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THE LIBRARY OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
AT CHAPEL HILL
THE COLLECTION OF
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SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT
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July 1, 1966-June 30, 1968
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July 1, 1966-June 30, 1968
Raleigh
North Carolina
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Raleigh, North Carolina
To His Excellency Robert W. Scott
Governor of No7^th Carolina, Raleigh
My dear Sir :
We have the honor to submit to you the sixth biennial report
of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium
ending June 30, 1968. This is in compliance with the General
Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 125.
Respectfully submitted,
Mark M. Lindsey, M.D.
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
Changes 13
Miss Snyder's Death 14
Legislative Commission 15
Library Development Study 16
Total Coverage 17
Nev^ Buildings 18
Other Extension Services 18
Moving Films to Raleigh 20
Archives and History-Library Building 20
Special Services Division 22
Reference Services Division 24
Technical Services Division 25
Processing Center 26
A Good Biennium Anyway 26
The Future 27
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
Archives and History — State Library Building
109 East Jones Street, Raleigh
BOARD
Appointed by the Governor:
Mark M. Lindsey, M.D., Hamlet, Chairman
Term Expires 1971
Paul S. Ballance, Winston-Salem, Vice Chairman
Term Expires 1969
Richard C. Erwin, Sr., Winston-Salem Term Expires 1969
Mrs. James B. Neal, Hickory Term Expires 1973
Mrs. T. T. Potter, Beaufort Term Expires 1971
Mrs. Gordon Tomlinson, Mocksville Term Expires 1973
Ex Officio:
Dr. a. Craig Phillips, Raleigh
Dr. Jerrold Orne, Chapel Hill
STATE LIBRARIAN— Philip S. Ogilvie
ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN— Elaine von Oesen
BUDGET, PERSONNEL, AND PURCHASING OFFICER-
MRS. Ruby B. Holloway
SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN-
MRS. Betsy N. Pearce
SECRETARY TO ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN-
MRS. Pauline C. Hartofelis
Sixth Biennial Report
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
State Funds
North Carolina
State Library
State Aid to
Public Libraries
1966-67 1967-68 1966-67 1967-68
Salaries — Officers
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Printing and Binding
Repairs and Alterations
General Expense
Per Diem and Expense — Members
Equipment
Books
Grants to Counties and Regions
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
Estimated Receipts
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS
$ 14,500
165,883
2,836
6,050
986
7,816
197
310
574
1,516
34,026
$234,694
10,662
$224,032
$ 15,250
190,377
2,776
7,301
1,458
5,362
59:
322
521
4,751
44,619
41,188
499
125
2,174
51
53
$273,333
17,075
$256,258
227
686,250
$730,567
$730,567
36,750
499
125
2,417
80
48
258
736,250
$776,427
$776,427
North Carolina State Library
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds
PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Printing
Repairs
General Expense
Equipment
Books
Grants to Counties and Regions
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security-
Grants for Scholarships
TOTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES
1966-67
PUBLIC LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION
Supplies
Communication
Travel
General Expense
Grants to Counties and Municipalities
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
$ 59,172
1,504
2,978
3,703
1,708
800
3,254
3,332
26,746
585,687
6,871
22,458
717,713
1967-68
695,370
TOTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION
695,370
$ 66,659
2,480
4,025
3,070
108
267
2,050
9,258
1,998
686,091
7,813
16,725
800,544
50
100
119
466
1,073,459
2,190
1,076,384
10
Sixth Biennial Report
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
1966-67
1967-68
INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION
Supplies
11
434
Communication
100
3,588
Travel
888
52
167
General Expense
24,762
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
1,275
TOTAL INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION
1,051
30,226
STATE INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARY SERVICES
Salaries — Staff
6,705
Supplies
30
Communication
25
Travel
369
Grants to State Institutional Libraries
34,000
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
748
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
894
TOTAL STATE INSTITUTIONAL
LIBRARY SERVICES
42,771
LIBRARY SERVICES TO PHYSICALLY
HANDICAPPED
Salaries Staff
3,856
30
Communication
50
55
Travel
118
187
982
13,200
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
444
North Carolina State Library
11
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
Equipment
Books
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
Transfer to State Institutional Library Services
Program for Overhead
TOTAL LIBRARY SERVICES TO
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
PROCESSING CENTER
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Motor Vehicle Operation
Repairs and Alterations
General Expense
Insurance and Bonding
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
Equipment
Books
TOTAL PROCESSING CENTER
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
ESTIMATED RECIPTS
Balance Previous Year
1966-67
168
63,683
15,851
605
21
1,076
19
92
7,189
1,012
350,020
439,568
1,853,870
$1,895,685
127,139
1967-68
2,272
5,365
1,191
5,633
33,215
77,465
18,968
1,355
39
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1,308
2,075
99
8,917
4,148
455,948
570,358
2,628,774
$2,708,593
$ 168,955
12 Sixth Biennial Report
SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
July 1, 1966— June 30, 1968
Having made total development of all of North Carolina's
resources the emphasis of his administration, Governor Dan K.
