The Cadre, Sept 24, 1974, pg. 2

EDITORIAL

Each time a stude- ntrthkes books out from the University library, he has to fill out an infornation card on each book. The list, first must include the acces- sion number of the bobk. Then you must put down the author's name, last name first, then initials. After this comesthe tit— le of the book, which to be written properly must be underlined. Then co- mes one short line on w— hich you are expected to put down the complete sh— elf number of the book.

Dear Sir,-

I was pleased to

see the first issue of the Cadre this week. It was highly organized etc. etc. There is however room‘for improvement. Last year they had cont—

Finally, as you near the bottom of the card, you have to sign your name, address, and telephone number. After all this has been completed, a 1- brian has to stamp the card with the date that the book is due back.

If a student is doing

some research and doesn't ’want to work in the lib- rary, he may be checking out more than ten books at a time, and this check out process can become very time consuming.

The question is of- ten asked" are there any other ways inwhich the

roversy, sound Marxist theology - they estab- lished an introduction to revolutionary thou- ght on the Island — so-— mething which had never been done before I might add. - and from the loo— ks of your first edition you have eliviated all such thought. This is

a drastic mistake on your part. If this is not included into the paper the losses could be infinite. Please do

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books can be checked out?" The answer is that there certainly are. One of the best systems which

is quickly being establi- shed elsewhere(or has been used for years) in university libraries, is one in which a card is placed in the back of ev- ery‘book, with all of the pertinent information a-

«bout the book listed on

it. When a student go- 'es to check out a book, the card is taken from the book and put into a machine‘with your Student I.D., which presses onto the card your name, stu—

not loose touch with 311 that was gained last ye- ar. ~~

Sincerely yours Janet MacDonald

Dear Editor,

I am excited at the first additon of the Cadre for the this year. At last we have rid ourselves of that political nonsense that reeked from the Cadre last year. I be- lieve we-are (and I must said it is about time) coming into an new era in the life of the Cadre, where the real live issues of the Campus are being di— scussed and printed. It has at last become a UNIV— ERSITY NEWSPAPER, where the thoughts and feelings of the student population are being considered and dealt with.

Again, thank your Ed— itors of this years Cadre, I believe you have finally

\seen the "light".

SinCerely yours Anne McCourt

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dent number, and the date that the book must be re- turned.

It just so happens that Student Services has been very obliging to such a system. Each year th— ey give every student an I.D. with their picture on it and their name and studentHnumber on a rais—I ed surface. It is inter— esting to note, that if it wasn't for the fact that they are once again trying to enforce the br— inging of student I.D.‘s to the Pig n Whistles, the card would serve al— most no other purpose. I mustconcede the fact that On rare occasions, the lobrary staff uses the student I.D.‘s when che— cking out books, but it still requires you to wr- ite down all of the oth— er information.

This other system would not only be of gr- eat service to the stu- dents, but also to the librarians. When some-. body\is taking out a la- rge number of books in a hurry,'by the time th- ey get to the last cards,

it often ends up looking scribbled. “Alsovthat

many peoples handWriting

is hard to read, no matter’

how long they take when writing something. _When the librarians file these cards, they have to fight: through all of these dif- ferent handwritings. Wi- th the other system, all of this information would be typed out in an orga- nized fashion.

It also eliminates the possiblity of people checking out books with false names. .That pr— actice usually increases whenever you put guards at the door. This prac- tice is eliminated when you are using I.D.‘s wi- th everbodys pitture on it.

Of course this isn't an easy system to convert

_to. It would require t-

ime, and probably could, only be done during the summer months. When all of the factors of prac- ticality are considered , it would still be well worth it. The only oth- er major complaint aga— 'inst it would be the co- st involved, but consid- ering the fact that we have spent such a great deal of money on buildi- ng a new library, we co— uld at least have a mod- ern check-out system to go with it.

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