SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1968 Library. - ''' - 'ii'''' ... iaii ‘ 7ks, for Solutiott,:of, Problems By MARTHA HARE Collegian News ,Editor The engraving to the right of Pattee Library's pseudo-Egyptian columns says, "A University 'ls A Collection of Books." By this definition, Penn State ranks very low., The University—in the top ten in the country in sponsored research, in the top 20 in graduate work and enrollment—is 46th in the number of books in its library. - A deficient collection is'only one of Pattee's problems. An outmoded and complex building with insufficient shelf space gives students a great - deal of difficulty in locating what books are there. An involved system and lack of staff in the Acquisitions and Cataloguing Depart ments cause considerable delay in ordering new books and in getting them to the shelves. There is seating space for only 10 per cent of the student population, rather than the 30 per cent strongly recommended by the American Library Association. Recent Improvement Despite these weaknesses, the library has shown much improvement in all areas during the past five years. And long-term plans have been made which should bring the library up to an outstanding standard of service to stu dents and faculty. This development of library plant and ser vices, which represents a major change in Uni versity, budgeting policy, is the result of the protests of ,an ad hoc faculty committee, or ganized in 1964 to inform President Eric Walker of the inadequate collection and service then available in Pattee. Through Walker's interest and active suppdrt, the 1965 Task Force, also known as the Wiseley Committee, was formed of nationally, known librarians and scholars. The committee made an exhaustive study of conditions in Pattee and recommendations for their improvement. 50th in Nation At that time, the library was 50th in its book collection with 750,000 volumes and had a backlog of nearly 40,000 volumes waiting to be catalogued and put on the shelves. The committee, realizing that such massive problems required a coordinated effort at solu tion, recommended the appointment of a Di rector of Libraries, who would work with Com Film, Play, Lectures Scheduled The Penn State Food Science Club will present a color film entitled "The Mind Benders," at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Hetzel Union Assembly Hall. This recent film about LSD and other hallucenogenic drugs has been released by the Food and Drug Administration. It gives an objective view of the history, use and abuse of mind expanding drugs. There is no admission charge. 'Creative Edge' Series Joseph H. F itton, professor of human development, will be the final speaker of the Winter Term "Creative Edge" series. He will speak on "The Science of Aging" at 12:30 p.m. Tues day in the Memorial Lounge of the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel. The meeting is open to the public and is sponsored by the faculty committee of United Camp as IVinistry and the Office of Religious Affairs. French Lecture Robert Champigny, research professor of French and noted literary critic from Indiana University, will give a lecture in French entitled "La Tech nique d'Apollinaire—Le Temps et les Temps" at 8 p.m. Tues- •monwealth Cainpus libraries as well as Pattee and branches , on this campus. W. Carl Jackson arrived to take this posi tion in January, 1966. In "A Concept of Library Service for Penn State," published soon after wards, he stated -that he would make every effort "to avoid confining our explorations to traditional academic library concepts . • . We believe that the concept which we have de veloped goes considerably beyond the areas of responsibility generally accepted by academic libraries and will provide a kind of library service not now available on any campus." Library Service In a recent interview, Jackson discussed his ideas of library services and the program which will be undertaken over the next few years to develop those offered in' Pattee. "I think the best things a university can give the student are awareness of the breadth of knowledge, a desire to learn and knowledge of how to learn on his own through reading. Four years are just about enough to make a person aware of how little he knows and where to find out what he doesn't know. "I want to make the library. a pleasant facili ty to use. It can be a useful facility only so long as it is responsive to' student needs. When reg ulations are made for the sake of the librarians, people resent it and don't use the library unless they have to.. To change the traditional "hidebound" at mosphere of the library, Jackson, has intro duced soft chairs, carpets and music to the West Wing and has greatly increased the num ber of smoking areas. Several attempts, have been made to establish drive-up book drops in various areas of campus, to make book return easier. A mass buying system has been instituted, not only to increase the collection but also to hasten the book-buying process. Last year, delivery service was offered to faculty mem bers "for the first time on any campus, as far as I know." Faculty members may phone in re quests and have the books delivered to their offices daily. Jackson's long-range plans also fall in with this service philosophy. He would like to create four levels of library service: • Undergraduate buildings in each resi- Colle day in the Laurel Room of the Nittany Lion Inn. The lecture will be sponsored by the University's French de partment, and the public has been invited