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Serving the students of the University of North Carolina Asheville since 1982
Vol. VII, Number 12
Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985
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Undergraduate research
grants awarded to 14
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Photo by Michelle Samuel
watchli^ the world go by In the
Hi^iSMlth Center recently.
ttamsep first UNC library
eliminate card catalog
Michelle Samuel & David Proffitt
By Scott LDckadob
The Undergraduate Research
Program at UNCA recently awarded
grants to 14 recipients, accord
ing to the program's director,
Stephen Anspacher.
Chancellor David Brown allo
cated $150,000 of university
funds for the program last
spring. The money, to be used
over the next four years, was
set aside for the entire Under
graduate Research Program, said
Anspacher.
This fall, the total amount of
all grant awards was $5,233.55,
he said.
The grant money cannot be used
to pay for students* time, but
only for materials, and some fa
culty members have con^)lained
that the limitations on how the
grant money may be spent inhi
bits its potential use and in
some ways defeats its purpose,
which is to promote research by
students.
A lot of the expense in doing
research, especially in fields
outside the realm of the hard
sciences, is the time involved,
not necessarily supplies," said
one professor.
Anspacher said that the
?500 do have their Umitations.
The grants are limited to
supplies, equipment, and activi
ties relating directly to re
search. At this point, the
research projects are student
projects that are part of class
work.
We didn't feel we should be
using up the money to pay them
(students) because the money
would be used up rather fast,"
Anspacher said.
He went on to say that addi
tional financial support must
come from major grants.
Faculty members pursue major
grants, which are awarded by
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UNCA*s Ramsey Library is the
^st library of the 16 in the
network to completely phase
^'^t old-fashioned card catalogs
favor of a computerized sys-
that is connected to region-
microfiche, said Steve Squiers,'
assistant technical services
librarian.
Although Ramsey Library fully
implemented the present system
at UNCA only last summer, plans
are already in the works for
UNCA to join Western Carolina
and national bibliogrlpWc Carolina
“Wlities, said MalcoLn Blowers, ““^^rsity and Appalachian State
im— . University in purchasing a com-
versity librarian.
a today belong to
_ 'bibliographic utility, which
bases created when lib-
utn^^ their records. These
j.. ities enable smaller libra-
to use an extensive compu-
network that provides not
^ y online cataloging capabili-
8 also related services
^ch as keeping an up-to-date
both^^ library holdings on
the online catalog and
puter that will eliminate the
need for belonging to the South
eastern Library Network (Soli-
net), said Squiers.
Blowers said that while the
other 15 UNC libraries are also
working toward eliminating card
catalogs, "This is not our final
system. This sumoief we, along
with Western and Appalachian
were given funds for an inte-
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