The number and cost of the instructional materials in each of the three categories provided for loan to public and private school pupils and teachers under the ESEA title II program, fiscal year 1966, by region and State is provided in table 9. Of total items purchased in all categories, the percent purchased in the school library resources category varied from 73.8 percent in region III (District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) to 97 percent in region IX (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.) Two States in region IX-Hawaii and Nevada-and Guam purchased school library resources only, under the ESEA title II program in fiscal year 1966. TABLE 9.-Acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials for loan to children and teachers, by region and State, fiscal year 1966

A list of the States comprising each region may be found in table 9.

TABLE 9.-Acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials for loan to children and teachers, by region and State, fiscal year 1966-Continued

The variation in percent of textbooks purchased is from less than 1 percent of total items purchased in region IX to 23.4 percent in region III. The variation by region in the other instructional materials category is from 2 percent of total items in region IV (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee) to somewhat more than 16 percent in region VII (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). The variations by State and region in all categories reflect local education agency priority of needs within the priorities assigned to the three categories by the State departments of education.

SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES

School library resources accounted for 90.3 percent of the $74 million expended for instructional materials loaned to public school children and teachers under the ESEA title II program in fiscal year 1966, and 90 percent of the $11 million expended for materials for loan to the private school children and teachers in the United States and outlying areas participating in the program. Table 8 provides the number of items acquired among types of materials defined as school library resources and other instructional materials, and amounts spent for these categories. It also provides the number of textbooks acquired, and the amount spent for textbooks.

Of the $77.5 million expended for school library resources, library books account for $61.7 million, or about 80 percent of this category. Table 10, column 3, shows that $39.2 million was expended for elementary school library books, or more than 64 percent of the total amount spent for books in this category. The amount spent for sec

ondary school library books was $21.8 million or about 35 percent of the amount spent for library books. The higher proportion expended for elementary school library books reflects the critical need for such materials, as well as the larger number of elementary school pupils who participated in the program. The 18 million elementary and secondary school library books represents an increase of less than one library book per pupil for the number of elementary and secondary pupils (43 million) participating in the ESEA title II program in fiscal year 1966. For books in all categories, including textbooks, the amount reported as expended represents 78 percent of the total amount spent for acquisitions in all categories.

TABLE 10.-Number and cost of books loaned to children and teachers, by educational level, and categories of instructional materials, fiscal year 1966

1 Detail does not add to totals given in table 8 since some States reported only totals rather than individual items.

Tables 8 and 11 provide data on the number and cost of audiovisual materials loaned to pupils and teachers as school library resources and other instructional materials. The total amount expended for such materials in the school library resources category is $13.9 million or about 18 percent of acquisitions in this category. The total amount expended for audiovisual materials in both categories is $16.4 million or about 19 percent of the entire amount reported as expended for acquisitions. In a number of States, reports for audiovisual materials were provided as totals rather than a breakdown of separate items. However, it is important to note the large number of filmstrips, recordings, slides, and transparencies made available as school library resources (table 8).

Audiovisual materials comprised 19 percent of the acquisitions in all categories for fiscal 1966. Of significance is the fact that a larger percent of the other instructional materials category (47 percent) was expended for audiovisual materials than in the school library resources category (18 percent) This is probably due to the high priority placed on bringing collections of school library books up to standards. Also, in some school districts, audiovisual materials are not made available through school libraries or instructional materials centers. The number of audiovisual items in both categories reported purchased for loan to elementary school pupils is 1.2 million items (table 11). A smaller number, 759,775 audiovisual items, was reported to be available for loan to secondary school pupils and teachers, fiscal 1966

7 The number and cost of separate audiovisual items by region and State and by educa tional level may be found in tables 19-22 in the appendix.

under ESEA title II programs. Again, this may be accounted for by the high priority of need given to pupils and teachers in elementary schools in some States.

TABLE 11.-Number and cost of audiovisual materials loaned to children and teachers, by educational level, and categories of instructional materials, fiscal year 1966

Detail does not add to totals given in table 8 since some States reported only total rather than individual items.

In eight States the number of audiovisual items was reported as totals rather than as individual items. However, in 42 States, the District of Columbia, and the four outlying areas, filmstrips, slides, and transparencies accounted for about 53 percent of all audiovisual items provided in the program. The number of motion pictures reported purchased in both the school library and other instructional materials. categories is considerably less than for any other type of audiovisual material. This is probably due to the high cost of motion pictures in relation to the cost of other audiovisual items.

In the school library resources category, periodicals and other printed matter such as documents and pamphlets represented an expenditure of only $1.7 million or about 2 percent of the $77.5 million total expended for school library resources.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbooks accounted for about 3.4 percent ($2.9 million) of the total amount expended for acquisitions under the ESEA title II program in fiscal year 1966. This expenditure made nearly 1.3 million textbooks available on a loan basis to children and teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools. The amount expended is almost evenly divided between textbooks for loan to elementary school pupils and textbooks for loan to secondary school pupils. The larger number of textbooks provided for loan to secondary school pupils than elementary school pupils may be partly accounted for by the possibility that large numbers of paperback textbooks may have been purchased for loan to secondary school pupils. The larger amount expended for textbooks to be loaned to public school children and teachers of course reflects the larger total number of public school pupils than private school pupils.

The number of textbooks (1.2 million) provided is exceedingly small in relation to the number of pupils (43 million) who participated in the ESEA title II program; however 29 States used no ESEA title II funds for textbooks in fiscal 1966 and all but one of the remaining States and outlying areas limited the acquisition of textbooks in the program sharply because of other more critical needs (table 4).