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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA CO27.5 N87I 1966/68- 1970/72 Vr im^mfj.^ °'' ^ '^ AT CHAPEL HILL 00034021727 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialreport197072nort EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE STATE mUM (Reorganized July 1, 1956) July 1,1970- June 30, 1972 Raleigh North Carolina EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE STATE LIByRY (Reorganized July 1, 1956) July 1, 1970- June 30, 1972 Raleigh North Carolina LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Raleigh, North Carohna To His Excellency ROBERT W. SCOTT Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh My dear Sir: We have the honor to submit to you the Eighth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium ending June 30, 1972. This is in compliance with the General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 125. Respectfully submitted, MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON Chairman, North Carolina State Library Board TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Service and Organizational Chart 6 Board Members and Administration 7 Appropriations and Expenditures — State Funds 8 Appropriations and Expenditures — Federal Funds 9 Narrative Report 12 Special Projects 14 Special Services Division 15 Information Services Division 16 Consultant Services to Other State Agencies 18 Technical Services Division 18 Public Library Development Division 19 In Retrospect 23 Statistical Data 24 NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 7 BOARD Appointed by the Governor: MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON, Mocksville, Chairman Term Expires 1973 MRS. MOLLIE HUSTON LEE, Durham Term Expires 1973 MRS. T.T. POTTER, Beaufort Term Expires 1977 MR. ROBERT B. WILSON, Winston-Salem Term Expires 1975 MR. JOHN DAYTON WINEBARGER, Boone Term Expires 1977 MRS. JULIAN E. WINSLOW, Hertford Term Expires 1975 Ex Officio: DR. JERROLD ORNE, Chapel Hill DR. A. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Raleigh STATE LIBRARIAN - Philip S. Ogilvie ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN - Elaine von Oesen BUDGET. PERSONNEL. AND PURCHASING OFFICER - Mrs. Ruby B. Holloway ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN - Mrs. Betsy N. Pearce EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT FINANCIAL REPORT EXPENDITURES State Funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY EXPENDITURES Federal Funds 10 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT EXPENDITURES Federal Funds — Continued NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 11 EXPENDITURES Federal Funds — Continued 12 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY Biennial reports are essentially recorded history. As such they include both drama and trauma as interacting forces shaping pro-gress for the covered period and laying a foundation for future developments. Both were present and active in the eighth bien-nium of the North Carolina State Library, now officially designated as the Office of State Library of the North Carolina Department of Art, Culture and History, and in the libraries and institutions with which it collaborates in service to the people of the state. Each left its mark upon the biennium and its influence to bear upon the future as State Library and cooperating agencies made their ways with varied gaits, sometimes skipping across sunny meadows of progress, but as often lumbering through shadowy jungles of problems from July 1, 1970 through June 30, 1972. The eighth biennial journey of the State Library and its com-panions in service got off to a good start. Encouragement and support of library-aware, library-concerned Governor, State Legis-lature and Congressional Delegation plus that of other friends of libraries including library-dedicated local and state Ubrary boards and staffs. North Carolinians for Better Libraries and state, regional and national library associations were easily discernible. The Ad-visory Budget Commission held a special hearing on the programs and long-range goals of the State Library weeks in advance of the usual budget request hearings. Governor Robert W. Scott made a major library oriented speech early in the biennium and Mrs. Scott made two. The Governor also moved to sustain the strength of and improve the geographical representation of the State Lib-rary Board of Trustees by appointing to its membership for terms ending June 30, 1975, Robert B. Wilson, Jr., of Forsyth County and Mrs. Julian E. Winslow of Perquimans County each of whom brought to it interest and enthusiasm to match that of Paul S. Ballance and Richard C. Erwin, Sr., both of Forsyth County whose terms had expired. Later Governor Scott appointed to that body Mrs. Mollie H. Lee of Durham County to complete the unexpired term of Mrs. Lois S. Neal of Catawba County who had resigned to rejoin the staff of the State Library and whose term on the board was to run through June 30, 1973, and still later he reap- 13 pointed to the board for terms to expire June 30, 1977, Mrs. T.T. Potter of Carteret County and John Dayton Winebarger of Watauga County thereby maintaining wide geographical representation and restoring minority representation on the board as begun by former Governor Dan K. Moore. In the meanwhile, the 1969 General Assembly had already pro-vided an increase of $500,000 in Aid to Public Libraries for 1970- 1971, and among electees to the State Legislature in the fall of 1970 were numerous senators and representatives of both major political parties who were outspokenly interested in providing additional Aid to Public Libraries as well as particularly interested in increasing support of the State Library itself to enable it to increase its services with less reliance on unpredictable federal funding. Of special interest to them was expansion and improve-ment of the North Carolina Interhbrary Services Network linking academic, public and special libraries with and through the State Library by telecommunications for the sharing of information and materials resources. And, when the 1971 General Assembly ad-journed it had added well over half a million dollars for these pur-poses for the second year of the eighth biennium with $200,000 earmarked for increased Aid to Public Libraries and about $136, 000 for the North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network. Even so, the eighth biennium was filled with apprehension about the possible effects of State Government Reorganization. The State Library Board expressed a specific desire to be tied in with Education if the State Library could not remain a separate entity and the State Librarian suggested as an alternative the possi-ble creation of a State Department of Information Resources of which the State Library would be a component. Consequently ini-tial reaction to inclusion in the Department of Art, Culture and History was disappointment. After the Honorable Sam Ragan was appointed first Secretary of the new department, however, reor-ganization moved forward amicably and with reassurance that the long-range goals of the State Library had not suffered in the trans-lation. There was also concern at the beginning and throughout the biennium about rumored changes of emphasis in priorities for expenditure of funds received under the Library Services and Construction Act as well as fear that the Act might not be funded at all by Congress in the face of Administration inclinations to phase out catagorical grant programs in favor of as yet inade-quately defined revenue sharing proposals. As it turned out changes in priorities did occur along with an increase in funding of the Act, 14 and some public librarians met the challenge with some startlingly imaginative and productive projects bearing little resemblance to traditional library services with the result that drama seemed clearly to be triumphing over trauma and confidence was allaying fear. SPECIAL PROJECTS 13 special public Hbrary projects directed to the needs of the disadvantaged won approval of the State Library Board in the second year of the biennium for funding under Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act. One having to do with the acquisition of Black literature and requiring $56,420 for im-plementation was designed to give every county a share in this high priority funding. Another, "Public Library Action for Child-ren's Education (PLACE)," conceived by Mrs. Patricia H. Heide-mann, Children's Librarian, Forsyth County Library, fostered and encouraged by Paul S. Ballance, retiring Forsyth County Library Director, and Nicholas M. Meiszer, Forsyth County Manager, and refined by Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Specialist on the State Library staff, won the immediate attention and plaudits of