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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 19, 1963
Students View Disorder in Library Now
By Linda Ellis
Study conditions at Watson Library have to get better. They can't get any worse.
Construction men wandering around, dust-covered shelves, temporary walls of cellophane and a staircase that leads nowhere are but a tour of the problems facing both $ ^{2} $
a few of the problems facing both $ ^{4} $ students and faculty in the library this semester.
Because of unfinished walls and stacked tables in the undergraduate library students are able to utilize only the west end.
Limited study space is one of the most urgent situations in the library.
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THE ENTIRE TOP floor is not in use since it is being used to store microfilm, books and other library equipment. Several of the rooms upstairs are in the last stages of remodeling.
The Education room on the main level is the only room in the building that is in full use. Plans for moving more tables into this room are now under way.
The Kansas Room, or "smoker," as most students know it, is now being used for mail and binding of periodicals.
THE REFERENCE ROOM on the second floor is probably the only room untouched by construction at this time. Changes in the reference room will not come until later in the fall.
Mazes of unfinished rooms, dead end corridors and plugged rooms are everywhere. One of the only people who is able to find his way around is John L. Glinka, assistant director of the library.
"We are sorry that students are bein't inconvenienced." Mr. Glinka said, "but these changes will result in a better library.
"We are asking students to cooperate with the staff and try to put up with the noise so that the library may run as smoothly as possible."
Work on the new wing began in May of 1962. The exterior is now completed but none of the rooms will be usable until spring.
THE PROBLEMS and inconveniences of studying in the library this fall will be replaced by improved conditions by February 1964.
By that time the new wing will be completed and ready for the books that will be housed there. The wing will double the space used for stacks, thus making the areas for student reading much larger.
Some of the outstanding conveniences will be in the undergraduate library on the ground floor. Semi-enclosed booths will line much of the wall space and new tables will be installed.
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DOUBLE DILEMMA—Students can't get in and they can't get out of the undergraduate library. Unused turnstiles stand unused at one end of the undergraduate room where they await their return to service along with rooms of other equipment in Watson. Only the west end is used now where the reserve shelves and periodical data vie for floor space with acutely limited study tables. When completed, the size of the undergraduate library will be more than doubled.