ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 ACRL Grants Awards The Committee on Grants of the Associa­ tion of College and Research Libraries award­ ed grants to ninety academic institutions total­ ing approximately $58,000. In addition to this amount, approximately $5,000 was spent for the service of Committee consultants sent to emerging institutions and for administrative expense. Out of a total of 289 applications for resources and consultants’ services, sixty-two grants were approved; of ninety-one applica­ tions for Library Bureau equipment, fourteen grants were given; of the fourteen applications for special grants, twelve received consultant assistance and seven received an additional grant; and of the twelve applications for re­ search grants, two were approved. Principal support for the ACRL Grants Pro­ gram was from the United States Steel Founda­ tion, with additional contributions from; Li­ brary Bureau (Remington Office Systems Di­ vision, Sperry Rand Corporation), McGraw- Hill, Inc., Olin Mathieson, The H. W. Wilson Foundation, Pitney-Bowes, and Time, Inc. At its annual sessions during the last week of November, the Committee discussed the future of the program, and the continuing need for additional donors. A sub-committee was named by the chairman to report at the Midwinter ALA meeting on the costs involved in having a brochure designed by a professional concern, and it is hoped that a final decision will be made on this project before the end of the year. The special emphasis given to developing institutions, primarily in the southern states, has involved asking librarian-consultants to investigate and report on these special grant applicants. Criteria were developed to guide the consultants, and we only regret that funds were not available to assist more of these institutions. Although federal support is available to most academic libraries, the large number of appli­ cations each year for ACRL Grants indicates that the program is justified and continues to serve a genuine need among small colleges. It is our hope that corporations who benefit from academic library services may realize the im­ portance of the program and become future contributors. In addition to the devoted efforts of George M. Bailey, ACRL executive secretary, other members of the Committee for 1967-1968 were: Humphrey Bousfield, Brooklyn College; Helen M. Brown, Wellesley College; Miss Johnnie E. Givens, Austin Peay State College (Ten­ nessee); James Humphry, III, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Virginia Lacy Jones, Atlanta University; and Rev. Vincent Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones presents the check to Dr. John R. Bertrand, president of Berry College, while Joel A. Stowers, librarian at Berry College, looks on. R. Negherbon, Saint Francis College (Penn.). —H. Vail Deale, chairman. Grants Made for Materials and Consultant Services Albright College Reading, Pennsylvania Alderson-Broadus College Philippi, West Virginia Belhaven College Jackson, Mississippi Benedict College Columbia, South Carolina Berry College Mt. Berry, Georgia Bethany College Bethany, West Virginia Bethel College McKenzie, Tennessee Bethune-Cookman College Daytona Beach, Florida Birmingham-Southern College Birmingham, Alabama Bridgewater College Bridgewater, Virginia Caldwell College for Woman Caldwell, New Jersey Catawba College Salisbury, North Carolina Catherine Spalding College Louisville, Kentucky Cedar Crest College Allentown, Pennsylvania Chatham College Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania College of the Holy Names Oakland, California College Misericordia Dallas, Pennsylvania 7 College of Steubenville Steubenville, Ohio Concordia College St. Paul, Minnesota Eastern Baptist College St. Davids, Pennsylvania Elon College Elon College, North Carolina Emory & Henry College Emory, Virginia Erskine College Due West, South Carolina Evangel College Springfield, Missouri George Williams College Chicago, Illinois Golden Gate College San Francisco, California Graceland College Lamoni, Iowa Greensboro College Greensboro, North Carolina Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney, Virginia Hanover College Hanover, Indiana Hastings College Hastings, Nebraska High Point College High Point, North Carolina Hood College Frederick, Maryland Immaculate Heart College Los Angeles, California John F. Kennedy College Wahoo, Nebraska Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte, North Carolina Judson College Marion, Alabama Kentucky Southern College Louisville, Kentucky Knoxville College Knoxville, Tennessee La Grange College La Grange, Georgia La Verne College La Verne, California Lewis College Lockport, Illinois