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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1974-1975-409

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xxviii Annual Report of the Delegacy seventy per cent of the grant after allowing for increased subscription rates and the floating of sterling during the summer of 1972 This would leave only thirty per cent for books binding and general administrative expenses The entire notional grant was consequently fully committed by January 1973 but pressure from the academic departments par- ticularly in the Faculty of Arts led to supplementary grant of £5 000 being made specifically for the purchase of books and further sum of £600 was also made available for general library expenditure after being released from another purpose for which it had originally been earmarked Despite these welcome contributions to Library funds the supplemented grant became overspent in the summer term and large numbers of recommendations for new books were necessarily frozen When the award was eventually known the College was able to make further supplementary grant of £17 500 the figure esti- mated as being required to meet all the accumulated arrears both in actual overspending and in recommendations in hand while the Library had additionally at its disposal earmarked grants and other special funds amounting to £14 086 In the meantime the Library Committee learned with pleasure of three new earmarked grants from outside sources which would do much to enable the Library to improve its resources in certain subject fields The most important of these was the earmarked grant from the of £10 000 to meet the needs of the Laws Library arising from the expansion of student numbers in response to the Ormrod Report and from the widening of law courses necessitated by the United Kingdom's entry into the European Community the College had indeed found it necessary earlier in the session to provide some temporary cover to enable the most urgent materials in European law to be purchased The second special grant was one of $750 £300 from the United States Embassy for the enrichment and broadening of the holdings of the War Studies library in the field of strategic military and international relations of the United States while the Senate on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies made supplementary grant of £200 from Parry funds to assist in the purchase of basic books in Latin American history for the Spanish library The high proportion of Library expenditure on standing orders posed serious problem to which the Library Committee addressed itself during the year It was noted that in 1969-70-the latest year for which the statistics were available-King's had spent
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