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daily nebraskan
friday, february 6, 1981
Library budget 'insufficient' to expand hours
By Tricia Waters
The UNL library budget for 1981-82
calling for more than $4 million is insuf
ficient to expand library hours and add
necessary new publications, UNL's
Dean of Libraries said.
Gerald A. Rudolph said the library
hours should stay the same this year, but
he is unsure about next year. The five year
budget, beginning with next year, hasn't
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This year's budget, which is before the
Legislature's Appropriations (. omnmui.
listed about $2.4 million for salaries and
wages. For library hours to increase next
year, the salary budget would have to in
crease more than 10 percent, Rudolph
said.
Many late-night employees arc students,
he said. They earn minimum wage, not
enough money to entice them to work
later, Rudolph said. With a salary increase,
more students might be willing to work
longer hours, he said.
UNL libraries are now open for a
"dangerously low minimum" of hours he
said, about 84 hours a week.
To adequately serve the students, the
libraries should be open at least 100 hours
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Rudolph said another problem blocking
an increase in hours is the relocation of
books. New stacks will open in the base
ment of north Love Library this summer,
he said. Five or six people will have to
work about six months to move every
book in the library.
The tight library budget also limits
how many new publications the library
can buy, he said. This year's budget allow
ed about $1.6 million for new books
and periodicals.
Over the last 10 years, the amount
spent for library materials increased
$500,000, a minor increase, Rudolph
said.
He said a good budget would allow the
library to buy 60,000 to 70,000 new vol
umes per year. An amount less than that
means necessary materials won't be
bought, he said. List year, the librae
bought about 52,000 volumes.
"We just can't keep up with getting t he
materials for programs," Rudolph said.
He said s' idents should complain
because thev pay a lot to go to the univer
sity and iliey should get the best library
m terials available.
With enough money to buy more than
60,000 volumes a year, the library could
raise its collections to an "excellent con
dition," Rudolph said.
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