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was deputy librarian of Congress in the late 1950 s and early 19605. The overload has become so distressing that librarians joke about it. Consider the great Library of Alexandria in ancient Egypt. This vast repository caught fire during the Roman occupation in 47 8.C., and reportedly burned centuries later during the Arab invasion. Its loss is often viewed as the worst tragedy in bibliographic history. But Welsh at the Library of Congress has been saying the fire was a blessing; if the library had kept growing it would have covered all Egypt by now. “People say, ‘Why don’t you put everything on microfilm?’” Rogers said. “They don’t know how much it costs, S4O to $45 a volume on top of an average book’s cost of S2O to $25. This rapidly runs into such a huge amount that it’s not a very facile solution to the space problem.” American scholars of foreign countries require books, journals, newspapers and government documents in foreign languages that have raised further problems. The Research Libraries Group, a consortium founded in 1974 that now links three dozen major research libraries through a computer at Stanford University, has developed computerized catalogues in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and other non-Roman characters. Yet finding library personnel who can deal with such catalogues can be very difficult. The Research Libraries Group has also taken steps to coordinate its members’ aquisitions, to get each library to collect books in its fields of special strength, to back away from other fields if necessary and to share more books. In acquisitions, for instance, a member library may agree to assume “primary responsibility” in fields that either produce too much literature for most libraries to handle, or that are highly specialized. Cornell University, for example, collects materials on Southeast Asia, a major responsibility, and also on Iceland. Other universities, with few exceptions, no longer try to match Cornell’s holdings in these areas. There have also been drawbacks to the new system, which aims at the creation of a gigantic “bibliographic utility” com-

Colleges steer away from beer bashes

By LISA WOLFE c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK The pub at Princeton University is now a case. Its grand opening last week featured a jazz ensemble, small round tables with candles, 14 kinds of coffee and 8 kinds of tea, pastry, fruit juice and not one drop of alcohol. “Before, there was an inch and a half of beer on the floor with people slipping and falling on it,” said James Andranos Jr., a senior. “Now the place is mellow, kind of classy.” And so it goes on campuses in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut the sobering up of college life has begun. It is most apparent in states such as New Jersey, where the minimum drinking age is 21. But faced with the likelihood that their states will soon raise the drinking age, colleges in New York, where the drinking age is 19, Connecticut, where it is 20, and many other parts of the nation have also taken significant steps toward changing the way students socialize. “When one-quarter of your students can’t drink, you can do things like check I.D.’s,” said David Brailey, dean of students at Connecticut College in New

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parable to a national telephone system. One potential problem, Rogers said, is that the unfinished utility is already being so heavily used that libraries have to compete for their central computer’s attention. The system also depends increasingly on interlibrary loans, which depend on the physical shipment of books and photocopies. Each such loan currently costs about sls. Rogers was asked if the new library system’s tendency toward specialization might confine individual university libraries to fewer and fewer areas of full bibliographic competence. He replied that well-run libraries would try to skim the cream, at least, in most fields, and he suggested that the best short-term hope for researchers deluged with too much information lay in wider access to better computerized catalogues, and in better indexes and abstracts. Mrs. Battin at Columbia said it was true that individual research libraries were becoming more specialized, but the alternative, she said, was to become “mediocre across the board” of knowledge. Other senior librarians agreed. Few librarians, Rogers said, have excelled at planning the heavy new flow of information, or at dealing with the organizational problems that have hit them. Mathematicians and financial experts are needed, he said, as well as linguists, computer experts and strategists. Researchers, too, are showing the strain, Rogers and some of his colleagues believe. There are full professors who have yet to master the old-fashioned card catalogue. But such catalogues are already vanishing from every major research library in the United States. Some senior researchers, Rogers asserted, have been unwilling or unable to cope with the profusion of new sources, and their work shov/s it. “I think there’s great concern about this,” Mrs. Battin said. Part of the problem, Rogers pointed out, lies with the libraries, whose indexes to many new materials have been hastily and inadequately compiled. Yet the economics of compiling better library guides has raised serious in-

London. “But when three-quarters of them can’t, then you have to rethink yourstrategy.” To encourage students to socialize without drinking, school officials are remodeling social halls and campus pubs, planning elaborate theme parties and teaching students about the hazards of drinking. And this is only preparation, many of them say, for the time when they will close campus pubs and outlaw alcohol at open parties in university housing. “I’ve already been warned I better look for another job,” said James Lenney, a, student bartender at the University of Rochester’s campus pub, as he sold beer, margaritas and screwdrivers to students. “The change is going to be very, very tough,” said Peter Kountz, dean of students at Rochester. “Students have grown up in an atmosphere of freedom. We're asking them to adhere to a law they violently disagree with and think is easy to get

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tellectual and social questions, Haas said from Washington. Lawyers, doctors, chemists and various other researchers depend on books and journals that have been lavishly funded. Computerized data banks in their fields are already being widely used. Scientists and engineers, moreover, often concern themselves only with the latest literature on a subject, and their searches can be sharply focused. By contrast, said Haas, the humanities and social sciences have been less wellfunded. Information in these fields tends to be wide-ranging and historically complicated, and it has remained less accessible.

around.” School officials expect the states to increase their drinking ages to 21 because federal highway money will be reduced for states whose minimum drinking age is not 21 by Sept. 30,1986. Most college administrators said that they did not intend to ban alcohol from campus and that they would not monitor drinking by students in their dormitory rooms. Despite these efforts, administrators stress that campus life will sober up only if students choose not to drink, and not if they are merely told what to do. Administrators say they think a revolution in campus social behavior is possible because students, whom they describe as more concerned about their health and careers than any previous group, understand how alcohol abuse may hurt them academically and obstruct their efforts to get a good job after graduation.

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