(The information requested follows:)

COPYRIGHT OFFICE

Increases in appropriation due to enactment of pay legislation, 1949 to present

Within-grade increases provided in appropriations for fiscal years 1949 to 1960

Mr. Bow. Dr. Mumford, what is the public service that is rendered which is not chargeable to this operation?

Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Kaminstein can speak to that, I am sure, Mr. Bow.

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. For one, the Office is called on by other Government agencies and by Congress to supply information with respect to the registrations that are made, and we also have some

Mr. Bow. That is with reference to copyrights that are made?
Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right.

Mr. Bow. And, in that regard it is a part of the cost of copyright material?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Yes, sir; it is the cost of the copyright system. I think what we are talking about here, though, is what is fairly allocable to the person who submits an application, and should pay the normal cost of running the Office. In addition, the Office works with the State Department on treaties. It also works with Congress in the drafting of legislation.

Mr. Bow. These things, however, are for the protection, are they not, of a copyright holder?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Oh, yes.

Mr. Bow. And to that extent, this so-called public services is for the protection of the people who have copyrights and, therefore, is important to everyone who has copyrights?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right, sir.

Mr. Bow. So, actually, the public service, indirectly at least, is for the benefit of all people who come in for copyrights; is that correct? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. I would think so. It is just not a direct cost. Mr. Bow. It is not a direct cost, but it is in the form of some instances of insurance and proper legislation for their protection? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right.

Mr. Bow. And, all chargeable, actually, to copyrights and not some other function that you might be doing in your division other than that relating to copyrights?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. No, sir; it is just that some claimants might feel that it was not for their own particular benefit.

Mr. Bow. Yes; I see, but they would be the same ones who would be screaming the loudest if you were not doing those things to find out how to protect them?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. It could very well be.

EMPLOYMENT AND REGISTRATIONS, 1949-60

Mr. Bow. What has been your increase in employment over the last 10 years, or do you have such information from the standpoint of employment 10 years ago? Can you furnish that for the record, if you do not have it now?

Mr. ROSSITER. Yes, sir.

Mr. Bow. And, at the same time, your increase over that period of time in registrations.

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. The information on registrations is here, but we can tie it together.

Mr. Bow. I think it would be well to tie it together.

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Yes, sir.

(The information requested follows:)

Statement showing staff and registrations for fiscal years 1949 to 1960 inclusive

20 positions transferred to “Salaries and expenses, Library of Congress."

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

Mr. Bow. Are you going to have any money left at the end of the fiscal year in this division?

Mr. ROSSITER. Not to speak of, sir.

Mr. Bow. Do you have any lapses? Do you have any unfilled positions now?

Mr. ROSSITER. I do not have that information at the moment, but I can give it to you right away.

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. I think we have six part-time employees, really, taking three full-time positions.

Mr. ROGERS. There is an employment as of the 19th of March of 242 against 247 budgeted positions. There may be, and undoubtedly are, changes since that time.

Mr. Bow. Do you have any backlog under your registrations? Mr. KAMINSTEIN. I do not think so, sir. This is one thing we have pushed for.

Mr. Bow. You are current now ?

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. That is right. We may be forced to postpone other work, but the registrations, pretty much, have to stay current. This is one of the things I was told 13 years ago when I first came to the Library-that registrations had to be kept current and we have always tried to stay within hailing distance of currency.

AVERAGE GRADE LEVEL

Mr. STEED. On page 95 of the committee print under the personnel summary you show the average GS grades for 1960 and 1961 was 5.9 and the estimate for 1962 is 5.8.

Can you explain the slight decrease?

The

Mr. MUMFORD. It will be the same, I think, Mr. Chairman. slight difference would have been made by those four positions we were requesting which we have now dropped.

Mr. KAMINSTEIN. Those positions were in lower grades in the service division.

Mr. STEED. The next item will be the Legislative Reference Service which appears at page 80 of the Justifications and page 96 of the committee print.

We shall insert at this point in the record page 80 of the justifications and the table of workload on page 82 thereof. (The pages referred to follow :)

Of this amount it is expected that 50 percent will be needed for ingrade increases and 50 percent for reallocations.

1 Includes temporary positions equivalent to 5 full-time positions.

Mr. STEED. This item in the 1961 regular bill was $1,660,200, with a supplemental of $120,000, making an adjusted total for 1961 of $1,780,200.

The 1962 estimates are $1,809,200, a net increase of $29,000.
Would you make some comment on the reason for this increase?

INCREASE REQUESTED

Mr. MUMFORD. Mr. Chairman, that increase is for ingrade increases and reallocations, which come to $29,000, and of this amount, it is expected that about 50 percent of it will be needed for ingrade increases and about 50 percent for reallocations.

We are not asking for any additional personnel.

WORKLOAD INCREASES AND CURRENCY OF WORK

I think it might be informative to the committee, however, if Dr. Elsbree spoke briefly of our efforts to cope with the increase in work without requesting additional personnel for this year.

Mr. ELSBREE. We did receive a substantial increase last year of 23 new budgeted positions and $25,000 for employment of temporary personnel during the session.

We have made every effort to effect improvements in the service with this assistance, and I believe that we have.

We have attempted to expedite the service, for one thing, since last year. We could not avoid accumulations of work in research services at times, even this year. In the nature of our work, there are always times when an issue is very hot and we will have some research work accumulating in that area, but we have not had any general backlogs. We have, in general, handled our inquiries more rapidly than we were able to last year.

We made a test study for March 1960 and March 1961. We had an increase this March of 12 percent over last March, but we were able to handle within 1 day-within 8 work hours, in other words, of the receipt of the inquiry-67 percent of our inquiries this March as against 56 percent in March 1960.

We have had no serious typing backlogs this year although, again, there are times when typists will be jammed up in one area, but we have not had any serious delays resulting from that.

With reference to the Digest of Public General Bills, we have been having increasing difficulty in past years in trying to keep it anywhere nearly current. I am sure you will understand that at the beginning of the session you cannot catch up all at once, but, by employment of two temporary digesters, we did make the Bill Digest current this year by April 12, which was 6 weeks earlier than it was current in the first session of the last Congress; and we were about 2 weeks or more ahead of schedule from the 1st of February on.

We digested approximately 1,000 more bills in the period up to April 12 than we had in the corresponding period of the 1st session of the 86th Congress.

Frankly, the measurement of quality of service is a very difficult matter and I cannot pretend that we have any precise evidence that we are performing a better quality of service. Our division chiefs, however, are uniformly of the opinion that they are able to do a better job.

On one score-a sort of a minimum test of quality—we know that we are producing reports or memorandums in response to inquiries for reports or memorandums more often than we were able to do in the last few years. That is, many times we have had to give some selected material to the inquiring office because we were simply unable to meet the requests for reports. This year we are not having to do that as often.

Using March, again, for comparison, a study showed that this March we prepared 697 reports and memorandums as against 518 in March 1960.

Now, these are not, I confess, accurate measurements of quality; they are very rough indications, but we do feel that we have been able, with the use of new positions and the temporary money, both to expedite our service and to furnish a better job.

BILL DIGEST

Mr. STEED. How many copies of the Bill Digest do you issue when you have a prin made?

Mr. ELSBREE. The regular printing varies from 1,400 to 1,700 copies, the latter number for the final edition only.