atte • 4 . A coffee hour will follow. Stu'ent Recital Philip Dettra (12th-piano per_ formance-Mount Dora, Fla.) will perform works by Bach, Mozart, Bartok, Chopin and De bussy i.i a piano recital at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Recital Hall of Music Building. This Is the End— The Daily Collegian ends publication for the Winter Term today. Publication will r e s u in e with a Registration Issue on Friday, March 29. Regular publication for the Spring Tdrm will begin Tuesday, April 2. The fifth in the series of monthly Water Resources Seminars will be held in Dining Room C of the Hetzel Union Goodbye, HUB Committees Hello, University Union Board No Stuffy Atmosphere ian Notes Building at noon Thursday. G. B. Engelen, director of the department of hydrology at the Free University of Amsterdam, will be the speaker. The pro gram will begin at 12:30 p.m. and adjourn at 1:30 p.m. Engelen will• discuss trends in hydrological and hydrogeolo gical education in universities of the Netherlands and other uropean countries. A brief discussion period will follow his talk, which will be open to the public. * * Chemistry Colloquium Karl Gerold Schwarzenbach, professor of chemistry at the Swiss Federal -Institute of• Tec hnology, will conclude the Winter Term Chemistry Colloquium Series with a lecture on "Per oxo Complexes of Titanium" at 12:45 p.m. Thursday in 310 Whitmore. Philosophy Meeting Seth Benardete, of the De partment of Classics at New York University, will present a paper on "The Philebus" at a colloquium sponsored by the University's Depart m e n t of Philosophy at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Assembly Room of the Hetzel Union Building. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Increases Collection, Adds'Services dence area, containing reserve books, current periodicals and "as much general-interest ma terial as possible." These would be for use "until the individual becomes sufficiently in volved in his major or in specialized study to require greater resources." • A research library, construction of which will begin this fall. When complete it will add 400,000 sq. ft. of floor space to library facilities, but it will be constructed in two stages with the first adding 133,000 sq. ft. When it is fin ished, Jackson plans to consolidate all branch libraries there, with a floor given- over to each division of ' subject matter for easy location of materials. This would be open 24 hours a day. Unit Collections if Academic unit working collections within each department to replace the present branch libraries. These would contain reference books, manuals and periodicals for quick and current reference use.. They would be maintained by each department with book Purchase funds from the library. • Remote access to research materials, a program opened with the facUlty delivery sys tern, may lead in the future -to computerized up-to-the-minute, card catalogues located in various academic buildings. Access to collec tions in other libraries has also been extended through airplane service between Pattee, the National Library of Agriculture and the Library of Congress. Negotiations are underway for interlibrary loan service for undergraduates be tween Penn State and other northeastern uni versities: The decentralization of undergraduate ma terial is based on the fact that it is much easier to duplicate than expensive and scarce re search materials, in relation to the added con venience to the students. Pollock Undergrad uate Library is, the first of three to be built. The response there has been "very favorable," according to Jackson, despite the library's cur rent lack of funds to furnish the second floor. The amount of reserve material in each undergraduate branch will be dictated by com puterized information on the number of stu dents in the'class who reside in that area. Thus the branches will in many cases require no addition to existing reserves. Jackson said he would like to see the num ber of reserve books reduced. "There is too . A. R. von Hippel, director of the Laboratory for Insulation Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak in the Mineral Sciences Auditorium at 4 p.m. Friday addressing the materials Re search Laborator. colloquium. The subject of his talk, which' will be open to the public will' be "Principles of Molecular Materials Design." (-] Shaw of Pavilion A one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, entitled "Pas sion, Poison, and Petrification" .has been scheduled in the Pa vilion Theatre for 5:20 p.m. Friday. Adthision will be free' and all have been invited to attend. On Thursday, also at 5:20 p.m., a program of short, orig-1 inal dances will be presented in the Playhouse Theatre. A number of experiments in choreography and dance tech niques have been staged for this presentation, including a dance choreograpl - ed by com puter. Again, there will be no admission charge. Student Convenience Weather Project Slated MOSCOW (AP) A joint announcement disclosed. Scien- French-Soviet communications • tific teams are linked by radio experiment stretching over the teletype over a 9,321-mile span northern and southern hemi- between the far northern Soviet spheres has been started to village of Sogra, near Archan gather data needed to forecast gel, and the French Kerguelen conditions for flights of space Islands, southeast of Africa in ships and rockets, an official sub-Antarctica. If your father has enough money to send you off to college, you will not die in Vietnam this year. If you are a