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Davis Library designed for space, convenience By KEITH BRADSI1ER Staff Writer With a floor area of almost 10 acres and a book capacity of 1.8 million' volumes, the Walter Royal Davis Library will satisfy the space require ments of the university library system at least through 1995 and possibly to the year 2000, Larry P. Alford, chief cir culation librarian, said Tuesday. The total seating capacity of Davis Library is 3,013 there are chairs for twice as many students as Wilson Library. The increase comes in lounge, open carrel, and table seating. "There are approximately the same number of assigned seats in each building," Alford said. The building has eight stories above ground and one lower level, all fitted on to a three-acre site. The eighth floor is almost as high as the top of the Morehead Bell Tower. "You can see the Duke Chapel sometimes (from the eighth floor)," Alford said. The interior is designed to minimize distances between public services de partments. The first floor will hold the circulation and information desks, the card catalog, a main gallery, a main reading room, the periodicals desk and reading area, as well as all reference desks with their collections of indexes. The microfilms department and a copy center run by the University are on the second floor. "There just wasn't room for everything down there (on the first floor)," Alford said. The main stacks start on the second floor with the beginning of the Library of Congress classification. On the third through the eighth floors the stacks fill large rectangular areas with carrels, lounges and study rooms scattered around the edge. The government docu ments collection will be housed in the basement, which will not be open to students. Five high-speed elevators run between the floors, Alford said. Each of the third through eighth floors has six study rooms, which will hold four or five students apiece. Each of these floors also has closed graduate study carrels, offices for faculty resear chers, and two lounges one for smokers and one for non-smokers. Each graduate study carrel has a door and a window and is located in six towers attached to the south side of the Davis Library. "One of the reasons for the irregularities in the towers is to pro vide windows in each carrel," Alford said. The use of natural light is emphasized throughout the above ground stories of the libraries. "We wanted to let natural light into the stacks to make them less oppressive," Alford said. The stacks PC-! RFRNC ROOM 1 ixzn SlAFf OfFtCES CIRCULATION j. ELEVATORS. 8 INDEXES STAFF OFFICES EXIT 1 OWECTQ row NEW BOOKS ENTRANCE J LtJ INFORMATION OESK D" PUBIC CATALOG CURRENT PERIODICALS AND ' NEWSPAPERS ITj L - . COLLECTION L DEVELOPMENT III J SERIALS TECHNICAL SERVICES CATALOGING ACQUISITIONS r-r JJ .... LrjLL L. Floor plan of the main floor of Walter R. Davis Library. have high ceilings to achieve the same goal. While some of the furniture will come from Wilson Library, much new furni ture of different sizes and colors has already been purchased and installed, Alford said. "We bought different kinds of lounge furniture for each floor so that all people, short and tall people, can find a kind they like, and so that many people can find a floor with col ors that they like," he said. The machinery used to check out books in Wilson Library will be moved tr Davis T ibrarv and will not Vv re placed for another couple of years, Alford said. To prevent the loss of books, an elec tronic security system' compatible with and similar in appearance to the equip ment in the Undergraduate Library has been installed. . The parking lot at the east end of the library will be open only to service vehicles and three library vans, Alford said. The surrounding earthen mounds, called berms, are designed to shield the loading dock and parking lot from the view of pedestrians and drivers on Raleigh Road, he said. Wilson Library to close for 3 days so new library can open By KEITH BRADSHER Staff Writer The Walter Royal Davis Library will open Feb. 7, Larry P. Alford, chief circulation librarian and coor dinator of the move, said Monday. Wilson Library will close Friday Feb. 3. Over the weekend the reference, circulation, periodicals and microforms departments will be moved to Davis Library, Alford said. When Wilson Library reopens Feb. 6, only the special collections will be available to students. Students and faculty will not be able to use the bulk of library holdings on Feb. 4, 5, and 6, Alford said. "We regret the inconvenience to students, but it simply isn't possible to move the public services departments while maintaining services," he said. "That is one of the unfortunate results of the delay (in the completion of Davis Library). We would have moved the public services departments over Labor Day Weekend." In middle or late March, when the contents of the Wilson Library stacks have been Vnoved to Davis Library, the special collections will be moved into the new stacks and the older parts of the building will be closed for renovation. The project has been budgeted for $5.6 million, said Alfred S. Sharlip, assistant librarian for planning and finance. "They will be making substantial alterations," he said. Large, covered bookcases on wheels will be used to move the books, Alford said. Twelve teams of movers, six in Wilson Library and six in Davis Library, will load and unload the carts, which will be transported by vans between the two buildings. "There are no tunnels," Alford said. Apollo Moving Specialists, a professional library mover from Minnesota, will begin transferring 50 miles of books from Wilson Library on Jan.' 12, Alford