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

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20 The University of California Libraries In the summer of 1972, a Task Force was created to recommend proposals for a UC library plan for the next decade. The report of this group, chaired by Professor R. O. Collins, suggested three priorities: 1. The acquisition and maintenance of collections on all campuses adequate to support authorized instructional programs. 2. Maintenance and improvement of the Berkeley and Los Angeles libraries as Universitywide resources. 3. Improvement of access and exchange of library materials among the University's libraries. The report also recommended five policies, having to do with examination of costs, inventorying special collections and campus strengths, providing support to non-University users, establishment of branch libraries, and maintenance of service levels. In the discussion that followed issuance of the report, however, attention was concentrated on the sections dealing with acquisitions, and particularly on the Task Force's recommendation that the Berkeley and Los Angeles libraries should be allowed to grow at an annual rate of at least 4 percent, regardless of the impact of this policy on the other libraries. The 1960 library plan had first used the 4 percent figure, but in that case it was a constant 4 percent of the 3 million volume goal for the two large libraries--i.e., a constant annual rate of 120,000 volumes. The Collins report, on the other hand, seemed to recommend a compound growth rate of 4 percent, and other campuses calculated that this would mean their acquisition rates "could be reduced to obviously impossible levels, averaging less than 20,000 volumes per campus annually." 6 After wide discussion, the Collins report was "set aside" because of its focus on acquisitions and because it "did not embody a systems approach to library planning." 7 The following year (1973) another committee was appointed, this one called the Ad Hoc Committee on Library Acquisitions Policy and chaired by Professor Charles Susskind. The Susskind report contained for the first time a formula approach to acquisitions "which, though it 6 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Library Acquisitions Policy, 1973, p. 1. 7 Report of the Library Policy Task Force, University of California us Library Policy to 1980-81, 1974, p. 1.
I. The University and Its Libraries 21 had its defenders, was not fully acceptable." 8 Because the committee's charge related only to acquisition policy, its report was also subject to the same criticism as the Collins report: i.e., that its recommendations were insufficiently broad to serve as an adequate basis for library planning. In 1974, President Hitch then appointed a Library Policy Task Force charged with concentrating on broad policy issues, taking a systems approach to library planning, and confronting the issues of library growth that had been identified by the earlier groups. This Task Force, chaired by Angus Taylor (then Vice President), identified four "bases" for library planning: 1. The library holdings of all the campuses should be considered as a single University collection rather than nine separate collections. 2. The University library collection should be developed and maintained in close relation to the University and campus academic plans. 3. Policies for acquisition and operation should be designed to make the most effective use of available funds. 4. Each campus should have a collection which, in conjunction with other elements of the University library system, is fully adequate to support the programs of instruction and research approved for the campus. As to the structure of the library system, the report recommended that "the University collection be organized into regional systems," tentatively suggesting one in the North and another in the South. This report also received intensive review, and although there was great (and continuing) debate about specific recommendations there was general agreement on the four "bases," which President Hitch then endorsed. Later in 1974, President Hitch appointed a Steering Committee for Systemwide Library Policy Implementation, chaired initially by University Provost David Saxon to: 1. Translate the policies of the Library Policy Task Force Report into specific program objectives; 2. Plan a time-phased program of operational steps which utilizes the resources of the campuses and the Office of the President to achieve 8 Ibid.
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