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

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200 The University of California Libraries 2. Improved delivery systems will be able to provide materials within the time frame needed, and with a higher degree of reliability than at present. 3. The resources made available through the combination of these two techniques will be much greater and much richer than any single campus system could provide. 4. The use of technology in cataloging and processing will provide for coordination of acquisitions, faster and more economical handling of materials, and the construction of a systemwide data base of bibliographic information. 5. Regional facilities will provide housing of little-used materials in a more cost-effective way than continued reliance solely on campus construction, and should help deliver such materials throughout each region more efficiently. 6. Coordination of systemwide library activities will provide the optimum library service within the limit of available funds. Planning and Monitoring of Performance. In order to realize these advantages, however, the system must be able to perform within the guidelines mentioned at each level, and performance must be continuously monitored to insure that users' needs are being met. Some aspects of the system, by their nature, will provide the information needed to judge their performance, but statistical information-gathering procedures must be developed to provide other data needed, and periodic surveys of users will also be required to determine whether performance is satisfactory. Based on such information, and on the results of continuing research in library operations and user characteristics and needs, the library plan will also need continuous revision. Procedures which fail to accomplish the desired results must be abandoned, and new ones devised, so that performance goals are met in as cost-effective a manner as possible. The University has learned much about its libraries and their users through its investigations in recent years, but far more needs to be known to insure that the libraries are operating at optimum levels. Library planning and research must therefore be ongoing and intensive, and the plans themselves must be revised as new information becomes available.
XII. Summary 201 Costs of the Library System. A final requirement for the system's success, of course, is adequate funding. In order for the new approach to be acceptable as a replacement for older methods, sufficient investment must be made in the new system, over a sufficiently long period of time, for it to be demonstrably better than what it replaces. The estimated costs of specific recommendations mentioned in the plan, in 1976 dollars and by category and year, are shown in Table 36. Some of these costs, of course, would be offset by savings as compared with conventional methods, particularly in staffing and in capital expenditures for construction. Total estimated library budgets, year by year, are shown in Table 37. The columns on the left are based on the assumption that the recommendations of the plan will be adopted, and the columns on the right assume that the present methods of operation will continue and staff will be increased as in comparable research libraries. Except for the one-time rise in the book acquisition category, most of the increases in the budgets based on the plan are in two categories: salaries and equipment costs associated with the automated projects, and salaries associated with the establishment of the two regional centers and processing materials into them. Investment in automation projects is heaviest in the three years beginning in 1978/79, then declines until 1984/85 and 1985/86, when additional equipment will be needed. The major impact of the regional centers on the operating budget begins in 1982/83, when the centers must be staffed and bibliographic records must be made for material being transferred to the new facilities. After 1980/81, however, the total operating budget remains relatively stable at about 53 million dollars per year. In contrast, the budgets which are based on present methods of operation and staffing patterns show a continual rise in the cost of salaries and associated supplies and equipment. Even if the book budget is held to its present level, increases in staff will be needed in order to service the growing collections, and if there were no staff savings from the automation projects, continuing requests for additional staff would be necessary. Assuming that present levels of service would be maintained, then, the budget under present methods would be larger than the budget recommended under the plan by fiscal year 1980/81, and
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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 IV A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYS
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