Library Science Library Serves Academic Community "Harding University is blessed with excel lent library facilities and superior library services," commented Dr. Joseph E. Pryor, Vice President for Academic Affairs. "For more than 30 years, the library has been c ited as a strength by all of the on·site North Central Association evaluat ion teams. The major emphasis of the librarians has been on helping students and facu lty members make maximum use of the library resources. They have been real servants of the academic community." At the beginning of the fall semester, the library contained 200,602 total volumes, which included 157,869 books of which 16,636 were bound per· iodical vo lumes. There were 42,733 microform vo lumes of all types; 826 cassettes, repre· senting 122 titles; 2,923 phono· graph records in music, speech, and biology; 407 slides; 9 film strips; and 6 tape reels. In a separate collection, there were 13,256 government docu· ments. The library received 1,422 periodicals and 13 daily newspapers. During 1980·81 , the number of volumes circulated was 148,271, an increase of 33,604 volumes over the preceding year. Students checked out an average of 34.0 books per student while faculty members checked out an average of 24.3 books per teacher. The library was open 891f4 hours each week and the librarians made reference ser- ·vices available 79lJ2 of these hours. The librarians taught more than 100 classes with 40 of these being for students in English 103 which emphasized the writing of term papers. Early in the fall semester at the reo quest of students, the librarians changed the one evening of the week they wou ld be closed from The $164 Question Would you spend your own money to mail a library book that had been missing for nine years back to the college it belonged to? If that book had turned up in the Arctic Circle, why would someone bother to mail it back to a small college in the Southwest? Miss Winnie Bell, director of Harding's Beaumont Memorial Library, would like to know the answer to that last question. Around the beginning of the Spring semester, Bell received a letter concerning the return of a Harding library book. "Dear Sir or Madam: I found this book beside the road all frozen and stuck together. Looks like it has been missing from your library for a long time ... nine years to be exact. "How this book came to be located in a small Eskimo village 30 miles north of the 94 -Library Science Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska is beyond me, but it was. "Now all you have to do is figure out and collect the fine! Ha Hal" The letter was from Daryl B. Ryder, who spent $2.50 to mail the book to Harding. Ryder made no offer to pay the fine. At the regular rate of five cents a day for nine years. it would add up to $164.25, if it weren't for the maximum fine, which is $2. The book, entitled Human Development by Frank Faulkner, M.D., was last checked out from Har· ding's library Sept. 18, 1972. "I just couldn't imagine somebody taking the time, effort and money to rescue a book, dry it out, wrap and mail it along with an explanatory note," Bell said.f<l - Kathy Cage Saturday to Friday. Joe McReynolds attended meetings of the American Library Association in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles as a member of the College Research Committee. Winnie Bell and Suzanne Spurrier attended the AMlGOS Bibliographic Council meeting in Dallas. In July, Bell, Mc· Reynolds. and Spurrier attended the meeting of librarians of the Christian colleges hosted by Abilene Christian University in connection with it 75th anniver: sary. Henry Terrill attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., on government documents. All of the librarians were active in the Arkansas Library Assoc. Winnie Bell, MALS Librarian Assoc. Prof. Travis COlli:, ML8 Cataloging librarian Asst. Prof. Franklin Hayes, MLS Periodicals Librarian Asst. Prof. Joe McReynolds, MS Reference Librarian Asst. Prof. Suzanne Spurrier I MA Circulation Librarian Asst. Prof. Henry Terrill, MSLS Reserved Books Librarian Asst. Prof. During the 1980·81 school, 5,579 book volumes were add· ed to the collection. Expen. ditures of the library for .last year amounted to 4.53 per cent of the total educational and general operating budget. The library received a $2,000 Title II-A grant for books and materials. Checking on use made of the library, the librarians found that the largest number in the library at one time during a given count period was 324 at 8:30 p.m. on November 16. The largest number coming into the library in one day as measured by the Tattle Tape Book Detec· tion System counter was 1,980 on December 15. ~ , Q ~ .
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