ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


342

From Inside the DLSEF
By Dr. Katherine M. Stokes

College and University Libraries Specialist, 
Library Planning and Development Branch, 
Division of Library Services and Educational 
Facilities, U.S. Office of Education, Washing­
ton, D.C. 20202.

On May 10, 1968, a letter from the Division 
was sent to presidents of higher education in­
stitutions which offered library education pro­
grams. This letter requested an expression of 
interest in holding institutes in library and in­
formation science during the summer of 1969 
and/or the academic year 1969-70. Duplicate 
copies of the letters were sent to the heads of 
the library education programs. Only 21 insti­
tutions responded with letters of interest in 
holding institutes directly concerned with aca­
demic library matters.

Readers of this column will recall a brief 
listing (June 1968 issue of CRL News, page 
170) of the nine institutes of special interest 
to academic librarians which were funded this 
year under Title II-B of the Higher Education 
Act. Six of these have been completed; 160 
librarians attended these institutes, and each 
award carried a basic stipend of $75 a week, 
plus allowances for dependents where appli­
cable. Thirty-five librarians are still attending 
the institute being given part-time at the Uni- 
versiy of Oregon on Mechanization in Tech­

nical Service and Circulation Areas of the Li­
brary; this institute will be completed in Feb­
ruary 1969. Thirty more librarians will take 
part in the Library Executive Development 
Program Institute to be held at the University 
of Washington in April, and another thirty in 
the institute on Bibliographic services in East 
Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in 
June.

Many participants have given enthusiastic 
reports of their experiences at the completed 
institutes. Their libraries are expected to find 
them more valuable as staff members because 
of this concentrated, though brief, educational 
interlude in their working lives.

There is still time to send an application for 
an institute grant, even if no letter of intent has 
been submitted. The deadline for receipt in the 
Division Office is December 1, 1968. If you 
would like to attend an institute on some par­
ticular phase of librarianship, you might write 
the faculty of any institution that has a library 
school about your interest and inspire them to 
prepare an application for an institute next 
summer. Perhaps your own alma mater would 
be interested in sponsoring such an institute. 
Successful applications will probably be an­
nounced at the beginning of 1969. You will 
then have plenty of time to make your own 
application to any school where an institute 
is to be given. ■ ■

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Announcing 
nineteenth century 
english fiction 
on microfilm

A selected collection of nineteenth century 
English Fiction will be offered on 35mm micro­
film. The initial selection will be based on 
Michael Sadleir’s XIX Century Fiction, a Bibli­
ographical Record (Cambridge, At the University Press, 1951; 2 Vols.), but 
the collection will not be restricted to titles recorded by Sadleir. In general, the 
specific editions recorded by Sadleir will be filmed, but significant editions 
not recorded by Sadleir will also be included.

The price of the film will be 1 ¼ cents per page. A minimum of 50,000 pages 
will be furnished each year. Charter subscribers are offered the film collections 
at an annual expenditure of $625.00.

Catalog cards covering this collection will be offered.

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