Battalion/Page 3
January 27, 1983
A-G library cards ready
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The near-complete University Press Center
staff photo by Rob Johnston
arch move planned
;or University Press
by Ronnie Crocker
Battalion Reporter
The switch to a new circula
tion system in Sterling C. Evans
Library has caused delays in
issuing library cards but even
tually will speed up the process
for checking out books, a library
spokesman says.
Emma Perry, assistant pro
fessor and head of the circula
tion division at the library, said
the new system is more efficient
and accurate than the old sys
tem. She said the new system will
save time for library staff and
users once the old system is com
pletely phased out.
Undergraduates who applied
for library cards and those
whose last names begin with the
letters A through G may pick up
their cards now.
The cards have been proces
sed in phases according to last
names. Perry said, and the next
group of cards probably will be
ready in early February.
Applications for new cards
began last fall.
Faculty and graduate student
cards were made before under
graduate cards, Perry said. The
faculty cards were completed
Oct. 1 — the same day the new
system was started and graduate
cards were completed just be
fore Thanksgiving.
Each of the cards is typed and
has an identifying tag attached
to it. About 60 percent of the
library’s book collection is tag
ged for the new system. The
number of books that haven’t
been tagged yet is slowing down
the processing of cards, she said.
Once the data bank is filled
and the old system is phased out,
library cards can be issued in
stantly, Perry said.
She said the cards should be
permanent. That means that
next year only freshmen, trans
fer students and new faculty will
need to apply for library cards.
This also will help speed up the
process of issuing cards, Perry
said.
Checking out books will take
less time with the new system,
she said. At the circulation desk,
a light-sensitive wand is passed
over the student’s library card
and over an identifying tag in
the book.
The computer in the new lib-
Ruth Wedergren
Battalion Reporter
■ gpe new University Press
I LJ nter, across from Adams
A I w nd Hall on the south side of
frpus, is expected to be com-
:ted in two months, and
juld be occupied during
> be absolu!j r i]
Hie Texas A&M University
^ramming,(ess offices, which will move
eopledetcnntipns in March, are now in
their radios C ce trailers at the corner of
sales assure ?' vt;rs * t y I^ r > ve ar >d Asbury
d unhypedmB'
ive I M radic Lloyd G. Lyman Jr., director
>een prettyi the scholarly press unit, is ex-
d Satelliie's| ed about the new center.
Williams.‘It Aery few university presses
artist is e\ ; t ^* s one <” l ie said. “Most
ve offices and warehouses
Darate.”
c<>1 ' ,He center, when completed,
iultants ‘ i! |have its own parking lot, edi-
lat preprofH and business offices, load-
radio indim
ing area, packing and shipping
room, warehouse, production
and design offices and a confer
ence room. The new building
will not house printing or bind
ing facilities — those are handled
by book manufacturers, Lyman
said.
He said the press is growing
and the new center will have
room for expansion.
The center has received much
support, especially from former
chancellor Frank W.R. Hubert,
he said.
“He has been extremely sup
portive and sympathetic of the
press,” Lyman said. “He was
very interested and pushed for
the new building.”
The University Press was
founded in 1974 by Frank H.
Wardlaw, who also founded
presses at the University of
South Carolina and the Univer
sity of Texas.
“The responsibility of the
press is to the area around Texas
A&M, the Texas A&M faculty
and the world of scholarship,”
Lyman said. “In the future we
hope to print more about the
strengths of Texas A&M. We
hope to do more military studies
and business, engineering and
vet books.”
The first book was published
by the Texas A&M Press in
1975.
“We got off to a good start,”
Lyman said. “Most presses start
with two or three books and we
started with 10 or 12.”
Former students and the
Texas A&M Board of Regents
also have been extremely sup
portive of the press and its new
center, he said.
“No university could have
asked for more support,” he
said.
Sea Grant readies
funding proposals
By Michael Raulerson
Battalion Reporter
Final touches are being added
to funding proposals for the
Texas Sea Grant College Prog
ram to meet a late April dead
line.
The program which is part of
a national project created to de
velop marine and coastal re
sources received more than $3.4
million during 1981-83.
Although a final figure has not
been reached for the 1983-85
biennium, directors of the prog
ram are hoping for about the
same amount of money for the
upcoming period.
“Probably the best we can ex
pect is the same level of funding
again,” said Bill Clark, an associ
ate director of the Sea Grant
program.
Federal funding for the
program is limited to two-thirds
of the program’s total budget.
The University, therefore, must
provide at least one-third of the
final budget.
Funding for the program
allows universities to provide re
search, education, and marine
advisory services.
In late April, final funding
proposals will be made and sub
mitted to the National Sea Grant
Program office. Proposals will
be reviewed once again before
money will be granted.
rary card system is an Alis II de
signed by Data Phase Inc. It was
purchased at a cost of $555,000
and was paid for over a five-year
period, Dr. Irene Hoadley, dire
ctor of the library, said.
She said funds for the compu
ter came out of the library’s reg
ular operating budget.
The computer is housed on
the second floor of the library
and terminals are located at the
circulation desk and in the refer
ence area. Perry said the termin
al at the reference area may be
used by students to learn the sta
tus of a book they cannot find on
the shelf.
Similar systems are being
used at several other academic
libraries, including George
Washington University in
Washington, D.C., Bowling
Green University in Kentucky
and the University of Nebraska.
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