1982_01 The Daily Collegian January 1982

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the Daily Collegian
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^   California State University, Fresno
Monday, January 26,1981
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MOVING DAY FOR CSUF LIBRARY
Library moves kilo now oxtontlon
Wait over
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By Peter Scott
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After a seemingly endless period of
waiting, the new $5.4 million library
addition is finally ready for use. Its
doors opened this morning, marking the
successful transition from the old struc¬
ture to the new one.
Head librarian Lillie Parker explained
that the old building will continue
to be used, and certain departments will
retain their same locations. There will
be no change in the Reference Depart¬
ment, the Card Catalogues, the Govern¬
ment Publications and the book stack.
Departments that have moved will
provide more space and seating and
easier access for students. Those de¬
partments that have made the move
ve now located in the following floors
of the new building:
Acquisitions Department- Fourth floor
Bibliography Collection- Fourth floor
Catalogue Department- Fourth floor
Circulation Department- First floor
Curriculum Library- Fourth floor
Music Library- Third    floor
Periodicals  Department-   First floor
Reserved Book Room-     Third   floor
Department of  Special  Collections-
Fourth floor
Current periodicals are kept on the
first floor. The bound periodicals
have not been moved.
Parker felt that due to the confu¬
sion of the move students may initially
have trouble orienting themselves  in
the new surroundings. To alleviate
this problem, staff members are present
in the mam lobby of the library to
direct students.
In addition to this, tours are being
given today and tomorrow. These tours
wiM be given every hour from 9 a.m.
The CSUF library is
now the fifth largest
in the CSUC system
to 5 p.m. and will start, in the main
lobby. Leaflets explaining the layout are
also available.
The new library addition has entran¬
ces on the east side of the passageway
between the two buildings and on the
second floor where the bridge connects
the two buildings.
. The north entrance to the old building
will remain open. However, it is pos¬
sible that before the end of the semester
the north entrance will be closed due
to remodeling.
Reading materials remain the same in
the new building, and materials in
storage will not be put into immediate
use. These stored materials are to be
brought out after the semester has
ended.
Students will benefit from an addition
of photocopy machines on the first
and third floors of the new building.
The machines in the old building remain
opens
available. Typewriters have also been
placed on the third floor of the addition
as well as the typewriters in the old
building.
Open hours remain the same in most
departments of the library with a few
exceptions. According to Parker, it
would be almost impossible to keep the
Special Collections Department and the
Curriculum Library open during the
evening hours.
In 1975 CSUF ranked last out of the 19
schools in the California State Univer¬
sity System (CSUC) in ratio of students
to library seats. The finished library
will be 64,000 square feet, making the
CSUF library the fifth largest in the
CSUC system.
The overcrowding problem will not
be fully alleviated, however, until the
Tours are being given
today and tomorrow
existing library building is remodeled
and able to house the Reference De¬
partment, card catalogue, Circulation
Department and larger reading rooms.
While the old library is being re¬
modeled, these will be temporarily
located in the annex. There are also
100,000 volumes being stored else¬
where on campus to be moved into
the finished library.
The remodeling is expected to be
completed by December 1961
Population
up, police
stay same
By Judy House
The rapid postwar spread of the city of
Fresno has forced the Fresno Police
Department to cover a larger and larger
area, thus providing residents with thin¬
ner and thinner police protection.
A Daily Collegian study shows that the
city has grown so fast in the postwar
years that the density of police protec¬
tion has dropped. This is evident on the
CSUF campus, as the university police
department is understaffed.
The sprawl of the city has made the
policeman's job harder.
Today, one policeman in the city of
Fresno covers more area than policemen
have ever had to cover in the history of
Fresno, 89.5 acres. The sprawl of the
city is also evidenced by the fact that
there is now one policeman for every 434
people.'
Over the years, the number of police¬
men and the area they have had to cover
has fluctuated with the most favorable
ratio being reached in 1950.
It was then that one policeman theo¬
retically covered 58.5 acres and was re¬
sponsible for 529 people. This was the
lowest ratio of cop to area and population
in the history of the city.
In 1960, the area a policeman had to
cover jumped from 58.5 (in 1950) to
74.8. In 1960 not only did the average
cop have more area to cover but also
more people with one policeman for
every 546 people.
From 1960 to 1970, the area one
policeman theoretically had to cover
again went up slightly to 79.3 square
acres. But In 1970, there was one police¬
man for every 491 people.
Not only has the area and amount of
people a policeman covers changed with
the growth of the city but so has the way
the department computes the number of
uniformed police that are needed, the
area they are needed most, and the time
of day they are needed.
The city, explained Police Chief
George Hanson, is divided Into 65 beats,
but not all of these beats are worked
24 hours a day. Beats are changed dur¬
ing the day and on weekends and holi¬
days. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. 19 beats in
the city are worked. From 3 p.m. to
7 p.m., there are 23 beats.
The time when there are the most cops
out in the street is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
There are 34 beats worked during that
period. U is this time, explained Han¬
son, that people getting off work most
often find their cars broken into. This
is also the time when most crimes are re¬
ported.
From 11 p.m. until 3 a.m. the city of
(See Police, back page)
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