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

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60 The University of California Libraries may be obtained. Accordingly, the Library Policy Task Force report pointed out, "complete bibliographic information about the entire University collection should be available to any users on any campus," and "complete bibliographic access should receive the highest planning and budgetary priority." 5 At the present time, the University is far from this goal. An author-title catalog of the Berkeley collections and a dictionary catalog of the Los Angeles collections were published in book form in 1963, and a University of California Union Catalog covering the catalog records produced by the nine campuses during the years 1963-67 was published in 1972, but obviously these catalogs represent only a fraction of the total holdings, and a steadily declining fraction at that. On-Line Catalogs. For both of these reasons--the decreasing effectiveness of the card catalogs on the campuses, and the increasing need to provide bibliographic information on the totality of the University's holdings--a completely new approach is needed. The best alternative appears to be one which has been recommended by committees at both UC Berkeley at UCLA, and by staff members at the Universitywide Library Automation Program (ULAP) who have been studying its feasibility for some months: an on-line, computerized union catalog. Under this alternative, users will consult terminals connected directly to a large, machine-readable data base of information on the University's holdings. By keying in brief information (such as author, title, or subject), users will be able to determine whether the University has the items wanted, and (just as importantly) where they are located. There is growing evidence that such on-line systems are both feasible and acceptable, even desirable, to the public. A newcomer to the Lawrence Hall of Science is invariably impressed with the 5 Ibid., pp. 2-3.
V. Identification and Location 61 enthusiasm of visitors for the many on-line terminals provided for public use, and the fact that the terminals can be used with no more instruction than is printed on the front of each device and then revealed, step by step, on the screen. Educational institutions are finding such systems increasingly valuable for teaching some types of courses, and many UC faculty, students, and researchers have used them successfully in other contexts. On-line terminals have also become widely used in libraries, but in most cases it is only the staff members who may use them. A few libraries, however, have allowed public use of such terminals, and successfully so. For example, • At Ohio State University, terminals originally designed as part of a circulation system have been placed next to the card catalog, and are heavily used; in fact, users often prefer to use the terminal first before attempting the card catalog. Instructions in use of the terminal are provided on the terminal itself. 6 • At the Library of Congress, readers in the Science and Technology Division may now use terminals to search the entire MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) data base of over 700,000 records, and the same system is used to allow Congressmen and their staff members to search seven other data bases as well. Approximately 1,000 searches per day are now being made by the public using the on-line system. 7 • The library at the IBM Los Gatos Laboratory has had an online catalog since 1971. It is used on a regular basis by a small, specialized clientele, who are of course on the average more accustomed to computers and terminals than academic library users. However, the library staff has noted that visitors of all ages and 6 Mary Kay Daniels Ganning, "The Catalog: Its Nature and Pros- pects," Journal of Library Automation, v. 9, no. 1 (March 1976), p. 64. 7 Library of Congress Information Bulletin, July 9, 1976, pp. 401, 407; and conversation with William Nugent, Library of Congress, Information Systems Office.
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A PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Office of th
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PREFACE The first draft of the plan
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CHAPTER I THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS LI
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I. The University and Its Libraries
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