Tuesday, October 31, 1978
Recruiting
University Daily Kansan
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upgrade our informational brochures, because we thought they weren't reflecting, as well as they could, the quality of the University."
Jeannet Seymour, publications coordinator for University Relations, said she spent about four months each year working on the catalog's design.
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"We try not to be gimmicky and try not to slant the information," Seymour said. "We try not to sell the University but present it as clearly as we can."
rine informational booklet is not distributed to students in Kansas, but a number of students in Kentucky.
KU PULLED MORE students from Missouri last year than from any other state except Arkansas. About 375 Missouri students enrolled at KU last fall.
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interest earned on the savings account balance.
The third largest number of freshmen came from Illinois in last year, about 130 KU students.
summits with students in Kansas high schools, more Shawnee Mission South graduates came to visit.
"Our service will be utilized by people who have savings," Falkenstein said. "It's going to enable the individual depositter to keep more money in savings than in checking and to earn more interest on deposited money."
FIRST NATIONAL Bank and Lawrence Bank and Trust Co. will automatically transfer all deposits into a savings account where you are checking account when checks are cleared.
Lilleen said customers at his bank could earn interest on checks that are clearing.
"You can write a check, but until that check is debited to your account you are earning interest on money you have spent." That's where the customer makes the money.
Watson said his bank would help students who had extra savings.
If a student has savings dollars and is paying a high service charge for checking, he can save money by combining the two deposits," he said.
"The new account really won't affect students either way. Students still regular accounts. Each individual I go to have to decide for himself."
Shawnee Mission South had 207 new freshmen on the Lawrence campus—about one-tenth of the freshmen who came to KU from Kansas high schools.
Last fall, KU's enrollment was boosted by more than 2,100 Kansas high school students.
THE SECOND largest number of new freshmen came from Lawrence High School. About 130 students graduated from Lawrence High and enrolled at KU, about 28 percent of a normal Lawrence High graduate class.
County ...
More than 110 new freshmen at KU graduated from Topeka or Topeka West high schools. Other high schools that had large percentages of graduates enrolling at KU last fall were Wichita Southeast, Leavenworth, Salina Central and New Trier East and West, two schools located in a Chicago suburb.
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ton each, he said, must be disassembled before they can be moved.
EMBREY SAID he hoped to have the
Dissatisfied with previous attempts to resolve their grievances against Gene Vogt, director of utilities, two Utilities Department workers met with the city manager yesterday in a further effort to resolve their complaints.
Grievances go to city manager
George Blevins Sr. and Phil Bierra, the two workers, met with Burford Watson, city manager, Brent McFall, management team, in separate meetings yesterday afternoon.
Blevins said that his grievance alleging age discrimination by Vogt was not resolved at the meeting, but that Watson had seven days to make his decision.
"As far as I can see, we don't come to a resolution," Blevine said. "We tried but we didn't."
BLEVINS SAID if he was not satisfied with Watson's resolution he probably would take the complaint to the Kansas Department. But Watson said Vogt did not hire him for a job because of his
age. He said, however, he hoped he would not have to take it to the state.
KU law students to sponsor debate
A debate between three gubernatorial candidates will be held today at the
Watson also did not issue a decision for Biera's grevences alleging improper job performance.
Blevins and Biera say they want Vogt to be reemprimed and his job monitored by the new director.
satisfied with the meeting and hoped the grievance would be settled soon.
French organist to perform Bad
Marie-Glaine Alain, French organist known in music circles as the First Lady of the organ, will perform a free concert of Bach at 8 tonight in the Plymouth Congregational Church, Eighth and Vermont streets.
She is in Lawrence to present master classes to superior KU organ students from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the church.
James Moeser, dean of fine arts and
KANSAN On Campus
Events
designer of the organ on which Alain play tonight, said yesterday. "Shr unquestionably one of the finest organ the world. She can perform a fantastical melody in this piece and certain understated elegance, which c from the inside of the music."
10 DAY: SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE LECTURE will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY HALLOWEEN PARTY will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
TONIGHT: ANTHROPOLOGY POPULATION DYNAMICS LECTURE will be at 7 in the Forum Room of the Union.
JAYHAWK QUIZ BOWL, begins at 7 in the Union. The BAFTA Student Center.
1629. W 18. St. THE Young SOCIALISTS ALLIANCE meets at 7:30 in the Governor's Room of the Union.
Zip Zap
Basic Finding Services
Reading strikes some folks as so traditional if not downright old fashioned. Shouldn't we have space age zip-rap ways to work with information? Enter the bionic librarian! Now if you'll just set down your exploring briefcase for a moment we'll explain the whole thing: it's called computerized literature searching.
Computers find research material
Computerized literature searching is a computer-automated method of retrieving research information, such as bibliographic records, abstracts, and research summaries. At KU this service is available to you at the Reference Department in Watson Library and at the Science Library in 605 Malot Hall. The service includes: information on current research, current granting and funding information, retrospective literature searching, and "current awareness" literature searching.
