-PAGE FOUR HE ilICHICAN "AllUV PAGE FOUR TillAK X l IVA a A anIaAmI' -.tYM UR~VI so 2h a ,A TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1965 s: 'U' Libraries -Storehouse of Human Knowledge By DEBORAH ISACKSON In its 1965 annual budget, the University has asked the state legislature for an additional $658, million to maintain and expand million, the University placed such a high priority on the library sys- tem that they were still allocated $2.98 million-$50,000 more than originally sought. Purposes According to the appropriation scripts, songsheets, maps and mi- request, "the increasing quality crofilms. of the student body permits more Odd Construction ne three million volume library Tiinraenlbayfud ~ii ~.~eouwuu viiue ioray IThis increase in library funds facilities, one of the world's land- has been earmarked for staff ad- marks to man's knowledge. ditions, remodeling, equipment im- If granted, this would boost the provement and expansion of the total library budget to well over book fund. $2.5 million. To accommodate the expected Despite the fact that the Legis- 31,000 students next fall, the li- lature had cut the total Univer- brary system plans an 8.2 pei, centC sity request for this year by $3.5 increase in personnel. independent study" and therefore, "greater use of library facilities." The University has over 20 li- braries and library service divi- sions. The largest of these librar- ies is the General Library, or as it is sometimes called the Univer- sity or Graduate Library. This library contains approximately 1.3 million volumes, including notr only printed books, but manu- Have you ever thioughit of run1ning for President? Many of our staffers do. One of our alumni even DID it! Why? Because some of the Daily staff members feel The General Library is a strangely - constructed building, and many freshmen have difficul- ty finding the stacks the first times they use the library. For each floor of the library there are two "stack floors" sc that the tenth "story" of the building is actually only a little more than five stories high. On each stack level, there are a number of carrels, which are small alcoves containing desks, chairs and book cases. The car- rels belong (for a one year per- iod) to graduate students, who ap- ply to the library's circulatior department for a carrel assign- ment. In the past, undergraduates have been free to use the carrels when they were not in use by graduate students. However, there was "generally too much misbe- havior on the part of some un- dergraduates," according to Fred- erick H. Wagman, director of the University Library. Doors and Locks Therefore, rmost of the carrels have been fitted with doors and locks. Wagman explained that many graduate students had complained about the destruction or theft of their books, doctoral notes and that some undergraduates had re- sponded rudely when asked to let graduate students use the carrels. All students are permitted to study in the reference room where encyclopedias written not only in English, but in German, French and several other languages are kept. Other reference works, such as the New York Times Indices, are also housed in this room. The Rare Book Room, although open to undergraduates, is used predominantly by graduate stu- dents and faculty :members. Don't Circulate The volumes (over 50,000 books and manuscripts) kept under the auspices of the Rare Book Room do not circulate. This year, the number of vol- umes at the General Library in- creased by some 40,000. Because there is rather limited stack space 3 large number had to be shift- d to the library extension on North Campus. Several years ago. when suffi- cient funds were available, Uni- versity administrators, realizing that the General Library could not meet the needs of the un- dergraduates, considered building a library specifically designed for undergraduate use. This proved to be a monumental task. When the planning was fin- Ished, the contractor had com- pleted his work and the last The General Library, A Central Campus Landmark drops of turquoise, orange and bright yellow paint had been ap- plied, the Undergraduate Library opened its doors. That was in 1958. Institution Since then, the Undergraduate Library, or as it is affectionately called the UGLI, has become something of an institution. There aren't too many libraries like it in the world. Roberta C. Keniston, director of the UGLI, explained that "a sort of national trend made us build the library. In a university where a lot of graduate students do research, it becomes increasingly difficult to give library services to the undergraduates. This li- brary is organized for their needs -everything is simplified," she said, versity group who wishes to use the room for an educational or in- tellectual purpose, so long as the event it sponsors is open to un- dergraduate students. Another feature of the library is the audio room, in which stu- dents may listen to music or spoken-word recordings. The audio room has 72 turn- tables, each of which accommo- dates two listeners. Moreover, the library owns 3400 records which, while they may not be taken from the audio room, provide students with many enjoyable hours. The UGLI uses the "reserve" book plan. Under this, a profes- sor sends the library a list of books which are required reading for his course. These books are then put "on reserve" for mem- bers of his class,. they could do a better job. And why not? They have a thorpough knoWledge of the world and national scenes. They have felt the pressures of our 2 A.M. deadlines. If the news ofthe day gives you headaches, join our business staff and help run a $574 million business. Then be presi- dent of G.M. But whatever your ambition or interest, drop in and see us. Don t Cheat your future out of a break it needs. JOIN "There is also a very strong ref- Hours erence service and librarians are This means that no one can always on duty to explain the take them out of the library be- workings of the .library. That's fore 7:30 p.m. and they must be what we want this to be-more returned by the following morn- than just a library. We want it to ing. High fines (50 cents per be able to instruct undergraduates hour) are charged for unreturned in library use so that they'll be reserve books. able to go, some day, into a large The UGLI also has a number of world of libraries and use them sm'all reading rooms, among these all well," Mrs. Keniston said. are non-smoking rooms, "quiet" Besides its volumes and in- rooms, and an Honors Lounge. 