Suggested Remedy

The library stack at the rear of Watson Library should be extended
70 feet to the West in conformity with the original building plans and
this structure (70 feet by 50 feet) should be filled to half its capacity
with steel stacks. This will provide at once additional shelf space for
210,000 volumes, and as this fills stacks can be added to bring the capac-
ity up to 420,000 volumes. This construction which will extend the pres-
ent stack floors is the only way in which the active book collection can
be made readily accessible to the students.

The rough plan for this extension was approved by the state archi-
tect in 1932. The construction cost for the outer walls, footings, and
one half the steel stack should be estimated at $160,000.

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3. INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

In recent years the need has been recognized for a building to
house the departments of Geology, Chemical Engineering, and Petroleum
Engineering, the Geological Survey, and the testing laboratories of the
departments of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Two reasons exist
for the building: first, to centralize the campus services most interested
in the industrial development of the State; and second, to provide adequate
quarters for these activities, both for teaching and research since the
former is greatly hampered and the latter virtually impossible under pres-
ent conditions.

Citizens of the State are showing an awakened interest in indus-
trial development, as shown specifically by the two industrial tours of
the East condutted by the State Chambet of Commerce, the {nereasing calls
by Kansas industries on the University for assistance on research problems,
and several meetings in the past biennium in whith the necessity for in-
dustrial research has been the keynote.

The value of fostering industrial research in Kansas is apparent
when one recalls that the value of mineral production in the state in
1937 was $156,000,000. The location of research headquarters at the Uni-
versity is quite logical because of the existence of well-developed and
recognized departments interested in .n1 already contributing to problems
affecting Kansas industry. New industries, such as rock wool and clay
products, have resulted during the past biennium from activities of one
department alone, the Geological Survey.

Mention should be made also of the increasing enrollment in the
University departments which have something to contribute to industrial
research. The tie-uw» between classroom and industrial research is highly
desirable, for in this way men can be trained in Kansas to serve better
the Kansas industries.

Geological Survey. The State Geological Survey, now housed in a frame
annex at the rear of Haworth Hall, is unable to meet the demands made upon

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