id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-21163 Jones Jr., Plummer Alston The history and development of libraries in American higher education 1989-07-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2886 111 54 Most of the data on college libraries of the 19th century is gleaned from the records of the colleges themselves and from a major survey of libraries un­ dertaken by Charles Coffin Jew ett for the Smithso­ nian Institution in 1850. Two federal program s, both a p a rt of the Higher Education Act of 1965, provided assistance to li­ braries: 1) Title II-A, aimed at college libraries, granted funds for acquisitions and, later, netw ork­ ing; and 2) Title II-C , aimed at m ajor research li­ braries, granted funds for collection development in subject areas of national importance. cache/crln-21163.pdf txt/crln-21163.txt