Guide to the Library Council records, 1945-1967, 1974-1980

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Guide to the Library Council Records, 1945-1967, 1974-1980

Collection number: CU-12.6

University Archives, The Bancroft Library



University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Library Council Records,
Date (inclusive): 1945-1967, 1974-1980
Collection Number: CU-12.6
Creator: University of California (1868-1952). Library Council
Extent: 6 boxes
Repository: The Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Includes minutes of meetings, circulars, annual reports, correspondence, and project files.
Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Library Council records, CU-12.6, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Note

The Library Council met first once, later twice, per year. “Circulars” were the means of conducting business. They contain information for members, meeting notices, agendas, minutes, budgets, annual reports, etc. Circulars in this collection end in 1963 with no indication of whether there were more.

box 1, folder 1

Circulars 1-24 1945-1947

folder 2

Secretary's report 1946-1947

folder 3

Secretary's correspondence 1945-1946

folder 4

Executive Committee re Business Archives Nov. 1945

folder 5

Statistics (number of vols.-Circular 3) 1945-1947

folder 6

Theses (copying) 1945-1947

folder 7

Books for Devastated Libraries (Circ. 9) 1946

folder 8

Collecting policy, acquisition codes 1945-1948

folder 9

Gift procedure 1945-1947

folder 10

Job classification 1946

folder 11

Misc. 1946-1947

folder 12

Misc. 1947-1948

folder 13

Circulars 25-30 1948

folder 14

Misc. 1948-1949

folder 15

Budget criteria (background for Index Library Budgets) 1948

folder 16

Circulars 32-43 1949

folder 17

Index to Library Budgets 1949-1957

folder 18

Second Biennial report 1947/49

folder 19

Circulars 44-45, 47-60 61-62 64-72, Policy Anthology 1950 1950

folder 20

Misc. 1949/50

folder 21

Executive Committee 1949/50

folder 22

Visitors' sessions 24 Mar 1950

folder 23

Misc. 1950/51

folder 24

Circulars 72-73, 75-79, 82, 84-86 1951

folder 25

Third Biennial report 1949/51 1952

folder 26

Misc. 1951/52

folder 27

Meeting. Sacramento. 15-16 Nov 1951 1951

folder 28

Circulars 88, 91-92, 94-98, 100, 102-103 1952

folder 29

Meeting. La Jolla. 23-24 April 1952 1952

folder 30

Berkeley. 18-19 Nov 1952 1952

folder 31

Misc. 1952/53

folder 32

Circulars 104-105, 107-111, 113, 115-122 1953

folder 33

Fourth Biennial report 1951-1953

folder 34

Meeting. Los Angeles. 21-22 April 1953 1953

folder 35

Misc. 1953/54

folder 36

Meeting. Mt. Hamilton. 17-18 1953 1953

folder 37

Circulars 123-127, 129-131, 133-138, 140-148, 150 1954

folder 38

Meeting. Santa Barbara. 10-11 Nov 1954 1954

folder 39

Meeting. Riverside. 13-14 April 1954 1954

folder 40

Misc. 1954/55

folder 41

Circulars 151, 153-170 1955

folder 42

Meeting. On Interlibrary Borrowing and Lending. 14-15 April 1955 1955

folder 43

Meeting. La Jolla. 4-5 May 1955 1955

folder 44

Misc. 1955/56

folder 45

Circulars 171-192 1956

folder 46

Fifth Biennial report. 1953/65 1956

folder 47

Special meeting on agriculture. Davis. 6-7 Feb 1956 1956

folder 48

Assistant Librarians Meeting. Santa Barbara. 31 May 1956 1956

folder 49

Meeting. Los Angeles. 8-9 Nov 1956 1956

folder 50

Misc. 1956/57

folder 51

Circulars 193-210 1957

box 2, folder 1

Meeting. Mt. Hamilton. 9-10 May 1957 1957

folder 2

Meeting. Riverside. 5-6 Dec 1957 1957

folder 3

Circulars 211-234 1958

folder 4

Meeting. Los Angeles. 22-23 May 1958 1958

folder 5

Meeting. Berkeley. 13-14 Nov 1958 1958

folder 6

Misc. 1957/58

folder 7

Circulars 236-260 1959

folder 8

Seventh Biennial report 1957/59

folder 9

Meeting. Santa Barbara. 2-3 March 1959 1959

folder 10

Meeting. San Francisco. 12-13 Nov 1959 1959

folder 11

Misc. 1959/60

folder 12

Circulars 261-275 1960

folder 13

Meeting. Mt. Hamilton. 6-7 April 1960 1960

folder 14

Meeting. Berkeley. 8-9 Dec 1960 1960

folder 15

Circulars 276-293 1961

folder 16

Executive Committee. Sept. 1961- 1961-

folder 17

Misc. 1961/62

folder 18

Circular 294-306 1962

folder 19

Meeting. S.F. Airport. 1 May 1962 1962

folder 20

Meeting. Santa Barbara. 18-19 Sept 1962 1962

folder 21

Misc. 1962/63

folder 22

Circulars 307-321 1963

folder 23

Meeting. S.F. Airport. 4 April 1963 1963

folder 24

Meeting. Los Angeles. 21-22 Nov 1963 1963

folder 25

Meeting. Santa Cruz. 22-23 Oct 1964 1964

folder 25a

Annual report 1963/64

folder 26

Misc. 1964/65

folder 27

Meeting. Irvine. April 1965 1965

folder 28

Meeting. Davis. 18-19 Nov 1965 1965

folder 28a