Moore set the theme for the sixth biennium of the North
Carolina State Library. Libraries are essential members of any
team dedicated to concepts of total development, and the State
Library, because of its special relationships to state, local and
federal governments, acknowledged unequivocal involvement in
pursuance of the goals of the governor.
Thad Stem, Jr., chairman of the North Carolina State Library
Board during the first year of the biennium, took the message
of total involvement in total development to library related
meetings throughout the state. Dr. Mark M. Lindsey who fol-
lowed him as chairman did likewise. Encouraged by their example
and the interest and enthusiasm of the entire State Library
Board including Mrs. James B. Neal who succeeded Stem on the
board in 1967 and Mrs, Bemice Kelly Harris who resigned from
it because of illness early in 1968, the St.ite Librarian, his
associate. Miss Elaine von Oesen, and the entire staff of the
State Library labored wholeheartedly throughout the biennium
to make it completely relevant to the goals of total development
in North Carolina.
As often happens, however, wholehearted dedication met with
unexpected frustrations. The planned removal of the Regional
Library for the Blind from the Mansion Park Building to new
quarters at 1124 Hillsborough Street took place in August, 1966,
with minimum interruption of service, but the unforeseen move
of the rest of the State Library just a few months later was
crippling.
The biennium was hardly one-third gone when notification was
received of the necessity of moving the State Library to
temporary quarters so the Library Building on Morgan Street
could be remodeled to house the newly created State Court of
Appeals. Quarters to serve the State Library until completion
North Carolina State Library 13
of the new Archives and History-Library Building on East Jones
Street were found at 1161/-2 West Hargett Street over and behind
a furniture store. The move itself was affected in May and June,
1967, with inadequate equipment and inexperienced help. Neither
service as usual nor service as planned has been possible as a
result of this combination of circumstances, but service has been
rendered insofar as possible, and some new services and service
related changes have been initiated.
CHANGES
Of particular significance prior to the big move was official
designation effective August 1, 1966, of Miss Elaine von Oesen
as Assistant State Librarian, a position the duties of which she
had been performing and which include responsibilities to ex-
tension functions of the State Library and to administration of
state and federal aid programs. Miss Frances Gish was then
promoted to the position of Chief Library Consultant with its
obligations to participation in overall planning of the State
Library program especially as it relates to public library
development.
A second major change came after the move in the creation
October 1, 1967, of a Special Services Division with responsi-
bilities for library services to residents of state institutions and
to visually and physically handicapped residents of both North
Carolina and South Carohna. This new division focused on areas
of need long neglected because of limited means and staff. The
former Regional Library for the Blind was one component of it.
A subsection of the Extension Services Division was another.
Federal funds available in FY 1968 under Titles IV-A and IV-B
of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) beckoned
both to extend and expand as functions of a division created for
and dedicated to the provision of library services to citizens in
circumstances out of the ordinary.
Also notable among new developments in service in the bien-
nium was IN-WATS (Inward Wide Area Telephone Service)
Reference Service through which 70 public library headquarters
across the state received toll-free telephone access to the Refer-
ence Services Division of the State Library. IN-WATS coupled
14 Sixth Biennial Report
with TWX (Teletypewriter Exchange Service) Service between
the State Library and the Duke University Library as well as
between each of them and the Interlibrary Center at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill has been an
important step towards making all of the state's library re-
sources work for all of its citizens rather than for one or another
segment of them. A more detailed description of this service
may be found in an article, "What's WATS?," in Popular
Government, June, 1968, where it is noted that this service
begun February 1, 1968, with substantial support under LSCA
Title III became in just a few months an important link in the
Medical Library Extension Service of the Association for the
North Carolina Regional Medical Program in addition to be-
coming indispensable to effective service in smaller public
libraries and a useful adjunct to service in larger ones.
A further service development of special import was the
appointment May 15, 1968, of Miss Nancy Wallace as Young
Adult Services Consultant on the staff of the Extension Services
Division. This was a first and fundamental step towards meeting
a basic need of North Carolina's public libraries, namely the
development and strengthening of library services to children
and young adults by training librarians to work with youth and
to select books and related materials for collections of special
appeal and usefulness to them.
