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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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Science Libraries scattered around campus
Engineering, geology, geography and architecture are in Marvin Library. Maps are in the Map Library in the basement of Spencer Research Library. Zoology is in Math Library and mathematics is in the Math Library in Strong Hall.
The information explosion didn't kill the sciences, it put them into orbit. Scientific information is better organized, more accessible and more rapidly updated than information in the humanities, arts or social sciences. KU's science libraries strive to keep up with new developments and to make the latest discoveries available for student and faculty research with a minimum of wandering, fumbling and frustration.
That leaves chemistry, physics, astronomy, pharmacy, biochemistry, microbiology, biology, botany, invertebrate zoology, physiology, medicinal chemistry, history of science and part of the computer science, ecology and environmental health materials in the Science Library on the top floor of Malott Hall. When the current construction at Malott is finished, probably in early 1980, the Science Library will have more space and there will be major rearrangements.
Different libraries serve different branches of the sciences. Medical studies are in the Clendening Library at the Medical Center in Kansas City. They are freely available to people from the Lawrence campus, either in Kansas City or through Interlibrary Loan.
But lord love a duck, Mr. Science, how do you find a book about our friend the neutron in Malot's 100,000 volumes? Asking will get you everywhere, whether around the corner to the card catalog or to a term paper clinical to teach you to use Chem Abstracts, Excerpta medica, Science Citation Index or any of the
dozens of other journal indexes.
Because scientific information changes so rapidly, very little of it is published as books. Most scientific information appears in journal articles so research is especially dependent upon the periodical indexes.
In the Science Library's stacks, about three fourths of the volumes are journals and only one-fourth are books. The volumes are organized in separate call number sequences. Dewey books, Dewey journals, Library of Congress books and Library of Congress journal volumes is easy to see on the map by the stack entrance.
There are more science books but space problems have forced all the science branches to store their older materials in the Watson Library basement. These materials can be moved or stored, to save space, some materials are on microfilm.
Three major indexes are demonstrated and explained by slide-tape presentations: Beilstein's Encyclopedia of Organic Chemicals, Chem Abstracts and Sadler's Spectras.
For pharmacy students there are slide-tape programs of pharmaceutical products. The slide-cassette packages can be checked out at the desk for use on screens in viewing carrels.
At one time Science also had two calculators for student use. Wired to a table and under locking plxglass hoods, they appeared inviolable. But shortly they were fledged, so now it's B Y O.
Much smaller than the Science Library, but equally dear to its users, is the Babcock Mathematics Library in Room 208. Strong Hall. It has a strong theoretical math collection, and some spread into stair-
tistics and computer science.
Sue Hewitt is its lone staff member along with four student assistants.
Babcock is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, but is closed on the weekends.
Gee whilkkers, Mr. Science, how can a body remember all this? A body doesn't have to remember what and where everything is; that's what the librarians are paid for. A body does need to learn to go and walk.
(Photo by Alisa Van Auken)
Aspiring scientists research here often.
Music Library is in Murphy Hall
It's no place to dance, but it's a good music library in the northeast corner of Murphy Hall. Current popular music is not here, but classical, modern orchestral, jazz, stage and folk music from all cultures are here. They are covered in three ways: recordings, scores, and writings.
request a tape.
*Recordings.* Mono records (on the shelves) and stereo records (request at the desk) can be played at the fourteen listening stations along the north wall. The library has two large speakers, the main floor and 77 upstairs) for listening to tapes.
Four tapes are played at once by staff at a central control panel. In the listening carrels you can tune to one of the four channels. Much of the time the channels are scheduled with assigned listening for music courses, but there are also daily periods when you can
The card catalogs just inside the door list all the tapes and records. Recordings stay in the library, except for classroom use.
Scores. Scores are listed in the card catalog, and they are classified like books. They are on the main floor shelves, arranged by call number. Except for books that are marked "reference", they may be checked out.
Writings. Books and bound periodicals are upstairs where you might miss them. They form a solid research collection in musicology, music history, theory and conductance, performing, music therapy and education.
Popular music gets its due here in items such as Melody and Rolling Stone, some of them on micro-
Map Library is in Spencer
At one of the 40 Murphy listening stations, a student studies her assignment for a class. (Photo by Charles Curtis)
Some maps are topographic, showing the different levels of the land. Others are subject maps showing points of interest, such as population, root beer manufacturing, diamond deposits or Roman aque ducts. Because of their size and shape, maps and atlases need special storage and handling. Lewis Armstrong, map librarian, collects and catalogs maps and helps users carefully handle the big sheet maps without pleasing or tearing them.
The Map Library in the basement of Spencer Research Library is an extension of the earth sciences materials in Marvin Library. It has about 180,000 maps and 1,000 atlases.
