Sunday, February 17, T9flB
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THE NEBRASKAN
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Concerning Love Library
Last Thursday afternoon we visited Love Memorial Library to find
the answer to twa questions which have been. thrown at us frequently dur
ing; the past two weeks.. The questions are: "Why can't the library- be kept
openi past nine o'clock on week nights and. for longer hours on. weekends?"
and "Why does it take so long to check out a book which is kept in the
stacks?"
Here are- the answers.
Lack of professionally trained librarians make it impossible for li
brary hours to be extended at present. Student help is being employed
and substitutions are being made where possible, but there are still neces
sary a minimum number of trained staff members who must be retained
to kegp the building in operation. Right now there are nine openings on
the library staff for properly equipped individuals. These are in addition
to the 31 professional ind clerical employees now on the library payroll
which includes ag and med school branches.
At present about 40 students are putting in an. average of 15 work
ing hours weekly at Love Library. In some cases graduate and upperclass
students have taken over work usually done by a professionally trained
worker. There still remain, however, nine positions which must be filled
by librarians before the building can be adequately staffed. According to
Director F. A. Lundy, "Our sole problem at the moment is to find people
who have what we consider minimum equipment." Mr. Lundy further
stated that the search for employees has been underway for some time.
If the library heads are successful in, hiring four! or five new people
by next month, there is a chance that opening hours! may be extended
beginning about a month before finals. Otherwise the building will continue-to
clpse at 9 p. m. on week nights and noon on Saturdays.
A tour of the entire library clearly? showed us why, the service or
call slip books is sometimes delayed. The answer here is lack of equipment.
The greater part of the south side of the building is; taken up with
eight floors of stacks. Of the eight floors,' three are equipped with the
needed shelves. Some- of tire remaining fiva floors are empty, some are
filled with boxed books and the others have the books arranged in row3 on
the cement floors. The books cannot be moved into these stacks until the
steel shelves, of which- production- and- delivery- has been- held- p by the
recent strikes, arrive to be hung between the built-in posts.
Th three floors of stacks which are already equipped are those near
est the second fSoor loan desk and- the four reading rooms now operr and
hold the books most frequently used. The majority of the remainder of the
books are temporarily placed' in the basement room at the east end of, th
building on wooden shelving. When a student calls for one of these books
the librarian must go down five flights, thru a long corridor and into. th
two miles of temporary basement stacks, traveling approximately a quar
ter of a mile.. For this reason these books are paged only about every 20
minutes and students sometimes have to wait a short time for the re
quired volume.
It is not surprising that Love Library employees do not always find
it possible to give the two or three minute service usually found in Ameri
can libraries. We can be thankful that wo de not have to suffer under the
Europeaa pattern of 24-hour service, in which a call slip is presented one
day and the book received the following, day.
The blame for the entire library service problem, like that of sev
eral other existing problems, is the result of wartime conditions. The li
brary heads are aware of, and sympathetic to, the dissatisfaction with the
existing conditions. This is further shown by plans which are underway
for a student questionnaire to be issued soon,, for future use, to discover,
which hours the students desire the library facilities.
The money for proper equipment and operation of the building is
available. The administration has stood back of Mr. Lundy and the li
brary officials in all of their plans and undertakings.
Wartime conditions have placed the staff under continual handi
caps. The move from the old library building was made last summer dur
ing the summer session and open library facilities were maintained all
during the move. The architects have been unable to complete their work
on fourth floor and for the auditorium. Special equipment and furniture
for the two remaining reading rooms, the student social room, the brows
ing and rare book room and coat rooms, as well as the remainder of the
air conditioning mechanism and shelving, have been unobtainable.
Until these conditions can be relieved the students will have to bear
with the library staff.
Inquiring Reporter Finds Student Majority
ravors Sending rood to Staving Eur
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. BY LEE HARMS.
Your inquiring reporter took it
upon himself to interview several
university students concerning the
European food shortage. Students
interviewed seem to be only mild
ly aware that Europe was facing
a great food crisis, and few had
any conception of how serious
it really is.
Bishop Dibelius of Berlin re
cently stated that he believed the
majority of children under two
years of age in Berlin would not
survive the winter. Naturally,
Europe looks to the United States
for aid, and this inquiring re
porter sought to find out the stu
dent's attitude toward this prob
lem. No Food to England.
