University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1980
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Staff Reporter
Funding needed to consolidate branch libraries
By JANENEUFELD Staff Reporter
A new library that would consolidate KU's scattered branch libraries is a high priority for the 1962 fiscal year's long-range development plan, R. Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning, said yesterday.
The Kansas Board of Regents requested $365,000 in legislative funds for a study of the building project and $19,552 million for the construction.
Gov. John Carlin received the budget requests for all state institutions yesterday. He will send them to the department and ask him to make his additions or deletions.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the new library was essential to provide access to the library's resources.
"The libraries are a pretty important system of the University," Ranz said. "I don't think anyone thinks they're what they're supposed to be."
THE NEW LIBRARY would be located near the Military Science building. It would house the engineering, architecture and science libraries and the mathematics and business reading rooms.
Humanities and social sciences materials would stay in Watson Library.
Ranz said that the new library would be near the departments that would use it most, and that the consolidation would make it easier for students to find books.
"The branch libraries are just terribly expensive to operate," he said, "and the big pressure to consolidate the libraries comes from the students it's not interested in running all over campuses to try to find the books they need."
Lawton that KU's land-use plan showed that a library in the area of the Military Science building would give the best service to students.
"We feel very strongly that the planning is good, that the rationale is excellent and that the need is demonstrable." he said.
KU's library system needs improvement to keep pace with peer and Regent institutions. Banz said.
"We're way behind in this," he said. "We're behind all the other Regents systems in the state, not just our peer institutions."
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The Legislature will decide whether to fund the study of the project by April, 2015.
He said that the cost of adding onto Watson would be about the same as building a new library.
Ranz said that if the Legislature approved the study, it would fund the research.
"The crucial thing is this $305,000," he said. "If the Legislature grants that, they'll go ahead with the rest of the building."
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"We believe this will be an excellent investment," he said. "I trust the building is so badly needed that it will come about someday."
Lawton said there was no guarantee that Legislature would allocate the funds for the project this year, but he believed the funds eventually would be granted because a new library was important for the University.
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"The renovation doesn't speak at all to the shortage of space, it just speaks to us."
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"Really, all we need is money. There are any great impenderable problems in the world."
A Library Facilities Planning Committee considered the problems of the system five years ago, Ranz said. Building instead of adding onto Watson.
He said that the library would run out of shelf room for books in three years at its present rate of 60,000 new volumes a year.
He said the library also lacked reader space. The library seats about 600 to 700 people when it ought to seat a fourth of population, he said, or about 6,000 people.
BOOKS WOULD HAVE to be stored in boxes, Ranz said.
"There's no way we can avoid it."
Watson renovation will improve the building's appearance and make it more serviceable, Ranz said, but it will not actually increase storage space.
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