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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1957
They Make Your Selections Easy
The next time you look for one of the 1,375,000 cards in the Watson Library card catalogue, think of the staff members whose job it is to keep the file up to date and in order.
this is just one of the prepara=
This is just one of the preparations department's jobs. Others include classifying all books which come into the library and repairing them before they are used by the public.
JOHN L. GLINKA
"We are sort of a link between the acquisitions department and the public service departments," John L. Glinka, head of the preparations department said this week.
The department receives books as purchases, gifts and exchanges, federal documents and bound periodicals. It prepares the books and makes catalogue cards for all departmental libraries on the campus and in Kansas City.
"Everytime you add a book, you have to relate it to the same author, the same subject field and other editions and their call numbers," Mr. Glinka said.
In the fiscal year ending with June 1953, the nine professional librarians, nine library assistants and six students on the department staff recataloged and related 734,000 cards, Mr. Glinka said.
The preparation department is located in the room formerly used
for periodicals. About one-half of the main room of the department is filled with more than 5,000 books which are now being processed.
"We have certain categories of books which are rushed through the cataloguing process, but it will take us about a year to do the books which are now in the room," he said.
Most of the department staff members speak at least two or more foreign languages, he said.
"Recently we received a book written in Chinese," Mr. Glinka said. A Chinese girl on our staff has been able to work out some of it for us."
Book Collections Can Be Altered
"Students thinking about entering the Taylor student book collection contest may want to consider or make additions over Christmas vacation to volumes to be submitted for judging." Robert Quinsey, director of reader services at Watson Library, said today.
The second annual contest, sponsored by Elizabeth M. Taylor, Kansas City, Mo., book collector, offers a first prize of $85 and a second prize of $40. Any graduate or undergraduate student on the Lawrence campus may enter.
When entering, students are to submit a bibliography and a statement including the purpose of the collection, Mr. Quinsey said. The collection will be judged on its quality within the declared field. Finalists will show actual collections after preliminary judging of bibliography lists.
"We are interested in the quality of the collection and how the student has used it to further his own interests and not how old or rare the books are and how much they are worth." Mr. Quinsey said.
Closing date of the collection is March 31. Entries should be given to Mr. Quinsey in 416 Watson.
Think Studying Is Tough? Try Playing Basketball Too
KU basketball players must keep their grades up despite playing as many as three games each week.
The heavy schedule doesn't excuse them from any work, Charles Leone, associate professor of zoology and chairman of the Athletic Advisory Committee, declares. The committee, a faculty group, advises athletes on academic and personal problems.
Prof. Leone said the committee functions for all KU athletes but cited the basketball player's position as extremely hard with the
Watson Vacation Hours Announced
Watson Library will be open these hours during Christmas vacation:
Weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sundays, Christmas and New Year's Day. closed
Saturdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Reserve books may be checked out from the undergraduate and education rooms for the vacation period beginning at 10 a.m. Friday. The books will be due at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 6.
Algae, primitive water - loving plants, have been found growing in ice and snow above the Arctic Circle and in hot springs where water reaches 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
heavy game schedule.
Each athlete must pass 12 hours each semester and have a C average in at least 60 per cent of his courses to be eligible.
KU-Y Petition To Be Mailed
Petitions for elective and appointed cabinet positions in the KU-Y will be distributed to members by mail the week following Christmas vacation.
Prof. Leone said there is a study hall held each week night for those athletes who want extra help. On trips the players hold study halls in their hotel rooms.
Any members are eligible to apply and should turn applications in to the KU-Y office, 111B Student Union.
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About 68,000 samples of insoluble residue from 1,169 Kansas oil wells will be received this month by H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, to be used for research.
Deadline for applying is Jan. 15. Election of the five executive positions will be held Feb. 13. Cabinet members will be selected by the new executive committee.
KU Receives Oil Well Samples
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The material will be filed with the State Geological Survey. The new samples will give the Kansas Geological Survey the second largest collection in the world. The Missouri Geological Survey is first with two million samples.
The residue material can be used in further discovery of oil by identification of different oil zones from which the material comes, Prof. Ireland said.
Many tours include college credit.
The Gulf Oil Co. gave the material to Prof. Ireland from 30 years of accumulation.
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Psychic perception will be discussed by Dr. Gardner Murphy, director of research at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, at a meeting of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 124 Malott.
This will be the third lecture of the Sigma Xi series of scientific lectures this semester. The title of Dr. Murphy's talk is "Trends in Research in Extrasensory Perception."
Dugan Aycock, president of the Carolinas section of the P. G. A. for 15 years, has two former assistants as top pro golfers. They are Skip Alexander and Clayton Heafner.
Members of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, will begin picking up toys for the "Toys For Tots" drive today from the barrels in
Toys Pickup Begins
Graduate Awarded Geophysical Post
Dr. William H. Courtier, an alumnus of the University, has been appointed chairman of the student membership committee of the Society of Exploration Geophysics. The society has a total membership of approximately 5,000.
Dr. Courtier, who received his Ph. D. degree from KU, is chief geophysicist of the Phillips Petroleum Co. and lives in Bartlesville, Okla. In March he received the Erasmus Haworth distinguished alumni award in geology from KU.
Camel drivers in Yemen stuff bundles of fodder into the mouths of their beasts before starting a long journey, says the National Geographic magazine. Drivers say that unless the camels are forcefed, they do not eat enough for a prolonged journey.
Strong and Fraser halls and the Student Union. The drive will continue through Saturday.
"The goal this year is for every student to contribute a toy," said Kenneth W. Rock, Abilene sophomore and publicity chairman for the drive.
The fraternity's pledges will help the Marine Reserves, who sponsor the drive annually, wrap the toys. The toys will be distributed to underprivileged children in the Lawrence area for Christmas.
In charge of the program in the Lawrence area is Ist. Lt. Wesley Santee, a member of the Marine Fighter Squadron 215 at Olathe Naval Air Station and a KU graduate.
Some Sudanese women wear cartridge shells stuck in their lower lips.
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