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

52 The University of California Libraries
typically, these will be large sets of primary research materials, the
cost of which prohibits their acquisition by each campus, and only a
single copy of which is needed because the use (although important
when needed) is expected to be relatively low. Selection and acquisition
of these materials will be made by a committee of collection development
officers under procedures already established and in operation.
It should be noted that the combination of campus resources and
special materials acquired on a regional basis, all made available
(both physically and bibliographically) almost as easily as campus
collections, will provide far richer resources for both teaching and
research than now exists on any single campus.
Regional systems will be governed by a board consisting of the
University Librarians within that region, with an advisory committee
composed of faculty, administrators and students. The staff of the
regional facility, which should be small, will report administratively
through a director to the Executive Director of Library Planning, as
the systemwide library automation activities in Berkeley and Los
Angeles do at present.
Universitywide and State. Northern and Southern regional systems
must be closely coordinated in order to provide all materials
likely to be needed within one week. The present system of delivery
between the Northern and Southern regions must be improved through
a direct and scheduled United Parcel Service link; in addition, UPS
will be used between any two campuses not within the same region.
Materials within the University library collections will be identified
and located by the use of on-line terminals, connected via computer
to a machine-readable bibliographic data base already under construction.
Some materials will be acquired for the entire University
system in a single copy, but located in one of the two regional facilities,
again through procedures already in effect. Cataloging of all
materials will be by a single on-line computerized processing system,
which will provide information on materials on order and in process
throughout the University in order to prevent unintentional and unnecessary
duplication.