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ACRL Grants Awarded

Fifteen grants have been awarded to college and university libraries by the Grants Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The grants were awarded to College of Saint Francis, Joliet, Illinois; Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota; Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona; Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon; Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina; Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dakota; Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Pacific Union College, Angwin, California; Roberts Wesleyan College, North Chili, New York; Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, Washington; Sienna Heights College, Adrian, Michigan; Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas; Villa Madonna College, Covington, Kentucky; William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

All grants are in the form of cash awards based on past applications and the experience of the committee. The Grants Committee had previously announced that it would not request applications this year but would award grants to institutions based on applications received during past years and on the experience of the Committee. Only cash awards to support library programs will be made. This is the fifteenth year of the ACRL Grants Program.

The total income to the fund for the year 1969/70 was $38,500. The major support for these efforts was once again provided by The United States Steel Foundation, Inc. Other contributors were the H. W. Wilson Foundation, Incorporated, Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust, and Pitney-Bowes, Incorporated.

The funds were distributed without regard to location or affiliation of the schools. The Grants Committee for 1969/70 is chaired by H. Vail Deale, Beloit College. The committee members are Humphrey G. Bousfield, Brooklyn College; Miss Johnnie E. Givens, Austin Peay State College; Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jones, Atlanta University; Rev. Vincent R. Negherbon, TOR, Saint Francis College; Mrs. Jessie Carney Smith, Fisk University; and Donald E. Vincent, University of New Hampshire. Philip J. McNiff, president of ACRL and Donald Thomas, Executive Secretary of ACRL were members ex officio.