM Books Volumes, bound or rebound (commercial binding). 203,851 166,207 Rare book materials treated (volumes), 5,723 4,759 Rare book materials surveyed (volumes).... 7,771 7,785

Total volumes 217,145 178,751 Nonbook materials Manuscripts treated (individual sheets)' 33,730 6,925 Maps treated (individual atlas sheets)' 35,284 40,930 Prints and photographs treated (individual items)' 10,037 9,091

Total nonbook items 79,051 56,946 IN OTHER FORMS Brittle books and serials converted to microfilm (exposures) 4,094,486 2,838,788 Newspapers and periodicals converted to microfilm (exposures) Retrospectivematerials 627,957 1,070,990 Current materials 1,899,218 1,021,035 Deteriorating still-picture negatives converted to safety-base negatives 8,010 2,923 Deteriorating motion pictures replaced or converted to safety-base film (feet) 1,946,278 3,052,371 Sound recordings Deteriorating discs converted to magnetic tape. 6,612 7,578 Deteriorating tapes converted to magnetic tape. 22 300 Deteriorating cylinders, wire recordings, etc., converted to magnetic tape 14 75 Disc recordings cleaned and packed 7,302 44,945

1 The number of volumes, pages, etc., reported in any given year may vary considerably from previousyears because of differences in treatment times for specific projects. Yearly total figures include both phased and full-treatmentprojects.

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. n Appendix 0 Employment

1983 1984 Paid from. appropriations Other Total to the Library funds Total

Office of the Librarian 67 61 9 70

Management 912 756 162 918 .... National Programs 93 82 19 101 Books for the blind and physically handicapped ' 139 141 141

Total, National Programs 232 - 223 19 242

Copyright Office. 549 542 542

Law Library 95 102 . 102

Congressional Research Service 891 898 898 Processing Services . General services.. 1,196 1,193 9 1,202 Cataloging distribution service 183 170 170 Special foreign currency program... 7 7 7

Total, Processing Services' .1,386 1,370 9 1,379

Research Services 1,176 931 245 1,176

Total, all departments 5,308 . 4,883 444 5,327

* Does not include local personnel hired for overseas programs.

168 A-23 Appendix10 Financial Statistics

SUMMARY

Unobligated Appropriations balance from or receipts previous year 1984

APPROPRIATED FUNDS Salaries and expenses, Library of Congress $46,047.70 1$144,676,000.00 Salaries and expenses, Copyright Office...... ;16,322,000.00 Salaries and expenses, Congressional Research Service.... 37,632,000.00 Books for the blind and physically handicapped 35,099,000.00 Collection and distribution of library materials, special foreign currency program 3,805,149.38 2,962,000.00 Furniture and furnishings 187,728.50 1,524,000.00

Total annual appropriations 4,038,925.58 238,215,000.00

TRANSFERS FROM OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Consolidated working funds No-year s L153,692.09 1984 15,861,742.10 1983-84 47,998.00 1984-85 499,983.00

Total transfers from other government agencies 18,583,415.19

GIFT AND TRUST FUNDS 3 4,251,234.64 8,429,357.27

Total all funds Y. 8,290,160.22 285,207,772.46

!Includes Cataloging Distribution Service receipts, amounting to $4,300,000, that were available for obligation inac- cordance with Public Law 98-51. approved July 14, 1983. 3 Includes copyright registration receipts, amounting to $5,200,000, that wore available for obligation In accordance with Public Law 98-51, approved July 14. 1983. 3 The principal value of Library of Cone c.ss trust funds is invested as follows: In the U.S. Treasury Bequest of Gertrude M. Hubbard $20,000 Public debt securities 1,411,113 Permanent loan 4,657,348

Total 6,088.461

=MCM51501111111111011

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APPENDIX 10

STATEMENT

Total available Unobligated Unobligated for obligation Obligated balance not balance forwarded 1984 1984 available to 1985

$144,722,047.70 $130,686,498.32 $2,446,716.28 $11,588,833.10 16,322,000.00 16,210,377.05 111,622.95 37;632,000.00 37,347,934.84 284,065.16 35,099,000.00 33,561,724.02 1,537,275.98

6,767,149.38 3,359,036.70 3,408,112.68 1,711,728.50 1,687,361.14 24,038.85 328.51

242,253,925.58 222,852,932.07 4,403,719.22 14,997,274.29

2,153,692.09 2,153,692.09 15,861,742.10 15,861,742.10 47,998.00 47,998.00 499,983.00 499,983.00

18,563,415.19 18,563,415.19

12,680,591.91 7,156,847.79 5,523,744.12

273,49Z,932.68 248,573,195.05 4,403,719.22 20,521.018.41

Outside tho U.S. Treasury (Market value Septembei 30, 1984) Archer M. Huntington Fund $1,500,000 McKim Fund 1,360,000 Katie and Walter Louchheim Fund 72,000 Kindler Foundation Trust Fund 89,000 Caroline and Erwin Swann Memorial Fund 548,000

Total 3,853,000

Total investments 9,741,481

1 7 0 A-25 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

GIFT AND

Fund and donor Purpose

Bequost of Gertrude M, flobbard Library of Congress Trust Fund,' U.S. Treasury investment accounts Allan (Rays Virginia) Trust Fund Support of folklife projects and activities Babine, Alexis V., bequest Purchase of Slavic material Benjamin, William Evans Chair of American history, with surplus available for purchase and maintenance of materials for the historical collections of the Library Bowker, R. R. Bibliographical services Carnegie Corporation of New York - Promotion and encouragement of an interest in and an understanding of fine arts in the United States

Coolidge (Elizabeth Sprague) Foundation, established Furtherance of musical research, composition, perfors by donation and bequest of Elizabeth Sprague manor, and appreciation Coolidge Cronin (John W.) bequest Purchase of books on the subjects of bibliography, medieval history, religion, and French literature Elson (Louis C.) Memorial Fund, established under Provision of one' or more annual, free public lectures bequest of Bertha L. Elson on music or its literature EnCouragement of public interest in music or its literature Evans (Archibald B.) Fund Furchaso of original American 18tIneentury na,vspapers Foinberg (Lenore B. and Charles E.) Fund Purchase of books, manuscripts, and other materials by and about Walt Whitman and other American writers Friends of Music in the Library of Congress, Enrichment of music collection established-by the association Guggenheim (Daniel) Fund for the Promotion ;A Chair of aeronautics Aeronautics, Inc. Haas, Nymphus C., bequest Furtherance of work for the blind, particularly the pros vision of books for the Library of Congress to make availabie to the blind

s Bequest of Gertrude Hubbard In the amount of $20,000 r.ccopted by as act of Coagress (f'ublk Law 270,S$2d Culp gross, approved August 20, tu12) +1 valt od with rh 'framer.

A -2 171 Appendix 10

TRUST FUNDS

Unobligated Unobligated Income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$20,000.00 $2,943.05 $2,439.78 $5,382.83 $3,958.59 $1,424.24

16,000.00 932.55 932.55 932.55 6,684.74 3,731.21 816.20 4,547.41 893.80 3,853.61 83,083.31 47,761.94 10,843.80 58,605.74 74.51 58,531.23

14,843.15 7,720.10 1,843.12 9,563.22 9,563.22 93,307.98 8,183.76 7,906.55 16,090.31 7,520.39 8,569.92

804,444.20 135,598.50 98,140.01 233,738.51 145,545.59 88492.92

25,000.00 331.08 331.08 331.08

6,000,00 2,694.20 488.57 3,182.77 3,182.77

6,585.03 2,862.60 536.21 3,398.81 3,398.81

25,000.00 11,347.45 3,838.88 15,188.31 3,532.50 11,653.81

1,000.00 450.79 89.13 539.92 46.00 493.92

-1/2...

11,859.09 3,016.69 1,512.17. 4,528.86 117.00 4,411.86

90,654.22 06,480.39 15,865.11 112,345.50 183.02 112,162.48

5,227.31 3,848.82 688.86. 4,537.68 4,537.68

$ Authorized under Public Law 541, 66th Congress. March 3.1925, as amended. An Act to create a Library of Con- gran Trust Fund Board and for other purposes."

17 A-27 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Trust Fund, U.S. Treasury investment accountsContintod Huntington, Archer M. Donation Purchases of Hispanic material Donation Consultant in Spanish and Portuguese literature Bequest Equipment and maintenance of the Hispanic Society Room and maintenance of a chair of English-language poetry

IBM Corporation Establish, exhibit, and service the Charles Eames Col- lection at the Library of Congress Jurow (Mae and Irving) Fund Provision of harpsichord concerts at the Library

Kaplan (Milton) Fund Purchase of 18th- and 19th-century American prints, drawings, and photographs

Kostelanetz (Andre) Fund - Purchase of books, manuscripts, kinescopes, record- ings, and other matalials for the Music Division Koussevitzky (Serge) Music Foundation in the Library Furtherance of the art of music composition of Congress, established by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc.

Kroyt (Boris and Sonya) Memorial Fund Benefit the concert program developed through the Music Division Longworth (Nicholas) Foundation in the Library of Furtherance of music Congress, established by the friends of the late ' Nicholas Longworth

Mellon (Andrew W.) Foundation Provide fellowships for training in the field of preser- vation of library materials

Miller. Dayton C., bequest Benefit of the Dayton C. Miller Collection of Flutas National Library for the Blind, established by the Provision of' reading matter for the blind and the National Library for the Blind, Inc. employment of blind persons to provide library ser- vices for the blind Pennell, Joseph, bequest Purchase of materials in the fine arts for the Pennell Collection Pickford (Mary) Foundation Support of programs related to the history and development of the motion picture industry

Porter (Henry Kirke) klemorial Fund, established by Maintenanceof a consultantship or other appropriate Annie-May Hegeman purpose

A-28 x73 Appendix 10

Unobligated Unobligawd Income or balance bslonoe from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1934 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$112,305.74 $20,752.56 $10,785.92 $31,538.48 $11,219.58 $20,318.90 49,746.52 12,835.27 4;026.61 17,761.88 3,088.76 14,673.12 .98,525.40 9,893.02 8,548.17 18,441.19 7,594.52 10,846.67 _

373,071.37 373c971.37 373,071.37

50,000.00 10,824.33 6,100.02 16,4.35 7,409.75 9,514.60

2.985.00 1,335.25 364.53 1,699.78 1,699.78

19,030,00 3,740.05 1,220.19 4,960.24 900.00 4,060.24

208,099.41 74,512.66 30,373.05 104,885.71 13,526.90 91,358.81

93,295.61 23,951.72 12,449.66 36,401.38 3,615.00 32,786,38

10,691.59 2,461.88 1,051.77 3,513.65 3,513.65-

108,535.66 108,535.66 108,535.66

20,548,18 1,077.83 '1,673.23 2,751.06 798.00 1,953.06

36,015.00 27,232.78 5,198.38 32,431.16 1,434.75 30,996.41-

303,250.46 27,777.43 25,397.07 53,174.50 13,750.00 39,424.50

31,225.25 33,4 1.64 64,656.89 64,656.89

290,500.00 119,742.82 44,504.05 164,246.87 21,983.47 142,263.40

74 A-29 1 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Trust Fund, U.S. TreasuryinvestMent accountsContinued Reid (Samuel Chester) Trust Fund Provision of a yearly grant to a "promising, talented, and creative writer of the AmericadScene" Roberts Fund, established under bequest of Margaret Benefit of the Library of Congress, its collections, and A. Roberts its services Scala (Norman P.) Memorial Fund, established under Arrangement, editing, and publication of materials in bequest of Norman P. Scala the Scala bequest Sonneck Memorial Fund, established by the Bee- Aid and advancement of musical research thoven Association Spivacke (Harold and Rose Marie) Fund Purchase of books, manuscripta. and ether materials for the Music Division Stern (Alfred Whital) Memorial Fund, established by Maintenance of and addition to the Alfred Whital the family of the late Alfred Whital Stern Stern Collection of Unceliderie, including the publication of guides and reprodectiorra of parts of the collection Swann (Ciro line and Erwin) Memorial Fund Maintenance of an exhibit of =teen and cericature originals Wh Mall (Gertrude Clarke) Poetry and Literature Fund Development of appreciator. end uederetancling of good literature and poetre in Lids country, and tte the presentation of literature in general Whitten (Gertrude Clarke) Foundation, established by Maintenance of collection of Steaelicari instruments Gertrude Clarke Whitten and Tourto bows given by Ws. Whitten, and presen- tation of programs in 111150 instruments are used Wilbur. James B. . Donation Reproduction of maneecript sources on American history in European archives Bequest Establishment of a choir of geoeraphe Bequest Preservation of source reateriale "el American history

Total, U.S. Treasury investment accounts ...... , . Library of Congress Trost Fund, bank investment deparfireent accounts

Huntington, Archer M' Equipment for and ma rker:name) of the Hispanic &zl- oty Room, and mairdenence of a &nix of English- poetry

Imastmonts held by the Bank of New York valued at spproxenteely $1,5o9,ou; incomv ass-rues to the Library of Congress.

A-30 Appendix 10

Unobligated Unobligatod income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 fg obligation 1984 to 1985

$74,126.07 $16,565.22 $10,221.39 $26,786.61 $4,500.00 $22,286.61' 1

62,703.75 56,314.68 10,0943 66,405.31 66,405.31

92,228.85 29,672.45 8,053.68 37,726.13 33,021.99 4,704.14

12,088.13 14,522.35 1,528.06 16,050.41 16,050.41

21,913.00 1,918.91 2,673.74 4,590.65 4,590.65

27,548.58 10,082.21 3,787.20 13,869.41 820.20 13,049.21

1

500,000.00 130,824.39 83,022.23 213,846.62 80,074.96 133,771.66

957,977.79 236,311.41 129,424.67 365,736.08 165,156.06 200,580.02

1,538,609.44 154,625.08 187,707.29 342,332.37 253,921.95 88,410.42

192,671.36 67,340.38 21,398.46 89,238.84 (3,599.50) 92,838.34

81,856.92 22,174.22 8,181.06 30,355.38 11,777.78 18,577.60 31,285.29 12,231.34 3,453.71 15,685.06 852.56 14,832:49

6,968.461.18 1,444,140.04 1,011,005.66 2,725,145.70 789,759.54 1,935,386.16

39.454.04 48,648.25 A6,002.29 45,415.58 40,586.71

176 A-31 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

I

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Trust Fund, bank investment department accountsContinued - Kindler Foundation Trust Fund To spollsor an annual concert and to commission the composition of music . McKim Fund, established under bequest of Mrs. W. Support of the composition and performance of Duncan McKim' chamber music for violin and piano and of related activities Total, hank investment department accounts ).. Library of Congress Gift Fund

Africana Acquisitions Fund Purchase of publications for the Africana Collection

Alaska, State of Furtherance of a cooperative project for the arrange- ment, description, and microfilming of the records of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America, Diocese of Alaska N,

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Toward proparatiOn of a bibliography of Slavic and Studies East European studies

American Bar Association Toward the purchase of a rare law book

American Council of Learned Societies Furtherance of a. program for the acquisition of publications from Europe

American Folklife Center, various donors Toward expenses of the Center American Institute of Architects Foundation. Inc. Pieservation of drawings from the 1792 competition for designs for the Capitol and the President's Hoy o

American Library Association For use by the director of the Processing Department

American Psychological Association Furtherance of work in the Manuscript Division in connection with the Archives of the Association American-Scandinavian Foundation Expenses of a symposium on Scandinavian children's literature

American Sociologic i1 Association To facilitate the organization of ASA materials Annenberg Fund, Inc. Support of the Book Garden

Bequest of Mr, W. Duncan McKim, /air,pally in the form of securities, valued at approximately $1,350,000. held by the Ara, rican Security and Trust Coma' -ny tor the Trust Fund Beard. All the income accrues to the Library of Congress. Income invested in short-terra securities is valued at approximately $131,000. A-32 177 Appendix ID

i Unobligated Unobligated- Income or balance balance f;rora ,c, receipts Total available Obligated forwarded 44. Principal previous year 1984 for obligation - 1984 to, 1985 .1

$9,000.00 $9,000.00 $6,F7.747 $2;622.30

$71,401.26 71,401.26 67,838.14 5.c.','16142

110,855.30 55,548.25 166,403.55 119,631.42 46,772.13

430.32 ,'430.32 430.32

4,6u0.00 4,000.00 '4;000.00

40.14 4,500.00 4.650.14 4,680.14

1,001100 1-000.00 1,000.00

116.00 116.00 s 116.00

1,578.47 2,004.50 3,586.97 1,505426 2,081.71 3,315.48 1(300.00) 3,015.48 3,015.48'

598.87 2.50.00 846.87 .567.48 279.39 1,400.00 500.00 .1,900.00 S ti 2,904.97 4(2,904.97)

1,000.00 1,000.00 - 1,000.00

13,334.00 6,666.00 20,000.00 20,000.00

Reflects transfer of previous year's Federal-Library et2paittee receipts. *ReflAcli transfer of previous year's receipts io theC6ter for the Book.

A-33 17R Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984 4

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift FundContinued

Association for Asian Studies expenses of Library of Congress New Delhi Field Of- fice staff member while in the United States

Baker and Taylor 'Company For use by the Office of the Associate Librarian for National Programs

Expenses of the Library of Congress reception at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference

Belmear (Herbert W.) Memorial Fund Forpe by employees in emergency situations

BusinesslWeek Magazine For use by the'Copyright Office

Cafritz (Morris and Gwendolyn) Foundation Seminars to commemorate or celebrate important events or persons

Support of the opening program for the Performing Arts Library in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- forming Arts

Support of the Council of Scholars

Support of a two-volume guide to visual resources in the Prints and Photographs Division, Washingtoniano

Center for the Book, various donors Expenses of the Center

Centro Venezolano Americana Support of activities relating to the special collections 4.4 Childs (James Bennett) Fund Supped of publications and programs concerning government documents

Clarke, Gertrude, estate of Ex-ponses of a suitable memorial for Gertrude Clarke Whitten

Congressional Continuing Education Fund, various Toward expenses of programs offered by the Congres- donors sional Research Service to members of Congress and their staffs

Council of Scholars Fund To support activities of the council

Council on Library Resources, Inc. To facilitate the sale of niachine-Nadeble cataloging records and inforiwtion

Support of the Linked Systems Project

A-34 1 79 Appendix 10

Unobligated , Unobligated Income or 4 balance balance from receipia Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$2,0040 $2,000.00 $2,000,00

$2,315.67 495.00 2,810.67 1,706.24 $1,104.43

10,000.00 10.000.00 10,000.00

215.00 200.00 415.00 100.00 315.00

3,212.14\ 2,155.55 5,387.69 3,865.75 1,501.94

22,314.31 22,314.31 1,636.50 20,677.81

7,767.18 7,767.18 1,653.70 6,113.48

3,659.84 507.38 4,167.02 1,338.87 2,828.15

148,119.68 99,700.00 247,819.66 102,917.94 144,901.72

.51,955.04 131,047.07 193,002.11 88,622.77 104,379.34

15,526.15 35,893.82 51,424.97 25,585.28 25,839.69

1,893.02 1,893.02 380.00 1,513.02

5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00

10,715.11 1,Y72.74 12,487.85 1,659.82 10,828.03

13,454.32 55,000.00 68,454.32 4,894.91 , 63,559.41

7,662.09 7,662.09 477.91 7,184.18

43,024.90 75,000.00 118,024.90 74,225.65 43,799.25 18 0 A-35 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift Fund-Continued

Council on Library Resources, Inc. -Continued Toward expenses of a symposium on "Public Lending Right"

Croft (William and Adeline) Fund Furtherance of the Library's music programs and acquisitions for the music collection

Documents Expediting Project, various contributors Distribution of documents to participating libraries

Engelhard (Charles W.) Fund Chair of history or literature in his memory

Evans (Luther H.) Memorial Fund Purchase of materials for the collections that foster world peace and understanding

Exxon Educational Foundation Toward expenses of the Council of Scholars Sym- posium on Work

Federal Library Committee, various donors Expenses of the committee

Feinberg (Lenore B. and Charles E.) Fund Purchase of books, manuscripts, and other materials by and about Walt Whitman and other American writers

Finlandia Foundation, Inc. Purchase of noncurrent materials in the Finnish field

Ford Foundation Support of a revised and enlarged edition of Edmund C. Burnett's Letters of Members of the

Foreign program. various contributors Support of the program for cataloging material pur- chased under Public Law 480 in Israel

Support of the program for the purchase of material in Bangladesh under Public Law 480

Support of the program for the purchase of material in foreign countries under Public Law 480 Fiscal year 1983 Fiscal year 1984

Acquisition of publications from Southeast Asia

lisitions of publications from Brazil

A-38 181 Appendix 10

Unobligated Unobligated Income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal pervious year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$542.00 $542.00 $542.00/

1,536.29 $25,000.00 26,536.29 28,019.55 $516.74

12,263.80 159,831,49 172,095.29 124,579.76 47,515.53

'21,283.37 30,000.00 51,283.37 35,555.18 15,728.19

850.00 10(100.00) 750.00 750.00

10,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00

83,018 05 219,275.00 302,293.05 98,447.08 203,845,97

157.97 157.97 157.97

107.55 107.55 107.55

5.662.51 5,662.51 300.45 -4 5,362.08

1 3,496.60 3,496.60 1,127.21 2,369 39

9.103.41 7,167.00 16,270.41 10,185.70 6,084.71

16,500.00 16,500.00 16,500.00 18,000.00 18,000.00 18,000.00

152,895.66 88,586.00 241,483.61, 119,884.27 121,599.39

809.38 809.38 198.55 610.83

10 Reflects correction of prior year's receipts.

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Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift FundContinued Foreign program, various contributors Continued Acquisition of publications from Sri Lanka

Acquisition of publications from the Middle East

Acquisition of publications from Nepal

Acquisition of publications from Burma

Forest Pres:, Inc. Toward the cost of a five-year project to edit the 19th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification Friends of Music, various donors Furtherance of music Friends of the Folk Archive, various donors Expenses of the Archive of Folk Song Gish (Lillian) Foundation Furtherance of the Library's programs

Goff (Frederick R.) Memorial Fund Acquisition of materials for the rare book collection and special collections of the Library Gottacho (Samuel H.) Fund Acquisition of photographic negatives from the Gottscho-Schleisner Archives

Heineman Foundation Purchase of Library material of special interest to the Music Division Hispanic Publication Fund, various donors For use by the Librarian in the support of Hispanic activities of the Library Insurance Company of North America Furtherance of the Library's preservation program

IBM Corporation Toward preparation of the Charles Eames Collection Kennedy (John F.) Center for the Performing Arts Purchase of library materials for the center

Knight, John Furtherance of the Library's program for the blind League of Arab States Support of conference on Arab-American literature Librarian's Office, yahoos donors Purchase of special material for the office Toward expenses of support services

Loeffler, Elise Fay, boqucst Purchase of music

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Unobligated Unobligated Income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$9,262.97 $11,799.00 \$21,061.97 $24,180.24 II ($3,118.27)

109,372.81 301,817.95 411,190.7.6 224,427.73 186,763.03

17,139.33 13,947.00 31,086.33 20,083.25 11,003.08

500.00 500.00 (300.00) 800.00

25,713.24 82,681.00 108,394.24 82,728.21 25,666.03

4,001.65 2,000.00 6,007 65 6,007.65

2,971.77 1,724.56 4,698.33 4,696.33 24,894.08 1,723.00 26,617.08 2,183.71 24.433.37

3,35900 3,350.09 2,904.00 446.00

3,485.36 3,485.36 3.485.36

1,101018 5,000.00 6,101.93 5,397.16 704.82

4,564 69 763.40 5,428.29 3,760.47 1,667.82

9,993.92 9,993.92 3,231.27 6,762.65

146,502.54 146,562.54 32,848.09 113,654.45

10 .30 .30

75.27 75.27 75.27

6,540.44 6,540.44 (3.151.70) 5.692.14

34,404.59 4.026.01 39,420.60 39,420.60

23,02015 6,992.00 30,1112.95 30,012.9n

544.02 62.68 607.50 607.50

"Accounts mcbtv,Itile at I year i.:Ad in exc+!:-.s of ,his oal.).oLe ore :tut Included g.) this stat,,roont.

