ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 58 Inside Washington Sara Case Associate Director ALA Washington Office L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n B u i l d i n g By early February 1976, the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Library Building seemed to be once again on the track to completion as originally planned (for the library, not for House office space). Focus then shifted abruptly to the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. This time, the eyes of congressional leaders were not gleaming with fine new office space as they looked at LC. They were proposing instead to give a fine new name to the library’s annex building. Sen. Howard Cannon (D -N ev.) and Rep. Lucien Nedzi (D -M ich.) are joint sponsors of legislation to rename the annex building (just across Second Street from the main library building), and their proposal, fitting in this Bicentennial year, is to call it the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. The Cannon bill (S 2920) was introduced February 3 and referred to the Senate Com­ mittee on Rules and Administration, which he chairs, while the Nedzi bill (H R 11712) came a day later and was referred to the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Library and Memorials, chaired by Lucien Nedzi. The bill is expected to pass, the annex thus renamed, and the idea is reasonably attributable to Daniel J. Boorstin, the new Librarian. J a p a n e s e L i b r a r y C o l l e c t i o n s A Japanese-American cultural exchange pro­ gram was established last fall by enactment of the Japan-United States Friendship Act (Public Law 94-118). The new law authorizes, among other things, support for major Japanese library collections at American colleges and universities, as well as assistance for scholarly research and Japanese language studies. The Friendship Act creates a trust fund in the U.S. Treasury with proceeds from the 1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement and other funds available in U.S. accounts in Japan, to be used to promote scholarly and cultural activities be­ tween the two countries. The program is to be administered by a commission, headed by Dr. John W. Hall, professor of history, Yale University. At this writing a decision is still to be made on the location of the commission office. Libraries interested in learning more might write to Professor Hall (237 Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520) and ask to be put on a mailing list to receive information about the program when it is avail­ able. To receive a copy of the public law (P L 94-118) authorizing the new exchange program, write the Senate Document Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC 20510, or better still, write your senator and ask him to send you one. ■■ C ENSUS BUREAU SEEKS COMM ENTS The U.S. Bureau of the Census reports that the basic design of the questionnaire to be used in the 1980 census will be completed by spring 1977. The bureau now is seeking recommenda­ tions from as wide a range of users and poten­ tial users of decennial census data as possible. Members of ACRL who wish to comment upon the amount and kind of information to be col­ lected and how that information might be tabu­ lated are invited to send suggestions or com­ ments to the Director, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233. ■ ■ Recent ACRL Publications Available from ACRL Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611— Networks an d the University Library, 2d print­ ing, $3.00 prepaid, $5.00 if billing is re­ quired: proceedings of an institute pre­ sented by the University Libraries Sec­ tion, 1973. Available from ALA Order Dept., 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611— F a c ­ ulty Status fo r A cadem ic Librarians, $3.50: a history and policy statements; Books fo r C ollege Libraries, 2d ed., $65.00 for 6-vol. set, separate volumes $12.50 each: 40,000 tides selected for the four-year undergraduate library; The R ole o f th e Beginning Librarian in Uni­ versity Libraries, by Ralph M. Edwards (ACRL Publications in Librarianship, no.37), $6.50.