ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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From Inside the DLSEF
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and Development Branch, Di­
vision of Library Services and Educational 
Facilities, U.S. Office of Education, Washing­
ton, D.C. 20202.

The Formula for determining the amount 
awarded to combinations of libraries applying 
for Type C Special Purpose grants was quite 
different in Fiscal Year 1968 from that used in 
FY 1967. In 1967, each institution of a group 
awarded a Type C grant was given what it 
requested and could match on a 33’a per cent 
basis, except that S100,000 was determined as 
the ceiling for any one grant. In 1968, because 
of a ruling requested after the previous year’s 
awards, a group of libraries could apply either 
separately or through an agent. This regulation 
resulted in as many as eighteen libraries ap­
plying as a single group for one large grant. 
Each combination applying for a Type C grant 
was scored as a group, resulting in one scoring 
in the 40s, six in the 30s, twenty-six in the 20s, 
and fifty-five, lower. Two groups scoring in the

20s or higher applied for over $1 million each, 
which would have used up more than half of 
the $3,750,000 available for all Special Purpose 
programs. So a formula was devised which 
made it possible to fund the eleven groups rat­
ing highest, while retaining a ceiling of $100,- 
000 for any one institution. Since $1,800,000, 
or about half the Special Purpose appropria­
tion, was considered appropriate for Type C 
grants, this sum was taken as the basis for 
calculating how much should go to each indi­
vidual group according to its individual score. 
For the combinations with scores in the 20s, 
10 per cent of $1,800,000 was used as the 
ceiling for each group. The groups scoring in 
the 30s were each assigned a ceiling of 15 per 
cent of $1,800,000 or $270,000. The single 
group scoring in the 40s was awarded the 
$306,003 requested, since this amount was less 
than a ceiling of 20 per cent of $1,800,000 or 
$360,000. Under this rather complicated for­
mula, amounts as low as $50,000 were awarded 
to individual groups in the 30 and 20 scoring 
range, if those were the amounts requested. 
To the two groups requesting over $1 million 
each—one scoring in the 30s and the other in 
the 20s—the appropriate ceilings were of course 
applied. The awards determined in this way 
totalled $1,406,003 for the seven groups with 
the highest scores. The next highest score was 
28, which was achieved by four groups. Three 
of these had requested more than $180,000 
each, and the other, $50,000. The sum of the 
grants to these four groups ($590,000) added 
to the sum of the grants to the first seven 
groups ($1,406,003) made $1,996,003, a total 
more than half the Special Purpose appropria­
tion. Thus, the score of 28 was used as the 
cutoff point for Type C Special Purpose grants, 
which meant that 62 institutions in eleven 
groups received Type C awards, a number al­
most equal to the seventy-one institutions re­
ceiving such awards in FY 1967.

The A and B Special Purpose awards were 
much simpler to allocate since they were made 
to individual institutions. In FY 1968, the 
nineteen libraries which achieved scores of 15 
points were awarded Type A grants amounting 
to $895,059. In FY 1967, fifty-five institutions 
had won Type A grants on scores of 10 to 12 
points; however, only 493 institutions applied 
for such grants in 1968 while 666 had applied 
in 1967.

In FY 1968, out of fifty-two applicants for 
Type B awards, nine libraries scoring 30 points 
each received a total of $558,924. In FY 1967, 
seven Type B awards were made to 172 ap­
plicants. ■  ■

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Immediate opening. Salary $12,000 + depend­

ing on qualifications and experience.
This position has, as its major areas of re­

sponsibility, the acquisitioning, cataloging and 
programming for reference services for the en­
tire program of the technical library, which pro­
vides technical information to personnel of the 
Research and Development/Technology Direc­
torates and other departments of the Naval 
Ordnance Station.
Qualifications: Applicants must have a compre­
hensive knowledge of library science. Broad ex­
perience with technical reports literature and 
management of these items is also desired. Fa­
miliarity with current trends in the use and 
storage of microfilmed documents is essential.

Career Civil Service position with full bene­
fits.

Send application to Mr. Charles R. Holman, 
Industrial Relations Office, Naval Ordnance 
Station, Indian Head, Maryland 20640. For 
more information, call Mr. Holman collect at 
(301) 743-5511, ext. 206. An Equal Opportu­
nity Employer.