"CONTENTdm"@en . "UBC Library Staff Newsletter"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1216361"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-13"@en . "1968-04"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/biblos/items/1.0190833/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " VOL. 4 NO, 6 OF THE U.B.C. LIBRARY STAFF NEWSLETTER - APRIL 1963\nLIBRARY LIMERICKS\nWe are holding a Limerick Contest\nWhich we hope you will enter with int'rest.\nJust think of the PRIZE,\nAnd ADMIRING CRIES,\nThat await you, if YOU win our Songfest!\n\"Yes, but what do I have to DO?\"\nJust write a Limerick (or more than one) on a Library subject,\nsign it, and drop it in the BIBLOS BOX in the Coffee Room,\nWinner and runners-up will be announced next month. The decisiors\nof the Biblos Committee will be final, and we reserve the right to\ncensor, An unexpurgated supplement may be issued for select\ncirculation, if the demand (and price) is right. If you wish your\ncontribution to be published anonymously, please say so,\n\"And what about this PRIZE?\"\nNon-tax deductible, low in calories, easy to install, guaranteed to\nwow your friends and raise your status rating. No, it is not an\nautographed copy of BIBLOS. FRONT OFFICE REPORTS\nBUDGET NOTES: March sees the end of one budget year, and a new one Is\nappropriately ushered In on April Fool's Day. How much does a library\ncost? See Below:\nEXPENDITURES TENTATIVE\n1967/68 BUDGET\nStaff 1,657,384 1,874,605\nOperating Costs 328,475 265,096\nBinding 88,053 106,616\nBooks & Magazines 983,426 869,737\n3,057,338 3,116,054\nPALAVER.\nBSS attended a conference of head librarians in Montreal April 19~20,\ncalled by CACUL and AUCC to discuss the Downs Report. At the final\nsession Dr. Downs' recommendations were referred to appropriate\norganizations for implementation. UBC Library showed up well in the\nevaluation, but the application of accepted standards reveals that\nwe are still half as large as we should be. Copies of the Report and\nInterpretive Comments by BSS may be borrowed from the Librarians'\nOffice,\nAt the conference Dr. Kaye Lamb, National Librarian, announced the\nfounding of the office of Canadian Library Resources, First Head:\nJoan O'Rourke, Former Head, Social Sciences Division, U.B.C. Dr.Lamb\nwas U.B.C.'s Librarian from 1940-48.\nCOMMUNICATIONS: We try even harder. BIBLOS and Communications Circulars notwithstanding, Informatlon Is still failing to get around, Ths\nSenate Library Committee wants a faculty newsletter, and the Library\nneeds some kind of weekly bulletin. Graham Elliston is working with\nBSS in developing these publication\nGOLF TOURNAMENT\nA group of golfers and would-be's are interested in having a Library\nTournament. We would like to play mixed 2-ball foursomes (i.e. a\nwoman and a man alternating strokes with the same ball).\nIf you are Interested, please contact Bob MacDonald, Bert Hamilton or\nTure Erickson.\nMB. Score Is no object. We have a wonderful handicapping system\nwhich guarantees a score of less than 100!\nI.e. STAFF CHANGES\nA Warm Welcome to -\nJean Bailey\nL.A.1.\nC i rculation\nGlenda Craig\nClerk 1\nC i rculation\nLydia Lobach\nL.A.111\nCataloguing\nClaire Reynolds\nL.A. 1\nGov. Pubs.\nKirsten Sondergaard\nL.A. 1\nC i rculation\nBessie Wong\nL.A. 1\nSer ials\nCongratulations to -\nMary Paterson\nSue Statham\nWayne Taylor\nWe say Good-bye to -\nThea Lantau\nJudy Roberts\nEl Iz. Wurm\nThis month we have had two\nboth from Circulation, and\nto announce the arrival of\n14-| oz. born on March 30.\nERRATA:\nL.A.Ill Systems to L.A.Ill Serials\nL.A.Ill Gov. Pubs, to L.A.Ill Systems\nL.A.Ill Serials to L.A.IV Cataloguing\nL.A. I\nFlex. Oper.\nL.A. I I\nAcquis i tions\nSystems\nSedgewick\nmarriages - Kathy Botta and Anne Humphreys,\nalso from Circulation John Johnston wishes\nhis second child a baby boy weighing 7 lb.\nYour Ed. apologises for the poor standard of proof-reading in last\nIn future this job will be done by eagle-eyed catal-\nmonth's BIBLOS\noguers!\np.5 par. 1,2\np.7 par. 2\npar. 4\np.8 par. 1\np.l2par. 1\np.19\np.20par. 2\ninquirey should read inquiry.