Central Florida Future, Vol. 01 No. 12, January 31, 1969
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Central Florida Future. 12. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/12 -·······••111111111 We Live in the Present By the Past, but for the . .. Vol. 1. No. 12 FTU, Orlando, Florida January 31, 1969 Automation Planned 1 Pickets Hit Florida Tech ForLibraryGrowth " FTU experienced its first protest . demonstration Wednesday, The operations of the FTU library does not want to plan for "' January 29. The protest was not led Library are presently being planned equipment that might be obsolete by students, but came in the form to keep up with the rapid growth before it is even used. of two pickets from Local 606 of expected at Florida Tech. Since all library operations will ' BOOK RET.URN the International Brotherhood of Automation of most library be part of a single automized Electrical Workers. operations will be the main operation, all the computer plans ~ program to aid the library in will be an outgrowth of the present I l.B.E.W. 606 is picketing the functioning with as much efficiency card catalog system. The efficiency electrical work now being done by and convenience as possible. of any automation in the library Delta Electric, a contracting firm, The program has begun with a will hinge on the efficiency of the ;('·l· at the eastern side of the campus complete catalog system of about present computerized catalog. near the power plant. The picketers 16,500 library volumes recorded on Lynn W. Walker, Director of the carried signs that stated "Delta computer tape. All future library Library and Instructional Resources Electric is undermining wages, material will also be recorded on Division said he is "vitally hours and working conditions the present tape. An accession concerned about service in the established in this area by I.B.E.W. library". Walker added that the The new book drop at F. T. U. provides a convenient way for all 606." number assigned to every library students to return books to the library. Students using the new book publication printed along with the library wishes to do all that is Delta Electric is reportedly using possible to imprve library service return on its first day of operation are: Sandi Whidden, Sherri embrossed student names on l.D. Mc Whorter and driver, Ron G. Turner. non-union employees who are cards is the present system used to both now and in the future. working for wages which do not check out material to FTU meet the union scale, working a students. A computerized system is different number of hours from planned that will enable students to Kearney Named Poole Commands Computer union employees and working amid use their I.D.'s to check out the conditions that are below the library material in an automated The FTU computer hums 65 computer-oriented curriculum 1.B.E.W. standards. manner. Lt. Governor hours a week, easing work loads, including a four-year sequence of The picketers said that this The over-all computer automated and saving tax dollars. courses leading to a bachelor of non-union operation of Delta system is still being designed and Besides cataloging the library, the science degree in computer science. Electric is depriving union workers will be subject to change according Tom Kearney, a student ~t FTU computer is busy handling student As the University grows, the of employment and the set pay to the unknown future needs of the has been appointed Lt. Governor registration and a host of other computer may be put to work on they expect to get. library. The effect of one by the district government of Circle administrative chores at the missile flight simulation for the An official of I.B.E.W. Local 606, automated system upon another K. University, serving as a teaching space engineer students and on Ed Burney, said that his union is will be a large factor in the library's Kearney was appointed to this laboratory for computer science business problem simulation for the protesting more in favor of the ultimate use of computer systems. position January 1, 1969 due to the courses being offered at FTU. business administration students. non-union employees of Delta Library officials said that the resigning of Howard Balthaser from Florida Tech started off with a In business simulation, students Electric than in an attempt to get emphasis in the automation design Brevard, the past Lt. Governor. big computer system. The Model are put in charge of an imaginary union employees on the job. was on planning present operations Kearney is also serving as District 1200 has a memory capacity of company and are given problems to Burney also said that there is no for smooth conversion to Program Chairman on the Board of 49,176 positions, two disk drives solve. The computer tells them if WlY of knowing at this time if the computerized systems later on. Directors with Ed Lachtara, also a which add a total of 18.6 million the company prospered under their dispute would evolve into a strike Money and time are the two main student at FTU serving as District positions of memory, and seven management or went bankrupt. by the union. obstacles standing between the Education Chairman. magnetic tape drives with a transfer The entire operation is under the The FuTUre was unable to reach library's present operation and the tape of 28,000 characters a second. direction of Dr. Harry Poole, any representative of Delta Electric complete automation program The University is offering a broad Director of Information Systems at for comment. expected in the future. New -o- FTU. Dr. Poole joined Florida Tech advances in computer technology Bank Donates The second meeting of the Social from Daytona Beach Junior College that may come about during the Affairs Committee was held today in the summer of 196 7. Prior to Automated development period of the library's $1,000 to FTU at 4:00 o'clock with an informal that, he had extensive experience in system are also responsible for the meeting with Vice President C. B. the computer industry and Post Office delay in a finalized plan. The A $1,000.00 unrestricted Gambrell in room 338. teaching. Dr. Poole said that personnel in donation to the FTU Foundation e p le l major university administrative Constructed has been made by the Board of 1ng areas are being taught a simplified Dire~tors of the Commercial Bank ar ot A self-service post office unit, Engineer Sessions 1t Wmter Park. programming language called similar to the one found in the BE STOP, an acronym for Business . Don Tauscher, Vice President of Pl d Economic Statistical Operational Colomal Plaza, IS currently bemg To Be Held the Commercial Bank, presented I Program, as well as COBOL. "With constructed on the Tech campus. nn e 1 the check to President Millican this BESTOP and COBOL," Dr. Poole The automat tyl?e post o!fice, to be Area engineers will be given week. sat.d " h d t t .11 b bl located at the mtersection of the another opportunity to register for Dr. Millican praised the The vice president in charge of , eac epar men WI . e a e t wo s1·d ewalks near the student to genera t e mos t o f their own t,~e Second Annual Professional "civic-minded and generous act of business affairs at FTU has center, should be ready for use E[gineer Review Sessions to be the Bank's Board of Directors" and disclosed the University's plans for report s an d t o a 1arge ex t en t 'th· · d e te rmme· the1r · own sc h ed u1 e o f WI m a month... Purchasmg of h..:ld in Orlando. pledged that the funds would be expanding the permanent parking . f . f t' stamps, the ma1lmg of parcel post, The sessions are designed to assist used to further the goals of FTU. facilities on campus. programmmg or m orma Ion and the mailing of letters can all be production." engineers in preparing for the State According to John P. Goree, pickets done at this portable post office. Board of Engineer Examiners test available parking space in asphalt which is given twice each hear and topped lots will be nearly doubled when passed allows the engineer to Blood Bank by the fall of 1969. Three parking become a registered "PE" in lots are proposed for the area west Florida. of the administration building The first session which will be presently under construction. Monday evening, will involve a brief Established These lots will be approximately orientation period in which a Dr. E. W. Stoner, resident equal in capacity to those now textbook and materials will be physician at FTU, has announced existing east of the construction. distributed and several brief that the University Health Service is Permanent lots are also planned for lectures on the examination itself seeking to establish a blood bank the area immediately west of the will be given.