@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1217574"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-07-15"@en, "1975-12"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/libsenrep/items/1.0115312/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ THE NG of a RESEARCH LIBRARY 60 years of collections development ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN TO THE SENATE »>nA University of British Columbia 1974-75 *A-o., ■ ft, y ****« 1^ •'-A *<<> *cv *<-.', THE MAKING OF A RESEARCH LIBRARY Sixty Years of Collections Development Annual Report of the University Librarian to the Senate of the University of British Columbia Sixtieth Year 1974/75 Vancouver, December 1975. TABLE OF CONTENTS 22 I. Collections Over Sixty Years. ...1 II. Growth and Nature of the Collections. ...2 III. Value and Cost of Collections. ...7 IV. Housing the Collections. —14 V. Service and the Collections. —!8 VI. Significance of the Collections. Appendix A. Size of Collections - Physical Volumes B. Library Growth, 1915/16 to 1974/75 C. Growth of Collections D. Library Expenditures E. Recorded use of Library Resources F. Reference Statistics G. Library Organization H. Library Supported Reading Rooms I. Senate Library Committee -1- I. Collections Over Sixty Years. If, as it is so often said, the library is the heart of the university, it is certainly the case that the collection is the heart of the library. It is its most valuable asset, measured in any terms, This report focusses on the collection, and approaches all other aspects of the library through it, not just because it, like the university, is marking its sixtieth anniversary, but because while its significance continues to grow, its future is in several respects in a state of jeopardy. And this is a matter which should be of concern far beyond the gates of the university. -2- Growth and Nature of the Collections. To have arrived, after sixty years, at a collection of one and two-thirds millions of physical volumes, and more than two and one-quarter millions of items in other formats, has required an immense collaborative effort on the part of faculty members, librarians, university administrators, governments, foundations and private donors. Virtually every item in the collection represents a choice, a decision made, an amount provided, an amount expended. What is truly astonishing is that so much has been accomplished in just the past decade. A graphic representation of the growth of the collections (See Figure 1) shows that the Library entered the 1960's with about four hundred and fifty thousand volumes on its shelves, barely enough, in terms of present standards, to satisfy the needs of a university of even modest size and ambition. In 1963 a period of rapid development began, and by 1966 the Library was adding every year as many volumes as it had been able to acquire in the first twenty years of its existence. In the decade that followed, the Library acquired one million volumes: it had taken fifty years to acquire its first half million. By 1975 the collections, measured in terms of physical volumes alone, were four times as large as they had been on the threshold of the 1960's, and in that interval one million four hundred thousand volumes had been selected, acquired, catalogued and made available for use. It will also be noted that in recent years the rate of growth has declined. This is no reflection of a parallel decline in the availability of library materials in the marketplace, nor of their desirability to the University. It can be traced to economic factors, as will be shown. What is the nature of the Library's collections? The physical volume, as represented by the book or the bound periodical, is the familiar object that stands in the minds of most people as symbolic of the Library. It is certainly the one most often counted when the importance of a collection is being assessed. But, as Table 1 shows, it is joined by the microform, the sound recording, visual materials, maps and manuscripts. The total number of these physical items was recorded as 3,945,897 at the end of March 1975. To understand the meaning of this, it must be kept in mind that each physical •3- 1915 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 $ Hundred of Thousc 1 Q s nds 1 j J.O 17 i | lo 15 1 4 5 1 13 12 5 11 10 3 I ' 9 8 I 7 1 (L 5 I 4 3 2 .< V f I .~«lttlY Ifljfls y V* 11111111 nm»«nW,H 00* 1 — ■ Figure 1: Growth of Collections in Volumes, 1915/16 to 1974/75 Table 1: Growth of Non-Book Collections, 1961/62 to 1974/75. 1961/62 1962/63 1963/64 1964/65 1965/66 1966/67 1967/68 1968/69 1969/70 1970/71 1971/72 1972/73 1973/74 1974/75 Uncatalogued Documents 197,876 227,595 266,911 307,215 359,764 425,690 483,617 544,470 603,414 669,175 737,202 804,712 350,463 417,070 Films, Filmstrips & T.V.-Tapes - - - - - - 24 172 172 569 569 569 2,606 2,703 Slides, Transparencies - - - - - - - - - - - - 5,242 8,172 Pictures, Posters - - - - - - - - - - - - 62,812 64,280 Microfilm 3,224 3,650 4,701 5,209 6,907 9,578 11,697 13,734 27,224 30,275 35,344 36,198 38,227 42,687 Microcard 8,413 8,577 8,977 8,990 15,810 27,761 34,669 101,280 107,840 108,320 111,680 111,680 111,680 111,680 Microprint 5,189 54,989 55,654 61,130 236,130 236,130 252,582 527,500 618,500 698,000 732,500 760,500 826,250 858,000 Microfiche 366 692 692 5,891 12,934 16,248 23,264 285,820 337,246 412,018 525,790 584,770 595,641 600,186 Maps - - - - 40,2P5 51,278 59,944 63,220 70,861 75,203 80,211 86,024 94,443 105,733 Manuscripts in linear feet 78 107 136 398 410 437 457 562 1,102 1,800 1,900 2,005 3,350 3,550 Recordings - - - - 8,278 9,782 12,045 14,359 22,260 24,150 25,575 27,364 45,367 58,476 Appendix Y: Size of Collections Physical Volumes. -5- item, especially in the case of periodicals and microforms, can represent many discrete bibliographical items. In an attempt to make information available where it is actually needed most, the collection has been distributed throughout a system of branch libraries and reading rooms. The division of the collections among these elements is shown in Appendix A. It will be seen that there are now five volumes in branch libraries, reading rooms and individual subject collections within the Main Library, to every four volumes in the stacks of the Main Library, which before the 1960's were virtually the sole repository for books. Figure 2 shows the distribution of major subjects within the collection, according to the Library of Congress classification. Figure 2: Contents of Collections, by Library of Congress Classes. - General - Philosophy & Religion ) f |- History Social Sciences: Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Law, Education. M - Music N - Art & Architecture P - Literature Q - Science S - Agricultural Science T - Technology U - Military Science V - Naval Science W - Health Sciences Z - Bibliography Z A 3.43% 4.G7% C,D,E,F. 15.66* -6- A study carried out over many years and completed by the National Library of Canada during the year made it possible to compare the relative strength of U.B.C.'s collection by subject area. It has for some time been the case that in total U.B.C.'s collection is the second