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or Canada which has made an outstanding con­
tribution to librarianship. (This excludes pub­
lications of ALA, CLA, and their divisions.) 
All issues for the calendar year prior to the 
presentation of the award will be judged on 
the basis of sustained excellence in both con­
ten t and format, with consideration being given 
to purpose and budget. The award shall be 
presented only in those years when a periodical 
meriting such recognition is submitted for the 
award. D onated by the H. W. Wilson Com­
pany. Administered by ALA Awards Commit­
tee. Deadline for nominations, January 15, 
1971. Send nominations to the jury chairman. 
Chairman, Mr. Henry G. Shearouse, Jr., Li­
brarian, The Public Library, City and County 
of Denver, 1357 Broadway, Denver, Colo­
rado 80203. Staff Liaison, Mrs. Judith F. Krug.

H alsey W. W ilson L ibrary Recruitment 
Award. An annual award consisting of $1000 
to be given to any local, state, or regional li­
brary association, any library school, or any 
other appropriate group concerned w ith re­
cruitm ent to the profession. (To be eligible, a

state or regional library association must be a 
chapter of ALA.) There may be direct applica­
tion or nomination for the award. The award 
will b e made for the development of a sus­
tained program of recruitm ent for librarianship 
and will be based on total continuing program, 
not limited to one year’s activity. The criteria 
upon which selection will be based are: defini­
tion of goals; appropriateness and value to th e 
library needs of an area in which the program 
is conducted; number of individuals entering 
library school or library employment; num ber 
and kind of individuals or groups reached; or 
other demonstrable results. The money com­
prising the award will be used for the continua­
tion and further development of a recruitm ent 
program. Donated by H. W. Wilson Co. Ad­
ministered by ALA Awards Committee. D ead­
line for nominations, January 15, 1971. Send 
five copies of the nominations to the jury chair­
man. Chairman, Mrs. Julia Russell, Nassau Li­
brary System, Lower Concourse, Roosevelt 
Field, Garden City, New York 11530. Staff Li­
aison, Mrs. Judith F. Krug. ■ ■

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

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

If you haven’t yet seen a copy of Library 
Statistics of Colleges and Universities: Data for 
Individual Institutions, Fall 1969 (Publication 
OE–15023–69), it’s probably been resting quiet­
ly among your depository items since late Au­
gust. Its accompanying Analytic Report was still 
in preparation, b u t there is hope th a t it will be 
out this fall. The format of OE–15023 is much 
the same as the 1968 version except for a 
darker shade of green and beige for th e cover. 
This edition bears Dr. Bronson Price’s name in­
stead of Joel Williams’ b u t Joel w rote the 
Foreword before he left the NCES for a non­
government position in July. By th e end of Oc­
tober, Bronson, too, will be retiring. Ruth Boaz 
is carrying on as Acting Chief of the Library 
Surveys Branch, so your questions about the 
1969 data can be addressed to her or to Mrs. 
Doris Holladay, who is still in the Branch, for­
tunately. Doris can be reached by calling 202- 
962-7443 or addressing her a t the Office of 
Education, FOB #6, 400 Maryland Avenue, 
S.W., Room 2153, Washington, D.C. 20202. 
You will notice th at her room num ber is 
changed from the 1010 I last reported, b ut

the telephone number is the old one for Dr.
Price.

As long as I’m reporting changes, my own 
telephone num ber has been changed twice this 
summer and is now 202-963-4385. My room 
num ber is now 5680 in ROB # 3 , 7th and D  
Streets, S.W., and I have been transferred to 
the Training and Resources Branch, headed by  
Frank Stevens. My title and duties remain 
much the same, b u t I am now specifically at­
tached as Program Officer to th e Title I I –A 
(H E A ) College Library Resources Program. 
I have been lent to this program in this branch 
most of my three years in the DLP, b u t now 
the relationship is full time.

To go back to Data for Individual Institu­
tions, 1969, copies addressed “To the Librari­
an” were sent to every institution and every 
separate campus of an institution, b u t your mail 
rooms may have p u t them with the rest of th e  
flood of government documents received in de­
pository libraries. If desired, an additional copy 
is obtainable for $1.25 from the Government 
Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. As 
you will note in Joel’s Foreword, 2,122 indi­
vidual colleges are included in this edition.

