"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=555889"@en . "2016-08-10"@en . "1987"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/presrep/items/1.0115204/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nPresident's Report\non the Library N\nand p resent chief lib ra rians\nmeet with the president in\nthe Woodward memorial\nroom. Nov. 1986.\n\"Masters of Science,\"\nThe dramatic tapestry\nhanging behind the\nlibrarians, depicts famous\nscientists throughout the\nages. It was worked in\n1948 in a special workshop\nin France under the\ndirection of a former\nadministrator of the\nGobelins Tapestry Works,\nand purchased by UBC\nin 1967.\nl.-R back row: Neil Harlow. 1951-61;\nWalla Kay? Lamb, 1940-49: Douglas\nMi lanes. 1981-presenl: Davit/ II'.\nStrangway, tenth president <>/'( 'BC;\nSameuel Rothstein. acting librarian\n1961-62. Front row sitting: Basil\nStuart-Stubbs, 1964-81; Anne Smith, acting\nlibrarian 1949 and 1951. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\n\"Today, the Library faces three\nmajor challenges - challenges that\nwe must overcome in the very near\nfuture if we are to maintain tke\nstrength and health of this vital\nresource, the heart of our\nuniversity\".\nDr. David W. Strangway\nPresident\nI diversity of British Columbia Table of Contents\nINTRODUCTION . 3\nTHE MAKING OF A LIBRARY\nA vision and a dream: the builders 6\nThe war years and post-war expansion 8\nFresh approaches\t\nFriends of the library . . 12\nThe Information explosion . . 14\nPrivate collectors .. 14\nA firm mandate for the seventies . . 16\nRecession, inflation and retrenchment .. 19\nThe tradition of giving continues . . 21\nTHE LIBRARY TODAY\nBranches and collections 25\nMain Library 25\nAsian Studies Library 28\nWoodward Biomedical Library 29\nData Library 30\nCrane Library 31\nCurriculum Laboratory 31\nLaw Library 32\nMacMillan Library 32\nMusic Library 33\nSedgewick Library 34\nDavid Lam Library 34\nMarjorie Smith Library 35\nMathematics [Library 35\nCHALLENGES FOR TOMORROW\nSpace 39\nCollections 40\nNew technologies 42\nPOSTSCRIPT 44 Introduction\nDr. David W. Strangway, tenth president of UBC.\nFor my first report as President of The University of British Columbia, I have chosen to focus on\none issue critical to the health and strength of the\nUniversity \u00E2\u0080\u0094 its library.\nThis remarkable library is the second largest\nresearch library in Canada. Among its superb\ncollections are areas of national and international\nsignificance, which provide a unique and vital\nresource for the people of British Columbia, from\nuniversity researchers and senior professionals to\nprivate industry and consultants.\nIt is one of the major, critical links in a\nnational research library system that, particularly\nin the social sciences and humanities, is housed almost exclusively within Canada's\nuniversities.\nThere is very good reason for this.\nCanada, with a small population dispersed across an enormous land and separated by massive physical barriers and great climatic differences, has developed as a\nseries of major centres, surrounded by vast rural areas.\nUniversities in the major centres have become the focus of intellectual development. Their libraries form the heart of Canada's national collection, just as each\nindividual library is the heart of its institution.\nToday, it is hard for us to imagine how our lives would be without the wealth of\nwritten materials available to us. The new ideas and technologies that characterize\ntoday's information age have been accompanied by a corresponding growth in the\nnumbers of books and journals published. Without access to these resources we would\nnot be able to grow and develop, creating new fields of research and expanding into\nfresh markets.\nThe first president of UBC, Dr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, recognized from the\nbeginning that a fine library was one of the key elements for a great university, and\nmade the acquisition of the initial library collection his first priority.\nHe also believed that the University -\u00E2\u0080\u0094 and its library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 belonged to the people\nof British Columbia, and should be maintained to meet 'all the needs of all the people'\nSuccessive UBC presidents have followed Dr. Wesbrook's vision, and I am proud, as\ntenth president of UBC, to assume responsibility for an institution with such a strong\nand noble tradition. The UBC Library is the focal point of the University, essential to the work of every\nfaculty on campus at all levels of teaching and research.\nStarted only in 1914, the year before the University opened its doors, its strength\nand resources today are world class. In its fledgling years, the Library survived two\nworld wars and a major financial depression. In more recent years, it was blessed with\nsome outstanding patrons, without whose help the Library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and indeed the University as a whole \u00E2\u0080\u0094 might still be a small provincial facility. Today the Library faces fresh\nchallenges as it grapples with the complexities of the information age.\nThese challenges it shares with major research libraries around the world. Thanks\nto the computer, libraries can have access to information contained in databases situated at any point on the globe. They must, therefore, make use of these technologies in\norder that their users can gain access to the most current data as effectively as possible.\nThrough the UBC Library, researchers can find almost anything, anywhere in the\nlibraries of the world.\nLibraries must also decide where to concentrate their resources in order to buy\nthe journals, books and other materials that their community will need for education,\nresearch and intellectual growth. The UBC Library has made the maintenance of its\ncollections its major priority, even during the recent years of recession, inflation,\ncurrency devaluation, retrenchment and funding cutbacks.\nGreat libraries, such as the one at UBC, do not grow overnight. They require the\ndedicated efforts, foresight and imagination of successive presidents, librarians, governments and private individuals, without whose collective efforts a library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the\nuniversity it supports \u00E2\u0080\u0094 will falter and weaken.\nToday, the Library faces three major challenges \u00E2\u0080\u0094 challenges that we must\novercome in the very near future if we are to maintain the strength and health of our\nvital heart. We urgently need to find more space to accommodate our ever increasing\ncollections and renovate some of the space we have already; we need to expand our\nbudget for collections, bringing it into line with the University's needs; and we need to\ncontinue our commitment to technological advancement and innovation in the library\nsystem.\nThese are serious and pressing concerns, and they must be met if the Library is\nto continue to play its role in the economic, cultural and social development of this\nprovince and the nation as a whole.\nIn order to provide you with a clear understanding of the importance of the task\nahead of us, I have divided my report into three sections: the first outlines the rich history of the Library; the second takes a look at the Library as it is today; and the third\ndetails the challenges we have to face if we are to reinforce the strengths of this critical\nprovincial resource for future generations of British Columbians. THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\n*vvmr##f\nThe Making of a Library The Making of a Library\nO J\nA Vision And A Dream\nPresident Frank Fairchild Wesbrook (third\nfrom left) reviews plans for the future campus\nwith the University's architects, Nov. 1913.\n\"The people's university must meet all the needs of\nall the people. We must therefore proceed with care to\nthe erection of those Workshops where we may design\nand fashion the tools needed in the building of a nation\nand from which we can survey and lay out paths of\nenlightenment, tunnel the mountains of ignorance\nand bridge the chasms of incompetence.\"\nDr. Frank Fairchild Wesbrook,\nFirst president of The University of British Columbia, 1914-1919\nOne of Wesbrook's first actions was to hire a first rate\nlibrarian, James Taylor Gerould, to select and purchase\nthe basic collection of books for the Library. Gerould,\nthen librarian at the University of Minnesota (where\nWesbrook had been dean of medicine), and later\nlibrarian for Princeton, was sent to Europe in the\nsummer of 1914.\nJohn Ridington received no formal training as\na librarian, but he had the energy and vision\nto build a first-rate a llectionfor the fledgling\nUniversity during difficult and financially\nprecarious years.\nHe bought extensively in England and France, acquiring\nfundamental works in sciences, philosophy, history and\nliterature. He then went to Germany, but was arrested as\na British spy the moment he arrived in Leipzig. He was\nthrown into prison and his money confiscated. After\nweeks of delay and frustration, Gerould was finally\nreleased and made his way back to North America, but\nwithout any of the German books the library needed.\nNevertheless, his discerning choice gave the University\nan unusually good start for its collection.\nThe books were rapidly made available for the use of\nstudents by the acting librarian and cataloguer, John\nRidington. Ridington decided to classify the books\naccording to a new classification scheme devised by the\nU.S. Library of Congress \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a far-sighted decision which\ncontributed enormously to the strength of the Library,\nand its ability to grow into a significant research\nresource.\nIn 1915, Ridington became UBC's first librarian, a\nposition he held for 25 years. Through all these years\nRidington, with the help of a small but dedicated staff,\ncontinued to build upon its strength, encouraged and\nsupported by President Wesbrook and later by President\nKlinck. Despite financial difficulties, the Library grew rapidly,\nand the problem of space became increasingly pressing.\nThe situation was not relieved until the University\nmoved to its permanent location at Point Grey in 1925.\nThe grandiose neo-gothic Library was one of the few\nmonuments of the new campus. Built for a total cost of\nabout $525,000, it was planned to allow for future expansion in three directions, and its stacks were the most\nmodern available. The Library provided reading and\nstudy space for about 350 students, and shelf space for\n135,000 volumes.\nUnder Ridington's energetic and vigilant eye, the\nLibrary expanded year by year. Ridington showed a special skill in attracting donations of rare and expensive\nitems from private individuals, including a collection of\nrare books donated by Dr. Ralph Stedman of University\nCollege, Swansea, part of the Gerrans Library from\nOxford, England, the De Pencier Library of mining and\ngeology, and several smaller collections.