14 A-39 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift FundContinued

Louchheira, Katie S. Processing her papers in the Manuscript Division

Louchheim (Katie and Walter) Fund Distribution of tape recordings of concerts to broad- casting stations

Luce, Clara Boothe Furtherance of the work of organizing her personal papers in the Library of Congress

Luce, Henry R. Furtherance of the work of nrganiiing the Clare Boothe Luce paperi in the Library of Congress

Mellon (Andrew W.) Foundation Support of internships in preservation administration and science

Middle East Studies Association Expenses of the Near East Union List Project

Morrow (Malcolm) Memorial Fund Acquisition of scientific materials for the collections of the Library

Mumford (L. Quincy) Memorial Fund Purchase of retrospective children's literature for addition to the collections

Naval Historical Foundation Processing the Naval Historical Foundation Collec- tions deposited in the Library of Congress

Organization of American States Preparation f a third edition of the National Direc- tory of LottAmericanists

Pickford (Mary) Foundation Support of programs related to the history and development of the motion picture industry

Pickford (Mary) Theater Dedication Fund EN:poises of dedicating the Mary Pickford Theater

Partner (Mildred Chaffin) Fund Toward expenses to retain in a consulting capacity experts in the preservation of records created by the Library of Congress

Program for the blind, various donors Furtherance of the Library's program for the blind

Radio Corporation of America For use by the Music Division

Research Libraries Group, various donors Acquisition of publications from Eastern Africa

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Unobl Unobligated Income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principe!, previous year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$429.28 $429.26 $429.28

3,750.45 12 $5,900.97 9,651.42 $7,708.37 1.943.05

4,447.05 4,447.05 4,447.03

1,884.46 1,884.46 1,884.46

35,000.00 35,000 >00 35,900.00

5,024.59 25,000.00 30,024.59 30,024.59

345.00 345.00 174.00 171.00

590.00 1,000.00 1,590.00 1,590;00

610.98 610.98 610 98

7,122.16 7,122.16 7,122.1t

9,822.31 21,088.20 30,910.51 19,142.40 11,768.11

1,125.0f 1,125.01 1,125.01

2,705.00 1,75.0.00 4,455.00 4,455.00

1,914.90 20,648.00 22,560.90 9,958.95 12,603.95

2,186.32 1,692.54 , 3,878.86 2,050.13 1,828.73

12,653.69 5,894.00 18,547.89 9,203.17 9,264.52

12 Does not include securities, valued at approximately $72.008;theld by the Aawrican Security and Trust Company for the Trust Fund Board. All of the income accrues to the Library of Convoss.

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Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift FundContinued

Ross (Arthur) Foundation Expenses of a reception to celebrate the publication of The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration

Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. Editing and preparation costs in connection with the quinquennial edition of the Library of Congress National Union Catalog

Preparation cost in connection with the filming of the Slavic (Cyrillic) Union Catalog

Schwartz (Bern) Photographic Fund Acquisition of original photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies

Sham, Donald Purchase of backup microfilm copies of damaged volumes in the Law Library

Stachura (Leonard R.) Fund To provide books in braille or tapes in the areas of American and world literature, biography, travel, and history

Stern (Alfred Whital) Publication Fund Toward expenses of cataloging the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

Surplus Book Disposal Project, various donors Toward expenses of the project

Swann (Caroline and Erwin) Memorial To purchase animated satiric cartoons

Time-Life Books, Inc. Purchase of library materials for the collections of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division

Tinker Foundation Support of the third edition of the National Directory of Latin Americanists

United States-Spanish Committee for Educational and Support of Spanish scholars of the Council of Scholars Cultural Affairs

United Technologies Support of the American Cowboy Exhibition

Waters (Edward N.) Fund Publication of facsimiles of rare and significant items, especially manuscripts, in the Music Division

Wilkins, Emily Howell, estate of Purchase of antique stringed musical instruments

Wilson, Donald T. Toward development of the Islamic legal collection of the Near Eastern and African Law Division

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Unobligated Unobligated Income or balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 for obligition 1984 to 1985

$2,772.96 $2,772.96 $2,772.96

86,503.69 86,503.69 $14,549.33 71,954.38

10,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00

775.10 $5,000.00. 5,775.10 5,775.10

41.87 41.87 41.87

42,000.00 42,000.00 42,000.00

4,488.51 70.00 4,558.51 4,558.51

23,537.89 15,322.66 38,860.55 24,763.13 14,097.42

2,858.75 2,858.75 2,858:75

6,V44.50 1,500.0 8,444.50 8,444.50

23,917.28 23,917.28 234917.28

(200.00) 290.00

1,823.07 1,82.07 1,823.07

1,350.00 1,350.00 1,350.00

5,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00

200.00 200.00 40.00 160.00

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Fund and donor Purpose

Library of Congress Gift FundContinued 4

Yorniuri Shimbun Support of the exhibit "Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy and related events at the Library of Congress

Total, Library of Congress Gift Fund Revolving fund service fees

American Folklife Center Support of publications and related expenses

Cafritz Foundation Scholarly Activities Fund Support of publication of Libtary exhibit catalogs and related expenses Clapp (Verner W.) Publication Fund Support of publications

Da Cape Fund. Support of concerts, publications, recordings, and broadcasts relating to Music Division programs and collections Frissell (Toni) Fund Maintenance of the Toni Frissell Collection of photographs in the Library of Congress

Green (Constance McLaughlin) Revolving Fund Support of materials related to the Library of Congress and its collections

Ph otoduplication Service Support of reproduction of materials in various forms

Pickford (Mary) Company Support of the preservation of motion picture and television program films from nonprofit film archives

Recording Laboratory Support of reproduction of materials in recorded form Traveling Exhibits Fund Support of traveling exhibits

Various Donors Conversion of motion picture film to a safety base

Total service fees Total, all gift and trust funds

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Unobligated Unobligated Income or I balance balance from receipts Total available Obligated forwarded Principal previous year 1984 for obligation 1984 to 1985

$40,000.00 $40,000.00 $31,574.42 $8,425.58

1,332.320.05 1,642,617.30 2,974,937.35 1,341,485.35 1,633,452.00

$28,711.59 60,579.95 89,291.54 69,827.84 19,463.70

17,065.51 30,741.71 47,807.22 26,547.82 21,259.40

42,243.84 127,140,87 169,384.71 , 105,603.57 63,781.14

62,464.16 85,363,29 147,827.45 66,407.63 81,419.82

1,359.27 , 200.00 1,559.27 491.57 14067.70

29,203.38 122,626,07 151;829.45 140,663.26 11,146.19

997,481,69 4,525,564.80 5,523,046.49 4,056,360.58 1,466,685.91

1,508.75 1,508.75 1,508.75

125,957.79 345,509.82 471,467.61 296,162.81 175,304.80 10,477.53 100,959.25 111,436.78 /66,805.91 42,630.87

44,502.69 49,060 52 93,563.21 71,121.90 22,441.31

1,360,976.20 5,447,746.28 4,902,012.89 1,908,709.59 4,251,234.64 8,429.357.27 12.680.591.91 7,156,847.79 5,523,744.12 Report of The Librarian of Congress, 1984

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to. . Permanent loan principal Balance October 1, 1984 . ' $5,115,347.71 Plus additions: December 2, 1983 .t. 1,000.00 April 17, 1984 16,000.00 August 22, 1984 , 25,006.00 Less deduction: February 1, 1984 (500,000.00) 81/2% market bonds due May 15, 1994-99, purchased on January 7, 1976 (face value $1;340,000) ,

Permanent loan" balance September 30, 1984" 4,657,347.71

Income invested in market notes: 1434%, due June 30, 1984 (face value $55,000) P 59,142.19 '\. 121/2%, due September 30, 1934 (face value ..:11,072,000) 1,068,721.61 Income invested in market bills: 8.64%, due March 29, 1984 (face value $25,000) 24,034.00 9.72%, duo September 27, 1984 (face value $125,000) 122,873.75 9.97%, duo September 27, 1984 (face value $30,000) 29,185.78

1,303,957.33

4.

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AND RELATED INCOME 4 Interest on Interest on Interest on e1/20/0 market bonds short-term Total income permanent loan due May 15, 1994-99 (net) securities _ fiscal 1984

$111.678.06 $583,961.13

$3,764.07 97,695.93

966,00 1 2,126.25 814.22

583:961.13 111;678:06 105,366.47 801,00$.66

3,k

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Public Law 987367, approved July 17, 1984, made appropriations for fiscal year 1985 through September10, 1985, for the legislative branch. This act provides fUnds for the Library of Con-

grass as follows: 4 -, Salaries and Expenses I Library of Congress $137,492,000 Copyright Office 17402,000 Congressional Research Service 39,833,000 Books for the blind and physically handicapped 36;592,000 Collection and distribution of library materials ,4) 3,318,000 Furniteskand furnishings 1,673,000

Public Law 98-396, approve August 22, 1984, made supplemental appropriationsfor fiscal year 1984. The act appropriated the following amounts: Architect of the Capitol Renovation and restoration of Jefferson and Adams buildings. 81,500,000 Library of Congress Mass Book Deacidification Facility 11,500,000 Increased pay cost 3,601,000

Public Law 98-392, approved August 21, 1984, auth\?rized appropriations for the American Folklife Center for fiscal years 1985 and 1986. .4 Public Law 98-427, approved September 28, 1984, authorized and directed the Librarian of Con- grass to proceed with construction of the Library of Congress Mass Bcfok Deacidification Facility.

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- Exhibits

NEW MAJOR EXHIBITIONS played in hohor of the tenth anniversary dthe ACSM map design competition:Opened Minh AMITY AND COMMERCE: 150 YEARS OF THE UNITED 11984. STATES AND THAILAND ACCORD. Featured a copy of the treaty between the two countries, as wells WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS 41SVANNUAL other historical documents, musical instruments, EXHIBMON. On view are 163 award - winning riho-- manuscripts, maps, photos, rani books, and art tographs in color and-black and white, as well objects. October 1983 to June 1984. as news videotapes. Opened April 1984. , STEAMER PRINTS. Fifty nineteenth-century prints THE GRAND INTERPRETERS: PERSONALITIES IN OPERA IN poktraying the great ships that helped tie the AMERICA. Celebrating the centennial tour of the nation and continents together. October 1983 to Metropolitan Opera Company, the exhibit fee=- April 1984. tures more than a hundred photos of opera stars fiom the Library's Charles Jahant Collection,. HABS: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS. Measured drawings, together with scores `by American composers photos, and watercolors from the Historic Amer- and costumes, costume designs, and set designs lean, Buildings Survey Collection in the Library's on loan from the Metropolitan Opera:Opened, Prints and Photographs Divisidn. November April 1984. 1983-to April 1984. THE 'TRUMAN ERA: ISSUES AND IMAGES. Fiftg original politipal cartoons are exhibited to mark the ME PENNELL LEGACY: TWO CENTURIES OF PRINTMAKING. centennial of the birth of Harry S. Truman. More than 250 fine prints werqdsembled to pay Opened May 1984. -tribute to Joseph Pennell, a printmaker and col- lector who bequeathed to the Library of Congress WORDS IN MOTION: MODERN JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY. his and his:wife's collections of books, manu- Cosponsored by Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading scripts, photographs and printmaking plates Japanese newspaper, the exhibit includes more and who established the Library's Pennell Ft4nd than 130 examples of calligraphic art by contem- for the purchase of fine prints. December 1983 porary Japanese masters. June 1984 to September to June 1984. 1984.

THE POSTER AS ART IN THE 18801. A sampling of IMAGES OF THE WORLD: THE ATLAS THROUGH HISTORY. twenty-seven rare posters that combined art with More than two hundred atlas volumes and plates advertising to create a new artistic movement. from the late fifteenth century to thepresent Opened January 1984. illustrate the expansion ofigeographic and scien- tific knowledge. Opeded August\1984. WITS END: DRAWINGS FROM THE SWANK COLLECTION OF CARICATURE AND CARTOONS. The second_ installa- tion of a continuing exhibit in the Swami, Gallery SPECIAL EIGIIBITS: includes forty -eight items from the collection. Opened February 1984. TWELFTH ANNUAL LC D.4PLOYEE ART AND CRAFT SHOW. December 1983 to February 1984. ACSM AWARE' WINNERS. More than fifty winning entries from the annual competition of the Amer- CHRONOLOGICAL,HISTORY CHART OF THE WORLD. ican Congress on Surveying and Mapping, dis- Opened December 1983.

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PARAMOUNT STUDIOS: THE FIRST30 YEARS. January 13ama; San Diego, CaliforniaLSpokane, Wash- '1984 to Septemblz 1984. ington; Nashville, Tennesseerend. Vancouir'pr, Canada. ALL TALKING, ALL SINGING, ALL DANCING: EARLY HOLLY- WOOD MUSICALS. January 1984 to April 1984. tw,0011.0ox AT WOMEN. Shown kn. Minneapblis- A St. Paul, Minnesota. FLIGHT IN FILM. Opened September 1984. WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS 39TH ANNUAL EGIIBMON. Shown in American Embassies in -CONTINUING MAJOR EXHIBITS Southeast Asia.

THE AMERICAN ;COWBOY. Closed Octobei 1983. WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS 40TH ANNUAL mauerrzoN. Shown in San Bernardino, California; WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS 40TH ANNUAL Odessa, Texas; Tulsa, 9klahoma; andWisconsin EXHEMON. Closed October 1983. Rapids, Wisconsin. 1 CELEBRATION OF THE GERMAN TRICENTENNIAL. Closed GENERATION TO GENERATION: SHARING THE INTANGIBLE. October 1983. Shown in Lexington, Kentucky; New York, New York; Lafayette, 'Indiana; and Oneonta, New MAPPING THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS. Closed York. November 1983. HOUSES OF JUSTICE: COUNTY .COURT ARCHITECTURE. ART, POETRY, AND A WAY TO BROOKLYN. Closed Shown in Marshal, Minnesota.. . januari1984. THE CELEBRITY PIk)TOGRAPHS OF ARNOLD MENTHE. LEWIS HINE,RE iaRMER WITH A CAMERA. Closed ShOWil in Flint, Michigan; National Portrait January 1984. Gallery, Washington,.D.C.; and San Fiancisco,, California. RAILROAD MAPS OF NORTH) AMERICA, THEFIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Closed April 1984. LEWIs HINE,REFORMER WITH A CAMERA. Shown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Columbus, -Ohio. CONTINUING SPECIAL EXHIBITS AMERICA IN THE WAR. Shown in Cleveland, Ohio, /EVINE, OSBORN, AND SOREL. Closed February 1984. and Austin, Texas.

CURRIER a IVES aEvisimo. Shown in Kansas City, TRAVELING EXHIBITS Missouri;, Auburn, New York; Madison, Wis- consin; Hood River, Oregon; and Concord, THE AMERICAN COWBOY. Shawn in San Antonio, Massachusetts. Texas; Denver, Colorado; Calgary, Canada; and San Jose, California. EXHIBITS DEVELOPED FOR TRAVELING AUTOCHROMES: COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY COVE' S OF AGE. Shown in Tampa, Florida; Birmingham, Ala- HABS: THE FIRST FIFTH' YEARS. -,

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CONCERTS . Presented under the Auspices of the Elliabetit DECEMBER 17 & 18. The Juilliard,Sting.Quartet.' Sprague Coolidge Fotuidation ; . 1984 1983 I' NOVEMBER 11. Jan DeGaetani, mez4o-soprano; JANUARY 27. Eugtne List, piano; Gudney Walter Trampler,' viola; Ledluvisi, piano. mundsdottii, violin; and chamber ensemble.

DECEMBER a. The Elmer Iseler Singers. t, MARCH 1Q, The Enesco Quartet. 1984 or- \ MARCH 29 & 30. The Juilliard String Quartet with MARCH 9. The Berlin Piano Trio. Menahem Pressler,.piano.

SEPTEMBER 14. The Academy of Ancient Music -APRIL 5 &,(3. The Juilliard Strings Quartet. Chamber Tnsemble, Christopher Hogwood, director. Lecture by Robert Marshall, Hayold, Spivacke Consultant to the Music Division. APRID 12 c13. The Juilliard,String eluarte,t.

SEPTEMBER 21. Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano; APRIL 19 & 20. The Juilliard String Quartet with James Togpo, piano.. Robert McDonald, piano.

SEFTEN IBER 27 & 28. TheJuilliard String Quart t. Presented under the Auspices oDthe Gertrude Clarke Whitten Foundation / SP7I'EMBEh9.. Georgetand Ira Gershwin Celebra- 1983 tion Concert.

OCTOBER 6 & 7. The Juilliard String Quartet with Stanley Drucker, clarinet. Presented under the Auspices of,the Gertrude Clarke Whitten Foundation and the Elizabeth OCTOBER 13 & 14. The Juilliard String Quartet Sprague Coolidge Foundation With Michael Tree, viola. 1983 OCTOBER 20 & 21. The Juilliard String Quartet. DECEMBER 14. Speculum MUSIC./10, with John.Gar- NOVEMBER 4. The Arioso Trio. rison, tenor, and David Starobin, guitar.

NOVEMBER 18.AuroraNatola-Ginastera, 1984 violoncellq; Jonathan Feldman, piano. JANUARY 18. ThelAkshington Music Ensemble; DECEMBER 2. The Cantilena Chamber Players. the Colorado Quartet.

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Presented undeelthe Auspices of the THE SATURDAY SERIES McKim Fund Presdnted under the Auspices of the/Elizabeth . 1. Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the Gertrude 1983 , %.. ,.. , ' Clarke Whittall Foundation, the McKim Fund, , _ i, the Kroyr Fund, and the Da Capo Fund OCTOBER 1. Mihaela Mrtin, violin; Paul Qstrov-' sky, piano. -,- -/-i, 1983 . NOV33MBER 18. Music from Marlboro. i984 . MARCH 23. Earl Carlyss, violin;, Ann Schein, 1984 piano. JANUARY 28. Music from Marlboro.

Presented under the Auspices of the McKim FEBRUARY 4. Steveh Hough, piano. Fund and the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge FEBRUARY 180.411SiC fiVM Marlboro. Foundation 4 MARCH 10. Henry Herford, baritone; Robin 1984 ,-Botcman, piano. SEPTEMBER 14. The Academ,y of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble, Christopher Hogwood, MARCH 17. Jan 0.palach, bass-baritone; Jeffrey director. ( Goldberg, piano. , MARCH 31. Thomas Riebl, viola; Deboiah Sobol, Presented under the Auspices lithe William piano. and Adeline Croft Fund APRIL 7. The, Juba' Trio: 1984 APRIL 28. Music from Marlboro. FEBRUARY & 10. The Beaux Arts Trio. MAY L12. The Colorado String Quartet. FEBRUARY 16 & 17. The Boa= Arts Trio.

FEBRUARY 23 & 24. The Beaux Arts Trio. THE SLYTEENTH COOLIDGE FESTIVAL OF 1- CHAMBER MUSIC , MARCH 1 & 2. The Beaux Arts Trio. C. Presented under the Auspices of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the' Gertrude. Clarke Whittall Foundation, the McKim Fund, Presented under the Auspices of the Mae and the Da Capo Fund, and the Serge Koussevitzky Irving Jurow Fund Music Foundation

1984 OCTOBER 28. The Contemporary Chamber Ensem-' FEBRUARY 3. New York Chamber Soloists. ble, Arthur Weisberg, director.

ry OCTOBER 29, 3 p.m. Janos Negyesy, violin; Cecil Presented undeethe Auspices of the Boris and Lytle, piano; Benjamin Hudson, violin; Alan Sonya Kroyt Memorial Fund Feinberg, piano.

1983 :OCTOBER29, 8 p.m. The New Amsterdam Ensem- ble, with Elmar Oliveira, viyin; Walter Ponce, OCTOBER 15. The Ridge Quartet. piano; and Frederick Zlotkin, violoncello. .

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Appends 13 6 .8. I . , OCTOBER 30. The Theater Chamber Players. of Clarke Whittall Foundation, the McKim Fund, Kennedy Center, Leon 'Fleishar/Dina Kasten,. the Scala Fund, and the Da Cape Fund directors. r. " APRIL 27. the National Gallery Chamber OCTOBER 31% The Concord String Quartet'. Orchestra. MAY 4. MusicCrafters,', Frederick -Peniliff, THE CELLO A TWENTIETH-CENTURY conductor. ' AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE, Presented under the Auspices of the Elizabeth,MAY 11. Paul Sperry,tenor; IrmaVallecillo, piano. . Sprague Coolidge 'Foundation, the Gertrude , - 1114) 1 Clatke Whitten Foundation, and theDa Capo, MAY 18. Rafael'Druian,violin; Benjamin Paster- . Fund . neck, piano. JANUARY 11. rod Krosnick and Gilbert Kalish Maryvonne.Le Dizes-Riohard, violin; with Gordon Gottlieb, percussion; Mebt the Jean-Claude Henriot, piano.- . Composer lecture-demonstration with Robert Mann and Donald Martino.. MAY 25. The American String Quartet. , MARCI114. Joel Krosnick and Gilbert Kalish with TILE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUMMER Samuel Rhodes, viola. CHAMBER FESTIVAL Presented under the Auspices of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the Gertrude HE FIRST FESTIVAL OF-)AMERICAN Clarke Whittall Foundation, the McKim Fund, MBER MUSIC the Scala Fund: ilnd the Da CApo Puled ted er the 'Auspices of the Elizabeth' Sprague Coblidge Foundation, the Gertrude JUNE 12, 15, 19; 22, and 26, 1984 4 POETRY READINGS, LECTURES,' DRAMA& PERFORMANCES 41

2983 reading their poems.. - ocroBER 3. Anthony Hecht, 1982-84 Consultant in Poetry, reading his poems. OCTOBER 25. "An Evening of Literature 'aild Music," with pianist Frank Glazer ant Anthony i984 Hecht. APRIL 26. Morey D. Rothberg, rec,ipient of J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship, lecture, "John .NOVEMBER 1. Reed Whittemore, lecture, "William Franklin Jameson. '.and the Incorporation of Carlos Williams: The Happy Genius of the American-Historical Scholarship." Household.' " MAY 7. Anthony Hecht, lecture; "The Pathetic Fallacy." NOVEMBER 8. Ray Handy in a dramatic reading of e a In Parenthesis, by David Jones. Presented under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund NOVEMBER 14-15. Academy of AmeriCan Poets 19123 Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. Readings by Robert Fitzgerald, Daniel Hoffman, John OCTOBER 18. Peter Davison and Nancy Willard Hollander, Stanley Kunitz, William Meredith,.

