sunny day
PLEASANT
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89,No.48
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Student senator waiting for trial
Wednesday, November 1. 1978
See story page nine
der an e
(Photo by Alisa Van Auken)
Government documents find home in basement of Watson Library
try to use and valuable research aid.
The Documents Department in the basement of Watson Library collects the official publications of the United States and British governments, the United Nations, and several international organizations. Among them are the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Publications of other national governments (for example, France, Japan), state and municipal governments (for example, New York State, New York City), and international organizations, such as the old League of Nations, are dispersed among the main stacks and branch libraries according to subject.
State of Kansas official publications are in the Kansas Collection in Spencer Research Library.
Now comes the tricky part: the government publications in the stacks and branch libraries have cards in the main catalog like any other books, but materials in the Documents Department only have cards in the Documents Department. They have no cards in the main catalog except a few general referrals directing you to the Documents Department for more information.
Once you get to Documents, you find a wealth of information, and skilled help from the staff in identifying and finding what you want.
Here is a sample of the subject variety covered in Documents: American Bureau of Ethology studies on American Indian languages; The Plant Disease Reporter; The Development of Naval Thought; Survey of Minority Owned Business Enterprises; Dictionary of Alaska Place Names; Proceedings of the Conference on Renal Failure; Low Cost Roads; Le Theatre Arabe; parliamentary debates of the House of Lords.
There are also the official papers one would expect; publications of all branches of the U.S. government; congressional debates, bills, resolutions.
heartings, House and Senate reports; British sensual papers and debates; Public Record Office documents; United Nations Official Reports and memographed material; annual reports, periodicals, yearbooks of hundreds of bureaus, agencies and departments.
It all adds up to over 500,000 items.
To help you find the things you need, the documents staff will teach you to use their card catalogs, specialized indexes, the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Public Documents; United Nations Documents Index, and British government publications catalogs.
(Photo by Alisa Van Auken)
Government documents found in the basement of Watson Library, including books and records, date back many years from many countries.
Card catalog reveals locations of books
The main catalog in Watson Library has cards for all the books in all the different parts of the library system. The one exception is government documents.
Each branch such as the Science Library has a catalog with copies of the cards for the books in that branch. In the main catalog most cards for books in branches are marked with the name of the branch; some are not, and if you're in doubt about one, ask at the Reference Desk.
The main catalog is divided into two sections: Author-Title (green labels) and Subject (yellow labels). Thus, cards for books by Shakespeare and cards for books with the title *Shakespeare* are in the author-title catalog, but cards for those about Shakespeare or about his work are in the subject catalog.
If you look in the subject catalog under "American History" and find no cards, you will doubt either the library's sanity or your own. Before you call for 250 strait jackets check the large red
volumes open on a table in the area. These volumes are the Library of Congress Subject Heading List, and they are filled with useful cross references such as "American history, see U.S. History." "Political subject," see "Language." "Rotary kin," see Kinney, rotary. "Statistical inferection, see Mathematical statistics."
Over the decades different approaches to cataloging have been tried, and any drawer of the main catalog shows a multicolored slice of history. If the information on the card or the filing arrangement is unclear, ask for help at the Reference Desk.
Reading the Card
physical description of the book
Two symbols on which many users have run aground are rubrication and Library of Congress call numbers, *Rubrication* is the use of a red line underlining some words on the card and continuing up to a corner of the card. This often appears to cross out the card, leading users to think the book is lost, stolen or strayed. Many potential suicides have been prevented by a reference librarian explaining that the underlined words are those by which the card is filed; that we have drawn these lines rather than type the heading at the top of the card.
subject of the book; copies of this card will be filled under these headings in the Subject Catalog.
