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mittee, I hope that you will give your full support to this measure and that you will actually sponsor the measure by introducing a companion bill.

Let me state my strong convictions about the need for this legislation. Ten years ago, when New Jersey librarians made a searching inquiry into the condition of the library economy, we decided to concentrate first on the obvious lacks in the public library field, rather than attempt to improve all types of libraries, including school and college libraries. A similar decision was made by the American Library Association when it sponsored the Library Services Act to improve service to rural areas. Looking back, we can see that these decisions were both right and wrong. Tremendous gains have been made through the Library Services Act's stimulation and the State-aid program in New Jersey has served as a further catalyst in improving local public library support and in equalizing services throughout the State.

What we did not foresee, however, was what the tremendous demands of our educational program, plus the swelling population, would do to all libraries— public, school, and college. The pressures for reference and research materials at all levels, including the elementary grades, are increasing daily, and librarians who, not too many years ago, were looking for customers now find it increasingly difficult to cope with the enormous demands being made upon them. This is a subject that comes up whenever two or more librarians get together these days.

Our own study of the problem here in New Jersey convinces me that a broadscale, nationwide attack on the problem is needed if library facilities are to be improved to a point where they can adequately support our total educational program at all levels of instruction.

The Library Services Act has demonstrated the tremendous things that can be accomplished with relatively modest funds when a good program is welladministered by dedicated people. I predict the same kind of result from this expanded version of the Library Services Act and, therefore, I have no hesitancy in urging you to lend your sponsorship to this important measure. With all best personal wishes, I am, Sincerely,

ROGER H. MCDONOUGH, Director.

DANIEL BOONE REGIONAL LIBRARY,

SERVING BOONE, CALLAWAY AND HOWARD COUNTIES,
COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE CENTER,
Columbia, Mo., June 13, 1962.

Hon. MORGAN M. MOULDER,

House Office Building,

Washington, D.C.

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DEAR MR. MOULDER: Thank you for sending us the copies of bills which we requested. We certainly appreciate your promptness in mailing these to us. We would also like to call to your attention House bill 11823, introduced on May 21 by Representative Cleveland Bailey, of West Virginia, and to House bill 11824, introduced the same day by Representative George P. Miller of California. It is our understanding that this proposed legislation is intended to provide a coordinated national program of library development, involving public libraries, elementary and secondary school libraries, and libraries of institutions of higher education, and the training of librarians necessary to staff such libraries, to meet the increased educational, informational, and research requirements of the people of the United States.

We all recognize what the Library Services Act has meant to the people throughout the United States. We in Missouri have of course made great steps forward in public library service through the help of this program. It is most satisfying to find that local library support in Missouri has more than doubled during the past 10 years.

On the other hand it is alarming to find that nationally 50 million persons still have inadequate or no library service at all, and that 10,600,000 children and young people go to public schools where there are not school libraries. Current figures show us that in Missouri 700,000 people have no local library service, and that libraries in Missouri schools now need 417,863 more books to be con

sidered adequate. Ninety-three percent of the public schools in Missouri do not meet the standards for expenditure on books. These are a few of the figures which make us realize how much more must be done to bring to the people of our Nation the adequate library services which are so important to the continued progress of the Nation.

Knowing that you have always been interested in libraries and have offered your support in the past, I am certain that you will want to stand behind this proposed legislation. Your sponsorship of similar legislation would certainly be important.

Thank you again for your support to a program which we all recognize as vital to our country.

Sincerely,

(Mrs.) SUSANNA ALEXANDER,

Representative CLEVELAND BAILEY,

Regional Librarian. FLINT, MICH., July 6, 1962.

Chairman, Subcommittee on Education of the House Education and Labor Committee, House Office Building, House of Representatives, Washington, D.O.: The Michigan Library Association wishes to go on record in strong support of the bill to amend the Library Services Act, H.R. 11823. This is legislation vital to the educational development of the American people. It is of the utmost significance not only here in Michigan but throughout the Nation.

RANSOM L. RICHARDSON, President, Michigan Library Association.

Hon. CLEVELAND BAILEY,

GEORGIA CITIZENS LIBRARY COMMITTEE,

July 6, 1962.

