Books Like Babes
Bv Robert Jackson
If you were a book, where do you suppose you would like to find your shelf in life?
Chances are, you would pick the stacks of the Special Collections Department in Watson Library. The conditions there, as can be verified by Miss Alexandra Mason, head of that department, are just about the best imaginable for books.
BOOKS, whether they are old or new, are very sensitive to heat, moisture, and insects, according to Miss Mason. The Special Collections Department is protected from excessive heat and cold by complete air conditioning which maintains a steadily recorded temperature of 70 degrees. Heat from fire is detected by special sensing devices which sound an alarm if the room becomes too hot.
The humidity in the stacks is likewise regulated to stay at a constant 50 per cent. If more moisture was allowed the books would increase in weight by as much as 10 per cent. If the humidity dropped, the paper would become dry and brittle or even break.
INSECTS, SUCH as roaches and silverfish, are very damaging to books because they eat paper. When these pests are noticed in any of the volumes, they are quickly destroyed with a special spray which does not harm the book.
Leather-bound books are a particular problem because the leather must also be cared for periodically. Miss Mason said that a mixture of lanolin and neats油 oil is the least expensive way of handling the problem effectively.
The collection in the library measures 192 linear feet of shelf space, which in more common terminology would be about 60.000 books.
Books in the Special Collections Department are for use only in that section of the library. Some volumes are loaned to libraries at other universities, but only those which are not too old, rare, or fragile. Other books may be microfilmed or have photostatic copies made of them so that they may be shared by other schools.
Panhellenic Candidates
Nine junior women are taking written examinations, written essays, and being interviewed for the presidency of the Panhellenic Council.
Each of the 13 sorority houses had an opportunity to nominate a candidate for the office: Nominees were named by nine of the sorority houses.
THEOSE WHO are competing for the presidency and the living groups they represent are: Diane Olsen, Topkick sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega; Vicki Mathews, Leawood junior, Alpha Delta Pi; Carol Sahlberg, Western Springs junior, Alpha Omicron Pi; Glenda Hord, Kansas City junior, Chi Omega; Jo Lee, Kansas City junior, Delta Delta Delta; Louise Clovis, Salina junior, Delta Gamma; JoAnne Emerick, Murray Hill, N.J., junior, Gamma Phi Beta; Kay Orth, El Dorado junior, Kappa Alpha Theta; and Terry Hoyt, Kansas City, Mo.,
iunior. Kappa Kappa Gamma.
The Pi Beta Phi house did not participate in the nominating of a Panhellenic Council president as this year's council president, Jill Newburg, Carmel, Ind., senior, is a member of that sorority.
TODAY AT 12:30 p.m. the candidates took a written examination over the constitution and by-laws of Panhellenic. The examination was conducted in the Dean of Women's Office.
Monday the nominees will submit an essay concerning what they feel the purpose and functions is of the Panhellenic Council on the KU campus.
Interviews with the candidates will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Dean of Women's Office.
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