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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 89, No.48
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Student senator waiting for trial
Wednesday, November 1. 1978
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Tiflis, Tokyo and Tegucigalpa
The University has three major area studies programs: Slavic and Soviet, East Asian, and Latin American, each supported by substantial collecting efforts in the libraries.
George Jerkovich, Eugene Carvalho and Ellen Brow are the bibliographers for the three respective areas, and they labor ceaselessly to acquire the books, periodicals, pamphlets, government documents, directories, catalogs, even telephone books that are layman's trash and scholar's treasure.
There are rumors that Jerkovich, Carvalho and Brow must carry env insurance because so many people would like to have jobs that occasionally take them to the other side of the world on buying trips. If that is glamorous work, cataloging the purchases is less so, and arguing with foreign postal authorities about mailing 80 parcels to the U.S.A. can be downright tiresome. Not to mention watching the buying power of the dollar drop against money of the country whose books you want to buy. Sometimes direct batter is preferable to cash purchase, and the area studies bibliographers work closely with the Exchange and Gifts librarian in trading KU publications for those of foreign institutions.
Book-by-book and journal-by-journal they are building a research collection that is solidly useful today and will be a priceless, irreplaceable treasure in 50
years.
Within the libraries, the oriental language materials are kept separate, but the Slavic and SPLAT (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American) items are integrated into the main collection.
The card catalog represents books in all languages that the library owns and there's the rub: the libraries own little or nothing from Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and other areas in which the University, considering its resources, has chosen not to invest.
Special books receive special care at Spencer
Kansas history has been lively—from Quantrill, John Brown, the Populists, Carrie Nation, Dodge City and the cattle trade, Jesse James, the Mennonite migration, through Prohibition, the dust bowl and the stormy 60s.
All these aspects are covered in the Kansas Collection on the ground floor of Spencer Research Library. Less well known but equally interesting are the diaries, letters, business records and photographs that show daily life through the last fourteen decades.
**Photos by Jef Heier**
Susan Hagle, University Archives staff member, edits film before storing it. Film jotage of KI athletic events, as well as other campus activities, is kept in the archives under special storage conditions for preservation.
The JJ. Pennel Collection, for instance, has 50,000 glass negatives from Pennel's career as a photographer in the Junction City area between about 1895 and 1910. The Bourquin Collection contains more thousands of photographs of the Horton area from about 1900 to 1940. Both bear witness to everything from the elegant to the seamy side of life; the first horseless carriages with their proud owners; inside the local drugstore; the madam and employees of a turn of the century warehouse.
Intimately tied to the history of the University are the papers of the J.B. Watkins banking and land firms. Watkins was, among other things, an active land speculator. He made, lost, and rebuilt fortunes before he died a millionaire in 1921, leaving his large estate to his widow, Elizabeth M. Watkins. A farsighted lady, she gave much of the Watkins fortune to the University of Kansas as endowment, real estate, two women's residence halls, a student hospital and its nurses home, and a gracious home, which is now the Chancellor's residence.
Where Kansas history merges with KU history, in the case of the Warkins family, the records are divided between the Kansas Collection and University Archives. The archives are also in Spencer Library, two floors above the Kansas Collection. Both places show history with fascinating immediacy.
A periodical is a serial is a journal is a magazine
INDEXES & ABSTRACTS
Almost all serious library research uses periodicals as much as books. The trick is finding the articles, and the trick is performed (watch very closely now.) Lodges and Gentlemen) with
The most familiar periodical index is the *Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature*. In this, you look up a subject such as "Magicians" and find articles listed about that subject, such as "Respectable form of trickery: executives as magicians, in Fortune magazine, volume 95, page 37, February, 1976." There are scores of other indexes covering every topic from accounting to zinc, and they are all used in pretty much the same way as the *Reader's Guide.*
*Abstracts* go a step beyond indexes; they provide a summary (abstract) of each article indexed. Some abstracts and indexes are available for computer searching on line. (More about that on page 4.) All this leaves you with very little excuse for not winning the Nobel Prize in one or more fields once you have seen Guide for Readers # 28 which lists about 80 indexes, or Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, which lists 1,312 of them. Both sources are at the Reference and Periodicals Desks and in any major branch library.
