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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1957
Hate Books Already? Bibliographers Don't
Have you begun to hate books already? There's one department on the Hill that's as enthusiastic about books as you may be about beer and Friday nights.
The special collections department of the library is staffed by Joseph Rubenstein, who is currently buying books in Europe; his assistant, John Sedzik, who arrived this summer; and Alexandra Mason, cataloguer, who joined the staff Sept. 3.
These librarians "worship" bibliography.
"Our motto is: If anything is in a book, we can find it," Mr. Sedzik said.
"We are terribly cramped here, but we can accommodate four or five persons who want to read. Some rare book collection staffs have the reputation of being stuffy. We try not to be stuffy." Mr. Sedzik said.
Undergraduates who want to read books in special collections will be directed to the department by anyone at the library main desk on the second floor. The department is on level two of the stacks.
Ask At Main Desk
There aren't very many librarians going into rare book work," Mr. Sedzik said.
"Training in Latin or Greek is needed. Not many people have this training today."
"Anyone interested in research should try to perfect his knowledge of bibliography", he said. "Bibliography is the alcove of all science."
Books are chosen for special collections because of their rarity and their use to scholars, not because of their price.
Building Summerfield Collection
Building Summerfield Collection
Mr. Rubenstein is now buying books for the Summerfield collection. The fund has been set up for 10 years with possible renewal and is being used to buy books printed
To Discuss Paintings At Coffee Wednesday
Ward Lockwood, whose paintings are now on display in the Museum of Art, will discuss his works at an informal coffee hour at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Music and Browsing Room of the Student Union.
Mr. Lockwood, visiting Rose Morgan professor, is a member of the faculty of the department of drawing and painting. Exhibition of his paintings will continue through Sunday.
4 Young Republicans Go To El Dorado
Four University Young Republicans attended a harmony meeting of the Fourth District Republicans at El Dorado Saturday.
they were Walter F. McGinnis, Lawrence senior, state collegiate chairman; Kent Pelz, Des Plaines, Ill senior, KU club chairman; Katherine Berryman, Ashland senior, club vice chairman, Richard Armstrong, Lawrece first year law student.
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during the 16th century. "We hope that this will be a major center for Renaissance study", Mr. Sedzik said.
"Our Ralph Ellis collection is one of the three best in ornithology. Robert M. Mengel, (a bibliographer) is making a bibliography of this collection. He has worked for the past five years and is now in the D's. "We have significant collections of works by and about James Joyce and French Revolutionary pamphlets. Ambrose Saricks, associate professor of history, is indexing the pamphlet collection. We have a representative collection of children's literature dating from the 18th century and arranged in chronological order year by year."
"Thomas R. Buchman, head of the acquisitions department, is preparing an exhibit for Nov. 1 from our collection of Linnaeus," Mr. Sedzik said.
Building Shown In Magazine
The new Music and Dramatic Arts Building is featured in the October issue of the KU Alumni Magazine, one of the largest issues ever printed.
James Gunn, managing editor of the magazine, said the 54-page issue is surpassed in size only by the 56-page issue which featured Malott Hall.
Articles on the history of music and dramatics at KU were written by Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, and Mrs. Janet Turk, assistant professor of piano.
William Conboy, chairman of the department of speech and drama, Dean Thomas Gorton, of the School of Fine Arts, and Lewin Goff, director of the University Theatre also contributed articles.
An electrochemical has been developed that may rival the vacuum tube and the transistor as a basic electronic component. It depends on the movement of ions in a solution instead of in a gas, vacuum or solid.
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