McPherson College McPherson, Kansas Maryville College Maryville, Tennessee Meredith College Raleigh, North Carolina Mississippi College Clinton, Mississippi Molloy Catholic College for Women Rockville Centre, L.I., New York Morris Harvey College Charleston, West Virginia Mundelein College Chicago, Illinois New England College Henniker, New Hampshire Notre Dame College St. Louis, Missouri Notre Dame College of Staten Island Staten Island, New York Norwich University Northfield, Vermont Olivet College Olivet, Michigan Point Park College Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania St. Benedict’s College Atchison, Kansas St. Mary of the Plains Dodge City, Kansas St. Mary’s College Winona, Minnesota St. Procopius College Lisle, Illinois Salem College Salem, West Virginia Southern Missionary College Collegedale, Tennessee Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts Tennessee Wesleyan College Athens, Tennessee Texas Lutheran College Seguin, Texas Thiel College Greenville, Pennsylvania Tougaloo College Tougaloo, Mississippi Transylvania College Lexington, Kentucky Tusculum College Greeneville, Tennessee Union College Barbourville, Kentucky Union College Lincoln, Nebraska University of San Diego College for Men San Diego, California Viterbo College La Crosse, Wisconsin William Penn College Oskaloosa, Iowa William Woods College Fulton, Missouri Grants Awarded for Library Bureau E quipment Alverno College Milwaukee, Wisconsin Atlantic Christian College Wilson, North Carolina Aurora College Aurora, Illinois 8 Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Bluffton College Bluffton, Ohio Campbellsville College Campbellsville, Kentucky College of Notre Dame Belmont, California College of Notre Dame of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Lane College Jackson, Tennessee Paine College Augusta, Georgia Rosary Hill College Buffalo, New York St. Edward’s University Austin, Texas St. Joseph’s College Calumet Campus East Chicago, Indiana Westmar College Library Le Mars, Iowa Research Grants Awarded Hazel A. Johnson Librarian Connecticut College New London, Connecticut 06320 Jalal Zuwiyya Associate Librarian State University of New York Binghamton, New York LAUNCHING OF THE LAUC Approximately sixty librarians from various UC campuses met at Fresno on October 25 to hear the report of the Steering Committee and to consider some of the immediate organiza­ tional problems of the Librarians’ Association of the University of California (LAUC). Wil­ liam Treese, chairman of the Steering Com­ mittee, presented the report of the committee and served as chairman pro tem; Jean Hudson, secretary for the San Francisco meeting, again served as secretary pro tem. Although the details of the ratification vote will be distributed with the minutes, it should be noted that the vote was 64 against and 299 for approval of the “Proposed Structure.” Berke­ ley, which approved the Structure 79 to 6, had a 47 per cent voting return; Los Angeles, which rejected the Structure 49 to 37, had a 50 per cent voting return. On other campuses, the re­ turns varied from 64 to 100 per cent of the pro­ fessional staff. In its report, the Steering Committee recom­ mended Assembly consideration of the problem of membership of special university units, such as those at Los Alamos, Livermore, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and the Davis and Los Angeles medical schools; procedural requisites for formal meetings; scope and limitations of standing committees; problems of organizational communication; and problems of revision and amendment of the Structure and the Statement of Purpose, Objectives and Implementation. The Steering Committee, which had completed its original task, was asked to act as a nominating and elections committee, except that committee members who become candidates for office are to be excluded from the committee. Nomina­ tions from the floor were as follows: President: Eldred Smith, UCB; Fay Blake, UCLA. Vice- president: James Mink, UCLA; Richard Moore, UCSC. Secretary: Fay Blake, UCLA; Shirley Walton, UCR. J. Richard Blanchard, university librarian at Davis, reported briefly on the progress of the Spiess Report through the Committee on Privi­ lege and Tenure and the Budget and Interdi- visional Relations Committee of the Assembly of the Academic Senate. During the latter half of the meeting, Mrs. Johanna Tallman, UCLA, presented a resolu­ tion critical of the “Proposed Structure.” A mo­ tion was passed 47 to 11 disassociating the meeting from certain aspects of the resolution. Mrs. Tallman also presented a petition for an amendment to section III, D of the Structure. 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