\nconcered should read concerned.\nDr. Lamb wrote the foreword.\nthe word is chain.\n4th line should read \"fathers who are school teachers\ntake a dim view of....\"\ndifinitely should be definitely.\nthat word is Membership. 4.\nSPRING IS SPRUNG, THE GRASS IS RIZ, I WONDER WHERE THE SHELF LIST IS?\nNotes on empty drawers at the end of the shelf-list report that various of the. special shelf-lists are on vacation in Montreal. Upon\ntheir return (being then in 2 copies each) the original will take up\nresidence by call number in the main shelf-list while the duplicate\nwill be a shelf-list of the collection where the shelf-list; is administered - be It Special Collections, Library School, or whereever.\nLaw Library has the understood classification \"K\" for filing In the\nMain Shelf List. The Library will then have a union shelf-list of\nthe entire system..\nCATALOGUING:\nMc\nFor those of us who are interested in statistics (and who isn't when\nthey say what we'd like them to say), the Catalogue Division has\njust completed a spectacularly productive year. In 1967/68 the number of new volumes processed was 114,428, more than 25,000 more\nthan the previous year's total (88,251). At the same time, 57,009\nvolumes were reprocessed (primarily in the Incorporation of Sedgewick Library holdings into the main records), as compared with\n15,380 in 1966/67, All told, total volumes processed, including\n41 withdrawals, numbered 171,478 compared with 103,640 during the\nprevious year.\nB.W.\n'Castrati\" - a young male singer who has had his vocal cords cut,\n(Definition from UBC Music Department) 5.\nSCM COPIER\nThe Sedgewick Library early in the year acquired an S\u00C2\u00A3M Copier. It was\ninstalled on an experimental basis, it being to the best of our knowledge\nthe first five-cent coping machine available on Campus.\nTo cover the cost of materials, supplies, and rental a minimum of 6000\ncopies per month must be assured, and to date the use has far exceeded\nthis (in the two months Feb-Mar. the registered totals were 45000 paid\nexposures) .\nStudents reaction toward the machine has been \"enthusiastic\". Long\nlines are in evidence at almost all times, and during breakdowns impatient students hover about, waiting with their rolls of nickels.\nThe \"down-time\" has, in fact, been considerable; but, allowing for the\nheavy usage, has not been unreasonably excessive. Servicing has been\nprompt and the basic problem seems to be that the machine parts are\nsimply more susceptable to wear the other, more expensive copiers. This\nmodel makes change for dimes and quarters, and part of the \"down-time\"\nwas attributable to faults in the change-making mechanism.\nThe quality of paper and ink in this machine is poorer than other library copiers, but for student purposes (permanancy not being a consideration) seems adequate at the price. It is possible that other SCM\nfive-cent copiers will be installed in the near future, and it is hoped\nthat this service will provide the students with faster, cheaper access\nto essential information, and decrease the pressure on the library, tc\nsupply reprints and other ephemeral material.\nLIBRARIANS IN LITERATURE\n\"Certainly, entering the Palace bar in a loose-fitting sweater, tangerine hip-huggers, and flats, wearing no makeup and a pair of blue-tinted\nGrannie glasses, with her hair pulled severely back in a bun to reveal\nnoticeably protruding ears, Vanessa reminded me not so much of Greta\nGarbo as of a spinster librarian.\"\n--- from Meehan, Thomas;\"Vanessa Redgrave\nThe supergirl.\" The Saturday Evening\nPost, p.25, 9 March 1968 6 =\nWILSON LISTENING LIBRARY:\nit's all in how you look at it, or, in this case, it's all in\nhow you hear it. One student came up and asked how long the\nawful noise was going to continue. Awful noise, awful noise,\nwhat awful noise? Oh, you mean that hammering and pounding\nand sawing and wrenching, well you may not like it but it's\nmusic to my ears. What it means is that the Record Collection\nis expanding in area. The sawing is the old wall coming out\nand the hammering and pounding is the new wall going in. This\nwill add eighteen feet to the north end of the present area.