Oregon daily emerald., October 26, 1982, Page 5, Image 5

Library offers varied services
By Frank Shaw
Of th« Emerald
If you’ve always thought of the University
library as only a place to chuck your books and
study for a final, think again
The library not only offers places to study and
do research but also provides such varied ser
vices as recording equipment, tapes and records,
and almost all the statistical information the U S
government produces.
The Instructional Media Center, located on
the library's first floor, offers a wide variety of
services to students, according to IMC Director
George Bynon
The IMC has 1,400 films available and allows
students to check them out along with slide
projectors, film projectors and movie screens if
they have a professor's signature
The IMC also has about 35 tape recorders
that are available for 24-hour checkout without an
instructor's signature
The center's main purpose is to provide
support for the instructors and their departments,
says Bynon
This year the IMC is offering an audio
production facility that contains equipment for
transferring albums to cassettes and reel-to-reel
tapes and from reel-to-reel to cassettes Students
are allowed to check out the room and spend
three hours transferring information from one
medium to another.
The media lab provides heat press, lamina
tion, and color transparency processing equip
ment to the students at no charge except the cost
of the materials
Bynon says students are moving away from
the traditional types of term projects such as
papers to slide shows and audio-visual presents
tions The IMC has the equipment to produce
those projects
The Douglass Listening Room, located on the
library's third floor, offers 20-25,000 records and
tapes, including many recordings of plays
Six booths are available for students who
need to control their own tapes, and the staff
controls the rest of the stations.
Karyn Schleischer, listening room head, says
that most room users are music or dance students
who need particular pieces of music, or literature
students who listen to plays or speeches
The recordings are mainly classical music,
but they also include the complete works of
Shakespeare and other plays
The listening room is available to all students,
but Schleicher says students are not allowed to
play their own tapes and records because of wear
and tear on the equipment Most of the collection
can't be checked out for the same reason
The government documents section of the
library, located on the second floor, in the statis
tical center of the library, says Thomas Stave,
head of the documents department
"The government tries to produce statistics
that will help the businessmen," Stave says The
library carries all the latest laws and regulations
the government has established, along with in
terpretations on those laws, he adds
The documents section also has the latest
demographic data, including statistics from the
1980 census This material includes breakdowns
into age, location, race, sex and other statistical
information
The documents section contains not only
U S government documents but also information
from the United Nations and its affiliated bodies,
such as the World Health Organization, the Inter
national Labor Organization and UNESCO
Two British broadcasters due for tour
Two representatives from the
British Broadcasting Corp will
discuss British broadcasting
and print media Tuesday and
Wednesday during a visit to the
University journalism school
Peter Brooks, news intake
editor, is responsible for
deployment of foreign corres
pondents. and Pamela
Creighton, duty presentation
organizer, oversees the accur
acy and style of all programs on
the BBC's 24-hour service
They are in the United States
to promote recognition of the
50th anniversary of the BBC's
broadcasting activities outside
of Britain
Brooks and Creighton will
discuss the role of women in
British broadcasting at 7 p m
Wednesday in Room 221 Allen
Halt The presentation is spon
sored by Women In Com
munication Inc and is open to
the public
The two journalists also will
speak to classes, visit with
students and faculty and meet
with professional journalists in
the community They are ex
pected to discuss coverage of
foreign affairs, including the
Falkland Islands and the Middle
East, as well as the BBC's oper
ations
Business school given $53,000
A grant for $53,000 from the
Chiles Foundation, Portland, to
the University business school
will be used to establish the
Earle A Chiles Business Ser
vices Room
The project includes renova
ting a room in Gilbert Hall to
accommodate the new equip
ment and facilities to assist
business faculty and students in
solving management problems.
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Word processing, text editing,
duplicating equipment and per
sonal business computers will
be procured by the college as a
result of the Chiles' gift
A previous gift from the Chiles
Foundation, awarded to the
college in 1981, allowed the
college to renovate an old
classroom into a 70-seat
amphitheater-style classroom
(the Eva Chiles classroom).
There's still time to enroll in
GRAMMAR REVIEW WORKSHOP
Review of the principles of English grammar and
usage
□ Review of the rules governing punctuation, capi
talization and spelling
□ Appropriate for students preparing for the J-250
entrance exam
□ $30 fee covers all materials and instruction in the
4-week, non-credit workshop
□ Meets Mon . Wed , Fri., 11:30-12:20 beginning Nov 1
For more information, contact the Learning Resources
Center, 5 Friendly Hall, 686-3226
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