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

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38 The University of California Libraries some extent, the traditional acquisitions approach has probably continued almost simply because it is traditional. Despite all this, there is growing evidence that the traditional approach is working less and less well. Even Harvard, which has served for so long as the guiding star for all others, has been forced increaseingly to this conclusion. In 1963, the Harvard Librarian remarked that "the Harvard Library today, with its 7,000,000 volumes, is more frequently reminded of its inadequacies than it was 60 years ago when it had only 1,000,000;" 8 by 1974, 11 years later, he had concluded that "the doctrine of self-sufficiency" which "has persistently seduced collectors and readers into pursuing unrealistic objectives and making false assumptions ...is finally coming to be realized for what it is: a will-o'-the-wisp. We are seeing at last the gradual abandonment of this creed, even for the largest of libraries." 9 One reason, of course, is that there is simply not enough money to pursue this approach. Federal appropriations for college and university libraries under the Higher Education Act have dropped to an insignificant amount, and relatively little of the Federal revenue-sharing funds returned to the states has been used for library purposes. 10 State and local govern- ments have in many areas been forced to reduce library funding, and in other areas the level of funding has at best remained stable. And just at the time that money for libraries has become scarcer, the prices of library materials (especially periodicals and foreign publications) have risen at a rate far in excess of general inflation. A recent study commissioned by members of the book industry itself predicted that the prices of books 8 Douglas W. Bryant, "A University Librarian Looks Ahead," 1963 (mimeographed). 9 Douglas W. Bryant, "The Changing Research Library," Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 22 (October 1974), p. 368. 10 Bruer notes that although libraries were "originally designated as one of the highest priorities in the plan, libraries came out sharing a poor tenth place with community development." (J. Michael Bruer, "Resources in 1975," Library Resources and Technical Services, v. 20, no. 3 (Summer 1976), p. 200.
III. The Need for a New Approach 39 would rise 70.1 percent from 1972-73 to 1978-79, and that periodical prices would rise 86.2 percent, but that expenditures of college and university libraries would rise only 52.1 percent over the same sixyear period. 11 The latter figure is probably optimistic. By the beginning of this period--i.e., 1972/73--the pinch was beginning to be felt, and the number of volumes added each year by research libraries has gone steadily down ever since, as indicated in Table 9. At the University of California, the decline started even earlier: in 1970/71, as indicated in Table 10. After that peak year, with one exception, each year's figure for volumes added has been less than the year before, and the rate of acquisitions has now declined to the same level as 1963/64. In addition to the costs of materials, library operating costs have also continued to climb (for reasons discussed in later chapters), and this makes continuation of the old pattern even more difficult. In 1976, for every volume added to the University's library collections an additional $18.03 in processing and related operating costs was incurred. Space problems also become acute the longer the acquisitions trend is continued. From 1967 to 1971, the academic library world saw "the greatest flowering of academic library building experience this country has every known or is likely to see." 12 Even this much building, however, was not enough. One writer has calculated that from 1967 to 1974, some 570 new building projects added space for 163 million volumes, but the aggregate collection growth over the same time span was 166 million volumes--three million more than could be housed. The space problem at the University of California has become particularly acute, even with the reduced acquisition rate, as Chapter X discusses in detail. 11 John P. Dessauer, "Library Acquisitions: A Look into the Future," Publishers Weekly, June 16, 1976, pp. 58, 66. 12 Jerrold Orne, "The Renaissance of Academic Library Building," Library Journal, v. 96 (December 1, 1971), p. 3947.
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