ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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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.

Since the Higher Education Act, Title ITB 
support of general fellowships for library edu­
cation has been discontinued, it is good news 
to learn that nine library schools have received 
grants for fifty fellowships in 1972 under Title 
V, Part E of the Education Professions Devel­
opment Act. Simmons College School of Li­
brary Science was the only library education 
agency to receive grants from this program in 
1970 and 1971. The other 862 fellowships 
awarded for 1972 are to prepare teachers, ad­
ministrators, and educational specialists for 
colleges and universities. The programs will be 
conducted during the summer of 1972 and the 
1972-73 academic year for the training of two- 
and four-year college university personnel be­
low the doctoral level.

Recipients of these fellowships received a 
stipend of $2,400 for a twelve-month period 
and $2,600 if the fellowship is extended to a 
second year. An allowance of $500 a year for 
each dependent is also provided. Inquiries 
about the fellowships should be addressed to 
the administrators noted below for each school. 
Seven of them will award five fellowships 
apiece. Western Michigan will award eight for 
work toward the master’s degree for library 
media specialists for junior colleges and the 
University of Texas will award seven for post­
master’s work. Two-thirds of the fellowships 
were awarded to programs directed to the 
needs of the economically disadvantaged.

Dr. John T. Gillespie, Dean 
Graduate Library School 
Long Island University C.W. Post Center 
Greenvale, NY 11548 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. Perry Morrison, Dean 
School of Librarianship 
University of Oregon 
Eugene, OR 97403 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. Stanley McElderry, Dean 
Graduate School of Library Service 
University of Texas

Austin, TX 78712 
(7 fellowships)
Dr. Irving Lieberman, Director 
School of Librarianship 
University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 98105 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. Charles Bunge, Director 
The Library School 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, W I 53706 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. James K. Foyle, Assistant Dean 
Graduate School of Librarianship 
University of Denver 
Denver, CO 80210 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. Robert E. Brown, Assistant Director 
Graduate School of Library Science 
University of Illinois 
Urbana, IL 61801 
(5 fellowships)
Dr. Jean E. Lowrie, Director 
School of Librarianship 
Western Michigan University 
Kalamazoo, MI 49001 
(8 fellowships)
Dr. Morris Gelfand, Chairman 
Library Science Department 
CUNY Queens College 
Flushing, NY 11367 
(5 fellowships)

COMMITTEE ON 
BIBLIOGRAPHIC 

INSTRUCTION
The ACRL Ad Hoc Committee on Biblio­

graphic Instruction, formed at ALA in Dallas, 
is working with the ERIC Clearinghouse for 
Information and Library Science to provide 
academic librarians with information on current 
programs of bibliographic instruction (instruc­
tion in use of libraries, and the information they 
contain). In order to serve this clearinghouse 
function, we must have reports on current 
programs. The committee has prepared guide­
lines for the report which will be sent immedi­
ately upon request to the chairman of the com­
mittee, Thomas Kirk, Box E-72, Earlham Col­
lege, Richmond, IN 47374. The guidelines con­
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be answered in relation to any program. In 
addition, the reporter is asked to briefly ex­
plain the nature of the program and to describe 
the methods and results of any evaluation.

Since the clearinghouse will not be effective 
unless all academic librarians report their in­
structional programs, any librarian who has 
anything to report is urged to request a form 
and return it as soon as possible. The reports 
will form the basis for a series of state-of-the- 
art type reviews of various kinds of instructional 
programs. The content of these reviews will 
depend upon the reports we receive. The com­
mittee is also working on mechanisms for up­
dating these state-of-the-art reviews. It is our 
hope that a continual process of reporting and 
reviewing through the ERIC indexes and re­
trieval system will provide the academic li­
brarian with current information on instructional 
programs.

The committee hopes to have a preliminary 
report on how the clearinghouse is performing 
at the Audio-Visual Clinic sponsored by the 
ALA Instruction in the Use of Libraries Com­
mittee at ALA 1972, which is scheduled for 
Wednesday evening and Thursday morning of 
convention week.

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