COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS
WASHINGTON HOTLINE
How did federal programs of interest to college and research libraries fare in the first year of the Reagan Administration? It depends on how one views this most extraordinary legislative session. For the most part, Congress provided more than the Administration requested, but less than the previous year, as shown below for selected programs:
| Funding as of Jan. ’81 | Reagan ’82 Budget as of Sept. ’81 | Funding as of Jan. '82 | |
| GPO SuDocs | $ 23,400,000 | $ 29,279,000 | $ 27,120,000 |
| HEA II-A College libraries | 4,988,000 | -0- | 1,920,000 |
| HEA II-B Training, research | 1,167,000 | 1,027,000 | 880,000 |
| HEA II-C Research libraries | 6,000,000 | 5,280,000 | 5,760,000 |
| HEA IV-C College work study | 550,000,000 | 484,000,000 | 528,000,000 |
| Library of Congress | 176,844,000 | 197,611,000 | 189,827,000 |
| Medical Library Asst. Act | 9,831,000 | 8,925,000 | 7,500,000 |
| Nat’l Agricultural Lib. | 8,541,000 | 8,158,000 | 8,750,000 |
| NCLIS | 691,000 | 618,000 | 674,000 |
| NHPRC | 4,000,000 | -0- | 1,000,000 |
| Nat’l Lib. of Medicine | 34,899,000 | 38,752,000 | 36,902,000 |
| Natτl Ctr. Educ. Statistics | 9,947,000 | 8,747,000 | 8,589,000 |
| Nat’l Endowment, Humanities | 151,299,000 | 74,800,000 | 130,560,000 |
When it adjourned in December Congress had provided funding only part way through the 1982 fiscal year (for monies to be used during the 1982/83
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