MISS SNYDER'S DEATH
Regrettably the significant addition of a specialist in services
to young adults was preceded only a few weeks by the death
of Miss Phyllis Mai Snyder who had been particularly interested
in such expansion and specialization in consultant services. Miss
Snyder died April 2, 1968, after a long and painful illness. She
had been with the Extension Services Division since December 1,
1956, and had served as a general Library Consultant in western
and piedmont areas of the state.
Her untimely death following Miss Madge Blalock's transfer
from the Extension Services Division to the Special Services
Division and followed by the resignation of Herschel V.
Anderson, Audio-Visual and General Library Consultant, to
North Carolina State Library 15
assume directorship of the Sandhill Regional Library left the
division at the end of the sixth biennium in desperate straits,
but undaunted.
Other developments provided some reassurance. For one thing,
North Carolinians for Better Libraries, chaired by David Stick
early in the biennium and by Hector MacLean later, had gained
strength. For another, the North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees, chaired early in the biennium by George M. Stephens
of Asheville and thereafter by Samuel H. Poole of Aberdeen,
had fostered developments that would keep both organizations
well occupied for some time to come and would result inevitably
in some additional interest in and increased support of public
libraries in the state.
LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION
Giving impetus to North Carolinians for Better Libraries and
direction to the North Carolina Association of Library Trustees
had been Resources of North Carolina Libraries published in
1965 by Governor Terry Sanford's Commission on Library Re-
sources. From it came the recommendation that the state
assume a greater share of public library support. Mr. Stephens
and his associates thought North Carolina legislators should
arrive at the same conclusion by making an investigation of
their own of the need for better public libraries and of the
means of supporting them. Certain legislators came to share
this thinking.
Senator Mary Faye Brumby of Cherokee and Representative
Donald M. Stanford of Orange, chairmen of the Senate and House
Library Committees, introduced, with the backing of several
members of both bodies, legislation in the 1967 General Assembly
that resulted in the creation of a "Legislative Commission to
Study Library Support in the State of North Carolina Particu-
larly as Regards the Financing of Public Libraries." To this
Commission, Lieutenant Governor Robert W. Scott appointed
Senators Brumby of Cherokee and Hector MacLean of Robeson ;
Speaker of the House Earl W. Vaughn appointed Representatives
Charles W. Phillips of Guilford and Thomas E. Strickland of
Wayne, and Governor Moore appointed David Stick, author and
16 Sixth Biennial Report
businessman of Dare, as chairman. The Commission was to
report its findings and make its recommendations to the 1969
General Assembly.
It set out immediately to accomplish its purposes. The as-
sistance of the Institute of Government was solicited, and an
advisory committee consisting of J. Allen Adams, Raleigh
attorney and North Carolinians for Better Libraries board
member; the Hon. Edwin Gill, State Treasurer; Dr. Mark M.
Lindsey, North Carolina State Library Board chairman ; John T.
Morrisey, Sr., Secretary-Treasurer and General Counsel of the
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and
Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Association of County
Attorneys; Philip S. Ogilvie, State Librarian; Samuel H. Poole,
Aberdeen attorney and North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees chairman; Mrs. Davetta L. Steed, Executive Secretary
of the North Carolina League of Muncipalities, and Representa-
tive Donald M. Stanford, was appointed.
Hearings were held in the first half of 1968 at Greensboro
(Feb. 23), Elizabeth City (Mar. 15), Goldsboro (Apr. 5),
Lumberton (Apr. 26), and Asheville (May 17). By the end of
the biennium summarizations and recommendations were being
drafted out of in depth study of public library support and the
opinions of citizens and public officials who had participated in
the hearings. There was every indication that the document
being produced would contain challenge and promise and that
it would become the rallying ground for North Carolinians for
Better Libraries, the North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees, and the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina
Library Association.
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT STUDY
Additional encouragement was being taken at the end of the
biennium from a study being conducted by Arthur D. Little,
Inc., under contract to the State Library Board. Purposes were
evaluation of existing public library development programs and
the preparation of recommendations with alternates for the
improvement of public library services and of State Library
services to the public libraries of the state. A team of three
highly competent librarians, Walter W. Curley, Mary A.
North Carolina State Library 17
Heneghan, and Stefan B. Moses, were at work on the project.
They, too, were conducting hearings as well as initiating private
interviews that could help them get at the facts. It was too
early to conjecture with any degree of accuracy what their
conclusions and recommendations might be, but there was some
evidence that they would favor adjustments to formulas for
distributing state and federal aid, closer cooperation of the State
Library with major academic libraries in the Research Triangle
area, expansion of the IN- WATS and TWX communications net-
work provided through the State Library, and further develop-
ment of larger units of service among public libraries.
The sixth biennium while not producing any new regional
library systems did see growth in two already established three-
county regional libraries which by adding a fourth county each
increased the number of four-county regional libraries to four.
