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

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librarians, working both through the Librarians Association and the
administration of campus libraries. Much more effective use of campus
collections should result, and this consequence should provide an
adequate incentive toward resolution of the problems.
Region. Librarians are, and must be, more aware of their responsibilities
for meeting the information and referral needs of library
users, and must recognize that the sources of help may extend beyond
their libraries. Cooperative arrangements within regions will therefore
be necessary. Existing ones should be supported and new ones
made where needed.
Within the University, the Berkeley and UCLA libraries have acted
as regional centers for providing the libraries in the North and the
South with computerized information services through the New York Times
on-line service mentioned earlier. Within geographic regions of the
state, the UC libraries also participate in numerous cooperative arrangements
to make information more accessible. For example:
• Reference librarians at UC Davis and CSU Sacramento share the
Davis Automated Information Retrieval Service (AIRS), and in addition
Davis provides traditional reference service to the Mountain Valley,
North Bay and North State cooperative systems.
• Riverside is the principal reference source for SIRCULS (San
Bernardino, Inyo and Riverside Counties United Library Services).
• Santa Barbara and San Diego offer comparable reference services
to networks in their region: the TIE (Total Interlibrary Exchange)
and the Serra/METRO system.
• Berkeley has an agreement with the East Bay Information Service
(EBIS) to provide on-line data base services, and a contract is
being negotiated with the Bay Area Reference Center (BARC) to provide
reference services to public libraries in Northern California.
• UCLA provides reference service in the Los Angeles region
through the Southern California Answering Network (SCAN), and Irvine
does the same for Orange County through LOCNET (the Libraries of
Orange County Network).
At present, the costs of these services are absorbed by the
libraries, which means that to the extent they are offered other