Institute for Historical Study:
Agreement was made between the Library and the Institute beginning on August 1, 1992 for blue 04 privileges at the reduced price of $50/card/member. MOU on file, effective through July 31, 1993.
blue 04. $50 / member / year
contact: c/o Great West Books, PO Box 1028, Lafayette, CA 94549
Department of Health Services
contact: Public Health Library, 2-2511
blue 04; by contract
Far West Laboratory:
FWL is a non-profit company, 50/50 publically and privately funded. One of 10 regional educational research laboratories in the country. FWL in San Francisco serves California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Largely a referral service to connect people doing research in the same or related areas of research; link graduate students in Ed/Psych with others in the country. 150 people on staff; 30 librarycard holders.
contact: 415-565-3000 or 415-565-3041
blue 04; free
US Department of Agriculture:
The Library has agreements with two arms of the USDA (Forest Service and the Agricultural Research Service) Forest Service includes Forest Products and the Pacific Southwest Research Station. ARS includes the Plant Gene Expression Center and the Western Regional Research Center Library and the National Agricultural Library (NAL).
*Forest Products: Effective July 1, 1994, the Forest Products Laboratory took over the management and funding of the Forest Products Library (formerly managed and funded by the UCB Library.) The UCB Library continues to provide acquisition and cataloging services without charge for an indefinite period of time. UCB may also put library materials "on deposit" with FPRO, as long as UCB pays for binding of materials it owns. UCB Library also agreed to provide "BAKER-like" services to staff at the Lab. In exhange, the Forest Products Library will provide access and circulation privileges to UC faculty, students and staff, and will respond to legitimate interlibrary borrowing requests.
yellow 01; free.
contact: Memorandum of Understanding, Librarian's Office, 2-3773
*Info PSW, the library of the Pacific Southwest Research Station: A division of the US Forest Service. Used to be located on the Berkeley campus, now located in Albany. Most document delivery requests that used to be handled through InfoPSW via UCB collection are now redirected to UC Davis -- UC Davis has a contract with NAL to act as the Research Document Delivery Service for the Western Region for all employees of the USDA. InfoPSW still uses library card on a proxy basis for some loans; sends runners to UCB to photocopy material that is not owned at UC Davis.
yellow 03: researchers at PSW; free
blue 04. complimentary card sent to library; used on proxy basis for all loans.
contact: 559-6341 (or 559-6342)
*Western Regional Research Center Library:A division of the Agricultural Research Service (a regional library for the National Agricultural Library), USDA.
The National Agricultural Library provides free photocopies and loan to UCB in exchange for UCB providing free photocopy and loan to the librarian/staff at the Western Regional Research Center. As of 1995, Western Regional Research Center is providing services to UCB, but is not availing itself of UCB materials through this reciprocal agreement. (They do so when their budget allows for a student to page materials.)
blue 04, free. used as a proxy, when used at all.
contact: 559-5603
*Plant Gene Expression Center
A service within the Agricultural Research Service, a USDA agency. Many employees at PGEC are on the UCB payroll.
Contact: 559-6111
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