\nGlorious space, much needed space. Some of those electronic\nsounds aren't so hot, especially the drilling, but still and\nall, it's music to my ears,\nDoug Kaye,\nMUSIC\nF ingers\nMoving in the melody;\nPoints\nOn which to pul1\nThe powers of the mind,\nExpand its grasp;\nFrameworks of sound,\nPulsing,\nDancing with and through each other,\nCaressing\nTeeth i ng\nStabbing\nRid ing the air,\nSucking me from out myself,\nDrawing\nalmost\nJo the ventilating pinnacle where I\nCan see beyond my skin.\nB.W.S. 7.\nBIRTH CONTROL FOR JOURNALS?\nThe arrival on my desk of the first number of yet another new journal\nmakes me wonder if the civilization in the book Fahrenheit 451, which\nbanned the printed word, was so outrageous after all. Those who are\nsubjected to the hail of new journals will also sympathize with the psychologist, Nevitt Sanford, who considers that academic man is suffocating under the deluge of printed words and has predicted that in time\n\"the most prestigious colleges will forbid their professors to publish\nuntil they have been on the faculty for five years.\"\nA new journal such as this one can scarcely be faulted when considered on\nits own. Its terms of reference are that it is \"devoted to the study of\nthe phenomena of vlscoelasticIty and acoustic, dielectric and magnetic\nrelaxation\", and I, of all people, can scarcely claim that this is not a\nmost important, integrated and valid field of study. If it managed to\nattract good articles in this field it will be very convenient to me and\nto many of my colleagues-indeed, I must hasten to write an article for\nit In case someone in the field forgets that I am one of the experts, and\nso it goes on. What is so worrying is that shortly a young man will rush\nin to persuade me that this is a very appropriate journal for us and that\nwe must take out a subscription. This has now happened! He does not\nrealize that all the articles we have seen so far could well have been\nplaced elsewhere In established respectable review journals and even in\n\"Advances...\" which started to advance before this one, and at least we\nalready get those in the library. Since this is undoubtedly a convenient\njournal perhaps we ought to get It, but in order to pay for it is anyone\nwilling to give up any of the journals we get already? Not on your life!\nThere is the difficulty; the new journals pour in but the money does not\nincrease. The UGC says we have to find money for such increased activities from increases in \"productivity\" and how do we do that in the library? Would it be heretical for me to say to the young man that he shculd\njust look at the abstracts and get the article if he needs it? No, that\nwill not. do, it must all be there In pristine newness the moment the latest issue comes out and subsequently stored and forgotten at great cost.\nSurely this ridiculous charade has gone on long enough and we should increase our productivity enormously at one go by the United Kingdom buying one copy only of any new journal and distributing Xerox copies of\narticles to those who really want them. Would we then see so many new\njournals published? Perhaps we would even then because I have been told\nthat such journals do not make much money for editor or publisher. It is\nsaid that some journals even run for years at a loss and so it is verv nice\nof them to edit and publish our writing for us at no charge.\nI must warn you that the raison d'etre of the journal, if you wish to know\nit, is curiously placed in Volume 1 No.l, between pages 68 and69 as part\nof an announcement of another new journal! J.G. Powles\nNATURE, April 6, 1968. p. 50 STAFF RESEARCH APPRECIATED:\nIn an article on Two newly discovered codices of the Hutterites,\nby Leonard Gross in MQR, April 1968, the author refers to research work done by Maria Horvath Krisztinkovich, (Hum.Div.),\nin particular her article, Anabaptist book confiscations in\nHungary during the 18th century, MQR, April 1965. Maria had\nfound a description of the more important of the ten missing\nbooks in the Hungarian National Archives, and had hypothesised\ncorrectly, that the work must be that of Ehrenpreis, \"the most\nimportant of all authors during the Anabaptists' sojourn in\nHungary.