Submitted by: Corliss Lee

The LAUC Statewide Fall Assembly was held at UCSF on December 3, 2008.

Speakers: Roger Schonfeld, Constance Malpas, Emily Stambaugh, Jacob Nadal, Brian Schottlaender

To see agenda, powerpoint presentations, etc., go to Fall Assembly Website and LAUC Assemblies (live) blog (worthwhile!).

• In addition to the presentations, there's a summary of Janet Lockwood's (UCOP) appearance via Skype, talking about the likelihood of UC employees having to contribute to their our retirement plans, the budget, enrollment growth and the UCOP restructuring. (sigh)

Re: the presentations: I know nothing about shared print and found the presentations fascinating. Some random moments:

Roger Schonfeld (Ithaka):

• Interesting statistics about the attitudes of faculty and the attitudes of collection development managers: how crucial is it to retain print copies of journals if we have reliable digital versions?
• Take a guess: is the % of faculty/collection managers at very large research institutions who feel this way higher or lower than the % of faculty/collection managers at smaller institutions? (see the Power Point for the answer!)
• I’m new to this topic so I didn’t know about the complexities of shared print. Do you verify the completeness of journal holdings page by page, and store them with minimal access (“dark copies”)? Or do you verify volume by volume and let them circulate? How many “dark copies” do you need to ensure preservation of the journals? If you don’t have “dark copies” how many “volume verified circulating copies” would you need?

Constance Malpas (OCLC)

• Did you know that California academic libraries own 9% of the nation’s academic library holdings and 8% of the unique print books? And that the largest part of these are held by non-ARL libraries?
• With the heavy degree of interlending between UC libraries and also heavy dependence on borrowing from non-UC libraries: just how much duplication is there among campuses?
• One study showed that 56% of titles borrowed via ILL are held by fewer than 50 libraries; and that 55% of transactions are requested once (in 6 years?)…so much for the idea that we have all this duplication

Emily Stambaugh (CDL)

• What are the UC Libraries doing about this? See Emily's powerpoint slides ...

Jacob Nadal (UCLA Preservation Officer)

• "when people with a preservation background look at the world, they see something rather different and more horrifying than the world you see."
• In preservation, we often look to the museum community; they look back to us as people engaged in intellectual preservation rather than object preservation. We have a larger connection to the wider world.