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Changes to aid Watson efficiency
By BONNIE DUNHAM
Staff Reporter
Although a $6.2 million renovation at Watson Library will be an attempt to better use space in KU's main library, it is only a small, limited range plans to improve the library system.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the renovation should make the library more efficient, but would not provide badly needed floor space.
Watson, as a building, ranks "dead last" among the Big Eight school libraries, Ranz said, and that ranking goes "unchanged."
"We have the largest collection and the smallest facility," he said.
According to Kansas Board of Regents guidelines, the KU library needs 389,588 collections and operations. The library collects and operates a total of feet, 38 percent of the recommended amount.
THE #8 MILLION renovation, approved by the Kansas Legislature in 1978, will be designed to transform the University will go back to the Legislature and construct a new library near the Military School.
The proposed library site is essential, Ranz said, because it is surrounded by the academic units it would serve, such as such academic structures, architecture, business and music.
"I think a library has to be reasonably close to the people who would use it," Ranz said.
Other solutions to the problem of providing more water for children in a neglected area for an underground extension in front of Watson was rejected, and because the bedrock there made it uneven.
"We were very apprehensive about enlarging this building," he said. "A decision at the University of Colorado to add an old library builded was a mistake."
WHILE THE $6.2 million renovation does not include an addition to the building, it will eliminate safety hazards, such as the arrangement of book stacks, which Ranz called a fire hazard. Each floor, from the second to the fifth floor, are one area. One stack on each floor level will be eliminated, so that access to these stacks will be direct from each floor.
Elimination of intervening book stacks will cause some loss of space, Rana said, but the removal of many walls throughout the building will open up knobs and crannies on the floor that would not collapse. He said the library could gain or lose about 1,000 square feet through this change.
"The weight of the building is borne by columns, not by walls, so it can be virtually stripped down," he said.
The "free-standing shell" throughout Watson library will be divided into departments by shelves and partitions, he said.
DEPARTMENTS WILL be moved according to the amount people use their offices. For example, administrative offices, now located just inside the main entrance, will be moved to the third floor while departments most visited by patrons will be moved to the first floor.
Plans now call for the card catalogue and reference room to be on the east side of the first floor. Circulation, reserve books and equipment to the west side of the first floor entrance.
Second floor drawings include space for stacks, readers, periodicals, microforms and copying equipment.
Ranz said the east side of the third floor probably will be used for East Asian books because of a decision in July to move the art museum. Helen Foresman Spence Museum of Art.
THE RENOVATION also will update and integrate the mechanical systems in the main library. During past Waston expedition, he sent another hunk of plumbing was added."
The heating, plumbing and electrical systems will be completely redone, he said.
"We have to make sure the building is safe," he said. "I think we can have a first class renovation, but there are lots of problems that we have to work on."
One of the problems involved keeping the library in operation throughout the major renovation and interior construction.
Ranz asked plains plans for starting up a school, trying to try to work up. Some departments, microforms and reserve books, may be temporarily moved to Old Green Hall, he
CAROL CHITTENDEN, associate reference librarian, was appointed to keep the public and University community informed about activities in the library during the renovation.
Chattenden said she would have a daily meeting to talk about telling people what materials had been noved. Weekly inserts also will be placed in the regular library guide and information booklets.
The job of the library now is "to work with scheduling of construction activities in a building." This includes the writings of the library." Rani said. "If they want to use our resources, then it is our job to inform people of them."
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Donation of $500,000 will finance art museum's move to Spencer
Construction of an art library at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art will begin this fall, the result of an anonymous gift to the Museum.
Most of the art library collection, now housed on the third floor of Walton Library, will be moved to the lower level of the museum.
The establishment of an art library in the Spencer Art Museum was the subject of debate and a faculty petition opposing the move last October.
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Murphy, who is now chairman of the university, said: "The whole building designed to be a complete unit from the teaching standpoint, to the art museum and to the library."
Because the art books are used by so many departments, faculty members said the move would be inconvenient.
The decision to move the library was made last month after an anonymous gift of $500,000 was made to finish the area at Spencer Museum.
Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor at KU from 1981 through 1960, said recently that he got a foundation to put up the money. He
"It IS THIS new grant that I have been able to get from the foundation that has made it possible to complete the museum."
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said the funds were given through the Endowment Association and would be used for architectural plans and finishing the new library area at Spencer Museum. Some also will also be purchased for Watson Library.
"The library had misgivings about the move because we were not sure that it was in the interest of the users," Ransz said. "Now that the decision has been made, we are going to do everything possible to make it works."
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said that the 10,000 to 12,000 square feet of space the library now occupies at Watson will be used for the East Asian collection.
THE LIBRARY STAFF will be working on the best way to organize and divide the collection so it will benefit the largest number of people, he said.
About 10,000 volumes out of the 30,000 to 40,000-volume collection still have to be divided among the libraries, Ranz said.
Shankel said there would undoubtedly be some people who would be unhappy with the proposed move.
"But given the generally overcrowded conditions at our library, and the need to handle many requests, this really does make sense." Watson, this really does make sense. "It will produce a very fine art library."
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