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

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student enrollments, the graduate programs themselves are likely to
be more complex, typically covering a number of subspecialties. To
provide for this factor, an allowance of 1,000 volumes is made for
every 1,000 graduate students over 5,000.
6. Sponsored Research Supplement. Extramurally funded research
creates extra demands on libraries in proportion to the number
of additional users added--that is, the number of appointees paid
from restricted funds. For each $5 million in annual salaries paid
from such funds for organized research (not including major AEC
laboratories or Systemwide Administration) an addition of 1,000
volumes is made.
7. Non-Budgeted Acquisitions. Each campus receives materials
for its collections from gifts, from exchange agreements, and
from federally-funded programs, although the number of volumes received
varies widely from campus to campus. At least some of these
must obviously be deducted from the total required, but because
these materials are not selected with regard to particular academic
programs, and hence tend to be much less useful than purchased materials,
the reduction is placed at 20 percent.
Table 15 indicates the total number of volumes required by the
University, broken down by campus. However, the University has determined
that some of the funds budgeted for library materials should
be used for purchases that serve regional or systemwide needs, specifically
materials needed only in one copy or in two copies (one in
the North and one in the South). It is expected that most of these
materials will be large sets which can be easily shared on a regional
or systemwide basis. In 1976/77, one percent of the total available
for purchase of library materials was set aside for this purpose,
and this percentage will be gradually increased to five percent.
Table 16 indicates the growth of collections held at each campus
as a result of applying the formula in Table 15.
As pointed out in other chapters, the library system must be
able to respond to user needs within an appropriate time span at
each of several levels. This is true in acquisitions as in other