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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence residents take advantage of the new public library downtown, which opened July 26. The library added about 20,000 square feet of space
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stacks in Watson Library provide a quiet study space for students who wish to escape the distractions from the main level
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RILEY MORTENSEN
news@kansan.com
On July 26, Lawrence community members gathered for the opening of the new public library at 707 Vermont St. Since opening, the library has registered more than 1,500 new library cards and hopes to add more with the start of the school year.
Marketing coordinator Jeni Daley said she thinks the new resources the library has to offer will surprise students. Along with the traditional books and media collections, the new library also offers a sound and vision space complete with its own recording studio and three editing booths with software such as Adobe Creative Suite and Pro Tools 11.
Daley, a KU alumna who majored in journalism, said when she was in school she needed expensive resources like Adobe Illustrator.
Knowing the public library now has programs like that is cool. Daley said.
"We are evolving as a library and we always want to adapt to the current needs of what our community is looking for," Daley said.
The library has also added about 20,000 square feet of space to provide more study spaces, large meeting rooms, an auditorium, a coffee stand and updated technology.
Daley said the public library offers students the opportunity to get off campus to study and be part of the community.
Library cards are free to any resident of northeast Kansas. Anyone wanting to sign up for a card must present photo identification and proof of residency, such as a utility bill. For students living in the dorms, a piece of mail with a dorm address will work.
Daley also said while many see campus libraries and public libraries as competitors, they each serve a purpose and prefer to work together on projects.
"We love working with them, and the idea is we just
have different goals that complement one another," Daley said. "A university campus is great for most of your research you can get done there and have some really knowledgeable academic librarians, but the public library has really started to change in general." Here's what to expect at campus libraries this semester:
WATSON LIBRARY
Watson Library offers:
Humanities library, linguistics,
literature, children's story
books for education majors,
large fiction collections, lots
of study areas, computers,
printers, quiet areas and
subject study librarians for
more detailed questions.
What's new: "We still have the writing center and the graduate study lounge, but
we've been working to update them," said library assistant Laura Skarka.
"We love working with [KU], and the idea is we just have different goals that complement one another."
JENI DALEY
Lawrence Public Library
marketing coordinator
Students choose this library because: "It's quiet, it's centrally located, particularly if you're taking a humanities-oriented degree this is where you're going to come to find all of your stuff," Skarka said. "They also probably like the fact that when school's in session we have a snack shop
so you don't have to study hungry. When I was a student here they didn't allow food in the library at all. You'd get scolded by a librarian if you tried to bring something in with you and now there's a cafeteria."
ANSCHUTZ LIBRARY
Anschutz Library offers: Science books, maps, government documents, microform, education books and part of the business books. Learning studio on the third and fourth floor, computers, express printing and group study rooms.
"Both Watson and us have business," said Robert Szabo, manager of Anschutz Library. "We have the stuff that kind of relates to what goes on in Summerfield and Watson has stuff that's done more by people in
economics. We also have the thesis and dissertations for the University. We have the writing center, they're headquartered here ... 40 percent of all printing is done at those three express printers."
What's new: "Seven study rooms, which used to be offices and a new study area in the northwest corner of the third floor," Szabo said. "We will also have two new rooms, which will be scheduled separately by instructors or tutors. Seven new tables have been added on the first floor, west of the maps collection."
Students choose this library because: Central location, social atmosphere and resources offered.
SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY
Spencer Research Library offers: University archives,
Kansas Collection, Special Collections and varied artifacts from a 4,000-year-old clay tablet to artists books that have come out this year.
What's new: "We're always getting new collections," said Elspeth Healey, special collections librarian. "We have a few coming up, for example 'Ornithological Illustrations in the Age of Darwin: The Making of John Gould's Bird Books.' The Kansas Collection is always adding more papers."
Students choose this library because: "The materials that are housed here — if students want to come and do original research they come here," Healey said. "Faculty members also want students to gain the experience of seeing the artifacts, so many classes are brought here throughout the semester."
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Edited by Jordan Fox
Man killed by police in Wichita suburb
HAYSVILLE — A Kansas police chief says an officer responding to a domestic disturbance shot and killed a man in suburban Wichita.
The Wichita Eagle reports Haysville police were called to an apartment around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday and found a woman injured amid an ongoing disturbance.
The woman was hospitalized. This was the Wichita area's second fatal shooting by law enforcement in the past week. A Newton police officer answering a domestic violence call Thursday killed a man who authorities said refused to drop a hunting knife.
Haysville Police Chief Jeff Whitfield says an officer shot the man in a confrontation, but it's not clear what tle shooting was in response to.
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