University Daily Kansan, February 25, 1983
Page 11
Library shelves to overflow, official says
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Library books and materials will have to be boxed and placed in storage in a few years because shelves will soon overflow, a University library official
Jim Rum, dean of libraries, said that even if the University was able to begin work on a new library to house books now stored in branch libraries, in about three years books would most likely be stored in warehouses off campus.
Ranz said that because books had been placed in inter libraries, such as the engineering library in the Satellite Union and the stacks in the basement of Spencer Research Library, the libraries were given a grace period before books were put in storage.
THE LIBRARIES add about 60,000 volumes a year, but now there are no places left for interim storage.
"We've exhausted everything we can do," he said. "There is no more space available. The libraries have run out of them and can think of to delay that evil day."
Ranz said the library would try to determine which books were used the least and place them in storage. He said he would use an easy task for books used in research.
Students and faculty will have to wait two days to get a book.
"Certainly the campus is inconvenienced. It holds up the work of students."
RESEARCH WILL be hindered by delays caused by waiting for materials, he said. And people will have to know exactly what book they want and will not be able to look over a collection, Ranz said.
Along with the costs of student inconvenience will be the operating expense.
Without having to store books elsewhere, branch libraries already cost a lot more than a typical home library.
than a centralized library system, Ranz said.
A few major libraries can be operated more cost effectively than several small libraries, he said.
But if books are put in storage, additional costs would be incurred through rental fees and staff to change library records.
RANZ SAID that workers would probably be taken from the staff that was working on the computerized cataloging system for the libraries, so that process would be delayed.
He said an undesirable alternative to storing books off campus would be storing them in the study areas of the existing libraries.
"Encroaching on reading spaces would be a horrible disservice to students and faculty," he said.
Not only do the libraries lack shelving space, but also reader space.
Ranz said that general University standards required library reading
space to accommodate one-fourth of a university's enrollment. The entire KU library system has about 2,000 seats, enough to accommodate about one-tenth of the University's population at any one time.
RANZ SAID that many times the libraries were uncomfortably full, discouraging their use.
KU's entire library system has about 285,000 square feet of space, compared to the University of Colorado, which has more than 400,000 square feet, and the University of Iowa, which has more than 500,000 square feet in its library system.
Ranz said that eventually the University had to get money for more library space. The question is how long would it take to keep its books in storage, he said.
HE SAID that if KU were forced to wait five to 10 years before a new library were built, a complete generation of students would not have proper library facilities.
Mexico, Britain join negotiations in Europe OPEC officials meet to try to stabilize oil prices
By United Press International
Mexico and Britain met with OPEC oil officials in European capitals yesterday in an unprecedented global campaign to head off a full-scale oil spill.
Mexico, America's largest foreign oil supplier, said it would postpone a price cut that had been scheduled for today. But the current round of negotiations.
A Mexican oil expert said the threat of a world oil price crash could propel both Mexico and Britain, which do not belong to the Organization of Petrobras, into coordinating prices and production levels with the 13-nation oil cartel.
IN WASHINGTON President Reagan said "over the long run more realistic market-oriented oil prices will spur
economic recovery and free vast amounts of real resources that previously had been devoted to energy."
The frantic shuttle diplomacy between the world's major oil producers began after Nigeria, an OPEC mavicker, slashed its crude by $5.50 to $30 a barrel last weekend to match reductions by Britain and Norway. Nigeria also vowed to undercut competitors by $1 a barrel.
Britain held informal talks with a Mexican oil delegation and OPEC delegates from Venezuela in London, but a British National Oil Corp. spokesman said no decisions were reached.
Mexican Energy Minister Francisco
Labastad arrived in Paris for a hastily
called meeting with OPEC ministers from
Kuwait, Venezuela and Algeria.
Diplomats said the four countries were attempting to reach agreement on
the decision by five of OPEC's powerful Persian Gulf members to reduce the cartel's $43-a-barrel base price by an undisclosed amount.
ARAB SOURCES said the Gulf producers — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar — had decided on a cut of about $4 a barrel in OPEC's base price on the condition that the rest of the cartel, along with Mexico, Britain and Norway concurred.
Analysts said a consensus on pricing between OPEC and its leading competitors would stave off a pricing free-for-all that could damage the economy and cause massive loan defaults in poorer oil-producing nations.
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In Jakarta, an Indonesian government official said his country — an Islamic country — is a 'slow burner.'
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revise its budget or borrow heavily if oil prices fell below $30 a barrel.
The Gulf states also warned that they would impose a drastic price rollback if all 13 OPEC members did not agree on a unified price reduction at an emergency summit in Vienna or Geneva next week.
Spot prices firmed for crude oil and gasoline on world markets, but trading came to a virtual halt as traders waited for the outcome of the full OPEC meeting.
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Venezuela, an OPEC mediator, sent delegations to Ecuador, Libya, Algeria and Norway to discuss the oil price crisis.
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Speaker cautions U.S. about spiritual vacuum
"Resistance to communism is impossible where the church is led by false leaders."
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THE ROMAN Catholic Church is one force in the West that has been eroded by such evil, Fraser said. Because some clerics are no longer primarily concerned with saving souls and are becoming increasingly like the faithful, they find less powerful in the fight against communism than it was 20 or 30 years ago.
In 1948, he left the Communist Party and converted to Roman Catholicism. Fraser has since written and lectured around the world against communism and in support of Catholic social doctrines. He is editor of "Approaches," a Catholic social and cultural review.
Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, organized Communist groups among dock workers in his native Scotland in the early 1940s.
Fraser, who fought as a Communist with the International Brigade in the
The greatest threat to American democracy is not the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal, but the moral and spiritual vacuum in the Western world, a speaker for the KU Conservative Forum said last night.
HIS SPEECH, titled "The Communist Challenge to the American University Student," was co-sponsored by the College of Engineering at the institution of University Residence Halls.
FOUR HUBCAPS, valued at $250,
were stolen Wednesday from a
car parked in the 1000 block of Mississippi
Street. nolice said.
Hamish Fraser told about 80 people in Alderson Auditorium that even though communism was discredited in the 1960s it was powerful force that could not be ignored.
The Soviet Union owes its survival for the last 60 years to both the strengths and the weaknesses of the Western world, not its own intrinsic qualities.
Liberation theologians who mix Marxism and church doctrine, anti-nuclear activists, and members of organizations such as Amnesty International are enemies of the church, he said, and as long as church leaders listen to them, the church cannot successfully fight Communism.
A RADAR DETECTION UNIT and stereo equipment, worth an estimated $200, were stolen from a car parked in the 300 block of Trail Road, police said.
The Soviet countryside shows Western technology, Fraser said. However, Soviets might not pose such a threat if Western societies were free of activities such as legalized abortion, homosexuality and vocal anti-nuclear
The only solution, Fraser said, was to restructure society according to traditional Catholic principles.
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STEREO EQUIPMENT, worth more than $1,000 was stolen Wednesday from cars parked in the 1300 block of Westbrooke Drive, police said.
A custodian in Strong Hall received minor injuries yesterday morning when an unidentified man stabbed him several times with a pair of scissors after an argument, KU police said yesterday.
Man injured in stabbing at Strong
Jeanne Longaker, a KU police officer, said police found the victim at 7:30 a.m.
LONGAKER the victim was treated at Watkins Hospital and res
She said the victim was unsure what novoked the attack...
A detective has been assigned to investigate the case, she said.
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