rge 10 University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1983
Legislature likely to consider financing library, official says
JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
The Kansas Legislature probably will take action this session on a request for money to plan a new library at the University of Kansas, a KU official said yesterday.
Alben Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said that although Gov. John Carlin did not recommend financing for libraries when he submitted his 1984 budget in January, legislators may consider the proposal this week and need for by the Legislature verified the need for more library space.
A BOARD of Regents report listing priority capital improvements projects for fiscal year 1043 states that $380,000 would be made in preliminary planning of a new library.
The report lists the new library as 15th in order of priority of 47 requests for 2013.
The total cost of the library is estimated at $25 million.
The new library would house the math, science, engineering, architecture and music libraries, and give the Lawrence campus five major libraries, instead of four major libraries and several branch libraries.
The library would be built behind Hoch Auditorium, close to the Military Science building. Wiechert said. The exact location would be worked out architects
WHICHERT SAID that the money requested would be used to hire an architect to plan the library. If the Legislature accepted the proposal,
more funds would be requested next
year for construction drawings and bids
Wiechert said that the new library would give the University much needed space to house books.
He also said that space was needed for studying and for library services and maintenance, such as cataloging and circulation.
"By most national standards we don't provide enough reader stations where students and faculty can sit and we the books in the facility," he said.
John Glinka, associate dean of libraries, said that library materials now kept in various places on campus, such as Lippicott Hall and the men of Spencer Research Library, must be kept in one central building.
"We're crowded on all fronts, really," he said.
EARL GATES, a librarian at the music library, said the library was running out of space.
"In an ideal situation we would have our own library in the music building, only larger, but since the new library is built on the same floor as the building, it would be good for us," he said.
Linka said that two studies had been conducted to assess the need for space.
Last year the Legislature appointed the New York accounting firm of Peat, Marwick and Mitchell Co. to do a survey at KU, Kansas State University, Kansas State University, to determine whether more library space was needed
The KU Libraries Facilities Planning Committee also compiled a report of
The Peat, Marwick and Mitchell Co-
survey was composed of six divisions
and KU was found to have needs in all of those areas.
THE DIVISIONS described existing conditions and analyzed projected staffing requirements, shelf requirements, space necessary for readers based on a proximal cost estimate figure in 2000, cost estimates and alternatives to the proposals.
The report suggested that an addition of 38,000 square feet be added to Watson Library and that Lippincott Hall be used for additional storage.
Wiechert said that because Watson was built on about 10 feet of rock, any crane could be used to lift it.
He also said the Peat, Marwick and Mitchell report contradicted itself because the report said that branch libraries needed to be consolidated, but also recommended that Lippincott Hall be used for storage.
THE REPORT said that 127,000 square feet was needed to meet space needs. The library's report said 130,000 feet was necessary.
"The hazard of the Peat, Marwick and Mitchell report was they hoped the library would have narrow stacks. They don't understand library usage."
Wiechert said that the report required space for closed stacks, instead of open stacks, and it did not allow users to browse people to browse through the stacks.
However, Wiechert said the total cost proposal determined by the committee was less than the proposal in the Peat, Marwick and Mitchell report.
The new library originally was proposed in November 1976 by a Libraries Facilities Planning Committee.
The 8.2 percent increase in state and constitutes the largest increase for any
not interested in financing Kansas education.
KANSAS Association of School Boards lobbyist John Koepke said he was not optimistic about schools realizing relief in the Senate. He said that the spending limitations in the bill were unsatisfactory and would result in significant reductions for school districts.
The bill calls for 3 percent and 6 percent budget increase limitations for
House approves school finance bill
Doctors form kidney research group
Property taxes for Kansans would increase by $40.8 million under the bill, in contrast to the Carlin version which increased property taxes by only $28 million.
A lone pickup truck and trailer crossing the Kansas Turpike bridge over the Kansas River north of Lawrence recently are silhouetted against the morning sunlight.
THE SCHOOL (finance measure, which now will be (orwarded to the Senate where it faces little opposition, would allocate a $33 million increase for education, far less than the $62 million hike sought by Carlin.
Carlin's press secretary Mike Swenson condemned the spending measure. "It is absurd," he said.
KANASS CITY, Kan. — Researchers and physicians at the University of Kansas Medical Center have formed a kidney research organization to obtain additional grants and publicity, researchers at the Med Center said the week.
TOPEEA — Turning its back on Gov. John Carlin, the Republican-dominated House yesterday approved a school finance bill that would provide about half of what the governor had intended for schools.
Arnold Chonko, associate professor of medicine at the Med Center, said doctors from different areas of kidney research, who have worked together since 1967, now received about $850,000 for kidney and urology research.
Lawrence Sullivan, a professor of physiology, said grant money would be used to research various kidney function diseases and treatments of those diseases.
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tormal last fall by creating the kidney and urology research center.
"We've been working together for some time," he said, "but we recently formed the center to allow for more fund raising.
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said that the close 64-11 House vote was indicative of what would happen the rest of the legislative session. He said that Carlin should be forewarned to begin compromising.
THE DEPARTMENTS involved in the arrangement are medicine, pediatrics, surgery, biochemistry, physiology and pathology.
HE SAID that much of the research has provided clues to the origin of diabetes and polycystis, which is an inherited disease in which cysts form
"When people come to the hospital wanting to give money, you have to give them some pamphils or some cards that they'll know what you're doing."
The 27 researchers in the center come from all over the country, he said, and work on both research and treatment of kidney diseases.
He said they made their relationship
LA&S panel debates expense policy
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
Gunther Schlager, committee chairman, said the committee was discussing how the expense money had been allocated to college departments in the past.
Members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' budget committee are trying to decide whether a change is needed in the college's procedure of distributing expense money, the chairmen of the committee said this week.
Schlager said it would make recommendations to the college in four to six weeks.
MICHAEL YOUNG, associate dean of the college, said all money in the college's budget not used to pay for staff or services is available for other operating expenses.
"We may decide the present system is the only way to do it," Schlagger said. "It's too early to say whether the procedure should be changed."
Cameron Hurst, professor of history and a member of the committee, said the committee's discussions of OEI's role in college affairs are on the topic by a college committee.
Young said the money was used for technical, scientific and general expenses that included everything from pencils to centrifuges.
He also said the college administration used departments' past budgets to decide how much money would be allocated for the next year.
HURST SAID that over the years some departments had built up larger budgets than other departments and that the committee wanted to make sure that departments with small budgets were not overlooked.
"Mike Amyx understands that listening is the key to leadership in Lawrence."
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