Chairman, Subcommittee on Education, House Education and Labor Committee, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. BAILEY: As chairman of the Georgia Citizens Library Committee, an organization composed of all trustees and friends of the library, and as chairman of the Flint River Regional Library Board of Trustees, a multicounty regional library, I am writing you in the interest of H.R. 11823. We have already seen the multiple benefits provided by the Library Services Act in extending library services to an untold number of people in areas where heretofore there had been no availability of services; and, we feel that H.R. 11823 would present much greater opportunities since it also has included the school libraries, etc., as well as improving public library services. The library institute provisions would enable Georgia and all the States of our country to offer better opportunities in attracting and retaining more competent librarians which is a great need in this space age world in which events are moving at such speeds that it is difficult to keep our people informed. We, of the Georgia Citizens Library Committee, are relying on you, and the congressional representatives in our Congress, to see the values presented in H.R. 11823. We hope that you will report favorably for its passage.

We would like to ask also that this letter be incorporated in the hearing on H.R. 11823. For better library service to all our people, I remain,

Yours truly,

JOHN E. CLOUSE, Jr., M.D., Chairman.

Hon. CLEVELAND M. BAILEY,

House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE,
Emmitsburg, Md., July 3, 1962.

DEAR MR. BAILEY: It is with deep satisfaction that we read about the recent bill you introduced in the House of Representatives to provide assistance to school libraries. With the rising costs in all areas it is almost impossible for the unendowed school library to maintain a well-rounded book collection, to

secure an adequately trained staff in order to provide the maximum of library services with the materials available, or, to provide additional library space.

We congratulate you for this service in behalf of school libraries. Without an adequate library the whole quality of collegiate education is seriously endangered. Your bill will make a most constructive beginning to remedy the economic threats which curtail proper functioning of school libraries. Please send us a copy of your bill and any relevant materials concerning it. Sincerely yours, Rev. HUGH J. PHILLIPS, Librarian.

FULTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Atlanta, Ga., July 6, 1962.

Hon. CLEVELAND BAILEY,

Chairman, General Subcommittee on Education,

House Education and Labor Committee, Washington, D.C.

DEAR CONGRESSMAN BAILEY: I respectfully urge favorable consideration by your committee of H.R. 11823. This is the omnibus library bill which provides Federal funds for the extension of public library services, college and public school library services, and library institutes.

It is my conviction that this legislation would be tremendously helpful to education generally. I write not only as a local school administrator but also as the president-elect of the Department of Rural Education, National Education Association.

Over the course of many years here in Georgia, we have spent substantial sums both from local and State sources in the development of our library program. The increasing demands that are being made upon education today require further extension of our library services, and an extension that we cannot make without additional funds. I am sure this situation prevails generally throughout the country.

I sincerely hope there will be a favorable committee report on H.R. 11823 and also a favorable vote by the House.

May I request that my letter be made a part of the record.

May I take this opportunity also to thank you for your consistent support of educational legislation through many years.

Sincerely yours,

Representative CLEVELAND BAILEY,

DOUGLAS G. MACRAE,

Assistant Superintendent.

IRVINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT,
Fremont, Calif., July 5, 1962.

Chairman, General Subcommittee on Education,
House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. BAILEY: We are very much interested in the legislation concerning Federal aid to school libraries. We wish you and your committee to know that we endorse this most heartily and will do anything possible to give it the support necessary for passage in Congress.

The greatest number of users of library books and facilities are among the younger people. The school, being closest to these young people, would seem to be the most economical place to make the services available. Our district is most interested in this since we are starting to establish libraries and purchase books for each of our many schools.

We urge strong support of this legislation. Thanks for your interest in the matter.

Sincerely,

GUS C. ROBERTSON, Superintendent.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA,
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA,

July 9, 1962.

Hon. CLEVELAND BAILEY,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. BAILEY: Although I have expressed my pleasure to you personally over the introduction of H.R. 11823 to amend the present Library Services Act, I do want to write and say how much I value your interest in the Nation's library program and how pleased I was to be able to testify at the hearings last week.

It has been a long struggle to get proper financing for the erection of new libraries as well as the improvement of existing libraries in many areas. With the tremendous growth of communications and transportation, libraries are faced with an addiitonal problem; namely, serving nonresidents in libraries where book collections are of sufficient size to attract students and adults who find their local collections inadequate. I do hope that consideration can be given to appropriating more than the $20 million anticipated in title I for public libraries for the metropolitan libraries are going to need some real funds in order to experiment with regionalized service to taxpayers of other governmental units.

