UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 18, 1992
5
Computer aids library users
By Allison Lippert
Special to the Kansan
Christine McFarland / KANSAM
The staff at Watson Library has organized several new programs to make students feel more comfortable with using the library.
One addition to the library's selfhelp system is the new Reference Assistant computer, situated between the card catalogs and the main doors.
Rob Melton, Watson Library publications coordinator, points out to Kent Qandil, Lawrence senior, how to use a new computer program.
The user runs the system with a mouse by clicking the appropriate command.
The system is designed to guide a person to certain basic information when the reference librarians are gone or busy.
The main menu guides the user to screens that contain information about addresses, biographies, dictionaries, statistics, style manuals, and magazine and journal indexes.
The system was set up by Marilyn Clark, reference librarian. She said she began last November with a computer program called Tool Book, which provided the basic outline for the system. She then entered all the information for KU's system.
She said she spent about 120 hours learning the system.
The program was finished in January, but the library had no computer to install it on, Clark said. She applied to the Friends of the KU Libraries for a computer, and the new system was set up by mid-summer.
Jim Schilling, Lawrence sophomore, said he would use the Reference Assistant for projects.
where it's at, this will tell you," he said.
Schilling said that the system was a bit complicated but that he would continue to use it.
what to look for but not
"It would take a while to get used to it," he said.
Clark said she hoped to add a campus map and a guide to phonograph
records on the Reference Assistant.
Sherry Hawkins, reference librarian, said there also were two new ways for students to orient themselves with the library's other services: self-guided audio tours, available at the reserve desk with a KUID, and self-guided tours using sheets of information prepared by reference librarians.
SenEx asked to support safe harbor
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
A University Senate Executive Committee member asked SenEx to support the reinstatement of a specified time period when KJHK could air songs with indecent lyrics.
Jason McIntosh, SenEx vice chairperson, presented the resolution at yesterday's meeting. The resolution declares support for safe harbor at KJHK.
Safe harbor is the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
time period when the radio station
can play songs deemed indecent by
the Communications Commission
SenEx will address the resolution at the next meeting.
Discjockeys and more than 700 petitioners presented a proposal Monday at a KIJK executive board meeting that requested reinstatement of safe harbor. Their proposal and McIntosh's resolution say that preventing KIJK from playing indecent music is censorship.
"The denial of safe harbor at JKH is a violation of the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities," the resolution read.
Mclntosh said safe harbor should be allowed because the station was
"This is to provide a service for the students of the University of Kansas," he said.
told SenEx members that Student
sale was considering purchasing
computers for the typing room at Watson
Library.
In other business, Robert Thompson, student representative to SenEx.
Thompson said that Senate hope to work with the library and the Academic Computer Center to acquire Macintosh computers that would hook up with the CD-ROM system at Anschutz Science Library.
"I think it would be in the students' best interest," he said.
Thompson also said that 25 to 30 computers would be installed in Ellsworth Hall's former cafeteria by the departments of housing and educational services.
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