largest in Canada. It is some two million seven hundred thousand volumes smaller than the University of Toronto's, very slightly larger than McGill's, and fifty thousand volumes larger than the University of Alberta's. But it does contain Canada's largest collections in the subject areas of: Canadian history, German history, Canadian literature, and Transportation and Communication. In the following areas, it contains the second largest collections in Canadai British history, French history, Anthropogeography, Anthropology, Sociology, English literature, German literature, Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures, Philosophy, Political science, and Folklore. While these facts are cause for satisfaction it must be pointed out that as research libraries go, U.B.C. Library is still only of moderate size. Its collection is smaller, for example, than those to be found at the universities of Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, Rutgers, Florida and Maryland. Out of .eighty-one university members of the Association of Research Libraries, U.B.C. Library is not far from the median, ranking thirty-seventh. And whereas just four years ago it ranked eleventh in terms of its annual growth rate, it had dropped to twenty-ninth place by 1973/74. Accessions have declined from 162,428 volumes in 1970/71 to 85,086 volumes last year, a drop of forty-eight percent in four years. This can be traced to the fact that funds for the purchase of collections have not kept pace with inflating prices. ■7- III. Value and Cost of Collections. Everyone who has purchased a book recently knows that prices have increased. For both periodicals and books the price trend has tilted sharply upward in the past five years. The average price of U.S. periodicals in the five years 1970 to 1974 more than doubled, rising from $8.66 to $17.71 (Bowker /Annual, 1975, p.177). Hardcover U.S. books over the same period rose in price from $8.77 to $14.09, an increase of sixty-one percent (Bowker /Annual, 1975, p.180) . A British compilation shows that adult non-fiction from the U.K. increased in price by a relatively modest twenty-seven percent in the four years ending with 1974 (Library Association Record, August 1974, p.155). The same source indicates that periodical prices rose during the period by seventy-four percent to an average of £,19.78 (p.153). An examination of monthly paid invoices reveals that U.B.C. is now paying an average of $14.20 for each book. The average cost of a periodical subscription now runs to between $37 and $38 a year. The monetary value of the whole collection has thereby appreciated and keeps on increasing in value with each passing year. The following table estimates the worth of the collection. Table 2: U.B.C. Library Collections Valuation, April 1975. Main Library Branches Animal Resource Ecology Crane Curriculum Laboratory Law MacMillan Medical Branch Mathematics Music Marjorie Smith Sedgewick Woodward $37,378,244.75 391,461.00 304,384.00 1,356,287.00 2,853,092.75 1,034,435.25 701,340.00 506,880.00 779,032.50 295,566.25 4,345,827.25 8,098,814.00 Reading Rooms 20,667,120.00 2,661,430.00 $60,706,794.75 -8- This staggering figure of course cannot be regarded as a true replacement cost, because the great majority of the items in the collection can not be replaced. Included in this estimate are the labour and material costs of acquiring, cataloguing, and maintaining the bibliographical apparatus which permits access to the contents of the collection. In terras of today's salaries and expenses, that figure is greater than the actual purchase cost. The actual amount spent on collections purchases over sixty years has been $17,915,246 (See Appendix B, for expenditures). In addition there have been gifts to the collection of unmeasured value. The total value today of almost sixty-one million dollars is an appreciation of three hundred thirty-nine percent over purchase price. In recent years, the amounts spent on collections annually have risen, fallen and risen again, as can be seen in Figure 3. The number of volumes added annually (presented in Appendix B) shows a different pattern. In the late sixties, the numbers of accessions exceeded the capacity of the Processing Divisions to deal with them. Proceeding methodically, they gradually eliminated the backlog. In the past few years the number of accessions has dropped significantly, while expenditures have risen slightly. In 1974/75, expenditures on collections (books, periodicals and binding) were $1,629,797, representing 25.8 percent of total library expenditures, a decline over the previous year. In fact, the proportion spent on collections has been diminishing for many years, as shown on the chart presented as Figure 3. In the sixties this was attributable to an increase in the numbers of staff needed to deal with collection processing and to operate the developing branch system of libraries over increasingly longer schedules. However, few staff members have been added to the establishment in the past four years: the growing proportion of the library budget allocated to salaries arises out of salary increases, yet another symptom of the general problem of inflation. Figure 3: Expenditures on Salaries, Collections, Other Expenses, 19*5/66 to 1974/75. -;. h-4.--.i- -; i j ■ 4 i ' 1 j j J i _|. i i i ;__, i . ■ 1 ; ' ' i '- 1 ' ■ ! i ■ i i i 1 i ! ' . j___ [ : i j i ; : t . ! i ; i _j ; j 1 ! 1 | j ■ [ I ■ ! ; | 1 ' , ■ ■ 1 ; ! . , J I j I ! ' | : I ' | j !,:■!■ , ' , j S . i ; j : _i 1 _| -' ■ t-+ i ! : i Tj[:''i_ji ' ', I : j ! -I'll-1 I ' \\ |j_j_ ^V U- - !--!.; Ui -!. - +" "{]- -' - - - ■ '': M | IHHi •M(,q!Li"<;ion ' L'_4 _J.'i_.M ..i . . SBkIT<*P*-' '" : ~" _ " — - '" : ' : ' M_j ' ' ' ■ jj : , ■ | 1 "t ,■ ■"Jj | 1 ' j '■ ^ ■ I 1 '~T ~t 1 : ■ i ! I I J ■ ] i 1 l ~j "I | i j l_l i i ! ' : i [ l _j 1 1 ! ! i i '■ i I ! 1 ~i 1 J i ■ 1 I I ' < ! ' ■ ■ | i I i ■ j ""* 3 ; j j ! 1 ~l "1 \"""\""" " "> " "" - - - - - - - - 1 ! I ' I * i h- . - ,- - _ ... ... - . 1 < ' ! 1 ' i —I-j ' ; : i ' 4 4 —1 1 1 1 -A -i : ' ' : 1 ^4 _,:•';) 4jl i J 1 : ; ' i ; i I j i I ~l ' ■ 1 ! I ' ' i ! ~' j j J J 1 ' I | _j _i 1 1 1 ■ j ~111 : ■ i i :;iii:i ■ -)-t : ' "f l ' i : ' i i i 1 j 1 i ! ' 1 ! _i.—l:_h_.:.o.;...: i :.a.. _i ;. .;.. j......,.';.,._., ___,_ __ ■ ,ir. a a - - u aa :: : : _ " ~: ! 4 J ,..44-...i :4-:-..: ,-4 j. ....!.,;..!. :_, :M...i.^. . . 1 _j_ l _. . i ■ B 4J4 U-Pu. ,-i 4-.:_d_. . rrna": Met ~ '" ' "tS' " " " "~ ■- - - - - - ._.! . ...j.!.!.,.. 0. 4. u^J ■ i 0 ■ : B , , i_ JPPP i L:J.J 1..14... „P_.H ; :-|-ri •-■ B;--j -- [ -: - vp- - - ■ ._ - ' ^ ■ a ^ km ■ H "SB" m ~" y'^ :feiJ '—• i-^4 M:jp: «±EiP : H~-- : :------ : ;E-~--- ; -~--E- 9 B - l- . i_—_l_ . . . . — ijjjj-:--* -H-H-H- ■ - '-'.— '- - M - ff--_P - - - ■ - j if II _: 1:1 \\ t| i il 1 ■; 11; 11 11 1 stfl iB IP - m - P-- IP; P ^ P; P JP n § #+]==§: *=!=- - fcpi : ~W~-P- ■ t--~ - W---~ - 1---- - Wzz~-~- : *="= jj=::: 1965/66 1966/67 1967/68 1968/69 1969/70 1970/71 1971/72 1972/73 1973/74 1974/75 -10- Within the library budget other trends are developing. To examine them, the collections budget can be broken down into four main areas of spending: 1. Current and Research. In this category are the funds for maintaining periodical subscriptions, for acquiring periodical back files, for purchasing new books and significant collections of material. 