THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

 

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

C.M. BAKER, DIRECTOR

October 4, 1941

To Head of Department Concerned:

Enclosed you will find a list of Journals charged to
your department.

Please revise this list and return it by October 20,
If not returned by that date, in view of the emergency, the
Director of Libraries will use his own judgiment in cancelling
items.

You are reminded that the Library's Book Fund was cut
from $28,800 to $18,500, a reduction of over 35%. Efforts to
increase this fund have not been successful. It is safe then for
a department to assume that its book fund has been cut to that
extent and that the difference must be absorbed either by going
without books or journals.

Just how Continental subscriptions can be handled this
year is a matter still under study by the american Library
Association, Perhaps subscriptions should be kept up, but the
foreign items should be carefully scrutinized to see if some have
not lost all scholarly value owing to their political background.
The domestic journals may also need weeding,

It is possible that some subscriptions are continued
by inertia or habit long after the usefulness of the journal

has ceased,

During the year 1940 ~ 191 _ 73. % of the Physical Bducation
expenditures was for books,

Asking for your immediate cooperation at this trying
time in order that our subscriptions may be placed promptly,
I remain

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