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Thursday, March 30, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Library uncertain part of Marvin repairs
By CAROL PITTS
Staff Writer
Despite space and staff inadepacies in Marvin Branch Library, University of Kansas officials say it is uncertain whether the project will be undertaken in a planned renovation of Marvin Hall.
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture, said yesterday "The administration will not spend any part or that he would be funded for renovation) on Marvin's Library."
However, Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said that no final decision had been made on how to use the anoroprotided funds.
A BILL which includes $2.81 million for the renovation of Marvin Hall was passed yesterday by the Senate and will go now before the House Ways and Means Com
"As of now," Lucas said, "a programming company has been established to the extent that it is one of the largest."
The programming committee will determine what needs to be included in the renovation of Marvin, Lucas said. Whether the renovation of Marvin would include a Library or just a reading room would be up to the programming committee, he said.
BUT JIM Ranze, dam of libraries, said the property would not be a part of Marvin Hill renovation.
"My conception of the plan (for renovation) is that they don't plan to have a garage."
Ranz said, however, that no decision concerning it in Branch Library had been made at that time.
Jeanne Richardson, assistant science librarian who is in charge of Marvin Library, said the library did not have adequate facilities.
"Essentially, the basic problem is we serve four areas of study, and we just don't have the facilities or the student hours for staffing that is needed." Richardson said.
MARVIN LIBRARY is a departmental library which houses materials for architecture, engineering, geology and geography.
Richardson said that more staff for the circumcision and an added clerical circumcision would be held.
Compared with KU's four other branch libraries, Marvin has 4,253 square feet, not including halls and restrooms. The math library in Strong Hall has 1,501 ft.; the t
science library in Library Hall, 1,229 aft. qt.
and the music library in Murphy Hall, 4,450
THE SEATING capacity in Marvin Library is 70 persons, compared with 25 in the math library, 101 in the music library, and 108 in the science library.
Marvin has 85 percent of its shelf space filled. The science library has 90 percent; the music library has 85 percent; and the math library has 92 percent.
Ranz said that a library became unusable if more than 90 percent of its shelf space
According to Pat Mimeau, library assistant in Marvin, the Marvin library houses about 75,000 books and periodicals. Mimeau said the library received about 175 new books and from 50 to 70 serials a month which were shelved immediately.
TO MAKE room for the new material, Mirmee said, the staff either put things in a corner or put them on the floor.
According to Ranz, Marvin Library has a problem because marvin Hullah had not built the library.
Students who regularly use the library also complain about several problems.
Shidusah Dowlatschih, Tehran, Iran graduate student, said that he came to the library at least once a week because it was too busy. He said there were many problems with the library.
"IT IS very hard to find what you need."
Haleb said. "Also it is too small for the desk."
Many students commented on the size of Marvin Library. Jody James, New York city sophomore, said that during the winter months it was hard to find a place to sit in the library. She said people could study outside now.
The busiest hours for the library are from 10 a.m to 2 p.m, according to Colleen Sparrow.
BREITENSTEIN said that many of the new periodicals had not been purchased by the library and that many periodicals were stored in the Art Library in Watson.
Brittentain, who has worked in the library since September, said there usually was no phone call. "We just were a bit shy."
Joyce Svoboda, Chagman senior, has worked in the Library since August. Svoboda said there was not enough space for all of the materials that the library currently has and that many books are missing. She also said she does not own old books and materials on the shelves.
A major advantage to the branch library in Marvin is its convenience according to Rich Eisner, assistant professor of art at Yale University, the architectural library committee.
*WHILE THEY are working on a design,*
*the students need the library for reference*
*to access the information.*
As the library is now, Eisnor said, the
space is totally inadequate for the current needs of the students.
According to an inventory last summer, Eisner said, 450 books were missing. He also thought he thought the basement area of the Marvin Library was a fire hazard.
Elsnor said that only 15 percent of the Marvin Library space was used for the School of Architecture. The remaining school is between engineering, geography and geology.
EISNOR SAID he thought that the decisions for the library were beind made from an economical standpoint rather than from an educational one.
Because of the convenience of branch libraries, students and faculty interviewed in Marvin were against consolidating all the branch libraries.