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(Mr. Meredith's poem was iiacl bytAnthony Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What r Hecht), James Merrill, W. S. Merwiii, Howard Where. Nemerov, Mark Strand, May Swenson, Mona -.., Van Duyn, David Wagoner, Robert Penn War- APRIL 2. Richard Minium, lecture, "'W; B. Yeats's ""'' r7n, and Richard Wilbur. -Second Puberty." 4,. '1., . NOVEMBER 29:Sydney Lea and David ,$t. Jahn. rtading their poems, APRIL 9, Bernard Malamud reading from 'his ; .,. work. - V. DECEMBER 5. Shirley Hazzard reading from her *0 woElc. .APRIL 16. Joseph Brodsky reading his poems; An- thony Hecht reading translations. . 3984 APRIL .;4., Northrop Fry.e, lecture, "The Social FEBRUARY 13 and 14. "An Evening with Fat Ilingles in 'Thomas Edison: Reflections of AuthoritY of the Writer." Genius.' " APRIL 30 and MAY 1. ConferenEe on(George FEBRUARY 27. Amy Clampitt and Robert Pinsky Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Papers by reading theArpoems. Peter Davison, jenni Calder, Peter Staneky, Denis Donoghue, Alfred Kazin, Jeffrey Meyers, MARCH 26 and 27. The HarOld CAurman Theatre's Bernard'Crlck, and Nathan Sdott, Jr., followed production Offthre6 plays by Samuel Beckett: by discussions.

r MARY PICKFORD THEATER FILM SCREENING PROGRAMS

Series: Paramount Silents Serifs:Canadian Documentaries . '."OCTOBER 4, 1983 - SEPTEMBER 28, '1984. The Ten NOMBER 1- DECEMBER 13, 1983. Volcano: An In- Commandments; Changing Husbands; So's Your quiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lbwry; Old Man; You Never Know Women; Variety; A Lonely Boy; Paul Tomkowiz: Street-railway Mornion Maid; Wagon Tracks; The New Klon- Switchman; Glenn lould: Off the Record and dike; .Madame Butterfly; A Woman's Victory; Glenn Gould: be the Record; Grlerson; Chur- The Showdown; Morals; The Breaking Point; chill's Island; Dreamland: A History at tculy You'd be Surprised; Too Wise Wives; Doomsday; Canadian Movies, 1895-1939; Warrendale; For Heaven's Sake; Beau Geste; Conrad in Quest Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War (Episode 10: The of His Youth; The Circus Man; The Show Off; Trail); Sad Song of Yellow Skin; You Are on /p- Fool's Paradise; Manhantlled; Womanhandled; dian Land; City of Gold; Loi panadienses; Open All Night; Redskin; Grass: A Nation's Bat -,Bethune; North China Commun6. tle for Life; Code of the Sea; lard Jim; The Canadian. Series: Pickford Silents JANUARY 31-APRIL 4, 1484:America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story; Little Annie Rooney; Paramount Silents in Canada Rebecca of Sunnybrpok Farm; Suds; Wilful The Silent Enemy; Mantrap. Peggy; Little Lord Fauntleroy; The Poor Little Rich Gfrl; Pollyabna; TheMender of Nets; Dad- dy Long-legs; As It Is in Life; The Hoodlum; An Series: Neglected Recent Features Arcadian Maid; Sparrows. =OBER 13-26, 1983. MIkey and Nicky; The American Success Company; Remember My Series: American Society, 1950-1053. Name. FEBRUARY 7 -APRIL 12, 1984. The Jackpot; Crime

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Wave; Panic in The Streets; "Our Miss Brooks: Kelly's Blues; Ernest Laszlo: Apache;William "Conldiifs Love Nest"; The Mating Season; I clothier: Cheyenne Autumn; Robert Surtees1 Want You; The Hitch-hiker; "All -star Revue: The Su° Vadis; Lucien Ballard ;" 'he Raid. Jimmy Durante Show"; Face to Face with Com- munism; The Atomic City; Anything Can Hap- pen; My Son John; Japanese War Bride; The Specials bcroBER31, 1983. Halloween Special: The Film; Breaking Point; The Lawless; High SchoolIii- jinx; The Next VoleYou Hear; "I Led 3 Lives: of James Whale (The Kiss before the Mirror lind The Old Dark Houie). Campus Story": The Thief; Ace in the Hole. . J Series: Technicolor Cinematographers FEBRUARY X29. 1984. Library 9f Congress on Film: AUGUST 7- SEPTEMBER 25, 1984. Jack Hilyard: The Washington Parade: The Library of Con- Summertime; James Wong Howe: The Molly gress; Library 4Congress. Maguires; Leon Shamroy: Call Me Madame; Jack Cardiff: The Master of Ballantrae; Russell Met- AUGUST 3, 1984. Music and the silent Film: The ty: All That Heaven Allows; Hal Rosson: Pete Thief of Bagdad.

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Appendix1 Litigation

United States District Court

CASE NA (:)* ACTION DISPOSITION

Parker v. Boorstin Alt violations' of First and Fifth Dismissed (83-3080) Amendments and employment discrimination

r v. Boorstin Employment discrimination Dismissed . -2447) \

Parker v. Boorstiii Employment discrimination DisMissed (83-2262)

Parker v. The Washing-.Defamation, libel, and invasion cif Dismissed- ti ton POst Co., et al. privacy (83-2158)

Chandler v. Library of ReinstateMentand back pay Settled Congress, 0 al. (83-oul),. *

Parker v: Bo,orstin Alleged violations of First and Fifth Dismissed (82-3514 Amendments and employment .0* discrimination

Parker v. Elaorstin Employment- discrimination. Dismissed (82-3422)

C Parker v: Boorstin Employment discxIpjnation Dismissed' p (821102).- \t Parker v. Doorsill.' Employmentdiscritnination Dismisse d (82-2669) "\ *N

Parkerv. Boorsthi Employmentdiscfilnination Pismissad (82-2299)

Ethnic Employees of the Employmentdiscrimination judgment for Library Library CCongro&ss v. Boon !tin (82-2264)

Parker v:Boorstin Employment discrimination Judgment for Library; (82-1348) appealed

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CASE NATURE OF ACTION DISPOSITION Keeffe, at al. v. Library First Amendment claim Judgment for plaintiff; of Congress, at al. appealed (82t0291)

erry v. Boorstin Dud process Judgment for,Library; (81-2375) no appeal .

Chamurlisky v. Boorstin Employment discrimination Settled (81-1122)

Iftikhar v. Boorstin Employment discrimination Judgment for Library; (81-0968) appealed 4 Ethnic EniPloyees of the Alleged violations of First and Fifth Judgment for Library; Library of Congress v. Amendments and employment Appealed Boorstin discrimination (81-2163)

il.S.-Library of Congess Breach of contract Settled v. Lowenthal (Southern District of New York) (83 Civ. SWK)

I United States Court of Appeals NParker oorstin Employment discrimination Judgment for Library (83-1424) 4 Porker v. Boorstin Eniployment 'discrimination Dismissed (83-1036)

fi Index

AACR 2; see Anglo:American Cataloguing Rules 2 prints and photographs, 21, 79, A6-A7 ABA Journal for National Security, 98 purchases, 5, 58, 60, 61, A3, AS (table) Abbott, Marian x rare books, 30C, 5, 78, 79 ABC Ente nt, 4, 21 serials, 64, 70, 80 ABC New , 79 sources, A8-A9 (table) ABC Te vision, 4, 21 statistics, A4-A7 Ab , M. H., 35, Asa transfer of funds or materials, A8, A9 Academy of American Poets, 28, 77, 87, A53 see also Gifts Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble, A51, A52 Acquisitions and Overseas Operations, Office of the Direc- Accessions lists, A58 tor for (Prot), 58 Accounting Office, 9 officers, ix-x, xxi, 58, 59 officer, vill Acquisitions anPrecessing Division (Cop), 101 Accounts Payable and Purchasing System, 12 officers, ix Ace in the Hole, A55 Acquisitions Committee, 5 Ackerman, James, 35, A58 Acquisitions Policy Statement on Machine-Readable Acquisition activities, xx, 59-85, 78-81 Materials, 5 automation, 58, 59 Acquisitions Throughput Study Committee, blanket ordering, 80, 64, 80 `The Act of Work; 4 Congressional Research Servide, 43, 59 copyright depoips, 81 Ad Hoc Advisory Group on CollectionBuilding Activities, 33 cost comparisons, 64 Ad Hoc Committee on Selection Policy for MachineReadable exchanges, 58, 60-81 Materials, 5 Law Library, 59, A9 Adams, Mary Ann, A2 policies, 5 Adams, Melba D., x Research Services, 59, A9 Adams, Ralph L., viii selection policies, 63 Adams (john) Building special ordering, 60 Computer Catalog Center, 1 statistics, AO (table) fire protection, 7, 12 study, 7 '? food services, 12, 13 travel, 60, 81, 03, 80-81, 98 restoration and renovation,_=, 1, 8, 12, 13, A48 -see also Nitionil Program for Acquisitions and Catalog- Science Reading Room, I ing (NPAC) Social Science Reading Room, I, 85 Acquisition and Processing Section (Mus), officers, xii technical reports collection, 7, 81 Acquisitions Add-on Far Eastern Languages Catalog, All Congreisional Research Service, 42, 43, 59, AS Add-on Law Library Catalog, 92, All exchanges, A9 Add-on Main Catalog, All fro- the blind and physically handicapped, Aft, A9, A18 Add-on Music Catalog, All ..,1gn, 62 -85, 80-81 Add-on Official Catalog, All sifts, 61-62 . Administration of the Library, 1-18 -law and legal materials, 98, A8 AdministrativeDetail Program, 10 manuscript collections, 21, 24, 60, 81, 78, 79, 80, A4-A5 Administrative Law Section (CRS A), 45 maps and atlases, zoc, 5, 21, 60, 78, A6-A7 Administrative Section (CRS Gov), 53-54 microform., 78, 80, 81, A6-A7 The Adventures of Cap'n 0. G. Beadrnore, 4 motion pictures, 60. 79, A8-A7, A8 Advisory Committee on the Law Classification, 75 music, xx, 5, 80, 78 -79, A8-A7 Aeronautics, chair of, trust fund, A26-A27 newspapers, 42, 78, A8-A7 Affirmative action, 9-10, 15 I-1

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Affirmative Action Applicants' File, 9, 10 American Folklife Center, 8, 9, 19-21, 28, 34, A3 Affirmative Action Fellowships, 9 appropriations, 8, A48 Affirmative Action Office, 9-10 Board of Trustees, 19 officers, vii concerts, 20-21 Affirmative Action Roundtable, 9, 10 officers, vii, 19 Afghani materials, 63 reader services, A16-A17 African and Middle Eastern Division, 60 AmaricanFolklife Center Fund, A32-A33, A44-A45 officers, xi, 77, 80 American Folklore Society, 20 reader services, A16-A17 American history African and Middle Eastern studies, 1 chair, A26 African-Asian Exchange Section (E&G), 60-61 gift and trust funds, A26-A27, A30-A31 African Section (Afr/ME), officers, xi. 77, 80 An American in Paris, 79 Africans Acquisitions Fund, A32-A33 American Institute of Architects, 6, 89 African* Collection, A32 American Institute of Architects Foundation Inc., gift funds AFSCME (American- Federation of State, County, and A32-A33 Municipal Employees), 15, 16, 100, 102 American Intellectual Property Law As air, 99 Agencies, federal; see U.S. government agencies American Journal of Comparative LOW, 993 V Agencies, state and local, A9 American Journal of International Law, 98 Agreement on Trade Relations of 1979, 113 American Law Division (CRS), 45-46, 55 Agricultural Policy Conference, 37 officers, viii Ahearn, Mary V., 79 -80 AmericanLibrary Association (ALA), 10-11, 22, 30, 31, 67, Ahmedouamar, Mohammed T., 94 74, 76, 85, 90 ALA; see American Library Association ALAnet, 87 conferences, 22-23, 28, 69, 73, M4 Alaska, State of, gift fund, 83, A32-A33 gift funds, A32-A33, A34-A35 Alaskan Russian Orthodox Church, records, 83 American 'literature,gift and trust funds, A26-A27, Albin, Michael W., x A30-A31, A36-A37, A42-A43 Aldine Virgil, -xx, 79 American Printing House for the Blind, 32, 33 Allan, Barbu, xi American Psychological Association "Ali-star Revue; The Jimmy Durante Show," A55 archives, "All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing: Early Hollywood gift funds,A32-A33 Musicals," exhibit, 24, A50 American Weeding Room, 1 All That Heaven Allows, A55. American Revolution, 34, 69 Allen (Raye Virginia) Trust Fund, A3, A26-A27 American Revolution Bicentennial Office, 89 Amassing American Stuff: The Library of Congress and the American-Scandinavian Foundation, gift funds, A32-A33 Federal Arts Projects of the 1930s, A58 "American Society, 1950-1953," 88, A54-A55 "America in the War," exhibit, A50 American Society of International Law, 98 American and British Exchange Section (E&G), 81 American Sociological Association, gift funds, A32-A33 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, American Standards Committeelinfomution Systems and 89 Standards Board, 75 gift fund, A32-A33 American String Quartet, A53 American Association of Law Libraries, 93, 98 American Studies Association, papers, 81 American Bar Association, 93, 113 The Amqrican Success Company, A54 gift fund, A32-A33 American Telephone and Telegraph, 74 American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story, A54- 89 *American- British Law Division (LL), officers, ix AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, 27 American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 24, 28, A49 "Amity and Commerce: 150 Years of the United States and "American' Convent on Surveying and Mapping Award Win- Thailand Accord," exhibit, 23, A49 ners," exhibit, 24, 20, M9 Amusement and Music Operators Association, 103 American Council of Learned Societies, gift fund, A8, Analysis of Congressional Changes to the FY 1984 Defense A32-A33 Budget, 52 'The American Cowboy," exhibit, A42, A50 Ancient Voices of Children. 87 Amtgican Dialect Society, 21, 81 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2 (MCII 2). 67. 68, 92 American FedtV.tan of State, County, and Municipal Annenberg Fund, Inc., A32-A33 EmployeneitAFSCME), 15, 16, 100, 102 Annex; see Adams (John) Building American Film Institute, 74, 79 Annexes; see Buildings of the Library, annexes

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Anniversaries Army Corps of Engineers, 2 Academy of American Poets, 28, 77, 87, A53 "Art, Poetry, and a Way to Brooklyn," exhibit, A50 American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, competi- Art folios, 85 tion, 24, A49 As ft Is in Life, A54 Bach tricentennial, 87 AS B Capital Management, Inc.. A3 Carter, Elliott, birthday, 28 Asia and World Institute, 98 Children's Literature Center, 21 Asia/Latin America Section (CRS F), 52 Columbus voyage, 90 Asian DiVision, 18, 22, 88 Constitution, U.S., bicentennial, officers, xi, 90 German tricentennial, 35, A50 reader services, A16-A17 Historic American Buildings Survey, 24, 34, 77,69, A49 Mien studies, 1 Jakarta field office, 64 ASO Hardware Inventory System; 12 Kazantukis, Nikos, centennial, 77,.88 Assemblie nationale, 96 Meauscripti Section, 66 Assignment, Reference, and Special Services, Office of Metropolitan Opera Company. centennial, 24, 89, A49 (CRS). 40-43 Monthly Checklist of State Publications, 62 officers, viii Near Eastern and African Law Division, 92 Assistant Librarian for Copyright Services; see Register of Truman, Harry S., centennial, 24, 28, 77, 38, A49 Copyrights U.S.-Thailand accord, 23, M9 Assistant Librarian for Processing Services, ix, xxi, 3, 58.59 Annotated Card Series, 67 Assistant Librarian for Research Services, x, 3, 90, A2 Annual Report oj'the Librarian of Congress, 36, 84, A58 Associate Librarian for Management, vii, 9, 28 Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for the fiscal Year Office of, 9-18 - Ending September 30, 1982. A56 Associate Librarian for National Programs, vii, 25, 28 Annunzio, Frank, vi Associate Librarian of Congress, vii, A2 Antarctic Bibliography, 311. 89 Association for Asian Studies, 63 Antarctic Bibliography: Indexes tovVolumes 8-12, 36, 89, sift funds, A34-A35 A56 Association for Research Libieries, 68 Anything Can Happen, M5 Association of American Law Schools, 93 Apache, A55 Association of American Railroads, 81 APIF (Automated Process Information File), 12, 71 Association of American University Presses, 65 Apollinaire, Guillaume, 79 Association of Asian Studies. 98 Appalachian Spring, 87 Association of Library Service to Children, 22 Apple II+, 27 Association of Research Libraries, 6, 75 Applied Data Research, 11 Association Valentin Hiny, 31 Appropriations, xix, :or, 1, 7, 8, 13, 19, 42, 122, A48 Atatflrk, Kemal, 35, M7 acquisitions from appropriated funds, AS AVyeh, George N., xi statistics, A23, A24-A25 Atlases; see Maps and atlases Arab-American literature conference, gift funds, A38 The Atomic City, A55 Arabic materials, 67 Atomic Energy Commission, reports, 81 Aramayo, Susan B., ix Attorney General, U.S., 105 An Arcadian Maid, A54 - Audio Briefs, xix, 37, 40 Architect of the Capitol, xx-xxi, 1, 7, 12, 1,3, 20, A48 Audio Equipment Advisory Comndttee, 32 Architectural materials, 34, 83 Audio material, acquisitions, A4-' 5 Architecture, exhibit, A50 Audiovisual ind Office Systems eetlon (AIS), 4u Archive of Folk Culture, 21, A30 Audiovisual materials, 16, 28 officers, vii Audiovisual Materials, A13 reader services, ,A16-A17 4 Audiovisual records, 66 jj Archive of Folk Spnfr, see Archive of Folk Culture Audiovisual Resources for Preaeving Library and Archival Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, 81 Materials, 85, A58 Archive of World Literature do Tape, 5 . Audiovisual Section (Spec Cat), 66 Archive General do Indies. records, 90 Audiovisual Unit (CRS AIS), 0 Area Studies, 91 Auman, Elizabeth H., xit ' officers, x, xi, 3, 90 Austin, Judith P., xi Arioso Trio. A51 Austin, Richard H., viii Armstrong, James C., x, 64, 77 Authorities data base, 68 Army, U.S. Department of, 2 Authority file, 74

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Authority records, 68, 69, 74 Belmar (Honied W.) Memorial Find, A34-A35 "Authors, Artists, and Coltyright," 99 Benjamin, Curtis G., 35 "Autochromes: Color Photography Comes of Age," exhibit, Benjamin (William Everts) Fund, A28 -A27 MO Benny and Ronaldson, foundry, 60 . 1- Automated Book conveyor System, 86 - Bequests, forms of, vi Automated InformationServices, Office of (CRS), 39-40 Bereavement Group, 16 officers, viii Berg, Alban, 60 Automated Inventory Control Systebn, 14 . Berlin PhonogrammArchiv, 20 Automated Process Information File (APIF), 12, 71 Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv Demonstration Collection, 34 Automated Reserve System, 32 Berlin Piano Trio, A51 Automated Systenls Office (ALM), 2,11, 39, 63, 68, 70, 72, Bernal, Mari- Louise' 95 74, 86 Bernard, Patrick S., x officers, vii Berne Convention, 99, 113 Automated Systems Office Computer Room, 7 Bernier, Bermird'A., Jr., xi Automation; see Computers and Data processing Bernstein, Leonard, 77 Automation and Reference Collections Section (GRR), Berube, Louis, ix officers, xi Berwick, Philip C., ix Automation officer (Res), x "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; 21 °Automation Orientation Center, 86 'Best Illustrated Books. 22 Automation Planning and Liaison Office (Proc), 59, 7,k, La Bestiaire, ou Cortege.d'Orphee; 79 71-72, 73, 74 Bestsellers, 1979-1983, 31 officers, x Bethune. A54 Avram, Henrietta D., ix, xxi, 3, 58, 59, 74, 75 BileFlip (Bibliographic Flip), 68 Bibliografta de Obras Sobre el Derecho de Los Estados Unidos N. Babine, Alexis V., bequest, A8, A26-427 de America en Lattices Extrunlerast Entrega Hispetnica, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 87, 95 Bailey, Pearl, 30 Bibliographic Control Section, 32 Bailleul, Gaspard, 60 Bibliographic data, 63, 65 Baker, Ray Stannard, papers, 18 Bibliographic data bases, 27 Baker and Taylor Company, 23 Bibliographic Flip (BibFlip), 68 gift funds, A34- A35 Bibliographic Products and Services, Office of the Director Bakst, Lebn, 60 for, 58 Balassa, Sander, 87 officers, x, xxi, 75 Bales, Richard, 87 Bibliographic records, 3, 32, 83, 66, 69, 72, 73, 75, 97 Ballard, Lucien, A55 Bibliographic Retrieval Services, Inc., 26 (table), 27, 31 Ballets Ruesqs, 78 Bibliographic Service Development Program, .75 Pit Bangladesh, A36 Biblio rviceE, 70-73 Barlow, William P., Jr., 35, A56 ds for, 6-A27 Barnes, Michael, 100, 113 Biographic Servic otodup), assistt chief for, viii Barnouw, Erik, 77 ibliographical Center for search, 27 Bartis, Petar...20 Bibliographies, 14, 19, 22, 29, 1, 34, 36, 42;46, 89, Bartley, Linda K., x A56, A57 Bartok% Bola, 87 gift and trust funds to support, A3, A 7, A32-A33 Baseline Data Corporation, 55 lawrand legal materials, 92, 93, 94, 95 Basic and Advanced Coutpucorp Training, statistics, A16 Beteson, Mary Catherille, 4 see alio titles of published bibliographies Beau Geste, A54 Biblioteca Nacioial (Brazil), 64 "Beautiful Theories," 4 Bill Digest, 46 Beaux Arts Trio, A52 '131111Dtgest Section (CRS A), 48 Beck, Leonard N., 34, 0, 58 Binding, statistics, A22." Becker, Joseph, 25 BixidifigOffice, 85, 97 Backer and Hay, Inc.. 25 officer, xi Beckett, Sauna 28, Or A3, A54 Biography, gift funds, A42 BeethovarMsociation, A30 Bitting, Katherina Golden,.34-35, A58 Boll, C. M., collection, 83 Blackwell North America, 27 Ballefontaine, Arnold G., vii Blamcheri, Howard A.; vil