\nThe affluence of the twenties came to an end abruptly\nwith the stock market crash of 1929. During the next\nthree years, the provincial budget for UBC was slashed\nby well over half, and the survival of the University itself\nwas in question.\nThe Library had come to the worst crisis in its history.\nRidington's battle for survival is underscored in a letter\nhe wrote to Donald Cameron, University of Alberta, in\n1932: \"... We have been working for years to build up a\ncollection and service of books that, so far as I know, is\namong the best of any university library in Canada . . .\nand now the prospect is starvation, retrogression. I am\nweary at heart and sick of soul.\"\nHelp was close at hand. In answer to UBC's plea, the\nCarnegie Corporation gave a grant of $5,000 a year for\nthree years to purchase books for undergraduate\nteaching. Through all these hard times, Ridington's\ndevoted and energetic staff continued to collect for a\nfuture library whose strengths they could only imagine,\nresolutely increasing the reference library, and collecting\nserials concerned with subjects which the University did\nnot yet teach.\nu\nThe grandiose neo-gothic library, built in\n1925, was one of the monuments of the new\ncampus. The Making of a Library\nDuring the 20s and 30s, the Library's reading\nroom was the centre for undergraduate activity\nand learning.\nIn 1936, Ridington obtained a depository set of 1,500,000\nLibrary of Congress catalogue cards, one of only 18 such\nsets in the world at the time. The cards vastly simplified\nthe cataloguing procedure, and were valuable as a\nbibliographical aid in research.\nBy this time, the Library had 100,000 volumes, 15,000\npamphlets, and subscriptions to 600 general, scientific\nand technical periodicals. What it had, it shared, lending\nbooks to every part of the province \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a policy it continues today. The extension library developed during this\nperiod, fulfilling many obligations of the 'People's\nUniversity' Dr. Wesbrook had envisioned.\nBy the start of the Second World War, the UBC Library\nwas an important and widely used resource for a great\nmany people. Its collection was small, but unusually well\nbalanced \u00E2\u0080\u0094 an achievement gained against all odds.\nThe War Years and Post-War\nExpansion\nIn 1940, John Ridington retired. He was replaced by\nUBC alumnus Dr. Walter Kaye Lamb, an outstanding\nlibrarian, archivist and historian, and a man of great\nvision and energy. It was during his time that the first\ngreat expansion of the University took place.\nWithin two and a half years, at the end of the war, the\nstudent body increased from about 2,300 to over 9,300,\ncreating the need for the first addition to the original\nbuilding \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the north wing. Completion of this wing\ncame just in time, as Eric Nicol, then an editor of The\nUbyssey, noted in a Nov. '45 column: \"Dr. Kaye Lamb\nhas been reluctantly obliged to admit that merely fitting\nthe librarians with jet propulsion has failed to meet the\ndemand . . . Obtaining a seat in the great hall has taken\non the primitive charm of musical chairs, with predators\ncircling tables watching for the slightest sign of somebody rising to leave.\"\nAt the formal opening of the new wing in 1948, with\nthe needs of the future always in his mind, Kaye Lamb\nremarked that not even a good angel can fly to heaven\non one wing. However, it wasn't until 1960 that one of UBC's great library benefactors, Dr. Walter Koerner,\nprovided the funding that helped to build the south wing,\nturning Kaye Lamb's wish into a reality.\nIn 1945, the Library became a member of the Pacific\nNorthwest Bibliographic Centre, and was able to greatly\nexpand its research capability through inter-library loan\nservices, borrowing from the strong collections of the\nUniversities of Washington and Oregon. Private donations of money increased steadily, including an annual\ncontribution from the Summer Session Students' Association, and $4,000 each in 1944 from the Goodyear Tire\nCompany and the Ford Motor Company of Canada.\nNumerous gifts-in-kind continued to reach the Library.\nNotable among these were: a bequest from the estate of\nthe late Lionel Haweis, one of the original, dedicated\ngroup of library staff; a donation from retiring President\nKlinck; the contents of the library of the late UBC\nChancellor R.E. McKechnie; and the A.M. Pound collection of Canadiana.\nIn 1949, the University honoured its landscape\narchitect of 29years, Mr. Frank Buck,\ndedicating the fountain in front of the Library\nto him. L-R: President Norman A.M.\nMacKenzie, Mrs. Buck, Mr. Frank Buck,\nChancellor Eric Hamber.\nOne of the key acquisitions at this time resulted from\nspecial, identical agreements worked out by Kaye Lamb\nwith two keen historians of British Columbia, Judge F.W.\nHoway and Dr. Robie L. Reid. Both had been associated\nwith the University for many years, and were personal\nfriends of Kaye Lamb.\nThe Reid Library contained extensive material on B.C.,\nand also a great deal of general Canadian history, fiction,\npoetry and essays, with special emphasis upon Western\nCanadian writers. The bulk of Judge Howay's library\nrelated to Western Canada and the Northwest coast of\nthe U.S. and Canada. He also had copies of almost\neverything in print on the Maritime fur trade. Under the\nagreements worked out by Kaye Lamb, Howay and Reid\nbequeathed their libraries to the University, on condition\nthat the two collections be shelved together in a special\nroom, with access restricted to research scholars. Today,\nthe Howay-Reid collection of Canadiana, as the co-\nbequest is known, has become one of the principal\ncentres of research on the history and development of\nthe Pacific Northwest area. On Jan. 7,1958, Dr. Walter Koerner\npresented the University with a cheque for\n$375,000 towards the construction of the south\nwing of the Main Library. The occasion gave\nDr. Koerner (far right) the chance to look at\nsome of the works from the Murray collection\nwith librarian Neil Harlow (far left), and\nPresident Norman A.M. MacKenzie.\nThe Making of a Library\nUnder great pressure to add both qualitatively and\nquantitatively to its holdings, the Library added 40,000\nvolumes in the next four years, bringing the total number\nof volumes to 320,000 by 1951.\nKey among the materials added at this time were the\nH.R. MacMillan Forestry Collection, from forestry\nmagnate H.R. MacMillan; a collection of old maps, also\nfrom Dr. MacMillan; a fine collection of books on the\nArctic, assembled by Mr. A.JT. Taylor, and microfilm\nfiles of the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Daily Province.\nIn 1948, the Koerner Memorial Trust was set up, the\nproceeds to go to library development, and in 1950\nbrothers Leon and Walter Koerner made a substantial\nadditional grant to the Library.\nBy 1951, when Neal Harlow came from UCLA to become\nlibrarian, the UBC Library was already one of the\nleading teaching and research collections in Canada. But\nin 1955 Harlow noted that \"however successful the University may be in providing financial support for its current library needs, substantial funds from other sources\nwill be increasingly required ... At forty, the UBC\nLibrary is strong, a bit scrawny, showing some signs of\nearly undernourishment, but is fully determined to do\nthe work cut out for it.\"\nHarlow saw a clear need for a better library, and knew\nthat this meant more financial support. He applied his\nconsiderable talents and energy to the task, and by the\ntime he left the University ten years later, the Library\nhad doubled in every respect, containing a collection of\nhalf a million volumes. Three times as many books were\nbeing loaned, and the book funds had undergone an\nincredible ten-fold increase.\nHis most conspicuous achievement was the addition\nof the new south wing, funded by Dr. Walter Koerner,\nas mentioned above. Koerner gave the University\n$375,000, the funds were matched by the province and\ndoubled by the Canada Council, and the wing was\nofficially opened in 1960.\n10 By this time, the Library had strong collections in medicine, law, Slavonic studies, forestry, Asian studies and\nFrench Canadian studies, and excellent collections of\nreference works, bibliographies and government publications. The greatest deficiencies were in major subject\nareas such as Germanic literature, geology, anthropology, sociology, social work, and education.\nFresh Approaches\nIn 1962, James Ranz became UBC librarian. His arrival\ncoincided with the appointment of John B. Macdonald\nas University president, and with the publication of\nEdwin E. Williams' historic report on the resources of\nCanadian university libraries in the humanities and\nsocial sciences. It was a time of fresh approaches, and\nmuch that followed can be attributed to the reflections\nof these three men on library problems.\nWithin a few months, a new course had been set for the\nUniversity and the Library. The rapid development of\nthe graduate program, as outlined by the president,\ncalled for increased library strength, and an additional\n$250,000 of the University budget was allocated to the\npurchase of books and periodicals.\nRanz saw clearly that, in an expanding university,\na single focus for library services would no longer be\nadequate. Centralized services were to be supplemented\nby a decentralized system of branch libraries serving\nrelated disciplines. Ranz also recognized the need for the\nMain Library to be reorganized, in order to provide a\nmore rational structure, with more shelf space. This project was completed in 1965.\nRanz was very good at securing cooperation and assistance from both faculty and staff, and he used this ability\nto reorganize completely the Library's operations. When\nhe left UBC in 1964, his successor, Basil Stuart-Stubbs,\ninherited a sound framework for future library operations, reinforced by the Library's exceptional staff.\nRapid expansion in post-secondary education\nduring the 60s was one of the factors\nresponsible for a dramatic increase in the use\nof UBC's library.\n11 The Making of a Library\n>JL?Wj\nMiss Ng Tung-king came to UBC from\nHong Kong when the University acquired the\nP'u-pan collection, and has helped to guide the\ngrowth of the internationally acclaimed Asian\nstudies library ever since. Here she holds one\nof the treasures of the P'u-pan collection - the\nShuo-wen sheng-t'ung by famous Kwangtung\nscholar Ch'en Li. This volume, a phonetic\nsystem of the Shuo-wen, was published for the\nfirst time in 1971 when Ch'en Chih-mai,\nCh'en Li's grandson, discovered in the\nP'u-pan catalogue thepresumed-lost\nmanuscript.