Wednesday, July 19, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Section A · Page 3
Jacob Thompson, graduate student from Traverse City, Mich., researches through the American Foreign Policy Index and the Congressional Record. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN.
Government documents find new home
Continued from page 1A
Moving an entire library isn't easy. Stephens said there were more than two million physical pieces — whether single loose-leaf sheets or hefty bound volumes of economic statistics — in the collection. Stephens said the library was moving 21,000 linear feet of documents. That's four miles of paper, which would stretch south from Sixth and Iowa streets to Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St.
For such a large task, the University contracted professional library movers, William B. Meyer, from New York.
She said the entire move should take about two weeks, ending the first week of August.
"They deal in large-scale moves," Stephens said. "They can do this fairly efficiently and certainly more safely than we could ourselves."
"We don't foresee any disruption in people being able to acquire the material or to do research. They'll be able to do their searching as usual because the
Denise Stephens head of Anschutz library
"They deal in large scale moves. They can do this fairly efficiently and certainly more safely than we could ourselves."
documents reference collection will move over earlier, " Stephens said.
The documents library has been a U.S. government depository since 1969 and receives copies of all government documents released by the federal depository program. The University houses Kansas' main federal depository library.
The collection covers the full spectrum of government documents: departments of agriculture, defense, interior and engineering (NASA documents), health education and welfare, legal, legislature, soil surveys, international business, congressional hearings and presidential papers.
The library also contains a number of international document collections, including publications from the World Bank, World Health Organization, the United Nations and the British Parliament.
Edited by Mindie Miller
Above: Roger Dietz, Lakin senior stacks volumes from KU's government documents collection onto carts in Malat Hall. The documents were being relocated to the underground expansion of Anschutz Library. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
Left: Greg Chubb, Independence junior, helps haul the thousands of documents to be placed at Anshutz Library into the hallway.
Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
K-state conference to study wind energy as electricity source
By Nick Krug
writer@kansan.com
Special to the Kansan
Kansas winds can be annoying and destructive, but at least they blow consistently.
Kansas' dependable winds has prompted the Kansas Energy Research Center to explore the possibility of harnessing those winds to generate electricity.
The Kansas Energy Research Center — a division of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas — develops programs related to state, regional and national energy needs.
The first statewide conference on wind energy will be July 25 at Kansas State University. A group of 37 organizations will be involved in the conference.
Bob Dixon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Department of Education.
Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, will deliver the keynote address.
"Sessions will be held on the potential for wind energy in Kansas, ways to stimulate the market for wind energy in the state, the basics of getting started in wind energy, rural community wind projects and tying wind generators into the electric system," said Rex Buchanan, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey.
The conference will also include a trade show for display and discussion of equipment for converting wind power into electricity.
"The wind may be free, but the equipment for producing energy from the wind is not. Before we can produce large amounts of energy from the wind, people need to learn about accurate siting of wind projects, the social and legal aspects of wind power, backup systems, and how to install, operate, and maintain such systems." said Scott White, assistant scientist at the Energy Research Center and one of the conference organizers.
Wind can be converted into electrical energy through the use of turbines, with blades that look much like large airplane propellers that rotate when the wind blows.
By some measures, Kansas is the third windiest state in the country.
Energy producing windmills are being brought up in front of the Kansas Energy Research Center as an alternative power source. This windmill is located outside of Lawrence on U.S. 59 Highway. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
country behind North Dakota and Texas.
"Wind is a resource we can get right out of Kansas instead of importing coal from another state," White said. "Also, the only pollution involved with wind energy is in producing the turbines. After the turbines are up and working, there are no emissions into the air."
White and other organizers of the conference hope that topics such as the environment and the long-term economics of energy will be discussed and that the meeting will initiate interest in wind energy generation.
Included among the organizations and individuals planning to attend the conference will be Kansas Corporation Commission chairman, John Wine; Kansas State University President John Wefald; and Western Resources executive vicepresident Carl Koupal.
— Edited by Jim O'Malley
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