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did apply for special purpose grants and a few
failed to receive them. But they may have
missed an opportunity to be awarded a sub­
stantial supplemental grant if they had tried
for whatever points they could earn of the
ten possible. Only five institutions earned that
high score of ten points, while most of the
libraries receiving supplemental grants earned
them on five points or even less. For any
institution with a big enrollment, the supple­
mental grant should be a big attraction. ■ ■

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

C O N N E C T IC U T  N E T W O R K
A Teletype network which interconnects the 

Connecticut State Library, five public librar­
ies, and five academic libraries— Connecticut 
College, Trinity College, University of Con­
necticut (S torrs), Wesleyan University, and 
Yale University was installed initially for the 
purpose of facilitating communications of 
any kind among the libraries on the network. 
It has to no one’s surprise turned out that the 
major use is to effect interloans and provide 
book location service. The network is of the 
class called TW P, which means that calls 
from any of the parties can only be directed 
to another party on the network (or to all 
members of the network).

The major use of the system is by the state

O T T O  H A R R A S S O W IT Z
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library (including replies to its queries), which 
undertakes to locate, usually for interloan, a 
publication desired by a patron of any other 
library in the state and not located in its own 
or the state library’s holdings. In most cases, 
the asking library is one of the two hundred 
or so public libraries not on the network, but 
the service is not limited to public libraries. 
Also, in most cases, the loan is sought from 
one of the five public libraries on the network. 
The academic libraries are called upon by the 
state library only for the more scholarly ma­
terial being sought. Even so, Yale is usually 
called upon only as a last resort, to avoid 
inundating them with requests that might be 
filled elsewhere.

The second heaviest traffic on the network 
is by and among the five academic libraries 
themselves. As Yale, of the five, is the one 
most heavily endowed with library resources, 
it seems probable that it is the greatest con­
tributor of interloans to the other four, but 
it is also a borrower from these. Recognizing 
Yale’s importance in this scheme, the five 
academic libraries have jointly financed the 
salary of a librarian who is stationed at Yale 
and given custody of Yale’s part in the Tele­
type network.

The remaining, and least heavy, traffic on 
the network is by and among the five public 
libraries. These use the network to seek inter­
loans from one another and from the state 
library. Bequests they may wish routed to the 
academic libraries are, by agreement, channeled 
through the state library.

Cost of the Teletype facility is borne by 
the state library using LSCA Title I  funds. 
During the development phase of the network 
(which has now been in service nearly one 
and a half years), all other costs have been 
borne by the member libraries on the network. 
This capability has been used to some extent 
for inter-communications between the Con­
necticut library Teletype network and those 
in Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as to 
and from specific libraries both within and 
outside of Connecticut. However, full use 
of the potential of interstate traffic is yet to 
be developed.—C harles E. Funk‚ Jr., Supervisor, 
Department of Planning, Evaluation & R e­
search, Connecticut State Library. ■ ■

TA LEN T!
Credit for the Membership Promotion ads 

which have appeared in the C R L  N ew s issues 
since December, goes to Frances Kennedy, 
librarian of Oklahoma City University and 
A CBL Representative on the ALA Member­
ship Committee. The series will continue 
through the May issue.