Buena Vista University - Log Yearbook (Storm Lake, IA)

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' isNobaf ,lo flwfN was The picture AT THE IMMEDIATE LEFT showed Fracker Library, which had served the college for more than twenty years. BELOW was shown John Mulherin, one of the students who helped to pack the books. TO THE DiRECT LEFT was pictured Dan Monzon as he helped the professional movers stack boxes. Students and faculty alike worked to place books on the new Ballou Library shelves. Pictured FROM BACK TO FRONT were Clitt Mortenson, Mrs. Mary Persing, Mrs. Eva Myrick, and Willie Grice. ga Y W 3 .V jf iiiilfyi f 4 ' ' 225512. is pmsz ' ' ski! N -- 'E' if -5 M., f K yi X 'i 'fs ..v,f 5 :wr . 1 img 5 Li6a. -I-I. UV. l i IMMEDIATELY BELOW was pictured Art Simeon as he assisted in stacking the library shelves. THE BOTTOM PICTURE showed the beautiful Georgian Colonial style building as it had been completed with maintenance-free materials, carpeting, air conditioning, and polarized glare- tree lighting. 2 Mwllznuuwwmadaw

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Mid-October brought moving day to the Buena Vista Col- lege campus. The help of extra students was enlisted, and crews of assistants went to work folding boxes and carefully packing them with books from Fracker Library for the several-block trip to the new L.E. and E.L. Ballou Library. Fracker Library, once a barracks at the Sioux City Air Base which had been trucked to Storm Lake in the l940's and upon its arrival had been bricked over, had been an adequate library for a student body of five hundred. However, the growing student body of the l960's and the explosion of knowledge meant that better library facilities were becoming a necessity. Fracker Library had only 3,600 square feet of space so there was room in it to house only a part of the book collection. About 4,000 books were stored in the archives in Dixon Eilers Hall, which meant that they were not available except upon twenty-four hour notice. The curriculum library also had to be located in the administration building. ln contrast, the new library into which the movers were cautiously carrying large boxes of books had about seven times as much space, about 2l,000 square feet. This meant that there was more than enough room for the combined book col- lection of 44,000 stack books, the 400 periodicals to which the library subscribed, and the curriculum library, as well as the extra services which were added after the move. ln the new library there was space for a special audio-visual room, a rare book room, seminar rooms, typing rooms, and special carrels for the use of faculty members. Over two hundred students could be seated in the library at once, in contrast to the seventy who could have been seated in Fracker Library. This meant that after the move, both attendance and circula- tion increased by 3,000 a year. After a week of moving and adiusting to the new set-up, the new library was opened for business. Indeed, the dream of many in the faculty, administration, and student body had come true.

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