The Northampton County Library joined Bertie, Gates, and
Hertford Counties in the Albemarle Regional Library, and the
Anson County Library had entered into an agreement with
Montgomery, Moore, and Richmond Counties for participation
in the Sandhill Regional Library. These two regional library
systems with their larger population bases, additional grants-
in-aid, and concomitant economies began immediately to plan
and undertake substantial expansions of service.
TOTAL COVERAGE
Another milestone in public library development was achieved
in the sixth biennium for the first time when the Lumberton
Public Library turned its assets over to the newly formed
Robeson County Library on July 1, 1967, and the Alexander
County Library came into being on October 1, 1967, to bring
countywide public library service to the last two of North
Carolina's 100 counties. Bookmobiles extended the services of
these new public libraries to remote areas of their respective
counties, and in Robeson County town libraries in Maxton and
Red Springs provided additional service from supplementary
rotating collections of books supplied from headquarters in
Lumberton. With total coverage of the state with public library
service, there remained the quest for quality in that service.
18 Sixth Biennial Report
NEW BUILDINGS
Library buildings, although not so important as the materials
and services they house, are recognized as influencing the
quality of library service. It is noteworthy, therefore, that eleven
new buildings, two major additions to existing buildings and
renovations of a large storage area in another existing building
were approved for construction funds under LSCA Title II in
the sixth biennium. Three of the new buildings and one of the
additions qualified for supplemental support under the Appa-
lachian Development Act (Sec. 214) administered by the
Governor and the State Planning Task Force in North Carolina.
One of them, the Polk County project, had been withdrawn in
1966 because bids exceeded available funds. It was rebid and
funded in 1967.
A list of building projects appears on the opposite page. It
should be noted that, in addition to assisting with funds by
distributing LSCA Title II funds to approved projects, the staff
of the Extension Services Division of the State Library helped
select sites, write building programs, counsel architects and
librarians, choose equipment, etc. The same assistance was
given locally funded projects in Aulander, Kernersville, Rose-
boro, and Wallace, and many Sundays in the biennium were
devoted by the State Librarian, Assistant State Librarian, and
Library Consultants to the dedication programs for these and
other buildings previously funded but not completed until the
sixth biennium was underway.
OTHER EXTENSION SERVICES
Other services of the Extension Services Division also con-
tributed to progress towards quality public library service in
the biennium. At the time of Miss Snyder's illness and after her
death. General Library Consultants, the Assistant State Li-
barian, and the State Librarian attempted to cover her territory
without appreciable neglect of their own territorial or other
responsibilities. Operations funds for county and regional library
systems were continued and increased slightly as State Aid and
LSCA Title I monies were distributed through the State Library
to them. Improved Interlibrary Loan Services were made
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Library Appalachian LSCA Title II Local Total
New Buildings:
Black Mountain P.L. $ 28,320
Black Mountain
Dare County P.Lib.
Manteo
Dunn Pub. Lib.
Dunn
Henderson Co. P.L. $187,722
Hendersonville
Hertford Co. P.L.
Winton
Moore County P.L.
Carthage
Person Co. P.L.
Roxboro
Polk County P.Lib. $ 16,385
Columbus
Robeson Co. P.Lib.
Lumberton
Siler City P.Lib.
Siler City
Southport-Brunswick
Co. Public Lib.
Southport
Additions:
McDowell Co. P.L. $ 75,000 $140,000 $ 65,000 $280,000
Marion
Sheppard Mem. P.L. $205,897 $190,058 $395,955
Greenville
Renovations:
Elbert Ivey Mem. P.L. $ 15,200 $ 27,594 $ 42,794
Hickory
$ 50,840
$ 44,858
$124,018
$ 45,491
$ 37,220
$ 82,711
$ 52,050
$ 50,774
$102,824
$218,278
$101,500
$507,500
$ 58,061
$ 47,504
$105,565
$ 67,255
$ 90,000
$157,255
$140,833
$148,343
$289,176
$ 49,369
$ 35,000
$100,754
$215,479
$162,554
$378,033
$ 99,295
$111,971
$211,266
$ 57,813
$ 40,175
$ 97,988
20 Sixth Biennial Report
possible by strengthening the Interlibrary Center Union Catalog
operations at Chapel Hill with more staff and faster com-
munications capabilities through LSCA Title III monies and by
Reference Services Division relaxation of regulations governing
such loans. Audio-visual services acquisitions increased and new
strengths were added with a special slide collection.
