Perspectives, Volume 5, Number 2, October 1982 Page: Front Cover
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UH Lecture Series
Features Nobel Winners
In an effort to enhance the academic environment of the
University of Houston, the UH System administration is
sponsoring, during 1982-83, a series of four lectures by
recent winners of the Nobel Prize.
The speakers for the series include Czeslaw Milosz,
1980 prize winner for literature; David Hubel, 1981 prize
winner for medicine; Lawrence Klein, 1980 prize winner
for economics; and Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 prize
winner -or literature.
The first speaker in the series, scheduled for Monday,
October 25, will be Milosz. Born in Lithuania in 1911,
Milosz witnessed the social and political upheavals of
20th century Europe. Arriving in the United States in
1961, Milosz is currently a professor of Slavic languages
and literature at Berkeley. His many books include The
Captive Mind, a study of communism and intellectuals,
and Native Realm, an autobiographical history.
The first in an annual program of UH System-supported
distinguished lectures, the series is organized to allow the
Nobel Prize recipients to participate for one and a half
days in activities that involve all UH System campuses and
the general Houston community.
The two key activities include public lectures to be held
at 8 p.rr. at the UH Central Campus Continuing Education
Center, and video-taped seminars produced by KUHT
and featuring each Nobel Prize winner engaged in a dis-
cussion with representatives from the UH campuses and
the community. The seminars will be broadcast as a series
on Friday evenings at 9 p.m. beginning on May 13.
The second speaker, Singer, is often described as the
quintessential storyteller. He will speak on Monday,
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UH Launches Program
To Improve Libraries
Both phases of the six-year UH System library develop-
ment program are under way as the University continues
its efforts to develop a superior research library on the
UH Central Campus and to insure its accessibility to all
UH campuses.
Funded by a $2 million allocation from UH System
President Charles E. Bishop to the libraries, the develop-
ment plan is being coordinated by the library directors
from all four campuses. The key elements of the plan are
a collection analysis project to assess existing collections,
a collection development program to strengthen selected
areas, and an on-line, computer-based information pro-
cessing system to provide faculty and students on all
four campuses with access to the collections of all UH
System libraries.
Us ng methodology and assistance provided by the
Association of Research Libraries, UH library administra-
tors are currently assessing the M. D. Anderson Library's
collections in some 30 specific disciplines, a project which
should be completed by 1983.
The library will then begin selected development of
collections in specific academic areas which will support
research and instruction throughout the UH System. Areas
selected for initial development include computer science,
chemistry, mechanical engineering, international business,
and psychology.
Statistics compiled by the Association of Research
Libra-ies indicate that the library is presently several thou-
sand journal subscriptions below the median number of
subscriptions taken by academic research libraries. Be-
cause of this finding, a great deal of emphasis will be
placed on acquiring additional journals which are needed
to support research programs.
The UH System Library Committee has recently set
guidelines for faculty participation in both collection as-
sessment and collection development. The library direc-
tors at the UH Downtown College, UH at Clear Lake City,
and UH at Victoria campuses will designate collection
development librarians to serve as liaison to the collection
analysis project and the collection development program.
These librarians will represent faculty interests on their
respective campuses.
The interests of the UH Central Campus faculty will be
represented by the subject librarians assigned to each
discipline.
In order to provide all UH System faculty and students
with access to the expanding research collections of the
M. D. Anderson Library, the library development program
also calls for the installation of a computer-based informa-
tion processing system consisting of computerized cata-
log, circulation, and acquisition systems.
Designed to provide decentralized, on-line access to
the library's resources, the combined system, called the
Integrated Library System, will be installed during January-
April -983, with training of the library staff to be completed
by early summer. All systems are expected to be in place
and, operating by September, 1983.
Geac, Inc., of Los Angeles and Toronto, was recently
selected from among nine bidders to provide the com-
puter hardware and software, training and documenta-
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