209 INDEX 1-5

Blanket Order Section, 60 ' Iiirittle books and serials, 85, A22 Blind and physicallphandicapped, services to, sac, 19, 28-33 Broadcasts, A44 acquisitions, Ati, A9, A18 LC conterts, A40 appropriations, 8, A24-A25, A48 Brockman, Tamae, 21 data processing, 28, 29, 31 Broderick, John C., x, A2 employMenrstatistics, A23 Brodikyjoseph, 88, A54 t gift and trust funds, A26-A27, A28-A29, A38 -A39, ItrooklynBridge, exhibit, MO A40-A41 Brooks, Cleanth, 4 publications, 29-30, 31, A56, A57, A58 Broward County Library, 3 staff reorganization, 28, 29, 31-32 Brown University, library, 90 statistics, A18-A20 (table) Brownstein, Cy, viii volunteers, 32, M8, A19 Brusoski, Donna, 97 see dlso National Library Service for the Blind and Brussels Satelfite Convention, 99, 105, 113 Physically Handicapped BrynJulsoh, Phyllis. A51 Mind Data Processor, 33 Budget officer, viii Blue Pencil Award, 28 - Buenos Aires Convention (1910), 115-118, 119n BMC if800, 27 Buildings Graphics Fscitity. 14 \tiodurgLAbraham, 35 Buildinis management, 12L13 onham, Donald H., xi Buildings Management Division, 12 Kook Collecting: Personal Rewards ana Public Benefits, 35, officers, viii ar A56 Buildings of the Library Book conveyor systetn, 86 annexes, 7, 8, 13, 81 The Book Enchained, 35, ASES. appropriations, 1, 7. 8. 13 Book Garden, funds for support of, A32 restoration and renovation, :ot-ioti, 1, 7, 12-13, A48 Book Industry Study Group, 28 see also Adards (John) Building; Jefferson (Thomas) Book-oftlae-Month Club, 33 Building; and Madison (James) Memorial Building Book Paging System, 97 Bundesarchiv, 83 Book Service Section (Col Mgrnt), officers, xi Bundestag Library, 93 Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. 8 Burke, Michael D., ix "Books Wanted List," 32 Burma, A38 Boorstin, Daniel J.. vi, vii, xii, xvii, 22, 25, 88. 103, A2 Burnett, Edmund C., A36 Boston Public Library, 73 Burney, Thomas D., xi Boswell, Paul N.. 78 Bush, Nancy F., vii Bowker (R.R.) Company, 60 ,Bush, Stephen E., vii trust fund, A26-A27 Business/Government Relations Section (CRS E), 46 Bowman, Robin, A52 Business Week, 82 Boyd, Julian, 81 Business' Week Magazine, gift funds, A34-A35 Boytha, Gyorgy, 113 Butkus, Zignaas A.,'97 Bradunu, Elena, 20 Buzescu, Petra, 97, 98 Brahma, Johannes, letters, A3 "By Securing to Autuors: Copyright, Commerce, and Cm- Braille Book Review, A56 ," ativity in America," exhibit. 99 Braille books, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, Ai8, MO, A20.,A42 Byrum, John D., Jr., x Braille Codes Section, 29, 32 Braille Development Section, 29, R2 IC-2 cassette machine, 33 Braille tcores Catalog-Vocal, 31 Cable televistbn, copyright, 103, 104. 105-106, 123 Brandt, Mrs Yonne Kroyt A2 Cable TV Task Force, 103 'Braque, Georges, 79 ,Cafritz (Morris and Gwendolyn) Foundation, 83 Brazil, A36 gift funds, A34-A35 accessions list, A56 Cafrtiz Foundation Scholarly Activities Fund, A44-A45 Biblioteca Nacional, 64 Cairo, Egypt, field office, 64, 67 field director, x Calder, Jenni, A54 see also Rio de Janeiro Calendar of Events in the Library of Congress, 28, A58 The Breaking Point, A54, A55 California, University of, at Los Angeles, 71 Bridge, Peter H., ix Call Me Madame, A55 Briefings, 37, 38, 44. 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 50, 94 Calligraphy, Japanese, thdiltsit, 13, 21, 24, 28, 88, A44, A49 British Library, 74 Cambio 16, 82

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Campos, Orlando L., ix cooperative, 12, 65, 8940 r - Canada, National library of, 71 deacriPtive, xx, 5; 65-87, A10 The Canadian, A54 foreign-language, 65, 68, 70 "Canadian Documentarier," 88, A54 gift funds for, A36 -A37, A42-A43 Canadian Task Grou on Computer Protocols, 75 graphic materials, 66 Los CanadIenses, A5 a instruction, 63, 66, 89, 7C Canfield, Earl, viii legal materials, 67 Canti lona Chamber Players, A51 manuals, 68, 70 Capitol (U.S.), A32 manusctipts, 66 Law Library Capitol branch, 97, A16, A17n microform, 70, 84 14brary station, Xi minimal-level, xx, 5, 65, 67, 69;70, 73, 85, A8-A7,,A10 Capitol Hill Information Seminar, 37, 39 motion pictures, 72 Capitol Station, 86 music, 66, 87 ; \. Cap low, 'Theodore,- 4 newspaper, 70 Ca ifonio, Joseph F., 25 production, 58 The Card Catalogs of the Library of qortgresseA Brief Descrip- serials, xx, 70 a tion, 36, A56 shared, 60, 86, 67 Cardiff, Jack, A55 special materials. 68 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), 17 statistics, A10 (table) Careerinterest Group Program, 9 I subject, 68, 87-68, Al0 Career Resource Center, 18 see also Cataloging distribution; MARC; and National Pro:. Caricature drawings, 79 gram for Acquisitions and Cataloging (NPAC) exhibits, 24, 89, A49, Ma Cataloging, Office of the Director for (Proc), 58, 85 trust funds, A30-.A31 officers, x, 75 Carlyss, Earl, A52 Cataloging and maintenance of catalogs, statistics, A10-Al2 anneal, Robert B., :di (tables) - - Carnegie Corporation of Now York, trust fund, A20 -A27 Cataloging Arrearagea Review Project, 97 Carman!, Agostino, 78 Cataloging distribution, 73 ':Carrington, David xis employment statistics, A23 Carroll, Frank J., xi statistics, A13 -A15 (table) Canollton Press, 97 Cataloging Distribution Service (Prot), 13, 88, 70, 71. 72, Carter: Constance, xi 73, 74, 75, A.24e Carter, Elliott, 28 card catalogs. A14 Carter, William E., 78 officers, x, 58 Cartographic history (U.S.), honorary consultant, xiii Cataloging Division (Cop), 101, 102 Cartographic materials officers, ix cataloging, sac, 83 , Cataloging in Publication (CIP), 58, 65, 69 Copyright, 108, 120, 121, 122 Cataloging in Publication Division, xx, 85 Cartography: see Maps and atlases officers, ix A Cartoon drawings Cataloging Instruction Office (Frac), officers, x exhibits, 24, 88, A49% Cataloging Service Bulletin, 67, MO trust funds, A30-M1, A42-A43 Catalogs, book and microform. 29, 31, 36, 42, oe Cassette hooks, 30, 33, Ala sales and distabution, A13 (table). A14 (table) Cassette Books, 1983, A58 see also titles of specific book catalogs Cassette machines, 32, 33 Catalogs, card. 38. 72-73, 97 Castro-Klaren, Sara, xi, xxi, 77-78 statistics, All (table), Al2 (table) Catalog cards Catalogue of the 'Library of Thomas Jefferson. 90 photoduplication, A21 Catastrophe, A54 printing, 415 (table) Cavan, Dick, 101 sales and distribution, A13 (table), A14 (tablet A15 (table) CBS Television, "Read More About Tt," 3.. 31, 89 statistics. 72, All (table), Al2 (iable). CDS Alert Saralee, 73 Catalog Management end Publication Division (Proc), 72.73 "Celebration of the German Tricentennial," exhibit, A50 officers. x "The Celebrity Jhotographs of Arnold Genthe," exhibit, A56 Catalog of Copyrightrultries, 102 "TheCeilo: A Twentieth-Conttuy American Retrospective," Cataloging, xx, 65-70 87, A53 3. cartographic materials, xr. 83 Canter for Research Libraries, 95

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I 211 INDEX 1-7

Center Aar the Book, 3-4, 21, 35, 88, A33n CIP: see Cataloging in Publication executive director; vii CIP bibliographic project, 69 - . gift funds, Ati, A34-A35 Circulation of materials . National Advisory Board, 3 interlibrary loans, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 87, 97 Center for the History of British Political Thought, 90 Law Library, 97 Central administrative services, 14-15 statistics, Al? Central Chafge File, 82 to the blind and physically 4andlcapped, 29, 31, A19 Cential Services Division, 14 Circulation Section (Loan), officers, xi officers, viii The Circus Man, A54 Centro Venezolano American, gift binds, A34-A35 City directories collection, 5 Certificate Production Unit, 102 City of Gold, A54 Certifications and Documents Section, 101, 102 Civil Rights Section (CRS Gov), 54 Chamber music CJK Project, 28, 69 festivals, 87, A3, A52-A53 Clampitt, Amy, A54 trust funds for composition and performance of, A3;-A33 Clapp (Verner W.) Publication Fund, A44-A45 Clark, Kenneth, 77 Clarke, Gertrude, estate of, gift fund, A34-A35 Changing Husbands, A54 Class L, Education, 87 Char, Rene, 19 . Classification, 67-68 Chartre Constitutionnelle des Francois, on is Constitution statistics, A4-A5, A10- (table), All Frangoise . .., 96 see also Decimal classification Chase, Janet, vii Classified book collections, A4-A5 Chaucer Room, 85 Clearing Section, 60 Chestnut, Paul I., xii Clothier, William, A55 Cheyenne Autumn, A55 Clurraan (Harold) Theatre, A54 Chief internal auditor, vii CMLS Handbook, 31 Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), 7,3f Cochlea, Thad, 104 Childers, John, vi Cade Civil 97 Children's Book Week, 21, 23 Code of the Sea, A54 Children's Books, Catalog.ef, statistics, All Cohen, Benjamin, papers, 80 Children's books, Japanese, exhibit, 89 COINS (Copyright Office In-Process System), 7 Children's Books, 1983: A List of Books for Preschool through COINS III (Copyright Office In-Process Systerqi, 12, 101 Junior High School Age, 22, 35, A56 Cole, James P., ix 15 Children's literature, xx, 19, 21-22, 89 Cole, John Y., vii, A58 gift funds, A32-A33i A40-A41 Cole, Leon M., viii Children's Literature Center, 21-22, 28 Collection Records, 71 anniversary, 2f Collections Control Center, 77, 86 officers, vii, 22 Collections Development Office, 4-6, 59, 97 reader services. A16-A17 officers, vii, 5-6 Childs Usmes Bennett) FundA34-A35 Collections Development Office Guider, 5 Chile, National Library, 22%61 Collections Improvement Section (Col mt), officers, jed Collections Maintenance Section (Col Mgrat), 83 China, People's Republic of officers, xi se\ National Library. xxi, 3, 61, 90 Collections management, visit to, xxi. 3, 75, 90, 98, 100, 113 Collections Management Division, 77, 83, 86 Chinese and Korean Section (Asian), officers, xi officers, xi The Chinese Communist Party Constitution of 1982: Deng reader services, A16-A1V Xiaoping's Program for Modernization, 95 Collections of the Library Chinese Cooperative Catalog, A13 gquisitions, A4 -A7 (table) Chinese materials, 61, 80 classified, A4 (table), A10, All Chinese Union Catalog, statistics. Al2 cookbooks, 35 general, 72, 82-83, 84, 85. A8 Chip", Yuri, 82 inventory, 82-83 Cho, Sung Yoon, ix, 93 maps and atlases, 34 Christian Science. 107 prints and photographs, 35 Christiansen, Hugo W., x , special, xx, 12, 79, 83-84, 85, A34, A38 "Chronological History Chart of the World." exhibit. A49 see also Acquisitions and Preservation and care of the col- Churchill's Island, A54. lections

212

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Colketionkplannor (P&P), xii Congress Section (CRS A), 45 College and Research Libraries News, 90 Congressional Budget Office, 38, 49 College Co-op Program, 16 Congressional Continuing Education Fund, A34-A35 College debate manual, 38, 42 Congressional Copyright and New Technologies Sym- Colorado String Quartet, A51, A52 posium, 99 Colt, H. Dunscombe. 81 Congressional Hispanic Caucus. 21 Colt, Mrs. H. Dunscorebe, 79 Congressional Organization and Operations Section (CRS Colt (H. Dunscombe) Collection, 79 Gov), 54 Columbus, Christopher, 90 Congressional Quarterly, 42 Comaromitjohn P., x Congressional Reading Room, 1 Commerce, U.S. Department of, 113 Vongressional Record, 19, 48, 52, 94 Committee on Bibliographic Control, 75 Congressional Reference Division (CRS), 2, 41-42 Committee on Machine Representation of Bibliographic officers, viii Information, 74 Congressional Research Employees Association (CREA), 38 Committee prints, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 93 Congressional Rdsearch Service, xix, 8, 11. 23, 37-53c 93, 94 Committee to Select Prints for Purchase under the Pennell acquisitions. 42, 43, 59, A8 Fund. xii appropriations., 8, A24-A25, A48 Compact Disc Group, 28, 79 audiovisual studio, 7 Compaq portable computer, 27 automated information services. 39-40 Compendium of Copyright Office Practices, 103 dairprocassing, 39-40 Compendium of the Four Categories, 80 employment statistics, A23 Compendium II, 103 gift funds, A34-A35 Cqmposing Unit, 14 inquiries statistics, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 46. 48, 53, Man Comprehensive Mailing List System, 31 institutes, 37. 41, 45 CompugraphirtNCS system, 14 interagency activities, 38-39 Computer Catalog Center, 1, 86 intmlivisional teams, 37, 43-44 Computer Data Systems, Inc., 13 labor - management relations, 38 Computer output microform, 72 officers. alit, 37 Computer programs, and copyright, 99,101. 103, 109. 111, publications. 38, 42. 45, 48, 50 113 reference centovs, xix. 37. 41 Computer Science and Data Processing, 68 reports, 44, 46-47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52. 53, 54, r5,5c:57 Computer Service Center, 11 research services, 43-57 Computers, 19, 23, 26, V, 29, 39. 49 seminars and workshops, 37. 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 48. 47. microcomputers, 3, 11,-12, 27, 29, 40, 41, 63 48..50, 52, 53, 54, 56 Comterm, 11 subscriptions. 60 Concerts, 2, 15. 20-21, 28, 87, 88 union catalog, 43 gift funds for performances and broadcasting, A2. A3. Conjunto Tipico Puertorriqueflo, 21 A28-A29. A30-A31, A32-A33, A40-A41, A44-A45 Conrad in Quest of His Youth, A54 list, A51-A53 CONSER, 58, 70, 71, 72 Concise Heritage Dictionary, 33 C SER operations coordinator, x Concord- String Quartet, A53 - Coervation of bookrebd other materials; see Preservation Conferences and symposia, Library. xix, >a, 3, 4. 2043. 28, and care Atha collections 35, 37, 49. 50, 85, 88, 90, 91. 99, 113, A54 nervation -officer, xi gift and trust funds. A3, A32-A33, A36-M7, A38-A39 Constitution, French, 98 Cangres, (U.S.) Constithtion. U.S., 90. 107 congressional hearings. 95 -Constitution Hall. 90 congressional inquirle/t1,37, 39. 40. 41, 43, 46, 48, 53 Constitution of the United States - Analysis and Interpreta- copyright legislation, 104-105 tion (Constitution Annotated), 45 Joint Committee on Printing. 25, 85 Consultants, honorary, xiii Joint Committee on the Library, vi, 8, A2 gift and trust funds for, A28-A29 Joint Economictcommittee, 50 Consumer Law Section (CRS A); 45 981hCongress. vi, 40, 46, 104, 105 Consulter Relations Section (NLS/I3PH), 30 99th Congress, 44 Consumer Reports, 111 Select Committee on Hunger. 50 Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, A52 services to, 37-57, 93;94 Continuations Unit. 60 see also House of Representatives (U.S.) and Senate (U.S.) CONTROL DATA. 26 (table)

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CONiUReport, 109 appropriations, 8, A24-A25, MB Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonognms consultative management, 99-100 against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonognms, data processing; 100, 102 115-119 employment statistics, A23 Convention Relating to Distribution of Programme Carrying gift funds, A34-A35 Signals Transmitted by Satellite, 113 officers, ix Cookbooks, 24, 35, 69 Register of Copyrights, ix, 99, 100, 104, 108, 107, 113, 114. Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, A26 128n Coolidge Auditorium, 1, 2, 20, 79037;88 regulations, 103, 105, 105, 107 Coolidge Festival of Chamber Music, 87, A3, A52-A53 Copyright Office In-Process System (COINS), 7, 12, 101 Coolidge (Elizabeth Sprague) Foundation, 87, A28-1127 Copyright Registration for Computer Programs, 102 sponsorship of concerts, A51, A52-A53 Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings, 102 Cooperative cataloging, 32, 85, 89-70 Copyright Royalty Tribunal, 102. 103, 104, 106, 123 . Cooperative Name 'Authority Discussion Group, 69 Copyright Services, Assistant Librarian for see Register oft. Copland, Aaron, 87 Copyrights Copyright Copyright Society of the United States of America. 99 cable television, 103, 104, 105-108, 123 Corcoran, Thomas C., papers. 80 cartographic materials, 120, 121 Cornell University 12 computer progama, 99, 101, 105, 109, 111, 113 Vincenzo Maria, xx, 60, 78 de its, 5, 8, 8, 12, 81, 62, 79, 101, 102, 107 - 108,121 Correspondence services, statistics, A17 X blej, 122. A9 COSLA (Chief Officers of State Library Agencies), 23 ;Iliits, 99, 102 Coughlan, Margaret N.. 22, 35 tilernational,112-114, 115-119 (table) Council of Scholars, 1, 4, 35, A3 judicial developments, 105-112 gift funds. A34, A38, A42 jukebox licenses and royalties, 103, 123 Council of Scholars Fund, A34-A35 legislation, 104-105 Council on Library Resources, Inc., 75, 83 manufacturing clause, 107, 112 gift funds, A34-A37 maps end atlases, 108, 122 Counsel for Personnel. Office of, 9, 15, 17 MARC records, 74 County Atlas Project, 84-85 motion pictures, 20, 100, 114, 120, 121, 122 Court of Appeals (U.S.), 109. A60 music, 112, 120, 121, 122 records, 98 notice, 101, 105, 107, 108 Courts Section (CRS A), 45-48 periodicals, 122 Cowan. Ruth, 4 prints and photographs, 6, 109 -110k 111 - 112,120, 121. Cowboy, American, exhibit, A42. MO 122 Cowles Conupunications, recordings. (3, 99. 100. 104, 112, 114, 120, 121, 122 Coyne, William J., vi records, 14,102 Cranberries, 20 registration, xxi. 12, 99, 100. 101. 102. 104, 105, 107. 108. Crawford, John C., x 109, 120 liable), 121. 122, 124-126 (table). A24n CREA (Congressional Research Employees Association), 38 renewals, 120 . Crick, Bernard, A54 royalty fees, 3, 103, 104, 106, 123 (table) Crime Wave, A54-A55 aerials, 100, 107, 120, 121 Croft (William and Adeline) Fund, A36-A37, A52 symposium, xx Cronin, John W.. bequest, A3, A26-A27 television programs, 110 - 111.113 Croxton, Fred E., vii videotaping, 99. 110-111 Croy, Catherine M., vii works made for hire, 104. 109 CRS Dill Digest System, 11 Copyright Acquisiljons Pitt, 101 CRS Magazine Manual, 43 Copyright Mt of 1909. 1q3 CRS Microcomputer Study Group, 31 Copyright Act of 1976,100, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108. CRS Review, 38, 51, 57 109, 110, 111. 112 Crumb, George, 87 . The Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files of the Cultural Conservation: The Protection of Cultural If Copyright Office, 102 in the United States. 19, M8 Copyright Clause, 107 Cultural Exchange Agreement of 1979, 3 Copyright Licensing Division, 13 Curatorial Section (M/B/RS), officers. xii Copyright Office. xvii, xlx -xx. xxi, 12, 13, 98, 99-114 Curran, Donald C., vii, A2 acquisitions, 59, AS 'Currier & Ives Revisited." exhibit, MO I-10 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, 1984

Customer services officer, x, 58 Descriptive cataloging, xx, 5, 85 -67 Customer Services Section, 73 statistics, A10 Cylinder recordings, 20, 34, A22 Descriptive Cataloging Division (Proc), 63, 65, 68, 67 Cy Ike, Frank Kurt, vii officers, x Czai, 81 Descriptive Cataloging Policy, Office for (Proc), 58, 67 Czech and Slovak Literature in English: A Bibliography45. officers, x A56 Detroit Publishing Company collection,83 "The Czechoslovak Law of Conflict of Laws," 98 Dewey Decimal Classification, 68 Dewey Decimal Classification editor, x De Cep° Fund, A44-A45, A52-A53 gift fundsfor editing, A3B-A39 Dodd tIR-3.4ong-legs, A54 Diaghilev, Sergei Atvlovich, xx, 60, 78-79 D'Alesiandro, Edward A., x DIALOG Information Service, 28 (table), 27, 31 *Dare to Be Creative," 21 "Dick Cavett Show," 101 Data bases. 11,12, 20, 26, 27.31, 37, 40, 42, 48, 58, 83.85; Dictionarips, 30, 33 68. V, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 84, 85, 86, 92, 99 Digest of Public General Bills and Resolutions, 45, 46, A58 bibliographic files, 27 Directories, 5, 29, A40, A42, A57 see also Data proceuing and names of specific informs; Disbursing officer, viii tion systems Distinguished Serriceitward, 59 Data Preparation and Recording Unit, 101 District of Columbia Library Association, 33 Data processing, 11-12 District/State Institutes, 39, 53 Congressional Research Service, 39-40 "The Division of Leisure in Contemporary Society," 4 Copyright Office, 100, 102 DMS, 26 (table) for the blind and physically handicapped, 28, 29, 31 Dobbe, Kimberly W., x

