Pape 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 22, lf)6S
THE BATTALION
FOR SUCCESS IN COLLEGE
F amiliar ity W ith Library Y ital
As incoming freshmen one of the
biggest favors you can do for your
selves is to become familiar with
the A&M library system. Taking
advantage of its services can mean
the difference between success and
failure in your college career.
Staffed by professional librarians
under direction of Robert A. Houze,
the library system owns 450,000
volumes, 325,000 of which are con
tained in the main building, Cush
ing Memorial Library.
CUSHING, the main storehouse
of books and reference material on
the campus, is located just east of
the Academic Building.
According to Houze, the library
is open 99 hours a week. The fol
lowing schedule has been set up:
Weekdays from 8 a.m. to midnight,
Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Sundays from 2 p.m. to mid
night.
As you enter the first floor of
Cushing Memorial Library you
enter the newspaper lounge where
more than 50 papers from across
the state and nation are available
for up-to-date study of world
events.
The required reading room con
tains volumes placed on reserve so
they be easily obtained.
GOING UP the stairs to the sec
ond floor, on the left is the main
loan desk. This is where books from
the general collection ai’e located.
In the second floor lobby are the
card catalogs.
Cushing Library is presently
operated on a “closed stack” pro
gram which means that a check slip
has to be filled out and presented to
library personnel at the loan desk.
The library worker then goes back
into the stacks to bring out the
desired book.
On the right at the top of the
stairs is the general reference room.
Here are located periodicals indices,
encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases,
bibliographies, year books, and cer
tain issues of the New York Times
and other newspapers including The
Battalion on microfilm for your
reference.
4-Stage Program In Effect
For Expansion Of Library
TO THE LEFT of the newspaper
lounge is a periodical reading room
for the humanities and social sci
ences. Current files only are avail
able in this facility. Back issues of
all periodicals received by the li
brary may be obtained at the peri
odical desk in the rear of the news
paper lounge.
On the right is the reserve and
required reading room. As an in
coming freshman, you will soon
learn that professors expect you
to spend many hours here.
During the fall of 1962 it was
announced that a four-stage plan
for expansion of A&M library
facilities would soon swing into
effect.
Library Director Robert A.
Houze told The Battalion the
ultimate goal of the expansion
program was to provide one mil
lion volumes and seating for
2,500 students.
The plan is designed to serve
university needs through 1996.
Ultimate cost of the expansion
program is to be about $3,800,000.
Houze said last week that the
first stage of the plan is already
under operation. One-hundred
thousand volumes from the col
lection of the Texas Engineers’
Library were moved to Bagley
Hall this summer.
The chief librarian said con
struction is scheduled to begin
around the beginning of the next
calender. This fii’st stage, which
is to cost $1.5 million, will pro
vide a two-story building stretch
ing back from Cushing Memorial
Library over and around the
small Texas Engineers’ Library
building.
“The emphasis in the new
building will be upon bringing
together the undergraduate stu
dent and library materials,”
Houze said in making the orig
inal announcement.
The first stage is to provide
650,000 volumes and seating for
1,500 students. Present facilities
proyide 450,000 volumes and
space for only 600 students in all
libraries.
Houze said the expected time
of completion for the first stage
is late 1965 or early 1966.
Later stages of construction
are to add two more stories to
the library building.
ADJOINING the reference room
is the documents division which
contains thousands of public docu
ments.
On the third floor is the new
Science and Technical Reports Cen
ter. Houze said that current files
for all periodicals received for the
pure and applied sciences are
housed here. He added that this
room also houses a depository col
lection for the Atomic Energy Com
mission, including all unclassified
publications of that agency.
Also in the third floor reading
room are all unclassified National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion documents and the documents
of all other government agencies
engaged in research.
ANOTHER FEATURE of Cush
ing Memorial Library is tbe A&M
Archives, located on the first floor.
Houze said this collection of histor
ical material has been moved front
the third floor for the convenience
of students and visitors.
In addition to the main library
there are five other libraries on the
campus. The Texas Engineers’ Li
brary, normally housed in a small
building behind Cushing Library,
is now set up in Bagley Hall, acfoss
the street to the north.
The Chemistry Library is located
on the top floor of the new wing of
the Chemistry Building. A business
administration library is located in
Francis Hall.
The Architecture Library is lo
cated in the new Architecture
Building. On the first floor of the
main building of the College of
Veterinary Medicine is the A&M
Veterinary Library.
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HOWD Y!
WELCOME to
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You’ll want to tell the folks at home about all the
exciting things happening here at Aggieland. A “per
sonal” visit to your home can be made almost as quick
ly as you can reach the nearest telephone.
Yes, telephone service is faster and better than
ever . . . and cheaper too. By calling station-to-station,
you can make three calls for the price of two person-to-
person calls. So reach for the nearest telephone, and
you’ll be “at home” in a jiffy.
Remember . . . for faster service at lower rates,
call station-to-station by number.
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Student Cars Are Welcon
If Certain Rules Follows
“Students are welcome to bring
their cars to the campus but cer
tain procedures have to be ob
served and certain regulations
abided by,” according to Campus
Security Chief Fred Hickman.
