Collections Council
Charge:
The scale and scope of the campus library collections, the size of the collections budget,
the number of selectors involved in collection development at UC Berkeley, and the number of
other library units which are affected by this work all challenge both unified management on
the one hand and adequately participative involvement on the other. To achieve a balance
between central administration and the broadest possible library-wide involvement,
Collections Council (following the precedents of the Collections Advisory Group and similar
previous organizational structures) draws its membership from a wide range of
constituencies.
Collections Council is advisory to the AUL and Director of Collections in the following
areas:
- collections budget preparation and sub-allocation;
- technical operations and procedures in support of collection management;
- the development of shared principles for collection planning and for its future direction;
- the design and implementation of standards for collection evaluation;
- the review of commonly understood expectations for selector performance;
- monitoring and encouraging collaboration among UC-wide selector groups and with the California Digital Library; and
- monitoring national trends in collection development theory and practice.
- proposals developed by the AUL's other advisory groups (Budget Advisory Group, Digital Acquisitions Group, e-Book Advisory Group, and the Scholarly Communications Advisory Group)
- librarywide Collections Development Policies and Procedures.
Collections Council conducts its business in open meetings, held once or twice a month.
Its activities are recorded in minutes which are distributed, immediately upon their formal
approval, to the entire library staff. Its business is also reported directly to and, as
needed, discussed by the three subject councils, each of which is represented on Collections
Council by two selectors serving staggered two-year terms. Council documents are distributed
to an e-mail list, to which, at the discretion of the Chair, certain non-members may be
added.
The Collections Council is one of five functional councils within the Library. For more
information on the structure of library councils, see Launching the
Councils and the Library Organization Chart.
Membership:
Chaired by the Associate University Librarian and Director of Collections, Collections
Council is composed of: two representatives from each of the Subject Councils, each of the
representatives being a selector; a represenative from The Bancroft Library; a representative
from the East Asia Library; a representative of the affiliated libraries; a Library Business
Office representative; a Technical Services representative; a Preservation Department
representative; and a representative of the Northern Regional Library Facility.
Chair:
Chuck Eckman, AUL and Director for Collections
Roster:
Elizabeth Byrne, Arts & Humanities Council (term ends 2009)
Gail Ford, Special Asst. to the AUL for Collections (ex officio)
Jim Gordon, Innopac (ex officio)
Rebecca Green, Technical Services Council (ex officio)
Mary Ann Mahoney, Sciences Council (term ends 2008)
Scott Miller, NRLF (ex officio)
Barclay Ogden, Preservation (ex officio)
Gary Peete, Social Sciences Council (term ends 2008)
Margaret Phillips, Electronic Resources Librarian (ex officio)
Mike Rancer, Library Business Office (ex officio)
Theresa Salazar, The Bancroft (ex officio)
Kathryn Wayne, Arts & Humanities Council (term ends 2008)
Linda Vida, Affiliated Libraries (term ends 2008)
Beth Weil, Sciences Council (term ends 2009)
Jill Woolums, Social Sciences Council (term ends 2009)
Susan Xue, East Asia Library (ex officio)
Meeting schedule:
1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, 10:00 - noon, Room 303 Doe Library
E-mail list:
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