Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1950 [PAGE 308]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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fund of $1,000,000 will be used for the construction costs of the Center and for initial operating costs. The Executive Committee is now pushing plans to select a site for the Center, presumably in the City of Chicago, to find a Director of the Center, and to perfect the other arrangements necessary to such a large enterprise. T h e Inter-Library Center is one of the most forward steps ever taken in the regional organization of resources for scientific, cultural, and scholarly work. Little-used materials in the participating libraries will be housed in the Center. By this concentration at the Center, a great research library can be established, but at the same time the participating institutions will be able to expand their holdings in the areas that are most useful for their own facilities. Full coordination with and speedy exchange between the participating libraries give dramatic promise of more useful service to research and scholarship throughout the midwest area. PURCHASES Purchase Authorized The following purchase has been authorized by the President of the University on the recommendations of the Director of Purchases and the Comptroller. Item Department Vendor Cost Twenty donut sections; 40 donut Physics Colonial Insulator Co., $1 700 00 sections without snout Akron, Ohio Due to the experimental nature of the work, the order will be written subject to cancellation by either party, pending the production of a satisfactory sample. In event of cancellation, the University will be liable for a moid charge, only, of £200. Purchases Recommended The Director of Purchases has proposed and the Comptroller recommends the following purchases. Unless otherwise specified, the purchase in each case is recommended on the basis of lowest bid. Cost Vendor Department Hem Two No. 8662 potentiometers, L & Leeds & Northrup Co., Chemistry gi 652 00 N, precision, portable; 1 No. 7552 Chicago potentiometer, L & N, type K-2; 1 No. 2430-C galvanometer, type E; 2 No. 2420-A galvanometers, with enclosed lamp and scale; 2 No. 4716 decade resistance boxes; 2 No. 2164 ayrton shunts Wilkens-Anderson Co., Chemistry 1 514 00 One NT-2500 DU Beckman quartz Chicago f.o.b. spectrophotometer; 1 NT-2501 ulUrbana traviolet accessory set; 4 2300-1089 fused silica cells for Beckman quartz spectrophotometer r 9S7 75 Leslie Monell, Newton Agronomy Labor for rebuilding barn at Newton Experiment Field, all material to be supplied by the University 2 121 15 Motorola, Inc., Physical Plant f.o.b. c/o T. G. Brown, One central station transmitter and Chicago Bloomington receiver with handset and hangup box; 3 mobile units complete for Physical Plant Hunter Lumber Co., Urbana 5 295 00 use in truck service Mississippi Valley Struc1 890 00 Theoretical and One carload of 1* and 2" fir lumber tural Steel Co., Decatur Applied One tilting flume framework, to be Mechanics constructed entirely of steel and W. H. Kessel & CoChemistry t 555 20 Chicago copper E. H. Sargent & Co., Chemistry 1 636 50 Twelve photoelectric colorimeters; Chicago 12 voltage stabilizers Eighty-seven electric heating man2 069 76 Bradner Smith & Co., Office Supply Store tles, laboratory type; 8 regulating Chicago transformers Hendey Machine Corp., 1 880 00 Physics 200 reams 25x38 60 lb. enamel book Chicago paper Rebuilding one 14* Hendey lathe owned by the University, includj 960 00 Illinois Metal Cabinet Co., ing replacement of all worn parts, Anatomy, Inc., Chicago Medicine modernizing and thorough testing Four museum cases, glass sides, ends, and top, I2*x36*x75* to match present museum equipment