2. Branch Libraries and Subject Collections. Each branch library and subject collection has a fund for general collection development. 3. Reading Rooms. Reading rooms receive varying levels of support for collections. 4. Departments. Those departments predominantly in the Faculty of Arts, which have a need for out-of-print materials receive allocations. Figure 4 shows that more and more dollars are being spent for the first category. The reason for this becomes apparent when one looks at the growth in the cost of the serials component budget, as shown in Figure 5. Whereas in 1970/71 periodicals and continuations accounted for about forty percent of all expenditures on library materials, by last year they accounted for over fifty-five percent, and in the current year it is expected that they will account for over sixty percent. As part of a programme to counteract these trends, which see increasing amounts committed to current publications, a "quid-pro-quo" policy was established, whereunder no new subscription was entered until a subscription or subscriptions of equal dollar value and in the same subject field had been cancelled. Initially this policy served to weed out some titles of marginal significance. However, this policy, which it was hoped to suspend in 1975/76, is now a source of annoyance and concern to faculty members and librarians alike. And despite the policy, the annual costs of periodicals keep mounting. If these costs can not be paid, ruthless slashing of the subscription list would be needed to reduce it to its former proportion of the budget. Figure 4: Collections Budgets, by Expense Category, 1970/71 to 1974/75. $ loo,oo9-»isrT- ■]-ri^rirj-arrn-*rTT~rrirr:rr-r rTi—r tt~~kt-' ~~rv i i. 1970/71 1971/72 1973/74 1974/75 -12- Figure 5: Proportion of Book Budget Spent on Continuations and Periodicals, 1970/71 to 1974/75. , llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll -7V72 rninmifniiTiimimmmiu 1.7V73; i if f ii ji f iinniiijii immnnoii J (40.1%) 1973/74 1974/75 illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllL HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I[|||||||||IHIIIIII[[ (41.8%) (45.5%) (48.3%) (55.4%) 0% 50% 100% -13- Another dangerous trend, again stemming from inflationary pressure, is the increasing size of the commitment which is carried over from one budget year to the next. Given the fact that there is always a delay between the ordering of an item, its receipt and payment for it, some carryover from year to year is essential. But costs for materials have been growing, and the value of the commitment has swollen from $421,322 in 1969/70 to $875,920 in the current year. It is obvious that this can not continue, and that it will be necessary to further reduce the numbers of orders placed. As vital to the University as is the welfare of the Library's collection, it is unfortunately true that among budget items it is among the most vulnerable. That is because it is easier to hold back increases or to cut the collections budget than it is to reduce or lower the quality of academic programmes or library services, either of which would involve diminishing the numbers of University faculty or staff. The immediate implications of inadequate support for library collections are not so keenly felt in human terms. An event in the past year demonstrated this clearly enough. An increase of $106,420 had been made to the collections budget, representing a 7.7 percent increase over the previous year, not enough to offset inflation. In May, a mandatory increase in student assistant wages from $2.50 to $4.16 per hour necessitated adjustments to the Library's budget. Had these adjustments not been made, the Library would have been forced to adopt a schedule of hours so reduced that students could not have completed their assignments. A decreased but adequate schedule of hours was maintained, but one sacrifice that had to be made was to the collections budget, which was reduced by about fifty thousand dollars. This in turn lowered the increase over the previous year to 4.1 percent. Thus the collections budget becomes less and less able to deal with rising costs. The University and its Library must confront two alternatives, neither of them easy in present circumstances: either more money for collections, or inadequate collections. ■14- IV. Housing the Collections. At the present time, in all libraries, collections occupy one hundred seventy thousand net square feet, approximately forty-three percent of the space available for library purposes. But unlike other occupants of that space, collections make special demands. In the first place, their growth is inexorable. Limitations can be placed on enrollment, and thus on the potential number of library users. In the second place, when a user is unable to find a seat, he goes away, but books are more demanding. To a certain extent it is harder to ignore the space needs of collections than it is of library users, no matter how difficult their situation. At U.B.C. the story of collections and space has been one of suspense. One shelving crisis has followed upon another, with solutions being found only when disaster is at hand or has arrived. The past decade of rapid collection growth has coincided with the construction of a series of branch libraries, in which 637,837 volumes, or forty percent of the collection of physical volumes, are now housed (See Appendix A). But there is a limit to the shelf life of all libraries on campus, and some deadlines are painfully close. At the present rate of growth the following collections will have exceeded the point of full working capacity of existing shelves before the end of the decade: In 1975: Animal Resource Ecology Library; Curriculum Laboratory. In 1976: Special Collections Division. In 1977: Fine Arts Division; MacMillan Library; Mathematics Library; Music Library. In 1978: Asian Studies Library; Crane Library; Main Library Stacks. In 1979: Biomedical Branch Library (Vancouver General Hospital). However, there are under way three construction projects which will ameliorate this situation. -15- A site for the Processing Building has finally been found west of the Woodward Library, and construction could begin in the early summer of 1976. When that building is completed, hopefully in 1977, it will then be necessary to renovate the seventh level of the Main Library stacks, to receive the Government Publications Division, now on the sixth level. Following this, the sixth level will be renovated and additional shelving installed, to provide space for about one hundred fifty thousand volumes, enough for four years of collection growth at present accession rates. Capital funds have yet to be allocated to these renovation projects. The Asian Studies Centre is partially complete, but can not be finished until additional funds are raised. The withdrawal of the Asian collection from the Main Library will free space for another one hundred fifty thousand