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

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176 The University of California Libraries built in the Northern part of the state or the South. According to the Office of the Coordinator of Physical Planning in Systemwide Administration, the cost of such a facility on campus in the South would be approximately $98 per asf, and in the North approximately $108. The cost of a facility off campus would be approximately $76 per asf in the South and $81 in the North. The additional cost for on-campus construction takes into account the fact that the building must blend architecturally with other campus buildings, may involve some demolition, and may need to be a multi-story building; the off-campus facility is assumed to be a lowcost, one-story warehouse. The estimated costs for the off-campus facility include the cost of land, which in the case of the on-campus facility is assumed to be free. In all figures, the cost of temperature and humidity control for proper preservation of the material is included. Number of Facilities. The experience of research libraries in the past has been that compact shelving as a strategy for individual institutions is marginally efficient at best. 14 From the analysis made in connection with development of the space model for this plan, however, it appears that there may be significant economic benefits from a compact shelving facility if it is shared cooperatively, on a regional or systemwide basis. Beyond about 4 million volumes in capacity, however, there appear to be no further economies of scale, so that there is little economic difference between, say, two facilities (one in the North and one in the South) and one facility for the system as a whole. From the standpoint of the performance goals mentioned in other parts of the plan, of course, it is important that there be at least two facilities. Material to be placed in them may be material needed within two days, so if this material is to be supplied within that time frame it must be housed within the region. 14 See, for example, C. E. Friley and R. W. Orr, "A Decade of Book Storage at Iowa State College," College and Research Libraries, v. 12, 1951, pp. 7-10; and George Piternick, Book Storage in Academic Libraries, Council on Library Resources, 1974.
X. Housing 177 For the purposes of the model and this plan, therefore, two regional compact shelving facilities are assumed, one in the North and one in the South. Staffing the Facilities. For each of the two facilities, a minimal staff will be necessary to service requests and carry on its activities. Based on the experience of other institutions and estimated workload, a staff of 13 is projected for each of the two facilities, as follows: 1 Director 4 FTE for maintenance of files and circulation activities (including service to on-site users) 4 FTE for shipping and receiving 4 FTE for stack maintenance, retrieval and replacement of needed items. The cost of this staffing is estimated at approximately $194,000 per center per year. For the 6 years between the time the facilities are occupied and the year 1987/88, the cumulative staffing costs for the two facilities, in 1977 dollars, would be $2,328,000. Total Costs of the Facilities. The total costs of the proposed facilities, both on-campus and off-campus can now be calculated, and are shown in Table 33. Some new construction on campuses will still be necessary for works that do not fall into the categories eligible for compact shelving, so the cost of this construction must be added in. The total costs for this alternative, as indicated, are then about $56,561,000 if the facilities are off-campus, and about $59,165,000 if they are constructed on campus. The savings realized by this alternative as compared with the "base case" are $32,869,000 or $30,265,000, depending on the location of the facilities. Elimination of Unnecessary Duplicates. If two regional facilities are assumed, an additional economy measure may also be considered. Because the materials to be shelved in the regional facilities will be little-used, there would be relatively little point in retaining more than one copy within the region. With the data collected by the research team, it is possible to estimate the
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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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