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Show 84TH YEAR; NUMBER 24 SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, UTAH MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1990 Funds are sought for Library books BY AMANDA REESE Recently, the Library received a gift of 3,000 new volumes, furthering its efforts to supply SUSC students with necessary resources. The children of Howard Smith, a rare book dealer from Arizona, donated his 3,000 volume collection to SUSC s special collections. Included are leather-boun- d copies of two magazines printed at the time of Shakespeare. They are useful, telling us about every day Elizabethan life, said Library Director Diana T. Graff. Also included in the donation are religious books written by still popes and monks in the same time period. These books aie use. student for and counted prepared being Efforts to increase SUSCs Library holdings have continued on a state level as well. In a recent Board of Regents meeting, decisions were made to improve automation m our Library and expand the number of volumes. Were trying to fill the gap, said Michael D. Richards, vice president for college relations. , SUSC has made a one-tim-e request for $17,000 to the state book further fund would which acquisitions. Although it is be granted because of would amount the that entire unlikely the number of schools applying, it is almost certain SUSC will receive part of the sum, Graff said. Students may also help raise money for Library acquisitions. A bill to be presented to the governor and voted on next week dollar proposes a ratio of $2 supplied by the state for every books. for new students raise Though several options are being evaluated for raising the fees has been requisite rationed funds, a $1 increase to student scrutinized. Any books purchased will be chosen by the faculty, and said. emphasis will be placed on quality, not just quantity, Graff Before the end of spring quarter, the Library will be hooked to an interschool fax system. Using the current method, it takes approximately 10 days to receive a book or article ordered from another school. With the new system, newspapers and magazine articles less than 10 pages long could be received the same day they are ordered. The new system will also cut the cost of sending copies by thousands of dollars a year, said Graff. The cost to hook SUSC to the system is appoximately $55,000. Currently The Readers Guide and other bibliographic material is stored on informational CDs called CD Roms. They are much easier and more quickly updated, as well as being easier for the students to use, said Graff who noted rhat plans have been made to expand the CD system by several machines. Ultimately, a new $9 million library building will be built. The current Library has approximatly 34,000 square feet of will be space and contains 146,000 volumes. The new building 64.000 square feet and be expandable, ideally holding up to 300.000 volumes It will be located directly behind the current Library State funds will be sought next year for construction, said Graff. Although many schools are asking for money, SUSCs There is project is the largest and requires the most money. some uncertainty, therefore, of whether SUSC will receive the full sum. If all goes as plans, the new building will be completed she said. b 1995-96- , Currently, SUSC is number six on the list to recetve state funds for general library improvements. They could give all six what they ask, but I doubt they will, said Graff. Commerce Sen. Jake Gam shared his views of communism Thursday in his address to the citys Chamber of Garn highlights city banquet BY JODI REINARD Republican Sen. Jake Garn detailed his perspective of the move toward democracy in Soviet bloc countries at the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Banquet Thursday. We are fortunate to live where we live, said Garn, who recently observed arms control talks in Austria and Germany between the Soviet Union and the United States. I had a hard time dealing with people who lied about everything, he said, of the Soviet officials. Gam continued, acknowledging a change in the Soviet attitude. They finally admitted they had been violating treaties, he said. The openness was refreshing, said Garn, adding, the change in openness and candor is very promising. According to the senator, the difference between a free world and an opressed Soviet society was worse than night and day. Night and day doesnt even describe the change, said Garn of his visit to both sides of the toppled Berlin Wall. 1 was not prepared for what I saw of the capitalist versus communist form of governments, he said. On one side of the wall, Garn saw happy, smiling faces. On the other side, it was like Alice m Wonderland disappearing through the mirror, he said. It was a drab, gray city with vast openness in East Germany, said Garn. Nobody was happy, he said. Gam reported that the first day restrictions the wall, an were lifted from the patrol of exodus of four million East German people fled the communist country for the freedom of the west. It was wonderful to see the excitement of the people, he said. While having dinner with East German dissidents and members of the East German polit buro members, Garn came in contact with an East German journalist who said, Each day I write a more daring story. The journalist told Garn that ABC network had interviewed her that day and had payed her $400, which she was saving to buy an automobile. The $400 doesn't seem like much, but to the East Germans, it was a substantial sum, said Garn. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) |