Library Staff Gets Many Odd Queries
Nearly every student who has set foot inside Watson Library has complained about disorganization or building inconveniences but now it's the personnel's turn to grumble.
Every day those working in the library receive some strange request. A graduate student once asked if he could have a copy of Ibid.
ONE STUDENT asked for the big blue book he had used the day before. Another asked for the large red book on international politics.
With over 1,100,000 volumes in the library, and at least 20 per cent of these red or blue, the request seemed a little too great to be handled in a few minutes.
THE CIRCULATION desk doesn't have a moncpoly on strange demands.
The reference desk received a letter from an editor of a
country and western music magazine requesting a three by five post card with a picture of Comanche, General Custer's horse. "Tex Ritter likes Indian lore," the letter explained.
The prize comment of the year came from a young woman who could have only been looking for the Xerox machine when she asked, "Where is the reproduction room?"
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Rome Maps on Exhibit
They say all roads lead to Rome, and soon it will be possible to see exactly what roads these are.
The Special Collection Library in Watson Library basement will display Peutinger's Table, a Roman Army road map, a table about 18 feet long, showing routes used by the Roman soldiers in their military campaigns.
New Lower Level Complete RECORD DEPARTMENT
Radio-TV Group Meets Monday
Rugby Opens Season
Alpha Epsilon Rho, the national honorary Radio-Television fraternity will have an initiation meeting on Monday. The group will view films in Bailey Hall and later go to the Campus Hideaway for refreshments.
KU's rugby team will host the Kansas City Rugby Club at 11 a.m. tomorrow in their season opener.
The contest will be staged on the band practice field south of the campus near the intramural fields.
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