\nLibrarian James Ranz (left) with Dr. P.A.\nWoodward, one of the Library's great\nbenefactors. He funded the Woodward\nbiomedical library building and much of the\nWoodward library's historical collection.\nfriends off the Library\nIn 1955-56, Neal Harlow, together with President\nNorman MacKenzie, had organized a group known as\nthe 'Friends of the Library' under the chairmanship of\nDr. Wallace Wilson. These 'Friends' were men and\nwomen with a particular interest in the Library, and all\nwere willing to help provide additional funds and to locate and acquire important collections. During the next\n12 years, its members were instrumental in confirming\nthe Library's place as a first rate research collection of\nnational significance.\nIn addition to providing funds for the new south wing,\nWalter Koerner, one of the 'Friends', helped the University to acquire two magnificent collections \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the P'u-Pan\ncollection and the Murray collection. The P'u-Pan collection of Chinese materials is an extremely important\ncollection of early Chinese printing, bindings and lavish\nvolumes, representing the treasures of the Imperial\nPalace in Beijing, and had been brought out of China via\nMacao and Hong Kong. Its acquisition brought UBC international distinction, and made the Library one of the\ntwo outstanding ones in the field of Chinese studies in\nCanada. The Murray collection had been assembled by\na bookseller in Montreal, and was one of the largest private collections of books relating to the history of Eastern\nCanada up to the end of the 19th century. Its purchase\nwas a great coup.\nAnother great benefactor from the 'Friends' was Dr. P.A.\nWoodward. A man with a great respect for ideas, and\nhow they came into the world, Woodward wanted UBC\nto be able to have a superlative collection of biomedical\nliterature, including first editions of medical or scientific\nbooks that had changed history. His generosity funded\nthe acquisition of many priceless volumes, culminating\nin a generous donation from the P.A. Woodward Foundation which provided a separate building to house UBC's\nbiomedical collection \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Woodward Biomedical\nLibrary.\nUBC's third major donor of the 60s was Dr. H.R.\nMacMillan, a long-time benefactor of the University,\nwho understood the contribution of university education to the long-term growth of the province. He made an\noutstanding donation in 1965 that transformed the\ncharacter of the Library, giving $3,000,000 for library\nacquisitions, to be spent over a period of three years.\nThis donation is regarded as the most significant library\ngift ever made to a Canadian university, because of the\neffect it had upon the Library.\nAs then librarian Basil Stuart-Stubbs recalls, spending it\nwas both an exhilarating and a terrifying prospect for the\nLibrary. \"We were suddenly the richest library in North\nAmerica. We tried to persuade Dr. MacMillan that the\nmoney could be invested and used for the Library over a\nlong period of time, but he insisted that we needed the\nbooks now, and that, if we waited, the books would either\nbe unavailable or too expensive for us. He was right, of\ncourse.\"\nThus began for Stuart-Stubbs and his colleague Robert\nHamilton the biggest book-buying spree of their lives.\nThat fall, the librarians travelled to Europe, armed only\nwith a line of credit, a list of library \"wants\" and a list of\nantiquarian book sellers. In three weeks, working 12 to\n16 hours a day, they spent $250,000, buying complete\nfiles of periodicals and cleaning out the contents of\nbooksellers' shelves, picking up some incredible bargains\nin the process. \"None of the booksellers had ever heard of\nus,\" said Stuart-Stubbs. \"They didn't even know where\nBritish Columbia was, and they certainly didn't have the\ntime to raise their prices specially for us.\"\nThe Library augmented all its collections, reinforcing its\nareas of significant strength in Asian studies, medicine,\nmusicology, the Pacific Northwest and Canadian history.\nWithin three years, UBC's Library moved into the ranks\nof the top research libraries in North America.\nPresident Macdonald recognized the importance of the\nstrengthened Library. Thus, when the MacMillan gift\nwas exhausted, the University decided to continue the\ndevelopment of collections at a level as close as it could\nafford to that achieved during the \"MacMillan years\".\nThe stature of the Library's present outstanding collections is largely due to the.foundation laid by the\nMacMillan gift.\nDr. H.R. MacMillan, photographed here at\nthe 1967 opening of the MacMillan library,\nwas one of the great benefactors of UBC. His\ngift of $3,000,000for library collections\nmoved the Library into the ranks of the top\nresearch libraries in North America.\n13 The Making of a Library\nThanks to the MacMillan gift, the University\nexpanded all its collections during the 60s,\nproviding a rich resource for B. C. students\nentering post-secondary education institutions.\nThe Information Explosion\nThe 1960s was an exciting time of growth and prosperity\nthroughout North America. Many new post-secondary\ninstitutions were built, helping to create the beginnings\nof an information explosion unprecedented in world history. Every year, more books and journals were written,\nmore lectures and papers given.\nThe UBC Library was coping with this information\nexplosion, and at the same time attempting to sort and\ncatalogue $3,000,000 worth of additional materials. Basil\nStuart-Stubbs notes that he was very grateful for the\ndecentralised plan devised by James Ranz. \"We needed\nmore people to organize all the additional material, and\nwe needed more space. It was at this time that the\nbranch library system really developed, helping us to\nserve a dispersed campus more efficiently.\"\nComputers were just being introduced for library operation, and UBC was quick to make use of this new information tool. By 1965, the Library had its own automated\ncirculation system. This early system was quite basic\ncompared with today's on-line systems, but was very\neffective in reducing the staff time needed to circulate\na book.\nBetween 1965 and 66, the number of loans\nincreased by an astonishing 44 per cent, from\n750,000 to 1,070,000. Increased use of\nautomation helped the Library to continue to\nserve its users efficiently and effectively.\nThe year after the automated system was introduced, the\nnumber of loans increased by an astonishing 44 per cent,\nfrom 750,000 in 1965 to 1,069,894 in 1966. \"This volume\nwould have been impossible to handle with the previous,\nmanual system, even with increased staffing,\" says\nStuart-Stubbs. \"The new system made it easier to borrow from the collection, and made it easier for staff to\nprocess books returned by borrowers. Most significantly,\nit allowed us to introduce additional features, such as\ncontrolling the use of the book stock more efficiently,\nkeeping track of overdue books, recalling books needed\nby borrowers, and accepting holds and renewals.\"\nPrivate Collectors\nIn common with all other great libraries, UBC has\nparticularly benefited from donations from private\ncollectors, whose concentration and passion for their\narea of interest has enabled them to do the job no public\n14 institution can do. These private collectors have been\nvital to our library, and there are hundreds of them.\nSpace does not permit me to mention them all here, but a\nfew examples will give some idea of the richness of the\nUBC collections.\nNorman Colbeck is one such collector. Colbeck was an\nantiquarian bookseller in Bournemouth, England,\nspecializing in 19th-century English authors. Over the\nyears, he had built up a personal collection of their works\nwhich was quite exceptional. Colbeck, who was well\nknown to Stuart-Stubbs, was also a personal friend of\nUBC professor William E. Fredeman, himself an avid\ncollector of 19th century English literature.\nWhen Colbeck decided to retire, and give his personal\ncollection to a library, Fredeman was able to persuade\nhim to consider UBC. Colbeck, who had hardly ever\ntravelled in his life, came out to UBC, loved it, and\nagreed to give his collection to UBC with the understanding that he would serve for a period of time as\ncurator of'the Colbeck Collection', in order to complete\na detailed catalogue of its contents. Today, Colbeck is\nstill a familiar figure on campus, and this year will receive an honorary degree in recognition of his\nmagnificent contribution to the UBC library.\nAnother private individual who donated a vast collection\nto UBC was Mr. William Heryet, a retired customs\nofficial who had been a British foot soldier during the\nBoxer rebellion. Heryet's Burnaby house was filled from\nfloor to ceiling with books, mostly general history and\nCanadiana. He gave his extraordinary collection to the\nUniversity \"in order that it might benefit students in the\nfuture\".\nOne of the treasures of the Asian Library is a collection\nof Japanese maps of the Tokugawa Period, collected by a\nPhiladelphia businessman, Mr. George H. Beans. This\ncollection, purchased by the Library with MacMillan\nmoney, is one of the best collections of Japanese maps in\nthe world. \"Not only are they visually beautiful, but they\ntell us more about the development of Japanese communities over the centuries than most other sources,\"\nsays Stuart-Stubbs.\nBookseller Mr. Norman Colbeck provided a\nvery valuable addition to the Library's special\ncollections when he gave the University his\nexceptional collection of 19th century English\nliterature volumes.\nThe Library's Japanese maps of the\nTokugawa period, originally collected by\nPhiladelphia businessman Mr. George H.\nBeans and purchased for UBC with\nMacMillan money, are one of the best\ncollections of their kind in the world.\n15 ^p\nThe Making of a Library\nLibrary staff are a vital resource for students\nand faculty, as well as for off-campus users.\nA Firm Mandate for the Seventies\n1970-71 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the\nLibrary. The MacMillan money had been spent, and no\nother major donors had been forthcoming to promote\nthe strength of library collections and services. The\nUniversity's commitment to a library of excellence was\nstill there, but tempered by problems such as student\nunrest, increasing pressure from all areas of the University for funding, and early signs of a downturn in the\neconomy.