volumes, and provide the Asian Studies Library with space for expansion for a decade. An educational resources centre, including a library, is provided for in a new building for the Faculty of Education, to which the Senate Committee on Academic Building Needs has given first priority. This building will probably not be complete until sometime in 1978, at the earliest. The space problem of the Curriculum Laboratory will then be solved, and the removal of the education collection from the Main Library stacks will release space for twenty-seven thousand five hundred volumes, enough for eight months' collection growth. In combination, these projects extend the shelf life of the Main Library into the early 1980's. But they do nothing for several of the other branch libraries listed above. What is the solution to housing the ever-expanding collection? Essentially, there are only two alternatives: construct more space, or diminish the collection. Both alternatives are being pursued. In planning the library system, an optimum collection size defining an upper limit has been posited for all branches. This limit is not arbitrary, but takes into consideration the differing requirements of different groups -16- of users. It is also proposed that as an adjunct to the library system, a remote storage library be constructed at some future date, to which seldom used volumes can be retired. To diminish collections, volumes can either be withdrawn, or their contents reduced in size. Again, both approaches are being taken already. Last year the Sedgewick library withdrew eleven thousand volumes, comprising works no longer assigned as reading to high enrollment courses, and made them available at no charge to colleges in British Columbia, where collections are still in a rudimentary stage of development. Such collection weeding is practiced everywhere in the U.B.C. library system. Wherever it is possible and practical to do so, microform materials are acquired in preference to physical volumes. This is increasingly the case with periodical and newspaper files. In fact, there are now more bibliographic items in the microform collection than in the collection of physical volumes. The storage repository has already been proposed as the solution to the problem of dealing with physical volumes when they exceed the capacity of a given library to contain them. There are already three small storage areas within the library system. One of these, in the Woodward Library, now holds some fifty thousand volumes withdrawn from the Main and other libraries. These volumes were selected for storage on the basis of their low frequency of use. Any book which had not been borrowed in five years was retired. That only fifty thousand books fell into that category is an indication that the great majority of the books in the collection are in active use. At the present time about two hundred and fifty volumes per month are retrieved from the Woodward Library storage area in response to users* requests. The second storage area is in the basement of the Main Library, and it contains twenty-five thousand volumes, mostly from the nearby Asian Studies collection. -17- The third storage area is in the basement of the new Law Library. It had at one time been planned to prepare this space for high-density storage using compact shelving like that in the Woodward Library and Main Library storage areas, but budget constraints made this impossible, and conventional shelving has been substituted. Altogether, the three book storage areas can hold approximately one hundred seventy-five thousand volumes, in a total floor space of about five thousand square feet. As logical as storage libraries appear to be, and as necessary as they are in library planning, it should not be assumed that they represent the most economical approach to dealing with collections and their use. Cost- benefit studies have shown the contrary to be the case. The costs of changing records, handling books and delays in retrieval offset the savings in construction costs which inexpensive storage buildings usually provide. In U.B.C.'s case it is an ironic fact that the type of construction found in the Main Library stacks, with its low ceilings and narrow aisles is the type advocated for a storage building. Rather than reconstructing such space at a distance from the centre of campus, a better long-range alternative would be to replace the Main Library building with a new research library, to seal off the old stacks from public access for storage purposes only, and to renovate the other spaces in the building for other purposes, such as offices, seminar rooms and classrooms, all of which are in short supply at the north end of the campus. In the future technology may offer new options for the storage and retrieval of information, involving such things as computer storage of full texts, and the recording of collections on video tapes or discs. It is not possible for the Library itself to develop such technology, but it can and will adapt and exploit it as soon as it is possible and sensible to do so. This also presupposes that authors and publishers will be willing to accept revolutionary approaches to the recording and dissemination of knowledge. Whatever developments take place, it seems likely that no single medium will replace the conventional printed newspaper, magazine or book, and that the reader will continue to be faced, as he is now, with a diversity of media. -18- V. Service and the Collections. Collections, to be intellectually accessible, must be catalogued. To be physically accessible they must be given marks of identification and prepared for use. The records which provide intellectual access must be created and maintained on a virtually daily basis. And skilled reference assistance must be provided to the users of these records and the collections. For over a decade the computer has become increasingly responsible for the handling of library records, which are distinguished by these characteristics: they are massive in size, require constant revision, and must be susceptible of access in a multitude of ways and on a random basis. Theoretically, as a successor to the expensive and cumbersome card catalogue, an on-line, real-time computer system would provide the perfect solution to dealing with library records. Realistically, neither the hardware nor the software to accomplish this for all of U.B.C.'s records is available, nor could it be afforded if it were. However, the Library's systems are moving by degrees toward this distant objective. One sign of this trend took place during the summer of 1975 when conventional paper printout was replaced by computer output microform, or COM, for all machine-maintained library records, and microfiche readers appeared where printout consulting tables formerly had been. COM is not, as some believe, a photograph of paper printout. It is produced directly on film from a magnetic tape record, using fibre optics. The resulting record is more compact, more legible, and because it is so much less expensive, contains more information and fewer abbreviations. Careful consideration is being given to the use of COM