regional and national library officials involved with federally funded library programs and attracted the interest of local and regional Model Cities officials in working cooperatively with it. The project had built into it unlimited research possibilities, inten-tional involvement of inner-city residents and socially rehabilitated persons as staff and sophisticated plans for evaluation of the pro-gram by an academic consortium representing varied disciphnes. It also had the distinction of being one of the largest, if not the largest, public library project for the disadvantaged developed with Library Services and Construction Act funds in the Southeast, and was visited in February, 1972, by Henry T. Drennan, Senior Program Officer, Library Research and Development, United States Office of Education, Washington, D. C, and Ms. Shirley Brother, Library Services Program Officer, Bureau of Libraries and Learning Resources, United States Office of Education, Region IV, Atlanta, Georgia. Other approved projects, some of them equally exciting but of smaller proportions, were "Parnassus Project (Outreach Program of Library Services to the Economically Disadvantaged)," Gaston- Lincoln Regional Library; "Project Outreach," Bladen County Public Library; "Multi-Media on Wheels," Columbus County 15 Public Library; "Humpty-Dumpty (Appalachian Outreach Pro-gram)," Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library; "Extension Ser-vice," Randolph Public Library; "In with the People," Pubhc Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; "Special Library Services for the Disadvantaged," Sandhill Regional Library Sys-tem; "Services to Elderly, Disabled and Handicapped," Central North Carolina Regional Library; "Operation Weekend," North-western Regional Library; "REACH (Reaching Every Adult and Child Here)," Appalachian Regional Library and "Library Service for the Aging," Durham City-County Pubhc Library. SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION While such public library projects for the disadvantaged were making history across the state, the Special Services Division of the State Library directed by Mrs. Marian P. Leith was using Title IV-A and IV-B funds from the Library Services and Construc-tion Act and increases in state support to make history in state institutions and in serving the physically handicapped including the blind throughout North Carolina. 18,840 institutionalized North Carolinians were receiving library services at the end of the eighth biennium as compared with only 15,204 two years earher. Of the less than 10,000 of the estimated total average institu-tionalized population of 27.000 annually who were not yet re-ceiving such services most were in road camps of the State Depart-ment of Corrections. Even inmates of those institutions vvere participating in a pilot paperback project in 14 camps in Western North Carolina and some other camps around the state were re-ceiving service from nearby public libraries. Among the latter was a library program initiated by the Appalachian Regional Library in Wilkes County with special encouragement from Regional Library Director Charles Abel and formally inaugurated by Com-missioner Lee Bounds. Simultaneous with these developments were increases in service to the physically handicapped including the blind. Talking Book service continued to be in most demand, but there were steady increases in the use of Braille, tapes and the newer cassettes. North Carolina users of these services increased from 4,681 to 7,590 dur-ing the biennium and an additional 2,545 South Carolina readers being served by contract from our Dale Street headquarters in Raleigh were taxing the capacities of staff and quarters to keep up with circulation and housing of the Talking Book collection in 16 particular. As a consequence a decision was made at the end of the eighth biennium to notify the South Carolina State Library that effective July 1, 1973, it would be expected to assume responsi-bility for Talking Book service in that state although our Special Services Division would continue to handle Braille, tape and cass-ette services for South Carolinians under an adjusted contract if that was desired. INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION The Information Services (formerly Reference Services) Divi-sion, too, saw dramatic growth during the eighth biennium. It also experienced its own particular trauma that was felt through-out the State Library when Genealogy Librarian Margaret Bird-song Price, a member of the staff of the State Library in excess of 44 years, died September 6, 1971, after a brief bout with can-cer. It has been noted elsewhere that despite her preoccupation with the past as a genealogist, Margaret Price was attuned to the times in which she lived and was turned off completely by inflexi-ble, self-righteous traditionalists who made of rank, race, religion and imaginary slights cases for disruptive actions and attitudes undermining staff performance and morale. One of her last major contributions to the overall good of the State Library and the specific resolution of a divisional problem was the quiet conduct-ing of an informal survey of staff preferences for a successor to Ms. M. Sangster Parrott who had resigned as division director to accept a full-time teaching position with the Department of Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Thus it happened that some new, valuable programs were initiated and existing programs expanded in the Information Services Divi-sion during the eighth biennium under the capable leadership of Ms. Parrott and her successor, David T. Bevan, overwhelming choice of the majority of the professional and paraprofessional members of the division staff to succeed Ms. Parrott. The North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network (IN-WATS) was expanded to serve Technical Institutes, Community Colleges and other two-year colleges as promised and brought the number of academic, public and special libraries being served to 218. Evi-dence that two-year academic institutions were ready to use this service was indicated by the fact that of the 18,610 IN-WATS calls received during the biennium, 861 were received from two-year colleges and technical institutes during the 9 months they were eligible to receive the service. 17 Contractual arrangements were made with the hbraries at the University of North Carohna, North Carohna State University, and Duke University beginning at the same time the service was expanded to serve two-year institutions and calhng for "on demand cooperation in supplying network service including information and library materials by way of reference service, photoduplication of materials or interlibrary loans." And, Interlibrary Services Net-work staff at the State Library took on the task of initiating inter-library loan requests received via IN-WATS from public libraries, wrote and distributed a manual describing services available and instructions for use of the network and otherwise improved on procedures to facilitate rapid and efficient response. In the mean-while, Title III funds received under the Library Services and Con-struction Act were still being used to maintain and increase access to the North Carolina Union Catalog at Chapel Hill, and in the second year of the biennium over half of the anticipated 104 microfilm reels of that catalog which lists more than 2 milhon titles and locates them in some type of library in the state were received at the State Library and in use thereby reducing time lag caused by TWX requests for locations. In fact public libraries could be assured that if a location were found for a title in the state the interlibrary loan form would be typed and in the mail the same morning and efforts were underway to expedite matters even farther by arrangements to call ahead to libraries whereof materials were being requested and to encourage them to get the materials in the mails to requesting Hbraries in advance of actual receipt of the interlibrary loan form on the way to them at the time. Another development of special significance was the program for distribution from the 1970 United States Census of Population and Housing of useful statistical data. The Louis Round Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the State Library jointly acquired the 1 970 Census Summary Tapes for North Carolina and contiguous states and deposited a copy of the North Carolina Tapes with Central Data Processing Division of the North Carohna Department of Administration where they formed the data base for a Census Data Users Service. From this developed a close liaison with the Planning Division of the Depart-ment of Administration which was further assisted by State Lib-rary acquisition of a complete set of census maps for North Caro-lina to augment use of the