\nWhen he took over as chief librarian in 1964, Stuart-\nStubbs established specific goals for the Library which\nhe pursued relentlessly. He set out to continue to develop\nthe strong collections necessary for a top ranking\nresearch university; to decentralize operations, developing a system of branch libraries and reading rooms across\ncampus; to improve library services, including teaching\nstudents how to use the Library effectively and hiring\nmore specialized staff; to establish links with other\nlibraries in the post-secondary system in order to help\nsupport the planned decentralization of higher education\nin the province; and to make the most effective use possible of computers, both for the Library's clerical work\nand for the purposes of information retrieval.\n\"The goals and objectives we established then were both\nappropriate and vital for a university attempting, as ours\nwas, to maintain its position as a world leader,\" says\nStuart-Stubbs. \"Unfortunately, we had two major things\nworking against us: inflation, and the continuing devaluation of the Canadian dollar, both of which adversely\naffected the costs of buildings, materials and staff. For\ninstance, because of inflation, there were enormous pressures on all universities to continue to raise salaries.\nMeanwhile, the costs of library materials rose at a faster\nrate than inflation itself.\"\nIn spite of the many problems they faced, the library\nstaff continued to work hard to maintain and augment\nthe collections, making this their first priority. As in the\n30s, they were forced to trim periodicals from their lists,\nand forego the purchase of important new publications.\n\"During the MacMillan years, we were able to compensate for the 30s by picking up old volumes that were still\n16 available,\" says Stuart-Stubbs. \"Tomorrow, we are not\ngoing to be so fortunate. Publishers are estimating their\nprint runs so carefully that books and journals are often\nnot available even five years after they are printed. In\nmany cases, we are not going to be able to pick up volumes until the contents of someone's private library\nbecomes available to us many years from now.\"\nThe program to decentralize library operations continued during the 70s and was very successful. Three\nlibrary buildings were constructed during this time \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe Sedgewick undergraduate library, the law library\nand the library processing centre, and today there are\n15 branch libraries (three off-campus).\nLibrary services themselves were improved continuously,\nin spite of budget cutbacks. The improvements were due\nmainly to the increased use of automation, development\nof the branch library system, and the growing opportunities for cooperation with other libraries. The Library\ncontinues to search for ways to improve the service it\nprovides, and increase efficiency.\nThrough a tri-universities organization \u00E2\u0080\u0094 TRIUL \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwith the libraries of the University of Victoria and Simon\nFraser University, UBC Library collaborated to develop\ncollections and shared services. Close cooperation with\nthe younger post-secondary institutions in B.C. led to the\nestablishment of the B.C. Post-Secondary Library\nNetwork (NET) in 1977. UBC continues to be the major\nlender of materials through NET, and administers the\nnetwork on behalf of the participating libraries, reinforcing our central role in the provincial library system. In\n1985-86, UBC provided 6,711 items to other NET\nlibraries and borrowed 773. The NET system operates\non a partial cost-recovery basis, with participating\nlibraries sharing only the staff costs for the loans they\nrequest.\nUBC was also a founding member of the B.C. Union\nCatalogue, intended, in conjunction with interlibrary\nlending arrangements, to make the collections of the\nlibraries of B.C. accessible throughout the province.\nWhile the union catalogue succeeded in its purpose,\nfunds have not been available in the 80s to maintain\nand reissue it.\nThe Sedgewick library provides much needed\nstudy space for undergraduates.\n17 The Making of a Library\nIn 1978, the manual cataloguing system was\nphased out. and new materials were\ncatalogued on the UTLAS (University of\nToronto Library Automated System)\ndatabase.\nThe final part of Stuart-Stubbs' original plan \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to make\nthe most effective use of computers \u00E2\u0080\u0094 has been an essential part of the Library's bibliographic control system.\nIn 1978, the Library phased out the manual cataloguing\nsystem, cataloguing new materials on the UTLAS\n(University of Toronto Library Automated Systems)\ndatabase. Instead of waiting for catalogue information to\nbe provided on cards from the Library of Congress, or\ndeveloping catalogue information at UBC for approximately $30 per book (in 1986 dollars), the Library\nextracted most of the information it needed directly from\nthe UTLAS database, reducing the cost of cataloguing to\napproximately $19 per book (in 1986 dollars). In addition, the Library has since been able to reduce the numbers of staff required for cataloguing, from 96 in 1978 to\n78 today. In 1986, the cost of maintaining those 18 extra\nstaff positions would be about $350,000. In other areas,\ntechnical service staff were also reduced, resulting in an\nadditional annual cost saving of $112,000 in 1986 dollars.\nAlthough it was possible to have UTLAS produce the\nnew library catalogue on microfiche, UBC systems staff\ndeveloped the software to produce a UBC microfiche\ncatalogue locally, saving about 75 per cent of the UTLAS\ncosts. The Library also produces microcatalogues for a\nnumber of post-secondary institutions in B.C., on a\ncost-recovery basis for UBC and at considerable cost\nsaving to the province.\nToday, on every floor of the stacks, and in many locations\naround campus, are microfiche records of the Library's\nholdings. Library computer experts are currently working to put information about collections on-line, so that\npeople on and off campus can access the bibliographic\ninformation quickly and more conveniently, without\ncoming to the Library. While the development of the online catalogue will not save money for the Library, it will\nsave valuable time, and therefore money, for users, and\npermit a very expensive and unique resource to be fully\nutilized.\n18 Recession, Inflation and\nRetrenchment\nFrom the mid-1970s onwards, the growth and prosperity\nof the 60s and early 70s have given way to prolonged\nrecession, inflation and, in the 80s, retrenchment. As a\nresult of these factors, today's chief librarian, Douglas\nMclnnes, faces many challenges that UBC's first\nlibrarian, John Ridington, would have understood only\ntoo well \u00E2\u0080\u0094 how to maintain a first class service with\nresources that diminish each year.\nIn spite of this, Mclnnes and his staff continue to build\nfor a brighter future. The mandate Mclnnes carries forward is based upon his determination to continue to\nbuild upon the strengths of the Library, incorporating\nnew technologies to continue to increase efficiency while\nmaintaining library services.\nLike other librarians before him, he is committed to\nmaintaining the strengths of the collections, but has been\nobliged to prune acquisitions, limiting the collections'\nscope and flexibility, and to reduce staff, affecting service\nin some areas. \" While the University has protected the\ncollections budget as a matter of policy,\" says Mclnnes,\n\"it has not been possible to offset extraordinary reductions in purchasing power over the past five years.\"\nIn this period of budgetary constraints, the continuing\nsupport of the University community has been of special\nimportance to the Library. One vital support is the\nSenate Library Committee, which keeps the University\ncommunity informed about the work and needs of the\nLibrary. The Senate Library Committee and the\nUniversity's librarians have had a close and productive\nrelationship throughout the Library's history. The\nCommittee advises the librarian on matters of policy and\nhelps to set priorities, especially with regard to the collections budget and to the services the Library provides to\nits users. Hundreds of faculty members have served on\nthis committee, ensuring that the development of the\nLibrary has been in step with the academic program.\nBrowsing through the stacks is an important\nactivity for many library users.\n%=\nSt'ii.iu- Library\nCommillrr Chairmen:\n1915-19 J: tt, Archibald\n1920-23 G.G.Sedgemd\nl\u00C2\u00AE3-24 lit. BoRgs\n1924-26 D. Buchanan\n: 111 fctgw\n1931-35 W.I. M.n.l>im:ild\n7 KH.Sow.ini\n193749 A.H. E-iiui;\n[939-40 M.Y. William*\n1941-43 B. Eii^lfi\n1944 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'< I Ganttti\ni''i -69 I M.t a\\t\n1969-77 Ml: McGn jai\nI977-H4 RA .Larkin\nI9S4- ].!.. IWrhihal\n19 The Making of a Library\nA major concern for libraries today is the\npreservation of'self-destructing' books. The\nloss of vital materials through deterioration\nwould be a major national disaster.\nSpace shortage, already a problem in the 70s, is now\ncritical in many library facilities. The Library has\nremoved about ten per cent of its collections into nonpublic storage areas. While these materials can be\nretrieved on request, usually within 24 hours, they are\nnot available for quick consultation or browsing. The\nquantity of materials in storage is of particular concern\nto scholars in the humanities and social sciences who\nneed to be able to browse through little-used volumes\nto find resource materials on a specific topic.\nAs storage collections increase and are more frequently\nlocated in other buildings, more staff time is spent\nretrieving requested volumes, selecting others for storage\nand changing records. In 1984/85, 61,000 volumes were\ncarefully culled from the shelves and selected for storage.\nBut still the shelves are reaching bursting point. \"Many\nbooks are shelved in very cramped quarters, which\naccelerates their deterioration. If our collections are to\nlast for future generations, we need to give them room\nto survive,\" says Mclnnes.\n'Self-destructing' books are also an increasing concern.\n\"Most books printed since 1900 have been printed on\nacidic paper, which is literally self-destructing. It is\nessential that these books are at least put into microform,\nso that their contents will not be lost to us,\" says\nMclnnes. \"This is expensive and time consuming work,\nand must be undertaken on a national and international\nbasis by librarians and agencies, such as the Canadian\nInstitute for Historical Microreproduction (CIHM),\nwhich is concerned with the preservation of our cultural\nand intellectual heritage.\n\"This important issue is of critical concern to us and\nto all librarians across Canada, for the loss of vital\nmaterials through deterioration would be a major\nnational disaster. Canada's efforts in this field are being\ncoordinated through the National Library.