University Daily Kansan, July 24, 1980
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Agency gets KU grad
By HURST LAVIANA
Staff Reporter
Harold "Skip" Kallenheuser, a KU graduate, has been appointed assistant general counsel in Washington, D.C., of ACTION, the agency that oversees Volunteer service organizations such as the Peace Corps service to America and the Peace Corps.
Kaltenhuehe received his bachelor's degree in social welfare from the University of Kansas in 1974 and graduated from the School of Law in 1978.
After leaving KU, he served briefly as assistant attorney general of Kansas.
He then went to Washington and "knocked on doors" for two weeks before landing a job as an environmental protection specialist with the Department of Energy. He began carrot-and-stick operation," and said its policies were "too political and not that coherent."
The budget for the DOE dwarfs that of ACTION, but at ACTION, "you get more bang for your bucks," Kaltenheuser said.
"You don't deal with abstractions," he said. "You deal with definite problems and programs."
The basic concept of all ACTION
organizations is to get people to help themselves, Kaltenheuser said.
He said that his job entailed handling legal questions for the agency and its volunteers.
"It is nice to work with ACTION," he said. "A lot of the good things from the '60s have been legitimized at this time, and we now holdouts of the idealism of the '60s."
KALTENHEUSER SAID the move to Washington involved a dramatic change in his lifestyle.
“There’s more traffic, more noise, and you’re bombed by politics,” he said. “Sometimes you do a double-take when you see guys like Seen. McGovern says they’re walking around. You see these people walking down the street all the time.”
Kaltenheuser said he could sit in the park and see demonstrations almost every day.
"It really comes home to you that people in other parts of the world have serious problems," he said. "It's no big deal in Lawrence whether the Haitians are classified as political refugees or not. Here it is."
"There's always a statement being made by somebody. Everybody has to try harder than everybody else to get the media's attention. Sometimes, you see some incredible grandstand operations."
KALTENHEUSER SAID living near the sources of so many big news events made getting a perspective on their importance difficult.
"You walk by the White House and see the evening news being filmed in front of it," he said. "When you get home that night and see the scene being constructed it is. You become aware of the entertainment value of the news."
Kaltenheuser said he met a lot of people in Washington who had never met a Kansan before.
"You catch a lot of flak when you find out you're from Kansas," he said. "People think Kansas is in the far West; that it's part of the frontier. But knowing how fast they drop the guard when you find out they're from Kansas."
Kaltenheuser said that most people in Washington were very tolerant of each other, and that everybody seemed to be having a good time.
"I do get the impression that there's a 'tout of high-level goofing off,' he said.
Despite the excitement and glamour of living in the nerve center of the world, Kutenheuser said, he does, from childhood, to adulthood in plains and even the culture of Kansas.
"Lawrence has better reggae music." he said.
Library plans computer catalog
By DAVID STIP Staff Reporter
The long rows of wooden cabinets containing the card catalogs in Watson Library are slated to follow the scroll manuscript into library history.
The cabinets will be replaced by microfiche readers for scanning a b-4-9b copy of the book and its negatives. On the microfiche will be photographically reduced computer listings of the author and subject card images. The author, as the director of catalogue, said yesterday.
But the conversion of the entire card catalog into a "computer output microform" catalog may take "many years." Passed more.
THE COM CATALOG is being developed as a joint project by the KU and Kansas State University library systems, Passmore said. Currently, the COM catalog is scheduled to replace new cards and cards for KU library systems. The new cards could be expanded to replace the entire card catalog sometime in the future.
Jim Ranz, dean of KU libraries, said that the COM catalog for new and recent additions would take at least a year for development, but that microfiche readers soon would be placed in KU libraries for reading a
microfiche catalog of periodicals to be released in about a month. These readers will also be used later for the COM catall, Ranz said.
Part of the COM catalog will be a new set of rules for placing entries in the card catalog, Passmore said. The current filing system uses complicated rules that determine how corporate into the proposed computerized cataloging system, he said.
"But to me that's a benefit. The filing rules now are very complex and patrons sometimes have difficulty understanding them. With automatic filing, the tendency is to file more along the lines of what works its easier for most people to understand."
"The tendency with COM systems is to use a simple filing system because the computer is so literal." Passmore said.
ANOTHER ADVANTAGE of the COM system is that it will be physically stored in a tape or CD copies of the entire card catalog on microfiche could be placed not only in all KU libraries, but also in other campusinas Union and other campus buildings.
Currently, the only complete card catalog is in Watson Library.
Passmore said the COM catalog could save the KU library cataloguing
staff 90 to 100 hours of work each week, which are now所售 cataloguing new books. The COM catalog could also alleviate the crowding problem caused by the need for five or six new card cabinets each year in Watson, he said.
Another advantage of the computerized catalog would be the speed with which it could be updated. Passmore said monthly updates of the complete COM catalog were now planned.
Gary Susso, programmer for the office of information systems, who is working on the COM project, said updating the catalog to replace obsolete products was easy with the computerized catalog. For instance, replacing "aeroplanet" with "airplane" or "nogrees" with "blacks" throughout the catalog could easily with the computer using its automatic editing facility. Susso said.
PASSMORE SAID some people might have trouble adjusting to the COM catalog, but most people would love it. With the card catalog once they got used to it.
"Old diehards used to the card catalog might never adjust to the card stock." You can take some adjustment. But the card catalog will be there for a long time."
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