6 Page 8-Friday, October 8, 1982-The Michigan Doily 'U' boo By JANET FRANKEL Drip a little coffee on that overdue ' political science book. Photocopy 25 pages of a psychology journal. Scribble notes in the margins of King Lear, and on the way out of the library, drop a candy wrapper on the floor. It may seem harmless, but library workers say such behavior has con- This weekend: tributed to the ruin of about 1.9 million Martn Simonsbooks out of the 5.5 million books in the' Martin Simmons University's total library collection. & the JANE MUMM of the Graduate eHeatersLibrary's preservation office said book- Space Hhungry insects are attracted by empty FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL: food wrappers. For example, she said AY of HTd SeCa':eer she found that one in every three books A mnug of Old Vienna beer in a locked bookcase were insect-rid- with paid admission. den. Library books face other dangers, Mumm says. Photocopying breaks a book's binding, causing its pages to fall out. Paper clips rust and corrode pages. Books with pages or pictures ripped out are useless to the next reader. ks take L Mumm said most students don't realize they are harming a book. "I don't think it is the students' fault. No one has taken the time to make students aware." BUT STUDENTS are not the only cause of book deterioration. Flourescent lights yellow pages, causing them to crumble at a touch; acid in the paper itself also breaks down the pages. Because of this, library workers say, books published after 1850, when book pages began being produced with acid, are not expected to survive this century. Certain kinds of books are more susceptible to misuse and ruin, said Margaret Byrnes, preservation officer. "Reference books, psychology and political science are the more frequen- tly used books," she said. A study done by the School of Library Science faculty found 45 percent of the, Graduate 'Library's Western European literature needs book restoration. Books such as these are sent to the Graduate Library Office of Preser- vation. The office microfilms or photocopies books that are beyond repair, and rebinds books that can be saved. Editions of severely damaged books are borrowed from other libraries for photocopying. THE PRESERVATION office has started a campaign to save more books and to make library users aware of how books are damaged. Part of this cam- paign is a seven-case exhibit in the Grad Library's north lobby. To prevent breaking a book's spine, it should be photocopied one page at a time, instead of laying it flat on the machine, Mumm said. The exhibit has instructions on how to photocopy properly. One library patron, LSA junior Dave eating Mackinin, said, "I just pu cucupied one dollar's worth of bound periodical, because you can't take it out of the library. I don't have time to read it here. If I photocopy the book like the in- structions (in the exhibit) say, it will cost twice as much." THE EXHIBIT tells students not to photocopy books with brittle or crum- bling pages themselves, but to take the book to the library's photo duplication room. However, the photo duplication office charges 10 cents a page, and will refuse to copy books with pages that are too brittle. The office also photocopies books flat instead of one page at a time. Cheryl Greely, an assistant in the photo duplication office, said, "Our machines aren't set up to run the pages flat." When she was told the library's policy was on 'How to Photocopy correctly,' she responded, "That's just how I was taught." ANOTHER library patron, Ellie Jones, an LSA junior, said she thought the exhibit is a good idea. "Students who are considerate will treat books better, because they will realize what they do affects the book's condition, like using paper clips." LSA junior Mindy Markow said, "I never realized that the library's collec- tion was endangered because of misuse. It never even occurred to me." The University's libraries spend $3 million every year on new books, Byr- nes said, but out-of-print books that are damaged cannot be replaced. "Publishers only reprint books which are popular on the market," she said. AS A RESULT, Byrnes said, the amount of money spent on new books "is high because if they (the libraries) don't buy books now, they won't necessarily be able to buy (them) next year." A6 45,- ' w *4 Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTON Shoppng cart strikes An 'M' batsman feeds a hungry pitching machine with a hearty supply of baseballs, which were reputedly bought at Kroger's. Jo bless rate edges higher;. .rnw p Mama Zirili's Authentic Italian Cuisine The University Club Italian Buffet Sundays, 5-7 pm $3.99 Includes Bottomless Soda ---- The director of Brandeis University's Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem, will be on campus on Monday, October 11 to discuss this semester or year program of Israel studies. Please contact your study abroad advisor for the time and place. (Continued from Page 1 ) figures in 1974. the report came as critics of President Reagan's economic policies girded for today's release of figures likely to showing the nation surpassed 10 percent joblessness in September. That would be the worst year since 1940, when America was emerging from the Depression. The August rate of 9.8 percent mat- ched a post-World War II record set the month before, with nearly 11 million people out of work. The previous post- war high of 9.0 percent, registered in May 1975, was matched in March. AN OVERALL rate of 10 percent or more would be the highest since an an- UNION nual average 14.9 percent was recorded in 1940. The highest rate ever registered was a 24.9 percent annual average joblessness registered during the depths of the Depression in 1933. Reagan was on the campaign trail yesterday, hammering away at hi assertion that the Democratic Party is responsible for high unemployment. 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