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The Red and Black • Thursday, May 17, 1990 • 3
Measles scare disrupts campus blood drives
Due to the measles emergency at
the University, Atlanta-area Red
Cross workers will have to seek
blood donors from other parts of
the region to avoid a critical blood
shortage, Red Cross spokeswoman
Anne Willcox said.
The mandatory measles vaccina
tions for all University students
and employees have caused the
cancellation of five campus blood
drives in the last two weeks, Wil
lcox said. Because a live virus is
used for the inoculation, anyone re
ceiving it is excluded from giving
Athens Regional Is
seeing a shortage.
blood for four we«ks.
Four drives planned at residence
halls this week were expected to
supply 300 units of blood.
On any given weekday, the Red
Cross must collect 900 units of
blood to support 100 hospitals in
the 82-county region, she said.
"When the Red Cross is unable
to meet the needs of those hospi
tals, the hospitals may have to
cancel some elective surgery,” Wil
lcox said. "Keep in mind that open-
heart surgery is elective surgery."
Willcox said three blood drives
have been planned in the Athens
area, and the Red Cross is asking
members of the community to do
nate to compensate for the
canceled campus drives.
Athens Regional Medical Center
is already seeing a shortage of O
negative and B blood types, said
Becky Kitchen, a medical techno
logist at Athens Regional.
Athens Regional is not, however,
planning to cancel scheduled sur
gery, she said.
4f'
we don’t have the blood we
need, we usually have to get it from
another hospital or give the person
another type of blood,” she said.
St. Mary's Hospital isn’t ex
pecting a shortage of blood due to
measles vaccinations at the Uni
versity, said Lorraine Edwards, St.
Mary’s public relations director.
— Peggy McGoff
Libraries change their catalog system
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
and ERIC ALLEN
Staff Writers
University libraries are entering
a new phase in a switch to a com
puterized catalog system.
For 15 years, campus libraries
have used two different catalogs
for incoming books, magazines and
other material — one on computer
and one in the card catalog.
‘'What’s new is we’re going to
stop the duplication,” said Barry
Baker, assistant director for tech
nical services for University li
braries.
Beginning this month, new
books will be cataloged only on
computer.
Baker said it will be several
years before the card catalogs will
actually be eliminated. He said
“the paper cards will definitely be
recycled.”
The change is part of a computer
upgrade plan started in November
1989 by William Potter, director of
libraries.
Potter came to the University in
August from Arizona State Univer
sity, where he helped build an on
line catalog which accesses books,
magazines, encyclopedias, songs,
maps and the student newspaper.
He said he hopes to build a similar
system here.
“It’s not very friendly when you
first sit down to use it, and I think
that’s frustrating,” he said of the
present on-line catalog.
“It can mainly be improved by
making it easier to use.”
To do that, he said improved
searching software, which gener
ates on-screen commands used to
find publications, will be the first
change.
“With a decent search engine,
you can do almost anything,”
Potter said. “I think ours will be as
good as anything else out there.
But it will keep the look and feel of
the present system.”
Tne revised system will search
for publications not only by title,
author and subject, but also by
date or time period in which they
were published and by key words
in the title. It will also list antholo
gies in which a work appears.
Baker said illustrations will also
be listed in the new system.
Potter said the upgrade is tenta
tively scheduled for fall quarter,
but may be delayed until winter
1991.
Six University engineers from
computer services, with a com- ■
bined annual salary of about $160,-
000, are upgrading the program.
The cost of new software would be
about $200,000 plus as much as
$50,000 per year in support costs,
Potter said.
“We’ve got a 15-year commit
ment in this system,” he said. “We
felt keeping it was worth a try.”
After the search engine is in
place, more databases will be
added, giving periodicals top
priority. Government documents
will also be added.
Despite the improvements, the
library may still have to buy new
software. Potter said he and a com
mittee in charge of the change plan
to review the performance of the
present software at the end of the
year.
At the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology a complete on-line system is
already in use.
“We’ve been using an on-line
system for three years,” said Carol
White, a reference librarian at
Georgia Tech.
White said Georgia Tech entered
an interim phase in 1984 using mi
crofiche and the old card catalogs
were removed in 1985.
“We still have faculty who would
rather use the old paper system,”
she said.
To ease the transition to the un
familiar system, Georgia Tech has
volunteers showing students how
to use it. Georgia Tech presently
has about 35 terminals.
“Although you can use the com
puter faster, there are a lot fewer
computers (than card catalogues),”
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