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Bond Needed To BoostBv MARVIN TESSNEER mended volume numbers. The needs of increasing enrollmentSun-News Staff Writer state college library holdings the colleges and universities (Editor's Note: This li She are about 1.6 million volumes, have expanded their academic first in a'serle* of articles about or 1.7 million below the star.- programs, the Tour questions that will be on dard established for this state. Here at NMSU, for example, the Nov. 7 ballot for acceptance The standards were established administrators have expanded or rejection by the voting pub- through a formula devised by Iheir liberal aris, fines arts and He.) two library experts, Professors business programs.The library bond act, which Verner Clapp and Robert Jor- Then there is the well-knownwill be included in the Nov. 7 dan. knowledge explosion.” It haselection, is a direct result of - Dr. James Dyke. New Mexico been claimed that more scienti-learning the needs of New Mcx- Slate University library fic discoveries have been made ico college students. director, explained that it is in the 20th century than in his-Officially known as the State important to the universities tory up to 19CO, and much of this Educational Institution Library and the state to meet these new knowledge came since Act, if passed if would provide standards so it can support Lis World War II. Academic $2 million a year for five years curriculum programs, student specialties that were utikown a so libraries in the stale's public enrollment and faculty. generation ago have been addedcolleges and universities tan Last year, the University tocurriculums, and the colleges catch up their needs. The Study Committee toured slate have strained their library money can only be spent on college campus and talked to sources in a futile effort to keep books, peridocials, microfilm students about their require- up.and other library materials. ments. The students' major Another factor in the library The bill was passed by the complaint was that they did not lack is inflation. Book prices Board of Finance and is now be- have enough books and other have leaped ahead of most other ing submitted to the public for materials to keep up with their commodities; Dyke said. As ah the vote. Stale librarians were assignments. extreme example, there is the* asked to compile a Fact sheet on Dykes gives several reasons Chemical Abstract. About 20 library needs as a guide in why the educational institutions years ago this supplement cost recommending how the moony have fallen behind in their *25 per year. In 1972, Chemical should be used if the act is ac- libraries. For one thing, during Abstract, which now fills many cepted by the voters. It was re- the past 10 years in New Mexico volumes, cost $1,900. The huge ported that New Mexico univer* the numbers of college students Increase is combined result of sities averaged statewide a 51,6 have more than doubled. Dur- scientific knowledge expansion per cent shortage of recoin- ing that same period to ineel the and inflation.College Library htalusDyke stressed that all citizens The state university has 45.9 per bond issue is accepted by the would benefit from the bond, cent of the standard established voters, with other bond retire-Public and school system by a modified Clapp-Jordon for- ments the indebtcdness would libraries can borrow from uni- mula,-which leaves Us library be down about 12 cents, officials versity libraries through the 54.9 short. claim. .statewide Inter-library loan Put another way-lhe the Recently the -North £enlral system. Some Dona Ana County NMSU library currently has Association 6( »Colleges and students will be going to uni- 328,556 volumes, or 387,318 short Secondary Schools, -the accre-vcrsiiies in other partsof the of the 715,874 minimum stand- diling agency for New Mexico state, and it is lo their interest ard recommended by the modi- colleges, warned some unWer-that all academic library facil- fted Clapp-Jordon formula. sides In this state (hat the co lilies are brought up Id dale. Dyke said Hie library also lections In their libraries were All citizens are permitted to holds 2W.686 government docu- so low that the lack Could en-visii the academic libraries and ments. 7,236 microfilm reels, danger the quMity of-their edu-usc the bocks in the buildings. 92,991 microcards, microprint cation programs and, subse-Many high school students in and microfiche, 33,195 maps quently, their accreditation university communities take and subscription to 4,149 jour- Money from-lhe bond act Is advantage of this opportunity to nals. , strictly earmarked for booasimprove their studies. And in Bureau of Finance officials and other library material. It many university libraries non- estimate that the cost of the cannot be sp^nt on salaries, students can make arrange- bond issue to taxpayers will be operational supplies, buildings ments lo chock out books. about 43 cents per $1,000 assess- or shelving, Dyke pointed out.Neighboring states are build- ed valuation. This would be Peter Hurd, sthte chairman of ing up their university col- spread over a nine-year repay- Action for Education, the New lections at a faster rate that ment plan. That would come lo Mexico citizens’-group support-New Mexico, Dykes noted. Tex- *4.30 on properly with an as- jng the bond act has stated: Ocas Tech Is adding an average of sessed valuation of $10,000, It easwnally there comes a bold 90,000 volumes a year, and Arl- was explained. plan to remedy a serious prob-zona State about 250,000 an- But, the bureau officials add- lem In our stale’s affairs. Such anually. At the University of New ed, the current slate bond re- plan is the college and univer-Mexico the rate is about 37,000 a payment status Is favorable. 3lty library bond'act of 1972. All year and at NMSU 11 is around The property lax that will be re- 0f us interested'In our state's23,000. quired for bonded indebtedness public higher education nowHere at home, NMSU is below the next five years will be down )iave a ehanceUb remedy Us the state average. Dyke said, slightly. Even if the library most serious deficiency.’1
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Las Cruces Sun News
Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
Sun, Oct 15, 1972
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