Fiscal 2015 Congressional Budget Justification
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CCapitol,apitol, PProvidedrovided bbyy tthehe OOffiffi ccee ooff tthehe LLibrarianibrarian TABLE OF CONTENTS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OVERVIEW FISCAL 2015 .....................................................................1 ORGANIZATION CHART ......................................................................................................................3 SUMMARY TABLES ...............................................................................................................................5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13 OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN .....................................................................................................................17 LIBRARY SERVICES ...................................................................................................................................25 Associate Librarian for Library Services ........................................................................................28 Acquisi ons and Bibliographic Access .......................................................................................... 32 Collec ons and Services ...............................................................................................................36 Partnerships and Outreach Programs ........................................................................................... 41 Preserva on .................................................................................................................................45 Technology Policy .........................................................................................................................50 OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES .......................................................................................................55 Digital Ini a ves .............................................................................................................................58 Informa on Technology Services ...................................................................................................63 LAW LIBRARY ............................................................................................................................................67 OFFICE OF SUPPORT OPERATIONS ........................................................................................................71 Offi ce of Support Opera ons Basic ................................................................................................74 Human Resources Services ............................................................................................................78 Integrated Support Services ...........................................................................................................81 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ...................................................................................................85 Table of Contents i COPYRIGHT OFFICE, SALARIES AND EXPENSES 89 COPYRIGHT BASIC ...................................................................................................................................93 COPYRIGHT LICENSING DIVISION .........................................................................................................99 COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES ..............................................................................................................103 CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE, SALARIES AND EXPENSES 107 BOOKS FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, SALARIES AND EXPENSES 111 REIMBURSABLE FUNDS ..................................................................................................................115 REVOLVING FUNDS ..........................................................................................................................117 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FISCAL 2015 APPROPRIATIONS LANGUAGE ..........................121 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................................................123 Appendix A: American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project, and Civil Rights History Project .....................124 Appendix B: Overseas Offi ces, Coopera ve Acquisi ons Program .......................................................................127 Appendix C: Acquisi on of Library Materials by Source Fiscal 2009 – Fiscal 2013 ...........................................134 Appendix D: Library of Congress Mass Deacidifi ca on Project Fiscal 2002 – Fiscal 2013 .................................135 Appendix E: Na onal Digital Informa on Infrastructure and Preserva on Program (NDIIPP) .............................137 Appendix F: Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) ................................................................................................152 Appendix G: Copyright Offi ce Records Digi za on Project Report of Accomplishments Fiscal 2013 ..................155 Appendix H: Copyright Offi ce – Es mated Value of Materials Transferred to the Library in Fiscal 2013 .............156 ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS .........................159 ii LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FISCAL 2015 BUDGET JUSTIFICATION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OVERVIEW FISCAL 2015 Th e Library of Congress has the largest and most activities and the possibility of burdening staff with wide-ranging collection of the world’s recorded another series of furlough days. Th us, the Library knowledge ever assembled by any one institution, very much welcomed the news that it would receive and also the closest thing to a mint record of the relief in the fi scal 2014 Omnibus Appropriation, cultural and intellectual creativity of the American with a partial restoration of the sequestration people. It was created and has been sustained for reductions and funding of construction of the 214 years by the Congress of the United States. Th e fi fth collection storage module at the Fort Meade Library has encouraged, protected, and preserved complex. By providing this critical funding support, America’s creativity through the work of the the Congress has helped the Library maintain its Copyright Offi ce since 1871, served the Congress core services to the Congress and the nation. directly for nearly 200 years with the nation’s largest law library, and acted as the Congress’ primary Despite this much needed relief to the budget, research arm for 100 years with the Congressional the Library’s leadership continues to grapple with Research Service. Th e mission of the Library is to challenging funding constraints and is implementing support the Congress in fulfi lling its constitutional robust planning and governance processes to guide duties and to further the progress of knowledge and the allocation of limited resources to its highest creativity for the benefi t of the American people. priority activities and initiatives. By developing clearly defi ned, measurable, and closely monitored Over the past several years, the Library has been performance goals and objectives, the Library has operating with progressively decreasing resources helped improve governance and accountability and since fi scal 2010 has sustained a decrease in and directed a Library-wide focus to cross-cutting total appropriations in excess of 12.5 percent, from programmatic areas documented in the Library’s $684.3 million to $598.4 million in fi scal 2013. strategic plan. Fiscal 2013 presented the Library with signifi cant budgetary challenges with the total sequester and Despite the challenging budget environment, the rescission resulting in a reduction of $30.8 million Library continues to look boldly toward the future. below the fi scal 2012 funding level, representing As the Librarian of Congress recently wrote to less overall funding than the Library received in Library staff , “Our task now for the tumultuous 21st its fi scal 2006 appropriations. Th e Library made Century is to demonstrate that the nation’s oldest a concerted eff ort to limit the negative impact of federal cultural institution has the unique resources reduced funding levels on core functions and services and people to become one of America’s most to stakeholders. Having already curtailed staffi ng by innovative.” To that end, in September 2013, the 186 employees in fi scal 2012 through a voluntary Librarian launched a Library of Congress “Futures incentive separation program, the Library chose to Program” that is drawing on the Library’s own absorb a disproportionately small percentage (12.9 dedicated and multi-talented staff to address some of percent) of the fi scal 2013 budget cuts within the the key issues facing the Library and develop better staff pay budget, administering only a three-day ways to fulfi ll the Library’s historic service missions library-wide furlough for all staff . in the rapidly changing, unpredictable times that lie ahead. Moving into fi scal 2014 with the prospect of continued sequestration budget reductions, the In fi scal 2015 the Library is only requesting funding Library was deeply concerned about the challenges for staff pay and price level increases to maintain of absorbing additional cuts among its core program current operations. Because much of the funding Library of Congress Overview 1 restored in the fi scal 2014 appropriation will be of funding to the staff pay accounts in order to directed