2 - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2 - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 4 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Before You Were Here Photos of the Week 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com GARY GRACA DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 graca@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmailcom Where the 'U' stores its extra books Sitting unassumingly on Greene Street in an old tool and die factory, Buhr Shelving Facility looks more like a garage than a library that houses trea- sured academic materials. Opened in1981as an overflow facility for the library's ever- expanding collection, Buhr now holds nearly 2.8 million items - mostly books, but also thousands of LPs and micro- film rolls, according to Susan Wooding, operations manager of Hatcher, Buhr and Shapiro Access Services. It is the largest single library in the University Library Sys- tem, which owns more than 7 million items in total. The idea of Buhr was con- ceived in the late 1970s, a time when many University libraries were reaching their shelving capacity, Wooding said. CRIME NOTES Buhr was originally intended to shelve massive quantities of "low-use" books from around the University, and at the time it was among the most advanced library projects in the world. In addition to those "low- use" books, today Buhr also houses other books that are unique, rare, requiring pro- tection, or too large to fit else- where, Wooding said. Since opening, Buhr has essentially become a universal recipient of odds and ends from across campus. Wooding said other libraries decide what to send Buhr based on their own criteria, and Buhr then shelves the items. Among the prizes of Buhr's collection are volumes dating from the 17th century, and cop- ies of every single dissertation ever written at the University - some 34,000. To maximize space efficien- cy throughout its four-floor building, Buhr relies on a novel system that separates books by size before shelving them according to when they arrived at the storage facility, Wooding said. Thisorganizational approach leads to rather unfriendly shelves - books by the same author or about the same sub- ject can be scattered through- out the enormous space. As a result, Buhr's seven stack rooms are closed to the brows- ing public. However, to access a book from the Buhr collection, students and faculty need only to request the book online and it will be delivered to another campus library, usually within 24 hours. - DAVID WATNICK CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom c News Tips Corrections letterstothe Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Online Sales Finance loie hours: Sun-Thurs. 11a.m. - 2a.m. news@michigandaily.com corrections@ihigadily.oms tothedaily@michigandasilyome photo@michigandaily.omo artspage@ichigandaily.com opinion@mihinodaiy.omn sports@michigandailyeom display@michigandaily.com classified@michigandaily.com antineads@michigandaily.cow finace@mnichigandaily.con JED MOcH/Daily Stacks of books in the Buhr Shelving Facility. The building, which opened in 1981, houses 2.8 million items including books, LPs and microfilms. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Parked car hit Shower draws Foosball Club Flamenco opera An Alabama judge is set WHERE: 2108 Stone St. blood practice WHAT: Ines Bacan and to stand trial after allega- WHEN: Sunday at about 10 Spanish Day present The Fla- tions that he offered leni- p.m. WHERE: Mary Markley Resi- WHAT: The Foosball Club menco Rock Opera. ency to several male inmates WHAT: An unknown person} dence Hall welcomes both new and old WHO: Michigan Union Tick- in exchange for sex, the Asso- drove into a parked car, Uni- WHEN: Monday morning at members to practice to play et Office and The Ark ciated Press reported. versity Police reported. The car had minor damages. Struck by puck WHERE: Yost Ice Arena WHEN: Sunday at about 5 p.m. WHAT: A non-affiliate was hit by a hockey puck duringthe Michigan game against Wind- about 1 a.m. WHAT: A student cut her right index finger in the shower, University Police reported. Gang graffiti WHERE: Michigan League WHEN: Sunday at about 11:20 p.m. foosball and to learn about membership. WHO: Michigan Union Bil- liards WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.M. WHERE: Michigan Union, Billiards Room Museum exhibit WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. Main St. Faculty quintet WHAT: School of Music fac- ulty will perform in a wood- wind ensemble. WHO: Michigan Chanmher Players ti ti P w tr or. The person was sitting at A aerreporegra WHAT: Richard Barnes WHEN: Today at8 p.m. he east end of the arena by fiti in the first floor men's bath- photography exhibit "Animal WHERE: E.V. Moore he locker rooms, University room. The caller identified the Logic" portrays images from Building, Britton Recital olice reported. The person image tobe a gang symbol. The museums around the world. Hall vas taken to the hospital for graffiti was easily wiped off, WHO: University of Michigan reatment. University Police reported. Museumof Art, and the UM CORRECTIONS Institute for the Humanities WHEN: Today at 10 a.m. Please report any error in MORE ONLINEi WHERE: University of the Daily to corrections@ Love Crime Notes? Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/the wire Michigan Museum of Art michigandaily.com. University President, Mary Sue Coleman has not signed the Ameri- can, College and University Presidents' Climate Commit- ment, which 694 other col- lege presidents have signed. >>FOR MORE, SEE OPINION PAGE 4 In celebration of its 30th anniversary in France, McDonald's plans to open a restaurant in the Louvre muse- um next month, the UK's Daily Telegraph reported. Museum staff and art lovers alike have expressed outrage at what willbe the food giant's 1,142nd branch in France. 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Additionaicopiesmay bepickedupat theDaly's officefor$2.Subscriptionsr afallterm,startingin September, viaU.S.mail are $110. Winter term(January through April)tis $115, yearlong (September through April)is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription raeOn-campus subscriptionsforfalltermare$35.Subscriptionsmustbeprepaid.The Michiganoayisamembero The Associated Press and The AssociatedolgjatePress. New CEO shakes up exec team again 4 Chrysler head's move shows interest in moving quickly DETROIT (AP) - With sales down sharply and pressure to start generating cash before gov- ernment loans run out, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne shook up his executive team yesterday, replacing two of his brand man- agers after just four months and splitting Dodge into car and truck units. The changes show Marchio- nne's penchant for moving quick- ly and demanding performance, industry analysts say. But it's also a sign that all is not well inside the company's sprawling head- quarters complex in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills. "Something went wrong here," said Gary Dilts, a former Chrysler sales executive who is now senior vice president of global automo- tive operations for J.D. Power and Associates. "He's going to mix and match this team until he gets the chemical balance where he wants it." Speed is crucial for Marchio- nne, who also runs Italy's Fiat Group SpA. It will be at least 18 months before Chrysler can launch a new car lineup based on smart, fuel-efficient Fiat designs. Until then, the third-largest U.S. car maker must survive with its current shaky lineup. Marchionne, who led a stun- ning resurgence at Fiat, replaced Peter Fong, 45, as president and CEO of the Chrysler brand and Michael Accavitti, 50, as presi- dent and CEO of Dodge. Fong also was the company's top sales executive, and both men appeared with Marchionne as the company's public faces just two weeks ago at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany. But the moves come just four days after Chrysler reported a 42-percent drop in September sales, compared with the same month a year earlier. Through the first nine months of the year, Chrysler sales are off 39 percent, the largest drop of any major automaker. Among Chrysler's problems is a weak lineup of midsize cars. Its current entries, the Sebring and Avenger, have sold poorly and have received low quality ratings from J.D. Power and Associates and Consumer Reports magazine, which found them inferior to the top-selling Toyota Camry and other competitors. The Sebring-Avenger replace- ment will be based on a Fiat com- pact that will be stretched and widened to fit a midsize car. Marchionne promises to intro- duce a new lineup chock with Fiat small and midsize cars in Novem- ber, and separating out Dodge's car business will help rebuild its image. The new offerings will also include trucks and larger cars from Chrysler that he hopes will be .more appealing to Americans. The company's namesake brand will try to steal customers from Cadillac and other luxury brands. Chrysler has been mostly mum about its new product plan. Even dealers have been kept in the dark. Splitting the Dodge brand into truck and car operations mimics what Marchionne did with Fiat, where he successfully separated commercial vehicles from passen- ger cars, said Chrysler spokesman Gualberto Ranieri. And a separate truck unit could also be sold off if Chrysler needs more cash. Although sales of the Ram pickup are down 27 percent for the year, it's still Chrysler's top selling vehicle at 143,205 through September. The U.S. Treasury Depart- ment allocated roughly $8 billion for Marchionne and Fiat to keep Chrysler going until itcan become profitable again, but its sales can't seem to rebound with a slumping economy and the current poor- selling model lineup. Last year, under different leadership, the company lost billions and went into bankruptcy protection. Treasury Department officials have said there will be no more government cash for Chrysler, but also have said they "stress- tested" the $8 billion and it was enough to keep Chrysler going after its Chapter 11 restructuring until it can make money again. Chrysler so far has received a total of $15.5 billion from the U.S. government.