Providing 'students with a multitude of services As head librarian, Miss Winnie Bell assisted all students in the use of the collection at Beaumont Memorial Library. The addition of two new employees brought the number on the full-time staff to 15. With 55 student assistants also working, there was a need for more workroom space. To meet the need, as well as improve the reserve book system, several shifts of offices and books were made. The juvenile reading room was made into office space, with the juvenile books being placed in a separate alcove. Also, the reserve books were moved into the Junior-Senior Reading Room, making them more readily available for student use. "We think it's working real well, " Miss Bell said of the change. "1 think the students like it, too. They can just choose reserve books without having to go to the desk." Winnie Bell library Director During the summer, a complete inventory was made of the library's material. The inventory reflected the losses immediately preceding the installation of a Tattletape book detection system. The succeeding inventory will reveal the effectiveness of the detection system. Miss Bell attended meetings of the American Library Association in Dallas and the Arkansas convention in Little Rock. As a member of AMIGOS Bibliographical Council, she attended advanced workshops in Dallas and Little Rock on how to further utilize the library. Under the direction of a program at Downtown church of Christ, where she is a Bible teacher and worker in the World Bible Students correspondence program, she accompanied a group to Puerto Rico for a Vacation Bible School in Arecibo . '",, A continuing climb in enrollment reflected the work of Dr. Fred Alexander and the admissions office staff. The director traveled to most of the Christian junior colleges to speak for Harding University and to numerous other college campuses for admissions consulting. Dr. Alexander served as president of the Arkansas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. At the meeting of the organization in North Little Rock he presented a demonstration of an on-line computerized admissions system. He also attended the national meeting of the association in Chicago, fulfilling service on the Constitution Committee of the national organization. At DeGray State Park in May he attended the meeting of the Arkansas Association of College Admissions Officers. He presented a lecture on "Enrollment Projections During the 1980'5" at a workshop of Christian College Admissions Officers in Montgomery, Alabama. Alexander was an active memFred Alexander Director of Admissions ber of the Searcy Kiwanis Club and in the Searcy Chamber of Commerce. He maintained membership in the American Management Association and American Association of Higher Education. Rounding out his spare time was involvement in his hobbies of camping with his family, canoeing, woodworking and playing racquetball and handball. ~ From his office in the administration building, Registrar Virgil Beckett handled the operations of enrolling the record number of students that entered the University both in the fall and spring semesters. Planning and arranging the registrations, Beckett formulated a computer-assisted registration process for the spring of 1980. Quick and efficient, registration took no more than 40 minutes normally and attested to the reliability of the University's new computer equipment. Although he seemed busiest during registration week, Beckett said registration was not his greatest duty. "Most of my time," he stated, "would be taken up with counseling or consul tin$!; with students or faculty." Virgil Beckett Registrar In October he attended the annual meeting of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in Little Rock. In February he went to Nashville, Tennessee for the meeting of the Sou them association of the group. In both organizations, he served on committees vital to the function of the groups. After office hours he spent considerable time tending his vegetable garden at his home in west Searcy and kept fit through his hobby of jogging daily. t@ • (continued on page 156) I 155 Administration
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