Recommendations developed by the ACRL Legislation Committee, endorsed by ACRL and ALA, and submitted jointly by ALA and the Association of Research Libraries were the basis of testimony by academic librarians before House and Senate education subcommittees in September. The hearings were on the Higher Education Act, the major piece of education (and library) legislation up for renewal this Congress. The ALA testimony: 1) Recommended need criteria for the HEA II-A college library resource

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... Grants of between $2,000 and $10,000 depending on enrollment range would go to libraries ranking below the norm in their institutional class when scored for both "materials expenditures/FTE student" and "volumes held/FTE student." Maintenance of effort would be required. Insufficient appropriations would result in fewer, not smaller, grants to the most needy.