A collection of 10,000 art slides was acquired for loan to
individuals and groups throughout the state. In the meanwhile,
UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
AT CHAPEL HILL
THE COLLECTION OF
NORTH CAROLINIANA
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SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
STATE UBRARV
(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1, 1966-June 30, 1968
Raleigh
North Carolina
SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT
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(Reorganized July 1, 1956)
July 1, 1966-June 30, 1968
Raleigh
North Carolina
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Raleigh, North Carolina
To His Excellency Robert W. Scott
Governor of No7^th Carolina, Raleigh
My dear Sir :
We have the honor to submit to you the sixth biennial report
of the North Carolina State Library covering the biennium
ending June 30, 1968. This is in compliance with the General
Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 125.
Respectfully submitted,
Mark M. Lindsey, M.D.
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
Changes 13
Miss Snyder's Death 14
Legislative Commission 15
Library Development Study 16
Total Coverage 17
Nev^ Buildings 18
Other Extension Services 18
Moving Films to Raleigh 20
Archives and History-Library Building 20
Special Services Division 22
Reference Services Division 24
Technical Services Division 25
Processing Center 26
A Good Biennium Anyway 26
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North Carolina State Library 7
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
Archives and History — State Library Building
109 East Jones Street, Raleigh
BOARD
Appointed by the Governor:
Mark M. Lindsey, M.D., Hamlet, Chairman
Term Expires 1971
Paul S. Ballance, Winston-Salem, Vice Chairman
Term Expires 1969
Richard C. Erwin, Sr., Winston-Salem Term Expires 1969
Mrs. James B. Neal, Hickory Term Expires 1973
Mrs. T. T. Potter, Beaufort Term Expires 1971
Mrs. Gordon Tomlinson, Mocksville Term Expires 1973
Ex Officio:
Dr. a. Craig Phillips, Raleigh
Dr. Jerrold Orne, Chapel Hill
STATE LIBRARIAN— Philip S. Ogilvie
ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN— Elaine von Oesen
BUDGET, PERSONNEL, AND PURCHASING OFFICER-
MRS. Ruby B. Holloway
SECRETARY TO STATE LIBRARIAN-
MRS. Betsy N. Pearce
SECRETARY TO ASSISTANT STATE LIBRARIAN-
MRS. Pauline C. Hartofelis
Sixth Biennial Report
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
State Funds
North Carolina
State Library
State Aid to
Public Libraries
1966-67 1967-68 1966-67 1967-68
Salaries — Officers
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Printing and Binding
Repairs and Alterations
General Expense
Per Diem and Expense — Members
Equipment
Books
Grants to Counties and Regions
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
Estimated Receipts
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS
$ 14,500
165,883
2,836
6,050
986
7,816
197
310
574
1,516
34,026
$234,694
10,662
$224,032
$ 15,250
190,377
2,776
7,301
1,458
5,362
59:
322
521
4,751
44,619
41,188
499
125
2,174
51
53
$273,333
17,075
$256,258
227
686,250
$730,567
$730,567
36,750
499
125
2,417
80
48
258
736,250
$776,427
$776,427
North Carolina State Library
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds
PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Printing
Repairs
General Expense
Equipment
Books
Grants to Counties and Regions
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security-
Grants for Scholarships
TOTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES
1966-67
PUBLIC LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION
Supplies
Communication
Travel
General Expense
Grants to Counties and Municipalities
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
$ 59,172
1,504
2,978
3,703
1,708
800
3,254
3,332
26,746
585,687
6,871
22,458
717,713
1967-68
695,370
TOTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION
695,370
$ 66,659
2,480
4,025
3,070
108
267
2,050
9,258
1,998
686,091
7,813
16,725
800,544
50
100
119
466
1,073,459
2,190
1,076,384
10
Sixth Biennial Report
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
1966-67
1967-68
INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION
Supplies
11
434
Communication
100
3,588
Travel
888
52
167
General Expense
24,762
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
1,275
TOTAL INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION
1,051
30,226
STATE INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARY SERVICES
Salaries — Staff
6,705
Supplies
30
Communication
25
Travel
369
Grants to State Institutional Libraries
34,000
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
748
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
894
TOTAL STATE INSTITUTIONAL
LIBRARY SERVICES
42,771
LIBRARY SERVICES TO PHYSICALLY
HANDICAPPED
Salaries Staff
3,856
30
Communication
50
55
Travel
118
187
982
13,200
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
444
North Carolina State Library
11
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Federal Funds — Continued
Equipment
Books
Transfer to Services Program for Overhead
Transfer to State Institutional Library Services
Program for Overhead
TOTAL LIBRARY SERVICES TO
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
PROCESSING CENTER
Salaries — Staff
Supplies
Communication
Travel
Motor Vehicle Operation
Repairs and Alterations
General Expense
Insurance and Bonding
Contributions to Retirement and Social Security
Equipment
Books
TOTAL PROCESSING CENTER
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
ESTIMATED RECIPTS
Balance Previous Year
1966-67
168
63,683
15,851
605
21
1,076
19
92
7,189
1,012
350,020
439,568
1,853,870
$1,895,685
127,139
1967-68
2,272
5,365
1,191
5,633
33,215
77,465
18,968
1,355
39
36
1,308
2,075
99
8,917
4,148
455,948
570,358
2,628,774
$2,708,593
$ 168,955
12 Sixth Biennial Report
SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
July 1, 1966— June 30, 1968
Having made total development of all of North Carolina's
resources the emphasis of his administration, Governor Dan K.
