The University of California Libraries: A Plan for Development (1977)

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98 The University of California Libraries money; what is surprising is that many of the Center's members, despite the size of the membership fees they pay and the pressure on their budgets, have elected to retain most of their serial subscriptions, even subscriptions to titles which are little used. With the likelihood of further economic stringencies in the future, however, the use of this service is likely to grow, and it may evolve into the national periodicals center envisaged by ARL. A further service offered by CRL is related. Members send requests for photocopies of recent journal articles in the sciences and social sciences to the Center, and for those it cannot fill the Center retransmits them automatically to the British Library Lending Division in Boston Spa, England. From there photocopies are sent via air mail directly to the requesting library. Through the use of standardized forms and procedures, as well as modern communications technology, the efficiency of the service is remarkable, despite the distances involved. The UC Santa Barbara library, which has made good use of it, reports that it can often secure photocopies from England through this service faster than from other California libraries! For this as well as for several other reasons, the plan recommends that all UC libraries be members of the Center, and that membership be secured and budgeted on a systemwide basis. Other advantages to membership in the Center are discussed in Chapters VIII and X, since they concern acquisition policies and space problems. At present only UCLA and UC Santa Barbara are members, but the advantages of the systemwide membership would make the additional costs (approximately $82,000 per year) appear to be worthwhile. At the national level, then, the plan recommends: 1) That the University begin a system of charges for interlibrary loans to institutions outside the state, in order to avoid further imbalance in its interlibrary lending activities and to encourage the development of a national system; 2) That the University join the Center for Research Libraries on a systemwide basis, in order to make available the resources of the Center to all faculty and students of the University, to participate in the various programs of the Center which enhance the availability of specialized research materials, and to encourage
VI. Delivery and Use 99 its development as a national periodicals center. International. Material likely to be of scholarly interest to a student or faculty member of the University should be obtainable, either in the original form, in microform, or in photocopy. If not available within the United States, the material must of course be obtained from international sources, and the time involved is likely to be at least one month or more. As noted in Chapter IV, however, some materials are not needed sooner, and the University's system can thus contemplate obtaining some materials from abroad, and still meet its performance goals. At present, only Great Britain's library system is capable of responding with the efficiency that most scholars would desire. As the British Library modestly notes, it has "developed an interlibrary lending service, based on the National Central Library and the National Lending Library for Science and Technology now combined in the Lending Division of the British Library, superior to that in any other country." 20 The first year after the creation of the new Lending Division (BLLD), a total of 1,832,000 requests were received, and an astonishing 83 percent were filled from its holdings. A further 8 percent were filled through the BLLD from other libraries, for a combined success rate of 91 percent. The agency handles an estimated 75 percent of all interlibrary loan traffic in the entire United Kingdom, and over 160,000 requests from overseas. Many of these are undoubtedly from United States libraries, encouraged by the performance of the British Library's air mail services, as mentioned earlier. A recent survey "has shown that the service offered to foreign countries by the Division can compare favorably for speed with any national system that is not based on a central loan collection." 21 There are at least three conclusions that can be drawn from these facts. One is that the Association of Research Libraries has good grounds for its insistence on the need for creation of a national lending library for the United States as opposed to a decentralized 20 The British Library, First Annual Report, 1973/74, p. 3. 21 Ibid., p. 7.
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A PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Office of th
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CHAPTER I THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS LI
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I. The University and Its Libraries
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CHAPTER II THE FUNCTION OF THE LIBR
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CHAPTER IV A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYS
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