as a substitute for card catalogues, which are becoming too expensive to maintain and too large to house. The union catalogue in the Main Library is now on the threshold of its effective limit of growth within the space available for it in the Main Concourse. Conversion to COM would solve the growth problem and provide other benefits. Among them would be the availability of a full record of the holdings of all libraries in the system which could be economically reproduced and distributed to all libraries, reading rooms, academic departments and off-campus locations where desired. -19- Behind the scenes, systems which foreshadow the public catalogue of the future are already in operation: in the Acquisitions Division orders are being entered by means of computer terminals, themselves prototypes of the equipment which library users will one day employ to gain access to the total record of the library's holdings. It is now generally known that the computer is being used to conduct searches of indexes to large bodies of literature in medicine and the sciences, and depending on the nature and level of the individual question, to do this more quickly and with better results than could be achieved through the use of printed indexes. Ultimately, of course, the usefulness of such literature searches rests on access to the references they yield, and thus on the strength of the collection. But the expectations of users sometimes go farther. In the experience of librarians, instant access to information about literature arouses in the user the assumption that the material itself will be provided on the same instant basis, and without exertion on the part of the user. As there will never be a time when the Library holds every item of information, there will never be a time when every user will receive total service: that is, when every inquiry will yield not just information about information, but the information itself. To a large extent, libraries rely on the abilities of patrons to help themselves, and as information, in the broadest sense of that term, becomes more abundant, complex and varied in format, a higher order of skill is needed. One of the aims of reference service at U.B.C. Library is to develop the user's skill. To begin with, it is committed to a heavy programme of user guidance and instruction, involving tours, lectures and publications. Special emphasis is given to providing orientation to students enrolling at the university for the first time; for the great majority it is their first encounter with a library of significant size. In the period between September and April 1975, one hundred and fifty-five tours and two hundred and twenty-nine instructional sessions were conducted, involving 7,767 persons. Programmes which will reach all students in their first year are in preparation, in cooperation with the English Department. -20- In the course of the year, Library staff members answered more than three hundred thousand specific questions, an average of roughly a thousand per day. As can be seen in Appendix F, almost a quarter of a million of these questions were of a reference or research variety, involving trained staff in assisting patrons in the use of the collections. Not all of the Library's patrons are U.B.C. students or faculty, as a survey conducted on November 3, 1974, revealed. Sixteen percent of those persons counted in the Main, Sedgewick and Woodward libraries during the survey identified themselves as not being from U.B.C. Their reasons for being on this campus were numerous, but the greatest attraction for most respondents was the collection. The materials they sought were simply not to be found at their home institutions. Counts were being made at the same time in other libraries on the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver City College, the B.C. Institute of Technology, the Vancouver Public Library and the University of Victoria. It was learned that of U.B.C. students located in libraries, ninety-four percent were at U.B.C, and that the total number of U.B.C. students in all libraries equalled fourteen percent of this university's total enrollment. Parenthetically, November 3rd was a Sunday, and the sun was shining. On October 23-29, 1975 another more extensive survey was carried out. Preliminary results confirm the findings of the earlier survey, that sixteen to seventeen percent of U.B.C. Library's population of users has no formal connection with the University. While reference activity increased, for the first time in the Library's recent history the number of items loaned decreased overall by one percent (See Appendix E). However, the pattern of increases and decreases among branches and divisions shows no consistent pattern. Some decreases can be explained readily: the Woodward Library duplicated many titles which were in heavy demand and thereby reduced its circulation of loans of reserve materials; during the period of construction, when the Law Library was separated from faculty and student quarters, use declined, but will probably increase again, the new building having been opened in January 1975. -21- Interlibrary lending, on the other hand, continued to increase. It should be noted that U.B.C. Library is now working with the Federated Information Network, a project of the Greater Vancouver Library Council, and this arrangement, which involves the use of a committed telephone line, a truck delivery and staff paid for by the Council, permits access to U.B.C.'s collections for users of all public libraries in municipalities in the lower mainland. While the numbers of items loaned to other libraries is a small proportion of the total, the unit costs of these loans is high because each request involves the searching of the catalogue, frequent bibliographical verification of incorrect or incomplete citations, the retrieval of the item, photocopying in about half the cases, the creation of loan records, packing and shipping. In connection with this, and with all other extramural services, as the Library's budget situation worsens the question must be raised: can the University afford to continue to subsidise the needs of other libraries when it is increasingly unable to meet the needs of its immediate community of users? Should it seek additional appropriations for extra-mural service of this and other kinds? Or should it establish systems of cost recovery? As for the use of the collection generally, a plateau may have been reached. In the 1960's use turned up sharply: it doubled between 1964/65 and 1968/69, and has doubled again since then. If total circulation is stabilizing at nearly two and a half million items per year, it may be because any individual can only deal with so many pages of print in a given year. Whatever the case, U.B.C. Library continues to lead other major Canadian university libraries in the volume of its loans. In 1973/74, the University of Toronto Library loaned 1,707,563 items, McGill University Library loaned 1,015,737 items, and the University of Alberta Library loaned 941,278 items, compared with U.B.C.'s 2,290,173 loans. Considering that this represents about half the use, the other half