PAGE 6...THE VOICE...MARCH 20, 1971
University library
circulatory system
of student studv
Mrs. Marie Kennedy, Cataloger, and assistants, Mrs.
W. K. Hall and Mrs. V, C. Williams, discuss new
proposals for the department.
Library
security
system
needed
A gO'Dd library must
provide a reasonable
percentage of new titltes,
but if presem theft trends
continie at Chescnutt Li
brary, twenty per cent
of the annual book budget
will have to be used to
purchase replacements.
If this twenty percent can
be saved, a better re
ference collection can be
afforded and periodicals
which are more necessary
for research can be pur
chased.
Books are stolen for
various reasons. Rush
assignments in books
which are in short supply
pressure students into
stealing. The use of and
accessibility of books are
encouraged by the librar
ians, but this also makes
them more vulnerable to
theft. The "disposable”
paperbook seems to have
lessened the value placed
on hardback books. Their
cost is being ignored. Low
salaries and short supply
of librarians have made it
necessary to operate at
times with a very limited
staff and proper sur
veillance has not been
possible. Increasing use
of the library with stu
dents rushing in and out
as the classes change
make it impossible for
a busy librarianat the cir
culation desk to control
what is going through
the exit doors.
The paramount equip
ment needed for the li
brary at Fayetteville
State University is a se
curity system to protect
library materials from
theft. The collection is
diminishing at a rate
which can not be afford
ed by this already inade-
qute library.
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Mrs. P. T, Mitchell and Miss A. Hughley, Circulation Librarians, seem always
to offer courteous and efficient service to students.
ISews and views of
Chestnutt Library
The system desired is
known as “check-point”
and is an invention which
protects both books and
unbound periodicals. Ef
fectiveness of this system
has been demonstrated
in large and small librar
ies.
Financial summaries
are sometimes necessary
to show dollar justifi
cation for institutions,but
other factors relative to
library service may
prove to be an even more
important factor for the
protection of the library’s
collection. Some of these
factors are:
1. Professional time
spent searching for a
missing, book, reselect-
ing, re-ordering, re-cat
aloguing and re-shelving.
2. Lack of library ser
vice for patrons who wisa
to consult a particular
book which has been pil
fered.
3. Some books can not
easily be replaced, and
some cannot be replaced
at any expense.
4. Staff embarrassment
and its related image of
inefficiency when the desk
attendant and others do
not know the status of a
book because it has been
stolen.
5. Eliminates need for
guards which have prov
en to be an expensive and
unsuccessful answer to
unauthorized removal of
books and can not be
afforded by our library.
At this time Governor
Scott has recommended
to the Advisory Budget
Commission that funds
for a security system
should be granted to Fay
etteville State Umver-
sity.
Patricia Crain
Edwards, Harry. BLACK
STUDENTS. New York,
The Free Press, 1970.
by Don Lee
Harry F dwards has
written an exciting and
accurate portrait of the
Black Student Movement.
Sensitively and concise
ly, he discusses its ori
gins, its goals, its di
rection, and explains
thoroughly the term
“Black Power,” analyz
ing such leaders as H.
Rap Brown, Stokely Car
michael, Malcolm X, and
others.
According to Professor
Edwards, most of the
Black Students are from
middle class back
grounds. Their parents
were interested in college
degrees as “a symbol
of good breeding and as a
union card,” but any edu
cation they received in the
process of their degree
getting was only of secon
dary importance. Their
offsprings have been able
to take the education they
couldn't, he says.
The Black Student’s
concern with mastering
“the substance of the
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Brothers and sisters.
Fathers and mothers.
Boys, girls.
Students, hardhats.
Policemen, militants.
Hawks, doves, lovers,
haters,
Soldiers, teachers.
Radicals, liberals and
conservatives.
And ball players of all
kinds,
Voters, politicians.
Truck drivers, intellect
uals.
Builders, wreckers.
Artists, businessmen.
Straights and freaks.
Beautiful old folks.
And dazzling babes in
the crib.
You've gotta right to read.
Don’t blow it.
Read for the know-how
and wisdom to build a
better world and reail
for the facts. To heal
the conflicts that are
tearing our nation apart.
That's all.
educative process” and
their quest for intellec
tual development gives
rise to "a new era of
enlightenment between
Afro-American youth and
American society,” or
the Black Power move
ment. This spontaneous
movement, between 1960-
1966, according to the
chapter “New Prophets
and New Directvies, ’ had
students catching up with
and passing their men
tors, Bayard Rustin,
James Farmer, Whitney
Young, Roy Wilkins, and
even “the Rev. Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Jr., ”
as the author refers to
him emphasizing his role
as preacher, who were
somehow hard pressed by
the Black Students.
The rise of Black Po
wer, both on and off cam
pus, resulted from honest
necessity. Professor Ed
wards declares:
“...Through their ex
periences and observa
tions in both North and
South Black students
came to realize that the
enemy was comprised of
forces much more exten
sive, complex, and inter
dependent than they had
at first realized...in 1965
... the national govern
ment immediately sent
troops into Black com
munities with orders to
“shoot to kill any loot
er, sniper, or arson
ist” in defense of the life
and property of white ra
cists .. Innocent Black
children. Black women,
and old folks were,upon
occasion, wantonly mur
dered. And the federal
government was adjudged
directly guilty of and re
sponsible for these acts
by Black Students, both
north and south of the Ma
son-Dixon Line.”
—Thus SNCC’smoveto
officially advocate the no
tion that Blacks should
be the only organizational
representatives in direct
contact with and working
within the Black comm un
ities of America. Some
what similarly viewed,
racism in college curri
cula was attacked.
The author says that
the evolvedmovementhad
particular meaning for
Malcolm X*s dictum
that “any means neces
sary is justified” in the
struggle to achieve Black
liberation (don’t kill a
“fly” with “a sledge
hammer” yet don’t drive
“railroad spikes” with
“a fly swatter”).
Harry Edwards is a
member of the Depart
ment of Sociology at the
University of California,
Berkeley. Previously he
taught at San Jose State
College, where he was
instrumental in organiz
ing the United Black Stu
dents for Action, and at
Cornell University. In a-
bout 200 pages, and no
where on them do you find
trite phrases or cliches.
Professor Edwards dO'SS
as much as anyone to
ward defining the Black
Student Movement, and
toward speaking inter
estingly for it.
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Mrs. M. Hightower stops her busy schedule long
enough to pause and to smile for photographer. She
is engulfed in that vast array of periodicals for
which she is responsible.