Brief sketches appear here.
Should UC decide to move forward with a new structure, far more detailed planning would be necessary. In this regard, the Executive Working Group would like to assert that while robust technical capabilities, such as those possessed by DLA, are essential to the success of any library today, whether it be paper-based, digital or some combination thereof, the UCDL is not a technological entity. The Digital Library's primary role focuses on scholarly content management, with technology serving the role of tool and enabler, but not driver. DLA's mission and expertise has been in technology implementation and support and not in content management. Its primary responsibilities would be the licensing and acquisition of an electronic content core which it would make available to all faculty and students as well as appropriate services which could best be handled centrally rather than duplicated across the nine campuses.