Law Library, 92, 94 Dockstader, Raymond L., vii . personnel. 12 Document Processor, 11 Processing Services, 58, 59 V Document Storage and Retrieval System, 11 A Research Services, 77, 86 Documentation and Reference Section (M/B/RS), officers, xli serials system, 25, 37, 43, 58. 70 Documents, 62 training and instruction, 31, 37, 39, 40. 98 Documents Expediting Project, 62 see also Data bases and names of specific information gift funds, AB, A36 -A37 syltuzos 'Documents Expediting Service, 95 Davenport. Nancy A viii Documents Pilot Project, 102 Davenport, Russell, papers, 80 Doherty, Joan, ix. 102 Davis. Robert A., ix Donoghue, Dents, A54 Dalton, Peter. A53, A54 Doomsday, A54 Decimal classification, statistics, A10 Dorn, Georgette M., xl Decimal Classification Division (Proc), 86 Dove, Bobby F., viii officers, x - DOW JONES, 26 (table) Decimal Classification Editorial Fenny Committee, 68 Doyle, Charles, viii DeConcbli, Dennis, vi Dramatic performances, 25, 87 -88. A3.,A53-A54 Defense Policy and Arms Control Section (CRS F). 52 Drawings The Defense Spending Debate: Comparing Recent Sense acquisitions. 79, A6-A7 Appropriations with 1981 Projections, 5 architectural, 83 Defense Technical Information Center, 25 caricature and cartoon. 24, 79, 88, 89, A30-A31, A42 -A43, DeGaetant, Jan, A51 A49 De Garmo, May Tumor, 31 copyright, 120, 121 Delcugo.z. N.rtb:die, 48- exhibits, 24, A49 4.)emonstration Collection," 20 gift and trust funds, A28-A29, A32-A33 Dempsey, Pitt& 11, 34 Dream/and: A History of Early Canadian Movies, 1§95-.4194 Deechy, Don.lby, x A54 Deng Xisoping. Drucker, Stanley, A51 lieptutmente, U S, ; see specific names Drulan, RafelffA53 ...01 Peposkit Colloction. 102 Drunk Driving Laws in Various Foreign Countries,95 Deposit Copy Stores%) Unit, 102 Duly, Raoul, 79 Deputy librarian of Congnss, vii, xix, sod, 3, 5, 9, 75, 90, A2 Duke University, 89

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Durante, Jimmy, A55 English-language poetry, chair, 28A3o , -al-Durr 61-Muntakhab Min Maquidt Yuhanna Fam al- Engliill Language Serials Catalo Sectiob, 70 Dhahab, 80 Entry Vocabulary Project, 69 Environment and Natural Resources PolicylDivision SCRS). E-Mail, 11, 41 50-51 E-1 cassette machine, 33 officers, viii ' Eames (Charles) Collection, A28, A38 Environmental Protection Agency, 25 East Africa, field director, x Environmental Protection Section (CRS ENR), 50 East African Acquisitions PrograM, gift funsiii, A8 Equal EmiSloyrnent Opportunity Complaints Office, 9, 11t East European studios, A32 officers, vii, 11 Eastern Africa Equal employment opperfarfarograzus. 16-17 accessions list, A56 Estimattng Funding for Strategic Forces, 52 gift funds for acquisitions, A40-A41 Ethics Manual for Members and Employees of the U.S. House Bastem Europe, exchange, 61 ,t of Representatives, 45 "Eastern Work Ethics,' 4 "Ethnomusicology, 21 EBSCO, 25 Europe/Middle F4ast/Africa Section (CRS'F), 52-53 Economics Division (CRS), 46-48. European Division, 1, 80, 88, 89, 91 officers, viii officers, xi, 90 1" Eddy, Mary Baker, 107 reader services, A16-A17 Edison, Thomas A., 88, A54 European Economic Communitlk 74, 112 papers, 6 Eriropean Exchange Section (E&G), 61' Education, U.S. Dap f, 78 European Law Division (LL), 93, 95 Education and Public-IN-rare Division (CRS)048-50 officers, 98 officers, viii European Reading Room, 85-86 Educational Liaison Office, 22 -23 Evaluations Committee, 9 officers, vii, 23 Bins, Luther, 1 Edwards, Archie, 20 Evans (Archibald B.) Fund, A8, A26-A27 Edwards, Don, 104 Evans (Luther'H.) Memorial Fur, A38-A32, Egypt "An Evening of Literature and Music,"Mu A53 field director, x "An Evening with Pat Hingle In 'Thomas Edison: Reflection see also Cairo of a Genius,'" A54 Ehrenberg, Ralph E., xii EverinInlo Library, 79 4 Exainining and Scheduling Unit, 101 Electronic Information Delivery System, 74 4 Electronic Mall System, xix, 11. 37, 41, 86, 92 Examining Division (Cop), 101 Ellminn, Richard, 35, 88, 90, A54 officers, lx, 101 Elsbree, Hugh I. Jr., viii Exchange and Gift Division, 43, 61., 62, 95021n, 122 ,Elsevier, 65 officers, lx, 58 Eisen, Bertha L., bequest, A26 Exchange progrars, xx, 58, 60-61, 62, 63, 64. 80, 95,-At Elson (Louis C.) Memorial Fund, A26 -A27 Executive assignMent and classification appeals officer, vii Emergency Itedical Response System, 17 Executive Organization and Administration Section (CRS Employee art and craft show, A49 Gov), 54 "Employee Assistance Program, " 38 Exhibits, 1, 4, 13, 19, 21, 23-24, 28, 29, 88-89, 91, 92, 99, Employee emergency fund, A34 102 , N Employment Seminar Program. 10 catalogs, checklists, posters, and labels, A44 Employment statistics, A23 (table) gift and trust funds, A30-A31, A4;-A43, A44-A45, Encyclopedia plan, 85 list, A49-A50 EncyclePediai, 81 traveling, 24, A44-A45, A50 Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Technology Section Exhibits Loan Program, 24 (CRS SPR)', 56 Exhibits Office, 23-24 Energy, U.S. Department of, 25, 78 offers, vii Enesco Quartet,tA51 Extek 105 Silver Cafd to Roll Duplicator, 18 Engelhard, Mrs . Charles William, Ir., vi, A2 Extended Order File, 60 4 - Engelhard (Charles W.) Fund, A36 -A37 Exxon Educational Foundation, gift funds, A36-A37 Engelhard Lectures on the Book, 35 Engineering Planning and Development Office, 11 Face to Face with Communism, A55 Engineering Section, 33 Facilities and Materials Handling Section, 31 216 Nis '4,

1-12 . REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, 1984 N: . I Facsimiles, funds fit, A42-A43 Fermis°, Agnes. xi Far Eastern Languages Add-on Catalog. All Festival of American Chamber MuSic, 87. M3 Far Eastern Languages Cataog, Feulner, John A., zi v catalog cards. A15 Ficklen. Ellen, 20 .-.... - Far Eastern Law Division (LL), 93 'Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Spanish Legal officers. ix, 3, 93,138 Documents Project. 9415. ,, , fames A., papers, 80 Fifth Amendment. 107 , .. Farm Foundation, 37 Fifth String quartet (Bartok), 87 ' , Farm Policy Perspectives: Setting the Stage for 1985 Agri- Films and fihnsttips: the Micryforrns andiriicralikalng and . cultural Legislatiop. 50 Motion pictures - I Farm Security Administration, files, 83 Final Report of' the-National Comrc(fiston on New Tech- Faxon Company. 25, 37, 42. 60. 70 nological Uses of Copyrighted *Ike. 909 Fay, Peter J.. x Financial management. 13 , Federal Accounting and Reporting System, 13 Financial Management Offlie. 9' /''. Federal Acquisition Regulations, 14 officers,viii ,' Federal Arts Projects. 35 Financial statistics, A21 -A47 (tables)' Federal Budget Process Section. (CRS Gov). 54-55 Finch, Louie viii( t a . Federal Comm'unications Commission. 106, 112 Fiorearts, gift`and trust fundsfor,428,,-A27.. A28-49 Federal Courts of Appeals, records. 98 Finlandigyoundation. Inc.. gut twit.. Ad38AA37 Federal Cylinder Project. 34 Finals terials. A38 .1" `f. The Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Col- .-.Filiati, san C.. vitt lections in F;keral Agencies. 20; 34. A57 Fins. Jo ,;,!'* C.. vii / Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program. 17 First Amendment. 107 , 1 Federal Executive Institute, 16 0 First Festival of American Chiunbei Music. 87. A53 Federal Executive Seminar Centers. 16 First World Conference on Cultuial Parks': Preservitton anal "Federal 'dor/batten Po ales: Emerging Issues on Manag- a1/16.18 ing Information Retros," 25 Riad Section. 60 ' Federal Information Policies: Emerging Issues on Managing Fitzgerald, Robert. 41. 87. A53 Information Resources. 35, A57 Flacks. Lewis I.. ix. 113 Federal Labor Relations Authority. 17 B'LC/FEDLiNE, 26.27 "Federal Law Update.* 37 Flettchhauer, Carl. 20. 21 Federal libraries. 25. 26. 27 Fleisher. Leon, A53 cataloging data distributed to. A13 Fletcher. Willard Allen, 35 Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLiCC), Flexible disk books, 33 ,. 25, 26 "Flight in Film." exhibit. 24, ASP-i, Federal Library and Information Network (1.11)LINK), 13, 25. Florida, University of, 71 .: * 28-27 `,11 Flute collection, 7. A28 P k -Federal Library Conunlitee (1kl.C). 24-27. 35. A33/1 Folger Shakespeare Lib`riiy.'9P Executive Ailvisory Committee, 25 Folklifer and Ethnomuskalogy Archives and Related executive &frier, vii, 25 dons in the United States mil Canada, 21 gift funds'. A36-A37 Folklife projects and activities. trust funds, At A26 -A27 'Federal Plummet:it Regulations. 14 Food and Agriculture Section (CRS ENR), 00 'I' FederalF Reter, 25. 103 Fool's Paradise. A54 Federal Research Division (Res). 8. 28, For Heaven's Sake, A54 officers. xi For Younget Readers, 1982-83, A57 The Federal Statistical System: 1980 to 1985. 55 Ford Foundation,giftfundf, 438.-A37 Federal Trade Commission. 105 Foreign Affairi and 1"sttional 'Neat; Division (CRS), 39. FEDLINK (Federal Library and Information NetwOrk), 13. 25. 51 -53 26-27 officers. viii Feinberg, Alan. AF Foreign-language materials, 62-83, 70, 71. 80-91. 91, 92 Feinberg (Lenore B. and Charles B.) Fund, A26-A27. Foreign Language Serials Cataloging Section, 70 A36-A37 Foreign Pending File Project. ,71 Feldman. Jonathan, A51 Foreign program, gift funds, A36 -A39 Fennell. Frederick. A53 Foreign Statistical Serials, 81 Ferdinand III, decree. 97 Forest Press. Inc.. gift funds, A38-A39 Ma Ferrarsse.Mazy Ann. viii. Forms management program. 14

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FOrt Detrick. Maryland. deacidification facility. xix. 2. 14, 8.e 'Gershwin. Mrs. Ira. 79 Fortune. 80 Ghezzi. Pier Leone. 79 4.1 Fortune 500 corporations. annual reports. 41 Gibson, Gerald D.. Fotofili, Male Siulikutapu Kalaniuvalu, 23 Gift and trust funds. vi, 13. A2-A3. A8-A9. A24-A25 France. Btbliotheque nationale. 61 list, A26-A47 *Franco. Francisco. 82 Gift Fund. A32-A45 Frank, Barney. 104 Gift Section, 81 0 Frankfurter. Felix. papers. 18. 83 Gifts.8. 8. 32, 61-62. 79. 81. Al A3 French literature, gift and trust funds. A3. A26-A27 forms of. vi Fresh Start Smoking Cessation Program. 16 statistics, A9 Friends of Music in the Library of Congress. gift and trust Gilman, Benjamin Ives. 20, funds. A26 -A27. A38-A39 Gilman (Benjamin Ives) Collection. 34 Friends of the Folk Archive, gift funds. A38-A39 Gingrich. Newt. vi Frissell (Toni) Collection, M4 Gish (Lillian) Foundation..gift funds. A38-A39 Ffissell (Toni) Fund. A44-A45 Glasby. Dorothy J.. x - Frosio, Eugene T.. x Glasgow. Richard E.. ix Frye, Narjhrop, 88. A54 Glazer. Frank. A53 Fuels and Minerals Section (CRS ENR), 50-51 Glazer. Nathan, 4 Fulton, Robert. 60, 79 Glenn Gould: Off.the Record. A54 Furniture and furnishings. appropriations, 7.8. A24 .A25. Glen1tGauld: On the Record. ,A54 A48 Globes. soc. 60.fib Glos. george'E.. ix, 98

4 Ganga. 20 Goddard Space Flight Center, 2 Garcia, Robert, 21 Gaff (Frederick R4) Memorial Fund, Al. A38-A39 Garrison, John. A51 Goldberg. Jeffrey. A52 Garvey. Gerald T., viii Gonzalez. Armando. ix, 94 Gazettes; see Newspapers and gazettes ' Gottlieb, Gordon. A53 general Accounting Office. 10. 25. 38 Gottscho (Samuel H.) Fund. A8, A38-A39 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 112 Gottscho-Schlelsner Arthivei; A38 General counsel. vii. A2 Gould. Glenn. A54 Office of the. 8-7 Gould. iditherine P.. xi Geileral counsel (Cop),' Lx, 101. 105. 113 Could. Morton. 87 General Reading Rooms Division. 86, 89 Gevernment Affairs Institute, 53 officers. xi, 102 Government agencies: see-U.S. government agencies reader services. Ale-All GovInninent Computer Pews. 27 General Reference, officers, x. xi. 90 Government Division (CRS), 40. 45. 53-55 General Schedule. 17 officers. viii General Services Administration. 7, 8. 15. 28. 28. 62 Government documents; see Governmentblications "Generation to Generation:She.eing the intangible," exhibit, Government Printing Office:40, 25, 36.38. 62. 66.85. A9 A50 Government publications. 5. 43. 62. 78. 82. AIL A34 Genthe. Arnold. A50 Government Publications Interest Groups, 33 Geoerephyrust funds for a chair of. A30-A31 Government Publications Section (Sar), officers, xi Geography red Meet Division. xis, 34.35, 78, 83. 84. 88. 89. Graduate Cooperative Education Program. 9, 10 91 Le Grand Atlas. 24 officers: xii. 90 'The Grand Interpreters: Personalities in Opera in America,' reader services: Ale-A17 exhibit, 24, M9 "George and Ira Gershwin Celebration.` A3, M1 Gross: A Nation's Battle for Life: A54 "George Orwell and 1984; A3 Gray, Beverly Ann. xi, 84 Geosciences. Materials, and Industrial Technolowe Section Great Hall. 13, 23. 24, 88 (CRS SPR), 56-57 Greece, Embassy of. 88 Gephart. Ronald M., 34.89' Gfeek literature, modern. symposium, 88 German Bundestag Library, 23 Green. Karl R.. xi German Captured Docuthents Collection. 83 Green (Constance McLaughlin) Revolving Fund, M4-A45

German tricentennial. 35, A50 Gregor, Dorothy. X.-Vti, 58 , Gershwin. George. 1. 61. 70. 89. A3. A51 Grierson. A54 Gershwin, Ira. 1. 79. 69, 13, M1 Gude. Gilbert. viii

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Gudmuitchdottir, Gudnoy.'A51 Hemperley, John 0., viii Guggenheim Chair of Aeronautics, A26-A27 Henriksen; 'Finn, 93 Guggenheim (Daniel) Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Henriot, jeazClalide, A53 Inc., A26-A27 Herford, Henry, A52 Guides and findingaids, 20, 21, 34, 36, 83, 89 Herman, Steven J., xi gift funds, A34-A35 Hiatt, Robert M., x ,tupta, Eunice S., x; 64 Nickerson; Joseph C., WI, 21 Gushee, David E., viii High school debate manual, 38, 42 Gwinn, Nancy E., 35 High School Hifinx, A55 Hilyard, Jack, A55 Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 4 Hahn, Ellen Z., xi Hine, Lewis. A50 Halm, Gerhard, 23, 93 Hines, Patricia S., x Haiti, National Library, 22 Mingle, Pat, 88, A54 Hall, George, 78 Hispanic Acquisitions Section, 61, 95 "Halloween. Special: The Films of James Whale," A55 Hispanic activities, gift funds, A38 Hallstoin, Ann L., ix Hispanic culture, specialist in, xi Handbook of Latin American Studies, 89 Hispanic Division, 12, 61, 88, 89, 91 editor, xi officers, xi, md, 77, 81, 90 Handling Books in General Collections, 85 reader tervices. A16-A17 Handy, Ray, A53 Hispanic Heritage Week, 10, 15, 21, 23 Hanks, Nymphus C., bequest, A28 -A27 Hispanic Law Division (LL), 95, 98 Haq, Zia ul, 63 officers, ix, 94, 98 ilartit, John P.~, viii Hispanic materials, 97 Harper & Row, 21 trust funds for purchase of, A28-A29 Harpsichord, gift funds for concerts, A28 Hispanic Publicition Fund, A38-A39 Harrison, Anthony P., ix, 112 Hispanic Society Room, trust funds for equipment and Harrison, Harriet W., xii maintenance, A28-A29, A30-A31 Hart Building, 41 Historfc America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites Recorded Harvard University, 16, 71, 75 . by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Library, Historic American Engineering Redord, 34, 89, A57 Harvey, any, A2 Historic American Buildings Surv:y, 6,'24, 34, 77, 79, 89 Hass, Johneery, vii, 23 "Historic American Buildings Survey: The First Fifty Years," Hatfield, M k 0., vi exhibit. 24, A49, A50 Hawkins. Paula, 94 Historic American Buildings Survey Collection, 24,:11,1A49 Hayes 1200 autoanswer modem, 27 Historic American Engineering Record, 6, 34, 79 Hazzard, Shirley, 88, A54 Historical Fiction, A57 Health Benefits Fair, 17 History Fair, 16 chair, A36 ith Forums, 18 gift aQd trust funds, A3, A26-A27, A36-A37, A42-A43 th Room, 17 .see alZ American history Health Section (CRS Ed), 49 History chart, exhibit, A49 Health Services Office, 16, 17 The Hitch-hiker, A55 officer, Ail Hoffman, Daniel, A53 Hebert, John R., xi, 34 Hogwood, Christopher, A51, A52 Hebraic Section lAfr/ME), 102 Holcomb, Morrigene, vii officers, xi, 80 Holland Land Company, records, 81 Heliraic Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 Hollander, John, A53 Hebrew material, 80. 101 Holmes (Oliver Wendell) Devise, Permanent Committee for Hecht, Anthony. 35, 87, 90, A53, A54, A58 the, officers, xii Hedrick, Floyd D., viii The Hoodlum, AM Hageman, Annie-May, A28 Hornboatet Erich Moritz von, 20 Heghtbotham, Stanley J., viii Hoskins, Janina W., 35, 89 Heilbronec, Robert, 4 . Hough. Steven, A52 Heineman Foundation, gift funds, A38-A39 House Information Systems, xix, 37, 86 Heinemann Fund, An Office, 41

219 a INDEX 1-15

House of Representatives (U.S.) Import-Export Bulletins, 87 Agriculture Committee, 37, 50, 55 In Parenthesis, A53 cable television system, xix, 37, 40 income Maintenance Section (CRS Ed), 48-49 Committee on Appropriations, 96 Incunabula, A6-A7 Coinmittee on Banking, Finance,` and Urban'Affe\fri, 46 Independence National Historical Park, 90 Committee on Energy and Commerce, 50, 93 Index to Latin American Legislation. 12 Committee on Foreign Affairs, 52, 53, 100, 113-114 Index to Latin American Legislation, 94 Committee on House Administration, 54 India Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 51 field director, x, 62 Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. 55 see also New Delhi Committee on Rules, 54 Indiana University, 71 Committee on the District of Cohnnbia, 55 Individual Earning History, 14 Committes on Ways and Means, 49 Indonesia copyright committee; 100 field director, x documents, 38 National Library, 22 electronic mail spites; xix, 37, 86 see also Jakarta ' ethics manual, 45 Industry Analysis and Finance Section -(CRS E), 47 legislation, 19 Info Packs, 40, 41 Speaker of the House, xvii. Informatics General Corp., 27 SubCommittee on Censui andl'opulation, 20 Information and Reference Division (Cop), 101-102 Subcommittee on Legislativeppropriations, 7 officers, ix, 102 "Ho of Justice: County Ccrt Archpikture," exhibit, A50 Information Distribution Centers (CRS), 41 Hou Eng and Transportation Section (CRS E), 46-47 Information Office, 28, 36 How Can the Federal Government Best Decrease Poverty In officers, vii the:United Stab's?, 38 Information Place, 22 How to Communicate under Pressure, 16 Information retrieval services, use of, 26 (table) Howard, Richard C., xi Information Screen Facility, 11 HO' we, James Wong, A55 Information Systems Section (AIS), 39 Hsia, Gloria H., x Information Unit, 18 Hsia, Tao-tai, ix, 3, 03, 95 Inouye, Daniel K., vi Hubbard (Gertrurle M.) Bequest, 42n, A24n, A26-A27 Inquiry Section (CRS ARS), 40-41 Hubbard Fun& A8 Inquiry Status and Information System (ISIS), 12, 37, 39, 41 Hudson, Benjamin t A52 Instruction; see Training and instruction Hufford, Mary, 19, 20 ` Insurance Company of North America, gift funds, A38-A39 Humanities Reading Room. 1 Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Fair Trade Act Hummel, Berta, 109 of 1984, 105 Hungarian material, 8.1) Interagency agreements, 26 Huntington, Archer M., gift, and tryit funds, A8, A25n, Intergovernmental Copyright Committee, 99, 113 A2ti -A29. A30 -A31 '` Intergovernmental Relations Section (CRS Gov), 55 Huntington (Archer M.) Truk. A2 Interlibrary loans, 26, 27, 3G, 31, 32, 87, 97, Ale Huntley. William R., x Intern Program, 16, 22, 93 Hutson, James H., dl, 90 Internal Audit Office, 8-9, 62 Internal Revenue Service, 8, 62 "I HaveDream," 102 International Center, 71 "I Led 3 Lives: Campus Story," A55 International Conference on Research Library Cooperation, 75 I-Want IV, A65 International cooperation IBM :.'oration copyright relations, 112-114 gift funds, A2, 428-.429, A38-A39 exchange of materials, A9 IBM PC, 27 ' International Directory of Braille Music Collections, 29, A57 IBM 3033AP, 11 , International Directory of Libraries and Production Facilities IFLA; see International Federation of Lifiiarif Associations for the Blind, 29, A57 and Institutions r 4I International Federation of Library Associations and Institu- Ignacy Jan Paderewakl, 1860-1941, 35, 89, A57 tions (IFLA), 22, 64, 75 Illinois, UnNersity af, at Urbana-Clnunpaign, 69 International History Conference on Regionalism and Federa- 'images of the World: The Atlai Through History," exhibit, tion, 90 24, 88, A49 ' International Journal of Legal Information, 98 I-16 r REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, 1984

