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Thursday, October 7, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Funds for library employs low
By SUSAN APPLEBURY
A lack of sufficient funds to pay student library employees is of immediate concern, according to Earl Huyer, chairman of the University Senate Libraries Committee.
Last week, the committee sent a letter requesting $55,000 to supplement student wages to Chancellor Archie Dykes, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said yesterday that $165,000 of the $200,000 needed for wages was allocated to the library by the state. That money will be depleted in the latter part of next semester, be said.
Shankel indicated, however, that there wasn't any assurance that the funds would be available.
Hyser said that as of yesterday only Shankel had responded to the committee's request.
HUYSER SAID Shanker indicated that he was hopeful that additional work-study funds might be received, as they were last year when the same problem arose.
Joan Sherwood, director of KU's work-program, said that for KU to receive additional work-study funds, the federal government fund obligated work-study for fiscal 1976.
She said that the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the American Society for Education held a meeting.
study funds in September, but that it was delayed until November.
NASFAA again has delayed the de-obilization until February, she said.
WHEN THE FEDERAL funds are debilitated, Sherwood said, they will be given to the college work-study program or to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant. The school there was "very good chance" that the funds would be given to the BEOG program.
If the money is instead given to the work-study program, Sherwood said. *UU doesn't care.*
She said that the library was a high priority or resource for the university funds that were allocated to it.
Huyser said both he and Shankel were aware that KU might not receive any additional work-study funds. He also said that there weren't now alternative sources of funding.
THIS WOULD deplete the library's book allocation fund and would cut back on the number of student and full-time employees. It also might reduce the library's hours,
Ranz said that if the library wasn't able to obtain additional funds through the work-study program, the library would have to "scrape it up from different accounts."
Watson Library currently is open 86 hours a week. Huyser said that the libraries of peer universities were open an average of 100 hours a week.
the library has been a "persistent problem."
According to Ranz, obtaining money for
In the fall of 1967, the library faced a similar problem. The lack of funds was partially the result of the federal minimum wage increases in the early 1970s, pay more money for fewer working hours.
Because of the $1 minimum wage at that time, the library didn't have enough funds to pay its employees and was unable to rehire them. The company employed at the end of the spring semester.
AS A RESULT, the library was forced to close at 10 p.m., instead of 11 p.m.
The needed funds, which were appropriated by the Kansas Legislature, came from additional student fees collected as the result of an increase in enrollment. The need for these funds was based
Huyser, Shankel and Ranz all indicated
the should be the present library hours
should be
"We don't satisfy the needs of our patrons." Husver said.
The number of student work hours has declined 33 per cent in the past five years, he said. During the same period, Huysser student enrollment has increased 25 per cent.
Ranz agreed that inadequate staffing at the library was "a long standing problem."
"THERE ISN'T enough processing
"I'm going to have student in
wait for me."
Huyser said that the Senate Libraries
"If the library does not purchase books that are published now," he said, "they have to go out and buy them."
Committee would try to find other sources of money, including work-study funds, so that other library funds wouldn't have to be cut.
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