census materials. At the same time other kinds of federal statistical data was becoming available on 18 computer tape and being purchased or considered for purchase because it permits more detailed data for small geographical areas than does printed report material. This and other kinds of refer-ence and documents materials in addition to new services had increased in-house library use by 56.3% over the previous bien-nium, and Mrs. Lois S. Neal, successor to Mrs. Price in the Genea-logy Section, was seeing a gradual increase in use of that service and anticipating a need to initiate Saturday hours of service in the fall. CONSULTANT SERVICES TO OTHER STATE AGENCIES Growth was also the pattern in consultant service to the librar-ies of other agencies of State Government during the eighth bien-nium. Organization and cataloging of libraries in the Office of State Treasurer, the Commission for the Blind Library of the State Department of Human Resources and the Museum of Natural History Library of the State Department of Agriculture were added to the responsibilities of the State Library Consultant to Libraries of other State Agencies during the eighth biennium increasing the number of such libraries under Mrs. Dora Zia's supervision to 8. ThePubhc Health Library (also in the State Department of Human Resources), the Division of Community Services and the Forest Service Libraries (Department of Natural and Economic Re-sources), the Museum of History Library (Department of Art, Culture and History), and the Legislative Library of the General Assembly continued under the general supervision of Mrs. Zia and her assistant while the Budget Division Library in the Department of Administration, the Social Services Library of the Department of Human Resources, the State Parks Library collection of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources, the Board of Higher Education Library, and the Rockingham County Health Department Library all called upon the services of the section one or more times during the biennium. TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION The mandate given with respect to reorganization of the Tech-nical Services Division under Mrs. Marion M. Johnson's continuing direction was that there should be coordination and merger of similar functions between Processing Center operations and in-house preparations of materials in the eighth biennium. As a con- 19 sequence acquisition of in-house materials was coordinated with Processing Center ordering and physical processing functions for both were completely consolidated. The overall results have been better end-products at less expense. It has also become pos-sible despite a biennial increase in the State Library book budget of approximately 70% to absorb increases without increasing per-sonnel and to reassume responsibilities for acquiring and keeping records for newspapers, periodicals, and microfilm and of prepar-ing materials for binding and preservation. Along with these coordinating activities cataloging continued with Ms. Dorothy Grigg's usual attention to excellence and the card catalog expanded from 432 to 576 drawers while the shelf-list grew from 150 to 180 drawers. Recataloging of the old lOO's, 500's, and 600's in Dewey were completed and work had begun on the 200's and 700's. These changes were necessary to bring the collection into line with changes in the 1 8th edition of Dewey. In the meanwhile, the Processing Center had its most productive biennium since it came into being in 1960. 303,783 books were ordered, cataloged and processed for 57 public library systems covering 87 counties in addition to the 7,929 non-fiction titles ordered and processed for the State Library collection. The Pro-cessing Center had exceeded processing a million volumes in its first 12 years of existence by 261,269 at the end of the biennium. It is also significant that the Processing Center Duplicating Center had improved its performance to the point of being able to assume and handle with appreciable dispatch the duplication of cards for the libraries of other State Government Agency libraries, the North Carolina Union Catalog and a substantial portion of the State Library's in-house collection cards in addi-tion to meeting its primary responsibilities to the Processing Center. The Duplicating Center had assumed the tasks of reproduc-ing printed reports, bibliographies, forms, letterheads, etc., for other divisions of the State Library at the time it was reconstituted as an operation of the Department of Art, Culture and History with the understanding that Processing Center functions were to continue as its first priority. PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION The Public Library Development Division wliich has primary responsibility for advising local governments and interested citi-zens of ways and means of providing and improving public library services with local, state and federal funds continued through the 20 eighth biennium with Ms. Elaine von Oesen as Acting Director. She reported in December, 1972, that the division had met its responsibilities in the eighth biennium effectively, but minimally with two special consultants, one for Young Adult Services and one for Children's Services, one general consultant, one field librarian, an audiovisual specialist and an auditor with the capable assistance of stenographic and other supportive staff including a special labor consultant for construction projects. George D. Garretson had filled the position of General Con-sultant for the first 18 months of the biennium before leaving to become director of the Roanoke County Pubhc Library in Virginia, and Jerry W. Brownlee, formerly the director of the Haywood County Library in North Carolina came to the staff as General Consultant effective March 1, 1972. Ms. von Oesen and the State Librarian supplemented the capable efforts of these gentlemen in trying to meet the demands for general consultant service. Mr. Garretson had visited 170 libraries during his time with the division in the eighth biennium and had conducted two workshops having to do with Reference Services and Weeding respectively. Mr. Brownlee began with an orientation tour of public libraries across the state, conducted a regional workshop on Attitudes and Program Planning and addressed learning center personnel of Community Colleges and Technical Institutes on areas of cooperation between these institutions and pubhc libraries. Ms. Nancy O'Neal, Field Librarian, served Franklin County from November, 1970 to June, 1971 and Duplin County from December, 1971 to May, 1972, in lieu of professional librarians in those locations. She was instrumental in relocating and revitali-zing the Franklinton Branch of the former. She also worked closely with Library Services and Construction Act projects for the disadvantaged and was especially helpful in Bladen County. In July and August of 1971 she pioneered in an investigation of public library services for pre-school children in North Carolina as a member of the staff of the School of Library Science of North Carolina Central University while on leave from the State Library, and she has served as editor of the North Carolina State Library News Letter through most of the eighth biennium. Ryland Johnson, Division Auditor, supported the services of the Public Library Development Division by installing accounting systems in 5 public libraries in line with county and/or municipal fiscal systems and made periodic visits to advise on accounting problems or to audit libraries. He also conducted the annual 21 collection of statistics from academic, public and special libraries as required by the General Statutes while Mr. Gil Taylor checked, under a contractual agreement with the State Library, on con-formity to labor regulations on minimum rates for public library construction projects under Title II of the Library Services and Construction Act. This meant that he worked with the construc-tion of new buildings or renovated and expanded buildings in Anson, Avery, Gaston, Lee, Randolph and Rockingham Counties. Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Consultant, conducted 13 workshops and talked with more than 150 other groups about storytelling, the Right to Read Program, and special subjects. She was appointed by the State Librarian to be the official representa-tive and participant of the State Library for the Southeastern States Cooperative Library Survey and the Right to Read Pro-gram in North Carolina and also served the Southeastern Library Association as its representative for the program. She was a mem-ber of the Governor's Commission on Children and Youth during the eighth biennium and collaborated with the Special Services Division of the State Library in a workshop at the C. A. Dihon School, Butner, for state institutional personnel concerned with library services to children and young people. Ms. Nancy F. Wallace, Consultant on Young Adult Services, conducted 8 workshops on young adult services often covering as many as 1 2 counties in a single workshop. She used young people on her programs to discuss books they had read, to react to new films and to be frank with librarians regarding services which met or failed to meet their special needs. Ms. Wallace also conducted a statewide poll to determine which books high school students throughout the state were reading for pleasure. Some 60,000 students participated, and partially attributable to their response was the preparation of an extraordinarily attractive 8 panel reading list illustrated by the Wake County Public Library's talented Anne Hill and entitled Outta Sight! Insight: A List for Young Adults. The list was prepared and printed by the State Library in coopera-tion with the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina Lib-rary Association. Ms. Marilin Rose, Audiovisual Specialist in the division, con-ducted three workshops around the state during the biennium including one in the form of a preconference institute leading into the 1971 Conference of the North Carolina Library Associa-tion. In tile meanwhile it was brought to her attention late in the biennium that she and the State Librarian had unwittingly ac- 22 cepted a statement that materials purchased with Federal funds supporting the film program were "specifically prohibited from being used by schools and other academic institutions serving a special clientele," and each had quoted authoritatively by tele-phone and in letters this supposed restriction that was in fact opposed to a federal interpretation of the language of the Act publicized four years earlier. Consequently, they began immediate-ly with the urging of Secretary Sam Ragan to correct the misin-formation and to plan to extend the availability of film service although it was recognized by all three of them and others that a limited collection and limited staff and facilities would make any expansion difficult. Ms. von Oesen conducted three workshops to explain the new emphases of the Library Services and Construction Act early in the biennium. She also attended all three phases of an Institute on Statewide Library Planning and evaluation conducted by a team from Ohio State University either in Columbus, Ohio, or Washington, D.C., and she helped plan and participated as a speaker in both Annual Trustee-Librarian Institutes cosponsored by the Institute of Government and the State Library. She represented the State Librarian and acted for him in his absence in numerous meetings and conferences during the biennium, and her overall contributions to library development in North Carolina during the period were especially significant. Ms. von Oesen completed her term as President of the South-eastern Library Association in the fall of 1970, and was appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Library Association in the spring of 1972. Mrs. Marian Leith continued to serve the Round Table for the Blind and related American Library Association sections and division throughout the biennium. Mr. Ogilvie served as President of the Association of State Library Agencies for FY 1971 and completed a four-year term as a member of the Govern-ing Council of the American Library Association in June, 1971. Other members of the staff served the North Carolina Library Association in various capacities with the distinction typical of Office of State Library Personnel in service to libraries and hbrarianship. 23 IN RETROSPECT The eighth biennium of the Office of State Library was a good one far more distinguished for dramatic breakthroughs in services fostered and given than discouraged by the traumas of loss and change. The ninth biennium beckoned it with new challenges from which it showed no will to shrink, for the remembered scent of victories won tantahzed it into panting pursuit of victories yet to be won. One has but to peruse the following graphs and statis-tical summaries to understand that there can be no slowing down or turning back. The words to be heard are "Right On!" PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS New Buildings Appalachian funds LSCA II Local TOTAL Avery County $ 40,000 $ 50,488 $ 82,704 $173,192 Newland Reidsville Public 50,487 284,344 334,831 Reidsville Randleman Public 44,550 103,950 148,500 Randleman Broadway Branch 13,000 31,500 44,500 Lee County, Broadway Renovation Anson County 50,488 147,509 197,997 Wadesboro Addition: Cherryville Branch 31,221 84,413 115,634 Gaston County, Cherryville 24 NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION !.086 3,152 !.598 4.681 5,843 7,590 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Blind and Physically Handicapped Served by the Special Services Division of the North Carolina Office of State Library NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION 25 Total Average Institutional Population 18,840 18,200 15.204 14,294 11,474 2,199 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1971 Institutional Population Served by the Special Services Division of the North Carolina Office of State Library 26 N. C. OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FILM SERVICE Report of Use Type of Audience NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY 2 Processing Center Volume 1960-1972 May-June 1960 2,405 1960-1961 60,516 1961-1962 60,209 1962-1963 74,801 1963-1964 79.384 1964-1965 , 88,589 1965-1966 93,771 1966-1967 106,617 1967-1968 123,436 1968-1969 134,141 1969-1970 133,617 1970-1971 158,561 1971-1972 145,222 Total 1,261,269 28 40 </> '•p ro +-• CO-D o o •gcc </> o CO O 15< o 'E j= u 29 INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION 30 1970-1972 Biennium Interlibrary loan requests (titles): Mail 14 J71 In-WATS 25,450 Total Interlibrary loan titles requested: 40,221 Locations requested: 13,747 Locations received: 8,878 Per cent received: 64% Interlibrary loan requests received from institutions: (Mail and In-WATS) Community colleges/technical institutes 1,599 5% Colleges and universities 1,986 6% High schools 284 1% Special libraries 536 2% Public libraries 28,676 86% Total 33,081 Total In-WATS calls: 18,610 North Carolina Information Project Requests: 42,860 31 INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION Statistical Summary 1960-1972 Interlibrary Biennium 32 NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FINANCIAL SUPPORT July 1, 1962 through June 30, 1972 1962-1963 33 On sO lU \0 CI. '^ ST ^, 3 O I- O iJ O CI. iX^ 00 C^ O 1- O "u O CL OC D-o 34 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICAL SUMMARY July 1, 1970 -June 30, 1972 7-1-70 6-30-72 Total number public libraries 299 327 Regional (47 counties) 15 15 County (includes municipal libraries 53 53 serving county) Independent municipal 33 34 Branch 198 225 Total bookmobiles serving 94 counties 82 82 Population with access to public libraries (100%) .... 5,082,059 July 1.1970 June 30, 1972 Total book stock 5,697,443 6,224,092 volumes per capita 1.12 1.22 Total circulation 13,906,899 14,999,257 (Includes bookmobile circulation) 3,694,566 3,508,421 Source of library income FY 1971 Amt. FY 1972 Amt. FY 1972 % Per Capita City or Town $2,243,821 $ 2,664,469 24 $ .52 County 4,026,268 5,000,936 44 .98 State Aid 1,293,125 2,000,000 18 .39 Federal Aid 520,584 735,243 7 .15 Other 742,736 845,955 7 .17 $8,826,534 $11,246,603 100 $2.21 Operating expenditures: Personnel Costs $5,438,085 $ 6,909,283 64 $1.36 Library Materials 1,760,581 2,452,002 23 .48 Other 1,166,531 1,346,778 13 .27 $8,365,197 $10,708,063 100 $2.11 Capital expenditures $1,211,661 $ 1,300,698 Libraries with tax votes 30 31 Counties 16 16 (Anson, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cumberland, Davidson, Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Polk, Rockingham, Rutherford, Sampson, Union) Cities 14 15 (Aulander, Black Mountain, Granite Falls, Greensboro, Henderson, Hickory, High Point, Pinebluff, Rocking-ham, Statesville, Wallace, Washington, Weldon, Whiteville, plus Mount Airy - 1972)
Object Description
Description
Title | Biennial report of the North Carolina State Library (reorganized July 1, 1956) |
Other Title | Biennial report of the state librarian for the two fiscal years ending |
Creator | North Carolina State Library. |
Date | 1970; 1971; 1972 |
Subjects |
Libraries--North Carolina--Periodicals Libraries--North Carolina--Statistics Library materials North Carolina State Library--Periodicals |
Place | North Carolina, United States |
Time Period |
(1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period |
Description | Biennial report of the State Library of North Carolina. Suspended 1973-1983. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. :The Library,[1958?- |
Agency-Current |
