ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


COLLEGE &
NEWS

RESEARCH

LIBRARIES No. 6, June, 1967

ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 28, No. 3

Higher Education Act Grant

FLASH—FEDERAL GRANTS

The United States Office of E du­
cation has announced that it received 
over 4,600 applications for the basic, 
supplemental, and special purpose 
grants for college library resources 
under Title II–A of the Higher Educa­
tion Act of 1965. The deadline for 
submission of applications was mid­
night, April 10. The total requests 
for grants greatly exceeded the $24,– 
500,000 appropriated by Congress for 
this purpose. Processing of institu­
tional applications is in final stages 
and institutions will be notified during 
the month of June of the grants 
awarded.

Please Note: The U.S. Office of 
Education has modified its policy on 
the time by which grant funds are to 
be committed and expended. Under 
the revised policy, for grants awarded 
from current funds, the funds granted 
must be committed or expended by 
June 30, 1968 (not 1967). We are 
grateful that the extended period is 
being permitted to provide for the 
wise expenditure of these funds.

TITLE I I –B FELLOWSHIPS
During the next academic year, more than 
five hundred federally-supported fellowships 
will provide graduate training of personnel 
needed by the nation’s libraries. The office 
announced awards totaling $3,773,250 to 
thirty-eight institutions of higher education 
that will select and train the Fellows in 
library and information sciences. This is 
four times as much as was made available 
in 1966, the first year of the program. The 
fellowships are authorized under Title II–B 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Because of the critical shortage of fully- 
qualified library school faculty members, 
the first priority is for fellowships designed 
to produce additional instructors for schools 
of library and information sciences.

According to the division of library ser­
vices and educational facilities of the Office 
of Education, 327 of the 501 fellowships 
will be at the master’s level, 58 at the post­
master’s and 116 doctoral. Fellowships for 
students seeking a master’s degree are 
$2,200 each and at the post-master’s and 
doctoral levels, $5,000 each. Post-master’s 
and doctoral fellowships are renewable. If 
summer study is required an additional 
stipend of $75 per week, not to exceed a 
total of $450, is provided for Fellows seek­
ing a master’s degree. At the post-master’s



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and doctoral fellowship’s levels, the summer 
stipend is at the rate of $170 per week, not 
to exceed a total of $1,020. In addition, $600 
is granted for each dependent for the aca­
demic year and $120 for the summer, plus 
travel expenses to and from the institution 
for the Fellow only.

The institution receives $2,500 for each 
Fellow to help defray the cost of instruction 
during the academic year and $500 for the 
summer.

Students seeking fellowships should ap­
ply directly to the participating institutions 
(as listed below), which will have sole 
responsibility for selecting recipients.
University of California (Los Angeles) 13 
University of California (Berkeley) 17
University of Southern California

(Los A n g e l e s ) ..................................... 15
University of D e n v e r .................................5
Catholic University (D.C.) 15
Florida State University (Tallahassee) 20 
Atlanta University (Ga.) …  12
Emory University (Ga.) … . 1 0
University of Hawaii (Honolulu) … 15
Rosary College (Ill. ) ...............................12
University of Chicago …  22
University of I l l i n o i s .............................. 22
Indiana U n i v e r s i t y .............................. 22
Kansas State Teachers College …  15
University of Kentucky . 1 0
Louisiana State University …  10
University of Maryland …  21
Simmons College (Mass.) …  15
University of Michigan . 1 2
Western Michigan University …  5
University of Minnesota …  27
Rutgers, The State University (N.J.) 22
Columbia U n i v e r s i t y .............................. 21
Pratt I n s t i t u t e ........................................... 10
State University of New York …  8
Syracuse U n i v e r s i t y ...............................15
Kent State University (Ohio) …  10
Western Reserve University (Ohio) . 10
University of Oklahoma …  5
University of O r e g o n .................................6
Drexel Institute of Technology (Pa.) . 10
University of Pittsburgh …  5
George Peabody College for Teachers

( T e n n . ) ..................................................12
North Texas State University …  5 
Our Lady of the Lake College

( T e x . ) ....................................................5
University of Washington . . 1 3
University of Wisconsin …  14

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MSJCFA LIBRARIANS SECTION

he Minnesota State Junior College Librarians 
ection of MSJC Faculty Association met dur­
ng the association convention on April 20. 

oderator of a roundtable panel was James 
olly, Macalester College. There were dis­

ussions by Richard White on federal grants 
pplications, Raymond Bohling on the ALA 
tandards for Junior College Libraries, Donald 
ujcik on state purchasing procedures and 

idding procedures on periodicals, Mr. Holly 
n centralization of certain common procedures, 
nd Bill Price on audio-visual services. The 
innesota State Junior Faculty Association 

ibrarians Section has gone on record as en­
orsing the ALA Standards for Junior College 
ibraries, and has recommended that the State 

unior College Board acknowledge, support, and 
mplement these Standards. ■ ■

DIX HONORED

illiam Dix, librarian of Princeton University, 
as awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws de­
ree by the University of Florida on April 23. 
he citation of his service read in part as 

ollows:

Dr. Dix has been chosen repeatedly by 
his colleagues in the Association of Research 
Libraries for positions of leadership. Most 
recently, he served as chairman of the com­
mittee which planned and enlisted the co­
operation of research libraries in this coun­
try and Europe in establishing national cen­
ters for world-wide acquisition and catalog­
ing of research materials. As a result of his 
efforts, the Library of Congress will hence 
forth serve the libraries of the United States 
in the acquisition and cataloging not only 
of American library materials but of ma­
terials from the entire world. It would be 
difficult to over–emphasize the importance 
of his achievement as an aid to scholarly re­
search and in savings in cost to the cooperat­
ing libraries. We owe a debt of gratitude 
to the librarians of these libraries, and es­
pecially of the Library of Congress, for this 
collaborative effort, but the guiding mind 
and spirit has been that of William Shep­
herd Dix.

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