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

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46 The University of California Libraries prompt and ready physical access to the entire collection." 3 6. Maximum efficiency and minimum "user cost" is likely to be achieved if the available funds are spent on providing more duplicate copies and faster access to frequently-used titles, "rather than on local ownership for faster access to titles infrequently used." 4 7. The presumptive necessity for immediate availability of all materials must receive closer examination when the cost of providing it is compared with possible alternatives, "particularly when the number of books is extremely large." 5 Additional Conclusions. To those conclusions may be added two more that must also be considered in designing a new system. 1. The costs of electronic data processing systems, in terms of the units of work performed--i.e., in productivity--have been increaseing at a much slower rate than library labor costs, and in some instances have actually been declining, so that the user of computers in libraries offers hope (and in a few instances, actual proof) that the rate of rise in library costs can be substantially lowered. The use of computers, in fact, will be necessary if other changes (such as the provision of complete bibliographic access) are to be accomplished. In Bryant's words, "the changes in libraries which will enable them to provide ever more, and ever more varied, resources for scholarship could not be contemplated without the application of sophisticated and sensitive computer technology to bibliography and library operations." 6 It is also clear that the use of computers will be most effecttive as a tool in developing and operating cooperative bibliographic networks, and that the "cost-effectiveness of the localized type of 3 Ibid. 4 For a discussion of this point, see Gordon Williams et al., Library Cost Models: Owning Versus Borrowing Serial Publications, National Science Foundation, 1968, p. vi. 5 Herman H. Fussler and Julian L. Simon, Patterns in the Use of Books in Large Research Libraries, University of Chicago Press, 1972, pp. 1-2. 6 Douglas W. Bryant, "The Changing Research Library," Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 22 (October 1974), p. 370.
IV. A University Library System 47 library automation that characterized the 1960s was marginal or even nonexistent." 7 When shared by a number of libraries, however, "on-line computer-based operational programs constitute a radical and permanent change in cooperative style" that "may well be by far the most significant change ever achieved in library operations." 8 2. The collections of the library system as a whole must be comprehensive, and as distinguished in quality as the University served. Only if the libraries can build and maintain a web of specialized, indepth collections of materials serving and supporting fully the research interests of the University's scholars and students will the library system become and remain great. In this connection, it is important that the analysis of the function of the library as a source of information, as discussed in Chapter II, not be interpreted superficially. Obviously the libraries of the system must be more than mere filling stations for information; they are integral parts of the educational process, and for many students the education that takes place in the library can be as important as what takes place in the classroom. For many disciplines, the libraries serve as the principal laboratory for research, and of course for literary scholars books are not simply means to informational ends, but objects of study in themselves. The collections of the libraries also serve as archives of knowledge, as reservoirs of information maintained indefinitely into the future, and available at all times for research and instructional support. Unless the archival function is preserved, valuable and even crucial information may be lost to society, an event that has happened all too frequently in the past. Immediacy of Need. Several of the foregoing conclusions—especially those that relate to the need for acquisition programs geared 7 Richard De Gennaro, "Austerity, Technology and Resource Sharing: Research Libraries Face the Future," Library Journal, v. 100 (May 15, 1975), p. 918. 8 David C. Weber, "A Century of Cooperative Programs Among Academic Libraries," College and Research Libraries, v. 37, no. 3 (May 1976), p. 219.
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A PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Office of th
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