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

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78 The University of California Libraries established a service which ships machine-readable cataloging records weekly to subscribers. The National Library has also decided to automate its card catalog, a decision it says was "inevitable, as the catalogue can no longer be cost-effectively maintained manually because of its size." 23 Great Britain also has a service that provides machine-readable records by subscription, and the British National Bibliography is produced by machine techniques. In addition to Great Britain and Canada, France and Australia have machine-readable bibliographic information available, and there are bibliographic centers at work on similar projects in Belgium and Sweden. These records can all be added to data bases accessible by UC faculty and students, and the number of such records will grow, but obviously it will be necessary for some time to rely primarily on printed bibliographies and similar tools to identify and locate materials not in this country. As more and more foreign materials are acquired, cataloged, and added to the American MARC tapes by the Library of Congress, however, this will become less and less of a hindrance. University library staff members can also encourage the development of international bibliographic systems through their participation in international professional groups. Summary. In summary, the plan recommends: 1) That the University move rapidly to establish a machinereadable bibliographic data base of its library holdings throughout the system; 2) That access to this data base be provided by on-line terminals; 3) That the University's libraries encourage, insofar as possible, similar developments on a national and international scale. These steps should provide for timely response by the library system to the user's first need--identifying and locating materialsand, at each of the six levels mentioned in the previous chapter, should allow a response tailored to the immediate and level of his need. 23 Ibid., p. 9.
CHAPTER VI DELIVERY AND USE OF MATERIALS Once the user has identified the materials he needs, the next task of the library is to provide for their delivery and use. Again, the methods should be tailored to the level of response, which in turn should correspond to the immediacy of need. Department and College. Materials which are likely to be needed immediately should be available where they can be delivered or used immediately, or at least momentarily. On large campuses, this may require a departmental library or reading room, at least for certain types of materials, such as basic reference works in the discipline and current issues of key journals. Dougherty and Blomquist have described what is probably the typical reading room situation. Departmental reading rooms are generally supported through donations, either monetary or material, from members of the faculty, from departmental supply budgets, or from research grant overheads. If staffed at all, the rooms are entrusted to the care of the secretarial staff and/or graduate students. 1 The most common functions performed by the rooms are: • to house basic reference works and treatises in the field, and to provide a place where they can be consulted quickly and conveniently; • to allow faculty and students to keep abreast of publications in key professional journals; • to provide a place to put material on reserve for classes, especially material that belongs to a faculty member rather than to 1 Richard M. Dougherty and Laura L. Blomquist, Improving Access to Library Resources, Scarecrow Press, 1974, p. 69.
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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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