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. Academic programs relevant to this position focus primarily on modern and contemporary China and Japan. The UCSD Libraries are known for innovation and the use of information technology. The Catalog Department is responsible for bibliographic control for the UCSD Libraries. The Department is organized into six teams, one of which is the CJK Processing Team.