ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Inc. (D U A Labs), Arlington, Virginia, as the 
agency whose experience and existing capabili­
ties will enable it most quickly and most effi­
ciently to satisfy the program objectives. (N a­
tional D ata Use and Access Laboratories, Inc., 
is incorporated under the laws of the District 
of Columbia as a nonprofit corporation.)

Participating institutions will sign an agree­
ment directly with DUALabs since the partici­
pants will receive all services directly from 
DUALabs in accordance with the agreement 
and the supporting contract between the Cen­
ter and DUALabs.

In outline, participants will receive th e fol­
lowing benefits:
1. The right to buy at marginal cost (approxi­

mately $35 to $40 per reel) reproduction of

the 1970 Census data in compacted form. 
In  this form the data will occupy about 300 
reels instead of th e approximately 2,000 is­
sued by the Census Bureau.

2. Programs usable on any IBM computer mod­
el 360-30 or larger for reading, tabulating, 
and summarizing the data.

3. A master index to the complete count data 
base and full technical documentation.

4. Training sessions and seminars from the 
DUALabs staff covering the census data 
base and research of the data program. 
Questions about any phase of th e program

outlined above should be directed to the Cen­
ter for Research Libraries and marked to the 
attention of Gordon Williams, Director. ■ ■

From Inside the DLP
D h. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, 
Training and Resources Branch, Division of L i­
brary Programs, Bureau of Libraries and E d u ­
cational Technology, U.S. Office of Education, 
Washington, D.C. 20202.

Perhaps you have already received a letter 
notifying you that the president of your institu­
tion has received a set of application materials 
for a college library resources grant under Title 
II-A of the Higher Education Act. If you have 
not yet seen the application, you should call 
your president’s office and ask to have the ma­
terials sent on to you for filling out and submit­
ting to the Division of Library Programs in 
Washington by March 15. Perhaps your insti­
tution has designated a person or office to p re­
pare grant applications for the whole campus 
and the materials may have been sent there in­
stead of to you, b u t you should be aw are of 
some big changes in this year’s program which 
reveal that only one library in three will receive 
any money in contrast to the previous five years 
when almost all libraries were awarded basic 
grants.

You will remember th at for four years the 
basic grant was $5,000 provided th a t the 
amount could be matched. In 1970 when the 
appropriation for Title II-A shrank from 
$25,000,000 to $9,816,000, the basic grant was 
$2,500 or less. This year only the neediest in­
stitutions are to be awarded basic grants of up 
to $5,000. In order to determine which are the 
neediest, criteria have been devised to score the 
supplemental applications which you are asked 
to submit with the basic one. Approximately 
the highest scoring third of the institutions sub­
mitting th e double application will be award­

ed a $5,000 basic grant (or whatever portion 
they are able to m atch in nonfederal funds) 
and a supplemental of up to $10 per FTE stu­
dent, th e amount depending upon the points 
they score. The other two-thirds (th e lower 
scorers) will receive nothing. The scoring is 
based chiefly on the deficiency in volumes in 
the library in relation to the F TE  students on 
its campus and on the number and percentage 
of the student body coming from homes with 
less than $5,000 annual income or who are re­
ceiving federal work-study aid.

Fifteen percent of the $9,900,000 appropria­
tion expected will be devoted to special p ur­
pose grants. Type A and Type B applications 
from institutions in or adjacent to model cities 
areas will be scored on the criteria described 
in the instructions accompanying the applica­
tion forms. The Type B grants will be awarded 
to a very few libraries which have developed 
collections on the right to read, drug abuse, en­
vironmental pollution, or early childhood edu­
cation which they are willing to share with 
their communities. Type C grants will be 
awarded to a few consortiums of institutions, 
some preference being given to those including 
community colleges in their membership.

The applications for special purpose grants 
are due April 15. The awards must be matched 
by one-third in nonfederal funds. ■ ■

ACRL Membership

January 31, 1971 ................................ 12,442
January 31, 1970 ...............................  14,131
January 31, 1969 ...............................  13,655