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1961: The impact of the Library services act : progress and potential

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 8, 1961); Edited by Donald E. Strout

In the belief that the Library Services Act is perhaps the most unique and far-reaching development to have occurred in librarianship in recent decades, the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois early in 1961 invited the Library Services Branch of the U. S. Office of Education (under whose aegis the LSA is administered) to co-sponsor an institute on the Act, to which would be invited representatives selected by the state library agencies throughout the United States and its outlying possessions. The result was the Allerton Park Institute on "The Impact of the Library Services Act Progress and Potential, " held on November 5-8, 1961, in the relaxed and informal atmosphere of Allerton Park.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• LSA And Library Standards: Two Sides Of The Coin - Lowell Martin
• LSA, The Federal Government, And The Profession - Germaine Krettek
• LSA And The Library Services Branch - John G. Lorenz
• LSA And State Library Agencies - Roger H. Mcdonough
• LSA And The Development Of Library Systems - Carma Russell Leigh
• Financing Rural Public Library Systems - Hannis S. Smith
• Research, For What ? - S. Gilbert Prentiss
• LSA And The Future - Ralph Blasingame, Jr.
• LSA: A Political Scientist's View - Phillip Monypenny
• Summary - Harold Lancour
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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