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University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1982
Libraries find success at finding funds
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
A search for outside funding that the KU libraries began a few years ago has been a success, library officials said Monday, and a $148,000 grant that will come in January is more evidence of that.
The additional funds could help enhance KU's collections and the quality of its libraries, Mary Hawkins, of its libraries grant coordinator, said Monday.
KU libraries have received more than $600,000 to catalogue collections in the past three years, she said.
THE $148,500 GRANT that will arrive in January is a one-year Title II-C
award from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It will be used to catalogue materials from the library's 200,000-volume collection of works concerning Spain, Portugal and Latin America (SPLAT), which is one of the top five in the country, Hawkins said.
THE TITLE II-C grants are designed to promote research and education and to make the collections of prominent resources available to users. Hawkins said.
They are important, she said, because KU must compete with other colleges
"I think the grants reflect on the very fine collection we do have," she said.
"These awards should serve to make
"These awards should serve to make our collection better known."
She said about $7,000 of the money coming in January would be used to buy another computer terminal to go with the one purchased in 1979, when the History of Economics collection was catalogued into a national computer in Cleveland. Ohio made it available to universities and colleges across the country. The SPLAT collection will also be put into the national system.
Another $80,000 will be used to hire three full-time professional catalogers and two research assistants for the project, she said. The rest of the money will be used for other equipment and supplies.
THE GRANTS KU has received are the result of a recent drive to find
alternate funding so that KU can make its records more complete and accessible.
The libraries started looking for those funds during the late 1970s. The University received its first big grant, a twoyear The II-C award worth $500,000 in fall 1979, and Nancy Shawbaker, a assistant to the dean of Libraries.
IN ADDITION to the Title II-C grants, the library has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities worth nearly $900,000, the largest of which is being furnished by the University of 16th- to 19th-century English manuscripts in the library's collection, she said.
Economy hurts KU travel program
By DONNA KELLER Staff Reporter
The SUA travel program, like many university programs nationwide, is suffering because of the economy, a spokesman for the program said last
"Generally all travel programs are facing the same problems, money and time," said Jeff Brown, travel committee chairman. "Students are doing more bargain hunting than they were."
Brown said that earlier this year at a regional conference for Association for College Unions-International, sponsored by KU, representatives from student unions of Midwestern universities addressed common problems on programs sponsored by colleges and universities.
MOST OF THE SUA trips are ski or beach trips. Brown said. The cost may be as little as $80 or as much as $500. The average cost of the trips ranges
from $265 to $335, depending on the location, the transportation and the number of participants.
Frank Kaul, Mission Woods junior,
said he had enjoyed an SUA ski trip
but could not afford to go again.
"It was a lot of fun," he said, "I'd go again if I had the money."
Brown said another problem of KU's past travel programs was poor promotion, and that this year the SUA was planning a more active campaign to attract as many students as possible.
HE SAID THAT in addition to
advertising, the travel committee
also was planning publicity stunts and
slide shows for residence halls.
"Our philosophy in travel is that students are represented from all areas of campus," he said. "The central purpose of SUA is to focus on students' needs by providing extra-curricular programs to familiarize students with the campus and each other."
Brown said there were some ethical considerations in planning trips.
"FOR EXAMPLE, some students have asked for more parties, or kegs, on the bus," he said. "We have to consider the best interests of the SUA board, and the best interests of the staff." He sees what is most appropriate."
He said SUA's travel allocation was $85,000 for this fiscal year, and of that amount, $19,500 was allocated for experimental trips. Experimental trips can be for international ski or beach trips, such as the Lab Day holiday canoe trip.
He said $150 was allocated for advertising expenses for each trip. If his office exceeds the advertising budget, the additional amount, usually one or two dollars, is added to each student's cost of the trip.
"We can generally predict the success or failure of a trip within two to three weeks before the deadline," he said.
Brown said that SUA worked cooperatively with local travel agencies to arrange transportation and accommodations for the trips.
On the record
THIEVES STOLE ABOUT $300 worth of clothing about midnight yesterday from a laundry room in Ellsworth Hall, KU police said yesterday.
In another incident, thieves stole more than $80 worth of clothing about 5:40 p.m. yesterday from a laundry room in Oliver Hall, police said.
Police said there were no suspects in the cases and they did not know where the weapons came from.
A KU STUDENT INJURED in a motorcycle accident Monday afternoon was treated for ankle injuries and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a hospital official said yesterday.
The student, John Bodle, Lawrence sophomore, was injured when his motorcycle was hit by a car about 2:40 p.m. Monday at the corner of Sunset and Cambridge roads, Lawrence police said.
The driver of the car, Lisa Neibarger, Lawrence senior, was apparently attempting to make a left turn from the intersection as she hit the motorcycle, police said. Bodie was driving north on Sunset Road when the accident occurred.
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