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The Battalion
Tuesday, July 27,1993
Librarians train to teach data retrieval systems
By J. FRANK HERNANDEZ
77ie Battalion
Computer facilities allow greater student access
As the nature of library science has
changed, Texas A&M librarians are being
trained in the latest computer programs
and data retrieval systems to provide easy
access to information for A&M students
and faculty.
Systems and programs such as Word
Perfect, CD-ROM databases, MS-DOS
technology, NOTTS and microfiche are
standard in today's libraries.
For example, Texas A&M's Sterling C.
Evans library requires a master's degree in
library science for beginning positions
such as reference or catalog librarian.
The librarians then receive in-house
training on the various library databases
including NOTTS, the major system.
Evans Library's "Future Library
Scenes" pamphlet predicts information
systems and computer networking will
serve the individual needs of students, re
searchers, professors and administrators.
According to the pamphlet, "An under
graduate student is studying Shakespeare.
As all reserve materials have been convert
ed to electronic format, still in her dorm
she reads the analysis of Macbeth."
Information systems will link business
affiliates and practitioners with library re
sources through notebook computers and
voice and video connections, the pamphlet
predict.
"There are as many as 20 different data
bases in reference alone," Sterling C.
Evans acting director Mary Lou Goodyear
said.
Jane Dodd, senior business reference li
brarian for the Evans library, said librari
ans at the R. C. Barclay Reference Retailing
Resources Center will have at least a mas
ter's degree in library science and may
have a second master's.
"They will probably have a business or
science background," she said.
The Barclay Center is scheduled to
open June 1,1994 and will house 36 work
stations with business and agricultural
databases, Dodd said.
For example, students and faculty will
be able to access LEXIS/NEXIS, an on-line
database located in Ohio, which searches
business, news, trade and law publications
in the U.S. and abroad, she said.
Students and faculty will also be able to
access bibliographic databases that contain
articles and information on corporations.
"They will be able to get information
about products, markets and industries,"
Dodd said.
Each librarian in the Barclay Center will
learn all of the databases to ensure they
can teach people how to use each system,
she said.
"It will be our job to help the students
and faculty make some sense of the sys
tems," she said.
David Alsobrook, acting director of
the Bush Presidential Materials Project,
said the George Bush Presidential Li
brary will eventually have eight to 10
archivists trained in-house to serve re
searchers' needs.
At the presidential library, the term
archivist is used, but the duties are similar
in nature to that of a librarian, Warren
Finch, archivist for the George Bush Presi
dential Library, said.
He said there are a number of different
databases that must be learned by
archivists, such as C-Trak and the gift,
photo, presidential remarks and Vice-Pres
idential databases.
C-Trak is the main system from the
White House. It is a tracking system that
began with the Carter Administration and
houses all correspondence, memos and of
fice files from the Bush Administration.
Finch said that currently only the Rea
gan and Bush presidential libraries use the
C-Trak system, which limits the places to
learn the system.
"You either learn this database working
in records in the White House or working
for one of the libraries," he said.
Finch said the presidential library's
future includes a photo system allowing
researchers to search an actual docu
ment, view it on screen and print out a
full color copy.
"Our job is to make the presidential
records available to researchers. They
write the actual history," he said.
State representative faces drug charge
Jury to decide fate of lawmaker
Official audit reveals funds
misspent at Stephen F. Austin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
McALLEN — A federal prose
cutor said Monday that actions
and inactions by state Rep. Sergio
Munoz proved he was involved in
a plot to steal about 700 pounds of
marijuana from a police locker.
But the Palmview Democrat's
defense attorney told a jury that
the government's case depended
solely on three men of the "lowest
character."
A jury began deliberating over
the fate of the 41-year-old fresh
man lawmaker, who faced up to
80 years in federal prison if con
victed of intent to distribute and
conspiracy to possess with intent
to distribute more than 100 kilo
grams of marijuana.
"No matter how smart that he
thinks he is, I don't believe that
he can pull the wool over your
eyes," Assistant U.S. Attorney
Terry Leonard told the jury in
closing arguments.
Leonard accused Munoz, a
Palmview municipal judge at the
time, of plotting with three oth
ers in April 1992 to steal the
seized marijuana before it was
scheduled to be destroyed and
switch it with alfalfa.
The three co-conspirators all
have pleaded guilty. They testi
fied during the weeklong trial that
Munoz participated in their plans.
But defense attorney Kyle
Welch attacked the credibility of
the co-conspirators: Ramiro Vela,
60, former Palmview mayor pro-
tem; Rodolfo Rodriguez, 57, a for
mer city police commissioner, and
Rolando Rodriguez-Llanas, 34, a
Palmview businessman.
