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Show The Thwnderbird Monday October 7, 1985 Student tenant week to inform students Page 3 BY DAVID THAYNE Where can I find a good apartment? What if I dont get along with my roommate? How can I get my landlord to fix the hot water heater?.. .good questions that can be answered during ASSUSC Tenants Association Week or Survival After Arrival Week. This weeks activities should give both new and returning students an opportunity to start things off right, said Mark Morman, ASSUSC Director of Student Affairs. If a student is unhappy at home, his or her entire college experience will be jeopardized. The Students Tenants Association deals with student tenant complaints, grievances, landlord relations, litigation and legal referral, and provides general advice to the students living off campus. One of the main goals of Survival After Arrival Week is to aquaint students with the services that the tenants association can provide, says Morman. Last year, (the first.year for the tenants association) there was very poor student attendance at the 'enanrs association sponsored activities, but this ye ir vc hope to increase attendance by scheduling activities early in the year when students are beginning to settle into college life, said Morman. The week will feature informative sessions and a dance sponsored by the SUSC Ag Club. The association has also published a handbook giving students advice on dealing with landlords and explaining grievance procedures. The handbook also discusses such things as roommates, eviction notices, utilities and other areas of interest to student renters. Patient Doug Millar, right, is examined by Physician Assistant Scott Frichknecht at the Student Health Center, located in room l in M anzanita Hall. The center is an facility that will treat all registered students for medical and surgical care, minor illnesses, immunizations and injuries. Limited laboratory facilities and referral services are also provided. It provides all basic health services, said Kay M esserly, director and nurse at the Student Health Center. The only cost for these services is for medication and prescriptions. A nurse will be on duty from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and a doctor from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. A physicians assistant will also be on hand. C-- Ciabattari, Many students unaware of librarys varied services Low to read their works BY JERRY PIPKIN The literary program of the Utah Arts Council will join the SUSC Convocation Program in sponsoring literary readings by sisters Jane Ciabattari and Denise Low on Thursday at 11 a.m. in the SUSC Auditorium. Ciabattari is current editor in chief of Dial magazine, a public television magazine with a circulation of 1.3 million. She is the former managing editor of Redbook magazine and California Living, the Sunday magazine of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle. Ciabattari also teaches at Columbia University and New York University. She is currently finishing a book of short fiction. Low is on the faculty of the Haskell Indian College, Lawrence, Kansas, where she teaches composition, technical writing, basic English and introduction to literature. Low has also held a teaching position at the University of Kansas English Department as well as at Washburn University. Her most recent publication is a collection of poetry entitled, Spring Geese and Other Poems. A press conference has been tentatively scheduled to follow the lecture at 2 p.m. in Juniper Hall. Other speakers later this quarter will include author Barry Lopez, former Black Panther Bobby Seale, native South African Stuart Pringle and others. Most students know that a library has books but some may not be aware of all the valuable resources available at the SUSC library. One feature at the library is the data base computer search. The computer is connected to a system in Palo Alto, Calif, which can search just about any subject a student could want, said Diana Graff, library director. The average data base search costs about $8, but those students who have used it report that they are satisfied, she continued. Another feature, ERIC, or Educational Resources Information Center, is a microfiche system containing over 2 million entries. ERIC is a file of fugative literature; by that we mean those articles, conference reports and research projects that have not been released in a book or magazine, said Graff. All those things that you hear about but dont know how to get. ERIC can be searched by the computer, in most cases for under a dollar, or students can find the information in the ERIC indexes. The library also has on microfiche Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, and Sports those periodicals that are the Illustrated, most easily damaged, Graff explained. The microfilm collection contains The New York Times, Deseret News, Iron County Record, and The Daily Spectrum. The advantage of having these, Graff indicated, is that students can read about the events as they happened rather than from the perspective of a history book and having it on microfilm makes it readily available. Students should note that the books in the library are listed two different ways. Those books received previous to 1978 use the Dewey Decimal system and are on the top, or fifth floor, while those received after that date use the Library of Congress system and are on the fourth floor. All of the oversize books have been recataloged using the Library of Congress system and are located in one section. The Library of Congress system uses letters in the first part of the code. The library would probably be much simpler to use if all the books were recataloged. But, Graff points out, it would cost about $280,000 and we need so many other important things. When asked if she anticipated ever recataloging the older books she replied, We will gradually recatalog those that have lasting value and those that dont will, in time, be discarded. If you are wondering why the Library of Congress system is replacing the Dewey Decimal system, Graff explained that Library services range from the computer search to interlibrary loans to the ERIC system. There are only nine numbers and as collections get bigger it becomes increasingly difficult to keep adding more decimal places. Dewey could not have anticipated this. The Library of Congress system uses 25 letters so the possible combinations are much larger. (The letter o is not used in the system to avoid confusion with zero.) Graff said, All of the academic libraries are changing to the Library of Congress system, so students can expect to encounter it even more in the future. According to Graff, The first thing students need to know is that they must have a student activity card. There is another advantage to having the card. Our students have the privilege of borrowing from all of the 13 academic libraries in the state including the two private colleges, Westminster and BYU, she explained. Students should also be aware that should they borrow a book from another college, they can return it to the SUSC library. Students can also borrow from the Eccles Medical library and the law library at the University of Utah. Even their own students sometimes dont have that privilege, but, she went on, you must have that activity card with your picture on it. The card catalog is the key to the whole system and students that dont know how to use it or cannot find what they need should ask for help. The library staff members are there to help you so feel free to ask questions. There is a class available for one credit, IM 101, which some might find helpful. The library has extensive reference, government documents, and periodical sections as well as a special collections department that contains works of Shakespeare, history of southern Utah and the William Rees Palmer Piute Indian Collection.This collection contains a vast amount of information that would have been lost were it not for this mans work, Graff said. Also, the library can make interlibrary loans. The library computer is connected to a network of over 2,000 academic libraries making many books available to students. There are also two Apple computers available at the library free of charge and typewriters for a small fee. Conference rooms are also available. Library hours are 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday thru Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. |