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HIGHER EDUCATION ACT

On October 1, the President signed H.R. 18037 (Public Law 90-557), the act making appropriations for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare. Included in the act is an appropriation of $5.5 million for Title II-C of the Higher Education Act.

On October 16, the President signed S. 3769 (Public Law 90-575), the Higher Education Amendments of 1968. The law extends Title II, Part C (National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloging) of the Higher Education Act for fiscal year 1969 and the next two succeeding fiscal years. It authorizes an appropriation of $6 million for fiscal year 1969 and $11 million for the next two years. In addition, this section of the Act was amended so as to give the Librarian of Congress authority to:

1. purchase additional copies of a single title of a book acquired through the Title II-C program.

2. provide not only cataloging information about currently acquired materials but also other aids to higher education, such as bibliographies, indexes, guides and union lists, describing not only current books but other important materials essential to research.

3. pay administrative costs of cooperative ar-rangements for acquiring for institutions of higher education or combinations thereof, library materials not readily obtainable outside the country of origin.