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

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124 The University of California Libraries areas of library activity, and several particular concerns are noted below as they pertain to specific areas: Branch. Projections of the growth of individual branch libraries are not given, because many will remain at a relatively constant size, transferring materials less frequently needed to the main campus collection, or to a regional facility. However, if the system is to meet its performance objectives at this level--that is, to provide access to materials needed immediately--a significant portion of the book funds must be spent for branch library collections. An indication of the need is given by statistics kept on the Berkeley campus in connection with the processing of materials. Over a two-year period, 25 percent of the book purchase orders processed were accompanied by a request that the material be forwarded immediately to the ordering unit without cataloging; in other words, the material was needed immediately, and even the delay imposed by the cataloging process was unacceptable. It is also clear that some of the need for materials in branch libraries cannot be met at current acquisition levels. This becomes an especially serious problem when the branch library is physically remote from related collections. A letter from the chairman of the Division of Mental Health in the Sacramento Medical Center to the UC Davis Health Sciences Librarian, quoted in part below, provides a specific and poignant example: Your memo highlights one of the major problems of a split campus between the basic sciences and the clinical sciences. The lack of adequate library facilities at Sacramento has been a major disadvantage to education programs for medical students and for house officers. In our own field, we have, in any given time, 30 psychiatric residents, 4 child psychiatry fellows, 6 clinical psychology interns, 12 medical students, 25 social work and nursing students, and somewhere between 75 and 90 students on other electives. The collection in the mental health sciences at Davis is magnificent. The collection at Sacramen- to is pitifully small. We have tried to make up for this with a tiny Departmental library (assembled at our own expense), the psychoanalytic index (generously funded by you) and by the psychiatry collection in the health sciences library here... Although we cannot hope to duplicate the total Davis campus health sciences collection here at Sacramento, a large part of it simply must be available if the students and clinicians are not to be seriously deprived in this regard. Nothing is
VIII. Acquisition and Processing 125 more important to an educational enterprise than a student, a teacher, a patient, and an effective library. We certainly lack the library. I hope that you will do everything in your power to improve this situation. 8 Campus. The report of the Library Policy Task Force specified that "each campus should have a collection which, in conjunction with the other elements of the University library system, is fully adequate to support the programs of instruction and research approved for the campus." 9 The extent to which this goal is met by collections housed locally, as opposed to material supplied "in conjunction with the other elements of the University library system," is defined in this plan as all materials needed within 24 hours. To some extent, whether a particular item is likely to be needed within this time frame can be predicted in advance. Fussler and Simon, for example, have shown that past circulation is a reliable indicator of future demand, and that where there is no record of past use, "rules that take into account both language and publication or accession date are most efficient.” 10 For works not yet purchased, Weeks has indi- cated that language (and to some extent, publisher) may also be reliable predictors. 11 Advance prediction of the demand for particular items is necessarily a matter of professional judgment (and some guesswork), but Buckland has pointed out that "the penalty for individual erroneous predictions is quite small." 12 If despite 8 Letter from Donald G. Langsley, M.D. to Dr. Merjan Merala, June 13, 1974. 9 Report of the Library Policy Task Force, University of California Library Policy to 1980-81, p. 2. Italics supplied. 10 Herman H. Fussler and Julian L. Simon, Patterns in the Use of Books in Large Research Libraries, University of Chicago Press, 1969, p. 143. 11 Ken Weeks, Determination of Pre-Acquisition Predictors of Book Use, University of California, Institute of Library Research, 1973, p. 19. 12 Michael K. Buckland, Book Availability and the Library User, Pergamon Press, 1975, p. 105.
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CHAPTER I THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS LI
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