"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1217000"@en . "Univeristy Publications"@en . "2015-07-14"@en . "1979-04"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubclibnews/items/1.0213364/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \ \ -c\nni.B.C LIBRARY NEWS\nNew Series, No. 1 April 1979 Vancouver, B.C.\n2 MILLION, GOING ON 3 MILLION\nDuring January 1979, without fanfare, the Library added its second millionth\nvolume. It took fifty-four years for it to acquire the first million, and only ten\nto acquire the second. However, it is not expected that the collection will double\nagain in the next ten years, the rate of growth having slowed by the combined effects\nof inflation and currency devaluation. In recent years, the University administration\nhas literally saved the collections from disaster by adding enough to the budget to\noffset increased costs. In just four years the collections budget has been increased\nby 46% to $2,550,000, sufficient to stabilize the accessions rate at about 90,000\nvolumes a year, in addition to other items such as microforms, recordings and maps.\nExperience indicates that this level of collecting is necessary if the Library is to\nremain current in all fields of interest to the University. Providing that the\nUniversity can continue its support, the collection should attain three million\nvolumes in the next decade.\nThe prediction points to a future crisis. The Library does not have within its\nbranches, divisions and storage areas space for three million volumes. Assuming the\ncompletion of buildings now under construction or in the planning stages, and assuming\nthat spaces vacated in the Main Library can be converted to collections storage, there\nis at the maximum only room enough for eight years' collection growth. Given the lead\ntime required for the realization of new buildings; given the size of the library\nproject needed to deal with not just the third million volume, but the fourth, and the\nfifth; it is not too soon to begin to plan for the building or buildings needed to\ncarry the Library forward into the twenty-first century.\nCollections, their development, their accessibility both bibliographically and\nphysically, are central to the processes of teaching and research and to University\nstandards. Collections development and access are the subjects of the sixty-third\nAnnual Report of the University Library, to be presented to the April meeting of Senate,\nfollowing which it will be widely distributed on campus. If you do not receive a copy\nyou may request one from the Librarian's Office, local 3871.\nMICROLISTS ESSENTIAL FOR RESEARCH\nNew computer-produced microcatalogues now comprise an essential segment of\nUBC Library records. It is extremely important for users to consult the microfiche\nlists as well as the card catalogue for an accurate picture of the Library's holdings;\nresearchers not yet using the microfiche lists are missing the Library's newest\nadditions to the collection. There are now over 70,000 titles listed on the Micro-\ncatalogue and its supplements, none of which will ever appear in the card catalogue.\nThe microlists are available in all campus libraries. In addition, the Micro-\ncatalogue and the Serial List, the basic lists, are now being placed in all departmental\nreading rooms.\nMICROCATALOGUE. The Microcatalogue is presently issued bi-monthly in three\nsections: Authors & Titles, Subjects, and Biomedical Subjects. The card\ncatalogues in all campus libraries (except Asian Studies) are now officially closed and a long-term project to computerize the existing card files is\nunderway. All new cataloguing (regardless of publication date) is entered\ndirectly on a computer data base which serves as the basis for the Microcatalogue.\nThus material of any date may now be found in the Microcatalogue; but if you\nare searching for recent publications (1978 or later), you need check only the\nMicrocatalogue. The Microcatalogue is currently supplemented by two other\nmicrofiche files: RECENT CATALOGUING and the IN PROCESS LIST.\nSERIAL LIST. The microfiche Serial List supersedes UBC Serial Holdings, 1975,\na volume now badly out of date. The new Serial List is issued every three\nmonths, and lists all the Library's journals, newspapers, yearbooks, and other\nserials, giving call numbers, locations, and holdings. The Serial List is\nsupplemented bi-weekly by SERIAL SUPPLEMENT, which gives current information\non serial subscriptions and holdings.\nThe Information and Orientation Division will arrange demonstrations of the\nmicroequipment and explanations of the new lists for individuals or small groups\nof faculty members, research assistants, or other interested people. Contact Joan\nSandilands or Jocelyn Foster at local 2076; sessions can be arranged in either a\ncampus reading room or the Main Library.\nSpecial libraries or individuals requiring their own copies of the lists\nmay subscribe after May 1 by contacting the British Columbia Union Catalogue Project,\n7671 Alderbridge Way, Richmond, V6X 1Z9, 273-9521.