ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1992 /189 Washington Hotline Carol C. H enderson (202) 547-4440 ALA W ashington Office B u sh b u d g e t. The fiscal year 1993 budget request sent to C ongress on January 29 by President Bush is a repeat o f the FY ’92 budget request. The adm inistration is recom m ending only $35 m illion, a 76 percent cut from the $147,752,000 appropriated last year. Once again, the $35 m illion would be available for only one program , the Library Services and C onstruction Act title I for public library services, and targeted to only one L SC A I purpose: literacy program s for adults and school dropouts and establishm ent o f m odel literacy centers. Figure 1. B U D G ET REQ U E ST C O M PA R ISO N F Y ‘92 TO F Y ‘93 (am ounts in thousands) FY‘92 FY‘93 PROGRAM APPROP. ADMIN. REQ. L ib ra ry S e r v ic e s a n d C o n s tr u c tio n A ct $129,663 $35,000 Title I public library services 83,898 35,000 II public library construction 16,718 0 III interlibrary cooperation 19,908 0 IV Indian library services0 — — V foreign language materials 976 0 VI library literacy programs 8,163 0 H ig h e r e d u c a t io n a ct 18,084 0 Title II-B library career training 5,000 0 ** II-B research and demonstrations 325 0 II-C research libraries 5,855 0 II-D college library technology 6,404 0 V sec. 607 foreign periodicals 500 0 TOTAL $147,752 $ 35,000 * Funded at 2 p ercent of appropriations for LSCA I, II, and III. ** Proposed for consolidation with several graduate fellowship programs with Secretary setting priorities for each year. 190 / C& RL News The administration’s rationale is also a repeat of last year’s arguments. The programs have served their purpose, the needs have been met, and support is available from other sources. These arguments have been rejected by Congress over and over again. The HEA recommendations reflect the administration’s position on HEA reauthorization, which has already been rejected by Congress in pending HEA bills. ALA opposes the administration’s proposal and recommends that LSCA and HEA library programs be funded as currently structured. The administration’s budget for libraries is particularly disappointing this year, coming soon after the White House Conference on Library and Information Services. Budget figures on selected other programs follow. F igure 2. O T H E R LIBRARY AN D R E L A T E D PROGRAM S (am ounts in thousands) FY‘92 FY‘93 PROGRAM APPROP. A D M IN . REQ . G P O SuDocs $27,082 $30,983 L ibrary o f Congress 328,170 357,528 National Agricultural Library 17,715 18,025 N ational Archives 146,743 161,045 N ational C e n te r for E ducation Statistics 77,213 128,400 N CLIS 831 1,000 N at’l E ndow m ent for th e H um anities 175,955 187,059 N H PR C 5,400 4,000 National L ibrary o f M edicine 100,303 108,662 (inch M edical L ibrary Assistance Act) Postal revenue forgone subsidy 470,000 121,912’ *T he U.S. Postal Service estim ates $481,912,000 is n e e d e d to m aintain p re fe rre d rates on th e c u rrent schedule. LC and GPO. Incoming ACRL Government Relations Committee chair Katherine Mawdsley testified on January 29 before the House legislative branch appropriations subcommittee in support of the budget requests of the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office. Mawdsley, associate university librarian for public services at the University of California at Davis, represented the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries. Although she worked under the disadvantage of having to have written testimony delivered before any agency budget details were officially released, Mawdsley had the decided advantage of being a well-known constituent of the subcommittee chairman, Vic Fazio (D-CA), and she had previous experience as a witness before the Fazio subcommittee. Her LC testimony concentrated on initiatives that promote enhanced access to LC resources, new opportunities for LC in the sci/tech information arena, preservation programs, and service for the blind and physically handicapped. LC has asked for a nine percent increase for FY ’93, two thirds of which is needed to maintain current services. 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