Moore set the theme for the sixth biennium of the North
Carolina State Library. Libraries are essential members of any
team dedicated to concepts of total development, and the State
Library, because of its special relationships to state, local and
federal governments, acknowledged unequivocal involvement in
pursuance of the goals of the governor.
Thad Stem, Jr., chairman of the North Carolina State Library
Board during the first year of the biennium, took the message
of total involvement in total development to library related
meetings throughout the state. Dr. Mark M. Lindsey who fol-
lowed him as chairman did likewise. Encouraged by their example
and the interest and enthusiasm of the entire State Library
Board including Mrs. James B. Neal who succeeded Stem on the
board in 1967 and Mrs, Bemice Kelly Harris who resigned from
it because of illness early in 1968, the St.ite Librarian, his
associate. Miss Elaine von Oesen, and the entire staff of the
State Library labored wholeheartedly throughout the biennium
to make it completely relevant to the goals of total development
in North Carolina.
As often happens, however, wholehearted dedication met with
unexpected frustrations. The planned removal of the Regional
Library for the Blind from the Mansion Park Building to new
quarters at 1124 Hillsborough Street took place in August, 1966,
with minimum interruption of service, but the unforeseen move
of the rest of the State Library just a few months later was
crippling.
The biennium was hardly one-third gone when notification was
received of the necessity of moving the State Library to
temporary quarters so the Library Building on Morgan Street
could be remodeled to house the newly created State Court of
Appeals. Quarters to serve the State Library until completion
North Carolina State Library 13
of the new Archives and History-Library Building on East Jones
Street were found at 1161/-2 West Hargett Street over and behind
a furniture store. The move itself was affected in May and June,
1967, with inadequate equipment and inexperienced help. Neither
service as usual nor service as planned has been possible as a
result of this combination of circumstances, but service has been
rendered insofar as possible, and some new services and service
related changes have been initiated.
CHANGES
Of particular significance prior to the big move was official
designation effective August 1, 1966, of Miss Elaine von Oesen
as Assistant State Librarian, a position the duties of which she
had been performing and which include responsibilities to ex-
tension functions of the State Library and to administration of
state and federal aid programs. Miss Frances Gish was then
promoted to the position of Chief Library Consultant with its
obligations to participation in overall planning of the State
Library program especially as it relates to public library
development.
A second major change came after the move in the creation
October 1, 1967, of a Special Services Division with responsi-
bilities for library services to residents of state institutions and
to visually and physically handicapped residents of both North
Carolina and South Carohna. This new division focused on areas
of need long neglected because of limited means and staff. The
former Regional Library for the Blind was one component of it.
A subsection of the Extension Services Division was another.
Federal funds available in FY 1968 under Titles IV-A and IV-B
of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) beckoned
both to extend and expand as functions of a division created for
and dedicated to the provision of library services to citizens in
circumstances out of the ordinary.
Also notable among new developments in service in the bien-
nium was IN-WATS (Inward Wide Area Telephone Service)
Reference Service through which 70 public library headquarters
across the state received toll-free telephone access to the Refer-
ence Services Division of the State Library. IN-WATS coupled
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with TWX (Teletypewriter Exchange Service) Service between
the State Library and the Duke University Library as well as
between each of them and the Interlibrary Center at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill has been an
important step towards making all of the state's library re-
sources work for all of its citizens rather than for one or another
segment of them. A more detailed description of this service
may be found in an article, "What's WATS?," in Popular
Government, June, 1968, where it is noted that this service
begun February 1, 1968, with substantial support under LSCA
Title III became in just a few months an important link in the
Medical Library Extension Service of the Association for the
North Carolina Regional Medical Program in addition to be-
coming indispensable to effective service in smaller public
libraries and a useful adjunct to service in larger ones.
A further service development of special import was the
appointment May 15, 1968, of Miss Nancy Wallace as Young
Adult Services Consultant on the staff of the Extension Services
Division. This was a first and fundamental step towards meeting
a basic need of North Carolina's public libraries, namely the
development and strengthening of library services to children
and young adults by training librarians to work with youth and
to select books and related materials for collections of special
appeal and usefulness to them.