International Legol Moteriols, 98 Jakarta, Indonesia, field office, 64 International MARC Network Committee, 75 James, Olive C., xi International Monetary Fund, 98 James Madison Memorial Building; see Madison (James) International Organization for Standardization, 75 Memorial Building International Organizations, Development, and Security Sec- Jameson,John Franklin, A53 tion (CRS F), 53 Jameson (J. Franklin) Fellowship, A53 International Publishers Association, 100, 113 Japan s. International Section (CRS E), 47 field director, x International Serials Data System (ISDS), 71, 75 National Diet Library, 18, 38, 82 International Standard Bibliographic Number (ISBN), 85 see also Tokyo International Standard Serial Numbers, 71 Japan Economic Foundation, 38 International Union List of Vietnamese Publications, 75 Japanese calligraphy, exhibit, 13, 21, 24, 28, 88, A44, A49 "Interpretation, Response: Suggestions for a Theory of Art Japanese materials, 22. 89 Criticism," 35 Japanese Section (Asian), officers, xi Interstate Commerce Commission, 108 Japanese Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 Introduction to Braille Music Transcription: Addendo D-F, Jopanese War Bride, A55 31, A57 Jimmy, Imre T., ix, 58 Introductory Handbook for Patrons, 30 Jefferson, Thomas, 90 Inventory Management Project, 12, 14 Jefferson (Thomas) Building Inventory Manaftment Section, 29, 30, 31 architecture, 19 Inventory of the collections, 82-83 Computer Catalog Center, 1 Irish Times, 81 Congreuional Reading Room, 1 ISDS; see International Serials Data System fire protection, 7, 12 ISDS Manuel, 71 food services, 12, 13 ISDS Register/Bulletin, 71 Main Reading Room, 1, 72 - iseler (Elmer) Singers, A51 restoration and renovation, xx, 1, 7, 8, 12, 13, A48 ISI, 26 (table) sales and information counter, 28 Islamic legal collection, gift funds for development of, Jefferson (Thomas) Reading Room, 85 .A42-A43 Jensen, Gary D., xi Islamic Work Ethics,' 4 Jensen, Oliver 0., 78 Israel, A38 s Jewish Guild for the Blind, 32 Issue Brief Section (CRS AIS), 40 John Adams Building; see Adams (John) Building Issue Briefs, 40, 44, 48, 50, 58 "John Franklin Jameson and the Incorporation of American aerospace, 58 Historical Scholarship," A53 defense, 52 Johnson, Constance A., 95 energy, 56 Johnson, Everett J., xi environmental protection, 51 Johnston, Frances Benjamin, papers, 18, 83 food and agriculture, 50 Joint Committee on the Library, vi, 8, A2 foreign affairs, 52, 53 -"Joint-Ventures in Eastern Europe," 98 geosciences, 58 Jones, Catherine A., viii labor, 47 Jones, David, A53 life sciences, 57 The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, 90 science policy, 57 Jubal Trio, A52 transportation, 50 "Judeo-Christian Work Ethics," 4 ITT Dialcom, 87 Juilliard String Quartet, concerts, A51 Jukebox licensing, 103, 123 Jabbour, Alan, vii, 19 Jurow, Irving, A2 JACKPHY/MARC program, 67 Jurow, Mae, A2 The jackpot, A54 Jurow (Mae and Irving) Fund, A28-A29, A52 Jackson, Robert H., papers, 80 Justice, U.S. Department of, 6, 101 Jackson, Ronald J., xi Juvenilia; see Children's literature Jackson, Thomas Penfield, 6 Jwaidoh, Loh& E., ix Jackson, William Henry, collection, 83 Jacob, Louis A., xi Kadec, Sarah T., 25

Jaguach, Sybil le A., vii, 22 Kalish, Gilbert, A53 , Jahant (Charles) Collection, 24, A49 Kaplan (Milton) Fund, A28-A29 221 %., INDEX 1-17

Karachi, Pakistan, field office; 63, 67 Labor Relations Office, 17_ Kaltenmeier, Robert W., 104 officer, viii Katz, Stanley Labor Roundtable Seininars, 47 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 77, 88 Labor Section (CRS El, 47-48 Kazin, Alfred, A54 Laboratory Services Section (M/B/RS), officers, xii Kearns, Jerry L., xii Lacy, Dan M., 25 Kemal AtatOrk: A Cent nnial Bibliography (1881-1981), .55, Ladd, David, ix, 99, 100, 104, 106, 107, 113, 114 A57 Liffey, John J., viii Kemp, Jack F., 104 Le Follette Congressional Reading Room, 8 Kennedy (John F.) Canter for tit Performing Arts, gift funds, Landover Center Annex, 7, 81 A8, A38-A39 Language Services Section (CRS ARS), 43 Kennedy (John F.) Center Performing Arts Library, x, 24, 28, Large-Print Scores and Books Catalog, A57 88, 102, A16-A17, A34-A35 Laszlo, Ernest, A55 Kenya Latin American Gazettes, 18 field director, 64 Latin American materials see also Nairobi index to legislation, 12, 94 Kenyon, Carleton W., ix Law and Business, Inc., 99 Kiel, West Germany, University of, 98 Law and legal materials Kimball, John W., Jr., xi Kindler Concert, A2, A3, A32 cataloging, 67 Kindler Foundation, trust fund, 87, A2, A3, A25n, A32-A33 coA, 60 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 102 foreign, 92 King Research, Inc., 84 gift and trust funds for, A32-A33, A42-A43 Kipling, Rudyard, 79 Greek law books, 60 Kipling (Rudyard) Collection, 61, 79 indexes, digests, and bibliographies, 92, 93, 94-95 The Kilts before the Mirror, A55 microforms and microfilming, 95, 96, 97, A42 "Kissinger Report," 98 periodicals, 60, 92, 96' Kitagawa, Joseph, 4 preservation, 84, 97 Klemperer, Otto, 78 rare books, 97, it32 Kluwer, 65 shelflisting, 97 Knight, John, gift funds, A38-A39 Law Books in Review, 98 Kniskem, Alice, 64 Law in Eastern Europe, 98 Knowlton, John D., xi' Law Librarian, ix, 98 Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, 81 Law Library, 4, 5, 12, 23, 68, 92 -98 Kominski, John J., vii, A2 acquisitions, 59, 96, A8, A9 Korea, Central National Library, 80 ' Capitol branch, 97, Ale, Al% Korean High Court Report, 96 employment statistics, A23 Korean materials, 80 furniture.and furnishings, 7 Korean Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 officers, ix Kormos, John G., viii publications, 92, 94-95, 98 Kostelanetz (Andre) Fund, A8, A28-A29 reader services, A16-A17 Keaton, Dina, A53 Law Library Add-on Catalog, 92, All Kostreba, Anthony J., xi Law Library Catalog, All Koltssevitzky (Serge) Music Foundation, Inc., 87, A28, Law Library of Congress United Association of Employees A52-A53 16 gift and trust funds, A28-A29 Law(lICLibraryUNAE'ReedlingRoom, 60, 92, 05, 98, 97 Kovtun, George J., 35 officer, ix Kraus, David H., xi The Lawless, A55 Krintz, Edwin M., viii Lawson, Doyle, 20 Krosnick, Joel, 87, A53 LC Classification-Additions and Changes, 87, A57. Kroyt (Boris and Sonya) Memorial Fund, A3, A28-A29, A52 Lea, Sydney, A54 Kulislieck, Marjorie R-., vii_ Leach, Theodore E., x Kunitz. Stanley, A53 Leaglie of Aral4States, gift funds, A38-A39 Kurzweil Data Entry Machine, 32-33 Leahy, Patrick J., 100, 113 Leavitt, Donald L., xii Labor- management relations, 15-18, 38 Lectures; see Readings and lectures Labor/Management Working Group, 100 Le Dizes-Richard, Maryvonne, Asa

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Lee, Dorothy Sara, 34 Licensing Division (Cop), 102-103, 122, A8 Legal specialists, 93, 94196, 97, 98 officers, lx Legal Times, 99 Lichtenvranger, William. do LEGISLATE, 28 (table) Lieb, Arthur J., vii" "Legislation on Foreign Relations," 39-40 Lifer,' Serge, xx, 78 Legislation relating to the Library, vi, A48 Life Sciences Section (CRS SPR), 57 appropriationsrxix, ;or, '1, 7, 8, 13, 19, 42, 122, A48 Lillis, Mark A., ix Copyright Act of 1976, 100, 103, 104, 105 Lincoln, Abraham, legal wilt, 97 Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984,100 -101, 102, Lincoln - Juarez lecture series, 88 104 Tax Reform Act of 1984, 61-62 Lincolniana, Alfred Whital Stern Collection, A30, 442 Legislative Branch, 8, A48 Linguistic Atlas pf North America, -21 Legislative Indexing Vocabulary, 42 Linked Systems Project, 74, 75, A34 Legislative institutes, 53 LINX system, 37,'42 -43, 60, 70 Legislative Liaison Office, 8, 55 List, Eugene, A51 officc,r, vii "Literary Criticism in America: Some New Directions," 35 Leibowitz, David E., ix Literary Guild, 33 leMat, Raoul, ix Literary programs, 84, 87-88, 89 L'Engle, Madeleine, 21 Literature of magic, honorary consultant, xiii Lettera amorosci, 79 Lithographs, exhibit, 450 Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, 34, 89, A57 litigation, A59-A60 . Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, A36 Little Annie Rooney, A54 Levering, Mary Berghaus,vii Little Lord Fatmtleroy, A54 Levesque, Suzanne,'22 Livres d'artiste, 79 Levine, David. A50 LLCUJIAE (Law Library of Congress United Association of "Levine, Osborn, and Sorel," exhibit, 450 Employees), 16 Lewis, Robert Hall, 87 Loan Division (Res), 8, 41, 82, 86-87, 92, 97 "Lewis Hine, Reformer with a Camera," exhibit, A50 officers, xi, 90 LEXICO, 42 reader services, A16-Al 7 -` LEXIS/NEXIS, 26 (table), 92 Loan Reference Section (Loan), officers, xi Librarian of Congress, vi, vii, xii, xvii, 1, 3, 8, 22, 25, 88, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, 88 103, 126n, A2, A48 Local History and Genealogy Sectien (GRR), officers, xi Librarian's Office: see Office of the Librarian Loeffler, Elise Fay, bequest, A38-A39 Librarian's Special Reserve Fund, 60 LOIS, 13 , Library Environment Resources Office, 7-8 Lombardo, David ., viii officers, vii Lonely Boy, A54 Library of Congress, A554, Longworth, Nicholas, A28 The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration, A42 Longworth (Nicholas) Foundation, trust hind, A26 -A29 Library of Congress Acqitisitions, 35, 78, 457 Longworth Reference Center, 41 Library of Congress Archives, 15 Look Magazine Collection. 6 The Librar,of Congress Card and Gift*Catalog, 1984-1985, Lord Jim, A54 36 Louchheim, Katie S. ,Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 14, 28, A57 gift funds, A40 -A41 The Library of Congress 1983, 457 papers, A40 "Library of Congress an Film," A55 Louchheim (Katie and Walter) Fund, A2, A25n, A40-A41 Library of Congress Publications in Print, A56n Love, Joseph M., vii Library of Congress Regulations, 6 Lovett, Clara, 80, 90 Library of Congress Selected Publications, 1984, 36, 457 Lowell, Robert, 35, 90, A58 Library of Congress Subject Headings in Microform, 457 Lowry, Malcolm, 454 Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival, 453 Luce, Clare Boothe Library Resources for the Blind and Physicallyllandicepped, gift funds, A40-A41 1984, 457 papers, A40 Libraiy Services Division (CRS), 42-43,88 Luce, Henry IL, gift fund, A40-fi41 officers, viii Luvisi, Lee, A51 Library Systems and Services, Inc., 27 Lytle, Cecil, A52

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M/A-COM Sigma Data Corporation, 27 Management McCallum, Sally H., x, 58 'employment statistics, A23 McClung, James W., vii officers, vii-viii Maccoby, Michael, 4 Management, Associate Librarian for, vii, 9, 28 MacConorny, Edward N., xi Management and Administrative Services (CRS), officers, viii McCormick, Adoreen M., vii Management Committee on Microcoinpiners, 40 McCreary, Vivian, A3 Management Services, Office of, officers, viii McCullough, James M., viii Management Studies (CRS), officers, viii McDavid, Raven, 21 Management Working Group on Incentive Awards, 18 McDermott, Judy C., ix Manhandled, A54 McDonald, Jack, viii Mann, Robert, A53 McDonald, Robert, M1 Manpower, Budgets, and Policy Management Section (CRS McEwen, Alfred E., vii F), 52 "- McGinnis, Margaret, xi Mantrap, A54 McGowan, 'Frank M., 58, 59 Manuscript Division, 35, 78, 80, 83, 89, 91, A4-A5 McGraw-Hill, Inc., 25 officers, xii, 81, 90 McGuirl, Marlene C., ix reader services, A16-A17 Machine-readable cataloging; see MARC Manuscripts McKenna, Philip C., A3 acquisitions, 21, 24, 60, 61, 78, 79, 80, A4-A5 McKim, Mrs. W. Duncan, bequest, A32 cataloging, 66 McKim (Lenora Jackson) Fund, 8, 9, 87, A2, A8, A25n, collections, 66, A49 A32-A33 exhibits, A49 sponsorship of concerts, A52 -A53 gift and trust funds, A26-A27, A28-A29, A30-A31, MacLeish, Archibald, 1 A32-A33, A36-A37, A40LA11, A42-A43 Madam Butterfly, A54 micieforms and microfilming, 83, 84, 90, 102 Madame Longlois with, Her Daughter, the Chevalier do music, 61, 68, 79,)8, 89, A2, A4-A5, A42 Beheld, and Monsieur Cherevenski, 79 ,preservation and restoration, 84, A22 Maddox, Jerald Curtis, xii Manuscripts Section (Spec Mat Cat), 66 Madison Gallery, 13, 24, 88 Maraitius, Aldus, roc, 60, 79 Madison (James) Memorial Building "Mapping the North American Plains," exhibit, MO closed circuit television, 13 Maps and atlases Congressional Reading Room, 8 acquisitions, xx, 5, 21, 80, 78, A6-A7 fire protection, 13 catalog cards, A15 flute collection, 84 cataloging, xx,.83 furniture and furnishings, 7 classification, 68 Information Place, 22 collections, 34 Law Library, 92, 93 copyright, 108, 120, 121, 122 Mumford Room, 20 county atlas project, 84 occupancy, xx exhibits, 13, 24, 28, 88, 89, A49, A50 relocations, 11, 83, 91 facsimiles, 36 sales and information counter, 28 for the blind and physically handicapped, 30 security, 13 globes, 60, 78 shipping and receiving dock, 13 MARC records, 88, A10 Magazine Master File, 31 preservation and-restoration, A22 Magazines 1983, A57 publications, 34, 89, A58 Magic, literature of, honorary 'onsultant, xiii rare materials, 5, 24 Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 84 symposium, 88 Magnqs, Jennifer V., ix tactile maps, 30 Main Add-on Catalog, All Maps and Graphics for Blind and VisuallyHandicapped In- Main Card Catalog, 72, All dividuals: A Bibliography, 30 Main Reading Room, 1, 23, 72, 85 MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging), data base, 08, A10 Main Reading Room Section (GRR), officers, xi (table)

Main Reference Files (PS), 42 MARC Abbreviated Soothing Records Service, 73 .,. Major Legislation of the 98th Congress, 40 MARC bibliographic records, 73' Malamud, Bernard, 88, A54 MARC Books files, 73 :'Maltese Falcon," 99 MARC catalog cards, A15 1-20 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, 1984

MARC cataloging data, 67 Menofti, Gian Carlo, 87 MARC data files, 74 Meredith, William, A53-A54 MARC Distribution Service, 67, 69, 73 Meritoriols Service Award, 78 MARC Editorial Division, 68, 74 Merrill, James, A54 officers, x, 58 Mervin, W. S., A54 MARC formats, 73 Methodology Section (CRS'Ed),49-50 MARC Formats for Bibliographic Data, 74 Metropolitan Opera Company, 24, 89, A49 MARC Maps, xx, 83 Metty, Russell, A55 MARC Music records, 73 Metz, Jean B., vii MARC Music tapes, 58, 66 *Mexican Foreign Ministry, 88 MARC records, 12, 58, 61, 87, 68, 69, 73, 74, A10 (table) Mexico City Convention, 119n gift funds, A34-A35 Meyer, Christopher A., ix sales and distribution, A13 (table), A14 (table) Mayers, Jeffrey, A54 MARC serials tapes, 71 Michigan, University of, 64 MARC Standards Unit, 73 Microcomputer Demonstration Center, 27 MARC tapes, 74, A13, A14 Microfictel see Microforms and microfilming Marclp, Don C., xii Microform Reading Room, 1, 12, 70, 81, 82 Mat, Gail H., viii Microform Reading Room Section (GRR), officers, xl Market Analysis Project, 2i Microforms and microfilming Marshall, Robert, 87, A51 acquisitions, 78, 80, 81, A6-A7 Martin, Delores M., xi bibliographic records, 72 Martin, Mihaela, A52 brittle books, A22 Martin, Sylvia Cooke, viii cataloging, 70, 84 Martino, Donald, A53 documents, 103 Marvin, ,Frederick, 88 field offices, 64 Marwick, Lawrence, 80 gift funds, A32-A33, A42-A43 Maryland, University of, 16, 22 government documents, 5, 62 Maryland Book and Author Luncheon, 22 guidelines, 5 Maryland Field Recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture, 21 law and.legal materials, 95, 96, 97, A42 Masakazu, Yamazoki, 90 Main Card Catalog, 72-73 Mason, Edward, viii manuscripts, 83, 84, 90, 102 Mass Book Deacidification Facility, xix, 1-2, 7, 8, 13, 14, music, 102 84, A48 newspapers and gazettes, 5, 18, 64, 72, 81, A22 Master Index Unit, 101 orders, 60 The Master of Ballantree, A55 periodicals, 82, A22 Materials Development Division, 29, 30, 32-33 preservation, 5, 18, 84, 85, 90, 95, 102, A8, A22 officers, vii projects, 41, 72-73 Materials Management Unit, 31 Publications, A57 Materiel management and support; 14 serials, 78, A22 Matheson, William, xii shelflist, 72 Mathias, Charles MpC., Jr., vi, 105, A2 special collections, 83 The Maling Season, A55 statistics, A21 Matsudaira, Yoritsune, 87 storage, 14, 41 Matsumoto, Hisao, xi technical reports, 82 May, Elaine, 77 Micrographics, 39 Mazur, Michael, xii Micrephotographic Section, 18 Mead Data Central, Inc., 27 Microprocessors, xix, 37, 40 Medical materials, 65 Mierothesatui, 37, 42 Medina, Rubena, ix, 95, 98 Middle East, A38 Meet the COmposer, A53 accessions list, A56 MellonlAndrew W.) Foundation, 78 Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program, 64 gift and trust funds, A2, A28-A29, A40-A41 Middle East Studies Association, gift funds, A40-A41 Mellon Fund, A8 Midlands Regional Conference of Librarians Serving Blind Member and Committee Relations, Office of (CRST, 37-38 and Physically Handfc.diped Individuals. 32 , officers, viii Mikey and Nicky. A54 The Mender of Nets, A54 Miller, Dayton C., bequest, A8, A18-A29

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Miller (Dayton C.) Collection of FlUtes, 84, A28 Murphy, Geralld, A2 Miner, William F., vii Museum of Anierican Folk /1s-1, 20 Minfmal-level cataloging (MLC), roc, 5, 65, 67, 69, 70, 73, Museum Stores Association, 28 85, A6-A7, A10 Music Mishkin, Paul, xii acquisitions, Yzci 5, 60, 78-79, A6-A7 Missouri Library Network, 27 bibliographic records, 73, 74, 75 "MLC*Plus," 67 braille, 29 Mobley, William H., vii catalog cards, 58, 68, 73 Mode laki, Andrew M., 34, 89 cataloging, 86, 67 Modern Greek literature, symposium, 88 chamber music, 87, A3, A32 Modems Library, 79 compositions commissioned, 87, AZ, A32 The Molly Maguires, A55 copyright, 112, 120, 121, 122 Milton, Flora, 20 dance, 78-79, 102 Money, Banking, and Quantitative Analysis Section (CRS disks, 28 E). 48 folk music, 20, 21 Monographic series, 60 for the blind and physically handicapped, 31, A18, A19, catalog cards, A15 A20 Monographic Series, A13, A14 gift and trust funds, A26 -A27, A28-A29, A30-A31, Monthly Checklist of State Publications, 62, A57 A32-A3 A36-A37, A38-A39, A40-A41, A42-A43, Moody, Ana C., A3 A44-A4 Moore, Waldo H., ix minuscrip, 61, 66, 79, 88, 89, A2, A4-A5, A42 Morals, A54 MARC records, A10 Morgenthau, Hans J., papers, 81 microforms and microfilming, 102 A Mormon Maid, A5,4 periodicals, 31 Moroccan materials, 64 rare books, 5 Morrow (Malcolm) Memorial Fund, AIL A40-A41 scores, roc, 78, 79, A18, A49 Mortimer, Louis R., via-- sheet music, 102 Morton, Jelly Roll, :ballasting, 67 Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, see also Concerts and Recordings 6, 66, 74, 79, 84, 88 Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings, A13, A57 officers, xii, rod, 77 Music Add-ors Catalog, All reader services, A18-A17 - `Music and the Silent Film," A55 Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, 3 Music Catalog, All Motion pictures Music Circulars, 31, acquisitions, 60, 79, A6-A7, A8 Music Division, 77, 78, 87, 91, 102, A4-A5, A51 bibliographic records, 66, 74 officers, xi', 90 catalog cards, Al5 ruder services, A16-A17 cataloging, 72 Music from Marlboro, A52 collections, 88 A Music Library for Blind and Physically Handicapped In- copyright, 20, 100, 114, 120, 121, 122 dividuals, 31 data base, 68 Music Online System, 65-68, 71, 73, AlSn Ifilm screening progrnms, A54-A55 Music Online Users Group, 69 /44.t gift and trust funds, A28-A29, A40 -A41, A44-A45 Music Section (NLS/BPH), 31 horror films; 35 Music Section (Spec Mat Cat), 68 MARC records, A10 Musical instounants, 7, 23, 84, A28, A30, A42, A49 musicals, 24 The Musical Mainstream, A57 nitrate film 8, 9 Musicals, posters, exhibit, 24, A50 preservation and storage, 7, 84, A22, A44 MusicCrafters, A53 reading room, 3 Mutsferrika, Ibrahim, 80 Mubarak, Suzanne, 23 My Son John, A55 Mulhollan, Daniel P., viii Myers, William C., viii Mullin, LaVerne P., ix Multistate centers (MSC), 29, 30, 32, A19 NACO (Name Authority Coop), 69 Mumford (L. Quincy) Memorial Fund, AB, A40-A41 Nairobi, Kenya, field office, 64, 77, 80 Mumford (L. Quincy) Room, 20 Name Authorities, 73, MO MUMS, 12, 88_ Name Authorities, sales, A13. A14