\"\nThe UBC Library continues to work closely with the\nother universities and post-secondary institutions in the\nprovince, providing their students and faculty with free\nand open access to our collections. It also continues to\nserve its larger community, for one fifth of the people\nusing its facilities today are from outside UBC. Thus\nWesbrook's tradition of a 'People's University' lives on.\n20 The Tradition off Giving Continues\nEvery year, groups and individuals donate generously to\nthe Library, continuing the tradition of private giving\nthat has been so essential to its growth. Their contributions are many, and it would be impossible to note them\nall here. But there have been two private donations in\nrecent years that are especially worthy of note.\nIn 1981, Dr. William Keith Burwell, a prominent Vancouver obstetrician and gynecologist who had no formal\nconnection with the University during his lifetime, died,\nleaving a substantial bequest to the Library. A sum of\n$50,000 was provided to purchase books on medical\nresearch and medicine for the Woodward Biomedical\nLibrary, but the most substantial endowment, currently\nvalued at more than $900,000, was provided for the purchase of books in areas of special interest to Dr. Burwell\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 sociology, anthropology and psychology. Burwell's\ngift has provided the means to develop these collections\nand to protect them from the effects of inflation and\ndevaluation.\nIn 1984, Vancouver businessman Mr. David Lam\ndonated $1,000,000 to the Faculty of Commerce and\nBusiness Administration for the development and\nsupport of a library, today known as the David Lam\nManagement Research Library. This generous donation\nhas augmented considerably the commerce collection,\nand will provide the basis for a strong specialized library\nservice to support the faculty's teaching and research.\nMr. Lam's donation will be formally recognized when he\nreceives an honorary degree this year.\nMr. David Lam recently donated $1,000,000\ntowards the development and support of the\nDavid Lam Management Research Library\nin the Faculty of Commerce and Business\nAdministration.\n21 1.1WI\"\n*!\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\nt3i THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nThe Library Today\n23 The Library Today\nThe card catalogue is still used daily by\nlibrary patrons.\nToday, UBC's library collections are valued, for\ninsurance purposes, at more than $265,000,000,\nalthough they are effectively beyond price. Among the\nmany treasures can be found one of the finest Asian collections in North America; the best health sciences collection in Western Canada; the definitive set of materials\nof and about the writer Malcolm Lowry; and a unique\nlibrary for the visually disabled which sends talking\nbooks to users around the world.\nPrincipally, the Library exists to serve the needs of students, faculty and researchers at The University of\nBritish Columbia. But it is also B.C.'s primary research\nlibrary, vital to the economic, cultural and social development of the province. It is extensively used by\nprofessionals, researchers and educators from Simon\nFraser University, the University of Victoria, teaching\nhospitals, colleges and schools throughout the province,\nas well as by private citizens.\n\"The UBC Library represents a significant resource to all the\npeople of British Columbia. It is the major and only comprehensive\nresearch library in this province.\n\"We are proud of our library at Simon Fraser University and the\nresource it offers to our students, faculty and the community. But,\nas a younger and smaller university, we cannot afford to replicate\nthe unique role of UBC's Library. When the needs of our faculty\nmembers and graduate students go beyond the capacity of our own\ncampus resources, they turn to UBC.\n\"I think this is a wise use of a very important, but expensive, intellectual resource. I am, therefore, extremely concerned about the\nfuture of this uniquely important resource to the entire province of\nBritish Columbia.\"\nDr. William Saywell,\nPresident, Simon Fraser University.\nFollowing the plan for decentralization laid out in the\nearly 60s, the Library is now a large and dispersed system consisting of a Main Library, organized into nine\nservice departments, and 15 branch libraries, three of\nthem off campus in teaching hospitals.\nEach division or branch represents a subject or service\nspecialization designed to meet the needs of a growing\nand increasingly varied clientele. The branches range in\n24 size and complexity from the Woodward Biomedical\nLibrary, with more than 40 staff members and comprehensive collections, to highly specialized service centres\nlike the Data Library, with two library supported staff\nmembers and a collection consisting primarily of\nnumerical data files.\nThe library system contains over 2.5 million books and\nan additional 4.7 million microforms, films, records and\nother pieces of material. The collections are growing by\nabout 100,000 volumes per year, with 200,000 additional\nitems in other formats. When a library shelf is 85 per\ncent full, it is considered at its full working capacity,\nallowing space for reshelving material. With 47 miles of\ncollections, currently spread over 55.5 miles of shelf\nspace, the shelves are now 84 per cent full, and almost\ntwo miles of books are added to the library system\nannually. Each year, more than 2,000,000 items are\nloaned, 370,000 questions answered and 55,000 people\nserved. In addition, more than 500 on-line databases are\nsearched a total of 715,000 times annually, to produce\nbibliographies and data for more than 8,000 library\nusers.\nIn four years time, every branch of the library system\nwill have reached or exceeded full working capacity, with\nspace for normal collections growth remaining only in\nthe Asian Studies Library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 two additional years \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and\nthe Law Library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 eight years.\nMicroform recordings of the Library's\nholdings can be found on every floor of the\nstacks and in many locations around campus.\n~<\nE!\nMain Library\nThe Main Library, the core of the system, houses the\nhumanities and social sciences, science, fine arts, special\ncollections, government publications, microforms and\nmaps. It also houses a circulation and reserve department, and units responsible for information and orientation, and interlibrary loans. Last year, its combined collections grew by over 55,000 volumes. More than\n200,000 volumes from these collections have been placed\nin storage, and are therefore inaccessible to users, except\nby request.\n25 <~ JiLi\nThe Main Library building stands framed by\nthe University clock tower and the light shafts\nof the Sedgewick underground library. The\nMain Library building is in urgent need of\nrenovation today.\nThe Library Today\nThe Main Library building is in urgent need of\nrenovation. It is deficient under the building code with\nregard to fire, earthquake and general safety standards.\nIt is overcrowded and expensive to operate. Currently,\nsprinklers are being added in the stack areas and fire\nexits added to the back of the building in order to improve fire protection, but it requires extensive renovation\nand restoration in order to be able to serve the University.\nThe Humanities and Social Sciences Collection constitutes\nabout 80 per cent of the material in the Main Library\nstacks, or some 765,000 volumes. In addition, there are\n60,000 volumes of materials relating to these areas in the\nreference division. Together these collections account for\nalmost one third of the bound volumes in the library system. They are the largest single collection in the Library,\nattracting users from all over the campus and the community at large.\n\"For those in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Library is\nnot merely a convenience or even just a useful tool. It is our\n'laboratory'\u00E2\u0080\u0094 an essential part of our professional life.\"\nProfessor Jean Laponce,\nPolitical Science, UBC.\n\"t make use of a number of libraries and archives in Europe for\nvarious specialized projects, but it would be fair to say that my\nbasic research depends almost entirely on my local 'laboratory' \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe UBC Library \u00E2\u0080\u0094 one of the finest in Canada, indeed in North\nAmerica.\"\nProfessor Laurence Bongie,\nHead, French Department, UBC\nThe Fine Arts Collection is recognized as one of three major\nfine arts research collections in Canada, and is used\nextensively by artists, planning consultants and art students as well as by researchers and professionals. In\n1984, the Fine Arts Library was awarded a $35,000 grant\nfrom the Social Sciences and Humanities Research\nCouncil of Canada to develop its collection to support\nstudies in Italian Renaissance art. Its specialized\nresources have made UBC's Fine Arts Library a regional\ncentre for study and research.\n26 The Science Collection, also in the Main Library, is one\nof the finest in the country, known especially for the\nstrength of its periodicals holdings. These periodicals are\nvital to the many scientific researchers on campus and to\nprivate individuals and fledgling industries who need\naccess to the most up-to-date information in their particular field. A considerable part of the collection has\nbeen moved into storage to make way for current\nmaterials.\n\"If I can supply a hardware or software designer with books,\nconference proceedings and journal articles from UBC's collection,\ntime and money can be saved in bidding a contract or meeting a\nproject deadline.\"\nJudy Growe,\nLibrarian, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.\nSpecial collections houses many rare and\npriceless volumes.\n\"If the B. C. government is serious about diversifying the economy\nof the province into the high technology area, we must maintain\nfirst class libraries in the province.\"\nJeffDahn,\nProject Leader, R andD, Moli Energy Ltd.\nAnother resource currently housed in the overcrowded\nMain Library is Special Collections \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a division whose collections owe so much to the support of private donors. It\nis here that the Library keeps some unique and treasured\nitems, including the great Howay-Reid Collection, the\nMurray Collection, the Colbeck Collection, and the\nBeans' collection of rare Japanese maps. It also houses\nmanuscripts and working papers of many eminent\nBritish Columbian authors such as Ethel Wilson,\nRoderick Haig-Brown and Malcolm Lowry.\n\"During the last five years I have researched the life of Emily\nCarr for apiece that will be produced in 1987. It was from Special\nCollections that I found my most valuable information and\ninsights. How could I possibly have depended on the National\nArchives for sustained study and information? Expensive trips to\nOttawa are not in the budget of the average Western writer or\nresearcher.