Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Reading Room More than 625 faculty members, students and friends of the College participated in LSMFT Clibrary stack move on free Thursdayj to help move the Pickler Memorial Library into its new 3750.000 addition last summer. A total of 55,000 volumes were moved into the new addition during a nine-hour period. The completely air-conditioned library addition. which has been ex- tensively used by students and faculty members alike throughout the year. features the use of the hopen stack system. The hrst floor of the addition con- tains a large reading room and the open stacks. The second floor is set aside for periodicals and newspapers. The third floor of the addition pro- vides for more open stacks and also more reading room. With the addi- tion. the library now seats more than l.000 students and has space for 268,940 books. Senator Edward V. Long of Mis- souri designated the Pickler Memorial Library as a Federal depository for Federal documents and publications.

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Kirk Memorial Students entered Laughlin Hall to further their education in various fields of history, as the build- ing houses the division of Social Science. Freshmen were particularly interested in the ultra-modern lecture-auditorium which was the scene of Background of the Modern World classes. , Admissions and Maintenance offices, also in Laughlin Hall, were bustling with students seeking acceptance into the College and those clearing up parking tickets. At the east end of the main campus quadrangle, students embarked on the Data Processing Center located in the Kirk Building. The center was put into use for registration purposes for the first time this past summer. While in the Kirk Building, many students took advantage of the health services available at the stu- dent clinic on the main floor. The offices of the Dean of Student Affairs, the Dean of Women, Freshman Enrollment, Student Housing and Financial Aids are on the west side of Sociability Hall. 1' rl y .-an 1. ,..,., 5' f 5 Q Q1 . ,. A Each of the five thousand plus students en- rolled this past year made their way up at least once to the third floor of the Kirk Building to be pro- cessed for new student identification cards in the I.D. office. Standing on the site of the old Baldwin Hall at the south end of the main quadrangle is the Kirk Memorial named in honor of John R. Kirk who was the fifth president of the College. Off to the east side of the rotunda in the Kirk Memorial is the office of President Emeritus, Dr. Walter H. Ryle, who is in the process of writing a complete history of the College. Immediately across the rotunda is the foreign student adviser's office. In the basement of the Kirk Memorial is located the College Museum which contains many articles of historical value for Northeast Missouri and the surrounding area.