ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


From Inside the DLSEF
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and Development Branch, Di­
vision of Library Services and Educational 
Facilities, U.S. Office of Education, Washington,
D.C. 20202.

By the time you read this issue it will be too 
late to apply for a federal fellowship to study 
for a master’s or a doctorate degree in an ac­
credited library school this fall. However, you 
should apply by December if you want to be 
considered for one for the fall of 1969.

It will be several months before grants will 
be awarded to library schools for 1969-70 fel­
lowships under the Title II-B program of the 
Higher Education Act. However, it is advisable 
to write to the schools now. If the school you 
prefer receives no federal fellowships, or re­
ceives too few to help all the good students 
who apply, the school may be able to inform 
you concerning financial assistance available 
from other sources.

For the academic year 1968-69, 14 library 
schools in  11 states awarded a total of 168 
doctoral fellowships granted under the Title 
II-B program. Eight schools were granted 47 
post-master’s fellowships; two of these schools 
were in states other than the 11 where doc­

toral fellowships were awarded. Each of the 
215 doctoral and post-master’s fellowships car­
ried a stipend of $5,000 for the academic 
year; if summer study is required, a stipend of 
$170 a week is provided, not to exceed a total 
of $1,020. In addition, $600 is granted for each 
of the fellow’s dependents for the academic 
year and $120 for the summer. Travel ex­
penses to and from the institution are granted 
for the fellow only. Post-master’s and doctoral 
fellowships may be renewed for a second and 
a third year.

Fifty-one library schools in 27 states and the 
District of Columbia awarded master’s fellow­
ships this fall. These fellowships each carry a 
stipend of $2,200 for the academic year. If 
summer study is required, an additional stipend 
of $75 a week, not to exceed a total of $450, 
is provided. The same financial arrangements for 
dependents and travel are available for mas­
ter’s candidates as for the other two groups.

Students seeking federal fellowships must 
apply directly to the library schools to which 
these fellowships were granted. The schools 
have sole responsibility for selecting recipients. 
Our office receives many inquiries about fel­
lowships. We can only respond to these in­
quiries by providing the addresses of the li­
brary schools which have been awarded the 
grants.

At a staff meeting, two assistant librarians, 
having already pulled out all of their hair when 
it was announced that their library was going to 
be reclassified from Dewey to Library of Congress, 
began to wonder whether the Chief Librarian wore 
a toupee-since he appeared so unruffled. He answered 
both questions by announcing that Bro-Dart is 
equipped to easily and painlessly 
reclassify collections.

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