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

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72 The University of California Libraries Fortunately, a wide variety of terminals is also available, and at increasingly reasonable prices. The standard terminals envisaged by the plan are estimated to cost approximately $1,500. Those with the ability to display diacritics are estimated at $4,000, and those with both diacritics and the capability of printing hard copy are estimated at $6,000. The number of terminals required is estimated on the basis of the best information currently available, but this aspect is receiving continued study to make certain that serious queuing problems do not occur. The system itself will be designed to handle up to 1600 terminals in order to provide for any future expansion deemed necessary. Alternative Systems Considered. In evaluating the feasibility of the on-line catalog project outlined above, several alternative courses of action were considered, and at least one should be mentioned here. This is the possibility of using existing on-line systems, designed for library cataloging and other technical processing, as the basis for the on-line public catalog at UC. There are several such systems, and staff members have visited and examined all of them. The two most likely candidates are those described in detail in Chapter VIII: the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), and the BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Libraries using Online Time Sharing) system at Stanford University. Despite some possible advantages, the idea of using one of these systems for the on-line catalog had to be rejected, however, for the following reasons: 1. Neither system is designed for use by the public, and the most widely-used one (OCLC) does not have provision for searching by subject, nor does it display local call numbers. 2. The terminals required for use of these systems are more expensive because they must provide capabilities needed by library cataloging (but not for public inquiry), and the total cost of the on-line catalog if these terminals were used would be millions of dollars more. 3. Representatives of both OCLC and BALLOTS indicated that neither system has the capability to absorb the 600 or more terminals needed for the UC on-line catalog, and even if it were possible for
V. Identification and Location 73 them to handle this additional workload it would seriously degrade their performance as technical processing systems. The recommended strategy, then, is to use either OCLC or BALLOTS to construct the on-line data base of UC catalog records, as described in Chapter VIII, but to use a different system, with different terminals, for public searching and consultation of that data base. Costs. The estimated costs of the bibliographic projects proposed are shown in Table 13. As noted, the Union Catalog and the Union List of Serials are shown as separate projects until 1981/82, when they will be combined into the on-line catalog project. Costs are estimated to 1987/88 in order to indicate that steady-state costs which will be incurred from that date forward to maintain the system. Offsetting savings in staff and efficiency are not shown, and are included in the staffing calculations in Chapter IX. However, staff committees at Berkeley have estimated savings at approximately $375,000 per year for that institution alone, 19 and extending that on a proportional basis to all campuses would indicate that the on-line system should save about twice as much as it costs. Assuming these savings are used for conversion of retrospective records, it should still be possible to operate the system without net increases in costs, once the development period is completed; certainly it would appear that in the long run the on-line method is likely to be a much more economical method of operation for the University's libraries than its present card catalogs. The development costs are admittedly large, but Baumol and Marcus, in their landmark study of the economics of academic libraries, caution against letting the high initial costs obscure the long-range economic benefits: A major impediment to a change in library operations turned out to be the cost of the electronic equipment itself and 19 Mary Blackburn, et al., "The 'Ideal' Catalog," Berkeley, The General Library, 1975, p. 7, and Russell Gardner et al., "Proposed Plan for Catalog Cutoff with Access to Bibliographic Data Through On-Line and Computer Output Microform," Berkeley, The General Library, 1975, p. 12.
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A PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT Office of th
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CHAPTER I THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS LI
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