taking place within libraries being unrecorded, it can be seen that the collection, besides being large in size and valuable in monetary terms, is both useful and intensively used. -22- VI. Significance of the Collections. As the diamond jubilee of the University and its Library came to a close, the 3,945,897th item was added to the Library collections. The number has no significance, lacking even the symbolic value of the hundred- thousandth or the millionth. It merely represents a moment in the continuing process in which a library matures imperceptibly as a research library rich in resources. The centrality of the library in a university is axiomatic. At every level of academic work the library is of great consequence, for study, for teaching, for research. At the graduate and research levels, the importance of the collection is vital. In his Assessment of Quality in Graduate Education, Cartter says of the library that "no other single nonhuman factor is as closely related to the quality of graduate education", and observes that universities strong in all areas of graduate work invariably have major national research libraries (A.M. Cartter; Washington, D.C., American Council on Education, 1966; p.114). In its dependence on the library for the quality of graduate studies and research U.B.C. is no exception. The research collections constitute a vital foundation for work at these levels. And in the province of British Columbia, where library resources are meager, the U.B.C. collections constitute the single largest concentration of library materials in the province. There are some seven and one-quarter million volumes in B.C. all told, of which almost one-fourth are at U.B.C. No other library has as much as one-tenth of the total. Practically, even inevitably, the U.B.C. Library is seen as, and is relied upon to be, the back-up collection for the province and beyond. Every indicator of library activity confirms the fact that the U.B.C. Library is the chief resource centre for the province. The library use studies show that, whereas some U.B.C. students may be found in other libraries when surveys are made, the U.B.C. libraries are visited by some three times as many off-campus users. In interlibrary lending, three and one-half times as many loans and photocopies are made available to other libraries from U.B.C. as are obtained by U.B.C. from other libraries. Especially in times of budget constraints, it is presumed at other -23- institutions that only materials in heavy demand will be bought and that the U.B.C. collections will assume responsibility for other essential but less frequently consulted publications. It seems clear that the time has arrived when U.B.C. can no longer afford to provide services for off-campus users at no expense to them. Costs have increased to such an extent, while financial resources have failed to keep abreast, that U.B.C. members would have to be penalized in order to maintain present levels of services to others. This would be patently unfair. The first responsibility of the Library must be to provide for its immediate clientele, and only secondarily for others. This situation is faced to a greater or lesser extent by all research libraries, and increasingly so in the seventies. Some have responded by imposing very high use fees on non- members. Most have been attempting to find ways to make cost recoveries. At U.B.C. no solution is immediately at hand, but ways are being explored to cope with the conflicting pressures. Strong collections are not the product of an overnight miracle. They represent a heavy investment in expertise, time and money. In its first sixty years the University of British Columbia has developed a collection which can be said to rank among the most important resources for research in Canada and even in North America. This report concludes with the hope that in the years ahead, whatever economic vicissitudes the University encounters, the Library will be enabled to continue to mature and to maintain and develop the collections for research and study which both the University and the province need. Appendix A SIZE OF COLLECTIONS - PHYSICAL VOLUMES March 31, 1974 Growth March 31, 1975 39,614 737,380 7,660 61,582 4,802 58,017 2,187 34,914 720 13,352 1,970 42,511 Main Library General Stacks 697,766 Asian Studies 53,922 Fine Arts 53,215 Humanities and Social Sciences Ref. 32,727 Science Reference 12,632 Special Collections 40,541 Animal Resource Ecology 12,493 Crane Library 4,964 Curriculum Laboratory 28,531 Law Library 89,296 MacMillan Library 29,423 Biomedical Branch 22,171 Mathematics Library 15,977 Music Library 20,353 Reading Rooms 84,017 Sedgewick Library 131,255 Social Work Library 8,879 Woodward Library 190,578 SUBTOTAL 637,837 SUBTOTAL 1,528,640 Volumes withdrawn - Net growth 1,528,640 Storage 59,634 TOTAL 1,588,274 SUBTOTAL 890,803 56,95 3 947,756 Branch Libraries and Reading Rooms 335 12,828 621 5,585 3,772 32,303 5,315 94,611 2,070 31,493 1,207 23,378 919 16,896 1,951 22,304 4,460 88,477 8,658 139,913 955 9,834 9,042 199,620 39,305 677,142 96,258 1,624,898 14,172 14,172 82,086 1,610,726 - 59,634 82,086 1,670,360 Includes Reserve Book Collection and some minor Main Library collections. Appendix B LIBRARY GROWTH, 1915/16 to 1974/75 1 Spent on Collections $ 1,300 Net Vols. Added Total Holdings 20,000 Circulation 1,300 University Enrolment 1915/16 - 379 16/17 6,650 3,500 23,500 2,036 369 17/18 6,900 3,800 27,300 2,750 416 18/19 7,750 3,700 31,000 3,639 538 19/20 18,800 2,000 33,000 4,401 890 1920/21 16,000 3,000 36,000 9,657 962 21/22 9,500 6,000 42,000 12,637 1,014 22/23 6,500 3,000 45,000 14,450 1,194 23/24 12,000 4,700 49,700 16,040 1,308 24/25 9,000 3,300 53,000 17,522 1,451 25/26 16,800 3,000 56,000 40,560 1,463 26/27 12,000 5,000 61,000 60,945 1,582 27/28 13,500 4,373 65,373 76,609 1,741 28/29 13,000 4,211 69,584 78,265 1,730 29/30 13,000 7,997 77,581 83,306 1,904 1930/31 12,660 3,612 81,193 93,469 2,044 31/32 4,500 4,823 86,016 68,925 1,989 32/33 2,000 1,701 87,717 80,299 1,739 33/34 7,000 3,602 91,319 96,903 1,606 34/35 7,000 6,074 97,393 96,982 1,752 35/36 11,700 6,622 104,015 102,966 1,883 36/37" 37/38„ I 23,870 7,141 111,156 M101,955 (.121,071 2,049 2,481 38/39 39/40 13,750^ 14,300J 10,001 121,157 p.37,496 (125,906 2,476 2,594 1940/41 14,510 5,145 126,302 128,359 2,658 41/42 17,537 5,510 131,812 124,597 2,671 42/43 17,264 5,463 137,275 102,857 2,609 43/44 16,340 5,245 142,520 89,749 2,569 44/45 18,682 5,249 147,769 92,470 3,058 45/46 27,786 9,301 157,070 166,515 6,998 46/47 43,318 11,518 168,588 191,736 9,035 47/48 39,729 11,028 179,616 219,535 9,374 48/49 52,942 9,628 189,244 264,689 8,810 49/50 51,088 12,001 201,245 249,318 7,572 (1950, etc. Continued on next page) Appendix B (Continued) 1950/51 $ 56,658 11,628 228,117 238,884 6,432 51/52 47,929 15,216 243,333 219,262 5,548 52/53 76,425 18,098 261,431 199,241 5,355 53/54 115,128 22,448 283,879 234,096 5,500 54/55 129,665 20,368 304,247 258,501 5,914 55/56 135,099 20,964 325,211 252,239 6,403 56/57 146,051 32,283 357,494 252,907 7,699 57/58 190,497 30,258 387,752 300,256 8,986 58/59 212,254 31,767 419,519 328,890 9,950 59/60 244,084 32,851 