The maps are collected as a research resource for
faculty and students in geography, geology, urban planning, history and other academic areas. The maps are primarily used for research in "vacation arts": planning the perfect canoe trip, finding the scenic hiking trails, or Mishawaka, or looking for backpacking trails below sea level. The staff can help persons locate these maps.
Some people have suggested that the most needed map is one showing the way to the Map Library. After entering Spencer Library's front door, go down the stairway that is to the right of the main foyer. At the bottom of the stairs, turn left, and follow the hallway until you can see the sign for the Map Library.
Besides giving you other people's music, the Music Library encourages you to make your own: they have a metronome and a Comm stroke to check out for building use, and a music typewriter to write down those works everyone is waiting for: the Dewey Decimal Symphony, or the New York Fugue for Three Catalogers and a Bass Bibliographer.
film, Unbound periodicals, soft, young and innocent as they are, are cloistered in the office.
'Twia' libraries
They are available upon request at the desk, but never leave the Music Library until they are bound and join those free-living books and scores that circulate openly, embraced by music students and faculty alike.
In addition to the main library and the branch libraries there are many "twig" libraries, although the metaphor would be better served by calling them "sprouts". They are libraries that have sprung up in independent of the University library system and are in its ordering, cataloging or administrative processes.
Some, like the Law Library, are large, professionally staffed and formally organized. Most, like the Philosophy Reading Room, are intended simply as a quiet place to sit and read when they're not in use as seminar rooms. Their function is usually one of convenience rather than completeness, and some librarians get migraine headaches thinking that an innocent reader will suppose that a little "spout" reading room is The Library, and that all there is to read in his or her subject. Innocent Readers, beware!
One can never be quite sure where all these sprouts are growing, but at last report there were these.
Curriculum Laboratory
Economics Reading Room
Engel Library (German)
Fraser Reading Room (psychology, sociology,
anthropology)
Human Development Reading Room Institute for Social and Environmental Studies
Human Development Reading Room
Library
J Neale Carman Reading Room (French)
Law I librars
Microbiology Reading Room
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Reading Room
Philosophy Reading Room
Political Science Library
School of Religion Library
Script Library
Space Technology Reading Room
Special Education Reading Room
Women's Resource Center
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 in New York, said he has been an American Party candidate Frank Shelton
ed at the debate.
people are not satisfied with the ssion," Cartlin said. "But the ar apparently is."
ett responded to Carlin's comments
the commission, a regulatory
authority that has oversight in
the state, was immune from
l influence and only regulated in
the state.
WARE OF the politician who says he terrene with a regulatory office on behalf," Bennett said. "It can be around, not on your behalf."
on also expressed dissatisfaction e operation of the KCC, saying that in ears he had been the only person who increased the open in op- to utility rate increases.
BENNETT SAID the Legislature, while Carlin was head of the House, was the true big spender. he suggested the Legislature had to deposit his budget by $30 million last session.
"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
Shelton evoked laughter from the
cityscue crowd several times during the
Bennett and Carlin charged each other with being big spenders in office. Shelton
Shelton reiterated part of his campaign platform by pledging to submit successively lower budgets every year in office if he is elected governor.
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Carlin, speaker of the last session of the Kansas House of Representatives, said he thought state government spending while Bennett had the office was an important factor 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
By LORLLINENBERGER
Staff Renorter
ever, he is not certain now what he *doing during the break.*
n just waiting to find out if I'm going to *o* stay here, he said, "I should think y now we would have found out what's on. They're being pretty slow about
Wagner, a resident assistant at iHall, 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 onen.
the past, one or two halls have ined open during holidays and breaks comdoculate those students who were unable or did not want to leave.
Eliene said each resident director responsible for informing his staffer it would be required to work during hanksvings vacation.
oner, like other University residence staff members, is concerned about he will be required to remain in his urino University holidays.
ED McELHENY, director of the
of Residential Programs, said a bail
not be kept open if only a small
amount of money were going to take
charge of the service.
at would be financial suicide," he "This office will reserve the right to at people in an underutilized hall."
ause of a new project undertaken by *Rice of Residential Programs* that will all residence halls open during the summer, some RAs will have to their vacations.
E PROBLEM. McElbenic said, is that
resident directors will not know for at least another week whether their respective halls
At that time, a count will be taken to find out how many residents are interested in buying a home.
"We were told from the first that all the halls would be kept open," Dime Sheeet. Corbin Hall resident assistant, said. "Now we are going to ensure they not keep all the halls open at all."
She said 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."
Debbie Sedorck, Lewis Hall resident assistant, said she did not know whether she was going to attend the event.
McELIEHEN SAID he did not if all
he would remain open during spring
bringing it down.
"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 were unhappy at the prospect of staying in the halls to work with children.
"Of course, I don't like it," she said. "I really don't think anybody would like it if I thought so."
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.
Randy Martin, an Ellsworth Hall resident assistant, said although he had made no
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Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
of two, he says. American Management Corp. who feel slighted by working jobs who work for conditions.