Monday, August 21, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section C · Page 5
Libraries let students hit the books
By Joshua Richards Special to the Kansan
This fall, part of Anschutz Library will be open 24 hours.
The third floor reference area will be open as a study hall from Sunday morning to midnight Thursday. Other parts of the library, such as the stacks, will be off-limits during late-night hours, but students will have access to workstation printers, the copy center and restrooms. Security guards will patrol the building.
"Their job is to make sure the building is safe," said Denise Stephens, head of the library.
With Anschutz, formerly a science library, becoming a multidisciplinary library, the reference section will be expanded to include more general tools, such as non-science dictionaries and encyclopedias. Stephens said.
Students have been asking for 24-hour access for some time, Stephens said.
"This library was chosen because of its physical set-up," Stephens said. "This library is the easiest location to manage. It has the best accessibility."
Anschutz Library
Located south of Budig Hall
Phone: 864-4928
Open Monday through
Thursday: 8 a.m. to midnight.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to midnight.
Third Floor 24-hour study
Thursday 10 a.m. to midnight
sunday to a.m. to midnight.
■ It includes the Government Documents Library, business reference material and the science collection.
Stephens said the Thomas R. Smith Map Collection on Level 1 is the 14th largest map collection in the United States.
The Government Documents Library receives all federal government documents.
Watson Library
Phone: 864-3956
- Located on Jayhawk Boulevard, between Fraser and Wescoe halls
Open Monday through
Thursday: 8 a.m. to midnight.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to midnight
The Watson collection includes the humanities—languages, literature, philosophy and religion; business, economics and political science; and the social sciences—sociology, anthropology and some psychology.
The East Asian Library, the Slavic Department, and the Spain, Portugal and Latin America Department are housed in Watkins. Designated library staff specializes in those subjects.
Watson carries a wide range of periodicals, including general interest magazines like National Geographic or Time and scholarly journals. The library has an extensive reference section.
- Located north of Strong Hall
- Open Monday through
Spencer Research Library
Located north of Strong Hall
Open Monday through
Friday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: Noon to 4 p.m.
University Archives is not open on Sunday.
The Spencer Research Library includes three, non-circulating collections: Special Collections, the Kansas Collection and the University
Every branch of the KU Library System has books, periodicals (magazines and journals), microfilm and electronic information sources via the Internet and CD-ROMs.
KU LIBRARY SYSTEM OVERVIEW
Copies and Printouts: Copy services are available at all the libraries. Copiers work with a KUID. All libraries offers free laser printouts for patrons using the library computers, but the service may not continue.
**Catalog:** Students can search the system-wide catalog on the library computers, or from home by visiting http://catalog.lib.ukans.edu/. The Web site includes access to the online catalog, electronic journals and databases and links to information at other libraries.
Library Account Status: To check on what books they have out, students can go to the online catalog and click on Patron Information and enter their KUID number to find out what books they have checked out. Books can be renewed online twice. The third renewal must be done at the library.
Taurus: During Hawk Week and into the school year the libraries offer online.
Tours: During Hawk Week and into the school year the libraries offer orientation tours of their facilities and services. Call each library for details.
Archives.
None of the books are allowed to leave the building. Richard Clement, Special Collections librarian, said the one major benefit of looking for a book at a non-borrowing library was that the books were always there.
William Crowe, librarian, said the library's forbidding architecture and somewhat-hidden location behind Strong Hall could intimidate students, but that students should make the trek and visit the collection.
"We can put you in touch with original records of human experience." he said.
The library gives people a chance to get their hands on original material, he said, not just a second-hand source filtered through other authors' perspectives.
"The library is here to be used -- for everybody; anybody," he said.
The Collections:
Special Collections
Located on level 3 of the Spencer Research Library
Phone: 864-4334
Special Collections has rare books and manuscripts. Only 10 percent of the holdings are online, available in the same KU library database as the circulating collections.
In the future, the manuscripts and rare books might be scanned into the Web.
"We want to develop a sophisticated, in-depth digital presence on the Internet," said Richard Clement, associate special collections librarian.
He said the Special Collections staff was willing to give tours at a moment's notice.
Kansas Collection
Kansas Collection Located on level 2 of the Spencer Research Library
Located on level 2 of the Spencer Research Library
Phone: 864-4247
The Kansas Collection has documents about the history of Kansas and its people. There are documents from the early territorial period (1853-1861), including a collection of African-American history
The collection has more than a million photos, including the works of Joseph J. Pennell, an early 19th-century photographer in Junction City.
The collection also is a repository of state government documents and houses the internationally known Wilcox collection of right- and left-wing radical political materials.
The collection catalog is partially available online. All periodicals in the collection are online, as are the bulk of items collected after 1982. Few manuscripts are in the system.
University Archives
Located on level 4 of the
Scripps Research Library.
The University Archives collect anything related to the University of Kansas, such as public documents, photos, official records, film, videotape and audiotape.
Call 864-4188
Regular patrons include students, history classes, office staff looking for old records, researchers and people doing genealogy.
The collection catalog is not available online.
Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Library
In the south addition to
864-3496
Open Monday through Thursday: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Tuesday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday:
- The collection includes more than 20,000 recordings and more than 60,000 music scores and books.
- A new media system is the lynchpin of the renovated library. Students can listen to music in one of 23 media carrels
Saturday: Noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 1 to 10 p.m
Sunday: 1 to 10 p.m.
freestanding cubicles with sound-absorbing panels. All carrels include headphones, a remote control, a mini-CD burner and a 61-key synthesizer.