\"\nHurrah for 1ibra i ns\nKitchener's young weigh their liberry\nSpecial to The Globe and Mail\nKITCHENER, Ontario. When\nthe Kitchener Public Library\nlaunched a survey this week\nand handed out questionnaire\ncards requesting comments it\ndidn't quite bargain for what\nit received in the children's\ndepartment.\nChildren's suggestions ranged from the installation of\nTV sets to uniforms for the\n1 i brar ians.\nSome other comments:\n\"We can take out six or seven books and there shouldn't\nbe a fine. You should be glad\nif you get them back.\"\n\"It should be open at 9 a.m.\nin the morning until 10:30 pm\nat night and not so much noise1!\n\"Put a TV set. Fix the books\nup.\"\n\"Have your librains get the\nsame cloths.\" \" More librains1!\n\"More books should be able to\ntaken out.\"\n\"No more story time. Story\nare for kids from 0,1,2,3,4.\"\n\"Should have renewells.\"\n\"Mixed love seats.\"\n\"I am satisf ied.\"\n\"Books on girlish life, romances, less on cooking\nand sewing which we learn\nfrom our mothers.\"\n\"It's OK.\" \"Kids should\nclean up the library when\nthey mess it.\"\n\"I don't think there is eny\nways to chang the 1iabary its\nperfeck.\"\n\"There should be robots.\"\n\"Libraries shold have a place\nto buy cokes and chokolat bars\nand things 1 ik that.\"\n\"More books on dinersores.\"\n\"I enjoy comming to read books\nand I like coming very much.\"\n\"There should be a liberry bus\nto take us home when it rains.\" 9.\nD YOU KNOW....*\nUBC Library has been a federal depository for Canadian government\npublications since 1927?\n65% of the catalogue cards used are Library of Congress cards?\nPer capita circulation is 60, compared to a high of 114 at\nSt, Francis Xavler and a low of 15 at Guelph?\nWe loan more through Interlibrary Loans than we borrow?\nIn 1965-66 we loaned 3 ?123; borrowed 2,208,\nOur library building was rated \"unsatisfactory to acceptable\"\nby the Downs Committee.\nIn 1966-67 we had seating for 22% of our student body. (25-40%\nIs recommended standard.)\nOur air conditioning was rated \"sub-standard to adequate\".\nUBC faculty have recommended higher library staff salaries and\nrestricted faculty loan periods.\nThe Library needs an average annual budget of $1,500,000 for\ncollection development, until 1976,\nWe receive 417 of the 545 periodical titles on the Downs Checklist;\nranking 5th in the libraries covered; we have 421 of the 445\nreference titles checked, ranking 2nd behind Toronto,\ntaken from the Downs Report, Resources of Canadian Academic and\nResearch- Libraries, P. McC\nT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\nby Dr, Robert B., Downs, dean of library administration at U, of\nIllinois, that a $7,500 minimum salary for librarians be established in both U.S. and Canada,\nthat a minimum standard of 75 volumes per full time student be\nset. UBC is therefore short about 25 vols, per student on a\n20,000 enrolment.\n150 million dollars (US) would be needed over the next ten years\nto bring Canadian university libraries to top American standards.\nThis sum would cover collection development only; not the minimum\nsalary; sorry about that. B.T. 10.\nEXTENSION LIBRARY\nWhere is the Extension Library?\nFrom the number of inquiries by Library staff, the old maxim, \"it\npays to advertise\" should be applied. Here is a little light on\nanother of the many \"Happenings\" on Floor 2.\nA desk, a table, two chairs and the ubiquitous filing cabinet,\nlocated near the north wing elevator: a collection of Correspon-\ndense course books, a 3000 volume standing collection for Extension\nDepartment off-campus credit courses, and over 12,000 copies of\nplays, constitutes Extension Library.