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Wednesday, July 17, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Lack of Funds, Space Causes Problems for Library
BY KATHLEEN PICKETT
Kansan Staff Renorter
The last time I wrote a term paper, I was surprised when my roommate came home and told me the exact location in the library where I'd been. She said that she didn't see it 'didn't see' on from behind stacks of books.
She knew where I had been studying because of the books I'd left behind. Library assistants are supposed to shelter these books, but because of a shortage of funds, they can't always get this done.
John L. Glinda, acting director of the University of Kansas libraries, said one of the main problems of the library was maintaining up-to-the-minute access to information that could be kept on "housekeeping duties," he said.
Glinka said the library received an increase in funds for next year, but only enough to maintain a small portion of the collection.
Glinks said the library must give first priority to customer services. Thus, if someone needs help finding something in the library, they will be given attention. Because of the shortage in help, he said,
the maintenance of the stacks can't always be kept up.
Another problem is that the libraries are running out of space. Glimka said they had at most one to two years of book storage space left. He said the library is not in the basement of Scenerer Research Library.
Gilinda said only the least requested books were put there. If someone wants them, they are acct.
There has also been some damage to both Watson and Spencer, he said. During high winds and rains last spring, the walls were damaged. Nothing was seriously damaged in Spencer, but a wall in Watson became filled with water. Several hundred books were damaged, he said.
Another problem is the lack of reader space. Glinda said this had been a problem for several years. During peak periods of use, he said, people will even be sitting on the stars.
Watson has already been outgrown, Glinka said. But he said he didn't know whether Watson building would be added to or whether a new library building would have to be found.
The library is also having triple funding new acquisitions. It was given extra funds to account for the increase in prices, but it has had to cut back on periodicals ordered.
L. E. James Helyar, assistant director for technical services, said the library was spending more and more for periodicals even while subscriptions went down. Because of the inflationary jump in periodical prices, funds for books had to decrease.
Therefore, even though) the number of subscriptions to periodicals is a lower, the funds spent on them are higher.
Prices for books purchased by the library have also increased. Helvar said.
He said that books bought by the general public mustn't risen in price and that this made it difficult for them to purchase.
But a book is like a candy bar, Helyar said. The product may look the same, but the wrapping is cheaper and the contents smaller. Therefore, a book can be produced with a cleaner binding and smaller
Many of the books the library buys can't be produced cheaply, Helyar said. The library has to have sources the general public won't have, and these specialty books have risen in price.
Old and rare books have also gone up in price. Helyar said they had become more rare and had ridden off the shelves.
Glinka said the library had a responsibility to continue buying the luxury books. Because KU libraries are the largest in the state, other libraries depend on them for inter-library loans.
"We are being more conservative about buying books now than ever," Glinka said.
One advantage the library has is that it receives a large number of gifts, Helary said. These are in the forms of books, documents, maps, manuscripts, recordings and photographs.
Helyar said a great deal of selectivity was required in buying books. There are over a half million books published every year, he said. The KU library has the most books of worth, or one and one-half million, he said.
Glinka said there would be no need for mass
cancellations of periodicals as there was several years ago. He said periodicals were the most important sources for some schools that had to keep up with them. In other words, the sciences are good examples of this, he said.
Helyar emphasized that foreign periodicals and books were important to the library. He said there were 100,000 periodicals published in the world, and 18,000 of them were. Many of these aren't published in the United States.
"We would limit ourselves if we were to attempt to be chauvinistic." Helyar said.
Another complaint often heard about the library is the shortness of the hours it's open. Glinda said the staff had to consider enrollment when they determined open hours. He said library hours would be the same next year, unless enrollment went down in the spring.
"Being open 24 hours would be an absolute ideal," he said.
But because of the high expense of inor, a t.p.m. closing hour on week nights will have to be maintained.
Watson's Overflow Gathers Dust in Spencer's Basement
Although the won-loss record of the Big Eight all-star basketball team on a recent trip through Yugoslavia was not particularly impressive, it was a tremendous success, according to Colorado Coach Russell "Sox" Walseth.
