UC Davis Sciences Libraries Restructuring
Inside the Library
- Sciences Libraries Restructuring
- Special Interest Stories
- Library Publications
- Community Forum
- Archived Information
About The Libraries
UC Davis Sciences Libraries Restructuring
Proposed Criteria
As part of the UC Davis General Library's efforts to design a nimble, flexible, proactive, and collaborative 21st century academic library, the current sciences libraries will be reconfigured to form two sciences libraries housed in three library buildings rather than four buildings. The Physical Sciences & Engineering (PSE) Library collection will be consolidated into the Shields Library building while portions of the current Biological-Agricultural Sciences (Bio-Ag) materials now housed on the 3rd floor of the Shields Library will be relocated to the Carlson Health Sciences Library building. Also, portions of the current health sciences libraries' collections will be relocated to accommodate the incoming portions of the Biological and Agricultural Sciences collections. Low use material from PSE, Bio-Ag, and the health sciences libraries will be transferred to the Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF) in Richmond, CA. NRLF has provided storage space and prompt retrieval of materials for campus requesters during the past 20 years.
In order to locate the sciences libraries' collections so that programmatic synergies that are tied to the campus locations are accommodated, we seek your comments regarding the proposed principles and criteria to be used when identifying collections to be transferred.
For comments or questions not focusing on collections, please contact:
- Karen Andrews, Head of Physical Sciences & Engineering Library (klandrews@ucdavis.edu)
- Keir Reavie, Head of Biological-Agricultural Sciences and Health Sciences Libraries (ktreavie@ucdavis.edu)
- Gail Yokote, Acting Co-University Librarian (gyokote@ucdavis.edu)
Proposed Guiding Principles
Principles will be used to guide the interpretation of criteria proposed by the three discipline groupings.
- Reduce duplication by retaining one copy of print only journals, series, and monographs within UC Davis campus locations except when circumstances dictate multiple formats for the same content.
- Reduce duplication of multiple formats for the same content by retaining the electronic version rather than the print version.
- Consider use statistics and relevancy to campus core academic programs.
- Consider the cost impact for including single campus desired titles in UC-wide packages of ejournal and ebooks. (UC Davis examples of single campus focused titles are usually found in the fields of agriculture and veterinary medicine)
Proposed Criteria For Biological & Agricultural Sciences Materials
Journals and Series:
- Transfer to NRLF print journals for which there is perpetual access to the electronic version whenever possible.
- Retain on campus the most current 20 years of print journals for which we have no electronic equivalent. All volumes older than the 20 most current years will be transferred to NRLF whenever possible.
- Identify low use and unique print journals that can be sent entirely to NRLF. Current year volumes will be available in the appropriate library.
Monographs:
- Withdraw duplicate copies of monographs located in the BioAg collections of Shields Library and the Carlson Library. (This will include duplicate copies housed in the same library and at both Shields and Carlson.)
- Transfer earlier editions of monographs to NRLF unless there's been high use within the past 2 years.
- Transfer to NRLF older monographs that have not been used in the last 5 to 7 years. Monographs in certain disciplines that might contain data that holds value despite age may be exceptions.
Proposed Criteria For Physical Sciences & Engineering Materials
Journals and Series:
- Transfer to NRLF print journals for which there is perpetual access to the electronic version whenever possible.
Monographs:
[NOTE: The criteria for monographs already have been implemented over the course of time for the PSE Library building collection, where space limitations have necessitated constant relocation and weeding. The criteria can now be applied to physical science and engineering titles that are housed in the Shields Library. These are mostly older materials.]
- Withdraw duplicate copies of monographs unless high use or high demand titles.
- Transfer to NRLF earlier editions of monographs unless high use or high demand titles.
- Transfer to NRLF older monographs that have not been used in the last 10-15 years whenever possible. Monographs in certain disciplines, such as mathematics, geology, and chemistry, may contain data that holds value despite age and will be retained.
Proposed Criteria For The Health Sciences Materials
Journals and Series:
- Transfer to NRLF print journals for which there is perpetual access to the electronic version whenever possible.
- Retain on campus the most current 20 years of print journals for which we have no electronic equivalent. All volumes older than the 20 most current years will be transferred to NRLF whenever possible.
Monographs:
- Transfer earlier editions of monographs to NRLF unless there's been high use within the past 2 years.
- Transfer older monographs to NRLF that have not been used in the last 5 to 7 years.
