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portant in the history of science, in order 
to prepare a guide to these collections for 
American scholars who plan to work abroad.”

John McGowan, Associate University Librar­
ian, Northwestern University. “To renew 
skills in the field of operations research in 
terms of applying these techniques to man­
agement and decision-making processes in 
libraries.”

Elvin E. Strowd, Head, Circulation Depart­

ment, Duke University Library, “To de­
termine what facilities and services are avail­
able to university communities through their 
library systems, resulting in an evaluation of 
purpose, function, and effectiveness.”

Allen B. Veaner, Assistant Director of Univer­
sity Libraries for Automation, Stanford Uni­
versity. “To study the political and fiscal 
factors which have deterred the ready ap­
plication of computers to libraries.” ■ ■

From Inside the DLP
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and Development Branch, Di­
vision of Library Programs, Bureau of Libraries 
and Educational Technology, U.S. Office of Ed­
ucation, Washington, D.C. 20202.

By the time you read this report of the 1970 
Title II-A (HEA) program of grants for li­
brary resources, you will have heard about 
your individual awards. The reduction of the 
appropriation from the expected $12,500,000 
to $9,816,000 made possible only 18.4787 per­
cent funding of the supplemental grants for 
which your libraries qualified.

Out of 2,309 applications for basic grants of 
$2,500, approximately 68 were disapproved. 
For supplemental grants, 1,910 applications 
were received and all those coming from insti­
tutions approved for basic grants were, of 
course, likewise approved. The amounts re­
quested in the supplemental applications to­
taled $24.6 million in addition to the basic 
grants requested, which totaled $5.7 million.

In scoring the supplemental applications it 
was gratifying to find that a few of you could 
no longer earn points on deficiency of volumes 
according to the minimum ALA standards for 
colleges and junior colleges. I am sure you are 
all trying to build up your media resources 
in addition to your volume count, however, so 
I know how disappointed you will be with the 
18.5 percent of the supplemental awards for 
which you were eligible.

We were pleased to be able to award basic 
grants this year for the first time to colleges 
and junior colleges opening by September 
1970. Judging from the many junior colleges 
in which the libraries are unable to meet 
minimum ALA standards in volume count for 
their enrollment even after several years of op­
eration, the need for starting with a good core 
collection is very evident. In some cases the 
rapidly increasing student bodies in the junior 
colleges have no more than one or two books 
apiece available in their library collections. In 
many cases, too, community colleges report

that they are sharing high school library col­
lections which are not adequate for post sec­
ondary curriculums.

Looking forward to the possibilities of fed­
eral support for higher education in 1971, you
will find in the Congressional Record for
March 25, page S4491-2, Senator Javits’ in­
troduction of the Higher Education Oppor­
tunity Act of 1970. On the previous day,
March 24, page H2424-5, Congressman Quie
introduced the same administration bill to the
House, along with his own bill (H.R. 16622),
the Higher Education General Assistance Act
of 1970, a copy of which is available on re­
quest to your Congressman. The administra­
tion bill is H.R. 16621. The Senate bill is
S. 3636, copies of which are available on re­
quest from your Senators. ■ ■

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