\nGUIDE TO MICROFORMS PUBLISHED\nSuzanne Dodson, Head of the Library's Government Publications and Microforms\nDivision, has long been concerned with scholarly access to microform materials. She\nhas recently published a pioneer guide to these materials: MICROFORM RESEARCH\nCOLLECTIONS: A GUIDE (Microform Review, Westport, Connecticut, 1978, 410 pp.)\nMicropublishing has become big business (an interesting article in this regard\nappears in the Times Literary Supplement, September 22, 1978) and Dodson's guide\nis an important reminder to us all to consider microform resources in any search for\nmaterials. Microform sets are often very large, very expensive, and inadequately\ncatalogued. For example, Segment I of the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic\nLiterature costs $45,000 and includes some 30,000 titles. Dodson selected 200 such\nimportant sets for her guide and gives extensive purchasing and user information for\neach, including scope, content, arrangement, and bibliographic control.\nThe Guide is available in many of the Library's reference divisions (Z1033\nM5D64 1978) and many of the sets described have been purchased by the Library.\nSets not available at UBC may be borrowed through interlibrary loan.\nIMPROVED LIBRARY SERVICES FOR TEACHING HOSPITALS\nImproved library services, prompted by the expanded Faculty of Medicine, are\nplanned for the major teaching hospitals affiliated with UBC. A new library for\nChildren's, Grace, and Shaughnessy hospitals, is under construction at the Shaughnessy\nsite and should be completed by January 1981. Funds have been requested for 1980/81\nto improve the existing libraries at St. Paul's and Vancouver General Hospital\n(Biomedical Branch Library). These libraries will serve UBC students and faculty\nas well as hospital personnel.\nWoodward Biomedical Library will provide direct service to the UBC Health Sciences\nHospital and will \"back-up\" the five off-campus teaching hospital libraries. A special\nservice unit will be located in Woodward to handle requests from the hospitals.\nUBC Library has become heavily involved in planning the expanded services but\nit has not yet been determined if the hospital libraries will become an official part\nof the UBC Library system. WATCH DUE DATES ON BOUND JOURNALS\nCirculation Division noted recently that several faculty members were surprised\nwhen not given a seven-day grace period in which to return bound journals requested\nby other borrowers. Journals are not automatically extended to end-of-term, as are\nmonographs in Main Library and some branches. Journals are loaned for one week only,\nand if requested by others during that week, penalties begin to accrue on the day\nfollowing the due date. However, some bound journals (those not frequently used) may\nbe borrowed on extended loan, at your request, in which case you will receive a call-\nin and the seven-day grace period. And, of course, those journals not taken on extended\nloan may be renewed each week.\nUSE OF LIBRARY TELEX LIMITED\nAlthough the Library does not act as a University message centre, messages\nintended for faculty members, students, and other university departments are frequently\nreceived on the Library's telex. The Library does attempt to pass on such messages,\nbut must resort to campus mail when the recipient cannot easily be reached by phone.\nOften the messages are incompletely addressed, and it may be difficult or impossible\nto identify the recipient.\nUnder the circumstances, faculty members and others should advise any persons\nlikely to send them messages by telex to use other means; in urgent cases, long distance\ntelephone calls are preferable. If there are campus departments which might use a telex\nregularly, they should consider the advantages of installing their own machine, thus\nobtaining a separate listing in the Telex Directory. To send telex messages, please\ncontact the Purchasing Department, local 4105.\nMANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS\nSpecial Collections Division has received recently the HUMBIRD FAMILY PAPERS.\nThese consist of the minute books and financial records of the Victoria Lumber and\nManufacturing Company Ltd., Chemainus, 1889-1950; Humbird Lumber Company, Washington,\n1900-47; Clearwater Timber Co., 1900-24; and First National Bank, Sandpoint, Idaho,\n1925-32; stock certificates of the Jacob Humbird Holding Co., Maryland, 1932-40; documents\nand photographs relating to the Seaboard Shipping Company; a land purchase ledger,\nincluding enclosures, marked J.A. Humbird, Minnesota, 1878-1900; and financial records\nof the Jacob Humbird Trust Funds, 1884-1905, Jacob Humbird estate, 1893-1939, and\nJohn A. Humbird estate, 1910-62. Stock certificates, 1899-1901, and financial records\nand correspondence of the Ashcroft Water, Electric and Improvement Company, 1934-53,\nrelating to its activities and financial records of Ashcroft Irrigated Lands Limited,\n1952-60, correspondence relating to development of East Bench irrigation, 1952-56,\nand a 1918 report with photos and plans are also available.