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WEATHER CLOUDY
77th Year, No.20
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—Page 3.
Friday, October 14, 1966
-Kansan photo by Monte Mace
WATSON'S NEW IBM BOOK-CHECKOUT MACHINE GETS CHECKED OUT
Student assistant Dana Clinton is loading a coding device into an input station, which prints a number on an IBM card. The number shows whether the book is being returned or checked out.
All hail parents, seniors
By BETSY WRIGHT
Parents, seniors and prominent alumni will be special guests at Saturday's football game against Oklahoma.
Parents will be kept busy by a full day of activities after they converge on KU tomorrow for Parents' Day.
On the official agenda for Saturday morning are: 9 a.m. to noon—registration and reception for parents in the Kansas Union lobby, 10 a.m. and every 30 minutes thereafter—film on KU football highlights to be shown in the Kansas Union middle lounge and 11 a.m.—special Parents' Day buffet luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
A SPECIAL SECTION in Memorial Stadium will be occupied by Parents' Day guests at the game at 1:30 p.m. Tickets for the special section will be available at Allen Field House, the Kansas Union or Memorial Stadium Saturday.
Following the game, cider and doughnuts will be served in the Kansas Union and New
Robinson Gymnasium will open its doors with an open house and reception.
Dormitories, scholarship halls, fraternities and sororites plan to entertain parents with special lunches or receptions.
BUT PARENTS will not be the only honored ones at tomorrow's game. Saturday is Senior Dav.
Weakened by new regulations against senior cheerleaders and plastic horns, the seniors will nevertheless attempt a united show of spirit by sitting together in the senior section and wearing their sweatshirts.
Saturday's game will also host many prominent KU alumni, as members of two important University committees come to Lawrence to attend Saturday meetings. The Alumni Association Board of Directors will hold its annual fall meeting Saturday morning in the Kansas Union. At the same time, the Greater University Fund will hold a joint meeting of its advisory board and county chairmen.
Hall of Fame
Newsmen to be honored
By JACKI CAMPBELL
A small room adjacent to Flint Hall's remodeled William Allen White Library will be dedicated tomorrow as the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame.
A "MEMORIAL" to state journalists," the 12x20 foot Hall of Fame was given to KU by the William Allen White Foundation on February 10,1966.
The dedication is part of KU's National Editors' Day program, climaxing National Newspaper Week.
Each year, one or two Kansas editors are nominated for entry into the Hall of Fame by the Quarter Century Club. This honorary organization's primary function is the selection of Hall members.
Hall of Fame membership is not bestowed on a candidate until three years after his death. Exception to this rule was the admission of
ONE OF THE Newspaper Hall of Fame's walls features photographs of the 49 Kansas Hall of Fame editors in the order of their selection. Two new names will be announced tomorrow, as part of the Editors' Day program.
A biographical scrapbook of the editors' contributions "in recognition of talents and influence as well as marked service to state and community" will also be on display. The room will be used in the future by KU journalism students for interviews and seminars.
William Allen White, the Emporia Gazette editor.
QUARTER CENTURY Club members are newsmen who have served their profession for 25 years in Kansas. Organized by Leon N. Flint in 1927. it presently has 50 members.
Both the Quarter Century Club and the Newspaper Hall of Fame operate under the auspices of KU's William Allen White School of Journalism.
Library to get IBM system
IBM is coming to Watson Library. By the spring semester, Jayhawkers will be able to borrow books more easily and quickly through a computer system.
By PATRICIA PRUITT
Gone will be the days of writing out personal data, titles, authors and call numbers for each book desired.
An IBM 357 Data Collector system, the first in Kansas, will be installed within the month, said Earl A. Farley, assistant director of research for KU libraries. Full operation will begin in February.
THE SYSTEM WILL use a plastic card, similar to a credit card. These will be issued to students and faculty at spring enrollment, replacing the present KU ID.
Faculty members will have slightly different cards. Since they have no student numbers, their Social Security numbers will be used. Farley said this is in anticipation of university conversion to Social Security numbers instead of assigned student numbers.
THE IBM READS the plastic cards along with an IBM punch card kept in the book. From the circulation desk, the message is sent by cable to another part of the library, where an automatic key-punch produces a magnetic tape. After the library closes, this tape is taken to the university computation center and is converted to a master list of the day's business.
The IBM can recreate the master list, find and record overdue books and issue messages ready to be mailed. The machine keeps the list up to date.
The date due will be hand-stamped in the book, however. Farley calls this incongruity the "weak link" in the system, and said he hopes to find a solution.
ACCURACY AND efficiency are the advantages for the library staff. Student employees will not be replaced by the IBM system; instead, they will have more time for such essential jobs as inventory and cataloguing.
It has been impossible to hire a larger staff for these jobs, merely because of lack of room space—"they'd be walking all over each other." Farley said.
The machine will make fewer mistakes than people, because it doesn't get bored. It can also cope with increased volume, while student employees might get two or three days behind.
WHAT'S INSIDE
EDITORIALS — Newspaper Week on Page 2.
TEACHER SHORTAGE
-The need for more Kansas graduates. Page 10 B.
The library is renting the system because technology is so fastmoving that a better one might be available before the original investment is made good, Farley said.
The IBM system will operate only for books being taken outside Watson, and will not be used in other campus libraries.
Plans for the IBM installation started two years ago. Farley said. Rent is $700 a month.
Limited operation of the system may begin before the spring semester. Farley hopes to have punch cards in 200,000 to 500,000 books when the program starts and to continue inserting them as the year progresses. Books will not be taken out of circulation during the change-over.
Student ID's must change
With the innovation of IBM at Watson Library, new identification cards will be needed by all KU students and faculty members.
The new cards will be initiated at the beginning of the spring semester. The new cards will be a little thicker and a little longer.
The change has been authorized to improve the library's efficiency and to aid students when they check out books.
Other sections of the University, including the Student Health Service and the Book Store are considering the adoption of some form of the IBM method.
The new cards will be red for students and blue for faculty. The present plans call for distribution during spring enrollment.
The student number will remain the same. No additional charge will be assessed the students for the new cards.
The KU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) disassociated itself from the action of one of its members in the distribution of signs saying "Fire Alderson—Discard the Dean of Men" yesterday morning.
SDS rejects anti-dean sticker war
The group was concerned with an article in yesterday's Kansan that named Don Olson, Lawrence junior, who printed and distributed the signs, as SDS chairman.
"Although Olson is a member of SDS, he holds no office and acted on his own (in the sign-distributing incident) without the knowledge of SDS as a whole," said Dean Abel, Michigan City, Ind., graduate student and newly-elected SDS chairman.