Librarian
criticizes
fund cuts
In a speech given in honor of
Carl Hintz, retiring University
library dean, Robert Vosper,
UCLA librarian, outlined the
growth of academic libraries in
America and called upon his
audience to not allow the Nixon
administration to “dim the lights
in American libraries.”
Vosper was speaking on
scholarly libraries and the threat
posed to them by proposed Nixon
administration cuts. In his
speech, he outlined the growth of
the scholarly libraries in
America and then went on to
criticize the Nixon ad
ministration.
Vosper cited the growth of
American libraries in three
distinct spheres: the municipal
libraries, the imaginative
children’s libraries and the
scholarly libraries.
He stated that in the 1850’s
there were “no libraries in the US
for ancient study.” He said that
even though the situation had
improved by the 1920’s, “it was
still necessary for researchers to
go abroad for intense study in a
field.”
The 1920’s and 1930’s saw the
first real growth of American
scholarly libraries, and Vosper
contends that it was “connected
to growth of graduate studies in
America.”
During this period private
collections also became a major
contributing factor to the growth
of libraries. By 1966, Vosper
claimed there was an “un
faltering growth of US libraries.”
He attributes this to the high
number of US college libraries
which excelled in their
“qualities, breadth and width.”
Vosper mentioned the libraries of
UCLA, Michigan, Cornell and
Illinois as examples of this
growtn.
Vosper s«id that one essential
difference between US and
European library collections has
been the “gross and accumlative
policies of US libraries compared
with the rigorous review of
scholarship in Europe.” But, he
said, “American libraries have
their good points in that they
have used a competitive
collection system, favored
aggressive library growth, used
local control and autonomy, and
have had diversity and variety
and have been experimental and
imaginative.”
In concluding, Vosper asserted
that the present administration is
trying everything possible to
erase the efforts of the Johnson
administration’s Higher
Education Act of 1965 whereby
some semblance of a national
American library system was
created. The Library of Congress
was empowered at that time to
catalog every publication on a
world-wide basis. It has since set
up regional offices globally and
has done a “fantastic job.” But
the Nixon administration budget
cuts in the area of higher
(education will necessarily curb
these activities of the Library of
Congress. And, according to
Vosper, the cuts “would dim the
lights of the American libraries.”
Vosper urged upon his
audience to seek “open support
from the friends and users of
libraries.” He said that if
vocalism will bring action, the
librarians should not hesitate to
vocalize their demands for
continued government support.
Bobbie Brooks Dept.
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