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8.   GIFT UNDERWRITES SEMINARS ON BOOK PRINTING

     A gift to the University Library Associates will underwrite
a three-year trial project which will enable students to learn
about books by making them.

     Mrs. Joseph C. Graves of Lexington has given not only the
money to finance the project, but in 1965 had given a hand press,
type, and the printing equipment of her late husband, a Lexington
businessman and founder of the Gravesend Press. His collection of
books on fine printing also has been given to the Margaret I. King
Library.

     Harold Gordon, associate director of libraries, said, "Because
of the generosity of Mrs. Graves, it now is possible to continue
Lexington's role as a leader in a very old art by developing the
talents and skills of younger people."

     The sessions, scheduledfor two each year, will provide both
a seminar on the historical significance of the written and printed
book, and a workshop on printing and binding books. There will be
a winter/spring session, Jan. 15-April 15, and a summer session,
June 15-Aug. 15, in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Mrs. Carolyn Hammer,
curator of rare books in the Department of Special Collections and
co-founder of Lexington's first privately operated hand-press in
1943, will direct the workshops.

     Lexington, which has been called the capital of private hand
presses, has more private presses per capita than any city in the
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9.   UNIVERSITY TO COORDINATE APPALACHIAN SATELLITE EXPERIMENT

     The University will receive a $1 million grant from the Appa-
lachian Regional Commission to play a key role in a project that
will use telecasts by satellite to beam innovative ideas to teachers.

     The experiment will involve developing high quality television
courses and seminars to be broadcast by satellite to teachers in
regional education service agencies in 10 of the 13 Appalachian
states. More than 1,000 teachers representing 150 school districts
will participate in the experiment.

     The television courses will be graduate level and will focus
on the in-service needs of teachers of reading and career education.

     The program will help determine the feasibility of offering
continual telecommunications services for the region, including
college-level home study for individuals, and programs for profes-
sionals like doctors, lawyers and engineers, enabling them to keep
abreast of developments in their fields. One of the possible results
of the experiment might be a kind of "Appalachian University" via
satellite. UK was chosen to coordinate the education component of
the Appalachian Applications Technology Satellite Experiment.



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