North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources |
Rights | State Document see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll22,63754 |
Physical Characteristics | 8 v. :ill. ;23 cm. |
Collection | Health Sciences Library. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Type | text |
Language | English |
Format |
Reports |
Digital Characteristics-A | 1581 KB; 60 p. |
Digital Collection |
Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access, a North Carolina LSTA-funded grant project North Carolina Digital State Documents Collection |
Digital Format | application/pdf |
Title Replaced By | North Carolina. Division of State Library.Biennial report |
Title Replaces | North Carolina Library Commission.Report of the North Carolina Library Commission (1936/38) |
Audience | All |
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Full Text | THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA CO27.5 N87I 1966/68- 1970/72 Vr im^mfj.^ °'' ^ '^ AT CHAPEL HILL 00034021727 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialreport197072nort EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE STATE mUM (Reorganized July 1, 1956) July 1,1970- June 30, 1972 Raleigh North Carolina EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE STATE LIByRY (Reorganized July 1, 1956) July 1, 1970- June 30, 1972 Raleigh North Carolina LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Raleigh, North Carohna To His Excellency ROBERT W. SCOTT Governor of North Carolina, Raleigh My dear Sir: We have the honor to submit to you the Eighth Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium ending June 30, 1972. This is in compliance with the General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 125. Respectfully submitted, MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON Chairman, North Carolina State Library Board TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Service and Organizational Chart 6 Board Members and Administration 7 Appropriations and Expenditures — State Funds 8 Appropriations and Expenditures — Federal Funds 9 Narrative Report 12 Special Projects 14 Special Services Division 15 Information Services Division 16 Consultant Services to Other State Agencies 18 Technical Services Division 18 Public Library Development Division 19 In Retrospect 23 Statistical Data 24 NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 7 BOARD Appointed by the Governor: MRS. GORDON TOMLINSON, Mocksville, Chairman Term Expires 1973 MRS. MOLLIE HUSTON LEE, Durham Term Expires 1973 MRS. T.T. POTTER, Beaufort Term Expires 1977 MR. ROBERT B. WILSON, Winston-Salem Term Expires 1975 MR. JOHN DAYTON WINEBARGER, Boone Term Expires 1977 MRS. JULIAN E. WINSLOW, Hertford Term Expires 1975 Ex Officio: DR. JERROLD ORNE, Chapel Hill DR. A. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Raleigh STATE LIBRARIAN - Philip S. Ogilvie ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN - Elaine von Oesen BUDGET. PERSONNEL. AND PURCHASING OFFICER - Mrs. Ruby B. Holloway ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN - Mrs. Betsy N. Pearce EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT FINANCIAL REPORT EXPENDITURES State Funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY EXPENDITURES Federal Funds 10 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT EXPENDITURES Federal Funds — Continued NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 11 EXPENDITURES Federal Funds — Continued 12 EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY Biennial reports are essentially recorded history. As such they include both drama and trauma as interacting forces shaping pro-gress for the covered period and laying a foundation for future developments. Both were present and active in the eighth bien-nium of the North Carolina State Library, now officially designated as the Office of State Library of the North Carolina Department of Art, Culture and History, and in the libraries and institutions with which it collaborates in service to the people of the state. Each left its mark upon the biennium and its influence to bear upon the future as State Library and cooperating agencies made their ways with varied gaits, sometimes skipping across sunny meadows of progress, but as often lumbering through shadowy jungles of problems from July 1, 1970 through June 30, 1972. The eighth biennial journey of the State Library and its com-panions in service got off to a good start. Encouragement and support of library-aware, library-concerned Governor, State Legis-lature and Congressional Delegation plus that of other friends of libraries including library-dedicated local and state Ubrary boards and staffs. North Carolinians for Better Libraries and state, regional and national library associations were easily discernible. The Ad-visory Budget Commission held a special hearing on the programs and long-range goals of the State Library weeks in advance of the usual budget request hearings. Governor Robert W. Scott made a major library oriented speech early in the biennium and Mrs. Scott made two. The Governor also moved to sustain the strength of and improve the geographical representation of the State Lib-rary Board of Trustees by appointing to its membership for terms ending June 30, 1975, Robert B. Wilson, Jr., of Forsyth County and Mrs. Julian E. Winslow of Perquimans County each of whom brought to it interest and enthusiasm to match that of Paul S. Ballance and Richard C. Erwin, Sr., both of Forsyth County whose terms had expired. Later Governor Scott appointed to that body Mrs. Mollie H. Lee of Durham County to complete the unexpired term of Mrs. Lois S. Neal of Catawba County who had resigned to rejoin the staff of the State Library and whose term on the board was to run through June 30, 1973, and still later he reap- 13 pointed to the board for terms to expire June 30, 1977, Mrs. T.T. Potter of Carteret County and John Dayton Winebarger of Watauga County thereby maintaining wide geographical representation and restoring minority representation on the board as begun by former Governor Dan K. Moore. In the meanwhile, the 1969 General Assembly had already pro-vided an increase of $500,000 in Aid to Public Libraries for 1970- 1971, and among electees to the State Legislature in the fall of 1970 were numerous senators and representatives of both major political parties who were outspokenly interested in providing additional Aid to Public Libraries as well as particularly interested in increasing support of the State Library itself to enable it to increase its services with less reliance on unpredictable federal funding. Of special interest to them was expansion and improve-ment of the North Carolina Interhbrary Services Network linking academic, public and special libraries with and through the State Library by telecommunications for the sharing of information and materials resources. And, when the 1971 General Assembly ad-journed it had added well over half a million dollars for these pur-poses for the second year of the eighth biennium with $200,000 earmarked for increased Aid to Public Libraries and about $136, 000 for the North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network. Even so, the eighth biennium was filled with apprehension about the possible effects of State Government Reorganization. The State Library Board expressed a specific desire to be tied in with Education if the State Library could not remain a separate entity and the State Librarian suggested as an alternative the possi-ble creation of a State Department of Information Resources of which the State Library would be a component. Consequently ini-tial reaction to inclusion in the Department of Art, Culture and History was disappointment. After the Honorable Sam Ragan was appointed first Secretary of the new department, however, reor-ganization moved forward amicably and with reassurance that the long-range goals of the State Library had not suffered in the trans-lation. There was also concern at the beginning and throughout the biennium about rumored changes of emphasis in priorities for expenditure of funds received under the Library Services and Construction Act as well as fear that the Act might not be funded at all by Congress in the face of Administration inclinations to phase out catagorical grant programs in favor of as yet inade-quately defined revenue sharing proposals. As it turned out changes in priorities did occur along with an increase in funding of the Act, 14 and some public librarians met the challenge with some startlingly imaginative and productive projects bearing little resemblance to traditional library services with the result that drama seemed clearly to be triumphing over trauma and confidence was allaying fear. SPECIAL PROJECTS 13 special public Hbrary projects directed to the needs