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To the Readers of CRL News
This issue is my final issue as editor of CRL 

News and it seems th at now is an appropriate 
time to say thanks to the many people that 
make CRL News possible.

The News is totally dependent on its readers 
for its continued existence. It is from you the 
readers th at copy must come and somehow 
each month you have kept the News in opera­
tion. News releases, personal letters, title pages 
of obscure publications, appointment notices, 
and it seemed at times, even scraps of paper 
from wastebaskets have come from every state 
and from countries scattered all over the globe. 
On these items the News has fed and to all of 
you who took the time to share your news notes 
with me I would like to offer my thanks and 
ask that you continue to give my successors the 
same cooperation.

A special note of thanks is due to the too of­

ten anonymous people in Chicago who have 
taken my copy and hammered it into a form 
that a printer could understand. Eileen Ma­
honey and her predecessor, Holly Campbell, 
and their staff in the ALA Central Production 
Unit have been patient and helpful as they 
have worked with an editor who was often late 
and who has made most mistakes th at one 
could imagine an editor making. Their help to 
me has been beyond measure.

The past three and one half years have been 
an education and as with all education, at times 
a pleasure and at times an agony. Thanks to the 
help of the readers and the ALA staff, the 
pleasure has outweighed the agony. My best 
wishes to my successors.
Sincerely,
Michael Herbison, Editor
CRL News ■ ■

Title II-A Grant Funds
The Office of Education has issued the follow­

ing administrative bulletin clarifying the use of 
Fiscal Year 1972 Title II-A grant funds for nec­
essary costs o f acquisitions:
To: Institutions of higher education which were 

recipients of college library resources grants 
under Title II-A of the Higher Education Act 
in FY 1972

Subject: Administrative bulletin clarifying 
use of FY 1972 Title II-A grant funds for 
necessary costs of acquisition
1. On October 11, 1972, the Federal Regis­

ter (vol. 37, no. 197, p. 21436-37) contained 
the following amendment affecting Title II-A:

Part 131 of Chapter I of Title 45 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations is amended by adding 
a new paragraph (u ) to § 131.2, as follows:
§ 131.2 Definitions.

*  *  *
(u ) “Acquisition of books and other ma­
terials to be used for library purposes” 
means the purchase, lease-purchase, or 
straight lease of such books and other ma­
terials and includes the necessary costs of 
ordering, processing, and cataloging such 
books and other materials and delivery of 
them to the initial place at which they are 
to be available for use. Such term does not 
include the rebinding or repair of such 
books and other materials.

2. This amended definition, in effect, now 
permits Title II-A grant funds to be used for

ordering, processing, and cataloging costs as 
well as printed and published materials. Deliv­
ery costs from the supplier to the point of use 
are also eligible under this new definition.

3. The purpose of this Administrative Bulle­
tin is to bring the new definition to your atten­
tion, and to clarify the terms and conditions un­
der which any funds used for these new p ur­
poses are subject. They are as follows:

a. Such costs may include those costs in­
curred by the grant recipient for supplies, 
personal service, computer time, etc., neces­
sary to make materials acquired readily avail­
able for library use;
b. Such costs may include those costs 
charged by a commercial firm when the 
grant recipient elects to have materials ac­
quired cataloged and processed by an out­
side agency;
c. Such costs may include those costs 
charged by a noncommercial agency when 
the grant recipient elects to have materials 
acquired cataloged and processed by an out­
side library cooperative agency;
d. Purchase or rental of equipment (except 
for computer tim e) ordinarily would not be 
considered necessary costs.
e. Such costs should ordinarily exceed nei­
ther an average of $2.75 per volume or item 
acquired nor 20 percent of the total Title 
II-A grant awarded.
f. Such costs can be applied only to materi­
als acquired with Title II-A grant funds;
g. Such costs must be reported to the Com­



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missioner in the Annual Program and Expend­
iture Report for Title II-A and such finan­
cial records must be maintained as necessary 
to substantiate costs incurred in the event of 
a Federal fiscal audit.
4. The above amendment is effective as 

October 11, 1972. Title II-A grant recipients 
in Fiscal Year 1972 may now, if they so deter­

of

mine, utilize grant funds for these purposes un­
der the foregoing conditions.

5. Any further questions in this regard are 
to be directed to: Frank A. Stevens, acting pro­
gram manager.

 Approved: Burton E. Lamkin, associate 
commissioner, Bureau of Libraries and Learn­
ing Resources. ■ ■

News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S uation in various parts of rural South Vietnam.

