PATRONIZE KANSAN ADVERTISERS
Librarian likes people
By PATRICIA PRUITT
Thomas Buckman's job this year combines his two great loves —books and people.
Buckman, on leave as director of KU libraries, is Consultant on International Programs of the American Library Association International Relations Office in Chicago from November through May.
A tall man whose wide shoulders remind one of a Norse warrior, he is rarely seen in his KU office nowadays. He checks in to lend a hand only one week in four.
WEATHER
Fair skies with mild temperatures and southerly winds from 10 to 20 miles per hour are predicted today by the U.S. Weather Eureau. The high today should reach 70. The low tonight is expected to be in the 40's with a high tomorrow in the upper 60's. No precipitation predicted today or tomorrow.
Fluent in Swedish and twice a temporary resident of Stockholm as student and then teacher, Buckman now daily advises visiting foreign librarians in improving their libraries and directs them to appropriate models in American cities.
For instance, just recently he was host to officials of Brasilia's new university, now being constructed. Besides entertaining them, he conferred at length with them on their library needs.
HIS JOB NOW is to co-ordinate people and books—perhaps the real job of a librarian.
This all agrees with Buckman, because he likes to listen to people. In fact, he's fairly tacit about himself.
ONLY POINTED questions brought out the fact that he traveled to Nigeria and the Cameroon last summer on a survey expedition of African bookdealers' business. Once started, however, he spoke eagerly of the people he met.
His manner is a bit formal, but mention a book or show interest in a poet—then his face lights up and his blue eyes dance. He is quick to ask about the individual and eager to relate experiences he thinks will interest that particular person.
He is interested in the relationship between students and books.
Daily Kansan Tuesday, November 15, 1966
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He commented that students' freedom to read and absorb a particular topic is limited under the American collegiate system because of time pressure.
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Recruiting Team On Campus Wednesday, November 16
Representing
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