"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1217000"@en . "Univeristy Publications"@en . "2015-07-14"@en . "1969-11"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubclibnews/items/1.0213309/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " HJ.B.C. LIBRARY NEWS\nVolume II, No. 8\nNovember, 1969\nVancouver, B.C.\nThis newsletter appears once a month as an information service for U.B.C. faculty and other readers outside the Library. It\ncontains feature articles and news about developments in the Library system which we feel will be of interest or concern to the\nlarger community. The News welcomes all comments, criticisms, and suggestions for future articles.\nTHE SEDGEWICK LIBRARY-PAST HISTORY AND FUTURE PLANS\nAs most of our readers know by now, UBC's Board of Governors has formally approved plans for a new undergraduate\nlibrary, to be built under the Main Mall. The two-storey building will have roughly four times as much space as the present\nundergraduate library, and will be able to house 200,000 volumes instead of the 84,000 Sedgewick now holds. Anyone who has\nvisited Sedgewick in the last two or three years knows how desperately these expanded facilities are needed. Yet this\novercrowded library was thought to be large enough to meet future needs when it opened just nine years ago. What happened?\nTo understand just what happened, and why, we have to go back to the late 1950's. At that time the Main Library was\ngrowing steadily in size and complexity. One wing had been added ten years before, and a new south wing was under\nconstruction. In addition, enrolment at UBC had reached the point where the Library's single reference division could no longer\nhandle all the requests for information. If efficient service was to be maintained, a number of specialized reference divisions\nwould have to be set up when the new wing was completed.\nGiven the number of users and the size of the collection, these changes were necessary. However, from the point of view of\nthe undergraduates, they did not make the Library any easier to use. Collections and reference services were becoming\nincreasingly fragmented, and students in their first and second years were beginning to have trouble finding the material they\nwanted. In short, there was a real need for a smaller, more simply organized library set up especially for undergraduates. So\nbegan the Sedgewick Library.\nFrom the time it opened its doors in 1960, Sedgewick was an instant success. It had been intended only for students in thei\nfirst two years of arts, but other undergraduates rapidly discovered it. Material selected for first- and second-year students\nproved to be almost as useful to those in upper years, and in a short time the library began gearing its services to all arts\nundergraduates. The results were overwhelming. Students baffled by the Main Library turned increasingly to Sedgewick, and by\n1966 it was serving far more students than it had been designed to handle. It had quite literally become a victim of its own\nsuccess.\nBetween 1966 and 1969, as Sedgewick struggled to serve an ever-growing number of students, plans for a new and much\nlarger undergraduate library were taking shape. The first formal proposal came in A Plan For Future Services, issued in 1966 by\nBasil Stuart-Stubbs and William J. Watson. In September 1968 it was repeated in the Senate Library Committee's Summary\nReport on Building Requirements, addressed to the Senate Committee on Academic Building Needs. At that time the Sedgewick\nLibrary, with 84,000 volumes, was making nearly half a million loans a year\u00E2\u0080\u0094almost as many as the Main Library, with its\n700,000 volumes.\nBefore the end of 1968 the project was formally approved by the Board of Governors, and a Client's Committee and a User's\nCommittee were set up. By the summer of 1969 the architectural firm of Rhone & Iredale had drawn up a design for the new\nlibrary. This plan, slightly modified, was submitted to the Board of Governors and approved on October 8.\nThe new library will not be just an expanded version of the old one. Over the past nine years the Sedgewick staff have learned\nmuch about student needs and use patterns, and the architects have kept these in mind while designing the building. The day\nmay yet come when the university need not apologize for its library service to undergraduates. AT LAST\nAfter a long but unavoidable delay, our much-advertised library handbook is back from the printer and ready to distribute.\nIts contents include:\n1) a guide to the location and holdings of all branch libraries\n2) step-by-step explanations of the classification system and card catalogue\n3) tables of loan periods\n4) detailed information on all Main Library reference divisions and other public services\n5) a glossary of terms used in UBC libraries\n6) Main Library floor plans and stack maps\n, 7) a campus map showing locations of libraries\nAll in all, the handbook should make life a good deal simpler for anyone using the Library. As few students know it is\navailable, any publicity from faculty members would be appreciated. Copies are being given out at all public service desks and\nbranch libraries.