MISS SNYDER'S DEATH
Regrettably the significant addition of a specialist in services
to young adults was preceded only a few weeks by the death
of Miss Phyllis Mai Snyder who had been particularly interested
in such expansion and specialization in consultant services. Miss
Snyder died April 2, 1968, after a long and painful illness. She
had been with the Extension Services Division since December 1,
1956, and had served as a general Library Consultant in western
and piedmont areas of the state.
Her untimely death following Miss Madge Blalock's transfer
from the Extension Services Division to the Special Services
Division and followed by the resignation of Herschel V.
Anderson, Audio-Visual and General Library Consultant, to
North Carolina State Library 15
assume directorship of the Sandhill Regional Library left the
division at the end of the sixth biennium in desperate straits,
but undaunted.
Other developments provided some reassurance. For one thing,
North Carolinians for Better Libraries, chaired by David Stick
early in the biennium and by Hector MacLean later, had gained
strength. For another, the North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees, chaired early in the biennium by George M. Stephens
of Asheville and thereafter by Samuel H. Poole of Aberdeen,
had fostered developments that would keep both organizations
well occupied for some time to come and would result inevitably
in some additional interest in and increased support of public
libraries in the state.
LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION
Giving impetus to North Carolinians for Better Libraries and
direction to the North Carolina Association of Library Trustees
had been Resources of North Carolina Libraries published in
1965 by Governor Terry Sanford's Commission on Library Re-
sources. From it came the recommendation that the state
assume a greater share of public library support. Mr. Stephens
and his associates thought North Carolina legislators should
arrive at the same conclusion by making an investigation of
their own of the need for better public libraries and of the
means of supporting them. Certain legislators came to share
this thinking.
Senator Mary Faye Brumby of Cherokee and Representative
Donald M. Stanford of Orange, chairmen of the Senate and House
Library Committees, introduced, with the backing of several
members of both bodies, legislation in the 1967 General Assembly
that resulted in the creation of a "Legislative Commission to
Study Library Support in the State of North Carolina Particu-
larly as Regards the Financing of Public Libraries." To this
Commission, Lieutenant Governor Robert W. Scott appointed
Senators Brumby of Cherokee and Hector MacLean of Robeson ;
Speaker of the House Earl W. Vaughn appointed Representatives
Charles W. Phillips of Guilford and Thomas E. Strickland of
Wayne, and Governor Moore appointed David Stick, author and
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businessman of Dare, as chairman. The Commission was to
report its findings and make its recommendations to the 1969
General Assembly.
It set out immediately to accomplish its purposes. The as-
sistance of the Institute of Government was solicited, and an
advisory committee consisting of J. Allen Adams, Raleigh
attorney and North Carolinians for Better Libraries board
member; the Hon. Edwin Gill, State Treasurer; Dr. Mark M.
Lindsey, North Carolina State Library Board chairman ; John T.
Morrisey, Sr., Secretary-Treasurer and General Counsel of the
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and
Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Association of County
Attorneys; Philip S. Ogilvie, State Librarian; Samuel H. Poole,
Aberdeen attorney and North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees chairman; Mrs. Davetta L. Steed, Executive Secretary
of the North Carolina League of Muncipalities, and Representa-
tive Donald M. Stanford, was appointed.
Hearings were held in the first half of 1968 at Greensboro
(Feb. 23), Elizabeth City (Mar. 15), Goldsboro (Apr. 5),
Lumberton (Apr. 26), and Asheville (May 17). By the end of
the biennium summarizations and recommendations were being
drafted out of in depth study of public library support and the
opinions of citizens and public officials who had participated in
the hearings. There was every indication that the document
being produced would contain challenge and promise and that
it would become the rallying ground for North Carolinians for
Better Libraries, the North Carolina Association of Library
Trustees, and the Public Libraries Section of the North Carolina
Library Association.
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT STUDY
Additional encouragement was being taken at the end of the
biennium from a study being conducted by Arthur D. Little,
Inc., under contract to the State Library Board. Purposes were
evaluation of existing public library development programs and
the preparation of recommendations with alternates for the
improvement of public library services and of State Library
services to the public libraries of the state. A team of three
highly competent librarians, Walter W. Curley, Mary A.
North Carolina State Library 17
Heneghan, and Stefan B. Moses, were at work on the project.
They, too, were conducting hearings as well as initiating private
interviews that could help them get at the facts. It was too
early to conjecture with any degree of accuracy what their
conclusions and recommendations might be, but there was some
evidence that they would favor adjustments to formulas for
distributing state and federal aid, closer cooperation of the State
Library with major academic libraries in the Research Triangle
area, expansion of the IN- WATS and TWX communications net-
work provided through the State Library, and further develop-
ment of larger units of service among public libraries.