Under college regulations stu
dents must register their vehicles
(including motor scooters and mot
orcycles) at the Campus Security
Office in tbe basement of the
YMCA within 48 hours after their
arrival on the campus.
This regulation applies only to
cars that a student plans to keep
on the campus.
AFTER PAYMENT of a regis
tration fee for $3 per semester,
a student will be issued a parking
permit decal to be placed in the
lower left hand corner of bis wind
shield.
This decal will have a particular
number, depending in which dorm
itory area a student lives. This
number will indicate the 'parking
lot in which the student may park
his car.
During business hours campus
streets are adequate only for hand
ling of traffic necessary to col
lege business.
These hours are from 8 a.m. un
til 5 p.m. Students’ cars must be
parked in their proper parking
area by 2 a.m. Thus between 5
p.m. and 2 a.m., Monday through
Saturday mornings, students can
park their cars in areas usually re
served for business. Twelve noon
Saturday until 2 a. m. Monday are
also free parking periods.
WORK IS VARIED
Campus Jobs Help
Many Aggies Stay
Lack of adequate cash should
not keep any student from going
to A&M. Many an Aggie has work
ed or is now working his way
through college here.
Married Students’
Quarters Offered
By Housing Office
Many students at A&M, no
small percentage of them fresh
men, are married. The university
has inexpensive facilities for many
of these students.
A&M owns and maintains 351
furnished two-bedroqm apartment,
312 furnished one-bedroom apart
ments and 115 unfurnished two-
bedroom apartments.
University housing for married
students consists of the Hensel
Apartments, brick building north
east of the main campus. Near the
Hensel area are also the College
View apartments, a number of bar
rack-type structures remodeled to
provide eight two-bedroom dwel
lings per building.
To the south of the main cam
pus is another set of apartment
buildings known as Project Hous
ing.
Information regarding these liv
ing areas for married students is
available through the Housing Of
fice.
There are also a number of pri
vately owned houses and apart
ments for both married and single
students in Bryan and College Sta
tion.
The Office of Student Labor and
Loans has jobs to fit every need.
Some students work at greasing
cars, mowing lawns, or trimming
hedges. Others wash glassware in
chemistry labs, wait on tables in
the Memorial Student Center, or
serve as waiters in one of the
dining halls.
PAY FOR most part-time jobs is
commensurate with the student’s
ability. Most often, it runs about a
dollar an hour.
Assignments to part-time jobs
are based on the student’s need and
sincerity of purpose.
Students who need part-time em
ployment should file applications
with the student labor office. The
type of job desired and hours that
are free in the student’s class
schedule should be noted on the
application.
Aggies are expected to maintain
good scholastic standing to remain
eligible for employment.
The Office of Student Labor and
Loans also maintains a munber of
short-term, small loan funds.
THE ASSOCIATION of Former
Students also administers a series
of loan funds which are available
to any student who has been at
A&M at least three semesters, and
whose record in conduct and schol
arship is satisfactory.
The amount of the loan depends
on the student’s need. There are
other loan funds from various
businesses and agencies also avail
able to all students.
Those needing extra money can
get information about such loans
at the labor and loans office on the
third floor of the YMCA building.
STUDENTS CANNOTli
to classes. They may as
for off-campus trips durii?
room hours provided no sti
made on the campus.
Texas laws governing fa
effective on the campus,
limits are 20 m.p.h. and art
Pedestrians shall at all tins
the right of way, and ati
between classes, vehicular
is expected to stop forasd
period of time to allow pelf
to cross drives and streets
With the discussion of hs
fic regulations, next come
cussion of what happens
regulation is violated.
Under an authorization!!
by the A&M Board of Dte
fee may be levied for rtf
college driving rights tala
violators of college traffic!!
UNDER NEW re|
student receiving five
notices in one semester
his parking privileges rB ^
for three months while in
A thirty day period will 1*
for each unpaid notice.
Each violator has 111®
redeem the driving privileg*
out an additional fineheini
egulai: •
At the bottom of every
issued will be instructions s
a violator may go about getd
car reinstated and the
and place to go.
If the driver thinks tie
is unwarranted, he should
to the Office of Campus^
where notice of appeal $
prepared.
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Entering freshmen will
terested to know the cloth?
laundry problem at A&M
latively simple one.
The student in the f?
Cadets will have most of ht
ing issued to him. The bif
lem here is alterations, $
incoming freshman will do
have this work done as ^
possible.
During Orientation We*
entering freshman must
college laundry, where he *
assigned and told when and
he will deposit his soiled ck
For convenience, then
depositories at various locals
the campus.
After that, civilians and
units have regular laundry*
The cleaned clothing is ph 1
at the main laundry office 3
cases; in some cases thelaiJ 1
brought back to the depod
to be reclaimed by the stud®
UPPERCLASSMEN KNOW WHERE TO GET THE BEST DEAL ON BOOKS
AND SUPPLIES---If You Are In Doubt Ask An Upperclassman
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