No library statistics form is included in th e  
Higher Education General Information Survey 
(H E G IS ) for Fall 1970, due to the higher 
priorities of other areas, notably school library 
statistics, which have had no attention for sev­
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series will be continued with the fall 1971 sur­
vey.

A comparison of the 1968 and 1969 editions 
reveals certain differences between the two. 
The 1969 report does not contain the Budgeted 
Operating Expenditures, i.e., the expenditures 
which were current in 1969-70, although the 
usual previous year (1968-69) expenditures are 
included. In Table 1 for 1968, interlibrary loan 
transactions were reported, but such informa­
tion was not collected in 1969. For 1969, Table 
3 reports Vacant Positions, both professional 
and nonprofessional, b ut the beginning salary 
for a librarian with a master’s degree and no 
experience, which was noted in Table 5 in
1968, was not obtained in 1969. The surveys 
on college and university library statistics have 
been published annually by the OE from fall 
1960 to fall 1964, and from fall 1967 to fall
1969.

The OE has collected and published data 
annually from the HEGIS report forms since

fall 1967. The Library Surveys Branch has 
tried to give a truly representative picture of 
national data by imputing statistics in its Ana­
lytic Reports for those institutions which did 
not respond or submit useable figures. It is 
these Analytic Reports on which Office of Edu­
cation estimates are based when Congress or 
the Bureau of the Budget requires information 
on the academic library situation. The Office 
of Education is concerned about the data for 
individual institutions but its primary responsi­
bility is to produce information on the total li­
brary picture.

Late news: On July 27, Burton E. Lamkin, 
formerly Assistant Director for Public Services 
of the National Agricultural Library, became 
Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Libraries 
and Educational Technology. The Division of 
Library Programs is happy to be reporting to a 
Bureau Chief who is a librarian, too. ■ ■

News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

•  A group of letters and manuscripts of 
Oliver St. John Gogarty has been acquired by 
the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library of Buckneel 
University from the poet’s son, Oliver D. Go­
garty. Among the manuscripts are poems and 
a television play. Included among the writers of 
the letters are Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Dun- 
sany, Robert Flaherty, H. Montgomery Hyde, 
Joseph P. Kennedy, Queen Mary the Queen 
Mother, and Philip Sayers. This considerably 
enhances the collection of letters previously ac­
quired from Mr. Gogarty and made possible 
through funds given to the library by Dr. La­
Fayette Butler of Hazleton.

•  A number of President Eisenhower’s let­
ters are in a group of some 5,000 private pa­
pers and historical documents given to Co­
lumbia University by Dr. Allen Nevins, De­
witt Clinton Professor Emeritus of American 
History at the University. These will be added 
to the 20,000-item collection he has built since 
1953 in the University Libraries. In addition 
to President Eisenhower, other prominent per­
sons represented through correspondence in the 
new gift include Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, 
James T. Farrell, Robert Frost, Lyndon John­
son, Robert Kennedy, Herbert Lehman, Rob­
ert Dowell, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, 
Adlai Stevenson, Robert Penn Warren, and 
Andrew Wyeth.

•  Lawrence J. O’Connor, Jr., Federal Power 
Commissioner, has announced that his personal

and official papers will be given to the Univer­
sity of H ouston libraries for the University’s 
Texas Gulf Coast Historical Collections. O’Con­
nor’s papers include records of oil and power 
cases, personal correspondence with Congress 
and industry, legislative material, speeches, 
and miscellaneous items. The University has 
already received the first shipment of the O’Con­
nor papers, those relating to the Permian Basin 
Case, and will receive others over a period of 
years. At an appropriate time they will be 
made available for historical research. Com­
missioner O’Connor was appointed to the Fed­
eral Power Commission by the late President 
John F. Kennedy in 1961 and was reappointed 
by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. He 
received a B.A. degree from Rice University 
and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard. From 
1945 to 1958 he was Vice-President and Trea­
surer of the Goldston Oil Corporation of Hous­
ton. In 1949-60 O’Connor served as Assistant 
Director, Office of Oil and Gas, U.S. Depart­
ment of the Interior and he was Administrator 
of the Oil Import Administration 1960-61.

F E L L O W S H I P S /
S C H O L A R S H IP S

•  A one-year traineeship in Computer Li- 
brarianship under the auspices of the National 
Library of Medicine, Public Health Service, is 
available at the Washington University 
School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, Missouri. 
The traineeship will run from September 1, 
1971 through August 30, 1972. The stipend is