► $3.8 million (13 percent of increase) for additional collections storage. With our general collections expanding at the rate of 300,000 volumes each year, the Library proposes that current Landover, Maryland, warehouse space be converted to collections storage. Moving conventional warehousing activities currently housed at Landover to new rental space and installing multi-tier shelving in the vacant Landover space will accommodate collections growth over the next five to seven years and satisfy our needs until either the Architect of the Capitol has the capability to store Library collections and publications or alternative long-range plans are developed. Without this new storage space, Library services will become increasingly inefficient as materials will need to be shifted or stored in locations that are not accessible or secure. $3.5 million (11.9 percent of increase) for health and safety items. The Library needs to bring up to acceptable contemporary standards the working conditions of 1,100 staff members who spend at least 50 percent of their time using video display terminals (VDT's). To prevent VDT-related health problems, the Library is requesting ergonomic equipment and furniture. The request also includes funds to enhance the security of the staff, collections, and buildings by providing for the use of metal detectors and X-ray equipment. $.8 million (2.7 percent of increase) for initial funding for a National Center for Science and Technology Information Services as a service both to the Congress and to the productive private sector. To improve the Library's services in support of science and technology decision-making, we are requesting additional funding (1) to improve the collections of traditional and electronic science and technology materials and (2) to establish a National Center for Science and Technology Information Services to make these and other relevant materials more readily available to Congress and the public. The center will provide important services to the Library's national constituency, enabling the Congress, through its library, to improve the nation's science and technology information capabilities so important to the productivity and competitiveness of U.S. industry. $.5 million (1.7 percent of increase) for greater use of commercial data bases by the Congressional Research vi ► $.5 million (1.7 percent of increase) for telecommunications cabling. Implementation of a modern premise distribution system -- with fiber-based wiring - in the Library's Madison building is essential to support new automated systems and bring the building that houses most of our staff up to the standard now available in the renovated Thomas Jefferson and John Adams buildings. $.5 million (1.7 percent of increase) for participation in the public transportation program as provided by ► $.4 million (1.3 percent of increase) to strengthen automation staff support throughout Constituent Services. ► $.2 million (.6 percent of increase) for rebuilding vital areas of the Law Library, including filling key All of these requests support the Library's mission of actively supplying the Congress and the American people In response to the Conference Report (102-176) accompanying the Legislative Branch appropriation act of 1992 (P.L. 102-90), this budget begins to phase out the subsidy for the catalog card service by a $319,000 reduction. Plans are vii underway for an informational campaign to identify alternative card services for those libraries still needing printed cards. As you can see from this overview, we have made every effort to limit our request to those amounts necessary H. Billington viii The Library of Congress has the following major missions: to assemble and preserve a universal collection of human knowledge, information, and expression; to make its material and human resources continually available and useful to the Congress of the United States; to make its resources maximally accessible and serviceable to the American people and their libraries; and to facilitate and celebrate free intellectual creativity by all people on all subjects. VALUES Enclosure 1 Underlying the operation of any organization are institutional values that define its culture and shape its actions. The seven values of the Service: The Library provides the best service feasible to its constituents and to the persons and organizations that comprise the Library itself. Quality: The Library provides the best quality feasible in every aspect of its activities, no matter how large or how small. Effectiveness: All Library activities are designed to accomplish its missions. Optimal results are achieved through efficient use of resources. Innovation: The Library constantly seeks, tests, and employs new and creative methods of improving its services and the use of its resources. Fairness: The Library is fair in its treatment of staff and users, and it respects all persons and takes measures to ensure equal treatment and opportunity in all of its activities. Participation: The Library encourages and supports widespread staff participation in the planning, implementation, and ongoing evaluation and improvement of its programs and activities. Staff Development: The Library ensures that it has the human resources appropriate to conduct its programs by encouraging and supporting staff excellence, and it takes measures to promote and foster superior performance, leadership development, individual growth, job satisfaction, and opportunities for career development. ix |