Generally, the collection contains documents 
•  A  n e w  c o lle c tio n  o f o v e r 19,000 p a g e s of which were born, not in Saigon, Hanoi, or 

d o c u m e n ts on  V ie tn a m  h a s  b e e n  e s ta b lis h e d  a t Washington, b u t at the cutting edge of the war 
th e  P ic k ie r M e m o ria l L ib r a r y  of N o r t h e a s t  in Vietnam’s rice-paddies, jungle, and moun­
M isso u ri St a t e  U n iv e r sit y  in  K irksville, M is­ tains—documents w ritten by men on both sides 
souri, a n d  a t  th e  Q u in c y  C o l l e g e  lib ra ry  in  whose task it was to implement the instructions 
Q u in c y , Illinois, th ro u g h  th e  c o o p e ra tio n  o f th e  of their respective political leaders. The in­
staff a n d  fa c u lty  o f b o t h  colleges. The d o c u ­ sights which may be gained from research in 
m e n ts w e re  p ro v id e d  b y  R. E. F la s p o h le r a n d  this collection are unlimited and, as yet, virtual­
W . R. A n d re w s, b o th  o f w h o m  t a u g h t a t  N o rth ­ ly unexplored. For details regarding the collec­
e a s t M issouri S ta te  as w e ll as se rv in g  as m e m ­ tion of Vietnamese documents, address queries 
b e rs of th e  U n ite d  S ta te s M ission in  V ie tn a m . to George N. Hartje, Director of Libraries, 
The staff of th e  Q u in c y  C o lle g e  lib ra ry  r e d u c e d  Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, 
th e  d o c u m e n ts to 350 m ic ro fich e  c a rd s a n d  as­ MO 63501.
siste d  in  th e  c a ta lo g in g  o f th e  m a te ria l. As 
m e m b e rs of th e  M ississippi V a lle y  C o o p e ra tiv e  •  The Montrose J. Moses collection of books 
L ib ra ry  S ervice, b o th  c o lleges w ill m a in ta in  and papers has been given to the Perkins Li­
c o m p le te  copies o f th e  colle ctio n . brary of D u k e  U n i v e r s i t y . Presented by th e  

The collection itself offers a unique trilateral widow, Mrs. Montrose J. Moses, and her two 
view of the social, political, and military aspects sons, D r .  Montrose J. Moses, Jr. and Lawrence 
of the war in Vietnam from I960 to 1971, for Moses, the collection of the distinguished au­
it consists of material generated by the Repub­ thor and drama critic, contains more than three 
lic of Vietnam, the Vietnamese Communist thousand volumes and twenty thousand manu­
party, and the United States government. From scripts. Mr. Moses, who died in 1934, was well 
the South Vietnamese, documents have been acquainted with most of the distinguished men 
gathered which provide a picture of the war and women of the theater and with the creative 
from the viewpoint of various regional officials writers of the first third of this century.
as well as South Vietnamese plans regarding While the principal strength of his collection 
the “pacification” of areas held by the Commu­ is on the theater, it contains first editions and 
nist insurgents. correspondence of such contemporary writers 

On the Communist side, the collection con­ as Eugene O’Neill, Edna Ferber, Louis Brom­
tains an extensive number of ver batim interro­ field, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, Thorn­
gations of prisoners and defectors who were re­ ton Wilder, Christopher Morley, Stark Young, 
sponsible for carrying out Communist party Gertrude Stein, and Maxwell Anderson. The 
policies in the rural villages of the Mekong theater personalities represented in the collec­
Delta, the most populous area of South Viet­ tion include E thel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, 
nam. Another section is comprised of literal Charles and Daniel Frohman, David Belasco, 
English translations of the broadcasts of Radio and others. In  addition to Moses’ own books 
Hanoi and Liberation Radio from 1969 to 1971. and correspondence, the collection contains 
Captured Communist documents which de­ numerous notebooks of clippings and research 
scribe the aims and tactics of the party in the notes used by Moses in preparing his books, 
Cambodian sanctuaries are also included. scrap books, theater programs, and similar ma­

Most of the American documents deal with terial which document the history of the Amer­
the American appraisal of the war effort in ican stage during this period. Letters with his 
Vietnam and analyses of the activities of the publishers, with newspaper editors, and with 
Communist revolutionary movement in that editors of magazines and periodicals for which 
country. Many of these documents are field re­ Moses wrote depict the history of several pub­
ports which deal quite objectively with the sit­ lishing houses and periodicals. The collection