ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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To the Readers of CRL News
This issue is my final issue as editor of CRL 

News and it seems th at now is an appropriate 
time to say thanks to the many people that 
make CRL News possible.

The News is totally dependent on its readers 
for its continued existence. It is from you the 
readers th at copy must come and somehow 
each month you have kept the News in opera­
tion. News releases, personal letters, title pages 
of obscure publications, appointment notices, 
and it seemed at times, even scraps of paper 
from wastebaskets have come from every state 
and from countries scattered all over the globe. 
On these items the News has fed and to all of 
you who took the time to share your news notes 
with me I would like to offer my thanks and 
ask that you continue to give my successors the 
same cooperation.

A special note of thanks is due to the too of­

ten anonymous people in Chicago who have 
taken my copy and hammered it into a form 
that a printer could understand. Eileen Ma­
honey and her predecessor, Holly Campbell, 
and their staff in the ALA Central Production 
Unit have been patient and helpful as they 
have worked with an editor who was often late 
and who has made most mistakes th at one 
could imagine an editor making. Their help to 
me has been beyond measure.

The past three and one half years have been 
an education and as with all education, at times 
a pleasure and at times an agony. Thanks to the 
help of the readers and the ALA staff, the 
pleasure has outweighed the agony. My best 
wishes to my successors.
Sincerely,
Michael Herbison, Editor
CRL News ■ ■

Title II-A Grant Funds
The Office of Education has issued the follow­ ordering, processing, and cataloging costs as 

ing administrative bulletin clarifying the use of well as printed and published materials. Deliv­
Fiscal Year 1972 Title II-A grant funds for nec­ ery costs from the supplier to the point of use 
essary costs o f acquisitions: are also eligible under this new definition.

3. The purpose of this Administrative Bulle­To: Institutions of higher education which were tin is to bring the new definition to your atten­recipients of college library resources grants tion, and to clarify the terms and conditions un­under Title II-A of the Higher Education Act 
der which any funds used for these new p ur­in FY 1972
poses are subject. They are as follows:

Subject: Administrative bulletin clarifying a. Such costs may include those costs in­
use of FY 1972 Title II-A grant funds for curred by the grant recipient for supplies, 
necessary costs of acquisition personal service, computer time, etc., neces­
1. On October 11, 1972, the Federal Regis­ sary to make materials acquired readily avail­

ter (vol. 37, no. 197, p. 21436-37) contained able for library use;
the following amendment affecting Title II-A: b. Such costs may include those costs 

Part 131 of Chapter I of Title 45 of the Code charged by a commercial firm when the 
of Federal Regulations is amended by adding grant recipient elects to have materials ac­
a new paragraph (u ) to § 131.2, as follows: quired cataloged and processed by an out­
§ 131.2 Definitions. side agency;

*  *  * c. Such costs may include those costs 
charged by a noncommercial agency when 

(u ) “Acquisition of books and other ma­ the grant recipient elects to have materials 
terials to be used for library purposes” acquired cataloged and processed by an out­
means the purchase, lease-purchase, or side library cooperative agency;
straight lease of such books and other ma­ d. Purchase or rental of equipment (except 
terials and includes the necessary costs of for computer tim e) ordinarily would not be 
ordering, processing, and cataloging such considered necessary costs.
books and other materials and delivery of e. Such costs should ordinarily exceed nei­
them to the initial place at which they are ther an average of $2.75 per volume or item 
to be available for use. Such term does not acquired nor 20 percent of the total Title 
include the rebinding or repair of such II-A grant awarded.
books and other materials. f. Such costs can be applied only to materi­

2. This amended definition, in effect, now als acquired with Title II-A grant funds;
permits Title II-A grant funds to be used for g. Such costs must be reported to the Com­