--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:07:50 -0700 From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Is your library a member of CRL? Sender: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> Is your library a member of CRL (Center for Research Libraries)? NOTE: see appendix one of this email if you aren't sure, for a list of CRL policies concerning acquisitions, and a list of all CRL libraries. Larry Cruse (University of California, San Diego) has come up with the excellent idea of those of us who are members of CRL libraries confabulating via email, on an email reflector, about what spatial-data sets we believe to be appropriate purchases by CRL, and then each doing our best to talk our library into supporting that purchase when it comes up for a vote by CRL. (In my library, this means I'll need to be talking with the Associate University Librarian for Collections fairly soon, to let her know what we have in mind.) Purchase requests go in during the fall of each year, so this would be a low-traffic reflector (probably no-traffic except during the late summer and fall of each year). Even better - Larry has agreed to have the email reflector run by his library. If you are interested in participating in this, send an email to Larry at: [log in to unmask] by JULY 16, 1999. with Subject line: CRL Larry tells me he'll try to have the email reflector set up by some time this week. Mary Lynette Larsgaard Map and Imagery Laboratory, Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara ----- Appendix I Cooperative Collection Development at the Center for Research Libraries The reason why the Center exists is its core program of cooperative collection development. The program functions by centrally collecting, maintaining and delivering scholarly research materials so that the members avoid the costs of acquiring those materials locally. This also makes available to scholars materials that otherwise could be unavailable. The members work together through the instrument of a collection development policy at the Center, which describes the materials for which the Center takes responsibility. The Voting Members maintain and revise the collection development policy and insure that the staff has the means to apply the policy. Recommendations for changes in the collection development policy may be initiated from any membership category; however, only Councilors may vote on amendments brought to the council of Voting Members. The policy provides several components for adding materials to the collection, including purchases, exchanges, deposits, purchase proposals and demand purchases. One of the components of the collection development policy is the acquisition of major microform and reprint sets selected through the purchase proposals process. A proposal for purchase of a set that costs more an $1,000, forms a coherent unit, is not readily available for loan from five or more Center members, and does not consist of certain proscribed materials is sent to all Voting Members and other purchase proposals participants. Purchase of the set is authorized when a majority of Voting Members and other participants vote affirmatively. While there is no added cost to Voting Members, participation in purchase proposals is available to Associate Members for an added annual fee. A member has access to all materials acquired through purchase proposals even when it does not select voting participation. Most Voting Members annually avoid tens of thousands of dollars of purchases of these materials. Associate Members report that each year the acquisition of at least one or two sets is sufficient to justify the annual fee. There are three categories of materials eligible for demand purchase in response to an interlibrary loan request. These are foreign dissertations; retrospective files of a newspaper to which the Center currently subscribes; and archival material in microform that records the activities of a national government. The Center will acquire such materials for the use of a patron, thereby relieving the member library of the costs of acquiring, cataloging and storing an item that may be only a portion of a set or is outside local collection development policy. The heart of the Center's cooperative collection development program is its collection which forms the basis for cooperative collection development throughout the membership. The Center currently holds nearly five million bibliographic volumes and over 1.3 million microform units. Because all members cooperatively own and maintain these collections, a member's library resources are increased by these materials. The Center's collections are carefully managed to complement and supplement the collections of major North American research libraries. For larger institutions, this reduces their need to collect materials that are infrequently used. For smaller institutions, this provides access to materials that would otherwise be unavailable. Current Members of CRL CRL members are classified as Voting Members, (composed of the largest research universities and libraries), Associate Members (institutions and organizations which do not meet the Voting Member criteria) and Affiliate Members (organizations with a special relationship to CRL). Group Members participate in CRL through their membership in a consortium which has entered into a special agreement with the Center. Currently, there are two organizations that hold Affiliate Member status in CRL: OCLC and The Association of Research LIbraries. >University of Akron > University of Alabama > University of Alberta > University of Arizona > Arizona State University > Brigham Young University > University of British Columbia > Brown University > University of Calgary > University of California, Berkeley > University of California, Davis > University of California, Irvine > University of California, Los Angeles > University of California, Riverside > University of California, San Diego > University of California, Santa Barbara > University of California, Santa Cruz > University of Chicago > University of Cincinnati > The Claremont Colleges > University of Colorado > Columbia University > Cornell University > University of Delaware > Duke University > Emory University > University of Florida > Florida State University > University of Georgia > Harvard University > University of Houston-University Park > University of Illinois at Chicago > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > Indiana University > Iowa State University > University of Iowa > Kansas State University > University of Kansas > Kent State University > University of Kentucky > Loyola University of Chicago > University of Maryland at College Park > University of Massachusetts, Amherst > McGill University > University of Miami > Miami University of Ohio > University of Michigan > Michigan State University > University of Minnesota-Twin Cities > University of Missouri-Columbia > University of Missouri-Kansas City > New York Public Library > New York University > State University of New York at Albany > State University of New York at Binghamton > State University of New York at Buffalo > State University of New York at Stony Brook > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > North Carolina State University > Northern Illinois University > Northwestern University > University of Notre Dame > Ohio State University > Ohio University > OhioLINK > University of Oregon > Oregon State University > Princeton University > Purdue University > Rice University > University of Rochester > Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey > University of South Carolina > University of Southern California > Southern Illinois University > Southern Methodist University > University of Tennessee > University of Texas at Austin > Texas Tech University > University of Toronto > Tulane University > University of Utah > Utah State University > Vanderbilt University > University of Vermont > University of Virginia > Virginia Commonwealth University > Washington University > University of Washington > Washington State University > Western Michigan University > University of Wisconsin-Madison > Yale University > > > > Associate Members > > Amoco Corporation > Bowling Green State University > Brandeis University > Carleton University > Carnegie-Mellon University > Case Western Reserve University > City University of New York Graduate > School and University Center > College of William and Mary > University of Dayton > Florida Atlantic University > Florida International University > George Mason University > Indiana State University > Indiana University of Pennsylvania > Lake Forest College > Marquette University > University of Mississippi > University of Missouri-St. Louis > National Humanities Center Library > University of North Texas > Old Dominion University > University of Ottawa > Portland State University > Princeton Theological Seminary > Research Libraries Group, Inc. > Southwest Missouri State University > University of Texas at San Antonio > Truman State University > United States Environmental Protection > Agency > Urbana Free Library > Valparaiso University > Western Kentucky University > State Historical Society of Wisconsin > Wright State University > > --- End Forwarded Message ---