**UCLA Report**

**ALA Midwinter Meeting 2006**

**ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries**

**Cynthia Shelton**

**Budget**: The budget for collections remained flat in 2005-06. We
received funds for staff merits increases for the first time in three
years. We are using carry-over funds from the collections budget to fund
processing projects, including some outsourcing of cataloging. These
include projects based in cataloging, acquisitions, special collections,
and other areas that have processing backlogs in particular.

The Library completed its strategic plan in November, which will serve
as the foundation for our budget meetings for FY 2006-07.

**Personnel**: In the last six months we have appointed an Arabic
Cataloger and conducted interviews for a Humanities/Western European
Cataloger. We have also appointed an Applied Arts Librarian, Performing
Arts Special Collection Librarian, and YRL Special Collections Rare Book
Librarian. We have just posted an American and English Literature
Librarian position. This will be recruited at the senior level.

We are very pleased with CDL's appointment of Ivy Anderson, formerly at
Harvard, as Director of Licensing. She began her CDL duties on Dec. 5.

**Scholarly Communication**: In November, the UCLA library sponsored a
symposium for faculty title "Managing Your Intellectual Property: What
Faculty Need to Know to Teach and Publish in the Digital Age." James
Hilton was keynote speaker. The large attendance indicated the pent-up
need by faculty for information on copyright management. The Library
will pursue with campus administrators possibilities for setting up an
office to support faculty in their use of and management of copyrighted
materials.

UC CDOs are examining new metrics and approaches for establishing
journal package base prices and annual increases.

**Shared print**: UCLA will serve as lead campus for a shared approval
plan pilot in Canadian literature. Using YBP as the vendor, the project
aims to ensure more comprehensive coverage and reduce redundancies among
the ten campuses. Among other things, the project will test models for
development of consortial selection profiles, use of YBP GobiTween for
ongoing information sharing, and receiving of shelf-ready materials
directly by a regional library facility.

UC/JSTOR Paper Repository project. This project to build a dim archive
of JSTOR reached its first quarter point. Around 700,000 pages a month
are being validated. We have an unanticipated high rejection rate of
issues because of missing or damaged pages\--53%, and project staff are
evaluating how best to replace pages.

**Year two of Voyager activities**: 1) Slogging through predictive
checkin patterns. We are using a combination of funding to hire
additional staff to backfill our regular staff to do this work for
around 50K titles. 2) Based on lessons learned in first year of using
Voyager acquisition module, task force is working to restructure and
standardize fund hierarchy. 3). Our first shelf ready pilot with YBP
approvals is almost complete! 4). We signed a contract with Back Stage
Library Work and work has begun to process our authority base file and
create a master file.