Federal Legislation Affecting College and University Libraries.

AT ANY GIVEN TIME legislation at the national level is an excellent mirror of current social concerns.These, of course, are many and varied-financial and material assistance to underprivileged and minority groups; equal rights for all for education, for opportunities in the labor market, in voting and in use of public facilities; control of crime in the streets and organized crime throughout the country; the use of drugs and their immediate and long term effects; relations with other countries and defense of our own; and education for all ages and at various levels.All of these concerns are typical of a very large number which result in legislation enacted each year.Of these concerns, education has been assuming an increasingly important role, especially in the last decade.As our whole society and way of life become more complex, more individuals with better training are required to cope with its problems, and in turn more research is needed to provide these people with the necessary information to guide them in their work.Indeed, so necessary have training and research become to date, and with every indication that the need for them will be even more pressing in the future, it is the belief of many, including this writer, that education and its attendant research will become the biggest and most important business in this country for the remainder of this century.The burden of most of this advanced training and research will be carried by the institutions of higher education-the junior and community colleges, the senior colleges, and the universities.This is true because of the nature of this training, but the burden will become heavier as an ever larger number of people seek such training.It is obvious that the enrollment of our public schools will increase as the Edmon Low is