ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 131 Subject Specialists Section Executive Committee Thursday, June 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Art Subsection Executive Committee Thursday, June 24, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Business Membership Wednesday, June 23, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Asian and North African Executive Committee Thursday, June 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Education and Behavioral Science Subsec­ tion Executive Committee. To be scheduled. Law and Political Science Subsection Executive Committee Thursday, June 24, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Slavic and E ast E uropean Subsection Executive Committee. To be scheduled. University Libraries Section Steering Committee Monday, June 21, 8:00 a.m. Urban University Library Committee/PLA, Metropolitan Area Library Service Committee Wednesday, June 23, 4:30-6:00 p.m. ■ ■ From Inside the DLP Dr. Katherine M. Stokes College and University Library Specialist, Training and Resources Branch, Division of Library Programs, Bureau of Libraries and E d ­ ucational Technology, U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202. Since the authorization for Title II-A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 will end June 30, 1971, you may want to keep yourself in­ formed by asking your Congressman for copies of bills introduced to extend it. On January 22 Congressman Perkins of Kentucky introduced a bill to be cited as the Comprehensive Higher Education Act of 1971, H. R. 32. Senator Pell introduced a similar bill, S. 659, on February 8; Congressman Quie of Minnesota introduced on March 1 the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 1971, H. R. 5191. You may be inter­ ested in reading his remarks for March 1 in the Congressional Record beginning on page 1,041. This is a good time to consider what has been accomplished in the past five years with the Title II-A appropriations totalling $94,816,­ 000. Statistically, we know that the number of libraries benefitted by the grants has risen from 1,830 in 1966 to 2,201 in 1970. We know too that the enrollment in the institutions re­ ceiving grants totalled 5,169,638 in 1967 and had risen to a total of 7,023,118 in 1970, al­ though there was a $25 million appropriation for grants in 1967 and only $9,816,000 in 1970. The percentages of funds awarded to junior colleges in 1967 was 20.1, and by 1970, it was 30.597. Four-year colleges received 44.5 per­ cent of the funds in 1967, but in 1970, their percentage had slipped to 39.422. Universities also received a smaller percentage of the funds in 1970, the 1967 amount being 35.4 percent and the 1970 figure 29.882. The remaining .99 percent in 1970 went to one-year institutions, usually technical institutes. The narrative reports accompanying the sta­ tistical ones in the three years when special purpose grants were awarded, 1967 through 1969, are occasionally accounts of very unusual or significant acquisitions, but in general, they fit an almost universal description of the sit­ uation of higher education institution libraries in the late 60s in the U.S. Growing enrollments, rising book prices, and expanding programs at every level from undergraduate courses to the Ph.D. are characteristic reasons given for basic and background purchases made with federal grant money in most accounts of the use of basic, supplemental, or Special Purpose Type A funds. The type of purchase most frequently mentioned was backruns of scholarly journals in microform. The Special Purpose Type B grants were awarded in many cases to university libraries which had been participating in the Farming- ton Plan. Accounts of their use largely con­ cerned acquisitions of foreign publications to be shared by researchers on and off campus. The Special Purpose Type C grants to con­ sortiums of libraries showed more variation. They also paved the way for what is likely to be the direction in which academic libraries will be forced to aim their future activities be­ cause of their inability to obtain funds from private or public sources to continue to ex­ pand their individual collections indefinitely. The best summation of the long-range bene­ fits of Type C grants is the following from a West Coast library’s report: “The availability of those funds has made it possible to strengthen our resources for graduate study and research without depleting our regu­ 132 lar book budget and thus avoiding the limita­ tion of the support of undergraduate programs and the support of beginning master’s pro­ grams. Transcending the highly significant im­ mediate benefits has been the effect exerted by the successful administration of the grant on the member institutions. . . . Participation in this successful cooperative venture has sparked a series of interinstitutional projects and has united the librarians into a well functioning organization having established lines of com­ munications and a scheduled program of meet­ ings and workshops. . . . Last but by no means least among the benefits is the spark of en­ thusiasm which the successful accomplishment of this cooperative endeavor infused into the association at a time when financial problems seem to become overwhelming and are creat­ ing an atmosphere of pessimism in the private institutions.” ■ ■ BUILDING PLANS NEEDED If you are building a new library or making substantial physical changes in your library, the Library Administration Division of the Ameri­ can Library Association will appreciate receiv­ ing pictures, slides, floor plans, sketches, ex­ planatory materials, and a copy of your written building program. These materials are needed in the buildings collection used by librarians, architects, and other building planners. For details about this collection write Mrs. Ruth R. Frame, Executive Secretary, LAD, ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. ■■ News From the Field ACQUISITIONS • The library at Eastern New Mexico Un i­ versity has recently acquired several valuable collections of science fiction materials. The first of these to be processed are the papers of Edmond Hamilton and his wife, Leigh Brack­ ett Hamilton. Both of the Hamiltons are suc­ cessful and prolific free-lance writers, largely in the field of science fiction. Their papers, which they donated to ENMU as a gift, span a period of forty-four years and include ap­ proximately 3,000 items. Augmenting these materials will be the Jack Williamson Collection, which has been given to the university but not yet processed, and duplicates of Piers Anthony Jacob manuscripts. In addition, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) recently designated ENMU as a regional depository for the Southwest. As such, the university will receive, on a regular basis through SFWA, copies of publisher do­ nated science fiction novels and anthologies. These, plus the archival materials, will be available to students and scholars in the field of science fiction. • Georgetown University has acquired a complete collection of materials dealing with former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s 1968 bid for the Presidency. It is the largest archive dealing with a presidential primary ever as­ sembled, according to Robert Metzdorf, an ap­ praiser of books and manuscripts and the eval­ uator of the collection. The materials have been deposited in the Gunlocke Special Col­ lections Department of the university’s Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library. Georgetown received the collection from the McCarthy Historical Project, a group of friends and supporters of the former Minnesota sen­ ator who raised the funds required to assemble the materials. A staff of about ten persons spent more than a year collecting and arranging the collection before it was given to George­ town. The assemblage occupies more than 200 file drawers, not counting 40,000 newspaper clippings, and more than 200 reels of video­ tape and motion picture film. It also has a file of posters and original artwork related to the campaign. The materials detail McCarthy’s campaign from its inception in 1967 when his candidacy was not taken too seriously, through the New Hampshire primary, President Johnson’s with­ drawal in March 1968, the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the stormy Democratic national conven­ tion in Chicago. The collection is broken down into four pri­ mary categories: national files, state files, oral history tapes and transcripts, and files of manu­ scripts and taped materials relating directly to McCarthy. • An unusually fine collection of rare and first editions of the writings of August Strind­ berg has been given to the New York Univer­ sity Fales Library by Arvid Paulson, Swedish- born actor-writer-translator. The Paulson col­ lection is noteworthy, not only because of its