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Name Authorities, Cumulative Microform Edition, 72, A57 officers, vii Name Authorities System, 68, 71 - -reader services, A16-A17 Name authority cards, Al in National Programs, Associate Librarian tor, vii,25, 28 Name Authority Conversion Manual. 68 National Referral Center. 88, 89, 91 Name Authority Co-op (NACO), 69 officers, xi Name authority data base, 63, 69- reader services, A16-A17 Name authority records, roc, 58. 63. 66, 73. 74. A10 National Register of Microform Masters, 72 Name headings. 68, 69 National Science Foundation, 25 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 2, National Serials Data Program. 71 25, officer, x Nur, Sayyed Husain, 4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2, National Technical Information Service, 25 25 National Underground Storage. 8, 14 National Agricultural Library. 5, 25 National Union Catalog, Al2 National Archives and Records Service, 6, 25. 26. 79 National Union catalog. 67, 69, 72, A57 - gift and trust funds, A42-A43 National Association of Government Communicators,28 National Center for Film and Video Presentation, 74 sales. A13, A14 National Commission on Libraries and InformationScience, National Union Catalog: Audiovisual Materials, 72, A57 25, 68 sales, A13, A14 National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copy- National Union Catalog: Books, 72, A57 righted Works (COM), 109 sales. A13. A14 National Commission on the Public Landing of Books Act National Union Catalog: Cartographic Materials, 72, 83, A57 of 1983. 105 sales, A13, A14 National Cooperative Research Act of 1984. 105 National Union Catalog: Newspapers, 72 National Council of Jewish Women, records, 80 National Union Catalog: U.S. Books, 72, A57 National Development Plans, 81 sales, A13. A14 National Diet Library (Japan). 18, 38 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1982, and Index, 1980-82, 66. A58 National Directory of Latinliznericanitts, A40, A42 sales, A13, A14 National Endowment for the Humanities. 58,- 71, 78 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, statistics, National Enquirer, 28 All National Gallery Chamber Orchestra, 87. A53 National Union Catalog Register of Additional Locations, '..gtionaLInformation Standards Organization, 74, 75 72, A57 National Laved Bibliogrohic Record: 74-75 Natola-Gbusters, Aurora, A51 National libraries, MCI. 3, 18,22,38, 61,64, 71, 80, 81,82, 90 Naval Historical Foundation National Library for the Blind, Inc., gift and trust funds, collections. A40 A26 -A29 gift funds, A40-A41 National Library of Agriculture, 89 Navy Yard Andex. 8, 13 National Library of Medicine, 5, 22, 25,.85, 69.71,74 Nay, Robert L., ix National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handi- NBC, 79 capped, 28-33, A18, A19, A20 office», vii News, 79 reader services. A16-Al2F Near East Section (Afr/ME), officers, xi, 80 see also Blind and physically handicapped, services to Near East Union Catalog. statistics, Al2 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Han- Near East Union List Project. A40 dicapped. Office of the Director, 29-30 Near Eastern and African Law Division (LL). 92. A42 National Park Service, 8, 21, 79, 89, 102 officers. ix National Personnel Records Center, 14 Nearprint publications. A13. A14 National Photo Company collection. 83 "Neglected Recant Features." 88, A54 National Preservation Program Office, 85 Newsy, Moos, A52 National Productivity and Innovation Act of 1983,105 NeMOIVV, Howard. A54 National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging(NPA.C). Neneyer. Carol A., vii, 25 acquisitions. AS Nepal, A36 National programs. sot, 19-36 Neptune Plaza. 20 employment statistics. A23 Nester, Diane E.. xi Rift funds, A34 <*- Network Advisory Committee, 73-74, 75

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Network Development and MARC Standards Office (Proc). Nomination and Election of the President and Vice Presi- 87, 73-74, 75 dent of the United States, 45, 55 officers, x, 58 Nonprint Experiment Desiin Committee, 20 Network Development Office (Proc), 73 North China Commune, AM Network Division (NLS), 29, 30-32 North Reading Room, 85 officers, vii Norton, Jane, 98 Network Planning Paper, 74 Notices of Identity and Signal Carriage Complement, 103 Network Services Section, 29, 31 Novotny,/ ThomassW., viii New Amsterdam Ensemble, A52 NPAC (National Program for Acquisition: and Cataloging), blew CRS Crossover Program, 38 acquisitions, A8 New Deal, 80 NST; see New Serial Titles New Delhi, India Nugent, William R., vii field office, 5, 11, 62, 63-64, 67, 80, A34 NYPL-Ert African Acquisitions Program, gift funds, A8 photoduplication orders, A21 New Delhi Overseas tataloging Project (NEWDOC), 63 0 Congress, 86 New England Document Conservation Center, 97 Occupational Injury/Illness System, 12 New Engl1113 Library Association, 73 Oceans and Natural Resources Section (CRS ENR), 51 The New ia ndike, A54 OCLC; see Online Computer Library Center New Serialfiles, 71, A58 OCLC M306,27 editor, x O'Donoghue, Martin F., Jr., viii sales, A13, Al4 , office Automation Committ, 59 New Serial Titles Needs Assessment Survey, 71 Office Automation Task Force, 11 New Sirial Titles Section, 71 Office of Management and Budget, 25 New York Chamber Soloists, A52 Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 25 New York Times, 22 . Office of Scientific Research and Development, reports, 81, NEWDOC (New Delhi Overseas Cataloging Project), 63 82 News, A58 Office of Technology Assessment, 38 Newsom, Jon W.. xii. 90 Office of the Librarhu), 1-9 Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, 86 employment statistics, A23 Newspaper Cataloging Manual: A CONSEJUUSNP Edition, gift funds, A38-A39 70 officers, vii Newspaper Section (Sex), officers, xi Office of War Information, files, 83 Newspapers and gazettes Offices of the Library; see specific name, e.g.,Associate. acquisitions, 42, 78, A0-A7 Librarian for Management, Office of bibliographic records, 72 Official Add-on Catalog, All cataloging, 70 Official Catalog, All Official Visitors Program, 22 gift and trust funds, A20 -A27 Ohio Impromptu, A54 microforms and microfilming, 5, 18, 64, 72, 81, /122 Okamoto, Kyoko, 21 official gaieties, 18, 95 The Old Dark Nouse, A55 union lists, 43 Oler, Harriet, ix, 101 West European, 85 Oliveira, Elmer, A52 Newspapers in Microform, 72 OMB Circular A*78, 25, 26 The Next Voice You near, A55 "Omnibus," 77 Nichols, Mike. 77 On the Art of the Nti-Theater: The Major -Treatises of Zeami, NijInsky, portrait, 60 00 1984, xix, rod, 88, A3, A54 Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), 27, 09, 70, 87 Nitrate Film Conversion Program, 8, 9 Online Serials Management Control Subcommittee, 25 NLS; see National Library Service for the Blind and Physi- Ontyme II, 87 cally Handicapped Opalach, Jan, A52 NLS Automation Conference, 29 _, Open All Night, A54 NIS Collection-Building Policy, 33 Opera, 80 NLS Selection Policy on Reading Materials, 33 Opera, exhibit, 24, 28, 88, A49 NLSNET, 29 Optical Disk Advisory Group, 3 Nobel Prize, *inner, 4 Optical Disk Pilot Program, xix, 2-3, 7, 11. 14, 20, 28, 40, Noble, Raymon A., viii 63.90

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Optical Disk Pilot Program Committee, 41 Pellkan, jaroslav, 4 Optical Disk Project Center, 7 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 24, 35, A58 Optical disk system, 23 Pennell, Joseph, 24, 88,. A49 ORBIT, 26 (table) Pennell. Joseph, bequest, A28-A29 Order Diiision, 60, 96 Committee to Select Prints for Purchase under the Pen- officers,. ix nell FUnd, xis Organization chart, xiv-xv Pennell (Joseph and Elizabeth Robins) Collection, BB. A3, Orgaaizatiofi of American States, gift funds, A40-A41 A28 Orientation and Briefings Section, 38 Pennell Fund, 24, 88, A8, A49 Orientation programs, 22, 28, 31, 86, 93, 94 "The Pennell Legacy: Two Centuties of Printmaking," exhibit, Orwell, George, xix, vd, 77, 88, A3, A54 13, 24, 28, 88, A49 Osborn, Robert, A50 t People serving people," photomontage, b9 Oscar Sonneck and American Music, 90 Performing rats Oscar Wilda at Oxford, 35, 90, A58 exhiblta, 24, 28, 88 Ostrovsky, Paul, A52 works registered for copyright, 120, 121 Ostrow; Stephen E., xii, xxi, 78 Performing Arta Library, 24, 28, 88, 102 "Our Miss Brooks: Conklin's Love Nest," A55 gift funds, A34-A35 Owl-Gallery, 89 officers, x Overseas Data Entry System, 71 reader services, A16-A17 Oversees Operations Division (Proc). 59, 63 'Periodical Section (Ser), officers, xi officers, x Periodicals Overseas Outlook, 3D, A58 acquisitions, 78, 81 Overviews, 42 copyright, 122 Owens, Basil T., viii data base, as Owens, Major R., 25 for the blind and physically handicapped, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. A18 Pacific Northwest Library Association, 73 legal, 60, 92. 96 Paderewski, %fumy Jan, 35, 89, A57 microform and microfilming, 82, A22. Pakistan music, 31 exchange. 83 West European, 85 field director, x, 64 see also Serials , National Library. 22 Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holm:-1 Devise, * see also Karachi officers, xii Pamphlet collection, 12, 18, Persian materials, 87 Panic in the Streets, A55 Personnel, . 15-18. 97-98 Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada: affirmative action, 9-10, 15 A Checklist of Maps in the Collections of the Library of awards, 59, 78 Congress, Geography and Map Division, 34, A58 comureling, 16, 17 Panzera, Donald P., ix courses, 18 Paper and Its Preservation: Environmental Controls, 36, A58 data proceselrag, 12 "Paramount Silents," 88, A54 director, viii, 15 "Paramount Silents in Canada." A54 0101 employment opportunity, 9, 16-17 'Paramount Studios: The First 30 Years," exhibit, 24, A50 health services, 16, 17 V Pens, Henry B. jr., vii labor-management relations, 15-18, 35 Parker, Barrington D., 6 litigation, A59-A60 Parking Permit System, 12 payroll system. 12 Parks in the West, conference, 19 professional activities, 75-76, 90, 98 Parsons, Gerald E., 20 recruitment and staffing. 9-10, 11, 15 'The Party Statutes of the Communist World," 98 retirement, 17 , Pasts:neck, Benjamin, A53 selection procedures, 15 Patent Mkt, U.S., 124 -128 Social Security, 13 "The Pathetic Fallacy," A53 Personnel and Labor Relations Office, 9,15 Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman, A54 officers, viii . Pants, Frederick IL, viii Personnel %chip% Int.. 15 Peace, gift funds for purchase of materials fostering, A38 Personnel Decisions Research Institute, Pedrosa, C. Ford, 34, 89 Personnel Mans nt, Office of, 10. 53

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Personnel Operations Office, 17 "The Poster as Art in the 1890s," exhibit, 24, A49 officer, viii Posters Personnel Security Office, 7,11 acquisitions. 64, 83, A8-A7 °Mat vii exhibit,. 24, 89; A49, MO 'Pete Kelly's Blues, A55 Potts, Richard I., letters, A3 Peters, Marybeth, ix Powell, Myrl D., x Pew. Michael R., ix Power, Lee, 28 Phonefiche, 81 Pratt, Dana J., vii PhotirdoplicatIon, 18, 40, 92 Pratt Lib', 28 photocopiers, 18 PREMARC, 72 statistics, A21 Preparation Section (Mss), officers, xii Photoduplication Laboratory, 18 Preservation and care of the collections, 84-85 Photoduplication Service, 13,18, 81 binding, 85, A22 officers, viii deacidificallon, xix, 1-2, 77, 84 revolving fund, A44 -A45 field office,. 83 Photographs; see Photoduplicatlon and Prints and gift and trust funds, A28-A29, A38-A39, A40-A41, photographs 4 A44-A45 Pickford, Mary, 88, A54 laser disk technology, 2 Pickford (Mary) Company, 88 law and legal materials, 84, 97 revolving fund, A44-A45 manuscripts, 84, A22 Pickford (Miry) Foundation, A2 maps anti atlases, 4122 gift and trust funds, A28-A29, A40 -.A41 microform, and miaofilming. 5, 18, 84, 85, 90, 95,102. "Pickford Silents," A54 A8. A22 ; - Pickford (Mary) Theater, 24.88, A40 motion pictures. 7, 84, A22, A44 film screening programs, A54-A55 nitrate, 84 Pickford (Mary) Theater Dedication Fund, A40-A41 optical disk technology, xix, 2-3 Pietris, Mary K. DIWO611, x prints and photographs, A22 Plaslands Folklife Project, 19. 28 publications, 38, 85, A58 Pineburds National Reserve, 19 rare boqks, 97. A22 Pinsky, Robert, A54 recordings, 6, 20, 34, A22 Pittsburgh, University of, 71 serials, 70 Pizzo, John.J.VX statistics, A22 Planning and Development, Office of, 7, 55 Preservation Leaflets, 36, 85, A58 officers, vii Preservation Microfilming Office, 70, 65 Planning Management (Res), special assistant for, x officer, xi Poetry Preservation Office, 2, 28, 36, 85 chair of Englishlanguage poetry, A28, A30 officers, xi. 78, 90 consultant, xill. 87, A53 Preservation Section. 102 gift and trust funds, A28-429, A30-A31 President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, readings, 28, A53-A54 29 Polaroid Mildportralt Camera, 18 president's House, A32 Policy, Informatiqn. and Behavioral Sciences Section (CRS !dents of the United States; see names of presidents SPR), 57 Pressler, Menahem, A51 Policy, Planning, and Review. Office of (CRS), officers, viii 'Price, James R., viii POLITECHS, 28 (table) Price, John.F., xi -Political Institutions and Processes Section (CRS Gov), 55 Price, Joseph W.,xi Pollythum, A54 Price, Mary S.. x, xxf, 58, 75 Ponce. Walter, A52 Princeton'University Press, 90 TherFoor Little Rich Girl, A54 Principal evaluations officer, vii Popular Computing, 33 Principal Subject Cataloger, Office of the, 68 Porter (Henry Kirke) Memorial Fund, A28-A29 Printing Unit, 14 Portlier (Mildred Chaffin) Fund, A40-A41 Printi and photographs Portuguese literature, consultant in, A28 acquisitions, 21, 79, A6-A7 Peftuguese materials, 18 collections, 35, 70, A49 Poeltion Classification antl Organization Office, 17 copyright, 6, 109=110. 111-112, 120, 121; 122 officer, viii exhibits. 13, 23-24, 28, 88, A49, MO

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. - folk expression, 19 Quality Assurance,Section, 33 gift and trust funds, A3, A28-A29, A34-A35, A38-A39, Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 35, A56, A58 A42-A43, A44-A45 Quicksilver, 20 preservation and restoration, A22 Quo Vadls, A55 Prints and Photographs Division, 24, 65, 68, 77, 79, 83-84. 88, 89, 91. A49 Radio broadcasts, 6, 61, 79 officers, xii. xxi, 77. 78 Radio Corporation of America, gift funds, #40-M1 reader services, A16-A17 Radvanyi. Miklos, 98 Prints and Photographs Reading Room, xix, 2, 3, 20, 83 The Raid, A55 Processing and Reference Section, 71, 96 Railroad Maps of North America: The First Hundred Years, Processing Department, A3 34, 89, A58 Processing Section (LL), 95, 96, 97 "Railroad Maps of North America: The FirstHundrod Years," Processing Section (M/BiRS), officers, xii exhibit, 89. A50 Processing Section (Rare Bk), officers, xii Ramo, Simon, 4 Processing Services, xx, 4, 23, 58-76, 85, 97 Rank Cintele Telecine Mark C-DI, 84 data prdceuing, 58, 59 Rare Book and Special Collections Division, 1, 35, 78, 79, employment statistics, A23 89, 102 gift fuirds, A32-A33 officers, xii. 90 officers, ix -x, xxi, 3, 58 reader services, A16-A17 readers services, A16-A17 Rare Book Room (LL), 97 Processing Services, Assistant Librarian for. lx, ,cd, 3, 58, 59 Rare books Processing Systems. Networks, and Automation Plennirg, acquisitions, xx, 5, 78, 79 Office of the Director for (Proc), officers, 58 art. 5 ProcureMent and Supply Division, 9, 14 cartographic materials. 5, 24, 78 officers, viii exhibits, MO Production ControhNianagement Information System, 29 gift funds for purchase of. A32-A33, A38-A39, A42:-A43, -'e Project Review Groups:27 law and legal materials, 97. A32 Prokofiev, Serge!, 60, 79 music, 5 Prom Blaster, 111 preservation and restoration, 97, A22 Psychological Services, Inc., 15 ,Rather, Lucia J., x, 75 Public Law 460 progrem, gift funds, A30-A37 :Toed More About It" project, 3-4, 31, 69 "Public Lending Right." symposium. gift funds for expenses Reader and reference services. 85-87 of, A36' Congressional Research Service. 40-43 Public Office, 101 for tire blind and physically handicapped. A18-A20 Public Policy Institute, 37, 49.50 statistics, A16-A17 (table) Public Printer. 38 see also Congress (U.S.), services to Publication and Media Section. 29, 30 Reader Enrollment and Delivery Rystem (READS), 29, 31 Publications of the Library. 3, 19, 21, 2.2. 28. 29*-30, 31, Reader Services Section (vine), afficare, xii 33-30, 62, 66, 67. 68, 70,.71, 72, 78, 86, 89-90 Reeding roore.e.1 . 2, 3, 8, 19, 20.21, 23, 41, 60, 70, 72.81, Congressional Research Sexvice, 38, 42, 45, 46, 50. 82, 83, 85-86, 91, 92.95, 96, 97 CopYright,Office, 102 Readings raid lectures, rod, 3.4, 21, 48, 87, 38, 89-90. 100, gift and trust funds A30 -A31, A4tA41, A44-A45 113, As -A54 greeting card and gift items. 36 poetry. 28. A53-A54 Law Library. 92, 94-95. trust hulas, A26-A27 list, A56 -A58 microform, 457 Readmore, Cite`.n O. G., 4 see also- titles of individual publications READS (I:eider hnrollment and Delivery System), 29, 31 Publications Procedures, 2q-30 - Reagan, Ronald, xix, 1, 3, 8,-19, 37, 04 Publications Section (NRC), officers, xi Rebecca -of Sunnybrook Farm, A54 Publisher's Library Marketing Group, 22 Receipt ha Proms, 101 Publishing Office, 28, 33 -38 liecegnirron and Enforcement of Fereign Judgments in officers. vii Various Foreign Countries, 95 Purchases, see Acquisitions. purchases Record Migratioe, 71 Putnam, Harbert. 1 Record Rental Amendinel of 1984, 104 - Record Transfer, 74 Quality Asaurance Program for NetworkProdueed Mere Recording Laboratory, 11 eines, 30 revolving fund. A44-A45

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Recordings Reioarch, Analysis, and Multidisciplinary Programs. Office acquisitions, 5, 21. 63,-AA-A5 of (CRS). officers, viii bibliographic records. 73 Research Facilities Section (GRR). officers, xi Brazilian music, 64 Research Libraries Group. 6. 27, 69. 74. 75. 85 catalog cards. M5 gift funds, A40-A41 ' cataloging, 66 Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN).27. 69, 85. Collections, 21 87 copyright. 6. 99. 100, 104, 112, 114. 120. 121. 122 Research Memorandum, 82 cylinder. 20. 34. A22' Research officer (Preserv), xi field recordings. 21, 34 Research Publications, 5 folk expresiton. 19 Research reports. 93 for the blind and physically handicapped. 30. 33. A18. Research Services. 1. 4, 5, 7. 77-91. 95. 97 A19. A20 acquisition activities, 59. A9 gift funds. A28-A29, A44-A45 employment statistics. A23 .linguistic atlas. 61 officers. x-xii. xxi, 3. 77 preservation and restoration. 6, 20. 34. A22 statistics. A1,6-A17 Records in the Copyright Office Deposited by the United Research Services, Assistant Librarian for, x. 3, 90, AZ States District Courts Covering the Period 1790-1870. Researchers in the Washington. D.C.. Area Familiar with the 126n, ollections and Indexes of the Archive of Folk Culture, Records management. 14 Records Managentent Division (Cop). 102 Reso Analysis Section (NRC), officers. xi officers, 'lx Restoion Office, 95, 97 Recruitment aryl.P acement Office, 16-17 Retrieval services, 26. 27 officer. ,viii Review.(CRS), coordinator of, viii Redskin, A54 Review of Socialist Law. 98 Reed. Grace B.. , 401 Revised Standards and Guidelines for the Library of Con- Reference aids, 21 gress Newark of Libraries for the Blind and Physically ROftrence and Bibliography Section (Cop). 102 Handicapped. 1984; 30. 31 ar. Reference and Bibliography Section (GOA), officers. xii Revolutionary Americe. 1763-2789; A Bibliography, 34. 89. Reference and Roeder Service Section (Mu), officers. xii A58 Reference and I3eader Services Section (Rare Bk), officers. xii Revolving fund service fees. A44-A45 Reynolds, Roger. 87 Reference can ;xis,37,41 Rhodes. Samuel, A53 Reid, ce col ec 82 Ridge Quartet. A52 Referee 16`nIN/BP/1). 31 Mehl, Thomas; A52 Reference ion (P&P), officers, xii Riedel, Susan H.. x Reference Section (Photoddp). 18 0 Riegle. Donald. 86 Reference Section (Res). officers. xi Riley. James P.. vii Reference Service (Ser), officers. xi Rimer. J. Thomas, III. xi. 90 Reference services; see Reader and reference services Itio. de Janeiro. Brazil. field office. 64 Referral Services Section (NRC), officers. xi . Ristow, Walter W., xii; Regan, Donald T.,vi, 2 Rizzuto. Angelo A.. estate of..gift fund. AS Register of Additional Locations. 72, A57 RKO General, Inc.. 6.61 sales. A13. A14 RUN: see Research Libraries Information Network Register of Copyrights. Lx, 99. 100, 104. 108, 107, 113. 114, RMG. Inc27 128n Robert Lowell: Aecture Delivere' at the Library of Con- Regulations officer. vii gress an May 2,.1983. 35. 90. A58 *fi Reid. Eric Lg..' ix Roberts. Margaret A.. bequest. A30 Reid (Samuel Chester) Trust Fund, A30-A31 Roberts. Martin A.. 126n Religion, gift and trust funds, A3, A26-A27 Roberts. Matt 1'.. xi REMARC Project, -97 ..... Roberts. Pat. vi Remember My Name. A54 Roberts Fund. A30-A31 REMUS (Retrospective Music) protect. 69 Robinson, Barbara, 21 Renewals and Documents Section, 101 Robinson, James W.. viii Rensbarger, John W.. Air Robinson. Lawrence S.. xl Repertoire International des Sources Musicales. 18 Robinson. William H.. viii

