Skit wins first at festival
Photo by Ron Bishop
First prize at the International Festival was awarded to this skit presented by the Venezuelan students. The festival was held in the Kansas Union Ballroom Saturday.
One of America's foremost living poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, will appear at the University of Kansas 1970 Festival of the Arts in Hoch Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 31.
Poet Ferlinghetti first on art festival agenda
This change is being made to save time in the cataloging operation and to get the books listed in the card catalogue more quickly, said Terrence Williams, assistant director of libraries.
The first bookstore in the country to handle paper back books only was founded by Ferlinghetti and an associate, Peter D. Martin. Under its imprint, Ferlinghetti began publishing the Pocket Books Series, which includes works by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Antonin Artaud and many exciting new writers whom he discovered.
Ferlinghetti received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina and his master's from Columbia University. He received a Doctorat de l'Universite from the Sorbonne in Paris.
In essence, there will be "two libraries" and a user will need to know which system the call number of his book is in.
The Dewey Decimal classification system is being discontinued on books coming into the University of Kansas Libraries. All new books are being classified according to their Library of Congress call numbers.
This means that Watson Library and the branch libraries will have two systems of classification. The Library of Congress numbers for the new books and
The Library of Congress in Washington classifies each book that is published and then distributes a listing each year of the titles along with their Library of Congress number.
The Library of Congress system classifies books on an A to Z scale and then from 1 to 9,999, the Dewey system arranges books according to subject and then by numbers from 000 to 900.
KU libraries revamp system
Dewey Decimal cards for the present books will be in the drawers of the card catalogue.
Ferlinghetti's second book of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind, is now going into its 16th printing with a quarter million copies in print so far. A novel, Her, was published in 1960, and is now in its seventh printing. His book, Routines, is a venture into the unconventional revolutionary theatre. He has written six other books.
Because KU used the Dewey system, each book had to be re-classified.
Ferlinghetti has given many poetry readings both in this country and abroad, including the Spoile Festival, the Berlin Literary Colloquin, and the historic poetry evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The change was begun last week for the purpose of reducing the library's backlog of uncatalogued books. All books in the library will be classified by their Library of Congress numbers in the future but this retrospective classification has not begun at present.
Most major university libraries have made this change, Williams said. It was begun here after long consideration by the library staff and approval of the Senate Libraries committee.
Spanish institute offers travel, training
Language training in a native situation is provided by the Summer Language Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
The Institute will provide the language training using local instructors under the supervision of regular University of Kansas staff. It will be sponsored by the department of Spanish and Portuguese in conjunction with the Office of International Programs.
The course offerings will be aimed at students in the intermediate range of Spanish language preparation: Intermediate Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish Composition and Conversation, and Spanish Culture. Students may earn six hours of academic credit.
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The program will include two weeks of organized travel under the direction of an art historian to points of historical interest in Spain, including Madrid, Todeno and Salamanca. After a period of formal study in Barcelona approximately two weeks will be free for independent travel.
Limited scholarship funds are available. Requests for scholarships must accompany application blanks.
Applications and more information on this and other Summer Language Institutes sponsored by KU may be obtained at the Office of International Programs, 224 Strong.
Geostatics study scheduled in June
On June 7-9, the Kansas Geological Survey and the University Extension at the University of Kansas will sponsor a colloquium on geostatics.
Geologists and statisticians such as J. W. Tukey, statistician from Princeton University and A. B. Vistelius, geomathematician from the laboratory of Mathematical Geology at Leningrad, USSR, will attend.
Weather
Mostly cloudy with a chance of occasional snow today becoming partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Northerly winds 10 to 15 mph today. High about 40. Low tonight near 30. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent today, 10 per cent tonight and Tuesday.
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