Kansan Summer Weekly
Wednesday, July 8, 1987
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Local Briefs
Regents select new chairman to head Board
Donald C. Slawson was recently elected chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Slawson, 53, Wichita, was first appointed to the Regents on Jan. 1, 1986, by former Kansas Gov. John Carlin. Slawson successes Frank J. Becker, El Dorado as chairman
Slawson is chairman of the board and president of Slawson Companies, a corporation with principal interests in oil, gas and real estate, and is the director of First National Bank of Wichita, Kansas Gas and Electric Co. and Security Benefit Life Insurance Co. He is also on the advisory board to the National Petroleum Council.
This past year, Slawson was chairman of the Regents fiscal affairs committee. He said he was optimistic about Kansas' future, especially the role higher education would play in paving the way for renewed prosperity.
KU official named to School Board
The Lawrence School Board Monday elected a KU official as its new president
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Resource Center and associate dean of student life, was unanimously elected to serve a one-year term as president of the Lawrence School Board.
Ballard, 42 is the first black woman to serve as board president. Her duties as president will include presiding over board meetings and meeting once a week with Superintendent Dan Neuenswander to set adendas.
The board also elected Alice Fowler as its vice president. Fowler, 52, is a clerk-typist for the Lawrence Fire Department.
KU student injured in head-on collision
A KU student is in stable condition today at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after being injured yested on collision on East 23rd street.
According to Lawrence police reports, the student, Sheldon Wilson, 39. Prairie Village graduate student, was driving west on 23rd Street when his Honda Civic was hit head-on by a Toyota pickup driven by Thad Petry, 18, Lawrence resident.
Petry told police he had been eastbound on 23rd Street and had started to turn left on to Learnard Avenue about five or six carlengths from the intersection to beat the oncoming traffic. He said he seen Wilson's car because another car obstructed his view.
Because of budget cuts, the KU library may no longer subscribe to Playboy, Reader's Digest or People
Petry wasn't transported to LMH. The police report indicated that neither driver was wearing a seat belt.
Clarification
Campus and Area
In the July 1 edition of the University Daily Kansan, it was incorrectly reported that Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs were featured in *Pull My Daisy*. The film features Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Also, *This Song For You*, Jack features Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. In the same story, it was stated that the event would focus on Kerouac, however, it also will focus on Lawrence and its art community.
Weak dollar forces KU libraries' budget cuts
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
Photo Illustration by Darcy Chang/KANSAN
KU students may stroll into Watson Library next spring, go up to the periodical section on the fourth floor and ask to see the latest issue of their favorite magazine. But, it might not be there.
About $200,000 worth of magazines and about $200,000 worth of books are being cut from the University of Kansas libraries' 1988 budget, said Richard Ring, KU collections development librarian.
Ring and his staff have been assembling a list of about 2,500 periodicals that may be canceled as a result of this budget cut. KU faculty and librarians have been reviewing the periodicals list since February.
Some of the more popular magazines that may not be renewed are Reader's Digest, People and Playboy. Several newspaper subscriptions, including The Sun Times and the Boston Globe, also may be canceled. Ring said.
The amount of foreign language materials will be decreased significantly, but the biggest cut would come from professors' and scholarly journals, he said.
good, solid scholarly work on Nicaragua or a how-to-dress-for-success book, we'll buy the book on Nicaragua," Ring said. "We're trying to take into consideration the needs of everybody."
A final list of the magazines that we will be renewed should be released for free.
Ring said the short-term effect of the budget cuts would mean more to KU students than not being able to read their favorite magazine or the newest book. In the long run, it will affect research possibilities for graduate students and faculty.
Richard Schowen, chairman of the council of distinguished professors steering committee, said the libraries' budget cut would be severe.
to be addressed at a national and international level."
"The real impact may not be felt until five years down the road when students come in to look at the last couple of years of a journal and a book written it," he said.
"The long-term effect could be the most devastating."
"This could be quite dangerous to research and teaching capabilities of the University," he said. "But this is also a national problem and has got
James Ranz, dean of libraries, said the libraries' budget cuts were not due to a lack of financial resources
Ranz said the budget cuts were due to the rising costs of books and the devaluation of the dollar, which design books even more expensive.
weakened against foreign currencies," he said. "We have the same amount of money available, but it doesn't purchase as much as it used to."