\"\nJoy Coghill,\nVancouver actress and director.\n27 The Library Today\nThe Asian studies library is one of the very\nfew UBC branch libraries that still has space\nfor growth.\nThe Government Publications and Microforms Division is responsible for obtaining and servicing materials issued by\ngovernments at every level, and by international bodies.\nThe collection, containing about 56,000 items, is\nespecially strong for Canada and the provinces, for the\nUnited Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the United\nStates. The division is also responsible for most of the\n3,500,000 items of microform in the library system.\nThe Map Library collects and services maps and atlases\nfrom all over the world, with 140,000 maps and 8,400\nvolumes in the collection. It is widely used by off-campus\ngroups, including government departments, engineering\nfirms, geological and geographical professionals.\nAsian Studies Library\nA superb Canadian resource, the UBC Asian Studies\nLibrary has been designated the national repository\nfor official Japanese government publications, and is\nregarded as one of the best collections of Asian materials\nin North America. It was actually started in the late 50s\nwhen William Holland, at the request of President\nNorman MacKenzie, moved himself and the Institute\nfor Pacific Relations from New York to UBC. Holland\nbecame the first head of the Asian studies department at\nUBC, bringing with him the Institute's fine collection of\nAsian materials. This was quickly supplemented by the\nP'u-Pan collection, and has grown in strength every year\nsince then.\nToday, this library, housed in the striking Asian Centre,\nhas about 180,000 volumes, primarily in Chinese, Japanese and Indie languages. Its collections are heavily used\nby university, business and cultural groups in the\nprovince, growing each year to meet the rapidly developing need for information concerning the Pacific Rim.\nThe collection receives support from many donors, including organizations such as the Japan Foundation, the\nNational Library of China and the Social Sciences and\nHumanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and\nindividuals such as Mr. and Mrs. Tong Louie. Major\ndonations in 1986 included 2,000 books in Korean on\nKorean history, language, literature and sociology from\nthe Daehan Kyokuk Insurance Co.\n28 Kai\n\"I am concerned that Vancouver not lose its position as an Asian\nresearch centre just at the time it becomes recognized as Canada's\ncentre for Asian economic trade, arbitration and financial relations\n. . . If UBC falls behind the University of Toronto in providing\nthis research base, then we will be less well equipped to 'do our\nhomework' in developing our future roles in the newly emerging\nPacific community of nations.\"\nDr. Jan W. Walls,\nVice-President, Education and Cultural Affairs,\nAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada.\n\"There is no other place where I could have access to such a rich\nselection of offerings without actually going to Japan.\"\nSonja Arntzen,\nAssistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures,\nUniversity of Alberta.\nThe Woodward Biomedical Library\nThe largest biomedical library west of Toronto, the\nWoodward Biomedical Library serves the needs of the\nmedical profession and the health sciences community\nthroughout the province. The collection is accessible to\nevery doctor in the province, and many of them depend\nvery heavily upon its services.\nThe UBC biomedical collection actually began in 1915\nwhen Sir Charles Sherrington sent Dr. Wesbrook a\nsurprise present of a first edition of Bidloo's Anatomy,\npublished in 1685. Over the years, the collection\ngradually increased, including unique contributions of\nhistorical medical materials from Dr. P.A. Woodward.\nIn 1964, it was established as a separate branch library\nand substantially enlarged in 1970, both times with\nthanks to very generous funding from the Woodward\nfamily, through the P.A. Woodward Foundation. Dr.\nWilliam C. Gibson, now Chancellor of the University of\nVictoria, played a very vital role in bringing the new\nbuilding to reality, and in developing its historical collections when he was head of the department of history of\nscience and medicine at UBC, and chairman of the\nBiomedical Library Committee.\nThe Woodward Biomedical Library is running very\nclose to full working capacity today, with collections in\nexcess of 300,000 volumes.\nThe first volume in the excellent historical\nbiomedical collection, Bidloo's Anatomy,\nwas given to the first president of the\nUniversity, Dr. Wesbrook, by Sir Charles\nSherrington in 1915.\nDr. William C. Gibson, now chancellor of the\nUniversity of Victoria, played an important\nrole in bringing the Woodward biomedical\nlibrary to reality.\n29 The Library Today\nProfessor Emeritus Dr. E.L. Margetts is one\nof many medical professionals in British\nColumbia who rely on the specialized\nresources of the Woodward biomedical library.\nThe Woodward Biomedical Library provides an\ninvaluable service to the University Health Sciences\nCentre Hospital. Three branch libraries in other\nVancouver teaching hospitals \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Vancouver General\nHospital (biomedical branch library), Children's Grace\nand Shaughnessy Hospitals (the Hamber library) \u00E2\u0080\u0094 are\nlinked via a daily delivery service. Last year, 37,500 items\nwere delivered through the network; 4,400 items were\nlent to the B.C. Medical Library Service for delivery to\nphysicians, health professionals and hospitals\nthroughout B.C., and 3,500 items were lent to the Cancer\nControl Agency of B.C.\n\"The Woodward Library has been the major backup and support\nin the provision of library materials to physicians and hospitals\nthroughout B. C.for a quarter of a century.\"\nDr. C.W. Fraser,\nDirector, B. C. Medical Library Service\nThe Data Library\nThe Data Library has the strongest collection of machine\nreadable data sets of any academic data archives in\nCanada. Created as a separate branch in 1972, it provides access to a wide spectrum of numerical data in\nmachine-readable format.\nIt serves every faculty on campus, and a broad range of\ngroups within the general community, from market research firms wanting results of major Canadian surveys\nto government agencies looking for census data. The\nlibrary supplies research data in disciplines ranging from\nsocial sciences to physical, biological and natural\nsciences.\n\"Without the contributions provided by the (UBC) Data Library,\nthe establishment of a Canadian Union List of Machine Readable\nData files would have remained a wish, rather than a reality.\"\nHarold Naugler,\nDirector, Machine Readable Archives, Public Archives of Canada.\n30 The Crane Library\nThe Crane Library, founded in 1968, was named after\nUBC's first blind and deaf student, Charles Crane,\nwhose extraordinary talents were never fully realized\nbecause of the limitations and handicaps he had to face.\nThe library is a unique resource in Canada. In addition\nto serving blind and visually impaired UBC students,\nits seven staff members and over 150 volunteers create\n'talking books', recording about 300 new titles every\nyear. They create both essential text books and quality\nsupport materials, shipping copies of their books to\nlibraries and individuals around the world.\nAs testimony to the value of the Crane, nine blind students graduated from UBC last year, including one who\nreceived degrees in both commerce and law.\n\"There are few facilities or services in B.C. that are as important\nto disabled people as 'the Crane'.\"\nRawnie Dunn,\nBritish Columbia Coalition of the Disabled.\nCurriculum Laboratory\nThe Curriculum Laboratory for education has about\n100,000 volumes, including both professional and\nkindergarten to Grade 12 materials. It serves the UBC\nFaculty of Education, and provides a resource for the\nB.C. teaching profession. A significant portion of the\ntitles are in non-print format. In addition, attached to\nthe Laboratory is a separate film and videotape library,\nused by all UBC faculties and many off-campus groups.\nOver the past ten years, the collection has been constantly pruned, and thousands of volumes removed.\nBecause of space constraints, UBC's education collection\nis divided, practical materials in the Curriculum\nLaboratory, and theoretical materials in the Main\nLibrary. The Curriculum Laboratory is one of the best\ncollections for teaching practice in Canada, and the only\nresearch education collection in B.C. It is housed in an\ninadequate and poorly designed space, and study seats\nhave had to be eliminated to accommodate essential\nshelving.\nState-of-the-art recording equipment enables\nthe Crane Library to record 'talking books'\nwhich are sent to users around the world.\n31 The Library Today\nThe Law Library is one of the leading law\nlibraries in Canada. It is used heavily by\nlawyers and judges throughout the province, as\nwell as by UBC's law faculty.\nLaw Library\nThe UBC Law Library is one of the leading law libraries\nin Canada, and the principal law library in the province.\nLawyers and judges in British Columbia regularly draw\non the resources of this library, making heavy use of the\ncollections of American materials and specialized Canadian items which are not available anywhere else in B.C.\nThe Law Foundation of B.C. has consistently supported\nthe development of this branch's collections. The Law\nLibrary, with over 141,000 bound volumes, is fortunate to\nhave enough space to be able to accommodate normal\ngrowth for the next decade.\n\"Any reductions in the quality and scope of your collection and\nin the services offered to the legal community would have serious\nramifications for our firm and its clients.\"\nDiana Inselberg,\nLegal Librarian, Russell and DuMoulin.\nThe MacMillan Library\nStarted in 1967, the MacMillan Library serves as the\nprimary research collection for researchers and professionals concerned with two of B.C.'s major industries,\nforestry and agriculture, as well as for three levels of government, and numerous consultants in forestry, biotechnology, agricultural engineering and animal sciences. In\naddition, the library is a primary source of materials for\nresearchers in food science, food processing and the food\nindustry. It is a vital collection, very heavily used by students, researchers and industry alike.\nOf its collection of 55,000 volumes, 15,000 are now in\nremote storage because the library has long since run out\nof space for normal growth. The collection is currently\ngrowing at a rate of about 5,000 volumes a year, so that\nolder materials must be continuously removed from\nuser-accessible shelves.