ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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From Inside the DLP
By D r. Katharine M. Stokes

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

In the D ecem ber 1969 issue of College & R e­
search Libraries N ew s I m entioned th a t Dr. 
Bronson Price was working on the “long prom ­
ised Analytic Report, Fall 1968” to accompany 
Library Statistics o f Colleges and Universities: 
Data for Individual Institutions, Fall 1968 and 
th a t it would probably appear “early in  1970.” 
T he Analytic Report reached m y desk on June 
8 and I hope you have all received your 
copies b y  now. They were sent “Attention: 
L ibrarian” to all your institutions. Dr. Price ex­
pects Data for Individual Institutions, Fall 1969 
to be published in a m onth or two.

As I reported earlier, th e A nalytic Report “is 
designed to enable any academic librarian to 
find, in th e same position in every table, t he 
d ata for his institution’s particular peer group, 
e.g., public two-year com munity colleges hav­
ing betw een 1,000 and 5,000 students, or pri­
vate universities w ith over 10,000 students.” 
In Table 1 on page 52 you m ay b e surprised 
w hen you examine th e columns an d  rows of 
figures to find th a t in 1968 there w ere still 358 
libraries serving schools w ith four-year u n d er­
graduate enrollments of u p  to 5,000 w ith less 
than 50,000 volumes. T he junior colleges with 
enrollments of 1,000 to 5,000 scored a little 
b etter w ith only 130 having less th an  20,000 
volumes. W e’d like to think th a t th e T itle I I -A 
( H E A ) grants for college library resources have 
m ade great improvements in th e size of these 
collections in th e  past two years, b ut, by now 
th ere are probably a h u ndred new  junior col­
leges struggling to reach th a t minimum goal.

I t ’s even more am azing to find th a t thirty

four-year colleges w ith graduate students and 
total enrollments of 1,000 to 5,000 w ere getting 
along w ith less than 50,000 volumes in 1968, 
b u t perhaps they were single-subject institu­
tions, e.g., business or technical schools.

In  the June 1, 1970, issue of th e Library 
Journal two items, on pages 2057 and 2058 re­
spectively, were pleasant reading for us in the 
Division of L ibrary Programs. The first rep o rt­
ed th a t $5 million in book grants for college 
libraries had been p u t into the budget of the 
Governor of Massachusetts for the next two 
years “just as F ederal spending for college 
books under th e H igher Education Act has 
been seriously cu t back.” Perhaps, other states 
will follow this auspicious lead, building on the 
w idespread assistance of th e Title II-A (H E A ) 
program  these p ast five years.

T h e second item concerned the library com­
ponent of a N ew  H am pshire Consortium of 
developing colleges w ith th e University of New 
Hampshire as a supporting institution. No m en­
tion is m ade, however, of the H igher E d u ca­
tion Act, Title III, grants th a t have encouraged 
th e  activities of the libraries of this N ew  H am p­
shire College and University Council or of the 
Title II-A  (H E A ) Special Purpose Type C 
grants for library resources w hich they re­
ceived in 1967 and 1968. T he appropriation for 
Title III of the H igher E ducation Act has not 
diminished as th e  Title II-A appropriation 
has, so college librarians m ight like to inquire 
about application m aterials from the D evelop­
ing Institutions Branch, Division of College Sup­
port, Bureau of H igher Education. Dr. James 
Holley is the chief of the Branch and his ad ­
dress is 7th and D Streets, S.W., Room 4058, 
Regional Office Building 3, W ashington, D.C. 
20202. The Title H I aw ards for 1970 were 
announced in April. Applications for th e 1971 
program will probably be due in November 
1970. ■ ■

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