All-Stars Success in Yugoslavia Despite Loss Record, Coach Says
"It was a super trip," said Walseth, one of the top Big Eight basketball coaches. "The team is very friendly, well organized, We got a nice good basketball and to see a lot of the sights. It was a beneficial trip for all of us, and I think our Gokulsavs were impressed with how we play."
The squad of 12, which was coached by Walseth and Coach Joe Ramsey of Oklahoma, finished the journey of one month with a 24 record. But that record may be a bit deceiving because most of the competition came from members of the Yugoslav National team, which had long been the championship games, which are being held this month. The stars, on the other hand, had only five days of practice together.
"I don't want it to sound as if we're
Kansas track coach Bobby Timmons has announced that Randy Benson, outstanding sprinter from Fullerton, Calif., Junior basketball agreement with the Jawhawks.
Sprinter Signs With Jayhawks
A pre-dental major, Benson was listed on the President's Honor Roll both years at Faucon. He has participated in track only two years and he captured Fullerton's team last year.
Former Brigham Young University All-
American Kresner Intrinsic, played well in
the Olympics.
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Benson will enroll at KU this fall as a junior. His best times are 46.8 in the 440, 21.0 in the 220 and 9.5 in the 100-yard dash. His top scores are 72.3 in the second less than the KU record of 46.5.
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Two of Ramsey's stars at Oaklahoma, center Alvan Adams and forward Tom Holland, and Nebraska guard Jerry Fort led the Big Eight team in scoring. Adams scored 148 points and Holland and Fort each scored 106. All 12 players saw considerable action.
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Roger Morningstar and Dale Greenee, University of Kansas basketball standouts, had the fifth and sixth highest point totals for the Big Eight team. Morningstar scored 61 points and Greenlee 53 points in the eight games.
looking for excuses, but those guys have played together a long time and they go for about 10 months a year," Walsch said. "Most age range is 28 and they're a very good club.
Monty Hobbs, a standout in two sports at Great Bend High School the past three years, has signed a national letter-of-entitlement and baseball at the University of Kansas.
KU football coach Don Fambrough plans to use Hobbs as a place kicker.
Hobbs is the second standout from Great Bend to sign with the Jayhawks this year. Earlier, James Emerson, a 6 foot 3, 260-pound football player, signed a football agreement with KU.
Last season at Great Bend, Hobbs kicked 24 of 25 extra points and four field goals, including two from 43 yards. He also caught 35 passes for 688 yards and seven touchdowns. He was a consensual all-state selection and was named by Coach and
In the recent Kansas Shrine All-Star game played in KU's Memorial Stadium, Hobbs, 5 feet 9, barely scored two 50-yard attempts, either of which would have given the underdog West a victory. Hobbs also caught eight passes for 124 yards.
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Kivisto a Top Five Finalist
Kintivio, three-year starter and co-captain of Kansas 794 Big Eight champion basketball team, is among seven finalists named yesterday for the National Collegiate Athletic Association's prestigious Top Five Awards.
The Top Five is part of the NCAA's College Athletics Top Ten Awards. The Top Ten Awards are given annually to five current student athletes and five former student athletes on their 25th anniversary as college graduates.
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A former student athlete honored last year was Ray Evans, former football and basketball All-American for KU and now president of a bank in Kansas City, Mo.
Another group of finalists will be selected in December at the end of the fall sports season.
Other finalists for the Top Five Awards are Tom McMillen, basketball, University of Maryland; Keith Wilkes, basketball, UCLA; Lonnie Kruger, basketball, Kansas State University; Jarrert Hubbard, University of Michigan; Bill Milem, swimming; Johns Hopkins University; and Tony Walrdrop, track, University of North Carolina
Kivisto concluded a brilliant career at
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"Tom was probably the only player most responsible for our success this year," according to KU basketball coach Ted Owens. "His outstanding play and leadership were instrumental in leading us to the conference championship.
A native of Aurora, III, he was a first-team All-Big Eight selection both athletically and academically. He posted a 3.28 overall grade point average.
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