"They understand that there is
only one way out. And their only
way out was to give the govern
ment something else, to give them
someone else," Welch said, refer
ring to a plea bargain the three
struck to testify against Munoz.
Leonard defended the witness
es, saying: "They don't have
much to gain. They are still going
to prison."
According to testimony. Vela
and Rodolfo Rodriguez ap
proached former Palmview Police
Chief Alfredo Garza Jr. about
switching the marijuana.
Garza informed an anti-drug
task force and agreed to record sev
eral conversations, including some
with Munoz, during the week that
the scheme was discussed.
Garza delivered the marijuana
on April 13, 1992, outside Ro-
driguez-Llana's business, and the
three were arrested.
Munoz, who was not at the
scene of the transaction, was ar
rested 11 months later once the
three implicated him.
Welch told the jury that it
would have been easy for Garza
to record incriminating state
ments from Munoz if Munoz had
been involved.
The tapes didn't prove he was
part of the conspiracy, but rather
showed that he tried to stop his
friends from carrying it out,
Welch contended.
"The government is here ask
ing you to disbelieve what you
heard on the tapes and believe
these men who slid into this court
and told this story," Welch said.
"These are men of the lowest
character."
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Crime Stoppers
DPS seeks hit-and-run offender
On Saturday, May 8, 1993 between the hours of 9 p.m. and mid
night a felony failure to stop and render aid accident occurred on
FM 1179 one-fourth mile north of Bryan. The victim Christopher
Green was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
The vehicle involved could be a pickup truck or a recreational-
type vehicle with side mirrors. The only evidence at the scene was
broken mirror glass and an orange reflector.
This week the Texas Department of Public Safety and Brazos
County Crime Stoppers need your help to identify the person(s) re
sponsible for this failure to stop and render aid. If you have any in
formation call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. When you call you will
be given a special coded number to protect your identity.
If your information leads to an arrest and grand jury indictment.
Crime Stoppers will pay you up to $1,000 in cash.
Lone Star state looks at dry July
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — It's like living in a sauna — from
dawn until, well, dawn.
From Dallas to Austin, San Antonio to
Brownsville, rain-starved Texans are eying the sky
for any hint of rainfall. But the humidity hasn't
gone away.
For most cities along Interstate 35, it's been a
month since it has rained. In Dallas-Fort Woith, the
last rainfall was June 25. That was the tail end of a
storm that knocked out power to more than 20,000
homes and produced a rainout at a Texas Rangers-
Oakland A's game.
But not even a trace of rain has touched the area
since, says Roland Nunez, a meteorologist for the
National Weather Service in Fort Worth.
"People complained about that (June) rain so
much that maybe they were hoping too much for dry
weather," Nunez says.
If no rain falls by Saturday, July will be the first
month since November 1903 in which there has been
no precipitation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Nunez says that's one record that's likely to be
tied, if not broken.
"The trend right now ... looks like the likelihood
of any precipitation will be nil," he said.
Further south, the forecast looks like much of
the same.
The last measurable rainfall in San Antonio was
June 26, though the city had a trace of rain June 29
and July 1, says Dan Sobien, a weather service mete
orologist there.
Sobien says the dry weather isn't completely un
usual for Texas summers, something most residents
in the Lone Star state already know.
"This is pretty much a dry season, and even
though it's a little unusual to go this long without
rain, it's not out of the question," he said.
San Antonio also is flirting with record-breaking
dryness. The last time the city had only a trace of
rain in the month of July was in 1984, and before
that, 1944, Sobien said.
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AUSTIN — Stephen F. Austin State University officials have taken
funds that could have been spent on education and used them for ath
letic programs, according to a state audit released Monday.
The report also cited questionable expenses, such as purchases that
appeared to sidestep bidding procedures, a lavish mobile telephone
system used by university police, and payments for championship ath
letics rings.
State auditors urged the school to "establish priorities which are in
alignment with its primary mission to serve as an educational, intellec
tual, and cultural resource for the people of Texas."
Stephen F. Austin State, located in Nacogdoches, has an enrollment
of nearly 13,000.
The school has hired a new president and vice president for fiscal af
fairs, auditors noted, saying that the newcomers would have a chance
to change the institution's priorities.
Stephen F. Austin State officials did not immediately return a tele
phone call from The Associated Press.
School administrators responded to auditors, saying that the univer
sity was increasing academic and classroom expenditures by $500,000,
and wasn't trying to circumvent bidding procedure^.
The school also defended the police mobile phones, and said it had
taken a "major stride" toward implementing fiscal guidelines for acad
emics and athletics.
"We agree that our primary mission is education, intellectual and
cultural," the school responded in the audit.
The audit, which has been given to state leaders, describes a school
that neglected educational needs to divert more than $1.4 million from
other revenue sources into athletics.
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