ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


College 
No. 2, February 1970

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F rom  In sid e th e  DLP

By D r. K a t h a Ri n e  M. S t o k e s
College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and Developm ent Branch, Di­
vision of Library Programs, Bureau of  Adult, 
Vocational, and Library Programs, U.S. Office 
of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202.

At the program session and membership 
meeting o f the Information Science and Auto­
mation Division o f A LA  in Atlantic City last 
June, Stanley McElderry, Dean of the Gradu­
ate School of Library Science o f the Univer­
sity o f Texas, described a theoretical total in­
formation system for a small liberal arts col­
lege. The basis for his paper was a Title II-B, 
Higher Education Act, research project en­
titled “ A Study o f the Implications of M odem  
Technology for Small College Libraries.”

Dr. Edward F. Turner, Jr., a physicist on 
the faculty of Washington and Lee University 
at Lexington, Virginia, was project director; 
Dean McElderry and William Kurth, associate 
director o f libraries at Washington University, 
St. Louis, were collaborators. W hen Dean M c­
Elderry joined the project he was librarian of
San Fernando Valley State College and co­
ordinator of library services for the California
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d accomplishment came from 

the study— “ the education of a physicist in some 
o f  the complexities of library science, an education

 which has perhaps left him a wiser and 
less-assured person.”  He also says that the re­
port attempts to provide, in nontechnical terms, 
“ the background material on which informed 
judgments can b e  based”  by college adminis­
trators, faculty members, and librarians who 
are concerned about the flood o f information 
which even small college libraries must now 
accumulate and service. “ The study focused 
on the ‘core collection,’ a concept which sug­
gests there is a basic set o f library resources 
which any college library ought to have in 
order to perform its objectives effectively,”  ac­
cording to Dr. Turner. The February 1970 is­
sue o f Research in Education will list the 
study and its E R IC  number— as yet no num­
ber has been assigned.

W hen I read the Autumn 1969 issue o f Col­
lege Library Notes recently, I was glad to see 
that its editor, Basil Mitchell, had used the 
whole o f its four pages for an article by 
Gregory N. Bullard, Head of Technical Serv­
ices, SUNY at Binghamton, on “ Computerized 
Circulation Control in College and University 
Libraries: a first step toward library automa­
tion.”  If your college is one o f the 900 paying 
members of the Association o f American C ol­
leges, you should have received a copy, for 
Mr. Mitchell says a package of three copies 
goes to each member institution One is headed 
“ Copy for the President” ; another, Copy for 
the Librarian” ; and a third, Copy for the



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Chairman, Library Committee.”  In case you 
haven’t seen a copy, let me whet your ap­
petite for this issue by quoting the first para­
graph of Mr. Bullard’s article:

A frequently voiced concern of librarians to­
day is the uncomfortable sense that unless 
their libraries are “ computerized”  they have 
somehow missed the boat. This pressure, if 
I may call it that, seems to emanate in 
part from a segment of the library profes­
sion which delights in the acronyms and 
buzz words of the computer community. 
The pressure also comes from college and 
university administrators who want their in­
stitutions to be numbered among those pres­
tigious few that can boast a computerized 
approach to the 21st century. In academic 
pride there too often can be very little real 
concern for, or knowledge of, whether a 
computer application is appropriate or eco­
nomically feasible.

ACRL Grants Awarded
Fifteen grants have been awarded to col­

lege and university libraries by the Grants 
Committee of the Association of College and 
Research Libraries, a division of the American 
Library Association. The grants were awarded 
to College of Saint Francis, Joliet, Illinois; 
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota; 
Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona; Iowa 
Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Lin­
field College, McMinnville, Oregon; Living­
stone College, Salisbury, North Carolina; 
Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dako­
ta; Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, 
New York; Pacific Union College, Angwin, 
California; Roberts Wesleyan College, North 
Chili, New York; Seattle Pacific College, Seat­
tle, Washington; Sienna Heights College, Ad­
rian, Michigan; Sterling College, Sterling, Kan­
sas; Villa Madonna College, Covington, Ken­
tucky; William Carey College, Hattiesburg, 
Mississippi.

All grants are in the form of cash awards 
based on past applications and the experience 
of the committee. The Grants Committee had 
previously announced that it would not re­
quest applications this year but would award 
grants to institutions based on applications re­
ceived during past years and on the experience 
of the Committee. Only cash awards to sup­
port library programs will be made. This is the 
fifteenth year of the ACRL Grants Program.

The total income to the fund for the year 
1969/70 was $38,500. The major support for 
these efforts was once again provided by The 
United States Steel Foundation, Inc. Other contributors

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