Among the traditional research tools found in libraries are printed indexes and abstracts that direct you to journal articles, books, facts, and other research information. The information explosion has caused an increase in the indexes and abstracts, translating into more of your time expended doing research.
The computer can search hundreds of thousands of records in seconds, and relevant citations can be printed "online" (immediately) by the computer, or they can be printed "off-line" (at night) and delivered by mail in an average of five days.
Many printed indexes and abstracts have a corresponding data base that a computer can search.
Computer searching is fast and can save you time from searching the
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A computer is located desired information in secure
information storage.
printed index or abstract. It does a complicated search more conveniently and much faster than can be done by hand. Also, on-line indexing and abstraction services are updated three to four weeks prior to their printed equivalents. Computer searching also can provide clues to the existence of other resources that may not be owned by KU.
You can have a search performed by a librarian who will discuss your topic with you and prepare an appropriate search strategy for the data base in your subject. The data bases are searched most frequently by various combinations of "keywords" or subject terms that describe your topic. Other access points include author, source, journal code, contract and grant number, etc. These created requirements or "sets" of keywords are then combined using Boolean logical operators AND, OR, and NOT.
For example, looking for articles about solar heating in homes, after a number of preliminary steps, one says to the computer, "Tell me about every article listed that has the descriptor 'solar' AND (heat 'OR' heating)' AND ('home OR' homes' OR 'house' OR 'houses')." Familiarity with the printed index or abstract can help you understand how the data base works.
Searching is available to the University community at cost. Primarily, the costs involved include the computer connect time, telephone time (the computers are in California, Washington, D.C. and New York), and any off-line printing of the results. Costs of computer connect time vary with each data base, ranging from $7 to over $100 per hour. Off-line prints are usually 10 cents to 15 cents per citation. The cheapest is MEDLINE at 12 cents a page.
The cost of a search will depend on the amount of time spent on the computer, which in turn depends on things such as the number of search terms and the complexity of the search. To get a
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Can't find it in KU Libraries? Check interlibrary loan service
No library can hope to have all the books and other publications which its users seek. Libraries must determine the kinds and quantities of items that their users are most likely to need and then try to acquire them.
But what about books, periodicals and other materials which the library can't buy, or which are out of print that can't be reused, or that items that get lost and can't be replaced.
Interlibrary loan arrangements provide the answer. Through interlibrary
loans, libraries share their resources with each other and provide their users with items that they don't own. Interlibrary services can put students and faculty in touch with the major research collections in North America and elsewhere in the world. Material can be borrowed or photocoped, giving people at KU access to millions of publications not held by the KU Libraries.
Specifically, students and faculty are able to borrow or photocopy material from such institutions as Harvard, Yale
and Indiana universities, the universities of California-Berkley, Illinois and Chicago, and the Library of Congress. Some of these libraries charge service fees for borrowing. The Interlibrary Services staff will gladly locate publications at little or no cost to users.
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Students take advantage of combined library services by using catalog and other research sources located on the second floor of Watson Library.
Of great importance to students and faculty is the right to borrow from the collections of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. The Center is a kind of cooperative warehouse for large libraries. It contains copies of very bulky, expensive, rarely used but occasionally invaluable items such as old newspapers, foreign dissertations, outdated airline timetables and state government documents. It lends these items to users at member libraries, including KU.
Closer to home, materials may be borrowed quickly from the Linda Hall Library science collections, the KU Medical Center Library and the Kansas State University Library, as well as other state and regional libraries.
Information about interlibrary loan services is available from the Interlibrary Loan desk, second floor, Watson Library (864-3960).
The Kansas Information Circuit (KIC) puts students and faculty in touch with libraries across the state and allows those libraries to borrow from the collections at KU.
Students find the microfilm reader an e
If you're in Watson and need help finding sources or figuring out how the library organizes the things you want, stop and ask at the Reference Desk. The reference desk is located on the second floor in the middle of the card catalog area. Short inquiries can be handled over the phone (864-3347).
Reference desk is often best starting point
asy to use
If you need a pile of information, you may want to call and make an appointment for a Term Paper Clinic, where you will be matched with the librarian who specializes in your field. You will receive an individual lesson on sources for your topic, where to find them, how to use them, and how to use unfamiliar parts of the library. This service is free.
The reference desk is surrounded by encyclopedias, directories, dictionaries, handbooks, indexes, bibliographies, phone books, and most important of all, the card catalog.
The library system is a century old. It contains nearly two million volumes housed in nine buildings. It is not entirely self-explanatory, and you should expect to ask staff for some help in finding the treasures and trivia it holds.
Reference librarians are raised on the "milk of human kindness." Although their salaries do not permit continuation of this exotic diet, they are friendly and ready to help you find the pencil sharpener, a biography of a French Hughonot, a list of articles on American Indian water rights, bibliographies on child abuse, Childe Harold, children's speech development or children's spending power.