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To the Council of Chief State School Officers:
Thank you very much. Thank you for pubhshing the much needed Supplement to Purchase Guide for Programs in Science, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, 1961.
You may, or may not, recall that we wrote you once before. In October, 1959, right after you had published the original Purchase Guide to help educators use NDEA funds wisely, we wrote you an editorial memorandum. At that time we were much disturbed, and wondered why you had treated audiovisual materials and equipment and people so indifferently. We urged you to take steps to correct the oversights and omissions.
We are gratified and delighted that most of the specific points we criticized have been corrected in the Suppleinent. For instance:
The opaque projector has now been recognized for the valuable instructional tool that it is. You have labeled it "standard" for all mathematics and science programs. Good! Under "Projector Stand" you have included in .your specifications that they may now be constructed of metal. Also goodl But we're puzzled why you still give a preferred mention to wood construction. The new NAVA Equipment Directory pictures and describes more than sixty stands. Only one is made of wood.
We rejoice in your now including such audiovisual items as 8 and 16mm motion picture cameras, copying machines for making transparencies, and 8mm sound motion picture projectors. That's real progress!
In 1959 we complained that \'ou named only two audiovisual people among the 133 educators who helped in the compilation of the guide. This time, 30 of the 92 people acknowledged are identified with the audiovisual field. That's much fairer proportion!
So you can see we're pretty well satisfied with the new SupplePaul C Reed ment. it was needed, and it has been done well. It gives deserved
recognition to the important place audiovisual equipment and materials must have in any modem program of instruction in science, mathematics and modem foreign languages— or in any other subject matter area.
You have done so well in compiling this Supplement that toe probably shouldn't raise one very minor point that's on our mind. But we're sensitive, and we feel slighted.
You have referred in the Supplement to many books and periodicals, but you failed to mention our favorite audiovisual magazine among the periodicals in the bibliography for Audio-Visual materials! This, no doubt, is an oversight. Or, it might be a slight! But it is such a small one, we probably shouldn't even mention it.
Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1961 273