of the disadvantaged won approval of the State Library Board in the second year of the biennium for funding under Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act. One having to do with the acquisition of Black literature and requiring $56,420 for im-plementation was designed to give every county a share in this high priority funding. Another, "Public Library Action for Child-ren's Education (PLACE)," conceived by Mrs. Patricia H. Heide-mann, Children's Librarian, Forsyth County Library, fostered and encouraged by Paul S. Ballance, retiring Forsyth County Library Director, and Nicholas M. Meiszer, Forsyth County Manager, and refined by Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Specialist on the State Library staff, won the immediate attention and plaudits of regional and national library officials involved with federally funded library programs and attracted the interest of local and regional Model Cities officials in working cooperatively with it. The project had built into it unlimited research possibilities, inten-tional involvement of inner-city residents and socially rehabilitated persons as staff and sophisticated plans for evaluation of the pro-gram by an academic consortium representing varied disciphnes. It also had the distinction of being one of the largest, if not the largest, public library project for the disadvantaged developed with Library Services and Construction Act funds in the Southeast, and was visited in February, 1972, by Henry T. Drennan, Senior Program Officer, Library Research and Development, United States Office of Education, Washington, D. C, and Ms. Shirley Brother, Library Services Program Officer, Bureau of Libraries and Learning Resources, United States Office of Education, Region IV, Atlanta, Georgia. Other approved projects, some of them equally exciting but of smaller proportions, were "Parnassus Project (Outreach Program of Library Services to the Economically Disadvantaged)," Gaston- Lincoln Regional Library; "Project Outreach," Bladen County Public Library; "Multi-Media on Wheels," Columbus County 15 Public Library; "Humpty-Dumpty (Appalachian Outreach Pro-gram)," Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library; "Extension Ser-vice," Randolph Public Library; "In with the People," Pubhc Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; "Special Library Services for the Disadvantaged," Sandhill Regional Library Sys-tem; "Services to Elderly, Disabled and Handicapped," Central North Carolina Regional Library; "Operation Weekend," North-western Regional Library; "REACH (Reaching Every Adult and Child Here)," Appalachian Regional Library and "Library Service for the Aging," Durham City-County Pubhc Library. SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION While such public library projects for the disadvantaged were making history across the state, the Special Services Division of the State Library directed by Mrs. Marian P. Leith was using Title IV-A and IV-B funds from the Library Services and Construc-tion Act and increases in state support to make history in state institutions and in serving the physically handicapped including the blind throughout North Carolina. 18,840 institutionalized North Carolinians were receiving library services at the end of the eighth biennium as compared with only 15,204 two years earher. Of the less than 10,000 of the estimated total average institu-tionalized population of 27.000 annually who were not yet re-ceiving such services most were in road camps of the State Depart-ment of Corrections. Even inmates of those institutions vvere participating in a pilot paperback project in 14 camps in Western North Carolina and some other camps around the state were re-ceiving service from nearby public libraries. Among the latter was a library program initiated by the Appalachian Regional Library in Wilkes County with special encouragement from Regional Library Director Charles Abel and formally inaugurated by Com-missioner Lee Bounds. Simultaneous with these developments were increases in service to the physically handicapped including the blind. Talking Book service continued to be in most demand, but there were steady increases in the use of Braille, tapes and the newer cassettes. North Carolina users of these services increased from 4,681 to 7,590 dur-ing the biennium and an additional 2,545 South Carolina readers being served by contract from our Dale Street headquarters in Raleigh were taxing the capacities of staff and quarters to keep up with circulation and housing of the Talking Book collection in 16 particular. As a consequence a decision was made at the end of the eighth biennium to notify the South Carolina State Library that effective July 1, 1973, it would be expected to assume responsi-bility for Talking Book service in that state although our Special Services Division would continue to handle Braille, tape and cass-ette services for South Carolinians under an adjusted contract if that was desired. INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION The Information Services (formerly Reference Services) Divi-sion, too, saw dramatic growth during the eighth biennium. It also experienced its own particular trauma that was felt through-out the State Library when Genealogy Librarian Margaret Bird-song Price, a member of the staff of the State Library in excess of 44 years, died September 6, 1971, after a brief bout with can-cer. It has been noted elsewhere that despite her preoccupation with the past as a genealogist, Margaret Price was attuned to the times in which she lived and was turned off completely by inflexi-ble, self-righteous traditionalists who made of rank, race, religion and imaginary slights cases for disruptive actions and attitudes undermining staff performance and morale. One of her last major contributions to the overall good of the State Library and the specific resolution of a divisional problem was the quiet conduct-ing of an informal survey of staff preferences for a successor to Ms. M. Sangster Parrott who had resigned as division director to accept a full-time teaching position with the Department of Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Thus it happened that some new, valuable programs were initiated and existing programs expanded in the Information Services Divi-sion during the eighth biennium under the capable leadership of Ms. Parrott and her successor, David T. Bevan, overwhelming choice of the majority of the professional and paraprofessional members of the division staff to succeed Ms. Parrott. The North Carolina Interlibrary Services Network (IN-WATS) was expanded to serve Technical Institutes, Community Colleges and other two-year colleges as promised and brought the number of academic, public and special libraries being served to 218. Evi-dence that two-year academic institutions were ready to use this service was indicated by the fact that of the 18,610 IN-WATS calls received during the biennium, 861 were received from two-year colleges and technical institutes during the 9 months they were eligible to receive the service. 17 Contractual arrangements were made with the hbraries at the University of North Carohna, North Carohna State University, and Duke University beginning at the same time the service was expanded to serve two-year institutions and calhng for "on demand cooperation in supplying network service including information and library materials by way of reference service, photoduplication of materials or interlibrary loans." And, Interlibrary Services Net-work staff at the State Library took on the task of initiating inter-library loan requests received via IN-WATS from public libraries, wrote and distributed a manual describing services available and instructions for use of the network and otherwise improved on procedures to facilitate rapid and efficient response. In the mean-while, Title III funds received under the Library Services and Con-struction Act were still being used to maintain and increase access to the North Carolina Union Catalog at Chapel Hill, and in the second year of the biennium over half of the anticipated 104 microfilm reels of that catalog which lists more than 2 milhon titles and locates them in some type of library in the state were received at the State Library and in use thereby reducing time lag caused by TWX requests for locations. In fact public libraries could be assured that if a location were found for a title in the state the interlibrary loan form would be typed and in the mail the same morning and efforts were underway to expedite matters even farther by arrangements to call ahead to libraries whereof materials were being requested and to encourage them to get the materials in the mails to requesting Hbraries in advance of actual receipt of the interlibrary loan form on the way to them at the time. Another