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

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116 The University of California Libraries Reductions in Serial Titles Received. The increases in library costs and the reduced purchasing levels have hit hardest at the University's holdings in journal titles and other serial publications. In 1975/76 alone, over 7,000 serial subscriptions were discontinued systemwide. On many campuses, these cancellations were necessary to allow subscriptions to important new serials, but on some campuses there has been a steady net decrease in the number of serials received. At Berkeley, for example, there was a net decrease of 2,300 titles in 1973/74, another 2,916 titles in 1974/75, and another 1,204 in 1975/76. The Berkeley library has long been renowned as having the strongest serial collection in the country, but this reputation is now seriously jeopardized. In the University library system proposed by the plan, sharing of serial titles systemwide will be greatly facilitated, but the material obviously must be there in order for it to be shared. Need for Replacement of Materials. As materials age, particularly the most important materials which are heavily used, their condition naturally declines and at some point it becomes necessary to replace them. Other important materials are lost, either through theft or because users misshelve them; whatever the reason, their availability is lost to the user who needs them. At present acquisition levels, there are insufficient funds to replace all of those materials which should be. UCLA, for example, has been unable to replace worn out sets of such basic reference works as the Book Review Digest and the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Need for Retrospective Materials. Particularly on the younger campuses, there is also a great need for basic materials that declining purchasing power has left them unable to acquire, and even on the large campuses there are unmet needs for important retrospective works. These indicators all point to the need for higher levels of acquisitions, but they do not, of course, provide a method for determining what the total acquisition rate should be, nor how the acquisition funds should be allocated amongst the campuses and individual disciplines. For this, we must return to the fundamental
VIII. Acquisition and Processing 117 assumptions stated earlier: that the function of the library is to provide its users with access to information, and that library planning must be based on analyses of the nature of users, information, and access methods. Access measures are discussed in other chapters, but the nature of the clientele to be served and the nature of information are both important to the derivation of methods for determining what the acquisition rate should be. At the University of California, as at other academic institutions, users vary both in number (as reflected by enrollment figures) and in the nature and intensity of their use of the library. The information needed also varies, as discussed earlier, not only by intensity of use and by such factors as age and language, but by subject. A fundamental assumption, also discussed earlier, is that library planning must be related to academic planning, and this point has been consistently emphasized by the University's planning in the past. The Report of the Library Policy Task Force issued in April 1974, for example, has as one of its principal "bases for library planning" that "the University library collection should be developed and maintained in close relation to the University and campus academic plans." It further recommends that "decisions about the acquisition of library materials should be made on the basis of the programmatic need for the materials." 3 An acquisition rate based on academic programs can reflect the difference in library use between programs in different subject areas, but it ignores the variations in the number of users from campus to campus. Another University committee, however, the Ad Hoc Committee on Library Acquisitions Policy, began in 1973 the development of a model which would take into account both of these factors (programs and enrollments), plus one other factor: extramurally funded research, which creates extra demands on libraries in addition to the other factors mentioned. 3 Report of the Library Policy Task Force, University of Califor- nia Library Policy to 1980-81, 1974, p. 2.
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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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