452,370 394,080 10,642 1960/61 267,859 37,556 489,926 443,888 11,621 61/62 273,997 35,235 525,161 594,240 12,950 62/63 330,067 35,792 560,953 649,410 13,598 63/64 444,135 52,945 613,878 738,597 14,714 64/65 571,288 61,568 675,446 788,657 15,489 65/66 1 ,663,771 65,915 741,361 1 ,046,539 16,337 66/67 1 ,621,018 103,631 844,992 1 ,116,143 17,219 67/68 1 ,099,233 98,998 943,990 1 ,368,722 18,310 68/69 1 ,109,920 119,569 1 ,063,559 1 ,597,421 20,089 69/70 1 ,240,000 129,283 1 ,192,842 1 ,838,155 20,767 1970/71 1 ,341,807 162,428 1 ,355,270 2 ,017,274 20,936 71/72 1, ,432,902 144,505 1 ,499,775 2 ,113,326 19,826 72/73 1 ,463,130 136,626 1 ,502,7463 2 ,132,862 19,166 73/74 1 ,513,856 85,528 1 ,588,274 2 ,319,054 20,100 74/75 1 ,629,797 85,086 1 ,673,360 2 ,290,173 22,035 From 1915/16 to 1939/40 the amount shown is the appropriation for books, periodicals and binding, including supplementary appropriations and grants from outside the University. From 1940/41 on the amount shown is the actual expenditure on books, periodicals and binding. An inventory established the fact that the Library's collections were larger than the cumulated statistics showed. Several factors, chiefly the decision to delete non-book materials from the volume count, occasioned a downward revision of volume holdings. The collections were measured and a new statistical base adopted. Appendix C GROWTH OF COLLECTIONS Volumes - Catalogued Documents - Uncatalogued Films, Filmstrips & Video Tapes Slides & Transparencies Pictures & Posters Microfilm (reels) Microcard (cards) Microprint (sheets) Microfiche (cards) Maps Manuscripts * Recordings March 31/74 Additions Withdrawals March 31/75 1,578,661 104,697 12,998 1,670,360 350,463 66,607 — 417,070 i 2,606 97 — 2,703 5,242 2,932 — 8,172 62,812 1,468 — 64,280 38,227 4,460 — 42,687 111,680 — — 111,680 826,250 31,750 — 858,000 595,641 4,545 — 600,186 94,443 11,290 — 105,733 3,350 ft. 200 ft. — 3,550 ft. 45,367 13,109 — 58,476 ♦Thickness of files. Appendix D LIBRARY EXPENDITURES Fiscal Years, April-March Salaries & Wages Books & Periodicals Binding Supplies, Equipment 1972/73 3,178,630 1,308,537 154,593 350,455 1973/74 3,522,626 1,348,775 165,081 373,302 1974/75 4,263,647 1,502,317 127,480 428,391 Estimated 1975/76 5,633,000 1,500,000 160,000 358,000 4,992,215 5,409,784 6,321,835 7,651,000 Appendix E RECORDED USE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES September 1974 - August 1975 GENERAL CIRCULATION 1971/72 1972/73 1973/74 1974/75 % Increase/ Decrease over 1973/74 768,734 Main Library General Stack Collection 542,687 Reserve Circulation Extension Library Asian Studies Division Fine Arts Division Government Publications Map Collections Special Collections SUBTOTAL Branch Libraries and Reading Rooms Animal Resource Ecology Crane Library Curriculum Laboratory Law Library MacMillan Library Marjorie Smith Library Mathematics Library Medical Branch Library (V.G.H.) Music Library Reading Rooms Sedgewick Library Woodward Biomedical SUBTOTAL Recordings Wilson Recordings 10„ _lf. Collection Music Library _ .„ Record Collection ' SUBTOTAL 157,671 542,687 498,656 483,699 465,534 - 3.8% 37,148 37,603 35,383 31,656 -10.5% 6,061 5,355 5,317 3,831 -27.9% 9,076 10,704 13,691 18,586 +35.8% 59,160 62,749 74,145 81,097 + 9.4% 94,083 103,491 130,491 148,960 +14.2% 7,939 8,353 9,320 6,915 -25.8% 12,580 12,681 20,068 19,571 - 2.5% 29,881 739,592 772,114 776,150 27,483 27,606 26,947 173,718 247,146 255,498 34,880 33,906 37,920 + 0.5% 3,066 4,202 6,598 9,651 +46.3% 25,117 29,361 43,085 48,626 +12.9% 229,448 222,392 239,365 249,054 + 4.0% 125,493 122,813 135,054 124,169 - 8.1% 29,517 33,304 39,323 41,860 + 6.5% 16,270 13,807 11,900 12,969 + 9.0% 20,763 21,965 22,976 18,972 -17.4% 2.4% 20,606 20,679 26,473 27,468 + 3.8% 72,063 66,700 75,447 75,195 - 0.3% 474,981 446,860 433,681 396,286 - 8.6% 139,716 175,106 204,380 189,408 - 7.3% 1,186,921 1,184,672 1,265,888 1,220,605 - 3.6% 208,598 281,052 293,418 + 3.4% +11.8% + 4.4% Appendix E (Continued) INTERLIBRARY LOANS To Other Libraries - Original Materials 1971/72 1972/73 1973/74 1974/75 SUBTOTAL TOTAL INTERLIBRARY LENDING From Other Libraries - Original Materials General From BCMLS - Photocopies TOTAL INTERLIBRARY BORROWING GRAND TOTAL - (General Circulation and Interlibrary Loans) 13,932 21,418 13,330 21,297 12,781 21,579 13,483 25,575 % Increase/ Decrease over 1973/74 General 4,518 5,027 5,582 7,362 +31.9% To FIN libraries (9 mos. .*) - - - 685 - To BCMLS** 1,321 1,341 1,415 1,997 +41.1% To SFU*** 1,354 1,270 1,396 1,645 +17.8% To U. Victoria*** 241 267 299 314 + 5.0% To BCIT*** 52 62 106 89 -16.0% SUBTOTAL 7,486 7,967 8,798 12,092 +37.4% - Photocopies General 6,722 6,923 6,991 8,142 +16.5% To FIN libraries (9 mos. .*) - - - 183 - To SFU*** 5,862 5,228 4,227 2,951 -30.2% To U. Victoria*** 1,137 865 1,020 1,492 +46.3% To BCIT*** 211 314 335 269 -19.7% To Colleges*** - - 181 416 +130.0% To Bamfield*** — — 27 30 +11.1% + 5.5% +18.5% 2,457 4,090 2,613 2,657 + 1.7% 412 434 473 919 +94.3% 2,901 3,847 3,241 3,801 +17.3% 5,770 8,371 6,327 7,377 +16.6% 2,140,514 2 ,162,530 2,346,960 2 ,323,125 (-23,835) Overall % decrease = 1.0% ♦Federated Information Network (Greater Vancouver Public Libraries) **B.C. Medical Library Service ***Loaned via special Simon Fraser University unit Appendix F REFERENCE STATISTICS September, 1974 - August, 1975 Directional Reference Research Percentage Questions Questions Questions Total Increase/Decreas< Main Library Asian Studies 1,874 3,560 825 6,259 Fine Arts 6,889 9,779 1,666 18,334 Government Publications 368 29,792 554 30,714 Humanities 2,290 8,700 642 11,632 Information Desk 12,940 61,942 - 74,882 Map Collection 84 3,392 57 3,533 Science 698 6,947 838 8,483 Social Sciences 660 14,058 832 15,550 Special Collections 1,257 5,569 212 7,038 27,060 143,739 5,626 176,425 + 3.9% (1973/74) (25,921) C137,507) (6,364) (169,792) Branch Libraries Animal Resource Ecology 1,942 2,378 143 4,463 Crane Library 5,400 3,633 620 9,653 Curriculum Laboratory 3,736 6,797 355 10,888 Law Library 2,689 2,373 1,569 6,631 MacMillan Library 1,689 5,009 341 7,039 Marjorie Smith Library 202 1,641 254 2,097 Mathematics Library 1,129 1,174 73 2,376 Medical Branch Library (V.G.H.) 2,872 7,692 823 11,387 Music Library 3,395 7,889 968 12,252 Sedgewick Library 8,921 12,171 199 21,291 Woodward Library 7,875 29,763 1,223 38,861 39,850 80,520 6,568 126,938 +13.6% C1973/74) (29,467) (75,812) (6,472) (111,751) GRAND TOTALS 66,910 224,259 12,194 303,363 + 7.8% (1973/74) (55,388) (213,319) (12,836) (281,543) Appendix G LIBRARY ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATION Stuart-Stubbs, Basil Bell, Inglis F. Hamilton, Robert M. Mclnnes, Douglas N. MacDonald, Robin Watson, William J. de Bruijn, Erik ACQUISITIONS Harrington, Walter ASIAN STUDIES Ng, Tung King BIBLIOGRAPHY Elliston, Graham Jeffreys, Anthony Johnson, Stephen Mcintosh, Jack Mercer, Eleanor Palsson, Gerald Shields, Dorothy BINDERY Fryer, Percy CATALOGUE DIVISION Elrod, J. McRee Original Cataloguing Bailey, Freda Catalogue Preparations Little, Margaret Searching/LC Cataloguing Balshaw, Mavis University Librarian Associate Librarian Assistant Librarian - Collections Assistant