In the past, this agreement has been orchestrated by several interested and dedicated individuals, but it was thought that the agreement would be better and more routinely administered by an organization such as the College and University Section. Forty institutions joined the agreement this year. No changes were made to the agreement. The Agreement had not been updated since 1990. A new research grant was drafted to benefit the professional development of individual members of the Section, and to benefit academic librarianship in Nebraska by requiring the product or results of the grant to be shared or disseminated with the membership in some way.
Many professional organizations offer such grant programs to their members.
The grant is expected to be initiated in 1998 on a trial basis. Refinements will be made based on a year or two of trial. The Section actively pursued funding available to it from ACRL in support of printing costs. The Section also applied for and received an Initiative Grant, as noted above. And the Section also applied for ACRL Speaker's Bureau funding, which underwrote the visit of Dr. William Miller for the 1997 NLA Fall Convention.