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Nominating Committee (1971): Walter 
Shelton, Assistant Librarian, John Crerar Li­
brary, 35 W. 33rd St., Chicago, 111. 60616.

Eunice Rockwell Oberly Memorial Award 
Committee: Fleming Bennett, Librarian, Hume 
Library, University of Florida, Gainesville 
32603.
Art Subsection

Nominating Committee: Herbert G. 
Scherer, Art Librarian, University of Minneso­
ta, 104 Jones Hall, Minneapolis 55455.

Law and Political Science Subsection
Nominating Committee: J. Myron Jacob- 

stein, Law Librarian, Stanford (Calif.) Univer­
sity Library, 94304.

Committee on Model Law Collections: 
Roy Mersky, Librarian and Director of Re­
search, University of Texas School of Law, 
2500 Red River, Austin 78705.

Slavic and ast uropean ubsection

Nominating Committee: Jerzy J. Maci- 
uszko, Slavic Department, Alliance College, 
Cambridge Springs, Pa. 16403.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Committee on Extension Library Service: 
Frank C. MacDougall, Librarian, Continuing 
Education Library, Michigan State University, 
East Lansing 48823.

Nominating Committee: Howard Rovel- 
stad, Director of Libraries, University of Mary­
land, College Park 20742.

Steering Committee: Roscoe Rouse, Uni­
versity Librarian, Oklahoma State University, 
Stillwater 74074.

Urban Universities Library Committee: 
Harold B. Schell, Assistant Director of Li­
braries, University of Pittsburgh (Pa.), 15213.

  E  E  S

From Inside the DLP
By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, Li­
brary Planning and Development Branch, Di­
vision of Library Programs, Bureau of Adult, 
Vocational, and Library Programs, U.S. Office 
of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202.

Do you remember assembling, in the sum­
mer of 1967, statistics to fill in the blanks of 
the Office of Education’s College and Univer­
sity Library Resources and Facilities Higher 
Education General Information Survey forms? 
It called for a lot of figures on the percentage 
of your collection devoted to specified areas and 
on the square feet assigned to your libraries. 
If you’ve been wondering about whatever hap­
pened to those painfully compiled totals, look 
at Tables 3, 4, and 5 of the latest publication 
released by the Library Surveys Branch of the 
National Center for Educational Statistics, Li­
brary Statistics of Colleges and Universities: 
Data for Individual Institutions, Fall 1967, 
(OE-15023-67), edited by Dr. Bronson Price. 
A copy was sent to each institution of higher 
education. Additional copies may be obtained 
from the Superintendent of Documents, G.P.O., 
for $2.50.

You will recall that in 1968 only the Pre­
liminary Report on Academic Libraries, 1966- 
67 was published; that report contained partial 
data for a sample of 395 of the 2,157 separate 
institutions and five joint libraries ( serving two 
or more institutions) which are included in 
the Fall 1967 issue. Although two years have

passed since the space figures in this issue 
were submitted, they are probably still valid for 
most of the libraries.

The 1967 space figures for libraries in the 
same state, or for libraries serving student 
bodies of similar size and makeup, will be 
worth close scrutiny, especially those of the 
junior and community colleges, which show 
wide divergences. In Table 5, where the data 
are averaged per student, the square footage 
varies from one to fourteen for community 
colleges in one state studied.

The Higher Education Facilities Act funds 
are assisting many new junior colleges, some 
of them through their involvement in Model 
Cities programs. Grants are made from the fed­
eral allotments to the states. The State Com­
missions, established to administer state plans, 
receive applications and assign priorities to 
eligible projects. The priority list is submitted 
to the Office of Education’s Regional Office for 
review, and those projects which satisfy eligi­
bility requirements are then approved by the 
Regional Director of Higher Education.

Since 1966, over 800 library facilities have 
been partially funded under the Higher Educa­
tion Facilities Act. Of the 137 buildings that 
Dr. Jerrold Orne noted in his Library Journal 
articles in the December 1 issues of 1967 and 
1968, as being occupied or dedicated in those 
years, only twenty-three had not been assisted 
by federal aid, so probably a couple of hun­
dred privately funded libraries are either com­
pleted or under construction in addition to the 
800 that received HEFA grants.