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Question: Where on the UNL campus
can you find a genuine Apollo XI space
suit, space food, a tile from the space
shuttle Columbia, an Apollo IX flight hel
met and other space artifacts?
Answer : In the lobby of the Ralph
Mueller Planetarium in Morrill Hall.
The planetarium celebrates its 25th
anniversary this month. As part of the cele
bration, space artifacts and items are being
exhibited through March 31.
The exhibit gives students an opportun
ity to view historical items from past space
missions, as well as some of the equipment
used on today's space shuttles.
Some of the items on display actually
have flown on missions of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The exhibit features a pressure suit worn
by astronaut Thomas Stafford on his
Gemini IX flight. A flight handbook used
by astronaut Frank Borman of the Apollo
VIII flight is displayed, as well as one of
the heat tiles that protected the Columbia
as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere.
"The actual flown items probably
attract more people than anything," said
planetarium coordinator Jack Dunn.
Dunn said he thought attendance had
been "fairly good" for the first few days of
the exhibit. Some other highlights of the
exhibit are:
-a 150 scale model of the space shuttle
-a 140 scale Apollo Lunar Module
-a moon rock replica display
-a moon geology exhibit from Apollo
16
-a Mercury flight helmet
In addition, Brunswick Corp. of Lincoln
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A model of the space shuttle is part
of the displays in the Mueller exhibit.
provided a display that features parts of
the space shuttle made at the Lincoln
plant.
The Dehner Boot Company of Omaha,
which makes the boots worn aboard the
space shuttle, also has a display.
Many of the exhibit's artifacts were fur
nished by the Kansas Cosmosphere and
Discovery Center of Hutchinson, Kan., and
by NASA.
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By Kristi Lynch
Although UNL moved up five positions
in the national rankings of college libraries
based on size and growth, Dean Waddel,
assistant dean of libraries at UNL, said he
still considers the library in the "upper
part of the bottom third."
"One of the things that one must keep
in mind is that ranking was based on the
compilation of about 10 different factors
- size of the library holdings, volumes
added, size of the staff and other factors,"
he said.
UNL's library was ranked 61st in
1981-82, compared to 66th in the 1979
80, by the Association of Research Lib
raries of Washington. All of the library's
branches are included except the Law
Library, Waddel said.
When the relative ranking is compared
to about 100 institutions, it looks like
the library itself is improving, he said.
Although the library has improved in
relative comparison to other libraries,
the total ranking on the scale has not
improved. Waddel used the comparison
of car manufacturers to prove this point.
"Let's say that this year you sell more
cars than seven (out of 10) manufacturers,
but you still sell fewer cars than you sold
the year before. Has your ranking really
improved?"
Waddel said that -in 1980-81, UNL
ranked, comparatively speaking, 60th out
of 101 libraries with 1,547,212 volumes.
In 1979-80, UNL had 1,494,040 volumes
and ranked 60th out of 99. Although UNL
improved in number of volumes, the rel
ative position, in terms of volumes held,
didn't change, he said.
The library is "hurting" in the staf
fing and salary areas, Waddel said:
"When comparing to toughly 100
libraries, we rank 83rd and that is the
lowest ranking in any of the categories."
Total expenditures and operating expendi
tures are also ranked low at 77th, he said.
"The university administration has tried
to be helpful when it has had the resources
to be helpful."
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