\nGROUP ORIENTATION A SUCCESS\nNow that a comprehensive printed guide is available, the Library's orientation programs will probably not attract as many\nstudents. However, the combined slide show and tour given daily during September and the first part of October drew\nunexpectedly large crowds. In the first five weeks of the fall term more than 2,000 freshmen came to the Main Library for the\nforty-minute program. This represents over 50% of the total number registered at UBC.\nThe response from faculty members was particularly encouraging. More than 45 English 100 classes were brought in for\nspecially-scheduled programs, and groups of students in Arts 1, physical education, sociology and economics were given tours\nstressing areas of particular interest to them. These special programs are still being given, incidentally, and they are not restricted\nto first-year students. Any faculty member interested in bringing a class to the Library for a general or specialized information\nsession should call local 2076 or 2077.\nSENATE LIBRARY COMMITTEE NAMED\nEvery year at this time a new Senate Library Committee is appointed. Its chief function is to advise and assist the University\nLibrarian, and more specifically to:\n1) help develop a general program of library service for the interests of the University\n2) advise on the allocation of book funds to the various fields of instruction and research\n3) help formulate a policy for the development of library resources in these fields\n4) keep informed about library needs of instructional and research staff\n5) aid in keeping the academic community informed about the Library\nThe Committee is made up of four ex officio members (the University President, Chancellor, Registrar, and Librarian), and a\nnumber of Senate members, including students. A list of the 1969/70 Committee members who have been appointed by the\nSenate is given below.\nMr. W.M. Armstrong Deputy President\nMrs. A. Brearley School of Librarianship\nDr. D.G. Brown Department of Philosophy\nMr. F.J. Cairnie B.C. Teachers Federation\nDr. D.H. Chitty Department of Zoology\nDr. W.C. Gibson Department of History of Science and Medicine\nDr. J.M. Kennedy Computing Centre\nDr. A.J. McClean Faculty of Law\nDr. M.F. McGregor. Department of Classics\nMr. K.R. Martin Management Research (Western) Ltd.\nDr. S. Rothstein School of Librarianship By early November, student senators will have been added to the Committee, and a chairman will have been elected. See\nnext month's Library News for an up-to-date report.\nOBSTACLE COURSE TEMPORARY\nEntering the Main Library is a challenge these days, although those long trips Up and down stairways may be helping many\nhearts. Behind the hoarding, the front doors are being widened. The result, due in November, will be four doors instead of the\nfamiliar two. Pedestrian traffic jams, we hope, will disappear, and the general appearance of the building will be improved.\nThank you for bearing with us!\nNEW SERIALS LIST DUE1-\nThe Library's annual Serial Holdings list will be released this month. It will be available at public service desks throughout\nthe library system, and copies will be sent to all academic departments. As most of our readers know, this alphabetical index\ngives the location, call number and holdings of all serials listed. The new edition is bigger than ever, covering just under 16,000\nseparate titles. All the same, some of the Library's materials (chiefly government publications) will not be included, and must\nstill be found through the card catalogue.\nTo make this year's list easier to understand and use, the editors have added a new step-by-step introduction and an index to\nall locations. Also included is a list of the journals which were recently moved from the Main Library to the Curriculum\nLaboratory.\nCOPYING BRANCHES OUT\nThe Main Library's Xerox Room is now able to make transparencies of library materials for use on overhead projectors.\nFaculty members may find this service especially useful. Obviously, it is a convenient way of showing printed material to large\nclasses, but it has another advantage. Transparencies of rare books or reference material have not always been easy to obtain up\ntill now, as some volumes could not be taken out of the building. The new service makes it possible to reproduce anything held\nin the Library.\nLocated at the rear of the main entrance hall, the Xerox Room is open between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays and from 9\na.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The charge for an 8Vi by 11 transparency will be fifty cents.\nSAVE TIME-USE BOOK RETURN BIN\nNot everyone knows yet that a remote book drop has been set up outside the Student Union Building. A gift from the UBC\nAlumni Fund, it is located on the north (Brock Hall) side of the SUB opposite the parking meters. Books borrowed from the\nMain Library or its branches can now be returned here instead of to the individual library. A second book bin has been\ntemporarily placed in front of the Main Library while the centre doors are being widened.