ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


College &  Research 
Libraries news No. 3, March 1971

ACRL News Issue (A) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 32, No. 2

1970 Census Data Access Program
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The Center for Research Libraries has an
nounced that it has been awarded a grant o
$225,000 by the Ford Foundation for suppor
of a program to provide the widest possible ac
cess to machine-readable forms of the 197
Census Summary Data and public use samples
on magnetic tape, and to reduce the cost of
using these data for research purposes.

The program for which th e grant has been
given was developed according to the recom
mendations of representatives of the major uni
versities that are members of The Center for
Research Libraries and other experts in elec
tronic data processing and social science re­
search. Although the program will be adminis­
tered by The Center for Research Libraries any
academic nonprofit research institution or or­
ganization is eligible to participate and secure
matching funds, whether it is a member of the
Center or not. Other institutions may partici­
pate in the program but will not receive match­
ing funds.

The program provides for compacting the
1970 Census D ata on Magnetic Tape, provides
programs for reading and using the tape, makes
available expert advice on the data base and the
research utilization, and provides a clearing­
house operation to encourage further sharing
of programs and of special data arrangements.
Computer programs are available for delivery
now, and the compacted tapes will also be
available as soon as the basic summary tapes
are released by the Census Bureau.

The funds from the Foundation are divided 
into two parts. One part is an outright grant of 
$125,000 to help subsidize the cost of acquir­
ing a complete set of magnetic tapes from the 
Census Bureau, making from these a master set 
in compressed form, and providing basic com­
puter programs and other fundamental services. 
The remaining $100,000 is available for match­
ing grants to participants in the program. If a 
participant elects the START-1 program, the 
matching grant is $2,500, leaving $5,000 to be 
paid by the participant. If the START-REGU­
LAR program is elected, the matching grant is 
$5,000, with $19,000 to be paid by the partici­
pant. START-1 participants will have the right 
to buy magnetic tapes included in the program, 
to gain access to special computer programs for 
use of the tapes, to acquire staff training 
through regularly scheduled seminars, and to 
receive copies of the materials explaining the 
program and its use.

START-REGULAR participants will have 
the rights of START-1 participants with the fol­
lowing additional benefits: the right to the File 
Analysis System, a computer system specifically 
designed for use of the 1970 Census Data; the 
right to stated personal and individual training 
of staff members; regular individual training of 
staff members; and, regular individual review 
of the participants’ Census D ata requirements.

To provide the services required The Center 
for Research Libraries has contracted with the 
National D ata Use and Access Laboratories,

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After years of supplying LJ Cards for children's books, we've now 
grown to adults'.

LJ catalog card sets are now available for all English language 
adult titles published from 1969 on.

Our adult card sets are designed to accomplish the same thing as 
LJ processing kits for juvenile titles—namely, to get new acquisitions on 
the shelves while they're still new.

So, as with all LJ Cards, we guarantee to fill your order within 10 
days after receiving it—provided, of course, the book has been published. 
If we fail, return the order and we’ll return your money. (To make sure 
we don’t have to return any money, we’ve recently increased our order­
handling staff by 250%. And our facilities by 300%.

You can order adult card sets three ways: with standard Library of 
Congress order slips; copies of multiple order forms; or any 3 "by 5 "slip 
listing author, title, publisher, date of publication, and edition. The price 
is $.35 per set.

And no matter how you do it, you can now have what elementary 
and high school librarians have had for some time.

An up-to-date reading room. Instead of just an up-to-date 
storage room. XEROX® BiblioGraphics

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Inc. (D U A Labs), Arlington, Virginia, as the
agency whose experience and existing capabili­
ties will enable it most quickly and most effi­
ciently to satisfy the program objectives. (N a­
tional D ata Use and Access Laboratories, Inc.,
is incorporated under the laws of the District
of Columbia as a nonprofit corporation.)

Participating institutions will sign an agree­
ment directly with DUALabs since the partici­
pants will receive all services directly from
DUALabs in accordance with the agreement
and the supporting contract between the Cen­
ter and DUALabs.

In outline, participants will receive th e fol­
lowing benefits:
1. The right to buy at marginal cost (approxi­

mately $35 to $40 per reel) reproduction of

the 1970 Census data in compacted form. 
In  this form the data will occupy about 300 
reels instead of th e approximately 2,000 is­
sued by the Census Bureau.

2. Programs usable on any IBM computer mod­
el 360-30 or larger for reading, tabulating, 
and summarizing the data.

3. A master index to the complete count data 
base and full technical documentation.

4. Training sessions and seminars from the 
DUALabs staff covering the census data 
base and research of the data program. 
Questions about any phase of th e program

outlined above should be directed to the Cen­
ter for Research Libraries and marked to the 
attention of Gordon Williams, Director. ■ ■

From Inside the DLP
 

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D h. Katharine M. Stokes

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

Perhaps you have already received a letter
notifying you that the president of your institu­
tion has received a set of application materials
for a college library resources grant under Title
II-A of the Higher Education Act. If you have
not yet seen the application, you should call
your president’s office and ask to have the ma­
terials sent on to you for filling out and submit­
ting to the Division of Library Programs in
Washington by March 15. Perhaps your insti­
tution has designated a person or office to p re­
pare grant applications for the whole campus
and the materials may have been sent there in­
stead of to you, b u t you should be aw are of
some big changes in this year’s program which
reveal that only one library in three will receive
any money in contrast to the previous five years
when almost all libraries were awarded basic
grants.

You will remember th at for four years the
basic grant was $5,000 provided th a t the
amount could be matched. In 1970 when the
appropriation for Title II-A shrank from
$25,000,000 to $9,816,000, the basic grant was 
$2,500 or less. This year only the neediest in­
stitutions are to be awarded basic grants of up 
to $5,000. In order to determine which are the 
neediest, criteria have been devised to score the 
supplemental applications which you are asked 
to submit with the basic one. Approximately 
the highest scoring third of the institutions sub­
mitting th e double application will be award­

ed a $5,000 basic grant (or whatever portion 
they are able to m atch in nonfederal funds) 
and a supplemental of up to $10 per FTE stu­
dent, th e amount depending upon the points 
they score. The other two-thirds (th e lower 
scorers) will receive nothing. The scoring is 
based chiefly on the deficiency in volumes in 
the library in relation to the F TE  students on 
its campus and on the number and percentage 
of the student body coming from homes with 
less than $5,000 annual income or who are re­
ceiving federal work-study aid.

Fifteen percent of the $9,900,000 appropria­
tion expected will be devoted to special p ur­
pose grants. Type A and Type B applications 
from institutions in or adjacent to model cities 
areas will be scored on the criteria described 
in the instructions accompanying the applica­
tion forms. The Type B grants will be awarded 
to a very few libraries which have developed 
collections on the right to read, drug abuse, en­
vironmental pollution, or early childhood edu­
cation which they are willing to share with 
their communities. Type C grants will be 
awarded to a few consortiums of institutions, 
some preference being given to those including 
community colleges in their membership.

The applications for special purpose grants 
are due April 15. The awards must be matched 
by one-third in nonfederal funds. ■ ■

ACRL Membership

January 31, 1971 ................................ 12,442
January 31, 1970 ...............................  14,131
January 31, 1969 ...............................  13,655