\n\"The UBC Library collections in general, and particularly the\nresearch materials relating to forest products, are invaluable to the\nbusiness community.\"\nPeter Woodbridge,\nForestry Consultant, Woodbridge, Reed and Associates, Division of\nH.A. Simons (International) Ltd.\n32 Music Library\nThe Music Library, located in the music building, has a\nstrong collection of books and periodicals in musicology,\nas well as musical scores and recordings, plus an outstanding collection of European music manuscripts on\nmicrofilm, covering all areas of music from the Middle\nAges onwards.\nThe library has an exceptional collection of complete\nworks and historical sets. For example, a musician at\nUBC can compare the works of Mozart in several\nreprinted editions: the famous first edition of 1798 (on\nmicrofilm), the 19th century edition edited by Brahms,\nand the new edition begun in the Mozart bicentennial\nyear of 1956. The library serves the university community and provides scores and recordings and acts as a\nreference source for many musical groups throughout\nthe province.\nIt also receives many donations. Recently, Mrs. Janey\nGudewill and Mr. Peter Cherniavsky contributed two\nvaluable music manuscripts \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Terzetto, Op.116 of\nBeethoven, and the orchestral score for Debussy's ballet\n\"Khamma,\" and important related materials.\nWith over 43,000 volumes, the library is already\nseriously overcrowded, and is located in an area that\ndoes not allow for further expansion. Plans are progressing to annex additional study space adjacent to the existing library in the School of Music, and to transfer to\nstorage materials that are not frequently used.\n\"Without the Music Library's resources, our instruments would\nbe mute.\"\nThe Towne Waytes,\nRenaissance music performing artists, From one of their album jackets.\n\"The UBC Music Library is the only source of information and\nmaterial which we often need for our early music concerts. Visiting\nartists frequently are not familiar with the requirements of radio\nand consequently do not provide scores for the producer who may\nhave to edit.\"\nEllen Enomoto,\nMusic Library of the CBC.\nllotistdin ikfinttih h\iiUi'i\\>, the mtiSit\nUbrary hm tittitid) vittgretiw tis sjtiarttrs, Hull\nis TH urgent ttttd ftj additional spaa.\n33 The Sedgewick library has the longest hours\nof any of the branch libraries, and is heavily\nused by on- and off-campus patrons.\nSedgewick Library\nThis imaginative and attractive underground library\nwas built in 1973 to serve the needs of undergraduates in\nthe Faculty of Arts, and those in the first two years of\nScience. It maintains the longest opening hours of all the\ncampus libraries, seats more than 1,250 users, and is one\nof the campus focal points. The upper limit of its capacity is intended to be 200,000 volumes, and it currently\nhouses approximately 190,000 volumes. The library is\nused not only by UBC students but also by students from\nlocal post-secondary institutions. The small, highly\nefficient staff coordinate a program of instruction in the\nuse of the library for undergraduates, and assist students\nto learn how to use a library for research.\nThe Wilson Recordings Collection, which is located in\nSedgewick, is the largest library collection of classical\nrecordings in B.C. Named after two founding members\nof UBC's 'Friends of the Library', Dr. Wallace Wilson\nand Ethel Wilson, the collection is extensively used by\nthe general public, including international and local\nmusicians who select music for performance. International opera singer Judith Forst, who lives in B.C., says it\nwould not be possible for her to maintain her career\nwhile living here without access to the Wilson Collection.\nDavid Lam Library\nThe David Lam Management Research Library consists\nof journals, working papers from about 40 universities\nwith business schools, financial and economic\nnewsletters published by chartered banks, investment\nhouses and other research organizations, annual reports\nfrom top Canadian companies, and a microfiche collection of annual reports from public companies in the U.S.\nA special collection on Pacific Rim business has been developed which consists of over 60 periodical titles, plus\nbooks and reference materials. Access to over 70 bibliographic, numerical, statistical and financial business\ndatabases is provided.\n34 This library, which is heavily used by the Vancouver\nbusiness community, is not yet officially part of the\nlibrary system, but is developing rapidly as a source of\nspecialized research materials for commerce. When new\nspace is available, the David Lam library will become a\nUBC branch library.\nMarjorie Smith Library\nThis library serves social workers throughout the\nprovince as well as the University's own academic and\nstudent social workers. Its collection numbers some\n17,500 volumes of bound journals, monographs, reports\nand documents.\nMathematics Library\nThis library holds virtually all of the library's mathematics collections, as well as some collections in computer\nscience and statistics. Its holdings number about 28,000\nvolumes.\n\"Research and education do not stop with a degree, and the\nmaterial available from UBC meets a demand beyond most\ninstitutional budgets.\"\nMary Javorski,\nReference Librarian, Okanagan Regional Library.\nThe Wilson recordings collection is the largest\nlibrary collection of classical recordings in the\nprovince.\n35 Appropriate space must he\nbuilt to house priceless\nvolumes suck as these. In\naddition, tlie acquisitions\nbudget must be increased if\nUBC is to maintain its\nstanding among major\nNorth American research\nlibraries.\nW\ncook\nLast\n THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\n37 Challenges for Tomorrow:\nThe Bottom Line\nCollections expenditures of\nUBC compared with three other\nmajor North American libraries\n(1974-85)\nAmong the 106 members of the ARL,\nin 198411985 UBC ranked 40thfor\nthe amount spent on collections.\nSource: Association of Research\nLibraries; ARL Statistics\nFor the past fifteen years, the UBC Library has consolidated, retrenched, reorganized and streamlined its operations, preserving and enhancing its resources in spite of\nconstantly shrinking buying power.\nAutomation, particularly where it has permitted savings\nin staff costs, has been a top priority. The Library has\nalso examined services carefully, eliminating less essential ones, and improving its operating efficiency and\nproductivity, especially with regard to ordering, cataloguing, receiving and recording journals, and circulation systems.\nThroughout all this time, the Library has struggled to\npreserve purchasing power for collections, although the\ncombined effects of inflation and devaluation have meant\nthat many journal subscriptions have had to be cancelled\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 900 journals were discontinued in 1986 alone. The\ntitles were selected carefully to avoid, as much as possible, the loss of valuable research materials. Perhaps the\nmost serious effect has been on the smaller collections,\nparticularly those in the teaching hospitals.\nThe Library has eliminated 50 staff positions since 1980,\nthrough effective use of automated systems, other operating efficiencies, and some reductions in services. At the\nsame time, the Library has added new services. In 1982,\nthe health sciences library network was added, funded\nthrough allocations from the medical undergraduate expansion program. Faculty and students in the teaching\nhospitals are now able to receive, through the network,\nthe journals and texts they need from the Woodward\nLibrary and elsewhere. The film library and special\nreference services for UBC's distance education students\nwere added in 1983 and 1984, respectively. And in 1986,\nthe Library established the UBC Patent Information\nSearch Service, funded through a federal-provincial\nagreement on science and technology development. This\nservice is planned to become self-sustaining in the future,\nproviding an essential link between University research\nand high tech industries in B.C.\n38 The library recovers costs wherever possible for services\nsuch as on-line searches, extensive reference assistance,\nborrowing privileges for non-UBC users, and inter-\nlibrary loan. For example, last year, the library recovered\nover $500,000 of its overall costs by the use of cost-\nrecovery schemes.\nIn spite of every effort made to maintain and improve\nthe Library, it has fallen in ranking from 15th in 1981 to\n21st in 1986, according to the Association of Research\nLibraries (ARL) composite index ranking of research\nlibraries in North America. In order simply to maintain\nits current status, the Library must address three pressing needs within the very near future: space, development of collections, and further incorporation of new\ntechnologies.\nSpace\nDuring the 1970s, most universities constructed substantial new central library facilities to accommodate their\ngrowing collections. UBC was unable to follow this\ncourse, and today the Library is critically short of space.\nMost collections are housed in increasingly cramped\nquarters, accelerating the deterioration of the materials\nand creating inefficient conditions for both users and\nstaff. And, as I have already mentioned, some users,\nespecially those in the humanities and social sciences, are\nplaced at a disadvantage when materials are culled from\nopen shelves and moved into closed storage.\nVery conscious of the space required to house collections,\nthe Library has given high priority to the purchase of\nmicroforms, with the result that UBC has the largest collection of materials on microform in Canada, and the\nseventh largest among the 106 ARL libraries. This, of\ncourse, has increased enormously the richness and depth\nof our relatively young collection, but its use as a means\nof saving space has been fully explored.\nComparison in size of UBC\ncollections with three other\nmajor North American libraries\n(1984-85)\nBerkeley\n12 3 4 5\nSize of Collection (in Millions)\nAmong the 106 ARL Libraries,\nUBC ranks 35th by no. of print\nvolumes, and 7th by number of\nmicrofilm holdings.\nSource: Association of Research\nLibraries; ARL Statistics\n39 Challenges for Tomorrow:\nThe Bottom Line\nGrowth in book title production\nin the United States and the\nUnited Kingdom (1900-85)\n1900 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 83 85\nGrowth of Technology appears to\nhave accelerated the rate at which\nbooks have been published\nSource: The Bowker Annual of\nLibrary and Book Trade\nInformation\nAdditions to UBC collections\ncompared with three other\nmajor North American Libraries\n(1970-84)\n%,\nH 700-\n''\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\nBerkeley\n-H coo -\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2.