Show Ford Scholars to Get Stack Permits for Library Books A change in policy regarding stack permits at the university library has been effected with the coming of the Ford Because of the seminars in many courses beginning on the senior the university library has admitted seniors to the stacks since According to L. university the library staff this year debated the possibility of allowing the gifted Ford freshmen the privilege of stack the Ford scholars are supposed to be pretty Kirkpatrick they t can't find their own book's without making confusion or being then there is no point in making Policy Can Continue He that if this group works out successfully there is no reason the precedence thus started cannot be followed in two or three In other if these freshmen cause no more work or confusion or loss in the then seniors and sophomore and junior students will also be considered for stack In explaining the function of these stack Kirkpatrick said that the number of books and students involved was the main The reason that students in colleges are not allowed to go and get their own books from the shelves is that in a library of five or six thousand students trying to find their own books are generally conceded to be a source of considerable Efficiency Rules in the interests of only seniors and graduate students are ordinarily to go back to the shelves and try to find their own As an example of how strict these rules are in some the librarian points out that at the University of Chicago a student has to be a candidate for Ph.D. degree to get a stack People working for just a master's degree are not allowed access directly to the One of the big problems in most libraries since the war is that of giving the students a chance to handle books without tremendous confusion Kirkpat-lick In all librarians agree that books are important in education their use should come ahead of their In practice most have become alarmed with the big enrollments of the post-war and have increased rather than diminished |