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University Daily Kansan, October 24, 1984
Research continued from p. 1
This semester, on-campus enrollment is 24,436 students. The libraries really should seat about 6,000 students but now seat only one-third of that amount.
1 Watson seats about 1,200 students, and the other libraries seat about 800 students, Ranz said. The proposed science and technology library would seat another 1,000 students.
Without the addition of a new library, the space crunch will continue at most of the libraries and reading rooms. The library study completed in June give a gloomy forecast for the next five years:
- WATSON LIBRARY — A $6.2 renovation completed in 1982 improved the quality, but not the quantity of space at the 60-year-old central library. Now at 74 percent of the books and bookstacks, periodicals, reserve and reference collections are projected to swell to 37 percent capacity by 1989.
- SPENCER MAP LIBRARY
  More than 250,000 maps are stored in the cabinets and stacks in the basement of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, but the library already has run out of room, said Rick Embers, librarian. Current capacity is 106 percent capacity; projected 1989 capacity is 124 percent.
- **SCIENCE LIBRARY** — A 1980 addition to the science library opened up much needed shelf and study space. But the science library's stacks are tight — at 86 percent capacity now, projected at 101 percent capacity in 1989. Library workers this summer spent six weeks shifting books to make room for new acquisitions.
- ENGINEERING LIBRARY — The engineering library last fall moved to Learned Hall after several years in the basement of the Frank R. Burge Union. Although designed as a temporary home until phase two of the science and technology library is built in the 1990s, the new engineering library was used for study spaces and ample room for growth. Current capacity is 51 percent; projected 1989 capacity is 61 percent.
- MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE READING ROOM — On the second floor of Strong Hall, the mathematics and computer science reading room is a convenient place for faculty or students to look up a theorem quickly. But the stacks are packed, and only a dozen students can find places to study. Current capacity is 98 percent; projected 1989 capacity is 114 percent.
- MUSIC LIBRARY — Boxes of
books and records already are stacking up in workrooms at the music library in Murphy Hall. The library provides more than 50 listening carrels in which students can listen to class assignments, but overcrowding has forced library users to perclass students. Current capacity is 95 percent; projected 1989 capacity is 112 percent.
- BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS READING ROOM - Although most business materials are in Watson, the business and economics reading room on the first floor of Summer Hall includes many reference books. Students can study at the reading room's tables and study carriels. Current capacity is 69 percent; projected 1989 capacity is 79 percent.
If the libraries and reading rooms become too crowded and inconvenient, University officials said, students might take their research elsewhere.
RANZ SAID, "WHEN you have uncentralized, uncomfortable buildings, students and faculty will do more to can to avoid using the libraries."
William Coil, professor of systematics and ecology, said he and many science professors had been discouraged by the delays in the new science and technology library.
"Many professors and graduate students have turned to doing research mainly by reprints and by upgrading their personal libraries," he said. "But although a professor might be able to compile a large personal library, how many graduate students can afford that?"
Edward Meyen, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said that building a science and technology library would boost KU's "research image."
"THIS LIBRARY WILL undoubtedly have a positive effect on attracting graduate students and new faculty to the University." Meyen said.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said the new library would benefit the entire state.
"For KU to have the resources to fulfill its mission as a major research institution, it needs to keep up to date in the sciences and technology," he said. "The library is the heart of the University, the key to improving the quality of higher education and the quality of life in the state."
"You'll begin to lose faculty, and once you begin to lose faculty you begin to lose students. Once that happens, not only the image of the University changes, but the institution itself changes."
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