\t\n *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\"/ Toronto\np\n1 500 -\ny^ UCLA\n% 400 -\n*^r^\"**^\u00C2\u00AB.\ny\n% 30Q-\nUBC\ni i\nUBC is losing ground in collections\nacquisitions each year, as compared\nwith other major research libraries\nSource: Association of Research\nLibraries; ARL Statistics\nThe Library needs to add a substantial amount of additional space in order to meet its primary requirements to\nthe beginning of the 21st century. The space will be used\nto house science and applied science collections, commerce, fine arts, special collections, and map divisions.\nIn addition, the Main Library building must be\nrenovated soon.\nSpace will also be needed for fresh acquisitions, since\nit seems likely that, in our society, we will continue to\ncreate more and more print materials every year. We\nneed room for these materials, but we also need space\nand appropriate equipment so that we can continue to\nuse new ways to store and transmit information. The\nnew building, together with renovation to the Main\nLibrary, will make it possible for us to accommodate new\ntechnologies while providing space for housing and using\nprint materials.\nCollections\nThe Library collections are rich in materials covering the\nbroad range of UBC's teaching and research interests.\nHaving been systematically developed for 72 years, they\ncontain many items that are no longer available at any\nprice, and constantly receive valuable additions.\nFor example, each year the Social Sciences and\nHumanities Research Council of Canada recognized our\nLibrary's position as a national resource by awarding\nannual grants to their maximum of $50,000. Last year,\nthe funds were provided to purchase large sets of provincial gazetteers from China for the Asian collection, and\nthis year to acquire a vast and important microfilm collection of early English music manuscripts.\nAs a charter subscriber and strong supporter of the\nCanadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions\n(CIHM), the UBC Library is also helping to ensure both\nthat older, rapidly deteriorating Canadian publications\nare preserved for future generations, and also that space\nneeds are kept to the absolute minimum. CIHM has\nidentified and reproduced on microfiche more than\n30,000 pre-1901 Canadian publications. UBC has\nacquired this invaluable microfiche collection for users in\nB.C., enriching its collections of Canadiana and helping\nat the same time to preserve Canada's cultural heritage.\n40 s^a\nThe Library is a member of the Center for Research\nLibraries in Chicago, which collects and shares highly\nspecialized library resources, giving UBC access to an\nadditional 3.5 million volumes and 1.1 million units of\nmicroform. It is also a member of the Association of\nResearch Libraries and the Canadian Association of\nResearch Libraries, organizations which are actively\nworking to improve the sharing of library resources in\nNorth America so that all libraries can provide access to\nthe widest range of materials possible at acceptable cost.\nIn addition to listing our collections with the National\nLibrary of Canada and the UTLAS database in Toronto,\nthe Library is also taking steps to work with the Online\nComputer Library Centre (OCLC) in Dublin, Ohio.\nThis enormous database will provide the Library with\nimproved access to information needed for our own\ncataloguing and will list UBC's holdings for the benefit\nof other libraries throughout North America.\nIn spite of new technologies, UBC must still acquire\nhard copy of materials that B.C. researchers need. The\nessential books, journals and other materials to be purchased must be continuously evaluated in order to keep\nthe Library vital, responsive to the current and changing\nneeds of its users.\nMost of the materials we buy for the UBC collection\ncome from countries other than Canada. Devaluation of\nCanadian currency relative to major Western nations'\ncurrencies has seriously eroded our buying power in\nrecent years. In spite of the fact that the Library has\ntaken heroic steps to safeguard its collections, the\nlibrarians are increasingly making critical decisions in\nthe purchase of publications, decisions that will seriously\naffect the long-term value of the UBC collection.\nIn order both to ensure our competitive position in\nteaching and research among North America's leading\nuniversities, and also to continue to serve as the major\nresource for Western Canada, the Library must obtain\nadditional funds soon in order to add needed materials\nto the collections.\nValue of Canadian dollar vs U.S.\ndollar over the last ten years\n55 percent of the Library's current\nacquisitions are in U.S. materials\nSource: Bank of Canada Review\nDrop in value of Canadian\ndollar versus major world\ncurrencies (1985-86)\n.-'\u00E2\u0080\u0094--_\n^^^ ^\"--w \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"' ^WUS Dollar iK'i)\n90-\nN\X\\n60-\n\\\n\ ^- \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 U.K. Poury) (72%l\n70-\n\ \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 FrencnFrane^OM\n\ \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Caiman Mam (6 ra.(\n60-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Japanese Van ((S0**i\n28 per cent of the library's current\nacquisitions are in European\nmaterials, and a further 5 percent\ncome from Asian countries.\nSource: Bank of Canada Review\n41 Challenges for Tomorrow:\nThe Bottom Line\nNew Technologies\nNew technologies are constantly opening up new opportunities for us all, and we can see this clearly in the effect\nthese technologies have had on the Library, its staff and\nusers.\nIt would not be possible for the Library, with its current\nstaff, to provide the range and quality of services it does\ntoday without automation. If we did not have access to\ncataloguing information through other libraries, it would\ncost us at least 50 per cent more than it does to catalogue\neach book. If we had no computers to help us circulate\nmaterials, it would cost us at least twice as much as it\ndoes to provide this basic service to users.\nIn the next few years, we will need to replace our\ncirculation system with an on-line system that will allow\nus to monitor the use of all library materials more\neffectively, wherever they are in the system, and further\nprotect us from the ever-increasing costs of managing a\nlarge research collection. It will enable us to find out how\nthe collection is being used, influence our buying policy,\ndetermine which items should be put into storage, and\nensure that the Library's collections are as accessible as\npossible for its users. Ultimately the quality of library\nservice depends upon the extent to which our collections\nhave been successfully organized and indexed, and on\nthe ease with which library patrons can use our records\nto find what they require.\nA high priority is the development of the on-line catalogue system by the Library's innovative and expert systems and processing staff. This system will improve\naccess for users, first on campus, and ultimately throughout the province. Already, enhanced library computing\nfacilities have led to a more efficient operation of all the\nLibrary's record-keeping systems, and have resulted in\nimproved access to information about the collections.\n42 New mass storage systems, such as laser discs, are likely\nto hold great promise for the future, although they are expensive to develop and implement. We will be evaluating\nthese systems for our own use as they become available.\nI believe it is vital that the UBC Library be in a position\nto make use of new technology to continue to improve the\nefficiency of its operations, to save space, and to improve\nthe essential services it renders to its dependent community.\nBut at the same time we must remind ourselves of the\nless obvious, but just as important, facets of the Library.\nIn our increasingly technical world, we can easily forget\nhow it feels to hold a good book, or browse the stacks,\nlooking for a particular work. The quality of this experience depends upon the quality and ambience of the\nLibrary itself, the concern and caring of its staff.\nSo, as we incorporate new technologies, we must also\ntake with us the sense of tradition and humanity that\nfounded this University and upon which we continue\nto build.\n43 W Postscript\n\"The founding of a university is rather like throwing a stone into a deep pool.\nAs the stone strikes the water it makes a hole in it, and then, when it has sunk to the\nbottom, and you might think it had never gone in at all, you see circle after circle of\nripples spreading over the surface of the pool, each one wider than the last.\"\nEdgar Allison Peers,\nFounder of the Modern Humanities Research\nAssociation.\nIn concluding this report, I should like once more to draw your attention to the\nmany private individuals who, by supporting the University, have \"thrown their\nstones\" into the deep pool of higher learning in B.C. The ripples that their intellectual\nand financial contributions have made extend beyond the confines of the Province of\nBritish Columbia, as UBC graduates and faculty make their mark in internationally\ncompetitive markets.\nThe UBC Library has been the vital heart of this outstanding University, and the\nindividuals who have dedicated their lives and resources to the Library's health and\nstrength are part of its backbone.\nToday, new efforts by those who love and cherish the Library are necessary to\nmaintain its health and strength.\nThe Library needs assistance and commitment from a new group of public\nand private supporters; individuals, companies and government organizations who\nrecognize its vital contribution to their lives and the lives of all the people of British\nColumbia. Indeed, we intend to institute, once again, the 'Friends of the Library,' to\nencourage those interested in the future of the Library to come to its aid.\nI am optimistic that the needed support will come, for I know that the vision\nand the dream begun by President Wesbrook is vital to the future of this province. In\nWesbrook's own words \"We have been so richly endowed in British Columbia that\nwe owe it to ourselves and the rest of the world to properly conserve and intelligently\ndevelop and use our material resources, the chief of which are men and women, both\nthose who are here now and those who are coming\".\nDr. David W. Strangway\nPresident\nThe University of British Columbia\n4.4 \"The Library needs assistance and\ncommitment from a new group of\npublic and private supporters:\nindividuals, companies and\ngovernment organizations who\nrecognize its vital contribution to\ntheir lives and the lives of all the\npeople of British Columbia\".\nDr. David W. 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