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Friday, March 21. 1980
University Daily Kansan
KU energy forum set for March 25
An energy forum, featuring experts in international energy problems, has been scheduled for March 25 in Nichol Hall.
"Changing Institutional Patterns in World Energy Affairs" will be the topic of the free presentations, sponsored by the Kansas Geological Survey.
Charles Heller, an authority on the petroleum industry and a consultant to the United Nations, will discuss the organization of Petroleum Excortories Countries.
Vladimir Baum, director of the United Nations Center for Natural Resources and Transport, is scheduled to speak on energy production and resources.
State fears unused books crowd libraries
The forum will begin at 1:30 p.m. March 25 in the Apollo Room of Nichols Hall.
By KEVIN MILLS
Staff Reporter
Rarely used library books at KU and other Regents schools have members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee concerned, a committee spokesman said yesterday.
So concerned, in fact, that the committee will ask the Board of Regents to appoint a task force to study how to eliminate duplication of old and rarely used volumes among Regents schools.
"s entirely likely that there are large numbers of books and magazines which aren't used very often," said Richard Green, aide to State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, committee chairman.
Green compiled the research for the committee, which revealed that many rarely used books can be found in libraries.
"There's no reason to have six copies of a book that hasn't been checked out in 20 years," Green said.
The situation was brought to the committee's attention
"The librarians at KU, KSU and Wichita State University all say that they are at capacity in their libraries," Green said. "We can still maintain a quality system without the costs of building new facilities."
when Kansas State University requested funds for a facility that would house rarely used books.
JOHN CONARD, executive officer of the Board of
committees, has not made a formal request to the board yet.
"Normally, when we get this kind of request, we ask for assistance and ask them for assistance with the matter." Conard said.
KU library officials have adopted a wait and see attitude.
Jim Ranz, dean of the library, said he welcomed any efforts that might help solve the space short-
library already weeds out unnecessary books, although the process was limited by a small staff.
CLIFF HAKA, circulation librarian, said the KU
Haka said that the Big Ten college libraries had pooled their rarely used volumes into one facility in Chicago, but that the cost of a similar operation in Kansas might outweight the benefits.
He said that possible drawbacks were the cost of building a facility, transporting books to and from the facility, and maintaining a staff to determine which books were rarely used.
Green said the Legislature had discussed use of a central warehouse in the past, but the plan was not yet finalized.
An alternative to saving the volumes would be to arrange all but one edition of each of the books. That process would make it easier to save the files.
"You have to be concerned with the concepts of trends in research. Some materials can go a long time with little change."
Haka said that books on coal mining, for example, had
been used to mine the earth until the current climate
o veen used for many years until the energy crisis.
volume would be costly.
GREEN SAID some committee members believed that librarians made unnecessary book purchases to patrons.
Ranz said that wasn't true.
Haka agreed.
"Some libraries may have done in that the past, but it isn't today," he said.
"It's very difficult to measure the quality of a library. And therefore, quantitative measures have often become the criteria for deciding which libraries are better.
"But I am skeptical that libraries or library directors really transform the desire to be the biggest into buying
"If that is being done, it's just horrible."
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