University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1981
Page 7
Renovation behind schedule
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
As the end of fall semester draws closer, so does the completion of the Watson Library renovation.
John Glinka, associate dean of libraries and in charge of the mechanics of renovation, thought the public service areas of the library would be finished and the divisions moved into their permanent locations before the beginning of the spring semester.
"We will complete Phase II, the fourth and fifth floors, in mid-November," he said. "The project is running slightly behind. The whole thing was scheduled to be finished the first of January."
Work, which is scheduled for completion in mid-March, was set back two months because of a worker's strike last spring, Glinda said.
PHASE IV, the final part of the project, will begin immediately after Phase II's completion and involves putting down floor covering, painting walls and adding finishing touches on the second level, he explained.
Periodicals, microfilm and copying will move to the fourth floor beginning late in December, while the East Asian office moves to the fifth floor with the administrative offices.
Mistakes have occurred during the renovation, Glinka said, but none have been major.
A small error in measuring the fourth floor area might have required the removal of an entire light panel in order to change a light bulb.
Acquisitions, cataloging, exchange of gifts and serial technical services will be moved from their present location in pincoinc after completion of Phase IV
"We'll not move periodicals until finals have begun," said Glinka, "because some students use them right up to the last day of class."
"Before anything was put in place, this was discovered and changed," Glinka said.
"they have too low of foot-candles" he said. "they should measure at least 50 to 60 foot-candles in brightness, but they must live off 20."
Foot-candles are a measure of the light given by a bulb at various depths.
He thought more human error was at fault in the lighting problem in the administrative offices.
"I'm getting bored of bored," said Clifford Haka, head of circulations. "We are placed in charge of 95% of the moving and working out of the technical things, like getting the furniture to the prison to be refurbished.
Glinka said some of the changes would add to the cost, but he supposed it would come out of the construction appropriated by the legislature appropriate $6.2 million.
"It was a dynamic, exciting time, and I think I'll miss it."
REACTION to the fact renovation is almost over has left some staff members experiencing a sense of leddown.
Presently, balancing of the heat and air conditioning systems is being done, causing temperatures in the library to soar.
Kendall Simmons, in charge of the stacks, echoed Haka's comment.
"You see, the thermostat is set at 78 degrees." Glinda says. "That, and the lights and people moving around, it gets pretty hot. But the balancing will be completed by Friday and the thermostat will be set at 68 degrees."
He was pleased with the reaction people have given to the renovated areas.
He said he had expected to run into unforeseen situations.
"You really did get hyped, knowing you had this much plus your regular duties that had to be done," she said.
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From page one
A BOOKCASE partly filled with baseball record books lined the wall of the room.
Agents for pro baseball players have hired James to develop contract arguments for negotiation sessions, he said.
Television networks, newspapers,
radio stations and hard-core baseball
fans purchase his book, James said.
Ratings in the book are the result of
complex formulas used to combine a
merial of individual statistics.
- That for left-handed batters, the Yankees netted .01 percent more runs in Yankee Stadium than on the road. Right-handed batters, however, came up with 1. fewer runs at home than on the road.
- The Yankees obtained only 12
percent of their lineup from the Yankee farm system, the lowest percentage among the 24 professional baseball clubs. That figure compares to 63 percent of the Dodgers talent that came from their farm clubs.
- Reggie Jackson batted only 157 in April, 1980 compared to 345 in May. He created 121 runs for the year and batted 273 at home, compared to 328 on the
THE ABSTRACT started with a circulation of 75 copies in 1976, he said. In 1980 he sold 800 copies and the circulated copies were pocketed, relatively speaking, this year.
A 32-year-old KU graduate, James holds bachelor's degrees in education, English and economics.
"After writing for Baseball Digest where the style of writing was very restrictive, I wanted to do something that was different," James said.
"Whenever I learned something in a math or economics class, I always applied it to baseball, instead of what to
I was supposed to apply it," he said.
With a series of formulas, James assigns a numerical rating for each player's offensive and defensive performances.
"A lot of times, I'D like somebody, but he won't rate as high as I thought he would," James said.
JAMES CALLS his system "Sabermetrics." The first part of the word is to honor the Society for American Baseball Research, and the team that calls it indicates measurement, he said. Each of the formulais is computed by him.
"I usually try to stick to the facts, but if you look at somebody like the Cleveland Indians, the facts are pretty dismal. What can you really say about a club that hasn't had more than six games over 300 in the last 22 years?"
Everything in the abstract is based around the team comments. he said.
"Maybe the only thing I've succeeded in doing is confusing everyone," James mused.
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