Library Strives to Serve Harding Community During the fall semester, librarian Winnie Bell conducted a study of the hours that would best serve students needs and a change in library hours was made at the beginning of the spring semester. Helping students and faculty members make maximum use of the library resources constituted the major emphasis of the librarians. During 1979-80, the librarians taught more than 100 classes with 40 of these .being for students in English 103 which emphasizes the writing of term papers. Other classes of bibliographic instruction and the use of information tools were conducted for most of the academic disciplines. Bible majors enrolled in Bible 220, Introduction to the work of the Preacher. received 22 hours of class lectures and library laboratories. During the 1979-80 school year, 5,199 book volumes and 6,676 microform volumes were added to the collection bringing the total volumes contained in the library to 180,716. A Title Il-A grant of $3,963 for books and materials was received by the library. All of the librarians were active in the Arkansas Library Association. Joe McReynolds attended a bibliographic instruction workshop and was invited to serve on an imRIGHT: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Joe McReynolds also served as reference librarian for Harding's Beaumont Memorial Library. 108 portant committee of the National Library Association. Winnie Bell, Frank Hayes, and Suzanne Spurrier attended the fifth annua1 Christian college librarians' conference at York College. Bell, Spurrier, and B. H. Terrill attended workshop meetings of the AMlGOS Bibliographic Council for Interlibrary Loans. Last year, 114,667 volumes circulated for an average circulation of 37.9 items per patron. The largest number coming into the library in one day as measured by the Tattle Tale Book Detection Counter was 2,077 on November 26. A periodic check by librarians indicated the largest number in the library at one time during a given count period was 336 at 8:30 p.m. on November 13. Arts and Sciences-Library Science Winnie Bell, MALS - Librarian, Assoc. Prof. Travis Cox, MLS - Cataloging Librarian, Asst. Prof. FrankUn Hayes, MLS -Periodical Librarian, Asst. Prof. Joe McReynolds, MS - Reference Libra~ian, Asst. Prof. Suzanne Spurrier, MA - Circulation Librarian. Asst. Prof. Henry TerriO, MSLS - Reserved Books Librarian, Instructor - Don Holland
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