Gazette, 1982-01-14

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Third  Trois&m
ISSN 0228-8877
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Winter, 1982 enrolment at Memorial
University is up 13 per cent over
Winter, 1981.
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Fred Earle and "Nish" Rumboldt
were recently honored by the
Newfoundland and Labrador Association for Adult Education.
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Electrical energy and fuel oil costs
continue to rise. Conservation
practices by faculty and staff are a
"must" for the future.
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VOL. 14, NO. 8
Memorial University of Newfoundland
January 14, 1982
New library introduced
to faculty, students
"Grace under pressure".. .Memorial
University's library staff demonstrated it
during weekend instructional and orientation tours (January 9-10) which introduced the new Queen Elizabeth II Library to
faculty and students.
The major part of the move from
Henrietta Harvey Library to the new library
took place between semesters, "a move
timed for the convenience of faculty and
students," observed Librarian Sue Sexty,
among those staff members greeting and
shepherding through tour participants on
the weekend. Information Services Librarian Joy Tillotson estimates 1800 people went
through the library on the weekend and staff
took them on 20 tours.
Tour guides led the students, faculty
(many of whom had brought along their
children) and general public from the main
lobby through library areas ready for
operation (though it was evident moving
was still going on) to finally, the map room
eyrie atop the fifth floor. The tour moved
past vertical files still taped shut by the
Household Movers handlers, cartons of
boxes, both opened and unopened, as well as
what appeared to be acres of already shelved
books.
Collections from O'Leary Avenue were
in place on two top shelves. "The bottom
three shelves are from the Main Library,"
explained one tour guide. "We're working as
fast as we can to get the two collections
interfiled."
Library facilities never closed during
the Christmas holidays and staff has "been
working valiantly," according to Associate
Librarian Richard Ellis.
"We hope to have all of the books and
periodicals in the building by January 22.
This will leave only the microforms in the
former Library and a miscellany of materials
in storage," said Ellis. "If revisions to this
building go ahead on schedule, the move
should be completed the first week in
February."
Main lobby of the new Queen Elizabeth II
Library on the St. John's campus. The Bill
White photo (he used a fish-eye lens) shows a
portion of 'the stacks' in upper centre and
right.
Some statistics on the new library's reading
room: "It's the biggest single reading room
this side of Montreal," says Associate
Librarian  Dick   Ellis.  Number of chairs?
1456. How many levels? 9. Each floor has a
main level and a mezzanine; the fifth floor
has two mezzanines.
L UMINUS publication
The 1981-82 Winter issue of
LUMINUS, the publication of the
Memorial University of Newfoundland   Alumni   Association  will   be
printed   in   the   January  28,   1982
edition of the MUN Gazette.
LUMINUS will feature a special
report   on   the   Queen   Elizabeth   II
Library for Association members;
notification of changes in the Constitution and other items of interest to
former students of the University and
Memorial University College.