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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED089661 AUTHOR: Cooke, Eileen D.
TITLE: Statement for the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
House Committee on Appropriations,
March 22, 1974.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1974
NOTE: 9 p.
ABSTRACT: This statement by the American Library Association
Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations of the House Comm
Appropriations endorses the Library
of Congress request for funding in 1975 and requests that
funding be increased for the Office of Superintendent of
Documents for the same period. The value and importance of
several activities of the Library of Congress is commented
upon, specifically: the National Program for Acquisitions
and Cataloging, the PL-480 Program for India, the work of
the Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and
the Affirmative Action Program. Some of the services of the
Superintendent of Documents vital to libraries and the Ameri
described, and the problems
besetting the Office (sharp price increases and backlogged
orders, for instance) which have an adverse effect on both
groups are discussed. The ALA also urges increased financial
Depository Library Program of the Office so that material ma
delivered to depository
libraries, more adequate inspection of the libraries can be
U.S. Government publications can be
included in the depository program. A copy of the January
25, 1974 resolution of the ALA is appended. (JG)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Federal-Government; Government
Publications; National-Libraries
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Financial-Needs; *Financial-Support;
*Library-Services
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