University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 13, 1975
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Old book preservation goal of Spencer Library
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
Staff Writer
Death was inevitable for the 75-year-old book. Bill Mitchell, a librarian at Research Center Library slowly opened the book and watched its pages crumble.
The book was one that hadn't been preserved. A 70-degree temperature and 50 per cent humidity would have kept the book alive.
Fortunately, the book died alone. Mitchell and other employees of Sepncer make sure that old, rare collections to live to become even older and rarer.
"The whole library system has a certain commitment to keep things for future needs."
Specimens like a Johann Guttenberg Bible and Souterian clay-tablet manuscripts from the 14th century.
Mitchell said the secret of preserving books was providing a friendly atmosphere for them. Regulating the building temperature is one way of providing this atmosphere, he said.
"We filter the air here because air pollution is a real enemy of books," Mitchell said. "A couple of collections acquired from old buildings are still polluted, we in amazingly bad shine."
"Fluorescent lights are very bad for books, too. We don't turn them on unless somebody has to find a book in the glass case." (Marc Lowe) "To get rid of the ultraviolet raws."
Fumigating the books and wrapping them in folders that are low in acid content are other ways the librarians preserve books, he said. Folders that have high acid content cause the books' paper to disintegrate.
Ann Williams, another librarian, said readers who wanted a book had to look up the book in the card catalog, fill out a slip, and use the book in the research room.
The library has rules to help preserve the books. No one is allowed to take the books out of the building and stacks are closed to the library. The librarians handle the books in the stacks.
"If you saw what happened in an open a situation like Wattons, you'd know why."
Mitchell said that students seemed bothered by a rule that prohibits the use of flashcards.
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"Students say, 'I'm not going to mark on the books. Why should I not be allowed to use a pen?' They don't realize that a slip by a pen can not be erased. When a book has an ink mark charges are that in a few years there will be a hole in the book." Mitchell said.
Mitchell said he didn't remember ever having any books stolen.
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He said that even though few books had totally deteriorated or had been stolen, he wasn't convinced the library was doing enough to preserve the books.
"We don't spend enough money for preservation," he said. "We need more money, but who doesn't? We need to spend more on rebinding and finding new techniques to keep the books looking like new. We can't have the books fall apart."
The Kansas Union Bookstore won't follow the lead of the Ohio State University bookstores by collecting royalties from companies who manufacture products sporting the school mascot, name or seal.
According to J. D. Christman, Kansas Union Bookstore manager, a decision by the Ohio State University bookstore to collect royalties from the manufacturers of products bearing the name or seal of Ohio State has caused much discussion among the 3,000-member National Association of College Stores.
No royalties collected for KU's Jayhawk
Christman said Thursday the Jaybayah had been copyrighted to protect the University from embarrassment through the abuse of the emblem—not to make
Christman said the bookstore's copyright on the happy Jaywhak expired last year. He said the bookstore management hadn't decided yet whether to renew the copyright.
The creation concept, according to Morris, states that the universe was brought together by a supernatural being during a creation period. The creative processes can't be explained because they aren't in operation today, he said.
Henry Morris thinks that creation rather than evolution is a better explanation for the origin of life.
"Our emphasis is not to teach the book of Genesis but to open science up to two sides of our world."
"I'm not a preacher," he said. "We try to show that the creation model explains the universe."
money. He said the bookstore granted permission to most persons or organizations who asked because it was good publicity for the University. Christman said he didn't know of any abuses of the emblem.
"People assume evolution is a fact of nature," said the expert, considered any other alternative," he said.
Prof says creation theory more valid than evolution
According to a thick file of information the KU Alumni Association (KUAA) maintains on the Jayhawk, the bird was stolen lock, stock and plumage by Beckley College in W. Virginia until a KU alumunus in 1967 complained and J. H. Stoner, Kansas Union Bookstore manager, told the college the Hawk belonged to KU.
evolution system. We believe the creation model fits the existing set of facts."
Morris said that if evolution was a correct theory then transitional forms of men could be formed.
Merris, a professor Christian heritage College in San Diego, said he was visiting college campuses across the country to study the reasons that only evolution was taught in school.
"If you follow the idea of evolution to its logical conclusion then man has no purpose."
"Evolution says there are intermediate forms between ape and man but the actual fossils don't show that," he said. "If man is related to any other animal there ought to be some evidence of this transition period, but there's not any."
Morris said he became a creationist because he was appalled at the filmmakers.
be sold at KU football games. Sandy offered to sell his copyright to Bee but eventually sold it to the bookstore when Bee said she couldn't afford to purchase it.
In another instance, a U.S. Army Corps stationed in Stuttgart, Germany in 1965 toughened up the happy Jayhawk, the version of the mascot used exclusively by the University, when it's commander said the bird looked more like a chicken than a bird of war. The commander ordered the Jayhawk back to the drawing board to emerge "complete with talons, erect wings and a set of choppers straight out of a toothpaste ad."
'Saying that evolution is God's way of creation is acceptable, but it makes Him a creature,' she said.
He has been teaching the creation theory for thirty years. Christian Hertitage College, where he teaches now, is associated with this work. He also studies which studies the field of scientific creation.
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