experience of the last five years to augment and transform traditional library services in ways that will meet America's new
information needs by building a National On-Line Library.

We ask the Congress to support, in this new millennium, these essential elements required to address the future:
Digital Futures Initiative - Create a National On-line Library by permanently funding the Library's innovative National
Digital Library Program (NDLP), that is currently due to expire in fiscal 2000. By funding the lean and extraordinarily
talented staff of the NDLP, the Congress will permit the Library both to begin capturing and preserving materials that
exist only in digital form (i.e., "born digital") and to continue the conversion of unique educational content that will include
important international as well as national materials;

Succession Planning - Extend our staff succession program to include the Law Library in addition to the Congressional
Research Service (for a third year) and Library Services (for a second year). This is essential to ensure the continuity
and quality of core services at a time when unprecedented numbers of staff will be retiring;

Security of Staff and Collections - Permanently fund police positions authorized by a fiscal year 1999 emergency
supplemental appropriation and fund item-level tracking and inventory collections security controls now made possible
through the new Library of Congress Integrated Library System (LCILS); and

Preservation and Storage of Collections - Permanently fund a mass deacidification program and the full operation for
the first off-site storage module at Fort Meade, Maryland.

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The Library's budget request for fiscal year 2001 -- $428.1 million in net appropriations and $33.6 million in authority to use receipts -- supports the Library's mission to make its resources available and useful in the 21" century. This is a net increase of 11.4 percent over fiscal 2000. A major part of this increase ($16.6 million) is needed to fund mandatory pay raises (driven largely by the January 2001 pay raise of 3.7 percent) and unavoidable price-level increases; $27.1 million is needed to meet critical, growing workload increases (net of program decreases). The Library is requesting an increase of 192 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions -- from 4,076 (see attachment 2) to 4,268 FTEs. In comparison to fiscal year 1992 (see attachment 2), the Library's FTEs would still be lower by 281 FTEs or 6.2 percent. While the Library has been successful in doing more for less since 1992, the tidal wave of internet activity represents a new workload that requires the Library to rebuild a portion of its workforce that has been reduced or funded privately since 1992.

The Library will use its Bicentennial in the year 2000 less to celebrate our past than to leave a legacy for the future. At the start of our third century, we ask the Congress to support the increase in resources required to meet the new missiondriven workloads brought on by the Internet age. We also invite the Congress and the nation to join with us in celebrating our 200th birthday. Bicentennial projects include sharing the Library's collections and information about the Congress electronically with Americans through the National Digital Library Program (NDLP); obtaining acquisitions for the Library's collections through the "gifts to the nation" program; documenting the history and customs of every congressional district through the "Local Legacies" project; and reconstituting Thomas Jefferson's original library through private donations.

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Funding our fiscal 2001 budget request, including provisions for mandatory pay and price-level increases, will enable

the Library to sustain its basic, traditional services while comprehensively addressing its inescapable digital future. We hope the Congress will continue its historic and fruitful investment in the Library as it enters its third century of serving the nation's legislators and their constituents.

Overview of the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress programs and activities are funded by four salaries and expenses (S&E) appropriations which
support congressional services, national library services, copyright administration, and library services to blind and physically
handicapped people. A separate appropriation funds furniture and furnishings. An overview of these programs and activities
follows:

• Congressional Research Service (CRS) S&E- This appropriation funds the provision of non-partisan analytical
research and information services to all Members and committees of the Congress. CRS works directly and exclusively
for the Congress in support of its legislative functions. By maintaining a cost-effective, shared pool of expertise, CRS
provides timely and balanced analyses of legislative proposals and public policy issues through provision of reports,
tailored confidential memoranda, individual consultations and briefings a comprehensive source of information and
analysis on almost any legislatively relevant subject. CRS delivers more than 545,000 research responses and services
annually; of these, approximately 102,000 are responses to requests for tailored analyses, information and research.
Copyright Office (CO) S&E - The Copyright Office administers the U.S. copyright laws, provides copyright expertise
to the Congress and executive branch agencies, and actively promotes international protection for intellectual property
created by U.S. citizens. The office annually processes approximately 620,000 claims (representing more than 900,000
works transferred to the Library) of which more than 590,000 claims are registered for copyright. The Office also records
approximately 16,500 documents with more than 200,000 titles and responds annually to more than 436,000 requests
for information. The Copyright Office convenes and supports Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels for the purpose of

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Library of Congress (LC) S&E - This appropriation funds the infrastructure support for the three major services listed above as well as a wide range of National and Congressional Services including:

American Creativity - The Library manages the nation's largest, most varied, and most important archival collections
-- motion pictures, sound recordings, maps, prints, photographs, manuscripts, music, and folklore -- covering a wide
range of ethnic and geographic communities; provides reference assistance to researchers and the general public;
conducts field research; and promotes the preservation of American culture throughout the United States.
Preservation - The Library develops and manages a program to preserve the diverse materials and formats in the
Library's collections. The program provides a full range of prospective and retrospective preservation treatment for
approximately 500,000 items a year; conducts research into new technologies; emphasizes prevention techniques
including proper environmental storage and training for emergency situations; conserves and preserves materials;
and reformats materials to more stable media. The Library plays a key role in developing national and international
standards that support the work of Federal, state, and local agencies in preserving the nation's cultural heritage.

Legal Information - The Law Library of Congress provides legal research to the Congress on more than 200 foreign
jurisdictions and, within available resources, to the Judiciary and Executive agencies, as well as reference assistance
to the public in American and foreign law -- serving more than 100,000 users annually.

Federal Library Services - The Library coordinates services and programs on behalf of all Federal libraries and
information centers, providing education and training programs and administering a cost-effective book, serial, and
technical processing and database procurement program. Approximately 1,300 Federal offices participate in the
program generating an estimated $77 million in reimbursements annually. This procurement program saves Federal
agencies an estimated $6.6 million annually in contract cost avoidance benefits and $14 million more in products and
services discounts.

Reading Promotion and Outreach - The Library promotes books, reading, and literacy through the Library's Center
for the Book, its 37 affiliated State Centers for the Book and more than 75 national organizational partners, and
encourages knowledge and use of its collections through other outreach programs (cable TV programs, lectures,
publications, conferences and symposia, exhibitions, poetry readings -- all primarily supported by private funding)
and through use of the Library's home page on the www. The Library also gives some 61,000 surplus books annually
to qualified libraries and non-profit educational institutions through its nation-wide donation program.

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