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Wednesday, April 12, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Branch libraries merger criticized
Bv CAROL PITTS
Staff Writer
A proposal to consolidate the University of Kansas branch libraries and reading room materials into one facility has drawn criticism from faculty and students.
However, the proposal is several years down the line, according to D. Delkman, II.
Under a proposal before the KU administration, money would be requested to build a new library in the vicinity of the Military Science Building.
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According to a pamphlet published by the
Friendship Library at KU, the proposal has two phases. The first phase building would contain 250,000 square feet. The second phase, to be built several years later, almost would double that size.
and TREAT THE $17.5 MILLION proposal would
require financing by the Kansas
State Bank to pay
The new library would house materials from the Science Library in Malott Hall, the Math Library in Strong Hall, the Music Library in Murphy Hall and Marr Art Library, which houses materials for engineering, geology and geography.
geography
Material from the Dyche Hall entrance business and economics reading rooms also would be included. Watson Library eventually would hold humanities and social science materials, as well as all library administrative operations.
A University-wide study conducted last year indicated that the majority of students, faculty and administrators favored building the new library.
Jeannette Wootton, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student and a student representative on the University Senate Library Committee, which conducted the study, said the committee's stance for years was to the consolidation of the departmental libraries.
LAST YEAR WE had the branch librarians tell the committee about the services they give, the problems they encounter and how they would solve them.
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the committee concluded, Wootton said,
that the best solution would be to consolidate
all the branch libraries into a central
library.
The major advantages offered in the proposed plan were convenience to students and economy of operation, Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said last week.
stanz said a centrally situated library would be more accessible to students. He said that although it was not the main focus of economics must be considered.
According to John Glinka, associate dean of libraries, the economic aspect was figured by considering the savings from staffing hours, energy and duplication of materials that would result if all could be consolidated into one facility.
KU expects three to sign
Today marks the first day college basketball recruits can sign letters of intent and Kansas coaches are hoping to sign three players today.
8 David Magley. The coaches will also fly to San Diego to sign 6-10 Mark Snow.
Coaches Ted Owens and Bob Hill flew to Towson, Md., yesterday in order to sign 6-guard Tony Guy early this morning. Hill and Owens were expected to serve South Bend, Ind., and are expected to sign 6-
Snow, who attended the same nug school as NBA star center Bill Walton, said earlier in the week that he had decided to attend KU. Guy was named to the McDonald's All-America team and Magley also made several high school all-star teams.
But some students and faculty interviewed recently were against the proposal to move the departmental libraries.
Ranz said that space for the materials also was a factor.
he was a historian.
"We have no alternatives," Ranz said.
"We can't manufacture space—we have just run out of it."
Paul McCarthy, professor of mathematics and chairman of the Math Department Library Committee, said he would like to keep the libraries where they were.
*IT WOULDN'T be as accessible if it were more*
*she said. We need the department repair*
*it.*
"NO ACTUAL DOLLAR estimate has been made," Glinka said. "But I think that it must be fairly obvious."
But several persons said that if a student had either a broad or very narrow range of subject interest, he would be more likely to use several different libraries.
convenience of the branch libraries was that they were available in the same building as the feeder.
Miriam Green, professor of music performance, said the tso was against the plan because it would not be in the public interest.
Bill Casten, Bakersfield, Calif., senior, said that although the libraries needed to be expanded, he liked the departmental library system.
McCarthy said that math was a research-oriented study and that the library was in good condition.
But, Casseen the diversification of the present system had its drawbacks.
For example, he said, "I once needed something in the entomology reading room to do with it."
"Every department needs a place where students can go to study," he said.
Ellen Johnson, assistant music librarian,
said that although she was aware of the
economic aspects, in terms of convenience,
the branch libraries were the best idea.
John Boach, Kansas City, Kan., senior,
said he had been "very much hurt in
Murphy than if it were him."
"If you took a poll and talked to students and faculty, the convenience of the libraries would be much more important than the economical considerations," she said.
columbia.edu. Johnson said students would lose the special attention they received in a branch library if the libraries were consolidated.
Sue Hewitt, math librarian, said that the
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