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Twice in the past twenty years
Texas A&M ha? planned and
completed additions to its li
brary. In both cases its plans
I were much too small. Perhaps
when expansion is planned a
third time A&M will plan for the
future.
If we are to have a Class A un
dergraduate library of 4 million
volumes by the year 2000, per
haps we should plan and build a
structure to house 6 million vol
umes.
The Evans Library has a ca
pacity of 2 million volumes. At
the current rate of growth, it will
be full in six to seven years. With
the accelerated growth from sup
plemental funds needed to be
come a Class A undergraduate li
brary by the year 2000, it could
be filled to capacity much
sooner. If we started adding
170,000 volumes a year, the li
brary would reach capacity in
three years.
A remote storage facility for
the library is included in the Uni
versity’s long-range building
program, but it certainly is not
planned to have the capacity to
hold the type of growth the
Evans Library needs to have to
become a Class A undergraduate
library by the year 2000.
The remote storage facility
will be a warehouse where infre-
quently used materials will be
housed. When a user needs
something from the storage fa
cility, that material will have to be
transferred back to the Evans Li
brary temporarily while it is used
and then returned. Such trans
fers can never be made on an im
mediate demand basis but on a
scheduled basis such as once a
day or every other day.
Although the Evans Library
still has space to add materials
for a few years, all units of the li
brary are severely overcrowded
in work space. University regula
tions provide that each faculty
member should have an office of
150 square feet. Less than 25
percent of the library faculty
members have offices. Most of
the other 75 percent have barely
enough space for a small desk
and a chair, and they are
jammed together in open spaces.
The situation for classified
staff is even worse. They are
jammed together worse than sar
dines in a can. This overcrowd
ing is the result of inadequate
planning and is not the fault of
the library.
In the mid 1970s, when the
second expansion of the library
was being planned, the library
staff prepared a program of re
quirements that would have al
lowed expansion. When the Uni
versity decided that what the
library had requested would cost
$23 million, it reduced the struc
ture by more than half, allowing
the library only $10 million for
the building.
The Evans Library is also se
verely short in Seating for stu
dents and carrells for faculty and
graduate students. What seating
is available for students is very
closely jammed together.
Considering the growth in en
rollment since 1979 and the hun
dreds of chairs that have been
destroyed and not replaced in
the past five years, it is likely that
the library is short of the recom
mended seating by aS many as
3,000 seats.
The 600 carrells are far* fewer
than needed even though each
one is assigned to two people.
At a library function a few
years ago, an administrator 6f
the University expressed concern
over the constant need of librar
ies for more space. He expressed
the fear that the day would come
when the entire earth would be
covered with library buildings.
A prominent Texas humorist
who heard the remark replied
that being covered with libraries
was a far better fate than most
people were predicting for the
earth. Because the Evans Library
occupies only two or three of the
5,000 acres of the A&M campus,
there is certainly ample Space for
a much larger library building.
In previous columns I have
identified people needs of $2 to
$2.25 million per year and
materials and equipment needs
of $4.5 million per year. This
leaves $3.25 million per year to
be devoted to facilities.
Over 15 years this amounts to
nearly $49 million, which does
not seem an unreasonable
amount for an institution of the
size and diversity of Texas A&M
to pay for a first class library
building. A couple of years ago
UT-E1 Paso announced plans for
a $28 million library. Certainly
A&M can justify nearly twice that
amount.
If a library is truly the heArt of
an academic institution, as many
educators have Stated for centu
ries, then it is the library which
pumps the life-blood of learning
throughout the campus. Thus to
assure a high quality of learning,
a university must have a healthy,
strong heart in the form of a first
class library.
The Evans Library’s needs in
people, materials, equipment,
and Space are indeed large.
Greatness does not come easily
Or cheaply. If it did, everyone
would be great, and greatness
Would be meaningless. Certainly
Texas A&M realizes this. Hope
fully it will decide to make the
commitment needed to make the
the Evans Library a Class A un
dergraduate library by the year
2000. JuSt at the athletic teams
and the academic units Strive to
be included among the coveted
top ten, the Evans Library
reaches for the same goal. With a
firm commitment from the uni
versity administration, the Evans
Library can make it.
Charles Schultz is the Univeris-
ity Archivist for Texas A&cM.
The ever-popular art of flirting:
more than just playing around
The best
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Thursday because everyone is
getting ready for the weekend.
Sunday because everyone is
winding down and thinking
about what they did during the
weekend.
What, you ask, is best on these
two days?
Why, of course — FLIRTING.
According to Webster’s New
World Dictionary, “a flirt is a
person who plays at love.”
Our definition of a flirt means
someone who has perfected the
art of making someone feel spe
cial during a short period of
time.
Thursday night at the
Chicken, a girl with hazel eyes ra
dars in on an innocent hunk. She
catches his blue eyes with a smile
and gives him a wink. The vibes
are felt by both. They move
through the crowd, like in the
movies, slowly approaching the
target.
She smiles, giggles and with
big wide eyes begins the conver
sation. She moves closer and be
gins to slightly invade his space
by touching him.
In her own way, she asks him
questions about himself (we all
like to talk about ourselves), she
uses his name (we all like the
sound of our own names) and
compliments him, thus making
him feel special.
What are the keys to successful
flirting?
• girls: fluttering eye lashes.
• guys: a direct look.
• Both sexes: A good laugh.
• A great listener.
• Good body language.
• Smelling delicious.
• Smiles.
• Asking questions^ .
• Sharing common interests.
• Knows how to make one
person feel as if he/she is the only
person in the room.
Different people have their
own way of dealing with the issue
of flirting.
Some people stick with good
friends, some branch out to their
friends’ friends and some blaze
out into the unknown, seeking
new adventures.
Some engineering majors
think that it’s great to have a girl
flirt with them. An economics
major even suggested that more
girls need to flirt more often.
If this is so, why the old tale
about you can’t fall in love with a
flirt?
A friend was once told, “she
was the perfect girl to take home
to meet Mom. However, she was
a flirt and you can’t trust a flirt.”
Various definitions of flirting
are:
•to seduce.
•to allure.
•to entice.
•to tempt.
•to bait.
•to lure.
•to teaSe.
There is a difference between
a tease and a flirt. Yet, we were
advised it’s a thin line.
Flirting is fun, healthy and
therapeutic.
Always remember that flirting
can be learned, practiced and al
ways perfected, but it is impor
tant to be yourself and let it flow
naturally.
However, just because a per
son flirts doesn’t mean that he or
she is not capable of giving their
heart to dn6 lucky person. Ye
who can capture a butterfly can
keep a flirt.
Teri Balog and NAncy Jumper
are Senior journalism majors.
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