ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 135 JCLIC CONTINUES The Junior College Library Information Center at American Library Association head­ quarters is being continued for an additional three-month period through May 31. The Center was established by a grant of $15,000 from the 1967-68 J. Morris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award and has served to collect and to make available informa­ tive materials about junior college libraries and library programs. The Center is under the direc­ tion of Peggy Sullivan on a half-time basis. Many of the materials forwarded to the Center from two-year college librarians and others interested in its development have been incorporated in the Headquarters Library of the American Library Association. These in­ clude staff handbooks, faculty handbooks, stu­ dent handbooks, materials on two-year college library buildings, etc. Materials retained in the Junior College Library Information Center include blueprints and plans for two-year li­ braries, materials that are available on request, and materials which may be consulted by visit­ ing the Center. Copies of annual reports, budgets, project proposals (whether funded or not), newsletters, handbooks, and other items which may be especially helpful to those starting or developing two-year college library programs are especially solicited for the Center’s collection. When the Center is discontinued May 31 these materials will be made available through other agencies of the American Library Association or outside agen­ cies which have means for using them or dis­ tributing them to interested persons. ■ ■ ASSISTANCE FOR LIBRARY EDUCATION A new publication listing scholarships and other financial assistance available for th e academ ic year 1969-70 to students en ­ tering th e profession of librarianship has just been announced by th e L ibrary E d u ­ cation Division of th e American Library Association. T he guide for parents, counselors, and students alike, Financial Assistance for L i­ brary Education is available th rough the Office for R ecruitm ent of ALA, 50 East H uron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. T he publication provides a list of scholar­ ships and grants adm inistered th rough state library agencies, national and state library associations and associations of school li­ brarians, ALA accredited library schools, and other institutions offering graduate or u n d erg rad u ate program s in library educa­ tion. N ational associations, foundations and other agencies know n to g ran t financial as­ sistance for library education are also listed. M embers of the L E D com m ittee on re­ vision of th e pam p h let are H elen B. Schmidt, chairm an; M argaret J. Byergo; D orothy L. Cromien; E liza A. Gleason; and Elinor Yungmeyer. Copies of th e publication are available at th e following prices: one copy, 50 cents; 10 copies, $4.75; 25 copies, $11.25; and 100 copies, $42.00. INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SUFFERS FIRE LOSS A fire of undetermined origins in the main library building at Indiana University on Feb­ ruary 17 caused an estimated $500,000 dam­ age to library collections. A complete count of book losses has not yet been made. It is known, however, that 3811 volumes of domestic and foreign newspapers and several hundred ref­ erence works were totally destroyed. Library authorities estimate that more than 30,000 vol­ umes damaged by heat, smoke or water must be either rebound or replaced. Building dam­ age has not been estimated. The building and its contents were insured. Three floors in the sixty-two year old main library building were damaged. The fire orig­ inated in a sub-basement area used for news­ paper storage and spread through ventilating ducts to the basement above and the main ref­ erence room on the first floor. Bloomington fire­ men brought the blaze under control within four hours after arriving on the scene. The destroyed newspapers consisted of forty- four different titles, including The Times (Lon­ don), Manchester Guardian, Illustrated London News, San Francisco Examiner, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Journal of Commerce, the Wall Street Journal and other domestic and foreign dailies and weeklies. Reference works destroyed included dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes and abstracts. Monographs destroyed or damaged related to Near Eastern Studies, Ger­ man and French literature, geography, political science, and international law and organization. Immediate steps have been taken to replace the newspapers with microfilm copies where avail­ able. All in-print titles destroyed will be re­ placed. Emergency binding shipments are be­ ing sent weekly to a commercial binder to re­ place the damaged bindings. The fire occurred approximately two months before all books in the old building were scheduled to be moved into a new $14,000,000 library building nearing completion.