University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 6, 1979
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Front lawn activities banned at Field House
In compliance with a recommendation made last month by David A. Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, the university has sanctioned student activities on the front lawn of Allen Field House, Ann Eversole, UEC chairman, said at the committee's
In an Aug. 16 letter to Eversole, Amber cited noise, traffic congestion and damage to the lawn as grounds for his lawsuit against non-classroom activities from the areas.
Ambler said last night that he made the recommendations "on the basis of a number of complaints at various times."
Katherine Gilee, committee member,
suggested that a UEC policy on outdoor
presentation became because the
protective policy of applying some and not
others is inconsistent.
UEC IS revamping its guidelines,
Eversole said.
In other business, the committee refused a request by Oliver and Naimsah Halls to hold a Sept. 28 block party on the roof of the residence between the two residence halls.
Because the party was scheduled for the same night as the Board of Class Officers sponsored Big Blue Rally and the night before the KU football season ended, North Texas State, the committee recommended that the party be rescheduled.
"The traffic before the football opener will be heavy," Floyd Temple, KU baseball coach and committee member, wrote in a letter to the Washington Post this party, it would only make it worse.
Greg Schaeh, senior class president and committee member, said the Big Blae Rally sponsors did not want to compete with the residence halls' party.
In addition, the committee approved the following petitions:
He said that because traditionally the Big Blue Rally is the night before the football opener, the block party should be rescued to avoid conflict.
- A request by Panheilemic and the Inter-Praterity Council to hold a Greek Week art show in the Strong Hall rotunda. 25-27.
- Lambda Sigma's request to hold their annual Mum sale outside Memorial Stadium and in the lobby of the Kansas Union, Oct. 6.
- A request to put Student Senate election booths in the following locations: the Jawahar Blvd. information booth, the west end of the fourth floor of Wesco Hall, the first floor of Fraser Hall and the second floor of Johnson gym, Oct. 3, 2014.
- KU Jazz Ensemble's request to conduct jazz concerts outside the southeast of the Kansas Union Park on 29, Oct. 12, 19 and 38, Nov. 2, 19 and 4.
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Library converts to new system
By DAWN SHARP
During the next two years, more than a quarter of a million books in Watson Library have been digitized and being used as a new computer system which will replace the IBM card-reading process.
Staff Reporter
The new system will make check out books faster and easier, Cliff Haka, circulation librarian, said last week.
When someone wants to check out a book, his ID card will be placed in the computer terminal and a wand will register the book's label numbers. Haka said.
When books are checked out or in, and when new books are being read for the stacks, an optical character reader label is placed on the inside back cover and on the title page.
Haka said not all books in the library would be registered in the system, because this would use too much memory space. The computer system keeps every entry on memory.
He said that only the books that were
Gary Sussy, systems programmer at the office of information systems, said that renting computers kept the University from having to rat of obsolete equipment.
checked out regularly would be registered in the new system.
THE SIX new computer terminals are being rented from IBM for about $90 per month, Haka said.
The wards arrived in the library yesterday morning, Haka said, and the new ID cards should arrive in mid-September. The wards joined Julian, director of special programming.
Student numbers are being entered into the computer manually until the new ID cards are available, Hake said.
HAKA SAID that if the cards arrived on schedule, the new system should significantly speed up the circulation process by the end of the month.
Also check-out records were kept on storage discs that had to be taken to the computer center for printouts. The listing of all these was stored in the staff note who had a book checked out.
THE OLD SYSTEM consisted of three terminals, two to check out books and one to check in books. Two keypunch machines entered new books into the system.
But under the new system, records may be called up immediately to a video display terminal.
Holds on records, recall of books and fine collections were all manual processes under the old system, Haka said.
The old system required that IBM card be run through a card reader to register book information, a process Haka said was too slow.
If a card was old, torn or bent, the machine could misread it and the library would not know who checked out which book, he said.
Under the new system there will be three terminals used for check out, holds and recalls at the circulation desk. There also will be a terminal in the fines office.
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