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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 7, 1968
Spencer to contain rare book collections
The new Spencer Research Library, scheduled to be dedicated tomorrow, will contain more than 100,000 rare books and manuscripts covering almost every field of knowledge known to man.
Literature and the humanities are represented by collections of the Spanish writer, Cervantes; the Irish writers W. B. Yeats and James Joyce; the German poet, R. M. Rilke, and the 19th century American poet, Walt Whitman.
In the social sciences, the library has extensive holdings which concern economic history, radical politics, political theory and the female suffrage movement in Europe and America.
Other valuable manuscripts include travelers' diaries, ships' logs, accounts of early archaeological expeditions, and the records of early explorers in North America, Asia and Africa. Numbered maps and atlases, dating from the settlement of America, are also included.
Also, many new volumes of canon and civil law are contained in the Summerfield Renaissance collection.
Another part of the special collection division in Spencer Library is the Kansas Collection. Containing more then 25,000
Spencer's rare books placed in glass gallery
The Kenneth Spencer Research Library, to be dedicated tomorrow will feature a rare book collection housed in a glass-walled gallery, and an observation area with a view of the north part of the campus and the Kaw Valley.
The main gallery in the library contains the rare book collection, which is enclosed in glass. Visitors can walk all the way around the gallery and observe the books through he glass.
A sophisticated environmental system has been installed in the library for the preservation of the rare books. Temperature and humidity can be controlled very accurately,
The main level of the new library will be connected to the south end of the Strong Hall rotunda. This will provide a direct access from Jayhawk Blvd.
volumes and 250,000 manuscripts,the collection is a treasure lode of information on the social,political and economic history of Kansas.The largest single number of documents in the Kansas collection deal with the state's economic development.
New library to be dedicated Friday
The Kenneth Spencer Research Library will be dedicated at 2 p.m. tomorrow with more than 260 invited guests from around the country expected to attend.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will preside at the ceremony. Mrs. Kenneth A. Spencer, widow of the Kansas City industrialist for whom the library is named, will make the official presentation of the library, and Ned Cushing of Downs, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, will accept the building for the University.
LORD C. P. Snow, British scientist and novelist, will make a few remarks, and Dr. Earle B. Jewell of Forsyth, Mo., will reminisce about Mr. Spencer and give a benediction.
At 3:45 p.m. in Hock Auditorium, Snow will give the dedicatory lecture entitled "Kinds of Excellence: Education of the Gifted."
The new Kenneth Spencer Library, to be dedicated tomorrow, is the latest addition to more than a century of library expansion at KU.
KU's first "library" opened more than a century ago, when a section of North College Hall was set aside in 1866 for the storage of books. Most of the books in the original library were donated or loaned to the college.
KU's library system grows
A major milestone in the growth of KU's library system came in 1891, when the University's first library building, Spooner Hall, was completed. The building costing more than $100,000, was spacious enough to hold 100,000 volumes.
Six years later, the library was moved to the newly built University Hall, later known as Fraser Hall, where space was provided in the south end of the building. By 1887, the library had a collection of more than 8,000 volumes.
By contrast, the KU library owned fewer than 20,000 volumes in 1894, when it was opened.
Despite this generous allowance for future growth, the number of books soon overtook the available shelf space. By 1915, the need for more room again became urgent.
Accordingly, the Kansas legislature approved funds for a new library. The new building, named Watson Library, was completed in 1923. Spooner Hall, the old library, became a Museum of Art.
Since 1923, two major additions have been made to Watson
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library. In 1949, two wings were added and in 1964, another addition which increased student study space was completed.
Meanwhile the library's holdings have more than doubled in the last 15 years. From 600,000 volumes in 1952, the library has expanded to more then 1,300,000 volumes this year. This amount is increasing at a rate of 50,000 volumes a year.
Over the years, the University
nas added branch libraries to serve students in special areas. At the present time, seven branch libraries are in operation. They are the Entomology library, 344 Snow; the Earth Science library, 318 Lindley; the Engineering and Architecture library, 119 Marvin; the Law library, 209 Green; the Mathematics library, 209 Strong; the Music library, 448 Murphy and the Science library, 605 Malott.
LIBRARY GIFT
Charlton Hinman, KU English professor, (right) presents Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe with an autographed copy for the new Kenneth Spencer Research Library of his book, "The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare," published this month.
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