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

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National: two weeks.
International: one to six months.
To meet these goals, the plan recommends the following steps:
• limitation of branches to those materials likely to be needed
immediately;
• installation of automated circulation systems on each campus;
• inclusion in the regular operating budget of the inter-campus bus
system;
• budgeting of funds for photocopies of materials, in cases where
sending a photocopy to another campus is more appropriate than sending the
actual material;
• use of proxy borrowers and expediters for inter-campus loans, and
encouragement of direct borrowing;
• transmission of inter-campus borrowing requests by TWX and transmission
of materials by jitney bus or UPS;
• improvement of internal procedures for handling of inter-campus
loans;
• coordination of the UC inter-campus system with the CSUC system;
• charging institutions outside the state for the costs of interlibrary
loans;
• Universitywide membership in the Center for Research Libraries;
• use of the British Library Lending Division's services, and encouragement
of efforts to develop improved access methods in other nations.
Information and Instructional Services (pages 101-112). Users also
need reference information that they are unable to locate themselves, and
instruction in the use of libraries and library materials. To improve
such services, the plan recommends:
• formalization of existing courses in library use and research, and
allowance for library instruction courses in the staffing portion of library
budgets;
• encouragement of additional courses in subject bibliography and
research methodology at the departmental level;
• allowance for the cost of reference services to users who are not
UC students or faculty;
• a Universitywide system to insure that reference questions beyond
the scope of one library are referred to a UC library or librarian with