Librarian - Public Services Coordinator of Technical Processes and Systems Assistant Librarian - Physical Planning and Development Administrative Services Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Bibliographer - Serials Bibliographer - Life Sciences Research Bibliographer Bibliographer - Slavonic Studies Bibliographer - English Language Bibliographer - Science Bibliographer - European Languages Foreman Head Librarian Head Head Head Appendix G (Continued) -2- CIRCULATION Butterfield, Rita CRANE LIBRARY Thiele, Paul DATA LIBRARY Ruus, Laine FINE ARTS DIVISION Dwyer, Melva ANIMAL RESOURCE ECOLOGY LIBRARY Nelson, Ann MACMILLAN LIBRARY Macaree, Mary GIFTS & EXCHANGE Elliston, Graham GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Dodson, Suzanne HUMANITIES Forbes, Charles INFORMATION & ORIENTATION Sandilands, Joan INTERLIBRARY LOAN Friesen, Margaret LAW LIBRARY Shorthouse, Thomas MAP DIVISION Wilson, Maureen Head Librarian Head Head Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Appendix G (Continued) -3- MARJORIE SMITH LIBRARY de Bruijn, Elsie MUSIC LIBRARY Burndorfer, Hans READING ROOMS Omelusik, Nicholas RECORD COLLECTION Kaye, Douglas SCIENCE DIVISION & MATHEMATICS LIBRARY Brongers, Rein SEDGEWICK LIBRARY Erickson, Ture SERIALS DIVISION Turner, Ann SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION Carrier, Lois SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION Yandle, Anne Selby, Joan SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Dennis, Donald Dobbin, Geraldine WOODWARD LIBRARY Leith, Anna BIOMEDICAL BRANCH LIBRARY Freeman, George Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Curator, Colbeck Collection Systems Analyst Systems & Information Science Librarian Head Librarian Head Librarian Appendix H LIBRARY SUPPORTED READING ROOMS AS OF AUGUST, 1975, Academic Planning Adult Education Agricultural Economics Anthropology- Sociology Applied Science Architecture Asian Studies Audiology Chemical Engineering Main Mall North Administration Bldg. Room 20, 5760 Toronto Road. Ponderosa Annex D Room 105. Hut M22, Room 23. Civil Engineering Bldg., Room 305. F. Lasserre Bldg. Room 9B (Basement) Buchanan Building Room 2208. James Mather Bldg. Fairview Place. Chem. Engineering Bldg., Room 310. Economics- History Buchanan Tower Room 1097. Electrical Engineering Elect. Engr. Bldg. Rm.428 (Enter by Rm English Buchanan Tower Room 697. French Buchanan Tower Room 897. Geography Geography Building Room 140. Geology Geological Sciences Building, Room 208. Geophysics Geophysics Building 2nd Floor, South. Hispanic- Italian Buchanan Building Room 2220. Home Economics Home Economics Bldg Room 112. Chemistry Chemistry Bldg. Room 261. Institute of Auditorium Annex 100 Industrial Relations Classics Buchanan Bldg. Room 2218. Library School Library North Wing 8th Floor. Commerce Henry Angus Bldg. Room 307. Linguistics Buchanan Building Room 227. Comparative Literature Buchanan Building Room 2227. Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Bldg., Room 200A. Computing Centre Civil Engineering Bldg., Room 238. Metallurgy Metallurgy Building Room 319. Creative Writing Brock Hall, South Wing, Room 204. Microbiology Wesbrook Building Room 300. Appendix H (Continued) Mineral Engineering Pharmacology Pharmacy Philosophy Physics Physiology Political Science Psychiatry Psychology Mineral Engineering Building, Room 201. Medical Sciences Building Block C, Room 221. Cunningham Building Room 160. Buchanan Building Room 3270. Hennings Building Room 311. Medical Sciences Building Block A, Room 201. Buchanan Building Room 1220. Health Sciences Centre 2255 Wesbrook Road. Henry Angus Building Room 203. Rehabilitation Medicine Slavonic Studies Theatre Hut B2, Room 26-27. Buchanan Building Room 2251. Frederick Wood Theatre Room 211. Appendix I SENATE LIBRARY COMMITTEE 1974/75 Dr. C.S. Belshaw Mr. J.C. Bouck Dr. E.M. Fulton Dr. M.C.L. Gerry Dr. R.H. Hill Dr. R.F. Kelly Mr. B.A. Krasselt Dr. P.A. Larkin Dr. S. Lipson Dr. M.F. McGregor (Chairman) Rev. J.P. Martin Dr. H. Mitchell Mrs. A. Piternick Dr. M. Shaw EX-OFFICIO Chancellor D. Miller President D. Kenny Mr. J.E.A. Parnall Mr. B. Stuart-Stubbs Terms of Reference: (a) To advise and assist the Librarian in: (i) formulating a policy for the development of resources for instruction and research; (ii) advising on the allocation of book funds to the fields of instruction and research; (iii) developing a general program of library service for all the interests of the University; and (iv) keeping himself informed about the library needs of instructional and research staffs, and keeping the academic community informed about the library. (b) To report to Senate on matters of policy under discussion by the Committee."""@en, "Alternative titles in chronological order: Report of the Library Department for the University years 1920-21 and 1921-22

Report of the Library Department for the University year 1922-23

Report of the Librarian to the Senate

Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Ninth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Tenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Eleventh Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Twelfth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Thirteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Fourteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Fifteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Sixteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Seventeenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Eighteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Nineteenth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Twentieth Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Twenty-first Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Twenty-second Report of the Library Committee to the Senate

Twenty-third Report on the University Library to the Senate

Report of the University Librarian to the Senate

The Report of the University Librarian to the Senate

The Report of the University Librarian to Senate

Annual Report of the University Librarian to the Senate of the University of British Columbia

The Report of the University Librarian to the Senate of the University of British Columbia

The Report of the University Librarian to the Senate of the University

Report of the University Librarian to the Senate"@en ; edm:hasType "Periodicals"@en ; dcterms:spatial "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en ; dcterms:identifier "Z736.B74 A4"@en, "Z736_B74_A4_1975"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0115312"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:publisher "[Vancouver : University of British Columbia]"@en ; dcterms:rights "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 ; dcterms:source "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en ; dcterms:subject "University of British Columbia. Library"@en ; dcterms:title "The Making of a Research Library: Sixty Years of Collections Development/Annual Report of the University Librarian to the Senate of the University of British Columbia"@en ; dcterms:type "Text"@en ; dcterms:description ""@en .