\nOn weekdays the book bins are cleared twice daily, but books left there after 4 p.m. Friday will not be picked up till Monday\nmorning. For this reason, please don't return anything to a book bin on a weekend if it is due before Monday.\nAWARD-WINNING BOOKS ON DISPLAY.\nThanks to UBC's German Department, the Library will be a more colourful place during November. Display cases around the\nbuilding are featuring some of the best-designed German books of 1967. These have been selected from a complete set of just\nover fifty volumes which was donated to the Department by the West German government.\nThe collection has been divided into three separate areas, each on display in a different section of the Library. Children's\nbooks are being exhibited in the School of Librarianship, books illustrating aspects of fine printing are in the Special Collections\nDivision, and material on literature, fine arts, and technology is in the hallway outside the Ridington Room.\nAfter the display the children's books will be added to the Library's collection, and the rest will be housed in the German\nDepartment's own reading room. CRANE'S TAPE LIBRARY GROWS\nThe Crane Memorial Library for the Blind has set up two new and welcome services for its users. The first of these is a variant\nof the Sedgewick Library's paperback browsing collection. Each month Crane will receive twenty light fiction and biography\ntitles, each on a unique new pre-recorded tape cartridge. Students who have an hour to spare may now come in, pop one of these\ncartridges into a toaster-like player, and enjoy some of the latest non-academic reading. The twenty titles are exchanged for new\nones every month.\n[t \"v'l Ifiw tbltu>\nAlthough the number of pre-recorded materials is growing, many books required for UBC courses are still not available on\ntape. To correct this situation, the Crane Library has launched a drive to record textbooks needed by blind students on campus.\nOver 100 volunteer readers, mostly students, have responded to advertisements in the Ubyssey, and recording sessions now run\nfor seven or eight hours a day. Using this system, the library expects to tape an average of one text a week. However, this\nestimate may have to be revised. Just before press time we learned that three books had been completed in the first five days of\nthe program.\nNEWSPAPERS IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY\nThe library of a large university is a storehouse for information in many varied forms. However, no library has an unlimited\nbudget or unrestricted storage space. Some priorities do have to be established in the purchase of material.\nWhere do newspapers fit into this picture? Over the years there has been a considerable difference of opinion on their\nimportance to the academic library. Until fairly recently they were not regarded as serious source material. After all, they were\nephemeral, often biased or sensational, and very seldom indexed. Storage was difficult and expensive, and even with the best\" of\ncare newsprint tended to disintegrate within a few years.\nIn spite of such disadvantages, newspapers are looked on today as an essential part of the university library's collection.\nBasically this is because they report on events much nearer to the time of happening, and in much greater detail, than any other\nprinted medium. As a result, they are major sources of information for research in history and the social sciences. Biographies,\nlocal histories, studies on politics, economics, or social customs\u00E2\u0080\u0094all of these draw much of their primary material from\nnewspapers.\nIn order to make this type of information available to those who need it, the university library must subscribe to a wide range\nof domestic and foreign newspapers. As current issues would be of little value by themselves, a backfile should be kept for each\ntitle. The more complete this file, the more useful the paper is likely to be.\nValuable as it undoubtedly is, a newspaper collection such as we have described can be a headache to librarians. Newspapers\nare not only expensive to acquire, but also extremely difficult to store and preserve. Current issues, for instance, require a\nconsiderable amount of space for shelving and even more for reading; in fact the area needed for each user is larger in a\nnewspaper reading room than anywhere else in the library. In addition, unbound issues are often lost or damaged, and when this\nhappens it is not always easy to get duplicates.\nPutting a newspaper in a hard binding does reduce losses, but it also creates a new set of problems. The process is expensive,\nand the bound volumes are so large and heavy that they require enormous quantities of specially-built shelving for storage.\nFurthermore, even bound newspapers will not last indefinitely. Wood pulp newsprint gradually disintegrates if it is allowed to\ncome in contact with air, even when temperature and humidity are carefully controlled. Chemical preservatives are expensive,\nand none have been entirely successful.