"It's a sophisticated new resource," said Victor Cardell, head of the library.
Eight of the carrels have personal computers with special music and dance software with MIDI capability.
- For security and preservation, patrons can no longer handle LPs, 78 rpm, rare recordings or any other music. Library staff members run the source console, which includes about nine turntables and CD, audio, VHS and DVD players. The staff puts on music and directs it to a particular carrel. Patrons then can burn the internal mini-disc for repeated listening.
“It’s every librarian's dream to see such a facility,” Cardell said. "Students are going to be very pleased with the new services."
The Music and Dance Department computer center is accessible only through the Music and Dance Library. The computer center has 32 Macintosh computers. The library also has a seminar room and a group study room.
Located on level 1 of the Spencer Museum of Art, on Mississippi Street, behind the Union and near Memorial Stadium. Enter on the west side, near the parking lot.
Art and Architecture Library
www2.lib.ukans.edu/~artlib
Phone: 864-3020
Open Monday through
Thursday; 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday; Noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday; 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The library has 130,000 volumes encompassing studio art, design, art history and architecture. The collection covers art, architecture and design from ancient times.
The library offers instructional programs and tours, along with regular reference help.
Like other libraries, the library has photocopiers, but it also has a scanning station, which includes a color printer and a zip drive. Students can scan images, save them to disk, print them out or send them to an e-mail address of their choice.
For students wanting to make their own slides or photos from books, the library has a copy stand. Students need to bring their own camera.
Two classrooms are available for group study—18 people or more—whenever there isn't a class. Check the schedule posted on the classroom doors, or call library staff.
Spahr Engineering Library
The library is connected to the south side of Learned Hall, the engineering building. Students can access it from Learned on the second floor.
Phone: 864-3866
Open Monday through Thursday: 8 a.m. to midnight
Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to midnight
- The collection includes engineering encyclopedias, dictionary, handbooks and databases.-Web-based and CD-ROMs.
The staff has expertise in engineering resources and materials.
All engineering related books are in Spahr, but Vicky Coleman, head of Spahr, said computer science books were in Anschutz.
There is group study space in the upper level and individual study space on the lower level.
Law Library
Located in 200 Green Hall, the law building on 15th Street near Burge Union
Web site:
Phone: 864-3025
www.law.ukans.edu/library/
Open Monday through Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
- The collections include court reports, statutes and regulations, law reviews and journals, government documents, legal loose-leaf services, case digests, indexes and legal dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The stacks are open and browsable.
Most of the material was non-circulating, but Joyce McCray Pearson, director of the library, said there had been a policy change. Almost everything is in circulation except the reference section.
Regular patrons of the Law Library include law students, attorneys, scholars and those interested in conducting legal research, but McCray Pearson encourages anyone to come by.
"It's open to the public, and we do have reference librarians who are eager and happy to help people," she said.
Looking to get involved on campus?
Did you know that you can be a fraternity member while living in a residence hall, apartment or scholarship hall?
Fraternity recruitment is now taking place.
Call the Interfraternity Council Ryan Gerstner
864-3559
424 Kansas Union
www.ukans.edu/~greek
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Kwaidan: Three Japanese Ghost Stories
Thursday, August 31, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Anything Goes
Saturday, September 23, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Ying Quartet
Sunday, September 24, 2000, 3:30 p.m.
Gate Theatre in
Krapp's Last Tape
Sunday, October 1, 2000, 7:00 p.m.
Waiting for Godot
Monday, October 2, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Jennifer Roh, violin
Sunday, October 8, 2000, 3:30 p.m.
White Oak Dance Project
Baryshnikov Productions
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 10 & 11, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Man of La Mancha
Friday, October 13, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, contemporary dance company
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, contemporary dance company from Taiwan
Thursday, October 19, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Rudolf Buchbinder, piano Saturday, November 4, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Dracula: The Music and Film performed by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet Thursday, November 2, 2000. 8:00 p.m.
Julie Taymor's The King Stag
Thursday, November 9, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Accorant a campella choral ensemble
November, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Accentus, a capella French choral ensemble
Alvin Alley American Dance Theater Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 8:00 p.m. Show Reel
Show boat
Thursday, November 16, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
The St. Petersburg State Ice Ballet in Cinderella on ice Saturday, December 2, 2000, 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Trinity Irish Dance Company
Saturday, January 20, 2001; 8:00 p.m.
Friday, February 2, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Moscow Festival Ballet in Giselle
Saturday, February 3, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Takacs Quartet
Sunday, February 11, 2001, 3:30 p.m.
Kodo Drummer from Japan
Tuesday, February 20, 2001; 8:00 p.m.
Friday, February 23, 2001. 7:00 p.m.
Verdi's Aida, performed by Teatro Lirico D'Europa
Sunday, March 11, 2001. 7:00 p.m.
Berlin Chamber Orchestra Tuesday, March 13, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Diavolo Dance Theatre
Thursday, March 15, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 15, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Mark Morris Dance Group
Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano & Kurt Ollmann, baritone
The Music of Leonard Bernstein
Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Girls Choir of Harlem
Sunday, April 22, 2001, 7:00 p.m.
Drak Puppet Theatre from the Czech Republic
Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday & Friday, April 26 & 27, 2001, 7:30 p.m.
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