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Thursday, December 3, 1970
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment
Primarily a place for research . . .
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The Reference Desk is a common stopping place.
... Watson Library offers something to just about everybody.
By FRANK SLOVER Kansan Staff Writer
Watson Library was built in 1923 and named after Carrie Watson, the first full-time KU librarian.
Since that time the building has had three additions, the first in 1948 and the other two—the west stacks and the east stacks.
It holds one million of the 1.5 million volumes in the University library system which makes it the largest research library in the state. As a result, its resources are available to back up other state libraries and to support the interlibrary loan system as well as to serve the students, faculty and special researchers on campus.
Last year 650,000 books were borrowed from Watson. This was the largest increase in the use of the library in terms of books borrowed in the library's history.
The library is staffed with 110 full-time employees and about 150 part-time, student employees. Of the permanent staff, 45 are librarians and the other 65 fall into the civil service category and are remunerated on that basis. The student workers are paid according to the student assistants rates.
Kansan Photos By MIKE RADENCICH
A home for man's greatest thoughts.
Shuffling of books leaves room in the stacks for new additions.