priest, a minister or a, rabbi, you will not be shot at by Asian strangers. If you are a farmer, a homosexual, an ex-convict, an illiterate, a tool-and-die maker, a married father or a scientist, do not fear: You will never fight across a rice paddy on any murderous midnight. No one in these categories is ever told that it is fit ting and noble to die for one's country. There is only ones, safer category in American life. You could be a woman. much dependence on this system. Last term 232 courses had books on reserve, totalling 13,984 books. I :don't think reserve books are a de sirable educational method; any book forced on a person will not be very well digested. We'd prefer a wide reading list with a 'variety of viewpoints, which would refer the student to the total resources of the library on a given problem." . He acknowledged this system will be more practical when the new research library is com plete. • Research Buildin g This facility will have to be attached to the-east end of Pattee until stage two is finished, since until that time card catalogues and part of the collectioh" will remain in Pattee. When complete, the research library will extend along Curtin Road nearly to the Life Science Building. It is designed to be "less puzzling" to the user—open and flexible in arrangement, with reference facilities, rest rooms and information service in the same area on each floor. The building will be fully carpeted and aircondi tioned. All functional areas will be on the perimeter to free the interior for bookshelves and reading stations. BoOks will be arranged with A through Z in the Library of Congress classification running from top to bottom floor, with divisions only at the end of subject groups. Related periodicals and microfilms will be located on the appro priate floors, and subject specialists and refer ence materials will be stationed conveniently for information service. Jackson proposed this centralization of re search materials for many reasons, including the "interdisciplinary nature of higher re search," the enlarging of bibliographic records and a need for more professional assistance. Centralize Materials Some of the faculty has expressed opposi tion to the dissolution of branch libraries,' he said, but "I believe members of the faculty who are opposed to a central research library have probably thought in terms of their own needs and not in terms of student needs." , He . cited the suggestion received from a student which protested, "I'm a chemistry major, not a track star. Will you for God's sake put all the collections in one building." • - All of the present West Wing, except for So opens "Draft Women Now." In March eye. Must reading. Also "Donovan: Pop Visionary." And "Warren Beatty Raps." "$8 Suit for Men." "Hitchhiking by Air." Much more. Plus-big fat poster. In psychedelic color for your wall. 00•OOOOOOOOOO 00000,0000 00000 .................. For Results-Use Collegian Classifieds eeeeeeeee•eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee•eeeeoeeee4 Jazz Club Jazz Club st Come to Learn—Listen—Groove qn =or qnp znar gm zzor (pp rug. First edition. Collector's, item. 500 at your newsdealer. See him today. While he still has a copy. the third floor, will serve as headquarters for the Undergraduate Libraries. The present stacks of Pattee will be a storage area for little-used books. Better -Instruction Another service Jackson would like to offer , is an improved system, of instruction in library use for incoming freshmen. "Though '75 per cent of the freshmen come to the present tours, they are not successful—there is too much to • cover and the student just-gets a sweep ing impression of what the place looks like. It would help to have library use covered in a re quired clasS, such as Speech 200." In developing the resources of the library, Jackson said he hoped to reach the three millionth volume by 1980. "Ideally, we should have 7 million by then, but . . ." The allocation for books in the budget has nearly tripled in the past three years, from $642,953 in 1964-65 to an estimated $1,700,000 this year. To increase the collection appreciably, the allocation must rise by at least 20 per cent a year, since book costs rise at 10 per cent a year. Problems with Funds Asked if he could' count on getting the funds required by these . programs, he said thoughtfully, "We must look on the optimistic side. There is much that needs to be done, brit there is also a great potential here. Pattee can become a library to reckon with nationally. "For one thing, we have tremendous support from the administration. I've worked with libraries at six other universities where I got lip service and no money. Here, if the adminis tration can possibly do it, the library will im prove." , He added, "It is essential to back up the annually given funds with special endowments. We would allow gifts to grow in an investment pool. The interest on one million dollars would guarantee support in years of crisis . . . like this one." The budget delay in the legislature was the main reason for various economies now being practiced, he said. "We gambled on the bill's being passed when we took on more student help and opened for more hours. Now we're trying to find ways to cut back on hourly staff expenditures without laying anyone off." Other programs were not suffering ser iously, he said. PAUL WINTER in a s session - workshop 2 o'clock Sunday HUB Ballroom Free Everyone Welcome NEW VIEWPOINT PAGE THREE Jazz Club Jazz Club 1 ecial
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