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From: "Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Inst." <peacelaw>
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Subject: petition for libraries
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Dear Library or Librarian,
Below is a petition to preserve a library for libraries.
The University of California, Berkeley, plans to merge
the Library School Library with the Main Library collection.
The implications and conclusions follow along with an easy
procedure to help preserve the Library School Library as
a separate and unique source of information for future
librarians. Thank you for your time and concern,
sean doherty, peacelaw@igc.org
Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien
University of California, Berkeley
Dear Chancellor Tien:
We urge you to keep the UC Berkeley Library School Library (LSL) open
as an independent library in support of the School of Information
Management and Systems (formerly the School of Library and Information
Studies).
The decision to merge the LSL with the Main Library was made when it
appeared that the school itself would be closed. The situation
changed radically when the campus adopted the plan to create a new
school and strengthen its program with a new dean and additional
faculty. We believe that closing the LSL now will have a crippling
effect on the new school, for the following reasons:
1. The LSL contains the strongest collection in the United States
in all the disciplines of library and information science. It
is very strong in areas of projected importance to the new
school: networked information systems, user interfaces,
information access and retrieval, and information policy.
2. The LSL serves as the research base for the school and is the
intellectual foundation upon which future research and
instruction will be based. It is in constant use by current
students, faculty, and information professionals; it will be a
prime attraction for recruiting new faculty and students.
3. The LSL is more likely to get special funding from the
information industry if the collection is intact and integrated
with other school resources for scholarly research. Dispersing
it will undercut the status of the collection.
4. The collection will be dispersed if it goes to Main, making
research more time-consuming, inefficient, and difficult. The
main circulating collection of the LSL will be scattered
throughout the Main stacks; reference material throughout
general reference; current periodicals in the periodical room;
bound periodicals in the stacks; and reserves on the fifth
floor of Moffitt.
5. The LSL is completely accessible to visiting scholars,
researchers, and professionals in the field. Main and Moffitt
are not.
6. There is no cost saving in moving to Main. A case study on
the collection concludes that it is not cost effective to merge
the LSL with Main. (Library Research 4 (1982), 175-194.)
7. The field moves very quickly. Dispersion of the materials will
make it far more difficult to keep the collection current.
8. The LSL has reference service available specifically for the
collection. Main provides only general reference service. The
best library service requires access to experts.
UCB is to be commended for forging ahead with the new School of
Information Management and Systems, a school perfectly positioned to
shape the future of his growing field. UCB now has a wonderful
opportunity to make the LSL, with its unrivaled print resources, a
prototype of the integrated print and on-line library of the future.
The university could form a partnership with industry in creating this
teaching laboratory. If the collection is dispersed, this possibility
will be eliminated. Please keep this world-class library intact.
Name:_______________________________________________Date:_______________
Position:___________________________________________Phone:______________
Address:____________________________________________Email:______________
Please return by 1 June to:
Liberty &Libraries Unlimited, 1721 Cedar St., Berkeley, CA 94703,
email: peacelaw@igc.org
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> From witteman@info.Berkeley.EDU Tue Apr 26 14:28:23 1994
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 14:27:41 PDT
> From: witteman@info.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Witteman)
> To: peacelaw@igc.org
>
>
> Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> Dear Chancellor Tien:
>
> We urge you to keep the UC Berkeley Library School Library (LSL) open
> as an independent library in support of the School of Information
> Management and Systems (formerly the School of Library and Information
> Studies).
>
> The decision to merge the LSL with the Main Library was made when it
> appeared that the school itself would be closed. The situation
> changed radically when the campus adopted the plan to create a new
> school and strengthen its program with a new dean and additional
> faculty. We believe that closing the LSL now will have a crippling
> effect on the new school, for the following reasons:
>
> 1. The LSL contains the strongest collection in the United States
> in all the disciplines of library and information science. It
> is very strong in areas of projected importance to the new
> school: networked information systems, user interfaces,
> information access and retrieval, and information policy.
>
> 2. The LSL serves as the research base for the school and is the
> intellectual foundation upon which future research and
> instruction will be based. It is in constant use by current
> students, faculty, and information professionals; it will be a
> prime attraction for recruiting new faculty and students.
>
> 3. The LSL is more likely to get special funding from the
> information industry if the collection is intact and integrated
> with other school resources for scholarly research. Dispersing
> it will undercut the status of the collection.
>
> 4. The collection will be dispersed if it goes to Main, making
> research more time-consuming, inefficient, and difficult. The
> main circulating collection of the LSL will be scattered
> throughout the Main stacks; reference material throughout
> general reference; current periodicals in the periodical room;
> bound periodicals in the stacks; and reserves on the fifth
> floor of Moffitt.
>
> 5. The LSL is completely accessible to visiting scholars,
> researchers, and professionals in the field. Main and Moffitt
> are not.
>
> 6. There is no cost saving in moving to Main. A case study on
> the collection concludes that it is not cost effective to merge
> the LSL with Main. (Library Research 4 (1982), 175-194.)
>
> 7. The field moves very quickly. Dispersion of the materials will
> make it far more difficult to keep the collection current.
>
> 8. The LSL has reference service available specifically for the
> collection. Main provides only general reference service. The
> best library service requires access to experts.
>
> UCB is to be commended for forging ahead with the new School of
> Information Management and Systems, a school perfectly positioned to
> shape the future of his growing field. UCB now has a wonderful
> opportunity to make the LSL, with its unrivaled print resources, a
> prototype of the integrated print and on-line library of the future.
> The university could form a partnership with industry in creating this
> teaching laboratory. If the collection is dispersed, this possibility
> will be eliminated. Please keep this world-class library intact.
>
>
> Name:_______________________________________________Date:_______________
>
> Position:___________________________________________Phone:______________
>
> Address:____________________________________________Email:______________
>
>
> Please return by 1 June to:
> Liberty &Libraries Unlimited, 1721 Cedar St., Berkeley, CA 94703,
> email: peacelaw@igc.org
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