# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S106
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

104 Report of Board for Higher Education

mittee, in consultation with the Board for Higher Education, has
completed this part of its task.

Concerning Section D:

Your Committee recommends adoption of the recommendation
of the Board for Higher Education that the practice be continued
of giving financial aid to professors at our institutions for whom
it becomes necessary to take advanced work.

Concerning Libraries, Section F, points 1—10:

Your Committee recommends:

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 recommend a definite sum
for each institution without further detailed study as to the
minimum requirements at each institution. Nevertheless it is
urged that a resolution be adopted authorizing the Fiscal Con-
ference 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 the Board for Higher Education, in cooperation with
the local Boards of Control, determine the total amount of
financial aid required by each institution for the attainment of
the objectives proposed in paragraph one during the next three
years, and that this determined amount of aid be supported by
a detailed statement of the apportionment of this aid to (a) build-
ing, (b) library equipment, (c) books, pamphlets, and periodicals,
and (d) library personnel,

3. That the funds for this financial aid be secured as follows,
and in the order shown:

a. The first source of funds shall be provided by the restora-
tion of 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, each $500; the
junior colleges, each $350; the academies, each $200.

b. The second source of funds shall be special library fees,
which shall be collected from all students in all institutions.
These fees shall range from one dollar to three dollars a year in
high-school departments and from two to five dollars in colleges
and seminaries. The local boards with the approval of the Board
for Higher Education, shall determine the exact amounts of
these fees,

c. The third source of funds shall consist of appropriations
from local incomes which the local Boards of Control can properly
and wisely devote to this purpose.