University of Virginia Library

Future Committee Begins
Outlay Priorities Review

By JENNIFER LEVIN

Capital outlay priorities will
be reviewed next week at this
year's first meeting of the
Future of the University
Committee.

According to University
Vice-President and Provost,
chairman of the committee
David A. Shannon, the
committee was asked by
University President Edgar R.
Shannon Jr. to review the
outlays.

The 29 man committee
decided last spring that the
outlays were not satisfactory
and recommended that they be
restudied.

University presidential
assistant William A. Elwood
said yesterday it is necessary to
update the priorities due to the
changing patterns of federal
funds and many of the
buildings that had been given
priorities are already
underway.

Equipment for the new
Graduate Business School
heads the priority list to be
reviewed for funding. The
priority of major concern is the
plan for the undergraduate
library.

Money for various
renovation projects is also on
the list.

Slight Priority

Although equipment funds
for the new Graduate Business
School has slight priority over
the undergraduate library,
details were not available
yesterday.

Expanded only once since
1938, Alderman Library has
greatly increased circulation
but maintained only little more
than 1,000 seats.

The library, designated as
the "regional depository" for
the U.S. government, receives
all non-classified depository
documents issued by the
federal government.

Final Revision

The Provost will receive a
statement later this week with
President Shannon's final
revision of the capital outlay
priorities since it was the
Future of the University
Committee which originally
requested the revision of
outlays.

Last year the Future of the
University Committee was
much more active. At its peak
of activity the committee met
approximately three times a
week for three hour sessions.
At the conclusion of the year
the committee issued its
enrollment recommendations
in a 63 page report.

Besides recommending that
future enrollment not exceed
16,000 by 1980, the
committee stated that the
University lacked adequate
educational space.