Personally, I would like to see the Federal appropriation pegged at approximately 10 cents per capita in order to give the various States enough money to: (a) continue their speed-up in rural library service and (b) to adequately demonstrate what metropolitan and regional library centers can do for residents over a larger area.

Sincerely yours,

EMERSON GREENAWAY, Director.

PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY MEMORIAL LIBRARY,
Bladensburg, Md., July 10, 1962.

Hon. CLEVELAND BAILEY,

Chairman, General Subcommittee on Education,
House Education and Labor Committee,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR SIR: On June 26, 27, and 29, your committee held hearings on the comprehensive bill to amend the Library Services Act (H.R. 11823). The pro

visions of this bill are very important to library development in urban and metropolitan aeas. We, here in Prince Georges County, find it very difficult to meet the demands for library service from our rapidly and constantly increasing population. Another source of library income is needed, and we look to an expansion of the aleady successfully proven Library Services Act for the needed assistance.

There is no question of the need for good library service for everyone in the United States. The problem is for the libraries to get the budgets necessary for the needed service. The wider base of the Federal tax dollar will give much-needed help in providing enough money to greatly improve library service in urban and metropolitan areas-even as the present provisions of the Library Services Act have improved and are continuing to improve rural library service. May I urge that you give this amendment (H.R. 11823) your very strong support, that it may be brought out of committee soon and then your continuing strong support in getting it through the House. The provisions of this bill are essential for improving and strengthening the library service for all the people of our country.

Yours very truly,

GEORGE R. HAMMOND, President.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,
Princeton, N.J., July 9, 1962.

Hon. CLEVELAND M. BAILEY,

U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

DEAR CONGRESSMAN BAILEY: I am writing to urge favorable action by the General Subcommittee on Education of the House of Education and Labor Committee on H.R. 11823. While all of the provisions of this bill seem to me important to the national welfare, as a university president I am especially interested in the assistance proposed for college and university libraries under title III.

No university can perform its functions of teaching and research effectively without a library appropriate to its program. Since World War II a number of factors have combined to make the maintenance of an effective library a very heavy burden upon each university:

1. In the national interest the colleges and universities of the country have expanded their programs of teaching and research to include many new fields of science and many areas of the world. The realms of outer space and of the interior of the atom are hardly more new to Americans than the languages and cultures of many parts of the world. Yet we must be prepared to deal with them all.

2. In these same fields and areas there has been an explosion of publication, so that our libraries need to acquire a great deal more material than they once did.

3. The increase in the cost of books, periodicals, and binding has been very heavy.

4. In response to the national need, our colleges and universities, both public and private, have been increasing their enrollments as rapidly as their resources would permit.

5. The increase in independent study, in forcing the student to rely more upon his own initiative in solving problems, has thrown a heavier burden upon the library. This is a healthy trend, leading toward better teaching and sometimes sounder instructional financing; yet it clearly demands better libraries. The combined effect of these factors on library budgets has been such that I know of no university president or librarian who is not seriously concerned with the problem.

Title III of H.R. 11823 offers no direct assistance toward the staff and building costs which make up the greater part of library expenditures, but by assisting with acquisition costs, it would ease the burden substantially. Since the pool of research material in our university libraries is a national resource, serving the Nation as a whole, direct assistance at the Federal level seems to me appropriate. Its matching provision should stimulate local initiative. Its lack of distinction between public and private institutions reflects the universality of library use and of the library problem.

I congratulate you upon the introduction of this nonpartisan, realistic legislation, and I hope that the General Subcommittee on Education will act favorably upon it.

Sincerely,

ROBERT F. GOHEEN.

JUNE 18, 1962.

Hon. HORACE R. KORNEGAY,
Member of Congress,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. KORNEGAY: In behalf of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers, I respectfully ask your most serious consideration of the provisions of House bill H.R. 11823, and the benefits to accrue to North Carolina children if this bill becomes a law.

As you know, school libraries in North Carolina, by and large, are shockingly below reasonable standards, both as to the kind and number of books, and the essential library services, that are available to students.

The PTA in North Carolina continues to do what it can. During the school year just ended, parent-teacher associations across the State put on special programs to improve the libraries of the schools they serve, and encouraging

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