About the Library Data Services Collaboration Team 

The Library Data Services Collaboration Team, through library division/department representation, provides support and advice to the Data Services Librarian in support of the LDSP. The Data Services Collaboration Team assists and helps the Data Services Librarian prioritize the coordination and communication of the overarching direction, goals, and objectives of the Library Data Services Program. 

The team provides the library with a structured approach to unifying data support for researchers, students, and faculty. Additionally, members of the team communicate the direction, goals, and strategies of the Library Data Services Program to their library divisions, councils, and liaison departments (if applicable). Led in partnership with the Research Data Management Program, the team strives to address ways in which our data collections, data use and analysis, and instructional support can best incorporate practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Objectives and strategies

The team rechannels existing research data support/services that some librarians already provide extensively as part of their job and goals, to provide these services in a more cohesive manner as part of LDSP. The Data Collaboration Team could spin up informal, ad hoc subgroups to fulfill the goals and assignments for research data related projects that emerge from other groups, e.g. Collection Services Council, Collection Development Leadership Group, Cataloging and Metadata Council, etc. The team will advise the AUL for Digital Initiatives for Information Technology around challenges and opportunities related to data services directions and priorities. The team makes recommendations to the AUL for Digital Initiatives for Information Technology and LDSP and assists with implementation of activities that enable the realization of the following objectives and strategies.

• Optimize the discoverability and acquisition of data for instruction and research purposes. The Data Services Librarian serves as the liaison between the Data Collaboration Team and Collection Services Council.
  • Discuss data acquisition requests and new or forthcoming datasets or    analysis tools (e.g. TDM Studio from Proquest)
  • Identify and discuss data acquisition workflow issues as they arise
• Create discipline agnostic guidance and support for data management inquiries that span the research lifecycle, including support for writing funder mandated data management plans and publishing and archiving data.
  • Stay abreast of new publisher and funder data management and sharing requirement.
  • Share opportunities for data management instruction and outreach
• Develop a strategic approach to data analysis and literacy instruction that creates an inclusive learning environment.
  • Construct opportunities for novice learners to develop data analysis skills in a supportive environment
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate data literacy into course related library instruction
• Provide support for basic data collection that includes text and data mining of library licensed resources.
  • Stay abreast of all text and data mining tools in relevant subject areas and provide basic support
• Provide all librarians and staff with structured and unstructured learning opportunities for supporting data at UC Berkeley.
  • Maintain a campus-wide data service map for making correct referrals
  • Participate (as needed) in brown bags or open forums that serve as an inclusive space for discussing new tools or services
  • Participate (as needed) in an annual Library Data Services Program Open Forum where all library staff are welcome to attend to learn about future plans and assess ongoing data support.

Membership

Membership will be reviewed every two years with library division heads. Division heads may recommend up to two librarians/staff from their division to serve on the Data Services Collaboration Team. For the initial launch, team membership was determined in consultation with division heads. 

Meeting schedule

The Data Services Collaboration Team meets on a quarterly basis during the months of August, November, February, and May

Email list

datacollabteam@lists.berkeley.edu
 

History of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

The collection began in 1958 under the direction of Professor Herwin Schaefer, who believed that the best way to foster an appreciation of art is for students to live with original prints for a semester.

He declared that the University could assemble a collection of works touched by the hand of the artist and make them available to students, which would support a meaningful extension of the university's art teaching program.

Funding for the nucleus of the collection was provided by the Columbia Foundation and the International Graphic Arts Society, and the works themselves comprised a survey of art movements and artists — from Impressionism to Cubism, and from Rembrandt to Miro.

Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

This website for the exhibition in the fall of 2018 celebrating 60 years of the GALC contains pages on printmaking processes and sections on printmaking as resistance and the city in print. Prints in the GALC that no longer circulate and which were a part of this exhibition also have a featured section on this website. You will find a little more on the history of the GALC here too.

Graphic Arts Loan Collection FAQ

Have questions about the GALC? Please see our Frequently asked questions.

Share your experience with the Graphic Arts Loan Collection!

We would love to hear about your experience living with a piece from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection. Add your story to the GALC Experiences page.

About the policy

Approved by Library Cabinet: June 2022

Due to the exceedingly high costs associated with textbooks, how quickly these materials go out of date, and limited shelf space, the UC Berkeley Library does not generally acquire textbooks in electronic or print format during routine collection development activities, and the Library does not have the resources to provide sufficient textbook access for every student. 

For the purposes of this policy, textbooks are defined as the following (from the Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science by Joan M. Reitz, Libraries Unlimited):

“An edition of a book specifically intended for the use of students who are enrolled in a course of study or preparing for an examination on a subject or in an academic discipline…sometimes published in conjunction with a workbook, lab manual, and/or teacher’s manual.” 

The Library maintains a course reserves service since course reserves is one way the Library helps students mitigate the exceedingly high costs of instructional materials. Through course reserves the Library may acquire textbooks and/or other instructional materials upon instructor request depending on budget, staffing considerations, and material availability. However, due to the Library’s limited budget and staffing, we cannot acquire copies of all reading materials a student would need for a course. The Library welcomes donated copies of textbooks and other instructional materials for reserves from instructors who are teaching a course in a particular semester. The Library also supports instructors who would like to create open educational resources (OERs) for their classes.

In addition to course reserves, instructors are encouraged to contact subject librarians as soon as possible to request specific materials needed for a course such as anthologies, digests, manuals, handbooks, novels, datasets/text files, readers, film/media, images, etc. These requests will be strongly considered though acquisition may depend on factors such as Library budget, staffing, and/or licensing issues. Additionally, upper division, graduate, or professional-level materials may be acquired given funding availability.