The sixth biennium while not producing any new regional
library systems did see growth in two already established three-
county regional libraries which by adding a fourth county each
increased the number of four-county regional libraries to four.
The Northampton County Library joined Bertie, Gates, and
Hertford Counties in the Albemarle Regional Library, and the
Anson County Library had entered into an agreement with
Montgomery, Moore, and Richmond Counties for participation
in the Sandhill Regional Library. These two regional library
systems with their larger population bases, additional grants-
in-aid, and concomitant economies began immediately to plan
and undertake substantial expansions of service.
TOTAL COVERAGE
Another milestone in public library development was achieved
in the sixth biennium for the first time when the Lumberton
Public Library turned its assets over to the newly formed
Robeson County Library on July 1, 1967, and the Alexander
County Library came into being on October 1, 1967, to bring
countywide public library service to the last two of North
Carolina's 100 counties. Bookmobiles extended the services of
these new public libraries to remote areas of their respective
counties, and in Robeson County town libraries in Maxton and
Red Springs provided additional service from supplementary
rotating collections of books supplied from headquarters in
Lumberton. With total coverage of the state with public library
service, there remained the quest for quality in that service.
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NEW BUILDINGS
Library buildings, although not so important as the materials
and services they house, are recognized as influencing the
quality of library service. It is noteworthy, therefore, that eleven
new buildings, two major additions to existing buildings and
renovations of a large storage area in another existing building
were approved for construction funds under LSCA Title II in
the sixth biennium. Three of the new buildings and one of the
additions qualified for supplemental support under the Appa-
lachian Development Act (Sec. 214) administered by the
Governor and the State Planning Task Force in North Carolina.
One of them, the Polk County project, had been withdrawn in
1966 because bids exceeded available funds. It was rebid and
funded in 1967.
A list of building projects appears on the opposite page. It
should be noted that, in addition to assisting with funds by
distributing LSCA Title II funds to approved projects, the staff
of the Extension Services Division of the State Library helped
select sites, write building programs, counsel architects and
librarians, choose equipment, etc. The same assistance was
given locally funded projects in Aulander, Kernersville, Rose-
boro, and Wallace, and many Sundays in the biennium were
devoted by the State Librarian, Assistant State Librarian, and
Library Consultants to the dedication programs for these and
other buildings previously funded but not completed until the
sixth biennium was underway.
OTHER EXTENSION SERVICES
Other services of the Extension Services Division also con-
tributed to progress towards quality public library service in
the biennium. At the time of Miss Snyder's illness and after her
death. General Library Consultants, the Assistant State Li-
barian, and the State Librarian attempted to cover her territory
without appreciable neglect of their own territorial or other
responsibilities. Operations funds for county and regional library
systems were continued and increased slightly as State Aid and
LSCA Title I monies were distributed through the State Library
to them. Improved Interlibrary Loan Services were made
North Carolina State Library 19
Library Appalachian LSCA Title II Local Total
New Buildings:
Black Mountain P.L. $ 28,320
Black Mountain
Dare County P.Lib.
Manteo
Dunn Pub. Lib.
Dunn
Henderson Co. P.L. $187,722
Hendersonville
Hertford Co. P.L.
Winton
Moore County P.L.
Carthage
Person Co. P.L.
Roxboro
Polk County P.Lib. $ 16,385
Columbus
Robeson Co. P.Lib.
Lumberton
Siler City P.Lib.
Siler City
Southport-Brunswick
Co. Public Lib.
Southport
Additions:
McDowell Co. P.L. $ 75,000 $140,000 $ 65,000 $280,000
Marion
Sheppard Mem. P.L. $205,897 $190,058 $395,955
Greenville
Renovations:
Elbert Ivey Mem. P.L. $ 15,200 $ 27,594 $ 42,794
Hickory
$ 50,840
$ 44,858
$124,018
$ 45,491
$ 37,220
$ 82,711
$ 52,050
$ 50,774
$102,824
$218,278
$101,500
$507,500
$ 58,061
$ 47,504
$105,565
$ 67,255
$ 90,000
$157,255
$140,833
$148,343
$289,176
$ 49,369
$ 35,000
$100,754
$215,479
$162,554
$378,033
$ 99,295
$111,971
$211,266
$ 57,813
$ 40,175
$ 97,988
20 Sixth Biennial Report
possible by strengthening the Interlibrary Center Union Catalog
operations at Chapel Hill with more staff and faster com-
munications capabilities through LSCA Title III monies and by
Reference Services Division relaxation of regulations governing
such loans. Audio-visual services acquisitions increased and new
strengths were added with a special slide collection.
A collection of 10,000 art slides was acquired for loan to
individuals and groups throughout the state. In the meanwhile,
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