Under a plan proposed by the Libraries Facilities Planning Committee, a new
library would be constructed where the Military Science building is now. The new library would house materials from the branch libraries and the reading rooms.
WATSON LIBRARY would be renovated to house the humanities and social sciences in a new campus.
Richardson said he favored consolidation because it would be more accessible for all of the students and it would be easier to handle the facilities if they were all together.
"When you have branch libraries, you use a lot of valuable staff hours and student time."
Richardson added that these resources could be used for something else if they were not.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
Crowded auarters
However, Kahn said he would favor consolidation only if it were close to the city.
Blair Meador, Jacksonville, Fla., freshman, searches through the crowded stacks in Marvin Linense. Despite some space problems,
library officials are unclear whether the library will be included in a planned renovation of Marvin Hall.
Motion bv alleged killer denied
Moore and another Denver man, Lee E. Harris, 24, are charged with murder, kidnapping and robbery in the death of Norwood.
Charles E. Moore Jr., 22, who is charged with the Nov. 28 slaying of Sam Norwood, manager of the Lawrence F. W. Woodworth's law firm, and Michael K. Palmer returned to Kansas to face the charges.
A motion by Moore challenging the validity of the extradition was dismissed Tuesday by an Arapaho County, Colo. district court judge.
Norwood was abducted as he left the woolworth's store, 911 Massachusetts St., to London. The police had been searching for him.
body was found the next day near the Kangas River.
BOTH MOORE and Harris had challenged the extradition. However, a Denver County district court judge ruled that Harris's challenge last Wednesday.
Both men were given 10 days to file appeals with the Colorado Supreme Court.
Harris filed his notice of appeal yesterday, according to Mike Malone, Douglas County Attorney. Malone said Harris and Malone had agreed to work together to weeken the prosecuting attorney's case.
Malone said the longer Moore and Harris could delay their extradition and trial, the
He also said that if Avery were released, there was a possibility she would not appear in court.
mandatory sentence because of the violent nature of the crimes.
Moore's trial on those charges has been scheduled for May.
greater the possibility was that Terry Avery, 20, now being held in Douglas County jail as a material witness, would be released, Malone said.
ARAPHAO COUNTY also has charged Moore with two counts of armed robbery and two counts of felony theft in connection with the killing of a police officer. Authorities there have asked the court for a
Harris and Moore also are charged with a double slaying in Long Beach, Calif., which occurred several weeks after the Norwood death. Long Beach authorities have said they are still attempting there would depend on the outcome of court proceedings in Colorado and Kansas.
Car misuse by Schneider possible, division decides
From the Kansan's Wire Services
TOPEKA—The Legislative Division of Post Audit concluded yesterday that Attorney General Curt Schneider may have made comments about regulations in his use of an official state car.
The letter said that although Schneider's trip to the Pittsburgh television station was reasonably related to state business, the trip to Jollin was not.
In a letter to members of the Legislative Post Audit Committee, legislative post auditor Richard E. Brown said Schneider apparently broke the law when he drove with a personal friend to Joplin, Mo., last August.
Schneider, who has an unlisted home telephone number, could not be reached for comment. Earlier in the day, he delined comment.
Brown noted that personal use of a state vehicle is prohibited by Kansas law.
"The attorney general's personal use of a state vehicle to drive from KOA-MTV near Pittsburgh, Kansas, to Joplin, Missouri, on August 2, 1977, is an apparent violation of K.S.A. B-301 and K.S.A. B-307," the letter said.
The Legislative Post Audit Committee also may soon request a second audit to look into a separate incident involving use of a car leased by Schneider's office.
Brown said that by allowing a person not reasonably engaged in official state business to ride in a leased state vehicle, Schneider also apparently violated K.A.R. 1-17-2, citing Kansas administrative regulations.
In his letter, Brown said that Schneider had confirmed that a personal friend accompanied the attorney general to Joplin in the state vehicle.
The trip to Joplin, Mo., embroiled Schneider in a controversy after he was photographed outside a Joplin motel with a young woman who was not his wife.
Schneider yesterday offered to return his office's seven leased cars. in a letter to Sen. Wint Winter R-Ottawa, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Schneider said he was ready to surrender the vehicles if the committee requested it.
Schneider also said it was cheaper for its office to use the leased cars rather than buying new ones.
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