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OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR ACADEMIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY July 17, 1998 KEY ADMINISTRATORS/KEY SUPPORT STAFF ALL ACADEMICS AT UCSD SUBJECT: Library Express Delivery Changes Effective September 1, 1998, books requested through Library Express will no longer be delivered to faculty and graduate student offices. Instead, books will be delivered to any of the UCSD libraries, with the actual library drop point specified by the individual faculty member or graduate student, at the time that the Library Express delivery service is requested. Our goal will be to ensure that every campus user will have a delivery point within a five-minute walk of the user's campus office or campus place of work. The elimination of delivery to offices will save approximately $65,000 per year. These savings will be reallocated permanently to the Library's collections budget in order to help address the severe funding challenges associated with library acquisition of and access to scholarly information. The Library's decision to eliminate delivery of books to faculty and graduate student offices was based on recommendations made by the Academic Senate Library Committee. The Senate Library Committee had been asked to solicit opinions from faculty and graduate students and make recommendations to the University Librarian on the future of the delivery component of Library Express. The Academic Senate Library Committee's report and recommendations can be found at: http://www.ucsd.edu/ucsdlibraries/lx/lxrec.html A number of operational details are now being addressed by the Library. We have had to identify a delivery point for the Revelle area, since the Undergraduate Library is now closed for renovation. The Chemistry Department (Room 2040 Urey Hall Addition) has graciously agreed to serve as a pickup point during the Undergraduate Library closure. The Library is now exploring a variety of options that can be instituted to alert faculty and graduate students that materials are ready for pickup at their designated library. More detailed information on these and other operational matters will be sent to all current Library Express users before September 1, 1998. Library Express delivery services have been greatly appreciated by the campus users of this service. The decision to scale back on this delivery program has been an extraordinarily difficult one to make. That we would cut back on this service program is a reflection of the crisis that we now face with funding collections, especially journals. If you have any questions about this decision, please feel free to contact me. Gerald R. Lowell University Librarian |