College & Research Libraries NEWS

ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 31, No. 6

From Inside the DLP

By Dr. Katharine M. Stokes

College and University Library Specialist, Training and Resources Branch, Division of Library Programs, Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology, U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202.

If you haven’t yet seen a copy of Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities: Data for Individual Institutions, Fall 1969 (Publication OE–15023–69), it’s probably been resting quietly among your depository items since late August. Its accompanying Analytic Report was still in preparation, but there is hope that it will be out this fall. The format of OE–15023 is much the same as the 1968 version except for a darker shade of green and beige for the cover. This edition bears Dr. Bronson Price’s name instead of Joel Williams’ but Joel wrote the Foreword before he left the NCES for a nongovernment position in July. By the end of October, Bronson, too, will be retiring. Ruth Boaz is carrying on as Acting Chief of the Library Surveys Branch, so your questions about the 1969 data can be addressed to her or to Mrs. Doris Holladay, who is still in the Branch, fortunately. Doris can be reached by calling 202- 962-7443 or addressing her at the Office of Education, FOB #6, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Room 2153, Washington, D.C. 20202. You will notice that her room number is changed from the 1010 I last reported, but the telephone number is the old one for Dr.

Price.

As long as I’m reporting changes, my own telephone number has been changed twice this summer and is now 202-963-4385. My room number is now 5680 in ROB #3, 7th and D Streets, S.W., and I have been transferred to the Training and Resources Branch, headed by Frank Stevens. My title and duties remain much the same, but I am now specifically attached as Program Officer to the Title II–A (HEA) College Library Resources Program. I have been lent to this program in this branch most of my three years in the DLP, but now the relationship is full time.

To go back to Data for Individual Institutions, 1969, copies addressed “To the Librarian” were sent to every institution and every separate campus of an institution, but your mail rooms may have put them with the rest of the flood of government documents received in depository libraries. If desired, an additional copy is obtainable for $1.25 from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. As you will note in Joel’s Foreword, 2,122 individual colleges are included in this edition.

No library statistics form is included in the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) for Fall 1970, due to the higher priorities of other areas, notably school library statistics, which have had no attention for several years. The college and university library series will be continued with the fall 1971 survey.

A comparison of the 1968 and 1969 editions reveals certain differences between the two. The 1969 report does not contain the Budgeted Operating Expenditures, i.e., the expenditures which were current in 1969-70, although the usual previous year (1968-69) expenditures are included. In Table 1 for 1968, interlibrary loan transactions were reported, but such information was not collected in 1969. For 1969, Table 3 reports Vacant Positions, both professional and nonprofessional, but the beginning salary for a librarian with a master’s degree and no experience, which was noted in Table 5 in

1968, was not obtained in 1969. The surveys on college and university library statistics have been published annually by the OE from fall 1960 to fall 1964, and from fall 1967 to fall

1969.

The OE has collected and published data annually from the HEGIS report forms since fall 1967. The Library Surveys Branch has tried to give a truly representative picture of national data by imputing statistics in its Analytic Reports for those institutions which did not respond or submit useable figures. It is these Analytic Reports on which Office of Education estimates are based when Congress or the Bureau of the Budget requires information on the academic library situation. The Office of Education is concerned about the data for individual institutions but its primary responsibility is to produce information on the total library picture.

Late news: On July 27, Burton E. Lamkin, formerly Assistant Director for Public Services of the National Agricultural Library, became Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology. The Division of Library Programs is happy to be reporting to a Bureau Chief who is a librarian, too. ■ ■