It was . interesting to note that
England was usually listed with
Germany as the countries which
should receive no food. This anti
British feeling was particularly
evident among the veterans. Prac
tically all thought that payment
of some form should be made but
lew had any practical suggestions
as how they could pay for it.
Students seemed to feel that the I
United States had played the role
of the "great benefactor" too
long.
Many of the students who
first stated that Germany should
receive no aid would usually
change their minds when small
starving children were pictured
to them. However, some would
reply with an argument which
they considered infallible: Look
how much suffering they have
wrought on this world, and that
if you had a member of your
family who has died or suffered
at their hands as I have, you
would feel differently too. How
ever, the majority felt that we
should try to forget our prejudices
in order to insure peaceful world
for ourselves and future genera
tions. Jo Strain: I don't think we should
send them any food unless they
pay for it I feel we should
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send food to Germany. It wasn't
all the German people's fault.
Don t carry on prejudices and
cause another war.
"Hal" Halbukken, Navy: It is all
right to send them food, but
we should first supply our own
needs and feed the population
of the United States which is
in need. Send food to all coun
tries, but see that distribution
is strictly supervised.
Walter Wilkins: I feel everybody
should be sent food except the
Germans, unless they pay cash
for it. They started this war,
let them suffer the conse
quences. Ralph Wells: I think we should
help them out. Send food to all
the countries that need it, in
cluding Germany. If we want
to send food to some, we should
send it to all.
Marge Doyle: We should send
food only to the neediest na
tions. England should receive
none. She has taken advantage
of American lend-lease and our
generosity in general. It's all
right with me just as long as
we are not taken advantage of.
Let economists figure out a way
for them to pay for it.
Send Food to All.
John Basarich: Send it to all
European countries. From the
standpoint of simple humani
tarism and also from historical
experience. The folly after the
last war was due to a large
extent to the depressing state
the people of Europ-j found
themselves, that is, lacking food
and other necessities of life. We
have witnessed the result of
this and must act accordingly.
Security of peace is ample pay
ment. Frank Rail: It is a good idea for
a short length of time. All that
need aid should receive it. I
lieve the main aim in defeat
ing the aggressor nations is to
break their type of government,
not necessarily making them
nr.
democratic. Give them a type
of government that is suitable
to their people. They should
pay us some time, but you can
not make them pay it if they
don't have it.
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Foundation . . .
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chemistry $4,050; department of
bacteriology $1,500; museum $432;
departrient of dairy husbandry
$500; chemurgy $1,500; student
union $110, school of music $101.
Ko&nict
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considered by the returned Klub
members on a basis of leadership,
scholarship and general ability.
Sophomore and junior men are
especially urged to apply, accord
ing to Dick Folda, Konmet Klub
president Workers will also be
needed soon to complete plans for
a spring show which the Klub
will present some time in April.
Carnival
(Continued From Page 1.)
the right man, was the feature of
the Towne Club display. The line
waiting to arouse the sleeping one
was long, but when a Nebraskan
reporter asked for a few ",.d8
of comment, the princess only
snored. Even the news of their
second place award did not seem
to disturb Sleeping Beauty's re
pose.
Third place came to the Pi Phi
booth on the strength of three
pans of unidentified legs. This
alone brought this booth attention,
but when the crowd found that
they were allowed to try to toss
rings over the legs, the booth had
a top position cinched.
Veteran Penny Carnival goers
were of the opinion that this
year's, affair produced a higher
standard of excellence than any
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"ALL BY -MYSELF"
8:00 P. M., SUNDAY, FEB. 16
Union. XIallrooni
Coffee Hour 5 lo 6, Sunday, in Lounge
JJisl (Daily TbSuuhzn.
FORTY-FIFTH TEAR
SubnorliKlon rain are SI.IM per semester or $I.M for Ihe collete year. KM
mailed.. Mnrlr copy. 5 muIj. Entered u seoond-olaa matter, at the pot of fire in
Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of Ctmrreaa March S, 1X79. and at uncial rate of
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carnival of the last three years.
Sue Pope, president of the Coed-
Counselors, informed me that
she did not know how long the
Penny Carnival had been an an
nual event, but later investiga
tion proved that the event had
its origin in the early years of
university existence, when it was
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