ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and D evelopment Branch, Di­
vision of Library Services and Educational 
Facilities, U.S. Office of Education, W ashing­
ton, D.C. 20202.

You are probably anxiously waiting now to 
hear about your applications for Title II-A 
grants (College Library Resources) under the 
H igher Education Act of 1965. Another $25,­
000,000 worth of materials to be bought by 
June 30, 1969, and their attendant processing 
will be a challenge to your order and catalog 
librarians, and a blessing to your patrons, the 
faculty, whose demands for old and new titles 
seem never to be satisfied, and the students 
for whose increasing hordes you need more 
copies and replacements. For those of you 
whose libraries have not yet reached minimum 
ALA standards we hope your grants will be a 
welcome boost.

There’s a way to share your blessings and 
benefit from those of your colleagues, not just 
the academic ones. Are you aware of your 
state plan to use the allotment from Title III 
funds under th e  Library Services and Con­

struction Act for cooperative library activity? 
If you’ve been asked to meetings at your state 
library to discuss possible ways of sharing ref­
erence and research resources among all types 
of libraries, have you taken tim e from your 
crowded schedule to attend and contribute 
your ideas? Each state has $40,000 plus an 
added amount related to its population for 
funding this title in fiscal ’68. This money can 
be used for feasibility studies or experiments 
concerned w ith centralized cataloging, for “hot 
line” telephone connections betw een the state 
library and research libraries to facilitate inter- 
library loans, for extra personnel in libraries 
w ith major resources to ease th e cost of their 
lending books to other libraries, for transporta­
tion of books or researchers among a  network 
of libraries, or for many other sorts of pro­
grams involving different types of libraries. Let 
your imagination roam! Each state’s allotment 
may not sound very large, b ut when it funds a 
project which links th e resources of a num ber 
of libraries around the state it can benefit a  lot 
of users from business, industry, and the pro­
fessions as well as students at all levels. And 
isn’t th a t the mission of higher education to­
day—to benefit th e society of which the cam­
pus is a part?

THE JOURNAL OF DEVELOPING AREAS

The purpose of the J DA is  to stimulate the descriptive, theoretical, 
and comparative study of regional development, past and present, with 
the object of promoting fuller understanding of man’s relationship to the 
developmental process. Published quarterly in October, January, April, 
and July, each issue contains four to six articles, a bibliography of 
periodicals and monographs, book reviews, and news and notes.

For those who desire a complete set, copies of a second printing of 
the first issue (October 1966), as well as subsequent issues, are avail­
able as long as the supply lasts. Subscription rates are: North America — 
$4.00; Latin America and Europe—$4.50; Elsewhere — $5.00. Subscription 
requests should be sent to: George C. Potter, Business Manager.

Manuscripts and other correspondence may be directed to: Spencer 
H. Brown, General Editor.

T H E  JO U R N A L  OF D E V E L O P IN G  A R EA S
Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois 61455