ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1994/651

Federal funding for se­
lected programs o f interest 
to college and research li­
braries is show n below. Most 
notable is the elimination of 
all funding for two Higher 
Education Act (HEA) Title II 
library program s—the II-A 
college library technology 
program , an d  the II-C re­
search library program. Al­
though Departm ent o f Edu­
cation programs w ere fund­
ed  at 40 percent m ore than 
the adm inistration request­
ed, the pressure to show  elimination of at least 
som e programs targeted for zero in the Clinton 
budget and in the Gore reinventing govern­
m ent initiative was very strong.

The only HEA programs supported by the 
H ouse w ere the II-B education and training 
program, and $1.5 million in first-time funding 
for II-D, the historically black colleges and uni­
versities (HBCU) library and information sci­
ence program. The HBCU funding w as not in­
cluded in the Senate bill and
was d ro p p ed  in conference.

The Senate supported li­
brary education and training, 
b u t m oved th e funding for 
HEA II-A and II-C into other 
places. For instance, the II-C 
r e s e a r c h  lib r a r y  p r o g r a m  
w ould have been reinvented 
through funds in the II-B dem- 
o n s t r a t i o n  p r o g r a m  fo r 
digitazation of research library 
resources, but digitization was 
d r o p p e d  in H o u se -S e n a te  
conference. The Senate also 
added $5,578,000 to the LSCA 
III interlib rary  co o p e ra tio n  
and resource sharing program 
for states to establish gate­
ways for access to public, aca­
demic, and research library 
collections. The increase was 
reduced to $3,951,000 in con­
ference.

Carol Henderson is executive 
director o f  ALA's Washington 
Office; e-mail cch@alawash.org

W a sh in g to n
H o tlin e

Carol C. Henderson

HEA II-B research  and 
dem onstration projects are 
normally competitive grants 
or contracts. However, for 
FY95 C o n g ress sp e c ifie d  
how  the entire $6.5 million 
appropriated w as to b e di­
rected. The Secretary of Edu­
cation is “to use $5,000,000 
to fund additional projects 
that com peted in 1994 for 
dem onstration of online and 
dial-in access to a statewide, 
multitype bibliographic da­
tabase through a statewide 

fiber optic netw ork.” Thus, no  new  applica­
tions will b e solicited. The Departm ent o f Edu­
cation m ade one such grant o f about $2.5 mil­
lion in FY94, and is expected to m ake a few 
new  awards from the existing pool o f appli­
cants.

The remaining $1.5 million is “for a dem on­
stration project making Federal information and 
other databases available for public use by con- 

(Washington cont. on page 681)

Federal Funding of Selected Programs
Program FY94 FY95 Admin . FY95 
(amounts in thousands) Funding Request Funding

Higher Education Act $17,443 0 $11,416
II-A, College library tech. 3,873 0 0
II-B, Library education 4,960 0 4,916
II-B, Research & demonstrations 2,802 0 6,500
II-C, Research libraries 5,808 0 0

Library Services & 
Construction Act $128,866 $102,976 $132,745
I. Public library services 83,227 83,227 83,227
II. Pub. lib. construction 17,792 0 17,792
III. Interlibrary cooperation 19,749 19,749 23,700
IV. Indian library services 2% of LSCA I, II, and III
VI. Library literacy programs 8,098 0 8,026

GPO Super, o f Documents 29,082 33,900 32,207
Natl. Center for Educ. Statistics 77,850 103,200 80,910
NCLIS 904 904 904
Library of Congress 331,864 358,000 348,480
National Agricultural Library 18,255 19,720 18,307
National Archives 195,482 200,898 195,238
(incl. NHPRC - $4m o f FY95, (5,250) (4,000) (9,000)
total is earm arked)

Natl. Endowm ent for the Arts 170,228 170,100 167,678
Natl. Endow, for Humanities 177,491 177,383 177,383
National Library of Medicine 115,237 135,330 126,274
(incl. Medical Lib. Asst. Act)

