# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S102
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

100 Report of Board for Higher Education

The Board recommends:
Libraries

1. That the convention make available the necessary funds,
so that the minimum standard for satisfactory housing of library
facilities and equipment may be established. Unfortunately your
Board is not in a position to state or to recommend a definite sum
for each institution without further detailed study as to minimum
requirements at each institution. Nevertheless it is urged that
a resolution be adopted authorizing the Fiscal Conference and
the Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of the Board
for Higher Education, to grant the necessary financial aid during
the next triennium as to rearranging and equipping the libraries,
so that a desirable minimum standard may be reached.

2. That Synod restore the former full grants to libraries as
listed on page 75 of the Synodical Handbook (1937 ed.): St. Louis
Seminary, $1,000 annually; Springfield and the normal schools,
$500; the junior colleges, $350; the academies, $200.

3. That in addition thereto the Board of Directors be authorized
to grant supplemental financial aid to such institutions as the
Board for Higher Education recommends are entitled thereto.

4, That all students be required to pay a library fee of $3
a year in the high-school department and $5 a year in the colleges
and seminaries.

5. That at every school a member of the faculty be designated
officially, with his consent, as librarian, who shall acquire the
requisite scientific training for his position.

6. That when calling new professors to fill vacancies, thought
be given to their probable qualifications as librarians.

7. That, if such designated librarian requires training in library
science, he be granted leave of absence by local boards of control
to prepare himself for these duties upon the approval of the
Board for Higher Education.

8. That students be systematically oriented by the librarian
in the proper use of the library as an educational tool.

9. That, in order to give the best possible service, the librarian
train assistants from the student-body as assistant librarians, who
might do the mechanical work and to some extent aid other students.

Laboratories

10. That allowances established by Synod, as appears on page 75
of the Synodical Handbook (1937 ed.), should still be allowed to
each of the junior colleges and high schools as the minimum con-
tribution by Synod. These are as follows: for the normal schools,
junior colleges, and Springfield Seminary, $200; for other institu-
tions, $50.