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Library Building Plans Ready
The $1,800,000 appropriated to Watson Library by the state legislature provides for construction that will double the present capacity for books and students.
The new construction will fill a need that materialized in 1952 and has grown steadily in recent years. The library at present has facilities for 900 students and one-half million books. Due to crowded conditions many of the books are now stored in the basement of Murphy Hall and the stadium. The library adds about 50,000 each year. The new addition, will add space for 850,000 books which should provide adequate quarters for 15-20 years.
THE ARCHITECTURE firm of Howell, Hale and Wohlberg has been working on the preliminary plans for the past year. The final detailed drawings should be finished by December. Bids will then be taken and construction should begin by March, 1962. The construction should take from one and one-half to two years. If everything goes according to schedule the new buildings will be ready for use by fall of 1964.
The construction will be in two parts. The smaller addition, a stack tower, will be built behind the southwest corner of the library in space currently being used as a parking lot and emergency exit for the hospital. The tower will be eight stories high and will provide space for over 400,000 books and 128 study carrels. The building is designed to connect with the reading rooms of the west wing.
THE PROBLEMS of designing a new hospital exit and coping with the steep hill behind the library have posed complications in planning the tower.
The second and largest structure will be located where the anatomy laboratories now stand. This addition will cover 100 square feet reaching almost to the corner of Watkins Hospital. There will be four full floors above ground and one full floor underground. This building will provide study rooms for 1,200-1,300 more students.
THE UNDERGROUND floor will consist of two decks of stacks that connect with the existing
stacks. This will make room for 300,000 more books but will remain empty until needed.
The ground floor will be used for the department of special collections. The floor will be available for students doing research which requires the use of rare books and manuscripts. Special air conditioning and humidifying units will be placed on this floor to help preserve the manuscripts. This floor will be placed under top security control.
THE FLOOR OPENING off the front entrance will consist of a large, attractive open stack reading room for all users of the library. The room is designed to provide as much individual privacy for studying as possible.
While construction of the two additions is being carried on, the old building will be completely remodeled. This will eliminate the contrast between the old and new elements of the two buildings.
The top floor will include seminar rooms and offices for faculty members doing research work in the library.
THE NEWLY remodeled and expanded facilities will give KU students better service and better studying facilities. The services will be concentrated on one floor in contrast to the scattered department arrangement of today. The whole library will be air-conditioned.
If the building funds stretch far enough a mezzanine will be built in the main reading room of the present library. It will extend from the back wall to a little over half-way across the room providing more study space for students.
THESE NEW ADDITIONS will be the first construction to the library since 1950 when two smaller additions were constructed at the west end. The present library building was built in 1924 and named in honor of Miss Carrie Watson, the first librarian. The original KU library was old Spooner, the Art Museum, which was given as a gift to the university in 1894.
Robert Vosper, director of libraries, said, "After completion of the new additions the KU library facilities will be as generous as any university in the country."
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Tuesday. May 2. 1961
Non-Intervention Policy Is Denounced
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (UFI)—President Mario Echandi yesterday denounced the principle of non-intervention as an "outdated obstruction to inter-American unity."
In a speech to the opening session of Congress, Echandi urged the substitution of collective action by the Organization of American States for blind indorsement of non-intervention, which he said has served too often in the past as a shield for dictatorship.
Although Echandi did not refer directly to Cuba, observers here believed Costa Rica was certain before long to break relations with the Castro regime.
'VAGELINE' IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF CHEESEBROUGH-POND'S ING.
Women and poets see the truth arrive,
Then it is acted out,
The lives are lost, and all the newsboys shout.-Muriel Rukesyer
JIM'S CAFE 838 Mass. GOOD FOOD DAY and NIGHT
Modern Book Forum
Last one this year
Albert Camus' Last Work Resistance, Rebellion & Death
reviewed by
Prof. William Gilbert of the History Dept.
Music Room
Wed., May 3
4:00 p.m.
Kansas Union
1424 Crescent Road PRIVATE PARKING