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and the professional judgment of librarians 
must not be subject to censorship.*

To implement these standards, the Associa­
tion of College and Research Libraries and the 
American Library Association will:

1. Publicize these standards to all colleges 
and universities and their libraries, all li­
brary schools, all library organizations, all 
higher education organizations, and all 
agencies which accredit academic institu­
tions.

2. Seek to have these standards formally 
adopted or endorsed by all colleges and 
universities and their libraries, all library 
schools, all library organizations, all high­
er education organizations, and all agen­
cies which accredit academic institutions.

3. Investigate all violations of these stan­
dards which are reported by members of 
the Association of College and Research 
Libraries. Such investigations will be co­
ordinated and supervised by the Academ-

* Wherever equivalence is mentioned in this docu­
ment, it refers to an equivalence between librarians 
and faculty at the same college or university.

ic Status Committee of the Association of 
College and Research Libraries.

4. Invoke the following sanctions against in­
stitutions of higher education which are 
found, after such investigation, to be in 
violation of any or all of these standards:

a. Publicize the violation and the in­
stitution concerned in College & Re­
search Libraries N ews and other ap­
propriate publications.

b. Refuse to accept advertisements in 
any ALA publication for positions at 
that institution.

c. Discourage its members from accept­
ing employment at that institution, 
through notices in its publications 
and other means.

A reasonable amount of time—three to five 
years—should be provided college and univer­
sity libraries which do not currently conform to 
any or all of these standards to enable them to 
do so. However, no such grace period should be 
provided to librarians which currently do con­
form, either wholly or in part, and which seek 
to deny or withdraw any such rights and privi­
leges.

From Inside the DLP
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

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

On June 25, 1970, the members of Congress 
were notified by the Office of Education that 
279 basic and supplemental grants had been 
made to 169 applicants for the purchase of li­
brary materials under Title II-A (HEA). On 
April 30, 2,032 applicants had been approved 
for awards, but it must have been a pleasant 
surprise to the institutions on the second list to

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learn that their applications had also been suc­
cessful. The delay in their approval occurred 
because their replies to inquiries from the Ac­
creditation and Eligibility Staff of the Bureau of 
Higher Education had not been received in 
time for the April list. It was thought best to 
notify the large group and hold back funds to 
cover the grants for which some 200 institutions 
might later qualify.

When the determination of eligibility was 
completed, not all of the funds retained were 
needed to fund the approved institutions at the 
level of those on the April list. The extra money 
was divided among the thirty-five junior col­
leges and colleges serving only undergraduates 
which had rated highest in deficiency of size 
of collection. Since the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 allows no more than $10 to be awarded 
for colleges’ library resources for each full-time 
equivalent student enrolled in an institution, 
the amount already awarded to each of the 
thirty-five libraries per FTE student was sub­
tracted from $10 and the difference multiplied 
by its FTE figure. The resulting sum was add­
ed to the supplemental award about which the 
individual institutions had been notified in 
May. Although the amounts were rather insig­
nificant for colleges with small enrollments, for 
a few junior colleges with large enrollments 
they could mean a substantial improvement in 
the size of the library collection available to 
their students. ■ ■



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Shakespearean Prompt- Books of the 
Seventeenth Century
Volume V
Smock Alley Macbeth
Edited by G. Blakemore Evans, Harvard University. Part i, 56 pp. Part ii, 24 pp. 
Paper, boxed. $25.00
The Smock Alley Macbeth is the second publication by the Press of a group of eleven 
prompt-books associated with the Smock Alley Theater in Dublin. The editor has 
established the earliest possible date for this kind of prompt-book as 1674. The study 
of Macbeth in this unique form gives a vivid and valuable impression of how a play 
was produced in seventeenth-century London.

The Common Scientist in the 
Seventeenth Century
A  Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 
1683-1708
By K. Theodore H oppen, University of Hull, xii, 297 pp. $7.50
Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Academic des Sciences 
of Paris, were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. 
K. T. Hoppen shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is 
essential before any realistic assessment can be made of the scientific world at this time. 
The present book provides a detailed examination of one such institution— the Philo­
sophical Society which flourished at Dublin between 1683 and 1708. The work, mem­
bership, and intellectual outlook of the Dublin Society, are placed firmly within both 
the framework of Irish history and that of the history of ideas.

Old English Preverbal GE-
Its Meaning
By J. W. Richard Lindemann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, xi, 71 pp., frontis.

Cloth, $7.00. Paper, $4.50
This study attempts to determine the lexical meaning of the Old English preverbal 
morpheme ge-, a prefix which occurs more frequently than any other in Old English 
literature. For centuries scholars have tried unsuccessfully to explain the function and 
original meaning of the ge-. By thoroughly examining specific and similarly structured 
texts, this work finally establishes the morpheme as a member of the preverbal system, 
all members of which had to have meaning in order to function at all.

John Lydgate
By D erek Pearsall, University o f York. 312 pp., frontis., illus. $6.75
The idea that dominates this book is that of the professional craftsman at work in a 
variety of poetic forms in response to the demands and occasions of his age. Lydgate’s 
poetry, set against this background, is found to be of unexpectedly high quality, and, 
further, to be invaluable as a large and representative corpus of work which takes us 
into the very cellars of the medieval mind. Mr. Pearsall argues that in some ways, then, 
the reading of Lydgate can be seen as the essential preface to the reading of Chaucer.

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