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October 1 to 8,1983 celebrates the contributions of our colleges and universities to American society and focuses on the need for (jreater excellence at all levels of American education. Mindpower is our greatest natural resource. Support its development! BUDGET, from page 1 planned. UNCW has requested that direct inward dialing be installed as a part of the telephone system. UNCW has also requested a capital improvement budget. Part of the funds for this budget would be state-appropriated, and part would be self- liquidating. The number one priority capital im provement using state funds is the expansion of Randall Library. However, the state legislature did not approve the library funding this year. There are three self-liquidating projects for which, Hunter says, the UNC Board of Governors and the state legislature have granted permission. They are 1) a new $1.5 million-dollar bookstore facility, 2) a residence building for 200 students, and 3) a 400-vehicle parking lot. All three of these projects will be funded through fees or receipts taken in by the university. The planned bookstore facility will be located in the same general area as the current bookstore, just south of the University Union. The building will also house the campus police, parking services, and student health services. The location of all these offices in one building will make it easier for the campus population to make use of the services in a sort of "one-stop shopping” trip. In the new facility, the bookstore will have more space for books and customers. Currently, during the semester books must be stored off-campus because of a shortage of storage space. When the new facili ty is completed, all books can be stored on-campus. The existing building will be relocated east of the dormitories, in the area designated to become the new physical plant. It will house the physical plant offices on the new site; later on, the entire physical plant operation will be moved to that new location. This new facility should be completed by the fall of 1984, according to Hunter. All three projects, said Hunter, are part of the long-range plan drawn up in the past few years by architects and UNCW officials. "Our campus is growing in leaps and bounds,” said the vice chancellor, "and we are planning for each step of its growth along the way.” UNCW Board of Trustees Elects New Officers and Swears In New Members The UNCW board of trustees elected a new slate of officers and swore in new members at its July 27 meeting. John J. Burney, Jr., replaced Dr. Hubert A. Eaton, Sr., as chairman. Burney has been a member of the UNCW board for two years and is a former state senator. Margaret F. Fonvielle was elected vice chairman and Benny D. Schwartz was elected secretary. New trustees are Betty Cameron, Waddell Albert Corbett, Jr., and F. Pete Fensel, all of Wilmington, and Julia Taylor of Durham. John D. Warlick of Jacksonville was re-elected. Betty Cameron holds an A.B. degree in English and psychology from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, and is a member of that institution’s board of trustees. Her community activities have centered on human relations, including five years of service as a member of the New Hanover Human Relations Commission. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was active in Women in Action for the Prevention of Violence and its Causes, an organization which she led as president for two years. Albert Corbett graduated from UNCW (then Wilmington College) in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is the first alumnus to become a member of UNCW’s board of trustees. In his family business, Corbett Package Company of Wilmington, he is responsible for overall coordination of production and sales management for the company’s out-of-state facilities in the southeast, California and Maryland. Corbett’s prior service to UNCW in cludes two terms as president of the Alumni Association and service £is a member of the UNCW Foundation Board from 1976-82. He is currently president of the Wilmington Rotary Club. Julia Taylor, a graduate of N.C. Central Univer sity, is president and chief executive officer of Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Raleigh. She is a member of the board of directors and regional vice president of the National Bankers Association. Taylor has served as a member of the North Carolina Assembly on Women and the Economy, a member/trustee of the board of St. Joseph’s AME Church in Durham, and a member of the board of directors of Wheeler Flying Service. F. Pete Fensel owns F. P. Fensel Supply Com pany in Wilmington, which he started in 1969. He is a member of the board of directors of Cooperative Savings & Loan, New Hanover Memorial Hospital (also past chairman), and the Boys Brigade Club. Fensel is a past president of the Azalea Festival. He has been in the industrial supply business since 1948. Randall Library through the pine trees. Library Serves Students Well Despite Its Lack of Space Since it opened in 1969, the William Madison Randall Library at UNCW has helped literally thousands of students through their years of study at the campus in Wilmington. Plans for an eastward expansion toward Morton Hall will dou ble the size of the library. But the biggest challenge facing the library staff today is to make the cur rent building function well in spite of the over crowding caused by the ever-increasing numbers of students coming to school at UNCW. "We’ve made many changes internally to use the space we have more efficiently,” says Gene Huguelet, director of library services and the per son in charge of the 75,000-square-foot building. "You have to use well what you have, and make sure you have the right types of collections to fit the UNCW campus and its people,” Huguelet continued. As an example, one of the changes made was the conversion of a conference room in the front of the library into a microform reader room. The library’s microforms—microfilm and microfiche—are used heavily, according to Huguelet. "We just don’t have the room to keep everything in its original format,” explained the director, "especially backfiles of periodicals and newspapers. So we buy them on niicrofilm and store them in a fraction of the space.” And, according to Huguelet, students and faculty find the smaller format just as easy or easier-to use. The microform reader room is one of the most heavily used rooms in the library. When Randall Library opened in 1969, it was designed for 200,000 volumes. It currently houses about 223,000. As the number of volumes grows, the number of seats for studying and reading diminishes. There are now about 490 study spaces. And as the student population at UNCW increases, so does the demand for more books in the library. According to Huguelet, the library spends close to $550,000 a year just to buy books, journals, record albums, and microforms to keep the library as up to date as possible. That is almost half of the $1-2 million library budget. „ "The name of the game in the library is growth, said Huguelet. "We need $7 million in state-appro priated funds to double the size of the library. But in the meantime, he must cope with the current cramped quarters. "The last part of each semester is our busiest time,” he said. "Sometimes we have students sit ting on the floor, or wherever they can find some space to study and do their research before the semester ends.” That is why expansion of Randal Library is the number-one priority for the nex capital improvement project at UNCW. The library is open more than 97 hours week. Sometimes members of Huguelet’s staff fin students waiting to enter at 7:45 in the mornm^ "And there have been many times when we ve had to shoo them out at midnight,” said the director, "especially around exam time.” There are 10 professional librarians working m Randall Library on the UNCW campus, including Gene Huguelet, and 18 supportive staff members. They all help students and the general public to use the library. They teach people how to use the computer hooked to a data base in Palo Alto, California, to search documents in reference wor . "We are here to help,” said Huguelet, "to show peo ple what the library has to offer, and to show them how to use the facilities we have.” "We’ve come a long way since the library was housed in one room of Alderman Hall,” reflected. "And we’re doing quite well with t e space we have now. But I will be very happy when we get the go-ahead to expand Randall Library. NOTE: After this article was written, the legislature denied to UNCW the funds needed tor the expansion of Randall Library. "Let’s keep our fingers crossed next time around,” said director o library services Gene Huguelet. This is the architect’s design for the new Student Support Center, which will house the bookstore, student health center and campus police.
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