NTIA Info. Infrastructure Prog. 26,000 99,998 64,000

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November 1994/681

J a m e s Estrada, director of 
the Trecker Library at the 
University of Connecticut,
Hartford, was presented with 

P e
the 1994 Special Achieve­
m ent A w ard by th e Con­
necticut Library Association.

in 
K a r en  N e ls o n  H o y le , di­ N
rector and cu rato r o f the 
Kerlan Collection of Child­
ren’s Literature at the Univer­ Pam 
sity o f Minnesota, received 
th e  1994 D is tin g u is h e d  
Alumni Award from St. Olaf 
College, which she graduated from in 1958. 
For the last 25 years Hoyle has built the Kerlan 
Collection into one of the largest such reposi­
tories in the world. In 1992 she received an 
honorary doctorate from the University of St. 
Thomas and the Minnesota Library Association’s 
Distinguished Achievement Award.

M o h a m m e d  A m an , dean of the School of Li­
brary and Information Science at the Univer­
sity o f W isconsin-Mil­
w aukee, was aw arded 
the Black Caucus of the 
American Library Asso­
ciation (BCALA) Leader­
ship Award at the Sec­
o n d  N ational C onfer­
ence of African Ameri­
can Librarians in August.
A m an is a fo u n d in g  
m e m b e r o f BCALA.
Gladys S m iley  Bell, co­

M oh am m ed  A m an
ordinator of electronic
information services at Kent State University, 
Ohio, received the 1994 Distinguished Service 
to the Profession Award from BCALA. The 
awards are given to librarians, educators, and 
trustees w ho have show n distinguished service 
to the profession, scholarship, service to the

Ed. n ote: Entries in this column are taken 
fro m  library newsletters, letters fro m  personnel 
offices, individuals, a n d  other sources. To ensure 
that y o u r personnel news is consideredf o r  p u b ­
lication, write to Pam  Spiegel, Assistant Editor, 
C&RL News, 5 0  E. H u ro n  St., Chicago, IL 
60611-2795; e-mail: pam.spiegel@ala.org.

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community, and active par­

p le  
ticipation in BCALA.

E rnie In g les , director of li­

h e  
braries at the University of 
Alberta, received the Out­
standing Academic Librarian 

w s Award of the Canadian As­sociatio n  o f C ollege an d  
U niversity Libraries, p re ­
sented at that society’s an­
nual meeting in Vancouver. piegel
The award is based on ser­
vice to the profession, the 
planning and implementing 

of exemplary library programs, research and 
publication, mentorship, and leadership.

J e s s ie  L. M atthew s, reference and evening li­
brarian at Rutgers University Law Library, has 
been nam ed the 1994 recipient of the Spirit of 
Law Librarianship Award, presented annually 
to the American Association of Law Libraries 
member w ho makes a contribution toward the 
improvement of a social condition or the in­
c r e a s e d  a w a re n e s s  o f a so c ia l c o n c e rn . 
Matthews is being honored for her work with 
the Patient Learning Resource Center at the 
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia.

W illiam  A. M offett, director of the Hunting- 
ton Library in San Marino, California, was re-

(Washington cont.from  page 651)
necting a multistate consortium of public and 
private colleges and universities to a public li­
brary and an historic library.” This funding was 
originally in the Senate-passed version of H.R. 
4606 where S. Rept. 103-318 indicated that “Port­
land State University, in conjunction with the 
Oregon Historical Society, w ould be especially 
suited to operate” such a program.

The Senate had passed a total of $8,270,000 
for HEAII-B research and demonstrations, with 
$3,994,000 for “demonstration projects involv­
ing the digitization of research library collec­
tions and the development of related organiza­
tional tools for access to these digital resources.” 
However, House-Senate conferees cut the Sen­
ate total to $6.5 million, deleted the digitiza­
tion projects, and switched $2.5 million of that 
funding to bring the statewide fiber optic net­
w ork project funding to $5 million. ■

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