ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Chairman, Library Committee.”  In case you 
haven’t seen a copy, let me whet your ap­
petite for this issue by quoting the first para­
graph of Mr. Bullard’s article:

A frequently voiced concern of librarians to­
day is the uncomfortable sense that unless 
their libraries are “ computerized”  they have 
somehow missed the boat. This pressure, if 
I may call it that, seems to emanate in 
part from a segment of the library profes­
sion which delights in the acronyms and 
buzz words of the computer community. 
The pressure also comes from college and 
university administrators who want their in­
stitutions to be numbered among those pres­
tigious few that can boast a computerized 
approach to the 21st century. In academic 
pride there too often can be very little real 
concern for, or knowledge of, whether a 
computer application is appropriate or eco­
nomically feasible.

ACRL Grants Awarded
Fifteen grants have been awarded to col­

lege and university libraries by the Grants 
Committee of the Association of College and 
Research Libraries, a division of the American 
Library Association. The grants were awarded 
to College of Saint Francis, Joliet, Illinois; 
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota; 
Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona; Iowa 
Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Lin­
field College, McMinnville, Oregon; Living­
stone College, Salisbury, North Carolina; 
Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dako­
ta; Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, 
New York; Pacific Union College, Angwin, 
California; Roberts Wesleyan College, North 
Chili, New York; Seattle Pacific College, Seat­
tle, Washington; Sienna Heights College, Ad­
rian, Michigan; Sterling College, Sterling, Kan­
sas; Villa Madonna College, Covington, Ken­
tucky; William Carey College, Hattiesburg, 
Mississippi.

All grants are in the form of cash awards 
based on past applications and the experience 
of the committee. The Grants Committee had 
previously announced that it would not re­
quest applications this year but would award 
grants to institutions based on applications re­
ceived during past years and on the experience 
of the Committee. Only cash awards to sup­
port library programs will be made. This is the 
fifteenth year of the ACRL Grants Program.

The total income to the fund for the year 
1969/70 was $38,500. The major support for 
these efforts was once again provided by The 
United States Steel Foundation, Inc. Other contributors

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 were the H. W . Wilson Foundation, 
Incorporated, Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust, 
and Pitney-Bowes, Incorporated.

The funds were distributed without regard 
to location or affiliation of the schools. The 
Grants Committee for 1969/70 is chaired by
H. Vail Deale, Beloit College. The committee 
members are Humphrey G. Bousfield, Brook­
lyn College; Miss Johnnie E. Givens, Austin 
Peay State College; Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jones, 
Atlanta University; Rev. Vincent R. Negher­
bon, TOR, Saint Francis College; Mrs. Jessie 
Carney Smith, Fisk University; and Donald E. 
Vincent, University of New Hampshire. Philip 
J. McNiff, president of ACRL and Donald 
Thomas, Executive Secretary of ACRL were 
members ex officio.

MAGNETIC TAPE CASSETTES
A  project has been proposed to standardize 

digital magnetic tape cassettes. These cassettes 
are used as a vehicle for the magnetic tape 
storage medium in a variety of keyboard- 
driven data transcription devices, such as those 
manufactured by Computer Access Systems, 
Computer Terminal Corporation, Data Action, 
IBM, Sanders, Sycor, Viatron, and others. In 
the absence of standardization a cassette de­
signed to be used with the equipment o f one 
manufacturer is not necessarily usable with 
the equipment of another. American National 
Standards Institute (formerly USASI, the 
United States o f America Standards Institute) 
Committee X3— Computers and Information 
Processing— Standards Planning and Require­
ments Committee ( SPARC) would like to 
form an ad hoc committee to advise on the ap­
propriateness of this proposed project. The 
SPARC is particularly anxious to obtain on 
this ad hoc advisory committee representatives 
not only of equipment manufacturers but also 
of users. If you or your library is a user, 
either present or planned, o f computer input 
equipment employing magnetic tape cassettes 
and would like to participate in this useful ac­
tivity, your contribution will be very much 
appreciated. For more information contact ei­
ther Charles A. Phillips, Chairman, ANSI X3, 
c /o  BEM A /D PG , 235 East 42nd Street, New 
York 10017, or David L. Weisbrod, ALA Rep­
resentative to ANSI X3, Box 1059 Yale Station, 
New Haven, Connecticut 06520.

ACRL Membership
December 31, 1969 ........................... ..13,996
December 31, 1968 ........................... ..13,580
December 31, 1967 ........................... ..12,834

College 
& Research 
Libraries

N E W S
News Editor, Michael Herbison, Casper Col­

lege, Casper, Wyoming 82601.

Editor, Richard M. Dougherty, University of 
Colorado Libraries, Boulder, Colorado 80302.

Editorial Board: R i c h a r d  D e G e n n a r o ,  Harvard Uni­
versity; D a v i d  H e r o n , University o f Kansas; E l l s ­
w o r t h  M a s o n , Hofstra University; F r e d  H e i n r i t z , 
Southern Connecticut State C ollege; W i l l i a m  A x f o r d , 
Florida Atlantic University; P e t e r  H i a t t ,  Indiana 
University.
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Specialists Section, Marcia J. Miller; Agriculture and 
Biological Sciences Subsection, Howard Rovelstad; 
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