University Daily Kansan, March 2, 1982
14
Page 3
nated unrich in the
ect is an obtoms,
allow without
unded habitat with for en
ing
1138
Kent Miller, serials librarian, is surrounded by packed boxes in 108 Lippincott. He is preparing to move the acquisitions department back to Watson Library from Lippincott Hall.
Renovation almost completed
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
Workers began moving the technical services departments of Watson Library from Lippincott Hall back into Watson yesterday. And when that is over later this week, the $6.22 million Watson Library renovation project finally will be complete.
"It's just a great feeling of relief. We won't have to worry about contractor schedules or omergenate hours, but we're sure the dean of libraries, said yesterday.
Large van line trucks were used to move the serials department files and equipment across Jayhawk Boulevard to Watson yesterday morning. The acquisitions department is being moved back to Watson
"We had to make space by moving people out of the building," Glinka said.
THE MAILROOM, SERIALS,
gifts and exchange, cataloging and
acquisitions departments were
moved to Lippincott two years ago to
give the contractors room to begin
working on Watson. Clinka said.
Clint Howard, acquisitions librarian, whose department moved over to Lippincott in December 1979, and whom there had been the lesser of two evils.
"During the time when they had jackhammers going and concrete falling, we didn't miss it too much," he said.
But working in Lippincott has caused some problems for the departments, Howard said.
Library personnel were forced to walk back and forth to check on things at Watson and use the card catalog. Howard said.
Moving the technical services departments back into Watson will improve services to students in the long-run, Glinka said, because the librarians will be able to carry out their work more efficiently.
HOWARD SAID that moving back to Watson would speed things up in many ways. For example, workers in the acquisitions department would not have to leave the building to verify information in the bookstacks or the card catalog, he said.
The serials, gifts and exchange, cataloging and acquisitions departments will all be on the second floor of Watson after the move. Glinka said. The Slavic and Latin American departments, two reading areas and a bookstack will also be there, he said.
One of the new reading areas is in the space formerly occupied by the center bookstacks, Glinka said. When that area of the library was
built in the 1920s, small holes were put in the floor to allow air to circulate up through the stacks.
Because such a method of construction constituted a fire hazard, the area was converted into a reading room. Glinda said.
"We had a choice of either rebuilding that area completely or converting the space." Gilinks said.
NOW THAT CONSTRUCTION crews no longer are working, more people are using the library for studying, Glinka said. During the renovation, students sometimes would come to the library only to get a certain book, and then would go someplace else to study, he said.
The library also has more places for people to study than it did when the renovation work, which started in May 1980, was in progress, Glinka said. There are now tables and study rooms on almost all the floors, he said.
Except for some relatively minor finishing touches, Glinka said that the renovation project was complete.
"We may still have to have some adjustments made on the air-conditioning and heating system," he said.
The fire alarm system also has to be tested, and some lights have to be checked to make sure they are adequate, Glinka said.
Vacation housing issue still unsettled
The availability of short- and long-term vacation housing remains unsettled as the Wednesday deadline for renters to pay up falls. The balloon over spring break draws near.
Only six students have signed up to stay in a residence hall during spring break. About 50 are required to keep a hall open for the vacation.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said the numbers still could add up enough to make a significant impact.
"Traditionally, it has always been a last-minute thing." Wilson said.
He said students usually exhausted all other possibilities before staying in a dorm.
"We're kind of the last to know," Wilson said.
THE OFFICE OF residential programs has had problems finding enough interested students to keep the
students have until Wednesday to sign up for vacation housing and pay the $9-a-night fee.
halls open for the last few vacations. This prompted the Association of University Residence Halls to consider providing vacation housing in residence halls.
Last Thursday, the AURH General Assembly voted down the resolution and sent the issue back to the administration.
"We don't feel that something as big as vacation housing policy should be decided by a student organizator," Rod Bremby, chairman of the AURH contracts committee, said after the meeting.
BREMBY DID say that AURH representatives had shown concern for international students and that he thought the administration had an obligation to help international students find housing during American holidays.
Vacation housing will continue to be offered to students as long as there is sufficient interest, or enough students are enrolled, a hall open on vacation periods.
"It's hard to be fiscally responsible, as one administrator said, and be ethically responsible to the international students at the same time," Bremby said.
Students to break for home
Although some students will be going to hot sandy beaches or cool mountain slopes during spring break, there are other ways for them to also will stay in Lawrance or go home.
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS
Staff Reporter
A variety of reasons explain why many students are going home for spring break. The most common one is that home is more affordable.
"I don't have enough money to go anywhere, so I'm going home," Wendi Fleming, Olathe freshman, said recently.
Linda Kempin, Leavenworth freshman, said, "I'm going home, but I'd rather go someplace else. If the team will, it'll probably be outside playing games."
A sigh of regret, however, is not always the reaction of students going home. Sometimes the reaction can be a sigh of relief.
"I'm going home just to rest and to do some sewing," Becky Wolters, Shawne freshman, said. "It's sure a lot cheaper."
Another reason why students are
CHRIS BUCKMAN, Shawnee freshman, said, "I have a girl at home I want to see."