5tructional librarians, the UGLI The Michigan Historical Collec- >ffers the undergraduates and the tion is a small but revered library. University community as a whole, The collection began very mod- features not found in any other estly in 1934, when an assistant building on campus. professor of American history at -the University applied for a grant Muli-Purpose from the graduate school's facul- A large hall-the multi-purpose ty research funds. The purpose room-may be used by any Uni- was a unique one for a Rackham -fund grant-the locating and col- lecting of manuscript and print- ed sources relating to Michigan history.. Project Grows Prof. Lewis Vander Velde even- tually became chairman of the' history department, and his 1935 )roject eventually grew into a 11- brary containing millions of man- iscripts and records, occupying sixrooms in the Rackham Bldg. The first of these rooms Is a general storehouse, in which bound and unbound newspapers, some inactive University records, ' duplicate copies of books, large collections of papers, and miscel- laneous books and papers not fre- quently called upon fare kept, Four of the other rooms house books and manuscripts for old historical records which is the specialty of the department and which seldom come in book form. The collectors prefer primary source material., However, the sixth room, Room 160 Rackham, is the "library" which most people who use the collections' material get to know. Exhibit Cases The room has four exhibit cases in which manuscripts and other printed materials are dis- played. There are also many lock- ed c a s e s containing diaries, church records and the early stories of Michigan schools, col- leges and other organizations. The work of the collections is principally of three kinds. The first includes gathering manuscripts and printed mater- ials relating to the state of Mich- igan and is carried on by cor- respondence and through personal contacts. The second activity of the col- lections consists of making manu- scripts and printed materials. available for use-often books, letters, or diaries must be clean- ed before they can be used by graduate students or other re- searchers. And after this, it is necessary to catalogue and re- bind the books or letters. Dissemination The third function consists of disseminating information about tory only through the early nine- teenth century. The Clements Library, one of the most austere yet beautiful building on campus, houses one of the special libraries at the Uni- versity-special inasmuch as it re- ceives its own budget and its own funds, separate from the control of the General Library, Gift The Clements Library was a gift from George Clements, i uni- versity alumnus and regent from Bay City. In 1922 Clements donated his books-almost all were source ma- terials-and built the marble structure Fearful that it would appear like any other library, he also finished it with rugged early- American furniture, m o t of which is still in the library. The scope of the library ranges from the time of Columbus to about 1835. Books and Maps The library contains about 36 thousand books, 200 thousand manuscripts and some 25 thou- sand maps. "Them aterial in the Clements Library is used by textbook writ- es and biogaphers, and historians in general who produce the sec- ondary source books," Howard Peckham, director of the Clem- ents Library, explained. "We don't buy books about the American Revolution-for the author wasn't there. What we're after is the source material. "Their source materials come in various forms: printed books, colonial newspapers, early maps, atlasses, and to some extent ac- counts of geographic knowledge of the time," Peckham added. Off-Campus About 40 per ceit of the Li- brary's users come frm off- Campus-they are usually auth- ors or professors. It would be difficult to appraise the value of the volumes which belong to the Clements Library, because opinions about the worth of a particulgr letter or series of letters is bound to vary. How- ever, Peckham said that a rough estimate-and one he feels is somewhat conservative-is be- tween three and five million dol- lars. The Law Library contains well over 300 thousand volumes. It is,. like the Clements Library, inde- pendent of the Graduate Library and is one of the largest libraries of its kind in the world. It maintains itself as a closed stack library because it is "used primarily for research, and a closed-stack arrangement is - best for this," Fred Smith, one of the "We carry books which tell about the cases, which have th cases in them, which have stat- utes about the .cases and cases about the statutes. We have other books about similar cases in India and England. It's fascinating reading," he said. There are also divisional li- braries, run by various depart- ments and schools in conjunction with the General Library. Most of these are located in the same building which hquses the school, such as the Natural Science Li- brary or the library located in the Frieze Building for the use of social 'work students f I1P Sfritrn aaitt~j the state of Michigan. The resources of theI Historical Collections used by anyone seeking tion about the state. While the collectionsc with Michigan history,, low the history through Michigan may . be informa- deal only and fol- Lto fairly see Judy Fields or Judie Warren Call 764-0560 or 764-0562 modern times the collections maintain articles and letterslon movements as recent as the es- tablishment in the 1920's of the tMichigan League), the lements Library deals with American his- f 1 1 JI ' I some inactive University records, Library deals with American his- I social work students. 4 * "an4 3 U EVERYONE IN ANN ARBOR SHOPS AT IFRIESHMEN! After Preregistering Drop in and reserve your books for fall courses. AVOID THE RUSH Books guaranteed to be official text ji I '^ - ~ - m A - m - i t