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February 18, 1982
New library system
may improve service
by Joe Sloan
Battalion Reporter
Shorter lines and more effi
cient service may be in store
for library users when the new
checkout system at Sterling C.
Evans Library begins opera
tion, Systems Project Coordi
nator Tim Saito said.
The new system may be
ready by late June, Saito said.
The system, an Eclipse S/
250, will use a scanner method
instead of the hole punch
method of the current IBM
1030 system. Library users no
longer will have holes pun
ched in their I.D. cards, but
instead will be given sticker
labels.
The current system be
came operational in 1966, and
its age has caused problems.
“It’s very close to being
worn out,” Saito said.
Card readers lose align
ment, brushes clog and some
times weather affects com
munication between the lib
rary terminal and the Data
Processing Center, he said.
The scanner system will be
self-contained and will not re
quire a link to the DPC. This
should result in fewer mal
functions, Saito said.
But if the system does go
down, checkout information
can be recorded onto a casset
te tape. Temporary checkout
cards will not be filled out as is
done now, he said.
Since punch cards cannot
be used with the scanner sys
tem, about 1 million books will
have to be labeled with special
numbers before it can begin
operation, Nancy Douglas,
acting head of the library’s
processing division, said.
Unlike the scanner compu
ters grocery stores use, this
system reacts numbers instead
of bar codes. Library em
ployees will have to label each
book individually. The pro
cess should take about two
weeks, Douglas said.
After the system is fully
operational and the initial
problems are worked out,
operation should require few
er people than the current sys
tem does, Saito said.
The new system cost
$475,000. Evans Library is
one of 40 libraries equipped
with the system.
“This system was selected
with expansion in mind,”
Saito said.
The library will be using the
new system for book check
outs only at first, but it is
hoped that the computer can
later be expanded to include
financial and other library
functions, he said.
Aggies gain job experience
working Houston stock show
by Brenda C. Davidson
Battalion Reporter
The experience students gain
working at the Houston Lives
tock Show and Rodeo will help
them find and keep jobs after
they graduate, an associate
animal science professor says.
Each spring, students in the
College of Agriculture tabulate
scores, present awards and assist
with judging contests in the
rodeo, which lasts this year from
Feb. 24 to March 10. Agricultu
ral journalism majors write
press releases and cover the
show during those two weeks.
Some students are paid mini
mum wage, while others work
without pay. Students have to
pay for meals, lodging and
transportation.
But the money is not as im
portant as the experience they
are getting, Dr. Harold W.
Franke said. Working at the
rodeo gives the student an
opportunity to help himself
while he helps others, he said.
Students learn to deal with peo
ple better while working closely
with the contestants and the
staff, a skill which will be invalu
able throughout their careers,
he said.
Students also can gain experi
ence in their fields of study, said
Elizabeth Williamson, senior
secretary to the dean of the Col
lege of Agriculture.
Students are excused from
classes on the days they work at
the show. Some work two weeks;
others work only a few days.
“It’s a good way to establish
contacts in the agricultural in
dustry,” Jim Harris, Collegiate
Future Farmers of America
president, said.
Before students work at the
livestock show and rodeo,
Franke said, he stresses to them
how important their representa
tion is to, the show and the Uni- sent students to Houston every
versity. year,” Franke says. “We
“I have worked for the Uni- wouldn’t still be doing it if we
versity since 1953, and we’ve didn’t think it was a good thing.”
Overseas travel loans
have Friday deadline
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by Susan Talbot
Battalion Reporter
Interest-free loans for over
seas travel and study are being
ranted to eligible Texas A&M
Students through the MSC
Travel Committee.
Interested students must
Sum in their loan applications by
Friday in 216 MSC.
Applicants will appear before
^n interview board, which will
riake the final decision on
granting the loan, Lorraine
Lacey, Chairman of the Over
seas Loan Fund, said.
The interview board consists
af a member of the MSC Fi
nance Council, the Travel Com
mittee adviser and two Travel
Committee members.
The loans have no set amount
or limit to the number available.
“Students usually recieve
approximately $500,” Lacey
said.
Loan repayment terms usual
ly are decided by each student,
and no interest is attached to the
loan.
Money for the loans comes
from proceeds from the show
ing of “We’ve Never Been Lick
ed,” a film made on the Texas
A&M campus in the 1940s The
film still is shown on campus sev
eral times during the year.
Funding also comes from pri
vate donations.
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Dates to Remember
f Philosophy
of science
to be topic
by Sheila Frazier
Battalion Reporter
Dr. Dudley Shapere, from the
[University of Maryland, will
Ispeak on “Modern Science and
[the Philisophical Tradition” at 7
[p.m. Thursday in 510 Rudder.
Shapere was invited to speak
at Texas A&M University by the
Philosophy Department. Sha-
E ere, a native Texan, received
is doctorate at Harvard Uni
versity, has taught at the Univer
sities of Chicago and Illinois and
currently is chairman of the
Committee on the History and
Philosophy of Science.
Shapere has written two
books: “Galileo — A Philo
sophical Study” and “Philo
sophical Problems of Science.”
The following are noteworthy
dates for the spring semester:
•Friday — last day for drop
ping courses with no penalty (Q-
drop).
•March 8 — mid-semester
grade reports.
•March 15-21 — spring
break.
•May 7 — last day of spring
semester classes. Commence
ment.
•May 8 — Commencement
and Final Review.
•May 10 — first day of spring
semester examinations.
•May 14 — last day of spring
semester examinations.
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