\nProbably the most satisfactory way of preserving newspaper backfiles is on microfilm. In this form they are easier to handle\nthan heavy bound volumes, take up only about one-hundredth of the space, and of course do not require expensive heavy-duty\nshelving. Most important of all, they do not deteriorate with age. Today research libraries can buy a wide variety of Canadian,\nAmerican, British, and foreign-language newspapers on microfilm from publishers, library associations, or commercial copying\nagencies. The cost is high (especially if the library has to buy microfilm readers as well) but in the long run this method of\nstorage is less expensive than binding printed copies.\nCosts can be cut down even more if two or more libraries in the same region cooperate in building up their collections. UBC,\nSimon Fraser, and the University of Victoria are already taking steps in this direction. A computer list giving the newspaper\nholdings of all three libraries is being prepared now. It will serve two purposes: to let users know where backfiles of a particular\npaper are available, and to keep the libraries from ordering unnecessary duplicates. Indexes to the contents of newspapers are every bit as important to users as lists of holdings, but very few are available. One\nof the best substitutes, at least for Canadian libraries, is Canadian News Facts, which began in 1967. It comes out in the form of\na biweekly news digest rather than an index to stories in individual newspapers. However, each news item is dated so that readers\ncan refer to papers published at that time for more detailed coverage. Other indexes have been produced locally for newspapers\nin a particular region. One, the Index to B.C. Newspapers, is so important to students of B.C. history that it deserves separate\ncoverage (see following article). These projects, and others like them, are making newspapers steadily more valuable to the\nmodern university library and its users.\nINDEX TO B.C. NEWSPAPERS\nB.C. libraries have long been trying to make access to newspapers and their contents easier. One important breakthrough is\nthe new microfilmed Index to B.C. Newspapers. For nearly seventy years the Provincial Library in Victoria has maintained a\ncard index to the contents of Vancouver and Victoria papers, but this has never before been available to anyone outside the\nParliament Buildings. The file has now been filmed, and a complete copy is available from the UBC Library's Government\nPublication Division.\nThe newspapers indexed are the Victoria Times and Colonist and the Vancouver Times, News Herald, Sun and Province.\nCoverage is from 1900 to approximately April 1969, with a gap between 1910 and 1916. Arranged by subject, the index\nconcentrates generally on B.C. history, politics and economics. A partial list of the subject headings used is shelved with the\nmicroform reference books in the Government Publications Division. Anyone wishing more information on this new research aid\nshould call at the Division's service desk or phone local 3858.\nEXTENDED HOURS FOR MATH LIBRARY\nThe Mathematics Library has joined a growing number of campus branches which offer service seven days a week. It will now\nbe open on Sundays from 12 noon till 5 p.m.\nCAMPUS LIBRARY HOURS\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11\nMain, Sedgewick, Woodward and Law Libraries\nCurriculum Laboratory\nForestry /Agriculture Library\nMathematics Library\nMusic Library\nSocial Work Library\nWilson Record Library\nBrock Hall Study Areas\n9 a.m. - midnight\nCLOSED\n9 a.m. - 5 p.m.\n9 a.m. - 10 p.m.\n8 a.m. 11 p.m.\n8 a.m. 10 p.m.\nCLOSED\n8 a.m. midnight\nHours of service for some divisions within the Main Library will vary:\nAsian Studies CLOSED\nFine Arts Division 9 a.m. - midnight\nGovernment Publications 9 a.m. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 5 p.m.\nSpecial Collections CLOSED CANADA COUNCIL GRANTS CUT OFF\nAs the News was going to press, the Canada Council announced that its grants for the purchase of research materials in the\nsocial sciences and humanities would be suspended for at least the coming year. UBC received $70,000 from the Council in\n1968, and all of it was used to improve library resources.\nThis change in Council policy is much to be regretted. The great deficiencies of Canadian university library collections were\nbrought to public attention by the AUCC-sponsored Williams Report in 1962, and since that time the Canada Council had done\nmuch to improve the national situation. However, Canada's research libraries are still by no means self-sufficient. As evidence of\nthis, the UBC Library must turn to the United States for about 20% of all material needed on interlibrary loan.\n\t\nEditor: Mrs. E. de Bruijn Information & Orientation Division"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Z736.B74 B851"@en . "Z736_B74_B851_1969_02_08"@en . "10.14288/1.0213309"@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. 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