# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S52
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

52 Action Regarding Individual Institutions

in order that KSD might have full time on said wave-length. The
Federal Communications Commission at Washington, D.C., has
heard the case and rendered its decision, from which KFUO has
made an appeal. The full report, by Mr. John A. Wegner, secretary
of the KFUO committee, will be found in Section Vill.

The Board of Control held regular meetings every month and
likewise had a number of meetings with the faculty. Besides these
meetings smaller committees, such as the House, the Education,
and the Radio committees, often met more than once a month to
discuss the problems before them.

Requests

The Board of Control petitions Synod to instruct the Board of
Directors to pay to the library the appropriation of $10,000 allowed
at the thirty-third convention of 1926 and the $5,000 voted at the
thirty-fourth convention of 1929. The Pritzlaff Library of the
largest Lutheran seminary in the world should be a depository for
Lutheriana of every kind, so that everything and anything pertain-
ing to the great Reformer and his coworkers as well as all the
material which has accumulated with reference to the Lutheran
Church in the past four centuries may be brought together in our
library for use of faculty members, students, and research workers.
Regularly requests for such material are made. In addition, various
movements in the Church of today make it necessary to build up
the library along other lines. The Department of Liturgies has
very little research material. In the field of Christian Social Ser-
vice the number of new publications has been growing rapidly, and
it is essential that the library have enough material on hand to
meet the needs in this field.

Furthermore, our library should have a number of copies of
certain books for collateral reading to direct the self-activity of
the students. ;

Finally, failure, for years, to take care of the books in the
library necessitates the rebinding of from 500 to 1,000 books.
Many periodicals of lasting value should likewise be bound. The
present form of bundling them is very unsatisfactory. Then the
cataloguing of the Seminary library must be brought up to date
and kept there. Since the library has been undermanned, about
7,000 books and 10,000 pamphlets are not catalogued. Even the old

catalog has not been brought up to date. For these reasons the,

Board of Control urgently petitions the Delegate Synod to make
arrangements that these appropriations be paid to the library.

Since the fourth year is to be introduced at the Seminary in”

September, 1938, it may become necessary during the next trien-
nium to erect a new dormitory and another dining-room. At .the