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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 15, 1963
Library Collection Heads Toward Second Million
The University of Kansas library has passed the one-million volume mark. A two-million volume collection may be a reality as early as 1970.
Thomas R. Buckman, director o. libraries, reported that on July 1 the KU library had 1,018.347 volumes with new acquisitions flowing in at the rate of 4,000-5,000 a month, bringing today's total to about 1,035,000 volumes. Items not included in this total, such as maps, pamphlets, microfilms and microcards, photographs, documents, and manuscripts, would bring the total count to about 1,500,000 pieces.
THE KU LIBRARY, by far the state's largest, serves not only the University, but also schools, colleges, universities, and individuals throughout Kansas. Thousands of requests from Kansans outside Lawrence are filled every year.
The 1,000,000-volume mark was reached this year by the acquisition of a whole range of books, periodicals, and collections, some acquired through state funds, and a large part from endowment funds, gifts and other sources.
"Today, among the 42 largest university libraries in this country. KU ranks 31st, with Iowa and Missouri ahead of us, and many of the east and west coast institutions far ahead.
Among the outstanding collections are the following:
- The Henry Sagan Rainer Maria Rilke collection of some 1,500 volumes, pamphlets, clippings, and letters relating to the renowned German writer, probably equalled in this country only by the von Mises Rilke collection at Harvard University.
- The Leon Josephson collection of pamphlets and books dealing with Marxism, Leninism, Communism, and other radical movements, a body of material of great value to historians, political scientists, and area specialists.
- A major addition of nearly one thousand volumes of 15th and 16th century books on law, political theology to the Solon E. Summerfield collection of continental renaissance books.
- A small but remarkable collection of early books printed from Anglo-Saxon types, including the rare Junius "Caedmon" now being prepared for a special facsimile edition of Prof. Merrell D. Clubb. This book will be issued by a Danish publisher in the well-known Early English Text series.
Gifts of books came from many parts of the country and included more than 100 ornithological books
from the library of Jonathan Dwight,
given by Mrs. Carll Tucker of Mt.
Kisco, N.Y.; some 50 rare volumes
of illustrated editions of the Roman
poet Virgil, donated by Robert
Aitchison of Wichita; unusual books
in the history of medicine presented
to the Clendening Medical Library
by Harold Null of Grand Island. Neb.
Among the acquisitions of particular Kansas interests were a group of Abraham Lincoln letters, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson of San Diego, Calif.; and an extensive archive of Harry Kemp papers including numerous original letters to the Kansas poet from H. L. Mencken, given by Hudson D. Walker of New York City and John A. Francis of Provincetown, Mass.
Thousands of specialized volumes in engineering and the sciences also were acquired.
"A million volumes provide a great reservoir for scholarly work in Kansas," Buckman said, "especially when they have been carefully selected over the years as they have here. We are concerned more with the quality of our collections than with mere quantity, and this has been recognized elsewhere.
"We regularly receive inquiries for books and manuscripts in our library from other instituioins and individual scholars both here and abroad. There have been recent requests from England and Italy, and from much larger research libraries on both the east and west coasts most of which we have been able to satisfy.
High Schools Visit Scholarship Halls
"When measured against the expected growth of the University and its expanding programs, however, our library still is modest in size, and must continue to grow at an accelerated rate to keep up with day-to-day needs on this campus," Buckman said. "The great American universities with which we measure ourselves academically, for example, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UCLA, Illinois, Cornell, and others, all have much larger libraries.
"There is a definite correlation between the size of the research library and the distinction of the graduate program. Thus, the achievement of a million-volume library, although impressive, is only a beginning. Much more remains to be done."
Men's scholarship halls will have a senior visitation this weekend.
Eighty Kansas high school seniors will arrive at KU Saturday afternoon to spend the weekend at the five scholarship halls.
"We have doubled the size of our library since 1951, however, and this rate of growth is much higher than the national average. To meet the classroom and research needs of KU students and faculty, we will have to redouble our efforts in the decade ahead."
Terry Miller, Baxter Springs junior and president of the men's scholarship halls, said, "We hope that the weekend will encourage the seniors to apply for scholarship hall awards."
Saturday evening the seniors will attend a banquet in the Kansas Union where Chancellor Wescoe will speak. Later in the evening, they will appear on the Dick Gregory Show in Hoch Auditorium.
