“It was probably the most exciting job
in the library,” he says. “The thing
that's especially great about it is there
are no horizons, you are limited only by
your own imagination and _ under-
standing.”

Through a process of consultation with
faculty, administration and interested
students, Stanton found himself
sometimes able to outguess depart-
ments on what books they would want
to order in the coming year, and he
says the organization has been refined
to further develop the collection.

“Right now we have about 73,000 titles
in the Douglas College library, which is
almost double what we had after the
College split,” he says. “The target for
an institution this size would be a
library of about | 16,000 books.”

Though Stanton loved his old job of
selecting books for the library, he feels
“it's also good to change jobs once ina
while to expand your horizons.”

 

Today, Stanton is learning more about
computer operations and is visiting
other automated libraries to discover

what types of computer systems work

well in this particular environment.

“We're lucky that we've waited until
now to purchase an electronic data
system because computers are much
smaller than they were three or four
years ago, the software is cheaper and
we can afford a more advanced
system,” he says.

And he can envision a day in the near
future when the microfiche catalogues
will be replaced by desktop computer
terminals and students will have im-
mediate access to information con-
tained in other libraries’ collections.

Always the book lover, Stanton says
that printed matter will still remain the
cornerstone of the Douglas College
library.

 

 

 

 

RALPH STANTON, LIBRARIAN

 

 

MAD HATTER 3

 

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