College and Research Libraries


Subgrants from Lilly Endowment 
Go to Nine Libraries 

Nine college and university libraries 
are recipients of subgrants from the 
$26,000 grant to ALA made by the Lilly 
Endowment, Inc. The subgrants were 
made by the ACRL Committee on Foun-
dation Grants after careful review of 
seventy-three applications from institu-
tions in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 
Michigan, and 'Ohio. 

Aurora College, Aurora, Ill.; Ball 
State Teachers College, Muncie, Ind.; 
Denison University, Granville, Ohio; De-
Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind.; 
Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.; Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Ind.; Roosevelt 
University, Chicago; Union College, Bar-
bourville, Ky.; and Western College for 
Women, Oxford, Ohio, are the institu-
tions receiving grants. 

In making the grant to ALA, the Lilly 
Endowment stated as its purpose the 
promotion of "the more extensive and 
imaginative use of library resources by 
undergraduate students." In requesting ' 
applications, Arthur Hamlin, chairman 
of the ACRL Foundation Grants Com-
mittee, commented: "These grants 
should make important contributions to 
the educational functions of the institu-
tions involved and at the same time set 
precedents and establish practices which 
may be adopted by other colleges .... 
The Committee will use its best judg-
ment in taking a few considered risks 
with imaginative and untried programs, 
and yet must be certain that not all the 
funds are expended in noble experi-
ments." 

The Committee was disappointed that 
the applications reflected a scarcity of 
really "imaginative" projects, but was 
pleased with their wealth of statements 
of . thoughtful and useful projects for 
promoting · the use of library resources 

JULY 1957 

with undergraduates. A brief summary 
of the projects for which subgrants were 
awarded follows. 

AuRORA CoLLEGE 

Aurora College received a subgrant 
for the extension of the audio-visual 
services and resources of its library "for 
use by individual students under condi-
tions planned by the class instructor and 
controlled and supervised by the li-
brary." The program financed by the 
subgrant will be under the direction of 
Ethel W. Tapper, librarian and profes-
sor of English. 

BALL STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE 

A program for the creation and use of 
"recorded explications of poetry" will 
result from the subgrant to Ball State 
Teachers College. "The program," ac-
cording to the application prepared by 
Librarian Marion B. Grady, "is designed 
not only to develop the holdings of Ball 
State Teachers College Library in taped 
discussions of particular poems by spe-
cialists in literature but also to develop 
a set of master recordings from which 
other tapes may be cut for the benefit of 
other institutions." 

DENISON UNIVERSITY 

Denison received a grant to place 
twenty-four collections of paperback 
books in residence halls and other loca-
tions heavily frequented by students. Ex-
cept for a core of the same titles, each 
group of books will be different, and the 
collections will be rotated in the vari-
ous locations. Denison's application in-
cludes an excellent list of the books to 
be provided. It comments: "The pro-
gram is based on the belief that readers 
are created, at least in part, through con-

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venient access to books, and that if a 
college succeeds in creating undergrad-
uate readers, it matters little whether the 
stimulus was received through class-
room, college library, residence hall 
book collection, or college bookstore. 
Lois E. Engleman, librarian of Denison, 
will direct the project. 

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY 

Audio-visual activities are the basis of 
DePauw's project also. The Lilly grant 
will provide basic equipment and mate-
rials for the expansion and increased use 
of the audio-visual facilities of DePauw's 
new Roy 0. West Library. Use of the 
grant will be at the direction of Librar-
ian Russell S. Dozer. 

GosHEN CoLLEGE 

The subgrant to Goshen College will 
support a program in which students 
themselves will prepare annotated bibli-
ographies for their regular courses. It 
will. be used specifically to complete cer-
tain periodical files and to purchase nec-
essary bibliographies. Expenditure of the 
subgrant will be by Librarian James R. 
Clemens. 

PURDUE UNIVERSITY 

Purdue's project will promote with 
the fullest possible use of advertising, 
even "huckstering" techniques, student 
use of a collection of paperbacks promi-
nently located in its library• as a "free 
bookstore." It will endeavor to intro-
duce students to a well-selected book col-
lection that will introduce them to "the 
whole range of interests of 'ladies and 
gentlemen' -the popular, the curious, 
the intellectual, the scientific, the newsy, 
the historical, in short, the 'appealing.' " 

"Reading among Purdue undergrad-
uates," states the Purdue application, "is 
often a sheer skill and nothing more, 
comparable to what dumb-bell handling 
was in physical education fifty years ago. 
Physical education has advanced to the 
understanding that the playing of 

games, usually just for fun, is a better 
type exercise, and the use of reading for 
similar pleasure and excitement should 
likewise be added to the Purdue stu-
dents' capacity." 

The project will be under the direc-
tion of Librarian John H. Moriarty. 

RoosEvELT UNIVERSITY 

1\!Irs. Marjorie C. Keenleyside will di-
rect Roosevelt's compilation of a library 
handbook. As Roosevelt is an urban uni-
versity with a large proportion of irreg-
ularly scheduled students, it has special 
problems in the production of a hand-
book. The Lilly grant will enable it to 
publish a "conversational" handbook 
which "will bring out not only the rudi-
ments of library use, but also sections 
on reading for fun, seeking answers to 
personal problems, selecting a career, 
linking hobbies or club work with li-
brary materials, enjoying music and art 
through the library, and using library 
services outside the U ni versi ty." 

UNION CoLLEGE 

Union will be enabled by the Lilly 
grant to s·upport a program "helping the 
faculty in their task of providing motiv-
ation and instruction to students.'' The 
program will provide visiting consult-
ants on the general subject of "The Li-
brary in College Instruction," faculty 
members committing themselves to serv-
ice regular hours each week in the li-
brary as consultants to students, and the 
training of student assistants to act as 
student consultants after the first year 
of the program. The work will be di-
rected by Librarian Luther A. Bennett. 

WEsTERN CoLLEGE FOR WoMEN 

The Lilly Grant will furnish funds 
for the Western College for Women to 
purchase books and related materials for 
a special reading room in its library de-
voted to the College's Intercultural Stud-
ies program. The project will be super-
vised by Librarian Esther I. Duggleby. 

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