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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 18; 1968
Spencer formally opened
Spencer Library will open for use Monday, Dec. 2, David W. Heron, director of libraries, said Friday.
The library was formally opened at 1:30 p.m. Friday with a ceremony in the building's main lobby.
Heron said the two-week delay was needed to finish moving books from the special collections area in Watson Library.
Spencer Library was dedicated Friday, Nov. 8. Lord C. P. Snow, British author and scientist, gave the dedicatory lecture.
Praising KU's library system, Vosper said, "The library momentum must and will rise steadily if KU is to play its part in the nation."
The building, directly north of Strong Hall and facing the Campanile, has four floors, the bottom floor being currently unoccupied. The library will house books of the Department of Special Collections and its subdivisions. Some of its space may be use later for temporary storage of books from the main library system, Heron said.
The new research library was opened with a speech by Robert Vosper, director of libraries at UCLA and former KU library director. Vosper called the "launching of Spencer Library" the "second stage of the library program" at KU. He said Watson Library was "stage one" of the library program.
About 130 persons, mostly faculty and staff members, attended the opening ceremony. Others came later to tour the new building following Vosper's talk.
Heron and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe spoke briefly before Vosper's 15-minute speech. Wescoe introduced Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer, who donated the $2,125,000 building to the University in memory of her late husband, who died in 1960.
Rock conference Nov.21 & 22
The president of the National Limestone Institute, Inc., Robert M. Koch, Washington, D.C., will be among the featured speakers at the eighth biennial Rock Products Conference Nov. 21 to 22 at the University of Kansas. About 80 person are expected to attend the conference.
The participants ranging from consulting engineers, rock producers, contractors and city and county engineers to members of the State Geological Survey and the State Highway Commission will hear discussions on "Low Cost Housing," "New Housing Construction Concepts," "The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1968" and other subjects relating to rock products.
The Kansas Limestone Association Inc., the State Geological Survey, University Extension and the State Highway Commission are the conference sponsors.
Advance registration is requested and should be sent to Dana A. Leibengood, University Extension, Lawrence.
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Heron said Spencer Library "will be open to anybody who needs to use it." He said use of the facilities will involve "less restrictions than did special collections" in Watson Library.
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Heron said if patronage of Spencer Library proves heavy some restrictions on use of study space may be necessary, but said no such regulations are currently planned.
The bottom floor of the structure may be used to house the map library, now in Lindley Hall, Heron said.
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- Guards
- Favors
- Rings
- Mugs
- Trophies
- Awards
The William Savage Johnson Reading Room—the furnishing, equipment and decor—has been transferred intact from the basement of Watson Library to the northeast corner of the newly opened Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
The Johnson Room was the gift of Mrs. Claudia Pendleton Johnson, a 1908 KU graduate, in memory of her husband. Johnson was a member of KU faculty from 1924 to 1940.
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New vaccine coming soon for Asian flu
Vaccine against a new strain of Asian flu will be available by the end of November, said Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital.
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In an American Medical Association report, Schwegler said, the U.S. Public Health Service asked that the "first supply of the vaccine be used for persons over 65 and those with chronic illness who are most susceptible to respiratory infection."
He urged that students first receive immunization with the present serum, and take the new vaccine later as a supplement.
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