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Monday, November 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13 ional ^ mins er Suni servicB barrbj a dispi tins. :)thopet< doon h Clair,; ervices icident aid repi iestobs ed ouis >Oth Wcuj ge in suspend :h H ation c« :ment in 'd the D; ateg)'. udgeNo iductsen .'h some! an the Mi r and those sen tmpt he! non Pie* • then jail tent jed a mi iff Eup hreetiiK to refuse; the W ie chtirti owing tli would su surrendt t Sundai not arte (continued from page 1) torical Manuscripts and Oral His tory, Chapman said. All this stored knowledge fills three floors, and the archive stall hasn’t even touched all of their boxes of information, he said. “We have a small stall and it just takes time to sen t through ev erything,” he said. But the information they have organized is enough to keep the most avid history bul l' busy. Among the collections of books and manuscripts the Archives has a complete collection of the Ag- gielands and former student di rectories both starting in 187b. These collections can be impor tant to people who would like to trace friends and relatives from way back, Chapman said. Some other things from times past include the papers of A&M’s presidents starting in 1948 and going to about 1978; records of Aggie clubs and organizations; and special subjects f ile cabinets, where files are kept on former students who have made head lines. A movie that has always made headlines with Aggies since 1943 is "We’ve Never Been •Licked.” And if you don’t remember what it’s about, the Archives has a copy of the script, Chapman said. “We got it about two years ago from a screening house in New York,” he said. The Arcives paid about $30 dollars for the script but they usually don’t pay for anything, it’s given to them. “We live off of charity,” Chap man said. Sometimes the things sent to us are 99 percent junk, but there is always that 1 percent that could Books (continued from page 1) be a gold mine of information, Chapman said. “When people call and say they have some old pictures and mem orabilia, we say ‘yes we want it’,” he said. Another gold mine to the Ag gie football fans might be the hundreds of cans of game Film from as far back as 1936, Chap man said. Included in the collec tion is the 1968 Cotton Bowl game when the Aggies beat Ala bama. In addition to these collections is the picture section. The Ar chives has every kind of picture taken of A&M and its students and they’re all filed according to category, Chapman said. But of course, there are those boxes in the workroom that they hadn’t had time to sort yet, he said. With all the old pictures, Chap man said the Archives would like to set up a museum of some kind. Along the same idea they would also like to recreate a dorm room f rom the 1920s, he said. “We have an old trunk of that time and pictures of the dorm rooms,” he said. Another section, the Oral His tory Collection, is headed by Dr. Terry Anderson. This part of the Archives consists of interviews conducted on four different sub jects, Chapman said. Right now the oral section is working on interviewing all the former students who became generals, Chapman said. All this information is available to every student at the University Archives, which is located at the west end of the library. Hours for the Archives are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. CLEAN ATMOSPHERE TOMMY’S BAR & GRILL Tommy's % lb. Hamburger Large Fries, 16 oz. soft Drink -$3.15 $2.22 Fajitas $2.95 B.LT.JwoGado Pockety __j}2.95__ I TreTpooTTsm" ] ——fL- Skaggs Shopping Center 846-4234 HOW ABOUT SOME FRESH NEW IDEAS? 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T h Sadly," the internal study says, “the n development of the library’s collec- ition was sorely neglected during the I first 95 years of the University’s exis tence. Ip “Although innumberable external land internal studies of the library during the last 30 years indicated | that serious steps needed to be taken j to increase funding to purchase li- jbrary materials, little was done. | While the collection is wide in its I scope, it is for the most part, shallow ■ in depth.” I ; Or as an old Aggie joke says: The university library at Texas I A&M burned down. It was OK I though, the joke teller will say, they saved the book. Unfortunately, he’ll add with a bit of irony, all the pages already had been colored in. Some f aculty say the joke too clo sely resembles reality. But admins- trators say the funds needed to buy the large numbers of books just aren’t there. “Generally admitted, humanities and liberal arts holdings aren’t what they should be,” says Clint Phillips, dean of faculties. “I feel very strongly that we should be augment ing the liberal arts collections, but liberal arts is the new kid on the block as far as making claims on li brary resources.” Because of the school’s early de pendence on agriculture and engi neering, those collections are quite good, the self-study says. Sections of the recent collection also are adequate, says Terry Ander son, the library’s oral historian. Since 1971, Texas A&M’s collection has in creased 81 percent, 750,()()() vol umes. But the library is playing a hopeless game of catch-up in obtain ing older books for research in lib eral arts such as history. Even if Harvard didn’t buy a sin gle book for 100 years, and Texas A&M continued to buy books at its current rate, A&M’s collection still wouldn’t rival that school’s, the in ternal self-study says. But it’s a game the library must play if it’s ever to be even adequate for graduate research, Anderson says. Both studies agree. “Ten years of progress does not even begin to rectify nearly a cen tury of neglect,” the internal self- study says. “Money to maintain pace with current acquisitions will scarcely be adequate for the Texas A&M li brary.” It will not be possible for the li brary to develop into a great library — or even one adequate for grad uate research — without increased funding from both the University and from outside sources. One such source, a library development coum cil, was formed in 1982 .to solicit gifts. “Although the library cannot make up for a century of monetary neglect in the next ten years, the po tential exists to make enorfnous strides in bringing the collection and library service levels up to the needs of library users; only the mandate — in terms of dollars — is needed to begin,” the study says. The University System has money, but where it is spent is ques tion of priorities. “The University has lots of calls on its money; it has to sort out what is of highest priority,” Hoadley says. “We’ve tried to convince them the li brary is high priority.” But the library certainly isn’t No. 1 on the of University’s list of priori ties. “ft’s not that we wouldn’t want to spend more,” Phillips says. “It’s just you have to allocate your money for the marginal benefit to maximize welfare for the University commu nity.” This seems to translate to: build ings first, then books. “Enrollment is leveling off,” Phil lips says, “but we’re still 1 million square feet short of building space.” The need for building space itself doesn’t make the buildings-first- then-books priority correct, says Clarence Dockweiler, a former member of Library Council and au thor of a report called “Crisis in the Library.” “If we would maintain the acquisi tion level as it is, the University would continue to function as we have in the past,” he says. “But, I have always felt the bottom line is if we want this to be a pre-emi nent university we need to put li brary acquisitions, staff and build ings in the forefront (of university concerns). 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