development of special significance was the program for distribution from the 1970 United States Census of Population and Housing of useful statistical data. The Louis Round Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the State Library jointly acquired the 1 970 Census Summary Tapes for North Carolina and contiguous states and deposited a copy of the North Carolina Tapes with Central Data Processing Division of the North Carohna Department of Administration where they formed the data base for a Census Data Users Service. From this developed a close liaison with the Planning Division of the Depart-ment of Administration which was further assisted by State Lib-rary acquisition of a complete set of census maps for North Caro-lina to augment use of the census materials. At the same time other kinds of federal statistical data was becoming available on 18 computer tape and being purchased or considered for purchase because it permits more detailed data for small geographical areas than does printed report material. This and other kinds of refer-ence and documents materials in addition to new services had increased in-house library use by 56.3% over the previous bien-nium, and Mrs. Lois S. Neal, successor to Mrs. Price in the Genea-logy Section, was seeing a gradual increase in use of that service and anticipating a need to initiate Saturday hours of service in the fall. CONSULTANT SERVICES TO OTHER STATE AGENCIES Growth was also the pattern in consultant service to the librar-ies of other agencies of State Government during the eighth bien-nium. Organization and cataloging of libraries in the Office of State Treasurer, the Commission for the Blind Library of the State Department of Human Resources and the Museum of Natural History Library of the State Department of Agriculture were added to the responsibilities of the State Library Consultant to Libraries of other State Agencies during the eighth biennium increasing the number of such libraries under Mrs. Dora Zia's supervision to 8. ThePubhc Health Library (also in the State Department of Human Resources), the Division of Community Services and the Forest Service Libraries (Department of Natural and Economic Re-sources), the Museum of History Library (Department of Art, Culture and History), and the Legislative Library of the General Assembly continued under the general supervision of Mrs. Zia and her assistant while the Budget Division Library in the Department of Administration, the Social Services Library of the Department of Human Resources, the State Parks Library collection of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources, the Board of Higher Education Library, and the Rockingham County Health Department Library all called upon the services of the section one or more times during the biennium. TECHNICAL SERVICES DIVISION The mandate given with respect to reorganization of the Tech-nical Services Division under Mrs. Marion M. Johnson's continuing direction was that there should be coordination and merger of similar functions between Processing Center operations and in-house preparations of materials in the eighth biennium. As a con- 19 sequence acquisition of in-house materials was coordinated with Processing Center ordering and physical processing functions for both were completely consolidated. The overall results have been better end-products at less expense. It has also become pos-sible despite a biennial increase in the State Library book budget of approximately 70% to absorb increases without increasing per-sonnel and to reassume responsibilities for acquiring and keeping records for newspapers, periodicals, and microfilm and of prepar-ing materials for binding and preservation. Along with these coordinating activities cataloging continued with Ms. Dorothy Grigg's usual attention to excellence and the card catalog expanded from 432 to 576 drawers while the shelf-list grew from 150 to 180 drawers. Recataloging of the old lOO's, 500's, and 600's in Dewey were completed and work had begun on the 200's and 700's. These changes were necessary to bring the collection into line with changes in the 1 8th edition of Dewey. In the meanwhile, the Processing Center had its most productive biennium since it came into being in 1960. 303,783 books were ordered, cataloged and processed for 57 public library systems covering 87 counties in addition to the 7,929 non-fiction titles ordered and processed for the State Library collection. The Pro-cessing Center had exceeded processing a million volumes in its first 12 years of existence by 261,269 at the end of the biennium. It is also significant that the Processing Center Duplicating Center had improved its performance to the point of being able to assume and handle with appreciable dispatch the duplication of cards for the libraries of other State Government Agency libraries, the North Carolina Union Catalog and a substantial portion of the State Library's in-house collection cards in addi-tion to meeting its primary responsibilities to the Processing Center. The Duplicating Center had assumed the tasks of reproduc-ing printed reports, bibliographies, forms, letterheads, etc., for other divisions of the State Library at the time it was reconstituted as an operation of the Department of Art, Culture and History with the understanding that Processing Center functions were to continue as its first priority. PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION The Public Library Development Division wliich has primary responsibility for advising local governments and interested citi-zens of ways and means of providing and improving public library services with local, state and federal funds continued through the 20 eighth biennium with Ms. Elaine von Oesen as Acting Director. She reported in December, 1972, that the division had met its responsibilities in the eighth biennium effectively, but minimally with two special consultants, one for Young Adult Services and one for Children's Services, one general consultant, one field librarian, an audiovisual specialist and an auditor with the capable assistance of stenographic and other supportive staff including a special labor consultant for construction projects. George D. Garretson had filled the position of General Con-sultant for the first 18 months of the biennium before leaving to become director of the Roanoke County Pubhc Library in Virginia, and Jerry W. Brownlee, formerly the director of the Haywood County Library in North Carolina came to the staff as General Consultant effective March 1, 1972. Ms. von Oesen and the State Librarian supplemented the capable efforts of these gentlemen in trying to meet the demands for general consultant service. Mr. Garretson had visited 170 libraries during his time with the division in the eighth biennium and had conducted two workshops having to do with Reference Services and Weeding respectively. Mr. Brownlee began with an orientation tour of public libraries across the state, conducted a regional workshop on Attitudes and Program Planning and addressed learning center personnel of Community Colleges and Technical Institutes on areas of cooperation between these institutions and pubhc libraries. Ms. Nancy O'Neal, Field Librarian, served Franklin County from November, 1970 to June, 1971 and Duplin County from December, 1971 to May, 1972, in lieu of professional librarians in those locations. She was instrumental in relocating and revitali-zing the Franklinton Branch of the former. She also worked closely with Library Services and Construction Act projects for the disadvantaged and was especially helpful in Bladen County. In July and August of 1971 she pioneered in an investigation of public library services for pre-school children in North Carolina as a member of the staff of the School of Library Science of North Carolina Central University while on leave from the State Library, and she has served as editor of the North Carolina State Library News Letter through most of the eighth biennium. Ryland Johnson, Division Auditor, supported the services of the Public Library Development Division by installing accounting systems in 5 public libraries in line with county and/or municipal fiscal systems and made periodic visits to advise on accounting problems or to audit libraries. He also conducted the annual 21 collection of statistics from academic, public and special libraries as required by the General Statutes while Mr. Gil Taylor checked, under a contractual agreement with the State Library, on con-formity to labor regulations on minimum rates for public library construction projects under Title II of the Library Services and Construction Act. This meant that he worked with the construc-tion of new buildings or renovated and expanded buildings in Anson, Avery, Gaston, Lee, Randolph and Rockingham Counties. Ms. Jane B. Wilson, Children's