Annual report 1964/65

folder 29

Misc. 1965/66 1965/66

folder 29a

Annual report 1965/66

folder 30

Meeting. La Jolla. May 1966 1966

folder 31

Meeting. Berkeley. 10-11 Nov 1966 1966

folder 32

Misc. 1966/67

folder 32a

Annual report 1966/67

folder 33

Meeting. Riverside. 6-7 April 1967 1967

folder 34

Executive Committee membership. Reorganization. 1961-1964

box 3, folder 1

Minutes and agendas 1974

folder 2

Minutes and agendas 1975

folder 3

Minutes and agendas 1976

folder 4

Agendas 1977-1980

folder 5

Conservation/Preservation 1977

folder 6

Minutes 1977

folder 7

Minutes 1978

folder 8

Library Studies Review Committee 1977/78

folder 9

Library Staffing Task Group 1977/78

folder 10

Correspondence 1978

folder 11

Interlibrary Lending Subcommittee 1978

folder 12

Universitywide Technical Processing System 1977-1980

folder 13a-c

Bibliographic Projects Advisory Committee 1978-1985

folder 14

Correspondence. 1979-1982

folder 15

John Moore. 1978-1981

folder 16

Misc. 1977-1983

folder 17

Advisory Comm. on Library Studies. “Use of General Collections at U.C.” Oja and Lawrence report. 1980

folder 18

Interlibrary Access Task Group 1977/78

folder 19

OCLC Users group 1980

Box 3, folder 20

Project Schedules.

 

Library Council Project Files

Scope and Content Note

The following is a list of project folders photocopied from folder 3:20
 

1. Extension loans

 

2. Participation in All-Univ. Conferences

 

3. Mood survey

 

3a. Mood feeler

 

4. Quarterly journal of acquisitions

 

4a. Quarterly journal—Editor

 

4b. Quarterly journal—Budget

 

5. Collecting policy statements

 

6. Storage Library

 

7. Common pool policy statement

 

8. Com. on serials information interchange

 

9. Identification cards

 

10. Bases for counting

 

11. UC library plan

 

12. Davis meeting, Nov. 1949

 

13. Berkeley meeting, March-April 1950

 

14. UAR 1948/49

 

15. Unified interlibrary loan form

Box 4

16. Safety

 

17. Ralph Munn proposition

 

18. Theses and dissertations

 

19. Propagandistic serials

 

20. Library School—UCLA

 

21. Interlibrary loan policy and practice

 

22. Bio-bibliographical service

 

23. Fall meeting 1950

 

24. UAR 1949/50

 

25. Policy anthology

 

26. Teletype communication

 

27. Joint sets fund

 

28. Administrative travel (Univ.Reg.22)

 

29. CSEA nonacademic personnel policy

 

30. Importance of book funds

 

31. Spring meeting 1951

 

32. Salary scale increases

 

33. Davis Conference Resolutions (folders a & b)

 

34. Lindley Bynum

 

35. Exchange program

 

36. Off-campus services

 

37. Library building needs

 

38. University Regulation No. 6

 

39. Job description changes

 

40. Extended leave with pay for chief librarians

 

41. Serial duplication

 

42. Common pool—acquisition

 

43. Head librarians on small campuses

 

44. Restudy of needs of Calif. in Higher Education

 

45. Endowment booklist on Libraries

 

46. Binding formula—ratios

 

47. Rapid transmission project

 

48. UAR 1956/57

 

49. Conf. on collection bldg., spring 1958

 

50. Rules governing use of books

 

51. Ogden library purchase

 

52. Joint book fund request

Box 5

53. SLA and PLA classes

 

54. UAR 1957/58

 

55. Reciprocal library privileges, California Club Resolution, 1958

 

56. Library bldg.--General standards

 

57. Non-University users

 

58. Electronic devices in libraries

 

59. Asst. Librarian Classification

 

60. UAR 1958/59

 

61. Gift program

 

62. Secretaryship

 

63. Fine and fee policy

 

64. Subcommittee on Personnel

 

65. Access Devices

 

66. Uniform loan policy

 

67. Master Plan for Library Development

 

68. New Campus Library Collections

 

69. UAR - 1960/61 (A New Library Program)

 

70. Revision of the Executive Committee a. Outside consultant

 

71. Privileges for faculty & librarians of other institutions of Higher Education

 

72. Senate Membership

 

73. Statewide Library Committee

 

74. Library support by organized research units

 

75. Intercampus Exchange Program

 

76. Invitation to Faculty to give books

 

77. Revision of Library classes

 

78. Annual Report 1961/62

 

79. Library Research Institute

 

80. Annual Report 1962/63

 

81. Annual Report 1963/64

 

82. Annual Report 1964/65

 

83. Exchange of University Press Publications

 

84. see Folder 86

 

85. Restudy of Library Education in California

 

86. Library Goals - 1979-1980 [master plan]

box 6, folder 1

Library Council--Collection Development Committee 1980-85

Additional Note

The material in Box six was tranferred from LAUC files.
folder 2-6

Library Council Minutes Dec. 1978-1985