The seniors will stay at the halls for Sundav dinner with faculty members and university officials.
The seniors were chosen by principles at their high schools on the basis of leadership and scholarship.
Senior Demolays
Lawrence Chapter
Ceremonial
Saturday, Nov. 16
10 a.m.- noon
MASONIC TEMPLE
10th & Mass.
The Democratic coffee for John Glaves, state Democratic chairman, will be 7:30 tonight in Room 203 of the Kansas Union.
Glaves Speech Set For 7:30 Tonight
Small Women's Residence Halls Mary Beth Gast (Vox) ... 34 Sharon McIlrath (write-in) 32 Jeanette Jeffrey (UP) ... 25
SUBJECT:
Elections
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Unmarried-Unorganized
Walter Bgoya (write-in)
Brian Grace (Vox)
Vinay Kothari (UP)
Mike Miner (Vox)
Professional Fraternities and Co-Ops
Bill Panning (UP)... 30
Conrad Wagenknecht
(Vox) ... 28
Freshman Women's Residence Halls
Married
Terry Beach (UP) ... 114
Linda Tebbe (Vox) ... 79
Judy Bernhardt (Vox) ... 78
C. C. Waller (Vox) ... 77
Nancy Soderstrom (Vox) 56
Cathy Coleman (UP) ... 43
Married
Gary Walker (Vox) ... 35
Mike McDowell ... 29
Freshman Class President
Jim Aust ... 689
Jim Prager ... 349
Dean Peer ... 277
Mike Willman ... 94
Freshman Class Vice President Don Beahm ... 702
Mike Breeding ... 377
Don Ringer ... 316
Freshman Class Secretary
Bobbi Johnson 770
Linda Boone 411
Keith Kinyon 203
Freshman Class Treasurer
Gary Little ... 536
Bobbi Nance ... 532
Cheryll Fitts ... 366
Dick Gregory will be here tomorrow night.
WOW!
8:00 p.m., Hoch Auditorium
Tickets at door
$.75 - $1.00 - $1.25
TAIPEI — (UPI) Nationalist Chinese guerrilla activities of the Chinese mainland have increased sharply during recent months and spread to parts of Red China that had been left almost untouched by previous such operations.
Chinese Nationalists Step-up Guerilla War
Reliable sources said that in the five months from June to October, a total of 912 Nationalist agents slipped into Communist China by small boats, rafts, air drops and other stealthy means.
This compared with a 10-month total of only 873 guerrillas sent into the mainland in landing parties from March through December, 1962.
The sources outlined the progress of Nationalist guerrilla activities since last February, when top-ranking Nationalist intelligence sources revealed the first details of their mainland guerrilla activities in an exclusive interview with UPI President Mims Thomason.
THE PRESENT guerrilla landings represent the first organized military operation against the Communists since the Chinese mainland fell in 1949.
The sources said the primary mission of the Nationalist guerrillas was to rally and organize local anti-Communist forces and to establish bases of operation for fresh agents to contact and work from.
Their work includes sabotage, espionage and coordination of independent anti-Communist movements. Some of the guerrillas stay on the mainland only a short time and withdraw after completing their missions.
The sources said that whereas previous guerrilla operations had been concentrated in Kwangtung Province of South China opposite Hong Kong, the recent wave of National activities was far more widespread.
THE LATEST wave of guerrilla operations has ranged from Hopeh Province, in the extreme northeast where the capital city of Peking is located, to the southernmost part of Kwangtung.
In all, since March of 1962, the Nationalists have sent a total of 1,785 guerrillas to the mainland, the sources said. The figures showed that for unexplained reasons there was a six-month lapse in guerrilla activities between January and June of this year.
The sources said the Chinese Communists mobilized more than 10,000 regular troops and hundreds of militiamen to track down a group of about 100 Nationalists agents in Kwangtung province last year.
THE SOURCES said that several Nationalist infiltrators were operating from some of the old bases used by the Chinese Communists in the earlier stages of their rebellion.
These bases are in the well concealed mountainous areas of Hifeng and Lufeng in Kwangtung and Juiching and Yutu in Kiangsi Province of inland South China.
By weakening these strongholds the Nationalists believe they can seriously undermine the firm control the Reds have held over the mainland during the past 14 years.
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