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Volume 142, Issue 23
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WU Police discusses shooter safety Brenden Williams
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Non Nobis Solum: Students in the first floor of the Mabee library study for classes Tuesday night. The library partnership will allow students to check out books from the public library and deliver them to Mabee for pick up.
Mabee partners with public library Collaboration increases students’ access to books, resources Ryan Thompson
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Washburn students can now pick up and return public library materials at Mabee Library without leaving Washburn campus. The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library offers a new program they call Library @ Work. This program allows employees of businesses that have subscribed to the program to order library materials, such as books and movies, from the library’s online catalogue and the Library will deliver the materials to their workplace. Library materials can also be returned to their place of business.
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Through this program, the public library will also send librarians to affiliated organizations to sign up people who want a library card. Students, faculty and staff at Washburn University will have access to the Library @ Work service through Mabee Library. According to Thad Hartman, community and strategic services manager for the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Library @ Work was enacted primarily to save people time. “We know people have busy lives and they spend most of their time at work or school,” said Hartman. “If we can help save them some time by hav-
ing stuff delivered directly to them it might make life a little easier.” Library @ Work will also give people who may not have the means to go to the library’s single physical outlet access to library services. “Most communities our size have branches,” said Hartman. “We do not, so we’re always looking for ways to get library services out into the community in any way possible.” Although materials can be picked up and returned at Mabee, the program is entirely operated by the public library. “Everything you will do for this program would be through the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library’s side
of things,” said Hartman. Materials must be ordered from the public library’s online catalogue and students wanting to take advantage of this service will need a library card. The public library will email users when their orders are delivered. “We’re really excited to add Washburn to our list of Library @ Work sites,” said Hartman. “We’ve got a really good relationship with Mabee Library. I know Mabee has a ton of great services themselves. This is a way to extend their services and extend ours as well.” Ryan Thompson john. thompson2@washburn.edu, is a senior English major.
Washburn Police Director Dean Forster has given over 30 speeches to Washburn students and faculty regarding the response to an active shooter on campus as well as the cost of making Washburn gun free again. Forster, with over 30 years of police experience in both the Highway Patrol and Topeka Police Department has been researching what it would cost to give buildings on Washburn’s campus what the state has defined as “adequate security”, he has also been helping students and faculty develop a response to an active shooter situation. Forster estimated that for each major door to a major building on campus, it would cost approximately $190,000 to $400,000 per door, the costs coming from new officers that would be stationed at each door, metal detectors or wands to detect any weapon, and other security details, some of which would be yearly costs, some would be one time costs that would need to be repaired or replaced every few years. Forster spoke with the Washburn Student Government Association and has talked to many other organizations regarding how to handle an active shooter situation as well. “Active shooters are here for no other reason than to kill you,” said Forster. “That’s all they’re here for, and they don’t even know you. They’re just here to kill as many people as they can until the police intervene or someone intervenes. It’s also very important for them to understand that if SAFETY: continued on page3
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