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The UC Berkeley Library is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). As such, we are in a position to

• influence the selection of temporary or permanent access to resources that CRL funds (via the Purchase Proposal Program and/or the Demand Purchase Program)
• participate in shared purchase programs facilitated by CRL (via the Shared Purchase Program); and
• apply for financial help to build local collections (via the new Scholar’s Access Program)

 Different material types and criteria apply under these four programs. For more information, see CRL’s webpage, Cooperative Resources Program (http://www.crl.edu/collections/collection-building/cooperative-resource-development).

Purchase Proposal Program Nominations for 2012 are now OPEN
Kicking off the 2012 Purchase Proposal Program, CRL is asking for nominations of microform and hard copy collections for CRL purchase that meet the following criteria: the resources are not readily available for loan from five or more CRL libraries; cost $1,000 or more; form a coherent unit, or consist of separate works that are all listed in an existing standard bibliograph or fall within an easily definable class, or reproduce a single known collection. Some limitations apply.

If you are interested in making a nomination, see CRL’s webpage,  Purchase Proposal Program (http://www.crl.edu/purchase-proposal-program) and contact either Bernie or Gail for the passwords needed to access the nomination site.

Shared Purchase Program for 2011 results in five new microform sets
The CRL Shared Purchase Program supports the cooperative acquisition of costly major microform or printed sets that were nominated and considered for the Purchase Proposal Program, but were not of sufficiently broad interest to warrant purchase under the funds earmarked for that program.

CRL just announced five microform sets that were nominated for the Purchase Proposal Program but were not broadly supported for CRL direct funding. However, under the Shared Purchase Program 17 member libraries agreed to cooperatively purchase these for all members:

• Gubernatorial Reports of Russian Imperial Governors 1855-64. IDC Publishers. ($12,113)
  The 19th-century reports of the provincial governors of the Russian Empire dispatched annually to the Ministry of the Interior and ultimately to the Tsar himself are a primary source for research on Russian history. From 1804 until the revolution of 1917, these reports documented economic changes, political events, and popular disturbances as well as the actions of provincial administrations.
• Lyttelton Times. Christchurch, New Zealand. Bludeau Partners International LLC ($6,000)
  The Lyttelton Times (LT) was one of the principal newspapers of the Canterbury region for 80 years. It was published from 1851 until 1929, when it became the Christchurch Times until publication ceased in 1935. CRL already holds LT from 1902 to 1906 and has a very limited representation of other New Zealand mainstream papers.
• Sources on Social Welfare Freie Wohlfahrtspflege Harald Fischer Verlag (9,990 euros or $13,725 USD depending on the exchange rate)
  The German social state was to a large extent formed by the field of independent welfare work. Philanthropical and Christian initiatives and organizations spearheaded social work in the 19th century. This series contains important but, until now, little-known sources of German social history from before the 1848 Revolution up to the Second World War. The set is widely held in Germany and German-speaking countries but has been unavailable in North America until now.
• Xin Wen Bao Microfilm. National Library of China. (263,000 RMB or $38,649 USD depending on exchange rate)
  Originally operated jointly by foreigners and local Chinese and published in Shanghai, Xin Wen Bao was once the most widely distributed newspaper in China. This set covers the late Qing and the entire Minguo Republican eras, and will make the current CRL holdings of the newspaper’s back files complete.
• Zhongguo jin dai Zhong yi yao qi kan hui bian Shanghai Zhong yi yao da xue bian ji Shanghai ci shu chu ban she 2010-06-01. CIBTC China Intl Book Trading Corp. (RMB 100,000 or $15,279 USD depending on the exchange rate)
  This five-part series includes a total of 200 volumes of reprints of modern (19th- and early 20th-century) periodicals on Chinese traditional medicine, an emerging field of Chinese history for historians of science and practitioners.

 Best regards, Bernie

The Acquisitions Department has developed a series of email templates relating to the status of UCB electronic resources that are under negotiation by CDC/CDL.  The intent of these templates is to standardize communications to make it easier for selectors to quickly understand the information that Acquisitions staff is requesting and for Acquisitions staff to obtain standardized, complete responses to facilitate processing.

In each case the selector will be given two weeks to respond to the email.  Should there be no response during that time, Acquisitions staff will proceed to the default option that is stated in each template.  However, if, at the point Acquisitions staff send the email request, an automated email response is returned stating that the selector is out of the office, an additional two weeks will be added to the response time.

These templates were implemented on April 25, 2011.

The four templates to be used are the following:

Template 1 – Online may go to CDL – cancel local online and/or print?

This template is used when Acquisitions staff have become aware that a specific UCB title is under negotiation for inclusion in a CDC/CDL package and the local subscription has come up for renewal.  This notification gives selector the option cancel the local print, online or print+ online order for the title to avoid potential double payment should CDC/CDL include the title in its license. 

The selector will be given two weeks to respond. If there is no response, the default will be to cancel the local title in all formats

Template 2 – Online going to CDL-is archived – cancel print?
This template is used when Acquisitions staff have become aware that a particular UCB title will be included a CDC/CDL package and the electronic version is archived in Portico or LOCKSS. This notification gives selector the option cancel the local print order for the title with the assurance that the electronic format is archived.

If there is no response in two weeks, the title will be canceled at the point of the next renewal.

Template 3 Online going to CDL  – in NOT archived – cancel local print?

This template is used when Acquisitions staff have become aware that a particular UCB title will be included in CDC/CDL package and that the electronic version of the title is NOT Archived.  This notification gives selector the option cancel the local print order for the title at the point it is renewed.

If there is no response in two weeks, the title will be canceled at the point of the next renewal.

Template 4 – Online going to CDL – Canceling local online.

This template is used when Acquisitions staff have become aware that a particular UCB electronic resource, with no associated print, will be included in a CDC/CDL package.  No decision is required by the selector.

This notification is simply a FYI informing the selector which local online titles are being canceled in favor of the CDC/CDL access.

We sincerely hope that this new form of communication using templates will significantly improve communication between Acquisitions staff and selectors and go a long way to expedite processing of selector decisions with relation to these titles.


Cheryl Cook