MICROFICHE CATALOGUE

 

Each campus library has replaced 13 card catalogue cabinets with 76
pieces of microfiche, which are cards made of film. A person could
hold the entire microfiche catalogue in one hand. Advantages of the

new microcatalogue are that it's computer-produced, it's compact (each
microfiche has about 5,000 entries) and it has eliminated the filing

of catalogue cards. There are many copies of the microcatalogue, allow-
ing the satellite campuses without proper libraries such as Maple Ridge
Langley, Agnes St. and Newton to have a catalogue and provide access to
library materials for their students. Unless there's a power failure,
the microcatalogue is fast and efficient to use! The reference librarians
are happy to assist users with the new catalogue.

~.e.-Janice Kreider

.GROUND BROKEN
FOR NEW WEST CAMPUS

 

The $27.5 million Douglas College comprehensive campus which will form
a major landmark in a revitalized downtown core for New Westminster was
officially launched today by Education Minister Brian Smith.

Climaxing a day touring several Douglas College centres, Mr. Smith and
Mayor Muni Evers walked from city hall to the nearby site of the future
Royal Avenue campus for a ground-breaking ceremony by the two officials.
They were accompanied by Helen Casher, college board chairman, and
Acting Principal Reginald Pridham.

"Expanding educational opportunities at the post-secondary level are
extremely vital to the future development of British Columbia," Smith
said, “and it is especially important that this college which serves
almost a third of our population should have the facilities to fulfill
its mission."

Covering 14 city blocks, the new permanent site at New Westminster will
include two building masses with 300,000 square feet of space around

a large central concourse. The comprehensive campus will contain
vocational as well as academic, career and technical facilities and,

in addition, a music school and recreational facilities.

"The college has been resourceful and patient in its use of temporary
facilities," Smith said. "It's time that it was given a more permanent
structure which will serve as a real attraction for prospective college
students here, no matter what they want to study."

The Royal Avenue site, expected to be completed in late 1982, will
replace the present New Westminster campus about two kilometers away at
8th and McBride.

Clearing of the site has begun, and first tenders are expected to be
called in about two months. Architects are Carlberg Jackson Partners,
who also designed the new provincial courthouse nearby.

Other officials involved in today's ceremony included college board members
and William L. Day, principal of the McBride campus and chairman of the
project development committee. Also present was Richard Wright, executive
director of First Capital City Dev. Corp., the subsidiary of the B.C.

Dev. Corp. which is co-ordinating the urban renewal in N.W.'s downtown core.

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