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Art Museum, Harvard University, Cam­
bridge, Massachusetts.
The failure of the Library of Congress to 

catalog art exhibition catalogs was brought to 
the attention of the members. It was generally 
felt that L C  is not fulfilling its mandate to do 
so and Dr. Freitag formulated a letter urging 
LC to reconsider its policy. Following receipt 
of this letter, the Assistant Director of Catalog­
ing responded that European and American 
exhibition catalogs indexed in the W orldw ide 
Art C atalog Bulletin would once again be 
given a high priority at LC.

According to Dr. Freitag, incoming chairman, 
the program at Detroit in June 1970 would 
center around three main points: ( 1 )  continu­
ation of the Reprint Committee; (2 )  stand­
ards for nondestructive photo duplication; and 
( 3 )  acquisitions and blanket orders of art ma­
terials.

C o o p e r a t i v e  S y s t e m  o f  O h i o  A r t  L i b r a r i e s  
V e n t u r i , S toria D ell’ arte I n d e x  
C o l l e g e  A r t  A s s o c i a t i o n  A f f i l i a t i o n

Mrs. Jacqueline Sisson, Art Library, Ohio

State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Report was given by Mrs. Sisson on the co­

operative art libraries program initiated by her 
in Ohio. Program includes inventory of holdings 
to determine strengths and weaknesses of par­
ticipating libraries, cooperative book selection, 
photoduplication, and interlibrary loan pol­
icies. Details will appear in C B L  News.

Mrs. Sisson gave a progress report of her 
project indexing Venturi’s Storia d ell’arte itali­
ana.

Mrs. Sisson was appointed chairman of a 
committee investigating affiliation with the Col­
lege Art Association.

F i n e  A r t s  B i b l i o g r a p h y  C o u r s e  
T a u g h t  a t  K e n t u c k y

Professor John Larsen, School of Library
Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Professor Larsen outlined the approach in 

his own Fine Arts Bibliography course taught 
at Kentucky and reported on those taught at 
Queens College, Columbia University, and the 
University of North Carolina. ■■

From Inside the DLP
By D r . K a t h a r i n e  M. S t o k e s

C ollege and University Library Specialist, L i­
brary Planning and D evelopm ent Branch, Di­
vision o f Library Programs, Bureau o f Adult, 
Vocational, and Library Programs‚ U.S. Office 
o f Education, W ashington, D.C. 20202.

As this article is being written, ten days be­
fore Christmas, application forms for College 
Library Besources grants (Title II-A, Higher 
Education Act) are being mailed to presi­
dents of institutions of higher education, speci­
fying February 20, 1970, as the deadline for 
return to our offices. The instructions accom­
panying them have a special note at the bot­
tom of the first page. The note states that no 
special purpose grants will be made in fiscal 
year 1970 and basic grants will not exceed 
$2,500; but “In the event that the level of 
funding for fiscal year 1970 is substantially 
altered from the level anticipated, then further 
instructions will be sent to all institutions of 
higher education advising them of any and all 
program changes for fiscal year 1970.”

The anticipated level of funding for fiscal 
year 1970 is $12,500,000, half the amount ap­
propriated for each of the last three years. 
Duplicate application forms are being sent to 
college and university librarians with letters

stating that no substantive changes were made 
from last year’s requirements for basic and 
supplemental grants and urging that the ap­
plications be submitted as soon as possible. We 
hope that many will come in before the dead­
line date, because funds for extra help to 
process the 4,100 or more applications probably 
will be severely limited. Last year 2,282 appli­
cations for basic grants and 1,808 for supple­
mental grants were processed.

This year, for the first time, colleges plan­
ning to enroll students by the fall of 1971 may 
apply for basic grants. Formerly, only those 
institutions with students already attending 
classes were eligible for basic grants, so the 
number of applications may be somewhat high­
er than last year’s. Any librarian who thinks 
his institution would be eligible under the 
amended legislation should read very carefully 
section 1 3 1 .2(m ), pts. 1-6, on page 4 of the 
Regulations accompanying the application 
form.

The eighty-five fiscal year 1970 applications 
for grants to support institutes for training in 
librarianship (Title II-B , Higher Education 
Act) were evaluated by a visiting panel of 
twenty library educators and librarians just be­
fore Thanksgiving. Because of the decrease in 
the scheduled appropriation, it is anticipated 
that forty short-term institutes will be funded



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in 1970 as compared with the 92 short- and 
long-term institutes funded in 1969. ■ ■

ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS 
TO ALA COUNCIL SEATS

At the close of the Friday Council session at 
the American Library Association Midwinter 
Conference a petition with nearly two hundred 
signatures was put in the hands of Ruth 
Warncke, deputy executive director of ALA, 
placing ten additional nominees on the ballot 
in opposition to selected candidates previously 
submitted by the Nominating Committee.

The names put forth to oppose the ACRL 
nominees are Richard Dean Galloway, against 
Miss Page Ackerman and Roy L. Kidman, and 
Junius Morris, against Miss Jonnie E. Givens 
and Warren J. Haas. The names of the new 
candidates and their opposition will appear on 
the ballot in groups of three; other nominees 
will appear in groups of two. The position 
within the group will be determined by lot.

The remaining eight write-in candidates are 
Gordon McShean, Donald L. Davisson, Sidney 
Jackson, Eric Moon, Oliver Kirkpatrick, Leo E. 
Fichtelberg, Bruce D. Bajema, and Nina Syd­
ney Ladof. ■ ■

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