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Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...
However, Douglas W. Bryant, University librarian, said last night that he knew nothing of a "loose agreement" between the two schools' libraries on Africa books. Bryant pointed out that for the past four years, the Harvard library has employed an African bibliographer
Edwin Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics, emphasized the role of the teacher as an activist. He branded as a "morally squalid view" the theory that the schools should produce students with "saleable skills and techniques" to cope with today's complicated American society...
...Bryant and his colleagues are left in a delicate position by the sluggish official progress of their recommendations. They are anxious to spread their view of the needs of American research libraries, but relucant to undercut the punch of the report by speculating what the Commission should say. The report may call for federally supported regional research centers, and Harvard would of course be a logical location for a New England center. But the legislation for such a project can't be considered until the Commission's report is released...
This is the worst of times, though, to try to get the public to pay attention to the nation's library needs, and there seems little alternative but to wait. For the present the "life of its own" Bryant sees for the ACLS report must be counted among the Vietnam war casualties...