OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS The total amount, as reported by State departments of education, expended in the category of other instructional materials was $5.3 million or about 6 percent of the total amount expended for acquisitions. Other instructional materials are defined as the same items as school library resources except that they are not processed and catalogued for use. The low proportion of funds expended for other instructional materials in relation to school library resources is accounted for by the fact that the number of schools with centralized libraries has risen steadily. School library resources were also made available to many children and teachers in schools without centralized libraries in order to increase the accessibility and availability of materials. Books account for $2.2 million or 42 percent of the total reported as expended for other instructional materials. For audiovisual materials in this category, the total reported was $2.5 million or about 47 percent. The amount expended for periodicals and other printed materials amounted to about 8 percent of the other instructional materials category. Table 12 provides data on expenditures for books and audiovisual resources and number of items provided under the ESEA title II program, fiscal year 1966, as school library resources and other instructional materials by region and State. The tendency of the States to expend considerably larger amounts for books than audiovisual materials has already been noted. In fiscal year 1966, the entire ESEA title II allotment to Montana and Vermont, except for administrative funds, was expended for library books. Other States expending an exceptionally large amount of the total allotment for library books are Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Guam. TABLE 12.-Acquisition of books and audiovisual materials as school library resources and other instructional materials, fiscal year 1966 Grand total.... 18,025, 448 $61, 767,083 1,787,736 $13.987,594 476,922 $2,250,991 264, 799 $2,511, 593 TABLE 12.-Acquisition of books and audiovisual materials as school library resources and other instructional materials, fiscal year 1966—Continued In 15 States, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands audiovisual materials were purchased as school library resources only. Of audiovisual materials in both categories, six States-Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Utahexpended a fairly large proportion of their total allotment for such materials. PROCESSING, CATALOGING, AND DELIVERING The acquisitions program under ESEA title II includes the necessary costs of processing and cataloging school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials, and delivery of them to the initial place at which they are made available for use. The ESEA title II State plans describe the processing, cataloging, and delivery services, performed either by a commercial concern or a public agency, which the State agency administering the plan will allow as a part of the cost of acquisition. The State plan also establishes a true and just cost for such ordering, cataloging, processing, and delivering services as are necessary and essential for making the benefits of title II available for the use of children and teachers in the State. In fiscal 1966, State departments of education reported expenditures of $4.1 million for processing, cataloging, and delivering services (table 13). This represents about 4 percent of the acquisitions expenditures and an average expenditure of about 18 cents per item for processing, cataloging, and delivering the 23 million individual items of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials. A few States reported no expenditures for this purpose in fiscal 1966 and a very small percent of acquisitions costs for processing, cataloging, and delivery of materials were absorbed by the local educational agencies and ESEA title II funds were used to provide materials. TABLE 13.-Expenditures for processing, cataloging, and delivering school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials, by State or territory, fiscal year 1966 Alabama.. Alaska.. Processing and 34, 423 Processing and Arizona.. 1, 148 New York.. 609, 451 Arkansas.. California. North Carolina. 31, 038 15, 200 301, 138 Oklahoma.. 599 77, 680 400, 000 Georgia 90, 722 Rhode Island. 28, 671 Hawaii South Carolina. 100, 284 Idaho.. 10, 060 South Dakota.. 11, 737 Illinois. 85, 780 Tennessee.. 88, 914 Texas.. 60, 180 12, 493 4, 128 54, 878 74, 441 75, 478 83, 907 Michigan.. 120, 000 District of Columbia. Minnesota.. Mississippi. Missouri.. Montana Nebraska... New Hampshire.. 71, 120 Virgin Islands.. 5, 456 CHAPTER II STATE PROGRAMS FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF INSTRUCTION THROUGH IMPROVED RESOURCES IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES Table 14 provides data on the number of new public school libraries established and the number of existing public school libraries expanded as a result of ESEA title II. The 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the four outlying areas reported a total of 3,637 new public school libraries established. Of these, 3,378 were elementary public school libraries serving 1.3 million public school pupils and 259 were secondary public school libraries serving 144,774 pupils. (Many elementary school libraries were established with title I funds, but the number is unknown.) The larger number of new elementary public school libraries established is due to the participation of more elementary school pupils than secondary school pupils in the ESEA title II program. Also, more elementary schools are without centralized libraries. than secondary schools. TABLE 14.-Number of new public school libraries established; number of existing public school libraries expanded; and number of public and private school pupils served as a result, fiscal year 1966 Seven percent of the estimated 47,000 public elementary schools that were without libraries have established libraries. Of the estimated 1,056 public secondary schools without libraries, 25 percent have now established them (figure 5). In regard to the improvement of existing school libraries, 42,346 public elementary school libraries serving 13.8 million public school pupils and 19,577 public secondary school libraries serving 8.9 million pupils, were expanded. The establishment of 3,637 new public elementary and secondary school library collections and expansion of 61,923 existing public school library collections also served 3.1 million private school pupils who received loans of materials through the organization of new libraries or the improvement of existing libraries. 81-558-67- -3 Figure 5.-3,368 NEW PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARIES SERVING 1,400,000 PUPILS AND 259 NEW PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL LIBRARIES SERVING 145,000 PUPILS WERE ESTABLISHED AS A RESULT OF ESEA TITLE II PROGRAM Section 117.24 of the ESEA title II regulations requires that State plans set forth policies and procedures to assure that funds made available under the ESEA title II program supplement and to the extent practical, increase the level of State, local, and private school funds made available for the acquisition of school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials, and in no case supplant such State, local, and private school funds. Therefore, the State agencies collected the necessary data to compare the amount of State, local, and private school funds actually expended for school library materials in the base fiscal year, 1965, with the amount of State, local, and private school funds expended in the current fiscal year 1966, and reported this information to the U.S. Office of Education. (In the first year of the program, information on per pupil expenditure for textbooks and other instructional materials was not requested by the U.S. Office.) Table 15 provides data on the per pupil expenditure of State, local, and private elementary school funds in fiscal year 1965 and 1966 for school library resources in the 50 States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas. Table 16 provides comparable data on secondary schools. The amount of increase or decrease in per pupil expenditure for school library materials, public and private, in each State and outlying areas from 1965 to 1966 is shown in columns 4 and 7 of tables 15 and 16. (Data are not complete for all States and outlying areas.) It is important to note that 14 States reported an increase from 1965 to 1966 in State, local, and private school effort to provide school library resources in both public and private elementary schools. An |