\nRecords relating to the union movement have been recently received from the\nB.C. Federation of Labour, Canadian Merchant Service. Guild, and John Stanton.\nARCHIVES ACQUIRES TAPES\nUBC Archives has acquired an important set of tapes from the Centre for Continuing\nEducation of UBC. These tapes, which date from 1966, were made in conjunction with\nthe Humanities and Sciences program directed by Sol Kort. There are more than one\nhundred tapes of lectures given at UBC for the courses Quest for Liberation, Explorations\nin the Human Potential, Contemporary Thought. Speakers brought to the campus for these\nseries included Colin Wilson, Ashley Montagu, Baba Ram Dass, Theodore Roszak, Lionel\nTiger, to name just a few.\nThese audio tapes are available for use in the Special Collections Division,\nMain Library. An accessions list in the Division gives the titles and names of\nspeakers of the 800 tapes held in the archives and available for use. CLAIMANT SOUGHT FOR PHOTOGRAPH OF SHIP\nThe Library recently received a black and white photograph of the t.t. KARAMA\nMAERSK (Lindjz* Hull No. 61.1) from the Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. Unfortunately, the\nsender lost the original request and the name of the individual needing the photograph is unknown. If it is yours, please contact Graham Elliston, local 2304.\nBRITISH LIBRARY CLOSING WEEK MOVED TO FALL\nThe British Library (previously known as the British Museum Reading Room) has\nchanged the dates of its annual closing from late spring to mid-fall. It now closes\nthe \"week following the last complete week in October\". In 1979 that is October 29\nto November 3.\nBACK ISSUES WANTED\nThe following items are needed to complete the Library's holdings:\nAMERICAN NURSERYMAN. v.146 n.1(1977)\nATLANTIC REPORT; AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT ECONOMIC TRENDS. v.12 n.2-3(Apr, Jul, 1977)\nBRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY. V.5 n.3-4\nCANADIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. BULLETIN. v.5 n.1-2 (1975); v.6 n.5(1977)\nCHEMISTRY IN CANADA, v.28 n.3,7-9(1976)\nCINEMA CANADA. n.3(1972)\nCOMMONWEALTH JOURNAL. v.2 n.2-3(1959)\nCONTINUO. v.l n.1-6(1977)\nFOLIO. (SASKATOON) v.1 n.1-11(1973); v.2(1974)\nPERFORMANCE. (VANCOUVER, B.C.) v.l; v.2 no.1-3,9-12; v.3 n.1-3,5-6,8; v.5 n.3.\nPHILOSOPHY EAST AND WEST. v.24 n.2(1974); v.28 n.1-2\nPRZEGLAD GEOGRAFICZNY. v.30 n.2-3(1958)\nTIMES, LONDON. EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT. n.3120(Mar 14, 1975);\nn.3183-3186(Jun 4,11,18,25,1976)\nURBAN READER, v.2 n.1-6(1974); v.3 n.1(1975)\nIf you can supply any of these, please telephone Graham Elliston, local 2304.\nPUBLICATION NOTE\nThe New Series of the Library News will be published irregularly. Serials staff\nplease note that volume 11, number 3 never appeared; volume 11 is complete in 2 issues.\nEditor: L. Bryant Information and Orientation Division\nISSN 0382-0661 ^LYA^\n4y\nK\nSoon after April 7, the Library's end-of-term date,\nCirculation divisions will be mailing call-in notices.\nYou can help to reduce paperwork by returning or\nrenewing books before April 7.\nWe are particularly anxious to have books returned by those of you who expect\nto be away from the campus during the spring and summer terms. We can't help a\nborrower who needs an item out on loan to a person who can't be reached.\nIf you are going to be absent, and wish to renew rather than return items,\nplease have someone check your mail regularly and respond to library call-ins. If\nyou wish, we will mail any necessary notices to your home during the spring and summer\nperiod; please let us know by writing Mary Banham, Circulation Division, Main Library\nor phoning 228-3993.\nIf it is not possible for you to renew Main Library books before April 7, we\nsuggest that you return your end-of-term notice to the Circulation Division, indicating which items you wish to renew and which you are returning.\nAlthough some of you may view this thrice-yearly exercise of calling in books\nas a bother, others have thanked us for reminding them of the items which are charged\nout to them. Often a person will have finished with a book, but may have forgotten\nto return it. The return of materials makes them more readily accessible to others,\nand the Library a more useful place. The call-in process also allows us to correct\nany errors in our record.\nOur thanks to those many faculty members who have been cooperative during the\npast year in responding to the needs of other borrowers, and thus assisting us in\noperating a more effective Library.\nUSe U6/JAR.V"@en . "New series"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Z736.B74 B851"@en . "Z736_B74_B851_1979_01"@en . "10.14288/1.0213364"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : [University of British Columbia Library]"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from University of British Columbia Library: http://www.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en . "University of British Columbia. Library"@en . 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