In just four decades, the campus has achieved international distinction for its educational excellence, research strength and institutional flexibility. The National Research Council ranks the campus 10th nationally in the excellence of its graduate programs and quality of its faculty. UCSD has entered a period of major growth with planned enrollment expected to reach 27,600 by 2010. The UCSD Libraries are a member of the Association of Research Libraries. Eleven campus libraries have combined collections that total over 2.6 million volumes.
Technological innovation is a hallmark.
Recent projects include desktop delivery of journal articles, network delivery of digital audio, multilingual character interfaces, patron initiated services, easy access to complex social sciences data sets, GIS, and more. The Catalog Department is responsible for bibliographic control for the UCSD Libraries. The team is currently staffed by five highly experienced serials and electronic resources catalogers who have cataloged over 20,000 electronic resources. DISC has lead responsibility for the Shared Cataloging Program, which provides bibliographic records for electronic resources of the California Digital Library and the nine University of California campuses. Catalog Department staff work in a highly automated and networked environment.