LIBRARY RESOURCES& TECHNICAL SERVICES tr1o|.tq, No. z Spring t97o CONTENTS Page Acquisitions in 1969,.Ashby l. Fristoe and Rose E. Myers r65 The Year's Work in Cataloging-ry6g. Richard O. Pautzsch r74 Developments in Reproduction of Library Materials, 1969. Robert C. Sulliuan r89 A Serials Synopsis: rgfig. Mary Pound 23r The Processing Department of the Library of Congress in 1969. William J. Welsh n6 Foreign Blanket Orders: Precedent and Practice. Robert Wedgeworth 258 State Libraries and Centralized Processing.F. William Summers 269 Report of the Photocopying Costs in Libraries Committee. Robert C. Sulliuan 279 Regional Groups Report. Marian Sanner 290 IFLA International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts, Copenhagen, 1969.A. H. Chaplin 292 ERIC/CLIS Abstracts 30r Reviews 306 ALA RESOURCES AND TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION EDITOITIAL BOAI{D Editor, and Chairmanof the Editorial Board . .. Peur,S. DuNxtx Assistant Editors: Asrrcv J. Fnrs'ror C. 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The article itself should be concise, simply written, and as free as possible of jargon. Citations should be brief, easy to understand, and consistent in form rvithin thc alticle. Editors: l\{aterial publishcd in Z/?7S is not copyrighted. When reprinting, the courtesy of citation to the original publication is requcsted, Publicatiorr in LRTS does nbt imply official entlorsement by the Resources and Technical Services Division nor by ALA, and the assumption of editolial responsibility is not to be construed neces- sarily as endorsement of the opinions expressedby individual contributors. Acquisitionsin 1969 Asnsv J. Fntsror Associ,ateLibrari,an f or Techni'cal Seruices and. Rosr E. Mvrns Spe cialist in Automated Bibliography (Ini,aersity of Hawaii' Library Honolulu, Hawait ITH LIBRARIANS, 1969 will long be remembered as the year Y Y of the Nixon budget cut. If the availability of federal funds the previous five years "magnifiecl certain weaknesses in book purchasing and distribution systems,"r the announced budget cut was certainly no panacea. In fact, this was probably the biggest and worst library news during the year. The "Report of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries"z held forth great possibilities for "strengthening the role of libraries in our society." President Johnson had asked the Commission to "consider the nation's library structure, the nature of the present and wisest possible future involvement of federal support in the development of national library and informational resources, and the most efiective shaping of those resourcesto our common need as we can picture it over the next decade." Among other things, the Commission stated that "the need for additional financial support for our libraries is great at Pres- ent" and "over the coming decade very large increases in federal sup- port of libraries will be necessaryand, indeed, inescapable." This was undoubtedly the overstatement of the year as the Nixon administration was soon to prove. In a similar vein was the speech made by Robert Finch, HEW Secretary, at the Encyclopaedia Britannica luncheon during the Amer- ican Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C.3 Discussing funding priorities and the possibility that the money might "run thin," Finch said "I think everyone in this room, if we had to skimp some place, would pitch the tents and build bonfires during the cold snap and throw every available dime into those two resources, teachers and books. And high on my list of those teaching professionals would have to be librarians, of course fapplause], because the teaching process without books-I have looked at your catalogs and tapes and audiovisuals and the other newer technological devices notwithstanding -the teaching processwithout books, of course,is unthinkable." It was not very long, however, before the unthinkable was revealed Volume t4, Number z, Spring t97o . 165 . to be in many Actministration minds. When the story began to unfold in Congress after the HEW appropriation hearing got underway in March, the earlier dream became a nightmare (for librarians and bookmen, at least) of drastic cuts in federal library funds. Not only were additional funds to support the recommendations of the Commission on Libraries not forthcoming, but present funding levels were to be reduced. President Nixon, according to the April zz New York Times, launched National Library Week with unintentional irony when he said, "Libraries are 'banks' the banks of our educational system. The will fail unless the books and tools are deposited with the help of the Federal Government. ABC's should come before ABM's." The Neu Yorh Times pointed out that ". this is National Library Week but it comes at a sad hour of shock in the world of learning by the book. The original r97o budget requests for major library programs under the Elementary and Second- ary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, and the Library Services and Construction Act amounted to $r35.5 million. The revised budget comes down to a trifle over $46 million. Equipment and institutional materials for school, public, and academic libraries would be reduced or terminated altogether." ALA President Roger McDonough led ofi the counterattack at a press conference on April er at the New York's Overseas Press Club. He pointed out that "almost zb percent of the recornmended reduction in funding for activities under the Office of Education would come out of the principal library programs."4 Other prominent librarians stressd the adverseefiects to be expected in all library areas.The consensuswas that the cuts would hit hardest at schools serving disadvantaged youths in the inner-core cities, at outreach programs for the urban poor, and at book purchasing. Since it is easy to stop buying books, many librarians predicted that acquisitions would suffer most. Actually, practically every part of the library world was threatened. And, compounding the prob- lem, there was the threat of fund curtailment at the city and state Ievels. Activities at the ALA Atlantic City meeting aimed at the restoration of federal cuts in expenditures for library programs included a "Petition to Congress to Help Education and Library Programs." The petition asked that Congress give full-funding a high priority and was unan- imously affirmed by Council. The American Library Trustees Asso- ciation laid the groundwork for their Jrly g march on the Capitol. The march brought r5o ALTA members frorn thirty-three states to Wash- ington, where they personally contacted some ninety Congressmen to expresstheir adversereaction to the budget cuts. Cooperative pressure was brought to bear through the Emergency Committee for Full Funding of Education Programs. The Cornmittee, made up of representatives of ABPC-AEPI, ALA, AFLCIO, and edu- cation groups, lobbied for restoration of HEW funds. In the opinion of Robert E. Bye, publisher of Library lournal and Publishers' Weekly, this Committee must be credited with an outstanding victory by the . 166 Library Resources b Technical Seruices Bill.6 passageof the Joelson Amendment to the HEW Appropriations Prior to House floor action, the amount of money requested in the Bill, HR rgrrr, was increased by the Appropriations Committee. In- creases for library programs amounted to $r8.5 million. HR r3rrr by as amended by Charles S. Joelson (D, N.J.), passed the House another roll-call vote on July gr. The Joelson Amendment added $5g,r85,ooo to the $46,zo9,ooorequested by the Nixon Administration for library programs. HR r3rrr, amended, thus produced a total of $rz3,8g4,ooo for three library programs, ESEA Title Il-School Li' braries, Library Services and Construction Act, and HEA Title II- College Libraries. The Senate passed HR r3rrr on December r7, after further increasing funds for HE'A title IL On December r8, the Administration advised Congress that the resolution in its present form would be vetoed and requested postponement of final Passageuntil January r9. It appears that the Nixon Administration has no intention of yielding to Congress on the issue of increased HEW Appropriations, either this year or next. Susan Wagner reports that USOE has been told by the Bureau of the Budget to hold down its budget requests for fiscal r97r to $8.4 billion.G Perhaps future pressure fior increased spend- ing for educational programs should be aimed more at the Administra- tion than at a Congr:essthat seemsto be convinced that USOE programs should not be curtailed.