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

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the work of the students they teach. Various devices have been used
to avoid these problems, but there are no consistent universitywide
policies on the matter.
A related problem is budgetary. The Berkeley and UCLA library
schools reimburse the libraries on those campuses for the time of the
instructors, but on other campuses the instructors serve without stipend,
and the library receives no reimbursement for their time. This
means that the libraries must absorb the staff costs, services in
other areas must suffer, and those librarians who volunteer to teach
courses must often continue to carry full-time regular library assignments
as well. This matter is discussed further in the recommendations
that follow.
As with other elements of library service, the response of the
library system to user needs must be given on multiple levels, depending
on the nature of the need. In the area of informational and
instructional services, the plan makes the following recommendations:
Department and Branch. Those branch libraries with professional
librarians will of course continue to offer reference and research
assistance at that level. Librarians who have visited departmental
offices, often for unrelated reasons, report a high level of interest
in further service, both informational and instructional, and subjectoriented
librarians, either in existing branches or in the main
library on each campus, are particularly well-qualified to meet this
need. The offering of additional courses in subject bibliography and
research methods at the department level should, therefore, be
encouraged.
Campus. The library instruction courses now being offered on
most campuses are clearly needed and just as clearly wanted and successful.
In recognition of this, allowance should be made for such
services in the budgets of each campus library system, so that there
is no disincentive to provide such courses. Funds for additional
positions to provide library instruction are, therefore, included in
the staffing projections recommended in Chapter IX. To the extent
that academic arrangements are deterring the offering of library
courses, the problem should be a matter of joint concern and negotiation
for the Academic Senate and its Library Committees, and the