Finding an article listed in an index does not put the article in your hand. For this you need UKASE, a conjuror's technical term for the list of periodicals to which the University of Kansas libraries subscribe. Copies of UKASE appear in most parts of the library system. The sample entry (at right) shows what kind of information UKASE gives.
Carlin not happy with utility rates
Democratic candidate for governor John Carlin said yesterday he would "clean house" on the Kansas Corporation Company and to control utility rate increases in the state.
Carlin made his remarks at a debate in Green Hall sponsored by the KU Student Bar Association. Carlin, Republic incumbent for New York City, American Party candidate Frank Shilling
Erician Party candidate Frank Shelton
red at the debate.
ie people are not satisfied with the mission," Carlin said. "But the nor apparently is."
nett responded to Carlin's comments inett the commission, a regulatory appointed by the governor to oversee es in the state, was immune from cal influence and only regulated in dance with statutory law.
**EWARE OF** the politician who says he intervene with a regulatory office on behalf, *Bennett* said, "It can be d around, not on your behalf."
itution also expressed dissatisfaction the operation of the KCC, saying that in years he had been the only person to receive the instruction in option to utility rate increases.
Bennett and Carlin charged each other with being big spenders in big office. Shelton had been the prime minister.
"It applies directly to the governor's office," Carlin said. "The expense of operating the governor's office has nearly come from $300,000 to more than $800,000."
Carlin, speaker of the last session of the Kansas House of Representatives, said he thought state government spending while in office was an important issue in the campaign.
"The Legislature has developed a posture that is very dangerous," Bennett said. "It has enacted programs into the future with no idea how they will be funded."
?As await decision n holiday openings
BENNETT SAID the Legislature, while Carlin was head of the House, was the true big spender, saying the Legislature had捷运 his budget by $23 million last session.
Shelton evoked laughter from the capacity crowd several times during the
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Shelton reiterated part of his campaign platform by pledging to submit successively lower budgets every year in office if he is elected governor.
Staff Reporter
By LORILINENBERGER
a daring the Thanksgiving holiday
weaver, he is not certain now what he
be doing during the break.
'm just waiting to find out if I'm going to stay here,' he said. 'I should think by now we would have found out what's on. They're being pretty slow about it.'
ll Wagoner, a resident assistant at pinn Hall, had planned earlier this to visit his grandmother in Inverness the Thanksgiving holiday.
agoner, like other University residence staff members, is concerned about he will be required to remain in his during University holidays.
"That would be financial suicide," he. "This office will reserve the right to cate people in an underutilized hall."
the past, one or two halls have annel open during holidays and breaks commode those students who were er unable or did not want to leave.
because of a new project undertaken by
Office of Residential Programs that will
all residence halls open during the
summer. Our remote RAs will have to
entire their vacations.
RED McLIHENIE, director of the ce of Residential Programs, said a hall id not be kept open if only a small number of visitors go to take an antage of the service.
owever, many resident assistants said
had not been informed whether theirs
would be open.
eEhilene said each resident director responsible for informing his staff that it would be required to work during Thanksgiving vacation.
8E PROBLEM, McElhenie said, is that
resident directors will not know for at least another week whether their respective halls are open.
At that time, a court will be taken to find out how many residents are interested in the case.
"We were told from the first that all the halls would be kept open," Diane Sheehey, Corbin Hall resident assistant, said. "Now they are locked up and they might not keep all the hall open at all."
Debbie Soderek, Lewis Hall resident assistant, said she did not know whether she could handle the matter.
MEHLENIE SAID he did not know if all
hands would remain open during
intervention.
She and spring break would present more of a problem for the Lewis resident
"The problem with us is spring break," she said. "A lot of us want to head out for those nine days, but we might not be able to."
"We want we to wait and see what kind of a response we get from this holiday," he said. "I think we can learn something from each vacation one at a time."
Other resident assistants were unhappy at the prospect of staying in the halls to work on the property.
Lynn Eibel, a Corbin resident assistant, said that she did not know if she had to work during Thanksgiving but that the idea did not appeal to her.
"Of course, I don't like it," she said. "I really don't think anybody would like it if I had to work with them."
Randy Martin, an Ellsworth Hall resident, said although he had made no
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Mali photo by RANDY OLSON
d of two, he says. American Management Corp. who feel slighted by working itors who work for conditions.