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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 14, 1961
Watson Library To Be Enlarged
An $1.8 million appropriation approved by last year's Legislature will be used for an addition to Watson Library which is expected to take care of the University's needs for the next 15 to 20 years.
Construction is not yet underway, but the additions are to be completed sometime in 1963.
The new cast wing will provi storage and office space. The eight-story southwest addition will be devoted entirely to bookstacks.
The new east wing will provide additional reader space, book The eight-
The KU libraries total nearly 920,300 volumes, which is more than twice the number on hand 10 years ago. This is an indication of the tremendous interest the University and state officials have in the growth of the library system.
Burling Lindley Hall contains the Earth Sciences Library, while Malott Hall has the big Physical Science book collections, and Green Hall houses the Law Library.
The main flow of literary collections for Mt. Oread is into Watson Library. But seven "arteries" are connected to the large, grey stone building west of Fraser Hall.
Mathematics books are located in Strong Hall with music and records in Murphy Hall. The engineering fields are covered in the collections housed in Marvin Hall. The KU Medical Center at Kansas City has one of the country's major modern and historical medical literature collections.
The University adds between 40,000 and 50,000 volumes a year. The one million mark is expected to be reached about the time the new additions are completed.
Together, these various branches contain besides the nearly 920,000 volumes, about 900,000 different magazines and more than 200 newspapers from around the globe.
The present structure was built in 1926, with an addition made several years ago.
Although numbers are important in providing as big a source as possible of research material, the KU library system has centered most of its efforts on quality of its collections in recent years.
The new director of libraries is Thomas R. Buckman, who joined the staff in 1956 as director of the acquisition department.
Of interest is the book-exchange system between KU and the Soviet Union started in 1956. Each year since has brought increased participation by U.S.S.R. librarians.
Currently, the trading adds several Soviet volumes to the University each year.
With the acquisition of about 4,000 original volumes of 16th and 17th century books from Europe, KU's collection of European books is one of the nation's best. Previsions for additional purchases for this Summerfield Collection of Works of Europe have been made through continued support by the Summerfield Foundation.
Another valuable collection is some 2,000 volumes which were once part of the Sir William Stirling-Maxwell collection, formerly stored in a Scottish castle from 1878 to 1957. Books concerning the great Spanish author Cervantes also make up a substantial part of this division of the Summerfield collection, with other volumes being in German, Italian, Latin, Dutch and Greek.
KU can boast of a few rare
Frats Ask for It
The 19 social fraternities at Washington University in St. Louis are placing themselves under a rigorous academic program designed to promote high scholarship among members.
The program was initiated and is being directed by the Interfraternity Council.
Don Fischer, faculty adviser and dean of the School of Engineering, said the important feature of the program is that the fraternities initiated it and are carrying it out on their own.
"They did this without any outside urging, and are working hard to make the program effective," he said.
Penalties ranging from curtailment of the group's social activities to recommendation of its expulsion from the university may be issued by the council to fraternities holding a low grade average over several semesters.
volumes printed less than 50 years after Gutenberg perfected the movable type press in 1440.
The Ralph M. Ellis Collection of Ornithology and Rare Books is housed at KU with some 20,000 volumes and numerous prints, original paintings and drawings providing researchers with valuable manuscripts in ornithology, early travels, bibliography and early printing.
The Thomas J. Fitzpatrick collection not only includes considerable material on botanical history and the works of Linnaeus and John Ray, but also brings to KU's campus some 6,000 18th century pamphlets on the French Revolution to supplement an excellent KU collection in that area.
The moderns have not been forgotten, either. The O'Hegarty collection consists of works by William Butler Yeats and related Irish letters and theater material. The Spoerri collection is devoted to the works of James Joyce.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe welcomed new students to the university last Sunday at a convocation that marked the beginning of orientation week.
Wescoe Speaks To Parents, Students
"Here we are concerned with the quest for new knowledge," Dr. Wescoc told more than 5,000 freshmen, new students and their parents.
"Each of the faculty members is involved in adding to man's understanding of himself and the world around him."
The chancellor said that sponsored faculty research last year at the university totalled $6,500,000.
"But research opportunities exist for all students—from freshmen to Ph.D. candidates. This spirit of inquiry is the true spirit of the university."
Dr. Wescoe told the new students that studies indicate a college education increases a person's life income by more than $100,000.
"Use a little mathematics on that figure, and you will find that every year you spend in college is worth $25,000—and where can young men and women your age earn that kind of money," Dr. Wescoe asked.
Chemical Company Awards Scholarship
John Timothy Hood, Kansas City senior, has been awarded the Frontier Chemical Company scholarship for next year. The $500 scholarship is given annually to a senior in chemical engineering at K.U.
Hood has held a scholarship hall award for the past three years, serving as president of his residence hall last year.
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Fearing Receives Award
Harold Wayland Fearing, Law-
rence senior, has received an RCA
scholarship of $800 in physics and
mathematics.
Fearing has been on the dean's honor roll every semester.
Fearing, a Summerfield scholar, is the previous recipient of a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research award for 1960-61. He is a member of Phil Beta Kappa.
Traveling Pharmacy Course
The University of Kansas will open its ninth biannual traveling pharmacy extension course with a one-day session to be held at Great Bend Sept. 27. Other meetings will be held at Coffeyville Sept. 28 and Lawrence Sept. 29. About 150 pharmacists are expected to attend the three sessions.
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