Guilford College Budget-
Where Does Your Money Go?
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Library
And More—Plans
By Holly F
Though the plans and
drawings are no longer
displayed in the lobby of
the library, work con
tinues on the overall
design for the $4.9 million
annex to the library (see
"Quest").
The size of one of your
favorite places to study,
socialize, and sleep will be
approximately doubled by
the year 1992. Herbert
Poole, Director of Library
Services, estimates that
the addition will comprise
approximately 30,000
square feet.
An increase in the size of
the College's book collec
tion does not necessarily
follow, however. In fact,
there will be no significant
increase in the number of
books on the shelves once
the annex is completed.
"The money for this pro
ject is mainly bricks and
mortar money," accor
ding to Poole.
Quest
Back in 1982 President
Rogers, the faculty, the
Board of Trustees and the
student senate began
discussions about the long
term improvements need
ed for the College. At that
time a private fund
raising company was con
sulted for tips on organiz
ing a campaign to increase
the school's endowment.
And about 50 companies
and individuals were con
tracted to learn their im
pressions of the college
and what they thought
were the school's
strengths and weaknesses.
This study provided the in
formation necessary to
organize the goals of the
Quest Campaign.
It is important to note
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Current plans are to
maintain additions to the
shelves (usually
5-6,000/yr.) purchased
with yearly adjusted
amounts of money from
Guilford's institutional
budget. According to
Elizabeth Place-Beary,
this quoted number of
books is "squeezed into the
nooks and crannies of the
stacks," and also kept in
storage.
The Friends of the
Library have made an ad
ditional effort to supple
ment the library with
books. Their goal is to
raise $200,000 by the end of
this year. This money will
be put into an endowment
fund (a species of institu
tional savings account that
is invested) and books will
, be purchased with income
earned by the fund.
Once in their new homes
I in the annex, the books
that we do possess will ap
pear in a less confusing,
that Guilford College
operates on two separate
budgets. The first is the
yearly budget, funded
primarily by tuition
money and some annual
gifts. This budget is cur
rently $12,000,000 per year.
A second budget consists
of capital investments
made to increase the long
term endowment. Back in
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The large area in the plans
devoted to stack rooms
should be able to provide
40 to 50 years of growth
space as well. One entire
floor of the four-floor an
nex will not see even a
stitch of furniture for at
least ten years after com-
1982 the endowment was
$6,000,000; presently it has
increased to $22,000,000.
The yearly budget does not
provide the money to im
prove things like;
laboratory facilities, office
space, building conditions
etc. The money to work on
these improvements must
come from the endowment
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pletion.
Libraries everywhere
are constantly in the pro
cess of defining the term
"library excellence," and
growth space is but one of
many factors involved in
this concept. Undoubtedly,
in this, the Information
Age, our library will invest
more heavily in electronic
information, though no one
is sure what this fully en
tails.
Already foreseen is the
obsolescence of the
manual card catalog.
Cataloguing, circulation
and processing will be
done electronically. In
1985, the library staff
began recording current
information on electronic
tape. Soon, access to
holdings will be extremely
efficient. Anyone will be
able to call up a
bibliography on a ter
minal. "We are trying to
respond to existing
technology and adjust to
future technology. This
will happen when
everyone is comfortable
using the terminals. The
change should be gradual
and no one should feel left
behind," asserts Poole.
Along with high-tech will
come high class to the
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library. Aesthetically cen
tral to the annex will be
Guilford's new art gallery.
The nucleus of the Col
lege's collection has
already been formed from
the generous gifts of Mrs.
Ruth Julian of Winston-
Salem and the Weller
family of Illinois. The
gallery's role will be two
told: to serve the students
as a teaching tool, and to
serve the community as a
display gallery.
As for exterior changes,
there has been some con
cern raised about building
directly toward the
heavily-travelled New
Garden Koad and hence
creating a potential noise
problem. Certainly, the
library and many other
buildings are close to the
road and small amounts of
"white noise" are audible
now. As long as architects
and campus overseers are
sensitive to the noise pro
blem, and are willing to
make any necessary revi
sions in the plans, the pro
blem should be avoided.
Because the plans are
ever-evolving, it is dif
ficult to keep current plans
displayed. But stay alert
and open to the changes
going on in the library.