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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 5, 1995
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Jav Thornton/ KANSAN
The maps collection, which was being stored in Anschutt Science Library, will be moved back into the Government Documents and Map Library on the sixth floor of Malot Hall due to an increase of space in the library.
Library officials say space overdue
Books shuffled into scarce room
By Trine Nygaard
Kansan staff writer
Mary Lou Warren's knuckles are swollen, and her joints are aching. She has spent the summer semester moving books. One third of all KU library holdings is being relocated to make room for new books as the campus libraries fill.
The Government Documents and Map Library on the sixth floor of Malott, where Warren works as a library assistant, is a place in transition. The hallway outside the library looks more like a storage area than the entrance to one of the nation's 10 largest map collections.
Inside, file cabinets the walls, and book shelves are packed with abstracts, statistics and other official documents.
"We keep running out of space," Warren said while reshaping huge volumes of indexes. "We have had to make lots and lots of changes and not only good ones. But we are trying to make the best of a bad situation."
During the summer, the library is retrieving 920 shelves from Anschutz Science Library where they were stored because of lack of space in Malott.
The Documents and Map Library reached capacity in 1990, and so did the Gorton Music Library in Murphy Hall.
Susan Hitchells, music librarian,
said, "We have 8,000 books and
1,000 music scores stored in the science library in open stacks. People can go over there and check out the books, so there is no pull time, but it is inconvenient."
Bill Crowe, dean of libraries, said,
"The library is a learning center. If we make it hard for people to learn,
we haven't done our job."
He had hoped to get $4 million to equip future library space in Budig Hall, which was designed for computer workstations as well as flexible shelving.
"That we didn't get the money was a great blow." Crowe said. "And it forced us to relocate books, a process which is complicated and expensive. We are spending $75,000 that we could have desperately spent otherwise. It is almost like playing very expensive Chinese checkers.
"We have been backed into more and more interim solutions, and we don't know how long interim will be."
The basement of Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall serves as another temporary solution to a growing space problem at the University.
"We have moved 125,000 infrequently used journals from Watson Library to JRP." Crowe said.
Other campus libraries are expected to reach capacity at the end of the century, creating a need for an overall expansion of the KU libraries.
"This is going to be a major challenge for the whole campus." Crowe said. "We won't compete well for students and faculty if we don't get the newest technology and appropriate facilities."
Slap shots replace serves in Lawrence
Roller hockey offers Lawrence's athletes new summer sport
By Gwen Olson Kansan staff writer
The youth of Lawrence have an alternative to the usual summer sports—rollerhockey.
Mark Ewing, associate professor of aerospace engineering and the Flight Research Lab, has created a team of youth roller-hockey players for the city of Lawrence.
"Ive played for many years with my children," Ewing said. "They play on ice in the winter, and in the summers we have to find an alternative to ice. So we play roller hockey."
The city cleared a tennis court at Edgewood Park, which is on Maple Lane north of 19th Street. First the city removed the tennis net and poles. Then volunteers built goals and set up walls so players' sticks would not get caught in the fence.
About 80 kids are involved with the team, which is funded by the city of Lawrence, Ewing said.
"It is a summer camp for kids," Ewing said. "We have two three-week sessions, and we will start meeting Monday through Wednesday on July 10. The days of practice
During the summer, games are limited to scrimmages at practice. In the fall, however, Lawrence Parks and Recreation is hoping to set up two leagues — one for ages 11 and 12 and another for ages 13 and 14.
are separated by age group and range from ages 7 to 14."
The possibility of a league for younger children has not been discussed.
"Each practice the kids go through 45 minutes of drills for skating, passing and shooting," Ewing said. "Then the last 45 minutes we divide up the kids and they scrimmage against each other. It looks like a real game to the kids, because we have specific teams set up."
The parents of the kids involved seem to be impressed with the way the program has been going.
"Iheard about it through the recreation center advertising, and my son was interested," said Rex Hargis, father and assistant at the KU Center for Research. "I think the program is good," he said. "Mark Ewing is doing a great job. He and his boys give the little ones someone to look up to."
There is a $25 fee that must be paid to Lawrence Parks and Recreation. The next session starts July 10 and runs through July 27.
Both boys and girls are welcome at the camp.
David Hamby, Hutchinson alumnus, shoots on the goal of the new roller hockey rink at Edgewood Park on Maple Lane north of 1.9th street. The rink was converted from a tennis court.
Jay Thornton/ KANSAN
KU library offers unique on-line system
By Luby Montano-Laurel Kansan staff writer
In a matter of seconds, students studying Latin America now can travel to their area of study by using an on-line Internet system.
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index, is the only indexing tool in the world in which the journals are specifically about Latin America, said Jana Krentz, director of the Spanish-Portugal and Latin America department at Watson Library.
Krentz said that HAPI was a program that could benefit those interested in Latin America because of the broad variety of articles and book reviews it contained.
She said that HAPI not only benefited students, but also professors of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American studies.
"Language skills are needed for this program, because most of the articles are published in either
Spanish or Portuguese," Krentz said. "However, there is hope for those who cannot speak these languages; there are some articles printed in English."
Krentz said that many students and professors used HAPI because it indexed more than 160,000 bibliographic citations in all areas of the Latin-American social sciences and humanities that are difficult to find elsewhere.
The database contains more than 200,000 records and is increasing by 9,000 a year.
Krentz said that HAPI listed information in 250 journals concerning Latin-American or Hispanic studies in the United States.
Jill Girardo, program assistant at the Spanish-Portuguese and Latin-American department at Watson, said that HAPI articles covered a wide range of topics including economics, political science, journalism, business and Latin-American
literature. KU subscribes to 95 percent of the journals indexed by HAPI.
"HAPI is an unique system because it allows those students and professors interested in Latin America to get more specific information about an area," Girardo said. "Once you are in the system, you can follow very easy commands to get the info you want."
Girardo said that the index was divided into subject, key word, book review, title, and author sections.
"It's very straight forward. All you need to know is what you are looking for to help narrow-down the search," Girardo said.
HAPI was produced by the UCLA Latin-American Center under the supervision of Barbara Valk, editor of the program.
Although HAPI seems like a new discovery, the index has been in
print form since 1970, Krentz said. In 1992, HAPI was offered on-line as part of UCLA's library catalog system.
Krentz said that Watson had offered the hard-copy version for many years. However, it was not until 1969 that Watson was able to afford the high cost of the on-line service.
HAPI can be accessed on-line via the Internet.
Krentz said that the payment options were expensive for a single subscriber: $40 an hour and about $1,000 a year.
Krentz said HAPI was available in Watson Library between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m.
She said that those interested in using HAPI could stop by the Spanish-Portuguese and Latin-American department located on the second floor of Watson.