ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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From Inside the DLP
By Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, 
Training and Resources Branch, Division of Li­
brary Programs, Bureau of Libraries and Ed­
ucational Technology, U.S. Office of Education, 
Washington, D.C. 20202.

If you didn’t receive the application materi­
als from your president’s office for the college 
library resources program under Title II-A of 
the Higher Education Act in time to make the 
March 15 deadline for basic and supplemental 
grant applications, there is a second due date, 
April 15, for Special Purpose Types A, B, and 
C applications.

We have had many calls from librarians 
who have not received the forms, but when we 
explain that they were stapled together like a 
pamphlet, with green covers, labelled in large 
black letters, “College Library Resources,” 
they are usually found, probably among the 
president’s pile of new magazines. The forms 
were always mailed in envelopes in previous 
years, but this new packaging, with a mailing 
label saying “President,” plus the institution’s 
address, must have appeared to the presidents’ 
secretaries as simply one more government 
agency publication. The letter following the 
contents page inside the cover concluded with 
the statement, “An information memorandum

has been sent to all college and university li­
brarians advising them of this announcement.” 
Probably, the librarians called the presidents’ 
offices, but the changed format couldn’t be de­
scribed. We knew that the materials were to 
be packaged like the income tax forms, b u t we 
saw them only the day before they were sent 
out, so we couldn’t tell you they’d be green.

If your institution is in a Model Cities area, 
you should be sure to look over the application 
materials to be certain you’re not missing an 
opportunity for a possible reward for any com­
munity efforts you’ve been making. Types A 
and B Special Purpose grants criteria were 
written to give priority to applications from in­
stitutions cooperating with Model Cities efforts 
in their communities. We hope to discover the 
academic libraries making their resources avail­
able to the disturbed urban communities from 
which many of their students are enrolled. The 
appropriation for Title II-A was large enough 
to give limited assistance to all of the 2,200 
academic libraries which received grants in 
1970 when no Special Purpose grants were 
made. This year the 15 percent of the ap­
propriation specified in the Higher Education 
Act for Special Purpose grants will probably 
permit about sixty grants to be made in the A 
and B categories and a few more to consortia 
under Type C. ■■

News From the Field
A C Q U IS IT IO N S

•  W heaton College, Norton, Massachu­
setts, has received a bequest of books, coins, 
and art objects from the estate of Adra M. 
Newell, widow of Edward T. Newell, the dis­
tinguished numismatist. The bequest contains 
Mr. Newell’s professional library, Mrs. Newell’s 
collection of coins, mostly ancient Greek and 
Roman, and other objects from the Mediter­
ranean area. The library contains over 1,000 
volumes in the classical languages, history, 
archaeology, art history, religion, and especially 
numismatics. Newell’s research field was the 
coinage of Alexander the Great and his suc­
cessors. There are important runs of periodi­
cals, such as The Numismatic Chronical, Zeit­
schrift für Numismatik, Revue Numismatique, 
Riυista Italiana di Numismatica e Scienze Af- 
fìni; multivolume sets, such as Pauly-Wissowa, 
Real-encyclopädie der Classischen Altertums­
wissenschaft, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the 
British Museum, Forrer, The W eber Collection,

MacDonald, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the 
Hunterian Collection, Maurice, Numismatique 
Constantinienne, Sylloge Numinorum Graeco­
rum; and books by such scholars as Newell, 
Haeberlin, Grueber, Garrucci, Head, Imhoof- 
Blumer, Mattingly, Regling, Rizzo, Rostovtzeff, 
and Svoronos.

•  The papers and memorabilia of Maya De­
ren, famous experimental film-maker, have been 
donated to the 20th Century Collection in the 
Boston University Mugar Memorial Library. 
The 20th Century Archives contain the papers 
and memorabilia of more than 500 public fig­
ures, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 
Samuel Beckett, Maxwell Geismer, Nathaniel 
Benchley, former Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, John W. McCormack, Ella 
Fitzgerald, and Bette Davis.

•  The U.S. Naval Academy Library has 
added to its manuscript materials in the Special 
Collections Division the papers of Vice Admiral