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the library budget actually increased by 2.4 percent and should increase 7.2 percent in 1988.
between the dollar and foreign currencies had risen about 50 percent over the past two years. In that same time, the cost of domestic books has risen 10 to 12 percent and 20 percent on periodicals, he said.
The strength of the dollar has
The devaluation of the dollar means a considerable loss of purchasing power because about a third of all U.S. exports come from foreign books and periodicals, he
Ring said the exchange rate
said.
Ring recently returned from a convention of the American Library Association in San Francisco and said other libraries across the United States were facing the same problem as KU libraries.
"Unless we start receiving (budget) increases that match inflation, we will continue to lose a little every year," he said.
Libraries to cut some scholarly magazines
Staff writer
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
Imagine spending $3,000 a year for a magazine subscription.
That's what the University spends for eight issues of Computer State of the Art Reports. KU also shells out $2,000 a year for 30 issues of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, and $1,150 a year for 24 issues of Biochemical Pharmacology.
Those and other scientific and technical journals will be hit the hardest when the University trims about $400,000 from its libraries' 1988 acquisition budget, said Richard Ring, KU collections development librarian.
"About 60 percent of the cuts will come from these publications." Ring said. "We tried to do this fairly and across the board. We're cutting according to the percentage of dollars spent."
A larger percentage of the cuts will come from those magazines than from the more popular ones such as Time or Newsweek because the libraries spend more money on scholarly magazines,
Ring said.
The high cost of such journals is forcing many libraries throughout the United States to consider buying cheaper magazines published by non-profit scholarly agencies, he said.
A local printer and distributor of scientific and scholarly journals addressed this issue June 14-19 at the International Conference of Scientific Editors in Hamburg, Germany.
The printer, Arly Allen, owner of Allen Press Inc., 1041 New Hampshire St., said that buying non-profit journals was an alternative for libraries that were encountering financial problems for their academic journals.
The large European commercial publishers control the market of scientific and scholarly journals now. Allen said. These commercial journals often cost between $100 and $250 for a subscription. The non-profit publications usually run from $35 to $100 for a subscription.
"In a sense, there is a war going on between the commercial and
Dale Fulkerson/KANSAN
Arly Allen, owner of Allen Press,
1041 New Hampshire St., talks about the availability of non-profit academic journals to libraries.
"They (commercial publishers) are effectively wiping out the library market because their publications are so expensive. This leads to a disruption of the entire flow of knowledge."
To help sell some non-profit publications to academic libraries in the United States, Allen Press has put together a subscription catalog of about 300 non-commercial journals.
Commissioner asks for preservation measure
Staff writer
By KRISTEN HAYS
Condemning Douglas County Bank's demolition of eight houses last Saturday, Lawrence City Commissioner Dennis Constance last night asked the commission to adopt a city preservation ordinance connected to the demolition process.
"Not since Quantrill's raided burnt Lawrence down has Lawrence in one day lost so many structures," he said. "A very, very small group of people, the directors of Douglas and his family, have a viable residential structures worth roughly a quarter of a million dollars."
The Douglas County Bank ordered the demolition of eight houses on Tennessee Street in order to expand the branch bank on 9th and Kentucky streets.
Constance said even though bank officials acted within their rights, he had hoped these rights would have been exercised in "a more sensitive, cooperative, reasoned, temperate manner, not in the abrupt and irreversible way they in fact were."
Constance suggested a new ordinance that would include mandatory public notice of an application for a
demolition permit, inspection by city staff members to determine if the structure to be demolished contained material requiring special handling, such as asbestos, and a waiting period of 30 days after a permit application before demolition could proceed.
"The community at large has rights, and if those rights aren't professed by citizenry, they should be professed by ordinance." he said.
Steve Lopes, president of the Old West Lawrence neighborhood association, said that police should have a policy to promote and preserve historical landmarks.
"I feel blind-sided in trying to preserve those old houses. I would like to see a draft of an ordinance that would put into effect as soon as possible."
Sir Penny, Lawrence Preservation Alliance member, asked the commission to appoint a committee to draft the ordinance.
Mayor Mike Amyx the matter would be on the agenda for next Tuesday.
In other business, the commission received a report about vacating of rights-of-way for 12th and 13th streets in West Hills.
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