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Lincoln's first food cooperative is
straightening out its financial affairs and
plans to expand, according to coop
member Dave Wilamowski.
"Problems with just not getting
enough money back to cover what we
paid out" has forced the coop to change
its bookkeeping system, Wilamowski said.
The coop has been unable to account
for certain amounts of money.
"I don't think it was all mistakes,"
Wilamowski said. "No one in the coop is
a bookkeeper and it's been kind of hard
to figure out what went on by looking at
the records."
"There definitely have been some
problems; it's never been a real smooth
operation," he added. "It's not like
walking into a grocery store and walking
out with your food. But it's getting
better."
Financial difficulties have prompted a
switch to two bookkeepers.
The coop, known as "Our Stores, has
been around more than three years,
although Wilamowski has been active for
a year and one-half, he said.
Money problems
The money problems have not stopped
efforts to establish a staples store to
handle orders for such items as dried
fruits, teas and cereals.
"We handle a complete line of dairy
products, fruits and vegetables,"
Wilamowski said. Distribution of
nonstaple items takes place on Saturday
mornings at Trinity Methodist Church.
The Northside branch members distribute
their goods from the Epworth Methodist
Church.
Staples orders are placed "once every
three or four months" while members
must order other products one week in
advance when they pick up and pay for
their previous order, Wilamowski said.
According to Wilamowski, the coop
maintains its lower-than-retail-outlet
prices by obtaining products wholesale
and having members pick up and
distribute the goods.
"We operate on a team basis. There are
four teams and each member works for a
month on his team then has three months
off," he said.
Jobs including the pick up and
distribution chores as well as the "big
jobs" like bookkeeping and compiling the
week's orders.
New members "usually look around a
few times" before asking to join,
Wilamowski said. A $5 membership fee is
refunded if members leave.
"We want to do a lot more than we are
now, like buying some of our stuff direct
from local farmers instead of from
someplace else. (The coop obtains beans
from Texas)," Wilamowski said.
UNL re vises library lending policies for fall
An overdue book will cost 40 cents less next fall,
according to Charles Chamberlain, circulation services
librarian at Love Library.
Although lending time of bound periodicals is
being cut from one week to three days, the volumes
now will be renewable, he said.
The changes result from committee
recommendations to revise the UNL library lending
code.
According to Dean A. Waddel, UNL assistant dean
of university libraries, the new policy will "improve
the flexibility of the library system." By shortening
lending time and adding a renewal policy, Waddell
said, material will be made available to more students.
Revision
The revision process of the lending code started
with the committee headed by Chamberlain and
made up of representatives from each university
library unit.
Chamberlain said he collected student opinions
from the suggestion box at the undergraduate library
and through his work at Love's circulation desk.
Reducing the size of the 11 -page UNL Library
Lending Code booklet was necessary, said
Chamberlain, "so the university community can use
and refer to it." Calling the old booklet
"cumbersome" and "unimportant to most people,"
he said the new book will help answer questions he
has been asked at the circulation desk.
Both Waddel and Chamberlain reviewed the
committee's work and passed the proposal to Gerald
Rudolph, dean of libraries.
The revised code was then presented to the
Faculty Senate Library Committee. Faculty and
ASUN-selected undergraduate and graduate students
on the committee made the final revisions.
Services outline
He emphasized that the completed booklet, to be
available at the circulation desk at university libraries
next fall, s "an outline of some important services"
offered to students.
The intercampus renewal request form, he said,
will allow students on one campus to renew books
checked out from a library on another campus. A
reciprocal borrowing agreement allows students to
check out material from any college library, such as
Nebraska Wesleyan's.
Even though Love looks like "a typical
bureaucratic office and the stacks have retained the
feel of old army barracks," said Waddel and
Chamberlain, the personnel's concern is on student
convenience.
Long range revisions such as a computerized
lending system and triplicate library cards for easier
renewing, have already been planned.
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daily nebraskan
thursday, may 1, 1975