said. The move will take six to eight weeks. Charts posted in the lobby and at the circulation desk of Wilson Library will show which classifica tions of books will move each day. Books moved to Davis in January will be available through a paging system, Alford said. Students who need books that have already been moved will have to ask at the Wilson Library circulation desk to have the book, recovered from the Davis Library, he said, adding that it would take no more than 24 hours to page a book. The Humanities Reading Room will be restored, Sharlip said. "They're going to preserve the identity of that room as it is, because it is a beautiful room and a historic room," he said. Wednesday, December 7, 1983The Daily. Tar Heel3 New council rules on development By DEBORAH SIMPKINS Staff Writer The newly elected 1984 Chapel Hill Town Council went straight to work Monday night and approved several de velopment ordinances and a task force - for the town's entranceways. After farewell speechs by council mem bers Joe Straley and Jim Wallace, new comer Nancy Preston, former member Bill Thorpe and incumbents R.D. Smith and Jonathan Howes were sworn in by N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Willis B. Whichard. Mayor. Joe Nassif also took the oath of office for his second term. Bev Kawalec was elected Mayor Pro Tern by the council, while David Roberts was re-elected as Town Clerk. Of the five development ordinances presented, the Council approved only three. In a 5-4 vote, the council approved an ordinance eliminating a provision from the town development ordinance that gave developers credit for donating part of the site for street rights of way. Under the provision, the calculation of land-use intensity how much of a site can be developed also could be based on the total land area of a development plus one-half of the open space such as streets, parks and lakes adjoining the site. - - Council members voting to delete the provision said that the practice has led to more dense development than had been intended in the development ordinance. Howes, however, said eliminating the ordinance would cost Chapel Hill money because the town would have to buy rights of way that developers had been providing. The council also established a seven member task force to study the main roads leading into Chapel Hill. Three members are to be appointed by the Town Council while one member is to be Former Chapel Hill mayor probably will run for Congress By ANGELA SANDERS Special to the DTH Former Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee said last week he will probably seek the 4th District congressional seat in 1984. Lee, a former secretary of the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, told about 30 students and supporters in Morrison Residence Hall that he is "99.99 percent L? D D D D D D Q committed" to running. He said he ex pects, to make a final decision in two to three weeks. "I want very much to be the congress man from this district," Lee said. The 4th District seat now is held by Rep. Ike An drews, a Democrat from Cary. J m Andrews' ' voting - record during ; ; his terms in "Office has lacked consistency, Lee said. "If I become a candidate, Rep. Andrews will have to defend his record." An elected official should be "an in novator and a mover," he said. He said that while serving as mayor of Chapel Hill from 1969-1975, he tried to do something new each year. He persisted when barriers existed, such as with the implementation of the Chapel Hill Tran sit System. Money should not be a requirement for holding public office, he said. "Some of us have to band together to make sure that we don't abdicate the responsibility of government to only those with money." Lee also encouraged students to become involved in Chapel Hill politics. Lee, who ran unsucessfully for lieute nant governor in 1976, is a lecturer in the UNC School of Social Work. . $20FF ear FREE DELIVERY Franklin St. Estes Drive $2.00 off any large Pan Pizza, or $1.00 off any medium Pan Pizza. Hurry! This special offer expires soon. One coupon per party per visit at participating Pizza Hut restaurants. Please present coupon when ordering. Not valid in combination with an offer offer. 120 cent cash redemption value. 1983 Pizza Hut, Inc. Good only through Feb. 28, 1984. 942-0343 929-3605 942-7713 Offer good at All Chapel Hill And Durham Locations D 0 D D D D D c3 The Clef Hangers announce their FALL CONCERT Friday, December 9 7:59 pm Gerrard Hall (come early, limited seats) men's close harmony traditional, contemporary, and even some Christmas songs! 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The Planning Board suggested seven entranceways be considered by the task force including the Airport Road en tranceway from Estes Drive to the pro-, posed 1-40 interchange. Before the meeting got under way, the council went into executive session for more than an hour to discuss an injunc tion requested by the town against Village Cable Television Inc. The injunction, which was granted last Thursday by Superior Court Judge D. Marsh McLelland, prevents the non-profit Village Cables Foundation from selling stock back to its parent company, Village Cable. The Foundation was established in 1979 as part of Village Cable's franchise agreement with the purpose of sponsor ing educational and cultural projects in the town. Town officials opposed the cable com pany's buying back 50,000 shares of its stock from the foundation because the transaction is illegal under an Internal Revenue Service code. A hearing is set for 2 p.m. Thursday in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough. 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