Services Consultant, conducted 13 workshops and talked with more than 150 other groups about storytelling, the Right to Read Program, and special subjects. She was appointed by the State Librarian to be the official representa-tive and participant of the State Library for the Southeastern States Cooperative Library Survey and the Right to Read Pro-gram in North Carolina and also served the Southeastern Library Association as its representative for the program. She was a mem-ber of the Governor's Commission on Children and Youth during the eighth biennium and collaborated with the Special Services Division of the State Library in a workshop at the C. A. Dihon School, Butner, for state institutional personnel concerned with library services to children and young people. Ms. Nancy F. Wallace, Consultant on Young Adult Services, conducted 8 workshops on young adult services often covering as many as 1 2 counties in a single workshop. She used young people on her programs to discuss books they had read, to react to new films and to be frank with librarians regarding services which met or failed to meet their special needs. Ms. Wallace also conducted a statewide poll to determine which books high school students throughout the state were reading for pleasure. Some 60,000 students participated, and partially attributable to their response was the preparation of an extraordinarily attractive 8 panel reading list illustrated by the Wake County Public Library's talented Anne Hill and entitled Outta Sight! Insight: A List for Young Adults. The list was prepared and printed by the State Library in coopera-tion with the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina Lib-rary Association. Ms. Marilin Rose, Audiovisual Specialist in the division, con-ducted three workshops around the state during the biennium including one in the form of a preconference institute leading into the 1971 Conference of the North Carolina Library Associa-tion. In tile meanwhile it was brought to her attention late in the biennium that she and the State Librarian had unwittingly ac- 22 cepted a statement that materials purchased with Federal funds supporting the film program were "specifically prohibited from being used by schools and other academic institutions serving a special clientele," and each had quoted authoritatively by tele-phone and in letters this supposed restriction that was in fact opposed to a federal interpretation of the language of the Act publicized four years earlier. Consequently, they began immediate-ly with the urging of Secretary Sam Ragan to correct the misin-formation and to plan to extend the availability of film service although it was recognized by all three of them and others that a limited collection and limited staff and facilities would make any expansion difficult. Ms. von Oesen conducted three workshops to explain the new emphases of the Library Services and Construction Act early in the biennium. She also attended all three phases of an Institute on Statewide Library Planning and evaluation conducted by a team from Ohio State University either in Columbus, Ohio, or Washington, D.C., and she helped plan and participated as a speaker in both Annual Trustee-Librarian Institutes cosponsored by the Institute of Government and the State Library. She represented the State Librarian and acted for him in his absence in numerous meetings and conferences during the biennium, and her overall contributions to library development in North Carolina during the period were especially significant. Ms. von Oesen completed her term as President of the South-eastern Library Association in the fall of 1970, and was appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Library Association in the spring of 1972. Mrs. Marian Leith continued to serve the Round Table for the Blind and related American Library Association sections and division throughout the biennium. Mr. Ogilvie served as President of the Association of State Library Agencies for FY 1971 and completed a four-year term as a member of the Govern-ing Council of the American Library Association in June, 1971. Other members of the staff served the North Carolina Library Association in various capacities with the distinction typical of Office of State Library Personnel in service to libraries and hbrarianship. 23 IN RETROSPECT The eighth biennium of the Office of State Library was a good one far more distinguished for dramatic breakthroughs in services fostered and given than discouraged by the traumas of loss and change. The ninth biennium beckoned it with new challenges from which it showed no will to shrink, for the remembered scent of victories won tantahzed it into panting pursuit of victories yet to be won. One has but to peruse the following graphs and statis-tical summaries to understand that there can be no slowing down or turning back. The words to be heard are "Right On!" PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS New Buildings Appalachian funds LSCA II Local TOTAL Avery County $ 40,000 $ 50,488 $ 82,704 $173,192 Newland Reidsville Public 50,487 284,344 334,831 Reidsville Randleman Public 44,550 103,950 148,500 Randleman Broadway Branch 13,000 31,500 44,500 Lee County, Broadway Renovation Anson County 50,488 147,509 197,997 Wadesboro Addition: Cherryville Branch 31,221 84,413 115,634 Gaston County, Cherryville 24 NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION !.086 3,152 !.598 4.681 5,843 7,590 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Blind and Physically Handicapped Served by the Special Services Division of the North Carolina Office of State Library NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION 25 Total Average Institutional Population 18,840 18,200 15.204 14,294 11,474 2,199 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1971 Institutional Population Served by the Special Services Division of the North Carolina Office of State Library 26 N. C. OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FILM SERVICE Report of Use Type of Audience NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY 2 Processing Center Volume 1960-1972 May-June 1960 2,405 1960-1961 60,516 1961-1962 60,209 1962-1963 74,801 1963-1964 79.384 1964-1965 , 88,589 1965-1966 93,771 1966-1967 106,617 1967-1968 123,436 1968-1969 134,141 1969-1970 133,617 1970-1971 158,561 1971-1972 145,222 Total 1,261,269 28 40 > '•p ro +-• CO-D o o •gcc > o CO O 15< o 'E j= u 29 INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION 30 1970-1972 Biennium Interlibrary loan requests (titles): Mail 14 J71 In-WATS 25,450 Total Interlibrary loan titles requested: 40,221 Locations requested: 13,747 Locations received: 8,878 Per cent received: 64% Interlibrary loan requests received from institutions: (Mail and In-WATS) Community colleges/technical institutes 1,599 5% Colleges and universities 1,986 6% High schools 284 1% Special libraries 536 2% Public libraries 28,676 86% Total 33,081 Total In-WATS calls: 18,610 North Carolina Information Project Requests: 42,860 31 INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION Statistical Summary 1960-1972 Interlibrary Biennium 32 NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY FINANCIAL SUPPORT July 1, 1962 through June 30, 1972 1962-1963 33 On sO lU \0 CI. '^ ST ^, 3 O I- O iJ O CI. iX^ 00 C^ O 1- O "u O CL OC D-o 34 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICAL SUMMARY July 1, 1970 -June 30, 1972 7-1-70 6-30-72 Total number public libraries 299 327 Regional (47 counties) 15 15 County (includes municipal libraries 53 53 serving county) Independent municipal 33 34 Branch 198 225 Total bookmobiles serving 94 counties 82 82 Population with access to public libraries (100%) .... 5,082,059 July 1.1970 June 30, 1972 Total book stock 5,697,443 6,224,092 volumes per capita 1.12 1.22 Total circulation 13,906,899 14,999,257 (Includes bookmobile circulation) 3,694,566 3,508,421 Source of library income FY 1971 Amt. FY 1972 Amt. FY 1972 % Per Capita City or Town $2,243,821 $ 2,664,469 24 $ .52 County 4,026,268 5,000,936 44 .98 State Aid 1,293,125 2,000,000 18 .39 Federal Aid 520,584 735,243 7 .15 Other 742,736 845,955 7 .17 $8,826,534 $11,246,603 100 $2.21 Operating expenditures: Personnel Costs $5,438,085 $ 6,909,283 64 $1.36 Library Materials 1,760,581 2,452,002 23 .48 Other 1,166,531 1,346,778 13 .27 $8,365,197 $10,708,063 100 $2.11 Capital expenditures $1,211,661 $ 1,300,698 Libraries with tax votes 30 31 Counties 16 16 (Anson, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cumberland, Davidson, Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Polk, Rockingham, Rutherford, Sampson, Union) Cities 14 15 (Aulander, Black Mountain, Granite Falls, Greensboro, Henderson, Hickory, High Point, Pinebluff, Rocking-ham, Statesville, Wallace, Washington, Weldon, Whiteville, plus Mount Airy - 1972) |