ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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From Inside the DLP

By Katharine M. Stokes

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

Many of you who submitted applications in 
February for basic and supplemental grants 
for college library resources under Title ITA of 
the Higher Education Act must have been dis­
appointed in mid–June when the grants were 
announced. Four hundred and ninety-four in­
stitutions with special needs received the com­
bined grant and ten other institutions enrolling 
students for the first time this fall received a 
$5,000 basic grant. All the combined basic and 
supplemental grants were above $5,000 except 
one for a southern institution which could 
match only $3,133 for a basic grant. Its supple­
mental grant of $1,408 gave it a total award of 
$4,541. The largest award was $117,492 to 
Wayne State University, Detroit. Among the 
494 libraries which received basic and supple­
mental grants were 228 which also received 
Title III (H E A ) grants because they qualified 
as Developing Institutions under the criteria 
of the Division of College Support of the 
Bureau of Higher Education.

Twenty Type A Special Purpose grants, 
ranging from $82,000 to $2,500 were awarded 
to twenty-six institutions where large numbers 
of graduate students were enrolled from mi­
nority groups. One more was given to the Bronx 
Community College in New York City which is 
training many minority group students for lead­
ership roles in disadvantaged urban areas.

Special Purpose Type B grants were made 
to ten institutions enrolling large numbers of 
graduate students from minority groups. They 
range in amounts from $7,500 to $34,970.

Twenty-one consortiums of institutions re­
ceived Type C Special Purpose awards of 
$16,000 to $100,000. Only one of them had no 
institutions enrolling graduate students among 
its members, bu t it was in a situation where 
leadership training for minority group students 
was especially necessary, yet no large num­
bers could be expected to qualify for graduate 
work. The twenty-one consortiums included 
219 institutions which had not received basic 
and supplemental grants, bringing the total of 
the institutions being assisted by some type of 
grant to 723.

The Special Purpose Type A grants amount­
ed to a total of $649,630, the Type B to­
taled $179,970 and the Type C, $820,400. All

but nineteen states participated in the Special 
Purpose awards with seven of the others re­
ceiving more than $50,000, usually for two 
types of grants.

Every state received at least one basic and 
supplemental grant from the total amount of 
$9,343,000. Although California received the 
largest total of basic, supplemental, and spe­
cial purpose grants, with New York second, 
two thirds of the eighteen states receiving over 
$200,000 as a total for all categories were in 
the South. The other states receiving more 
than $200,000 for all categories were Illinois, 
New Jersey, New Mexico, and Ohio.

If you have been following the progress of 
the amendments of 1972 to extend the Higher 
Education Act of 1965, you will realize that 
the Title II –A program will probably be con­
siderably changed next year to make possible 
the participation of the many small colleges 
that have not been able to qualify for grants 
in 1971 and 1972. Your letters to the adminis­
tration about the importance of even a small 
grant to bolster your dwindling budgets in the 
face of higher prices for books and state bud­
get restraints have demonstrated that there 
are many other needy institutions in addition to 
those that have been identified as the neediest 
these last two years. ■ ■

FLOOD DAMAGE 
SURVEY

At the Annual Conference, the Execu­
tive Board of the American Library As­
sociation appointed an ad hoc committee 
to survey the damage to libraries in­
curred during this year’s floods. Their 
survey will include floods in the East, 
South Dakota, and the state of Wash­
ington. Along with the survey, they are 
also soliciting donations to be used in 
aiding the damaged libraries. Contribu­
tions should be sent to the Emergency 
Belief Fund in care of the American 
Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL  60611. The checks should 
be made out to the ALA and contribu­
tions are tax deductible.