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

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22 The University of California Libraries these objectives; 3. Make the decisions necessary to implement the program; and 4. Monitor the progress of the implementation of the program. In 1975, the Steering Committee established the position of Executive Director of Universitywide Library Planning to direct and coordinate the library planning process, and to implement the policies and decisions of the Steering Committee which were approved by the Academic Vice President or made in accordance with authority delegated by him. The Executive Director also: 1. Serves as the operational arm and agent of the Steering Committee; 2. Makes recommendations to the Steering Committee on systemwide operation and policy matters; 3. Initiates and coordinates the implementation of regional library planning projects; 4. Participates in the review of library budget proposals, with particular emphasis on the compatibility of campus rationales and support levels with systemwide program priorities; 5. Defines, with appropriate consultation, library system performance objectives and their resource implications; 6. Initiates and coordinates staff activities to develop management information for systemwide planning and program implementation; 7. Provides progress reports on policy implementation to campus and systemwide personnel; and 8. Coordinates campus and systemwide library automation programs through the Universitywide Library Automation Program, which reports to him. This position was filled in January 1976, and the new Executive Director was charged with immediate preparation of draft planning documents. Two drafts were then distributed for comments, and the responses served as the basis for a third version, entitled The University of California Libraries: Problems and Prospects. This report was adopted in May 1976 as a "working paper" which identified the systemwide policies and immediate action steps on which there was general agreement, and suggested the most promising avenues of investigation for problems yet
I. The University and Its Libraries 23 unresolved. Specific budgetary recommendations, building plans, growth formulas, and cost estimates were avoided, because it was clear that intensive research was needed on the cost-effectiveness and appropriateness of many of the measures which had been earlier recommended. This research will continue into the future, but enough has now been completed to allow specific recommendations. Present Characteristics of the Libraries. In 1976, the libraries of the University share with the institution itself a worldwide reputation for excellence and distinction. The main libraries on each campus and many of the branch libraries contain collections of national importance, many of them unique in the world. As indicated by Table 5 and the Appendix, they range from the very small to the very large, and from the very general to the very specialized, but each contributes importantly to the educational mission of the University and, directly or indirectly, to the intellectual life of the community at large. Together, they include almost 15 million volumes, more by far than at any other single academic institution, and exceeded in this country only by the Library of Congress. Their growth, by any standard, has been phenomenal, as indicated in Figure 1. On the library landscape, as Allan Nevins once predicted for the nine campuses as a whole, they "constitute an especially massive range." 9 The library system as a whole--that is, as a system --is only now emerging, however. "To build and maintain a great library system for this multicampus University is not the same as the building of nine libraries, one for each campus," as the Academic Plan points out, and "it will be necessary to develop new patterns of library organization and service, and new strategies for getting the maximum utility from funds expended" 10 in order for it to function well. Some progress in this direction has already been made, as the following chapters point out, but monumental problems still remain. 9 Allan Nevins, The State Universities and Democracy, University of Illinois Press, 1962, p. 114. 10 University of California Academic Plan, 1974-1978, p. 40.
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