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Rob ledo, Antonio Gomo88 Scholastic, Inc., 4 Rock-Ola Jukebox, 103 Schrader, Dorothy M., Lx, 105, 113 Rodeffer, Stephanie, 21 Schumann, Clara, letters. A3 Roland, Barbara x Schwartz (Bern) Photographic Fund, All, A42-A43 Roman,.George, 95 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 107 Romances, 31, A58 Science and Technology Division (Res). 7, 81, 86, 89 Romania, National Library, 81 officers, xi, 90 Romenization, 67, 69 reader services, A16-A17 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 80 Science Policy Research Division (CRS), 55-57 ROSCOE. 39, 96 officers, viii Rosenborg, Steffan. xi Sciehce Reading Room, 1, 82 Rosenwald, Leasing J.. 1 Science Reference Section (Sc!). officers, xi Rosenwald (Leasing J.) Collection, 79 Scientific materials, gift funds for acquisition of, A40 Ross, Joseph E., viii SCORPIO, 39, 40, 46, 55, 83, 80 Ross (Arthur) Foundation, gift funds, A42-A43 SCORPIO Print Subsystem, 11 Rosson, Hal, A55 Scott, Nathan, Jr., A54 Rothberg, Morey D., A53 SDI (Selective Dissemination of information), xix, 37, 40, Rothermel, Earl L., xi 42, 43 Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., gift funds. A8, A42-A43 Secretarial Symposium, 16 Royal National Institute for the Blind, 31 "Securing.the Future of Copyright: A Humanist Endeavor." Rozpravy Aventine, 81 100, 113 Rush, Jodi, ix Seiberling, John F..19 Ruskin, John Selection-officer, vii Russell Building, 41 Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), xix, 37, 40, Russian Imperial Government publications, 18 42,43 Russian material, 60 Semiconductor Chip Protection'Act of 1984, xx, 100-101, Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America, 102, 104 records, 18, A32 Semiconductor chips, copyright, sot. 100, 102, 104-105 Russo-Japanese War, 82 Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, 90 Seminars and workshops, xxi, 4, 9, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 32 Sad Song of Yellow Skin, A54 59, 65, 68, 75, PO, 98, 100 Safety Office, 12 for Congress and congressional staff, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44, officer, vii 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56 Saff..Ronald J., xii gift and trust funds, A14-A35 Safran, Franciska. 81 -- Seminars on Foreign A4tisition, 4 St. John, David;It4 Senate (U.S.) Salaries and expenses Agriculture Committee, 37, 50 acquisitions, A8 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 50 appropriations, 8, 13, A24-A25. A48 Committee on.Foreign Relations, 51, 105 Salisbury, Harrison E., 35, A58 Committee on Governmental Affairs, 54 Salvo, Giovanni, 93 Committee on Rules and Administration, 55, A2 Sampeon, Walter D., Jr., Lx Committee en the Judiciary, 100, 105 Samuelson, Susan, 19 copyright committee. 100 Sark. Rodney G., x, 64 documents, 38 SAS, 39 legislation, 19, 104 SAS/GRAPH, 39 President, evil Sattelmeyer, Robert, 90 Subcomittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, 113 Saturday Series, A52 Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Commit- Saudek, Robert. xti, xxi, 77 tee System, 54 Saur, X.G., Inc., 72 Senate Election Law Guidebook: 1984, 45 Scala, Norman P.. bequest, A30 Senate InformatiodDistritiution Center, 41 Scala (Norman P.) Memorial Fund, A30-A31, A53 Senate Reference Canter, 41 Scandinavian children's literature, symposium, funds for, Senior Specialists (CRS), 44-45, 54 A32 officers, viii. Schein, Ann, A52 Sennheiser HD424 headphones, 21

233 INDEX 1-29

Serial and Government Publications Division (Res), 78, 82, 91 Slavic studies, A32 officers, xi, 78 Slavic (Cyrillic) Union Catalog, A42 0 reader services, M6-A17 Slavic Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 Serial Claiming Project, 96 Sleeping Princess, 60 Serial Record, 7, 70 Sloan, Stanley R., 35 Serial Record Division (Proc), 58, 70, 71, 72, 96 Smith, David A., x officers, x Smith, Ellis Gene, x, 62 Serials, 70-71 Smith. Laurie E., ix acquisitions, 64, 70, 80 Smith, Paul IL, 34 '1\ autortlated system, 25, 37, 43, 58, 70, 92 Smithsonian Institution. 10. zs catalog cards, A15 Sobel, DeborahA52 catalogs and cataloging, XX 70 "The Social-Authority of the Writer," A54 claiming, 70 Social Science Reading Room, 1, 85 copyright, 100, 107, 120, 121 Social Science Reading Room Section (GRR), officers, xi costs, 60 Social Science Research Council, 78 foreign, 70, 71, 80 Social Security, 48 management control, 25, 26, 27 Social Services Section (CRS Ed), 49 MARC record's, 68, A10 Society for the History of Discoveries, 90 microforms and microfilming, 78, A22 "Software Protection: The U.S. Copyright Office Speaks on preservation, 70 the Computer/Copyright-Interface," 99 4. processing, All (table) Soler y Remo, Antonio, 88 standards, 74 Solicitor General, 6 see also Periodicals SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network), 27, Serials Automation at the Library of Congress Committee, 70 Solomon, Alan C., xi Serials Union Catalog. 27 Sonnock, Oscar, 60 Series authority records, 58, 68,73! Sonneck Memorial Fund, A30-A31 SeriesFlip, 68 Sorel, Edward, A50 sEitioc, 70 So's Your Old Man, A54 Services to Congress, 37-57, 93-94 Sound recordings; see Recordings Shaffer, Norman J., viii South Asia, accessions list, A58 Shaffer; Roberta L, 98 South Asian Languages Section, 63 Shahan!, Chandru J., xl Sham, Donald, gift fund, A42-A43 South Asian program, 62-63 Shamroy, Leon, A55 South Asian Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 Shared Cataloging Division (Proc), 60, 66, 87, 69 South Carolina State Library. 69 officers, x, 'act 58, 70 South Manchurian Railway Company, reports. 18, 82, Shaw, Renate V., xii Southeast Asia, A36 . Sheehan, Patrick, xii accessioni list, A56 Shelfihting Section (Subj Cat), 69 Southeast Asia program, 64 Shelflists and shelfliating, 67, 72, 83, 97, MO Southeast Asian Union Catalog, statistics, Al2 Shelley, Michael H., x Southeast Library Association, 90 Sheriff, Noam, 87 Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), 27 Shin, Mya Saw, 94 Southern Asia Section (Asian), 80 Shipley, Lloyd W., xi officers, xi Should the U.S. Federal Government Significantly Increase Soviet materials, 61 the Exploration and/or Development of Space beyond Sowerby, E. Millicent, 90 the Earth's Mesosphere?, 38 Spain, Embassy of, 88 The Show Off, A54 Spanish Legal Documents Project, 94-95 The Showdown, A54 Spanish literature, consultant in, A28 Shroff, Karat B., 94, 98 Spanish scholars, gift funds for support of, A42 The Silent Enemy, A54 Sparks. Peter G., xi Sipkov, Ivan, ix, 95, 98 Sparrows, A54 Sittig, William J., 38 Special Assignment Unit (CRS A), 45 Skaggs (L. J. and Mary C.) Foundation, 20 Special collections, am 12, 7%, 83-84, 85, A34, A38 Slavic and East European studies, gift fund, A32-A33 Special Collections, officers, x, xii Slavic materials, gift and trust funds for, A26-A27 Special events coordinators, 23

234 1-30 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, -1984

Special Foreign Currency Program Subject Catalog of CRS Reports in Print, 42 acquisitions, A8 Subject cataloging, 67-68 appropriations, 8, A24-A25 statistics, A10 employment statistics, A23 Subject Cataloging Division (Proc), 66, 67, 68, 69, 75 Special Materials Cataloging Division (Proc). 66, 76 officers, x officers, x Subject Cataloging Manual, 68 Special Police Force, 13, 15, 16, 17 Subject headings, 87, 68, 69 Special Police Pay Equity Bill, 8 statistics, A10 Special Projects Section (Sci), officers, xi Subject.Headings, A13, A14 Special Search Section (Col Mgmt), officers, xi Subject headings institutes, 75-76 Special Search Techniques, 16 Subject Index Term Subsystem, 11 Speculum Molests, A51 Subotnick, Morton, 87 Spahr, Paul C., xii "Sucharikul, Thanes, 97 Sperry, Paul, A53 Suds, A54 Spivacke, Rose Marie,,A2 Sullivan, Robert C., ix, sod, 58 Spivacke (Harold) Consultant, 87, A51 Summer Chamber Festival, A53 Spivacke (Harold and Rose Marie) Fund, A30-A31 Summertime, A55 Sri Lanka, A38 Sung, Carolyn H., x National Library, 22 Superior Service Award, 78 Ssu ku ch'uan shu, 80 Supplement to LC Subject Headings, A58 Stachura (Leonard'R.) Fund, A42-A43 Supreme Court (U.S.), 4, 25, 37, 110, 111, 112 Staff Relations Office, 15, 16 Surplus book disposal program, 62 officer, viii Surplus Book Disposal Project, gift funds, A42-A43 Staff Training and Development Office, 16 Suttees, Robert, A55 officer, viii "Survey of 200 Periodicals on Microform," 82 Stamm, Alicia, 34, 89 "Survey of Use of Periodicals and Government Publica- Standard Network Intercommunication, 74 tions ..," 82 Staneky, Peter, A54 Survey Research, Public Opinion, and Federal Statistical Starobin, David. A51 Policy Section (CRS Gov), 55 State, U.S. Department of, 68, 113 Swann, Caroline, 79 State and local agencies, donations, A9 Swann, Erwin, 79 State documents, 43, 62 Swann (Caroline and Erwin) Collection of Cartoons, State Documents Section, 62 Caricatures, and Illustrations. 24, 79, 89, A49 Statements of Account, 103 Swann Foundation, gift funds, A8 Staten, Bibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinds, si Swann Gallery. 24. A49 "Steamer Prints," exhibit, 23-24, A49 Swann (Caroline and-Erwin) Memorial Fund, A3, A25n, Stephenson. Richard W., xii A30-A31, A42-A43 Stern, Alfred Whital, A30 Swenson, May, A54 Stern (Alfred Whital) Collection of Lincolniana, A30, A42 Swift, Al, vi Stern (Alfred Whital) Memorial Fund, A8, A30-A31 Swit, Loretta, 21 Stern (Alfred Whital) Publication Fund, A42-A43 Symsia, Library; see Confezences and symposia, Library Stewart, James E.. xi Sym slum on Work, 23. 28, A3. A36 Stewart, Pollan 4 Zyn etic Rubber Reports, 81 Stradivari instruments, funds for maintenance, A30-A31 Sys m Development Corporation, 27 Strand, Mark, A54 System Programming Office, 11 Stravinsky, Igor, 60 Systems Development, officers, vii "Streets of New York," 79 Systems Engineering and Operations, officers, vii Stress Management for the Staff Dealing with the Public, 16 Szabo. Stephen F.. 35 Stroup, Elizabeth F.. x Student Internship Program, 23 Tabb, Winston, ix. 102 Studies in American Folklife, 20 Tat Josef, 87 Subclass BL-BQ, 67 Talking Book Topics. A58 Subclass KDZ KG-KH, Inw of the Americas, Latin America, Talking books, 8, 21. 32, 33 and the West Indies, 87 acquisitions, A4-A5 Subject Authorities Online, 72 Talking Books-Adult. 1982-83, M8 Subject Catalog, sales. A13, A14 Talking Books program, 8, 21

235 INDEX 1-31

Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000, 27 'Time's w Makes the Difference: The Inequality of Men's Taney, Roger B., letter, 97 as 'Women's Work," 4 team:tie. National Library, 22 Tinker' Foundation, gift funds, A42-A43 Target Series Job Information Fair, 9, 0 Ti d pages, 102 Target Series Program, 15 Secure Intellectual Property RightsinForeign Markets," Tarr, Susan M ix / 100,113 Task Force on Goals, Organization, d Planning, gift funds,/ Tocca, James, A51 - A36 -A37 / Tokyo, Japan, Shared Cataloging Center, 85 Task Groui on Electronic Rec oeping, 28 Tombigbee Historic Townsites Oral History Project, 21 Tax Reforrq Act of 1984, 61- 2 Too Wise Wives, A54 Taxation and Government Fmnce Section (CRS E),/48 Tom, Yomo, 21 Taylor Street Annex, 7, 1 TOSCA (Total Online Searching for Cataloging Activities), xx TECH-NET, 26 (table) Total Online Searching for Cataloging Activities (TOSCA), xx Technical publications Tour Office; 23 acquisitions, A6-A7\ Tourte bows, funds for maintenance, A30-A31 safes end distribution, A13 (table) j A14 (table) 'Toward the '85 Farm Bill," 50 Technical reports, 81-82 Tracer Bullets, 89 Technical Reports Section (Sci), officers, xi Trade Act of 1974, 105, 113 Technical Services (Photodup), assistant chief for, viii The Technical Services Section (GSM), officers, xii Training an truction, 16, 27, 28,' 31, 32, 71, 88, 98, 100 Technical Systemt Office, 11 catalogin , 63, 66, 69, 70 Technical Translations Collection, 81 Congressional Research Service, 37, 39, 40 'Technicolor Cinematographent,"8, A55 data processing. 31, 37, 39, 40,2, 98 Techniques for Taking Telephone Inquiries, 16 Trainor, Emmett G., xi Techniques of Lifting course, 16 Trampler, Walter, A51 Teleconference, copyright, xx, 99 Translating services, 43, 93-94 Traveling Exhibitions Program, 241 Telenet, 27 Traveling exhibits, 24, A44-A45, A50 Telephone inquiries, statistics, 31, 93, A17 Traveling Exhibits Fund, A44-A46 Telephone Pioneer, 32 Treasury, U.S. Department of vi, A3 Telephone Reference, Correspondence, and Bibliography investment accounts, A26-A31, A46-A47 (table) Section (GRR), officers, xi permanent loan accounts, A3, A24n, A46-A47 Telephone service, 15 Secretary, vi, 61, A2 Televisionhroadcasts, 40, 84, 79, A44 "The Treaty of Paris and the International State System," 90 copyright, 110-111, 113 Tree, Michael, A51 see also Cable television Trends in Funding and Numbers of Households In 1-,,..111. The Ten Commandments, A54 Assisted Housing, Fiscal Years 1974-1984, 46-47 Thai Silk Company, 23 Trew, James R., vii Thailand, exhibit, 23, A49 *Tribute to the American Civil Servant," 90 Truman, Harry S., 24, 28, 77, 88, A49 That All May Read: Library Services orl:indand Physically Handicapped People, 29, A58 "The Truman Era: Issues and Imagets," exhibit, 24, 88, A49 Trust Fund Theater Chamber Players of Kennedy Center, A53 investment accounts, A2, A26-A31 Theories of Criticism: Essays in Literature and Art, 35, M8 permanent loan accounts, A2 The Thief, A55 Trust Fund Board, vi, xvii, 87, A27n, A32n, A41n The Thief of Bagdad, A55 annual report summary, A2-A3 mill, Richard S., 20 members, vi, A2 'Thomas Edison: Reflection of a Genius," A54 Trust funds; see Gift and trust funds Thomas Jefferson Building; see Jefferson (Thomas) Building Truth Band, 20 Thoreau, Henry D., journal, 90 ,Tsuneishi, Warren M., x, 3 morons TC 168 MKII turntable, 21 Tucker, Ben R., x Morin, Suzanne, xi Turlcestanskii Al'bom", 35 Thornton, Flora Laney, vi,_A2 Turkish materials, 80, 61, 80 Thurmond, Strom, 105 Two Loaf-Givers,' or A Tour Through the Gastronomic Thuronyi, Geza T., xi, 36 Libraries of Katherine Golden Bitting and Elizabeth Time, 28 Robins Pennell, 34-35, 89, A58 Time-Life Books, Inc gift funds, A8, A42-A43 Tyrant, 27

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UCLA Technical Processing System, 70 Vietncun:, The 10,000 Day War, A54 UNESCO, 33, 100, 119n Virgil, xx, 60, 79 The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore, 87 Visitors Gallery, 23 Union catalog, growth, Al2 (table) Visits and visitors, xx, xxi, 3, 5, 14,19, 22-23, 31, 38, 53, United States Board on Books for Young People, 22 60, 65, 90, 92 -93, 96, 99, 100, 113 U.S. Books Abroad: Neglected Ambassadors, 35, A58 Visual information services, 14 U.S. city directories collection, 5 Visual Materials Online System, 66, 72, 84 , 100, 103, 104 Vita, Sun U.S. Courts, Administrative Offices of the, 25 Voigt, Cynthia, 22 U.S. courts, copyright cues, 105-112 Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm U.S. Depository Microfiche Collection, 78 Lowry, A54 United States District Cinut, A59 -A80 Volunteers Who Produce Books, 1983, 30, A55 United States-German Relations, Past and Present, 35, A55 U.S. government agencies "W. B. Yeats's Second Puberty," A54 4acquisitions from, A9 Wage Systems, 17 transfer of funds and materials, A8, A9, A24-A25 Wagon Tracks, A54 The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War, 51 Wagoner, David, A54 U.S. government libraries: see Federal libraries Walton, Eugene, vii U.S. Information Agency, 25, 38, 53, 96 Wang, Chi, xi U.S. News and World Report, 42, 95 Ware, Donald R., viii United States Newspaper Project, 58, 70-71, 72 Warner, )ohp W., vi "United States Research of the Laws of.the CommunistRuled Warren, Robert Penn, A54 States in Europe," 98 Warrendale, A54 United States-Spanish Committee for Educational and Washington. Booker T., papers, 18, 83 Cultural Affairs, gift funds, A42-A43 Washington Conference on Folklife and Automated Archives: United States Times, 98 Interdisciplinary Approaches, 20 U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the, 113 Washington (State) Library Network, 27, 74 United-Technologies Corporation, gift funds, A42-A43 Washington Meeting on Folk Art; 20, 23 Universal Copyright Convention, 115-119 Washington Music Ensemble, M1 Universal Pictures, 35 Washington National Records Center, 14 Universal Serials and Book Exchange, 62 The Washington Parade: The Library of Congress, A55 University Microfilms, 60 The Washington Post, 26 Unofficial Tsui lotion of the Laws of the Republic of Korea, Washington Toho Kato Society, 21 98 Washingtonian, 28 Update, 30, 38, 74, A58 Washfrigtonlana, A34 User and Production Service, 12 Washingtonians Project, 83 User Applications Office, 12 Watermelon, 20 USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations, 74 Waters, Peter, xi USNP Technical Procedures Committee, 70 Waters (1.,dwud N,) Fund, A42-A43 USSR, exchange, 61 Wallets.% Cairn!, 23 Ustinov, Peter, 77 Weight/Nutrition Group, 18 Weinberg, Steven, 4 Vallecillo, Irma, A53 Weinman Pumps, 18 Vandell, Donette S.. ix Weinstein, Myron M., xi Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 98 Weisberg, Arthur, A52 SO, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, 79 Wekerle, Anton, ix Van Duyn, Mona, A54 Welsh, William J., vii, 3, 5, 75, 90 VanWingen, Peter, xii Wert luan-ko, 60 Variety,. A54 Wannink, Karel, 98 Veltones, 20 West Publishing Company, 27 Veterans Administration, 25, 33 Weetby, Barbara, 38 Victory at Vienne: The Ottoman Siege of 1683, 89 WESTLAW, 26(table) Videotape, 28. 53, 84, 102 Wexlerri*Z, x acquisitions, A6-A7 Whale, James, A55 copyright, 99, 110-111 What A-74 Means to Federal Libraries, 25 -28 exhibit, A49 What Where, A54

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White, Roger S., viii Women's Executive LeadexahliProgram, 10 White House News Photographers Annual Exhibition, 23, Women's Program Advisory Committee, 10 24, A49, A50 Women's Program Office, 10-11 Whitlock, Margaret E., viii officer, vii, 10 Whitman, Walt, gift and trust funds for related materials, Woody, Charlene A., vii A26-A27, A36-A37 WOR-AM Radio Archive, 6, 61, 79 Whittall, Gertrude Clarke, A30, A34 Word processing, 14, 26, 27, 39, 92 Whittall (Gertrude Clarke) Foundation, A9, A30-A31 "Wards in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy," exhibit, sponsorship of concerts, A51, A52-A53 21, 24, 28,*88, A44, A49 Whittall Pavilion. 13, 20, 113 Work-Study Program, 16 - Whittall (Gertrude Clarke) Poetry and Literature Fund, 35, "Work" symposium, 23, 29, A3, A36 A30-A31, A53-A54 Workforce Utilization Analysis, 10 Whittemore, Reed, xlii, 35. 87, 88, 90, A53, A58 Working Group on Newspapers, 75 Who,Knows?, 89 Workshops; see Seminars and workshops Wilbur, James B., trust funds, A9, A30-A31 World Braille Usage, 33 Wilbur, Richard, A54 World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, 33 Wilde, Oscar, 35, 90, A58 World Intellectual Property Organization, 113 Wilful Peggy, A54 World Transportation Commission, 83 Wilkins, Emily Howell, estate of, gift funds, A42-A43 World War II, exhibit, A50 Willard, Nanhy, A53 World's Columbian Exposition (1893), 20 "William Carlos Williams: The Happy Genius of the Worldwide Books, 73 Household; " A53 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 7-8 William Corks Williams: The Happy Genius of the Household,' 35, 90, A58 Xerox laser printers, 2,11 Williams, Leander, 78 - Williams, William Carlos, 35, 90, A53, A58 Wilikie, Wendell, 80 Yadloaky, Elizabeth, viii Wilson, Donald T., gift fund, A42-A43 Yale University, 82 Wilson (Woodrow) Center, 78 Yamaha A-500 70-watt amplifier, 21 Wilson (H.W.) Co., 88 qasiniky, Bohdan, xi Wilson line, 86 Yeats, W. B., A54 Winter, Ezra, 85 Yiddish dramas, 102 Wind°, Mary Jack, vii Yomiuri Shimbun, 24, A49 Wisconsin, University of, 69, 82 gift fund, A44-A45 Wisconsin Interlibrary Services, 27 You Are on Indian Land, A54 Wisdom, Donald F., xl You Never Know Women, AM Witherell, Julian W.:xi, 64, 80 You'd Be Surprised, A54 "Wit's End: Drawings from the SwannCollection of Young, Arthur, 40 Caricature and Cartoons," exhibit, 24, A49 Young, Barbara E., viii Wolter, John A., xii Young, Morris N., xiii Womanhandled, A54 Young, Peter R., x, 58 A Woman's Victory, A54 Womenot Work, 83 Zich, Robert G., vii "Women Look at Women," exhibit, A50 Zimmerman, Glen A., vii Women's Division, 63 Zlotkin, Frederick, A52

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