\nThe major operation of the Extension Library is to provide the\nrecommended works requested by students taking University courses\nby mail. So far this year we have loaned out 2400 volumes. They\nhave been sent as far afield as Nova Scotia, and North West\nTerritories, Last year we had two students serving with the\nCanadian Forces in Europe. The rule of thumb for service is, if we\ncan mall a book to the student and receive it back within four weeks,\nwe provide the service.\nOne of the functions of the Extension Department is to conduct off-\ncampus credit courses through out the Province. These classes may\nhave anywhere from ten to forty students. Thus another task of\nExtension Library is to make up and send \"course libraries\" for the\nuse of off-campus course students at the locations. These libraries\nare selected from the standing collection, augmented by additional\npurchases recommended by the course instructor.\nAlthough there Is never an idle moment, the present Extension\nLibrary is a small operation compared' to the days of Edith Stewart,\nwhen it was located In what is now the Wilson Room Record Library,\nPrevious to 1965 the University offered a public Library mailing\nservice to B.C. residents from a sizable collection of current\npopular, non-fiction and literary works. This service is now\nprovided by the Provincial Library Commission's \"Open Shelf\" service. 11\nOur present day Extension Library still fulfils one very valuable pubic\nservice. It is the principle source of plays for reading to Provincial\namateur theatre groups. Currently sixty-nine drama groups are registered\nto borrow plays from the collection. This collection is also available\nto regular on-campus library users.\nIn providing service from the play collections, Extension Library is\nmost fortunate in having the talents of Mrs. Neville. Sheila has wor \u00C2\u00A3(Me\nP-t. gosc J1(\n/ uftfC bt, Jsiy Q&qJXuJL, cA \\&*\nJ zOJjL l&t Oeiy Q&oJfouC 'perating in B.C. Is so unique, One Interesting experience, she\nAmerican library students consi- recalled, was travelling with the\nier It necessary to study it bookmobile on the Hope Highway,\n\u00C2\u00B0irst hand, as part of their calling at many country spots.\ntraining. The Fraser Valley system was\nSo, says a student librarian founded in 1930 and at that time\nFrom Seattle, Wash., who has was the only Horary chain of its\nspent a month here studying kind on the North American contl-\nthe Fraser Valley Regional nent.\nl. I brary system. Today, the situation Is only\nCarol Stoops Is studying for slightly improved and American\nrtcr masters degree in libra- students consider It valuable ex-\nrianship at the University perience to spend time in B.C.\nof Washington and she spent with our extensive library organ-\nthree weeks at the library's ization.\nheadquarters in Abbotsford.\nShe then spent two days at Richmond Review 25 April 1968\nthe ChillIwack branch, before coming to Richmond for\nNews on our Bell-Tower, from the Sun April 1968:\nMusic in the Air at UBC\nThere will be music in the Brothers and Wilson of Vancouver\nair at University of B.C. who $97>000 bid was the lowest\nnext term. of five submitted.\nIt will be provided by a The remaining $63,000 will pro-\nnew $160,000 Clock bell to- vide equipment for the clock and\nwer whose chimes will mark carillon which are on order. The\nthe start morning classes, tower, which will be located in\nthe noon hour break and the front of the Library Is to be corn-\nend of the day. pleted by September.\nThe 140-foot clock bell tower Is a gift to the UBC from\nVancouver lawyer Leon Ladner, Vancouver Sun - dated ?\nUBC board of governors Thursday awarded the contract to\nconstruct the tower to Smith 24.\nWell cSffesl Bkc*l *rt> wo^k."@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Z671 .B5"@en . "Z671_B5_1968_04_06"@en . "10.14288/1.0190833"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Unviersity of British Columbia Library."@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives."@en . "University of British Columbia. Library"@en . "Biblos"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .