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

Evaluators from various sizes and types of 
academic libraries throughout the country vis­
ited our staff in Washington early in May. Three 
evaluators read each special purpose application 
and resolved any differences in scoring.

Our Library Training and Resources Branch 
staff, aided by as much help as the other 
branches could spare, has been reading sup­
plemental applications, while the Grants Man­
agement Section has checked the mathematical 
data for all grants, and has checked eligibility, 
including accreditation and Civil Rights com­
pliance. Now and then we’ve had to call one 
of you, or the officer responsible for the appli­
cation from your institution, to obtain data 
that failed to appear. Some of you know we’ve 
been working!

Some of you may be disappointed at the 
grants you were awarded in late June under 
Title II-A of the Higher Education Act. The 
appropriation of $24,500,000 was not enough 
to cover the applications requesting more than 
$88,000,000.

The basic grants awarded totaled more than 
$10,000,000, almost as much as the requested 
amount. According to the Act, special purpose 
grants awarded had to be covered by 15 per 
cent of the appropriation; that amount was 
$3,750,000. The limit of $100,000 for a spe­
cial purpose grant to any institution was con­
tinued this year. Only 19 institutions out of 
the 493 that applied received Type A grants, 
and only nine of the 52 that applied for Type 
B grants were successful. There were 173 ap­
plications which represented 88 combinations 
of institutions of higher education competing 
for Type C grants; only 32 Type C grants, 
representing 11 combinations and involving 
the efforts of 62 institutions, were awarded.

Supplementary grants, like the basic ones, 
were awarded to almost all the libraries which 
applied for them; that is, more than 1,500. 
The total amount applied for was almost $32,- 
000,000; however, an amount of less than 
$11,000,000 was left for this purpose after the 
basic and special purpose grants were awarded. 
The supplementary grants, therefore, had to 
be funded at only 43.814 per cent of the 
amounts earned in dollar points. Many of you 
stated that the special circumstances impeding 
your development were rising enrollments and 
increasing book prices; unfortunately, those 
circumstances were universal, not special. ■ ■

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