The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 16

16 The Lincoln Star Thursday, August 26, 1976 Library Fragmentation Discussed i i a. 1.1- iLUL lAt. All By DICK HOLMAN Stir Staff Writer The Legislature's Government Committee discussed Wednesday whether state library services for the blind are administratively fragmented and failing to achieve full potential impact. Sen. Demis Rasmussen of Scotia, committee chairman, scheduled another public hearing Oct.

15 on related Nebraska Library Commission operations before drafting any final recommendations to the 1977 Unicameral. Two interim study resolutions, LR126 from the committee and LR133 from Sen. Gerald Koch of Ralston, focus on restructuring the Library Commission or redistributing its functions. The committee has toured Iowa library facilities for the blind, and visited the Nebraska home-bafie library in Lincoln Wednesday morning. Lincoln Sen.

Steve Fowler said feeUng is (that) the services are too fragmented in Nebraska." The Education Department offers vocational rehabilitation programs. The Department of Public Institutions operates a rehabilitation services division for the visually Impaired. And the Library Commission handles and recorded materials, also via six regional libraries. But commission services seem to be recreational, and not educational and training oriented," Fowler said. Iowa has merged in a $1 million Des Moines facility the functions that are split in Nebraska.

The hearing will examine an idea to move services from the commission to DPI, Fowler said. Gothenberg Sen. Herb Duis noted the committee envisioning a move," but an administrative switch. Koch said the National Federation for the Blind believes the thing" to put any services under Library Commission control. Blair Sen.

Walter George raised the issue that health care aspects do not belong" in commission operations. Fowler also noted a physical space problem, forcing the commission to throw out Braille magazines after a certain use period, because insufficient room for storage. And compared to said, the Nebraska library for the blind garners little volunteer help. Iowa has a separate Commission for the Blind. Koch said library services for the blind bad.

Rather, think quite getting the emphasis it should" on services for appropriations. For example, Iowa broadcasts radio programs reading newspaper stories. But Koch noted the Library Commission has never approached, legislators for beefed-up funding. And he questioned whether it is getting information out adequately, for instance, to serve those who have recently become blind. budget of approximately $700,000 in virtually all state funds is small compared to where of the budget is federal money.

go after it," he said. Committee members said the Nebraska library serves fewer than 3,000 blind or visually impaired persons, compared to double that number in Iowa, even though the neighboring state population is 2.5 million compared to 1.5 million. Sen. George expressed concern that materials offered through local libraries be discontinued in any operational change. A recent legislative attempt to revise library operations failed.

State Patrol Releases Three Victims' Names Bisalllon To Direct Hastings Museum Hastings Ed (Barnett) Bisalllon will assume his duties as director of the Hastings Museum Sept. 1. Associated with a Grand Island radio station for the past five years, Bisalllon will succeed Burton Nelson, who has been appointed curator of the museum. PSC Receives Reaccreditation Peru Peru State College has received official notification of reaccreditation through 1981 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, according to PSC President Douglas W. Pearson.

Accreditation means that Peru State meets or exceeds the standards set for four-year institutions of higher learning throughout the nation, Pearson explained. NCIP Questionnaires Due Sept. 2 The deadline for submitting the All-Nebraska Community questionnaires for the 1978 Nebraska Community Improvement Program is Sept. 2, according to Larry Bare, director of the community affairs division of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. To attain All-Nebraska status, a community must meet standards set by state agencies in 14 categories, Bare said.

Windmill Erection Put On Tape Beatrice (UPI) A videotaping crew Wednesday recorded the erection at the Gage County Historical Museum of a windmill, donated by Dempster Industries of Beatrice. Reason for the videotaping was that the firm sells many of the waterpumplng devices to Cape Verde, Africa, whose residents have had difficulty reading the English instructions on how to assemble the equipment. With the videotape they will be able to see how to put the pieces together. Plaque Will List Maj. Bonifas Omaha (AP) The name of Maj.

Arthur G. Bonifas will be to a plaque on Korean-Vletnam Peace Memorial, according to William E. Ramsey, memorial committee chairman Bonifas, formerly of Omaha, was killed last week in an incident at the border between North and South Korea. Sex Barriers Dropped Omaha (AP) Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands is dropping its sex barriers. Executive director Ronald Troy said the baird has decided to match children with volunteers of either sex if appropriate.

Under the policy, men were matched with boys and women with girls. The volunteers act as adult friends. City Buying Burlington Building Omaha (AP) The city of Omaha will buy the last building standing in the Central Park Mall with the idea of converting it to an eating-entertainment-shopping raegca. The City Council has agreed to buy the historic Burlington building for $90,000 from International Tire Co. Officials Wednesday released identification of the three persons killed Tuesday in Nebraska traffic accidents near Humphrey and Dunbar.

The State Patrol said that Randall J. Bender, 14, the driver, and Larry Meyer, 15, both of Cornlea, were killed Tuesday night in a one-car crash about a mile west of Humphrey. The patrol said the car apparently went out of control and rolled, with both young men being thrown out. A truck driver from Kansas, identified by Otoe County Sheriff Russ Seals as Gregory Jay Zimmerman, 20, of Great Bend, was killed Tuesday when his vehicle was struck by a Burlington Northern freight train at a crossing on Highway 2 in the Dunbar vicinity. Injured in the crash, Seals said, was Kenneth Schepman, 19, of Holy Rood, Kan.

Seals said he was taken to a Syracuse hospital for treatment, but was not seriously hurt. The 18-car train was engineered by Charles Smith of Lincoln, and was bound from Nebraska City to Lincoln when the accident occurred. The deaths raised the Nebraska highway fatality toll for the year to 250, compared with 226 a year ago. Withdrawl Motion Filed For Change Of Venue Nebraska City (AP) Attys. Richard Hoch and John Steinheider filed a motion Wednesday withdrawing a request for a change of venue for the murder trial of Duane Wilken.

Wilken is being held in Otoe County Jail on $100,000 bond, pending the trial. The change of venue motion filed by attorneys had stated that publicity about the crime had jeopardized his right to a fair trial in the county. The date for his trial will be set at the District next docket call on Sept. 10. He is charged with second degree murder in the death of his wife, Sharron, on April 10.

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