University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 30, 1980
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Watson workers strive to make library accessible to handicapped
Searching through the library for a book can be frustrating, especially for someone with a physical disability.
But there still are problems, according to Mary Finnegan, reference librarian in charge of Watson's services for the disabled.
Watson Library has tried to accommodate disabled persons with ramps, special assistance and special privileges.
"Getting their material can be tough, especially if it's on reserve in the reading room," Figneanagh said. "I can't photocopy it, so I need someone else to copy a copy for someone else who might have a copy."
"One problem is that I don't always have a lot of time," she said, "but I get help from several student assistants."
Finnegan said she did research for students who were unable to visit the library. Often, she said, the student gave her only the topic, and she did the rest.
Dana Wray, Tonganoxie, graduate student and a paraplegic, said, "I use the service all the time. So far I've been able to get all the books I need."
Persons with visual disabilities can
borrow a book for an extended period of time, Finnegan said.
The library also provides a reading room for the visually handicapped, which has a tape recorder and a record player. Students must provide their own recordings.
Laura Moore, Lawrence senior, has dyslexia, an affliction that causes her to see reversed letters and images when she reads.
"But it’s hard to get administrative help. I requested tapes of a math class from the teacher, and we deliver them until they determine who will fail the bill. I don’t know if I’ll be ready for it."
"The library has been very cooperative," Moore said. "The photocopy service really helps.
Firmeng said recordings of some tapes were available through the Kansas State Library in Topeka. Students must call six weeks in advance to request a book because the library obtains its materials from the Reading for the Blind Center in New York City.
Talking Book Topics, a division of the National Library Service, sends Watson Library recordings bestsellers that are available on records.
Students physically unable to enter the classroom must find their books for them. The circulation department also will deliver books to the loading dock behind Watson where students are assigned.
Watson also has a ramp entrance at the basement level in front of the building, which may be entered after pressing a buzer to call a librarian.
Finnegan, who took the position at the library in October, said she still was learning about the problems of the handicapped.
She said she only recently learned of the Students Concerned with Disabilities, a program that offers special assistance for disabled students. She said she planned to attend the group's meeting.
"I'm really amazed at the energy that some of these people have," she said. "It takes some of them several times longer to do research, but they它 done."
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But Bob Marcum, athletic director, said yesterday that he had begun to make personal contacts to test the willingness of contributors to provide funds for the project.
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"The chancellor is very much in favor of the thing," he said, "and I think it's super."
The building would need approval by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Keith Kepthair, strength coach, said the weight room now in place in Parrott Athletic Center was used by all sports except tracp, which uses a weight area in Memorial Stadium. Kephair said the weight room is even for heavy use by the football team.
Marcum said the proposed building, which is intended to alleviate a shortage of practice and weight areas for all sports, only be financed by private continued funding.
"The response is certainly favorable," Marcum said, "but that's a long way from saying, 'Here's some money, go spend it.'"
He said that if new space was provided, the football team could use it and the other teams could share the existing room.
Both have expressed their support, Marcum said.
The space for this conditioning should be available at the end of the basketball season and after spring break, when the track team moves to Memorial Stadium.
Kephart said he liked to have the football players do conditioning exercises such as running for two to three weeks before their first practice March 31.
"There are so many inconsistencies," he said, "that you can't plan anything with any degree of success."
PRELIMINARY PLANS by architects Peters, Williams and Kubota place the building just west of the Parrrot Athletic Center, near Allen Field House, Marcum
He said the building would contain from 2 to 5 yards of artificial turf for use by the golfers. He also said he would weight area, meeting rooms, open areas for sport such as volleyball and possibly a tennis court.
THE UNIVERSITY of Nebraska has four athletic weight rooms, Kephart said.
The proposed building would be used to ease a current practice space problem.
The proposed building would provide more practice room for all sports, Kephart said.
numbers, we're doing an injustice to our athletes."
HE SAID that each sport now occupied a corner of the field house and that "the athletes are stacked on top of one another."
"I don't necessarily want to be a Nebraskan," he said, "but in terms of
There is no plan to use funds raised for the practice building to ease the 1981 KUACBudget which will be tightened by a new state game football games next fall. Marcum said.
He scud, however, that he did not rule out the possibility of seeking additional private funds for the 1981 budget.
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