"I was going home to work, but I think I'm going to take some time off to look up some old friends." Gretchen was in Casas City, Kan., soophone said.
Laurie Larson, Overland Park freshman, said she was going home. "It will be good just to get away from school." she said.
For some students, home is a vacation spot. Richard Flagg, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, said he was going home to ski.
going home this spring break is to see friends and relatives.
Catherine Adams, Merriam freshman, said she was going to her family's ranch in southern Missouri to ride horses.
But some students go home to work, not plav.
Ron Schaweucker, Independence,
Mo., freshman said, "I'll probably
work part time so I won't be so poor."
Students who live in residence halls
and want to stay in Lawrence need to sign up to keep a residence hall open, Fred McElbane, director of residential programs said.
"If a dorm does not stay open, then local motels might offer lower rates to students who don't have a place to stay." McElhene said.
A MINIMUM OF 50 students must sign up by March 3, he said.
Diane Stewart, assistant director of the office of foreign student services, said some foreign students probably would stay in Lawrence and study if a teacher was kept open. She said, however, that many foreign students planned to stay.
"I'm still looking for families to host foreign students." Steward said. "If I can't find enough places, I'll have to tell them that I'm not can go, and I don't want to do that."
Steward said that 21 students had signed up for the program, but so far only 13 host families had been recruited.
School is the director of the homestay program for foreign students—a program in which families travel to a foreign country and foreign students during school breaks.
KU librarian joins book world's elite
Alexandra Mason, head of Spencer Library's Special Collections department, recently became a member of one of the most prestigious book societies in the United States, the Grolier Club of New York.
He said recently that the club had 653 members, 300 of whom were from New York and 335 of whom were from other areas of the country.
According to Jim Helyar, a Special Collections librarian, membership in the club has always been strictly limited, and election to membership bestows high status in the world of books.
for 24 years, said, "It's very pleasant and a great honor."
Mason, who has been a KU librarian
The club's members are eminent book collectors, publishers, writers, printers, designers, illustrators, sellers and librarians, she said.
She said that, as far as she knew, she was the only member residing in Kansas
Helyar said the Grolier Club was founded in 1884 and had one of the finest bibliographical reference collections in the nation.
As a member of the club, Mason said, she will receive the club's books and publications, including the Groller Gazette, the monthly news publication.
using the club's library and clubhouse in New York.
"It's nice when one goes to New York to have a place to go and enjoy yourself," Mason said, "But the biggest thing is the sense of fellowship and the opportunity of meeting people who are interested in the same things."
She said she also had the privilege of
She said it was good to get together with other people to share knowledge.
“It’s great not only to be a part of the world of books, but also a part of the world of book people.” Mason said.
Grant awarded for care of elderlv
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
The other states were Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexico and North Dakota.
Cheryl Jermigan, vice president of finances for the Kansas Hospital Association, said yesterday that Kansas was one of five states chosen to receive funds for experiments to improve care for the elderly.
Kansas will receive a slice of the $5.5 million research development grant to improve health care for elderly rural residents. The Association official said yesterday.
The grant came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a New York philanthropic group with assets of more than $45 million. The foundation
donates money to improve medical care throughout the United States.
In the past, acute care hospital beds, or beds used for severe short-term situations, often sat empty. This raised
Kyon Towner, program director for the foundation said, "Because rural nursing homes are traditionally filled to capacity and have lengthy wait lists in the hospital system, they are separated when the patient is forced to enter a facility in a distant community.
"This program will allow the hospital to use acute care beds that were empty and get reimbursement for them," she said.
Next January, the foundation will choose five hospitals in each state to experiment with a "swing-bed" concept.
hospital fees and did not satisfy the needs of the community,Jennigan said.
Kansas was chosen for the experiment because of its rural makeup and its number of residents over 65 years old. Kovner said.
The idea for the grants came after a study by Medicaid of rural health problems. Kovner said. This report emphasizes foundation to fund further investigation.
In this first phase, the Kansas State Hospital Association, a private, nonprofit organization, will be responsible for training personnel in how to handle long-term care.
THE FIRST phase of the grant will begin in the next three months, Jernigan said.
Bridal Preview
VALID ID CARDS
Instantly Laminated Color
available at
DENT SYSTEMS
Room 114A D蔓 Inn 841-5905
96X Radio cordially invites you to the Bridal Preview Sunday, March 7th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the new Holidome, south of the West Lawrence turnip tollgate.
Fashion Shows at 1:00 & 3:00 p.m.
Register for Free Gifts.
THE THIRD ANNUAL SUA THEATRE SERIES
Listen to 96x radio for details! (95.7 FM Stereo)
TAKEN IN MARRIAGE
by thomas baeb
feb 24, 26
mar 4, 6
kansas union
big eight room
reb.23.22 smith haw mar.3  an evening of one - acts
SCENES from SOWETO & RATS by steve wilmer by israel horovitz
feb.25.27 smith hall
ALL BEVENING PERFORMANCES ARE AT 8:00 p.m.
ALL MATHEMATIC PERFORMANCES ARE AT 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS ON SALE AT THE **בעיה BOX OFFICE** IN THE KANSAS UNION, LAWRENCE KS 69045
FOR TICKET INFORMATION CALL (913) 864-5477