ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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AIR LOAN SERVICE

Assistant
rector of Science and Education George L. 
Mehren and Pennsylvania Secretary of Agri­
culture Leland H. Bull have announced inau­
guration of a daily round-trip interlibrary loan 
service by air between the National Agricul­
tural Library in Washington, D.C., and the

Mrs. Freeman and W . Carl Jackson

Pennsylvania State University library at Uni­
versity Park, Pa.

Mrs. Orville L. Freeman, wife of the Secre­
tary of Agriculture, initiated the new agricul­
tural library service in a ceremony at Page Air­
ways, National Airport, Washington, D.C., at 
5:15 p.m. April 17. She began the reciprocal 
service by sending off the first two books after 
a brief ceremony highlighting National Li­
brary Week.

According to Assistant Secretary Mehren, this 
cooperative agreement marks the first “flying 
books” service between a national library and 
a land grant university. Although the inter- 
library loan service has been going on for 
years, time required to borrow a book often 
exceeded the time it was actually used. The 
new reciprocal service will permit delivery of 
publications to patrons at both locations well 
within twenty-four hours from the time a re­
quest is made.

Also participating in the ceremonies with 
Mrs. Freeman were W. Carl Jackson, Penn 
State University, director of libraries; Foster E. 
Mohrhardt, director of the National Agricul­
tural Library, and assistant director for pro­
gram coordination, Mrs. Blanche L. Oliveri, 
who developed the program for the depart­
ment. ■ ■

 Secretary of Agriculture and Di­

TITLE I CONSTRUCTION 
GRANTS AND LOANS

ew federal grants and loans of more than 
17 million will help thirty-one colleges and 
niversities build or remodel libraries in eight­
en states, Puerto Bico, and the Virgin Islands. 
ew and supplemental grants totaling approx­

mately $11 million were awarded to twenty- 
hree institutions for construction projects for 
ibraries* under Title I of the Higher Educa­
ion Facilities Act, which provides for federal 
id of up to one-third of the cost of academic 
onstruction at undergraduate schools and up 
o 40 per cent of construction cost at public 
ommunity colleges and technical institutes. 
nder Title III of the Act, which provides for 

onstruction loans, eight colleges and univer­
ities received a total of almost $6 million for 
ibrary construction projects.*

The grants will support projects costing al­
ost $47 million and loans will support projects 

osting approximately $14 million.

* I n  som e pro jects, lib rary  co n stru ctio n  is c o m b in ed  
ith  o th e r p rojects su ch  as in s tru c tio n a l, science o r 

u m a n itie s, a n d  a d m in istra tiv e  con stru ctio n .

HISTORY OF EDUCATION 
IN ITALY TO RE ISSUED

mong the many serious points of destruction 
rought on by the flood in Florence last No­
ember was the historical Palazzo Gerini which 
ouses the Museo Nazionale della Scuola, the 
nly Italian museum of its kind. It contained 
n its collections, some of the richest and rarest 
uropean and world educational materials, and 
as dedicated to the history of education and 

eaching. The damaged contents, as well as 
urals, furnishings, and the exterior total to 

nknown millions of lire. About 66,400,000 lire 
ave been estimated as the cost of restoration.
This restoration was begun almost immedi­

tely. As one form of self-assistance, however, 
he Centro Didattico Nazionale di Studi e 
ocumentazione of the Ministry of Public In­

truction has announced that its numbered edi­
ion of a unique volume, which was begun 
ometime ago, will be published in the autumn 
f 1967. The first edition of this book, entitled 
XV Secoli di Educazione e Scuola in Italia, 
ill be approximately three hundred pages in 

ength and it will be available through sub­
cription. Historical in character with colored 
s well as black and white illustrations, it will

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