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SOMEWHERE in Washington a report that may yet be monumental for the future of American libraries is peacefully hibernating. It was finished in late November by a committee of the American Council of Learned Societies (including University Librarian, Douglas W. Bryant) and dispatched to President Johnson's Commission on Libraries which was expected to recommend huge new federal programs a few weeks after. Three months later the Commission still is sitting on the final version of its report. The silence could be broken any day, but it seems increasingly likely that the Commission is simply waiting this legislative season...
Behind the delay lies the widening shadow cast by the Vietnam war. Because of the war's expense, Bryant says, the President probably "doesn't want to introduce new programs that have to be financed in novo." It is not clear just what the Commission's report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...
...Health, Education and Welfare, the head of the Library of Congress and the director of the National Science Foundation) will advise the President on the Commission's findings. And the Commission, is having a huge chunk of its work done by outside experts--the ACLS group. The ACLS, Bryant says, intends that its report "have a life of its own," regardless of how it is treated by Johnson's Commission and Committee...
...pupil was tactfully restrained when he beat his old teacher last week-and the teacher took the defeat in stride. Marching over to the A. & M. bench, Bryant hoisted Stallings onto his shoulders and paraded him around the sidelines...
...Bryant Rollins, a community organizer for the Urban League, set the tone of the evening when he asked members of the audience to stand and give their names. "We want to know who the enemy is," he said...