1970-1979

1970
November - A permanent charter, amended to include Oswego County, is granted. The Council covers slightly more than a seven county area; geographically, it is the largest of the nine such councils in the state.

December - The Associated Colleges assumes the cost of the four-college delivery system, which the Council had to drop for lack of funds.

1971
July - Thomas Blauvelt is appointed Head of Reference Services.

December - Richard Kimball assumes the duties of Executive Director, succeeding Elena Horton Simmonds.

1972
June - The Cooperative Acquisitions Committee develops an Order Awareness File to assist member libraries, which are trying to decide whether to purchase expensive items.

July - The Council applies for and receives a $50,000 Federal Special Purpose Grant for collection development on behalf of member academic libraries.

1973
January - The Council becomes a member of the Arts and Humanities Council of the St. Lawrence Valley, an organization formed to coordinate and promote cultural programs in the area of Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence and Franklin counties.

July - The Council receives a second $50,000 Special Grant for academic library collections.

1974
May - The North Country Union List of Serials is published.

July - The Council agrees to share and partially support an OCLC terminal at St. Lawrence so that it can gain access to that database.

The Cooperative Acquisitions Committee coordinates a project to achieve, through cooperative purchasing, full regional coverage of journals indexed in International Index.

October - The Council receives a $25,000 LSCA grant to improve interlibrary loan. The money is used to fund a pilot delivery service from Canton to Plattsburgh.

The first of yearly Federal Basic Library Grants is awarded to the NC3Rs.

1975
March - The Council issues the first edition of Union List of U.S. Government Documents in North Country Libraries.

September - The Council institutes a Cataloging Search Service for member libraries without convenient access to an OCLC terminal.

October - Two union lists are published by the Council, edited by Thomas Blauvelt: Union List of Theses and Dissertations on Microfilm in NC3Rs Libraries and Union List of G.K. Hall & Co. Catalogs in North Country Libraries. The second edition of the North Country Union List of Serials is published.

1976
January - The Council expands the computerized literature search service which it began in 1975, using the SUNY-BCN terminal at Oswego. Under the new program, Council reference librarians screen searches, which are transmitted on the NC3Rs teletype to New York State Library where they are run on the SUNY-BCN terminal.

March - The North Country Union List of Serials, Third Edition is published. The Council does a two-part project to determine ways in which libraries can serve community cultural needs. Part 1 consists of a survey of nontraditional library services in 43 public libraries with pilot projects for innovative nontraditional library services.

June - The second edition of Northern New York Historical Materials is printed to coincide with the Bicentennial.

1978
March - Mary McCarthy is hired as TWX Operator.

February - North Country Union List of Serials, Fourth Edition, is published.

1979
June - The Council obtains a National Library of Medicine grant on behalf of the Northern New York Health Information Cooperative. Marion Blauvelt is hired to coordinate a survey of the resources and services of the 17 member institutions and to help them plan for cooperative programs such as a union list of serials, cooperative acquisition of materials, library resource grants, and education programs for library managers.

The Council office moves temporarily to East Hall on the St. Lawrence University campus.