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

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128 The University of California Libraries responsibility for making the material available regionally or systemwide on an expeditious basis. National and International. Most of the UC libraries receive materials from other institutions around the world on exchange. In addition, both UC Berkeley and UCLA receive substantial amounts of foreign publications as a result of a cooperative acquisitions program sponsored by the Library of Congress. These materials and others purchased with State and local funds must continue to be acquired because of the University's responsibilities as a part of the national library network, and to maintain its pre-eminence as a research institution. At this level, however, only a fraction of the available material can, or needs to be, acquired, and the University libraries must rely on other institutions for the rest, just as those institutions rely to some extent on the University. This system of shared responsibility, combined with appropriate access measures, should provide those materials not available within the University itself within the two-to-four week goal. At all levels--departmental through international--the important step is to differentiate acquisition decisions on the basis of the predicted or predictable immediacy of demand and level of use. With the help of computerized statistical monitoring, refinement of procedures over a period of time, and (most importantly of all) the judgment of experienced professional librarians, this should be possible within the range of accuracy necessary to enable the system to meet its performance goals. Processing of Materials. Once material is acquired, it must be processed--recorded, cataloged, bound if necessary, and otherwise made ready for use. Unfortunately, these activities are labor-intensive, and as the salaries of library staff have risen in the last decade or two the costs of these activities have risen with them. Baumol and Marcus have calculated that library operating costs rose between 4 and 5 percent, compounded, during the period from 1951 to 1969, and that "library costs per student increased at more than 5
VIII. Acquisition and Processing 129 percent a year compounded." 18 Staff salaries alone rose at 5.3 percent per student during this period. On the other hand, the wholesale price index during the same two decades rose at less than one percent. The reason for this discrepancy, as many writers have pointed out, is that in other sectors of the economy the productivity of workers has risen with salaries; if wages go up five percent but labor productivity also rises five percent, there is no increase (at least from this cause) in the price index. In recent years, however, there have been several developments which have already begun to increase library productivity. Baumol and Marcus list four: • The achievement of a standard format for bibliographic records in machine-readable form, and the associated production at the Library of Congress and elsewhere of a sizable data base of such records. • A continuing sharp decrease in the costs of certain components of electronic data processing services. • Continuing increases in the capacity and reliability of electronic communications channels with concomitant decreases in the unit costs of the channels. • The creation of evolving, modular, computer-based library systems, which take advantage of the three other changes just mentioned. 19 The most successful of these systems have been the so-called "on-line" systems, with a number of terminals connected via a computer to a large data base of bibliographic records. These systems allow access to the data in seconds, which speeds up a portion of the process, and they also allow interaction between the operator and the system, which improves communication and helps to reduce the editorial steps required. Because bibliographic information is complex, the associated editorial and clerical operations are also, and making these operations more efficient helps improve productivity significantly. 18 William J. Baumol and Matityahu Marcus, Economics of Academic Libraries, American Council on Education, 1973, p. 45. 19 Ibid., p. 41.
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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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I. The University and Its Libraries
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CHAPTER III THE NEED FOR A NEW APPR
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CHAPTER IV A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYS
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CHAPTER V IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATI
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