However, no prophet has yet been born who foresees the complete disappearance of Dewey numbers from the library system, and any prophet who predicts it should not be trusted at a dog race.
of the system, everything is being
reclassified into the LC system to give
uniformity. All new books are given LC
classification. The average water pro-
portion of the collection is LC
Library of Congress ("LC") call numbers begin with letters, unlike the familiar Dewey Decimal system that begins with numbers. Example:
More detailed information on the card catalog is in the "University of Kansas Library Guide" which is available in all parts of the library system.
R253t$ — author code $—$ R253t$
LC numbers were instituted in 1970 because they are much simpler to use in a very large library such as this one. Almost all parts of the library system have both a Dewey and an LC section.
R253t → *author code* → R253t
Dewey Decimal Library of Congress 970.863 ← numbers letters → E
In a few, small, intensively used parts
(Photo by Alisa Van Auken)
A close-up view of a solar energy catalog reveals helpful, yet detailed information.
Carlin not happy with utility rates
Democratic candidate for governor John Carlin said yesterday he would "clean house" on the Kansas Corporation Commission 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, Republican incumbent, said that he wants American Party candidate Shelton
ed at the debate.
people are not satisfied with the ssion," Carlin said. "But the or apparently is."
ett responded to Carlin's comments on the commission, a regulatory appointed by the governor to oversee s in the state, was immune from t influence and only regulated in once with statutory law.
**ARE OF the politician who says he torvee with a regulatory office on behalf," Bennett said. "It can be around not on your behalf."
ton also expressed dissatisfaction ie operation of the KCC, saying that in years he had been the only person in opinion to apply the dissatisfaction in op- to utility rate increases.
BENNETT SAID the Legislature, while Carlin was head of the House, was the true big spender, saying the Legislature had spent his budget by £30 million last season.
Bennett and Carlin charged each other with being big spenders in office. Shelton
"It applies directly to the governor's office," Carlin said. "The expense of operating the governor's office has nearly doubled from $300,000 to more than $800,000."
Shelton evoked laughter from the capacity crowd several times during the
"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."
See DEBATE back page
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 campaion.
As await decision in holiday openings
Shelton reiterated part of his campaign platform by pledging to submit successively lower budgets every year in office if he is elected governor.
By LORILINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
Wagener, a resident assistant at lin Hall, had planned earlier this tier to visit his grandmother in Induring the Thanksgiving holiday.
wever, many resident assistants said had not been informed whether their would be open.
ever, he is not certain now what he
e doing during the break.
n just waiting to find out if I'm going to stay here," he said. "I should think now we would have found out what's on. They're being pretty slow about
Elhenne said each resident director responsible for informing his staffer it would be required to work during bank-savings vacation.
goner, like other University residence staff members, is concerned about her he will be required to remain in his university holidays.
case of a new project undertaken by fice of Residential Programs that will all residence halls open during the summer. RS have to give 1 their vacations.
at would be financial suicide," he
"This office will reserve the right to
ate people in an underutilized hall."
the past, one or two halls have ined open during holidays and breaks commode those students who were rUnable or did not want to leave.
E PROBLEM, McElhenie said, is that
ED MELHIENE, director of the *s* Residential Programs, and a bail I not be kept open if only a small amount of time remains to go take stage of the service.
At that time, a count will be taken to find out how many residents are interested in building a new home.
resident directors will not know for at least another week whether their respective halls
Debbie Sodcerk, Lewis Hall resident assistant, said she did not know whether she was a teacher.
"We were told from the first that all the hallows would be kept open," Dame Sheene, Corbyn Hall resident assistant, said. "Now they might be kept off the halls they might not keep all the hallows open at all."
She said spring break would present more of a problem for the Lewis resident than the first year.
MEHLIEBNI SAID he did not know if all
she would remain in school, would remain
during spring break.
"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 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 are unhappy at the prospect of staying in the balia to work with residents on their own.
Lynn Ebel, 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 could."
Randy Martin, an Ellsworth Hall resident, assistant, said although he had made no
2
See RAs back page
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
of two, he says. American Management Corp. who feel slighted by working
tors who work for
conditions.