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

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138 The University of California Libraries information services. Other activities, such as the development of automated systems, analysis of operations, research, and management may be viewed as supporting both general areas, and for budgetary purposes are usually distributed proportionally into the two broad categories described. In the past, budgetary requests for staff in the acquisitionsprocessing category have been associated with increased acquisition rates, and requests for staff in the reference-circulation category have been associated with increases in the user population (either enrollment or total users). For several reasons, however, this method is inadequate for projecting library staffing needs in the future. In the first place, there is statistical evidence that the number of staff required varies not only with these two factors but also with the total size of the library collection. Statistics for the eighty-eight academic members of the Association of Research Libraries, for example, indicate that the size of the staff does indeed increase with the size of enrollments and annual acquisitions, but at a slower rate. The ratio of volumes held to full-time-equivalent personnel, for example, varies from about 4,000 to one at institutions with less tan a million volumes to about 10,000 to one at large institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Apparently as an academic library grows in size, proportionally fewer staff are required. The relationship is approximately linear, and hence can be used to project the size of staff required by the University of California libraries as they grow in size of collections. Estimates of the staff required on this basis are shown in Tables 17 and 18, projected to the fiscal year 1987/88. The projections point up two serious problems. In the first place, the number of existing personnel is already insufficient. Hundreds of thousands of volumes of library materials are backlogged in UC libraries awaiting processing for lack of sufficient cataloging staff, and each of the nine campus libraries has had increasing difficulties in meeting the service demands of its users. Yet the projections provide no assurance that these backlogs and service deficiencies could be overcome. On the other hand, following even these conservative projections, the University libraries would require almost half again as many personnel by 1987/88
IX. Staffing 139 Table 17 Budgeted F.T.E. Staff Projected to Fiscal Year 1987/88 By Comparison with Staffing Patterns at other Research Libraries Year Total, All Campuses 1977/78 2165 1978/79 2266 1979/80 2365 1980/81 2464 1981/82 2562 1982/83 2660 1983/84 2757 1984/85 2854 1985/86 2951 1986/87 3044 1987/88 3135 Table 18 Salary Cost Projected to Fiscal Year 1987/88 By Comparison with Staff Patterns at other Research Libraries (1976 Dollars, in Thousands) Year Total, All Campuses 1977/78 $31,604 1978/79 33,084 1979/80 34,530 1980/81 35,975 1981/82 37,406 1982/83 38,837 1983/84 40,253 1983/84 40,253 1984/85 41,669 1985/86 43,086 1986/87 44,443 1987/88 45,772
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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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