Library. Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). Administrative files. 1965-1977; n.d.

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Title: Library. Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). Administrative files.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 579
Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 4 linear ft. (10 boxes)
Date: 1965-1977; n.d.
Abstract: Record Series 579 contains the administrative files of the UCLA Library Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP).
creator: UCLA Library.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Library. Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). Administrative files (Record Series number 579). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives.

Scope and Content

Record Series 579 contains the administrative files of the UCLA Library Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). Files include reports, memos, minutes, newsletters, notes, and drafts of the Task Force, Design Team, Task Force on Communication, Communication Committee, and other task forces and subgroups, regarding preliminary study, data gathering, recommendations, drafts, and reports.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 3466958 

Box 1, Folder 1

MRAP Design Team Interim report. 1975 Jun 12.

Box 1, Folder 2

Design Team minutes. 1975 Oct 03-1976 Aug 06.

Box 1, Folder 3

Final draft of the MRAP Design Team's report. 1977 Jan 26.

Box 1, Folder 4

Memos from the Design Team. 1976 Aug 16.

Scope and Contents note

Includes outline of main themes in MRAP working papers [final reports of task forces]. Draft.
Box 1, Folder 5

Library Management and Review and Analysis Programs: a handbook for guiding change and improvement in research library management. ARL. 1973.

Scope and Contents note

Draft of Phase VI of VII, sections for Personnel and General management (renamed Communication by UCLA Design Team) only.
Box 1, Folder 6

Minutes of meetings. 1976 Feb-Jul.

Box 1, Folder 7

Drafts for Task Force reports to newsletter. c. 1975 Oct-1976 Jul.

Box 1, Folder 8

Newsletters containing articles about activities of Task Force. 1975 Oct-1976 Sep.

Box 1, Folder 9

Task Force schedules and final workplan. 1975 Oct; 1976 Feb and May.

Box 1, Folder 10

Notes from Task Force meetings.

Box 1, Folder 11

Memos sent to Task Force members.

Box 1, Folder 12

Memos, etc. from other Task Forces.

Box 1, Folder 13

Summaries of first-phase Task Force reports: Policy and planning, Personnel and staff development, Budget and management information systems.

Box 1, Folder 14

Task Force readings.

Scope and Contents note

Primarily photocopies from journal articles dealing with theories of communication, reports from previous committees touching on aspects of library communications, etc.
Box 1, Folder 15

Notes for its design, sample questions to be used, etc.

Box 1, Folder 16

Memo sent to persons receiving questionnaire; memo sent to unit heads of persons receiving questionnaire; copies of questionnaire.

Box 1, Folder 17

Compilation of data received.

Box 1, Folder 18

Draft of questions; final questions used in giving structure to the interviews.

Box 1, Folder 19

Collations of responses received from interviews; analyses of responses from interviews.

Box 1, Folder 20

Drafts.

Box 1, Folder 21

Copy sent to Library staff. 1976 May 13.

Box 1, Folder 22

Copy of original charge, notes, and questions for revision of the charge; copy of final revision, approved by the Design Team.

Box 1, Folder 23

Lists of questions to obtain data about staff reference points, etc.

Box 2, Folder 1

First drafts.

Box 2, Folder 2

Preliminary clustering of recommendations.

Box 2, Folder 3

Preliminary recommendations, together with preliminary plans for implementation.

Box 2, Folder 4

Preliminary recommendations from Subgroup formed of members of the Task Force on communication and the Organization Task Force to study the Library Administrative Network.

Box 2, Folder 5

Drafts of sections.

Box 2, Folder 6

Materials used to devise and draft a sample Evaluation [form] of individual communication management.

Box 2, Folder 7

Notes and draft of Appendix dealing with Conduct of staff meetings.

Box 2, Folder 8

Draft revisions to final draft.

Box 2, Folder 9

Final draft for typist; notes to typist.

Box 2, Folder 10

Another copy (photocopy) of copy for typist.

Box 2, Folder 11

Final draft for typist, Appendix G.

Box 2, Folder 12

Management Review and Analysis Program - Organization Task Force and Task Force on Communication. Working Paper of the Joint Subgroup to Study the Library Administrative Network presented to the Design Team. Los Angeles, UCLA Library, University of California. 1976 Jul 16.

Box 2, Folder 13

Management Review and Analysis Program. Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication presented to the Design Team. Los Angeles, UCLA Library, University of California. 1976 Jul 16.

Box 2, Folder 14

Management Review and Analysis Program. Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication, Appendix G: Data collected by the Task Force, presented to the Design Team. Los Angeles, UCLA Library, University of California. 1976 Aug 13.

Box 2, Folder 15

Invitations to potluck dinners. 1976 Apr and Aug; 1977 Feb.

Box 3, Folder 1

MRAP Design Team ballots and invitations. 1974.

Box 3, Folder 2

Staff responses to progress report. 1974-1975.

Box 3, Folder 3

MRAP administrative papers. 1975-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence with library staff and unit heads, nomination forms, task force orientation meeting information, workplans, lists of appointments, and library newsletters.
Box 3, Folder 4

Cathy Whitman's personal files. 1974-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Contains files regarding readings, notes and memos, working papers, and documentation.
Box 3, Folder 5

Handbook for Guiding change and Improvement in Research Library Management. Draft. 1973.

Box 3, Folders 6-7

Design team final report. 1967; 1975-1976.

Scope and Contents note

imaging session data, drafts of reports, progress reports, proposals, task force reports, and other administrative papers.
Box 3, Folder 8

MRAP Search Committee. 1976.

Scope and Contents note

Regarding the selection of a new University Librarian.
Box 3, Folder 9

MRAP - responses to the task force working papers. 1976.

Box 4, Folder 1

Design Team minutes. 1975-1976.

Box 4, Folder 2

Interim Report draft and comments. 1975.

Box 4, Folder 3

Staff Development Task force leader's folder. 1974.

Scope and Contents note

Includes information on data-gathering generated by other universities.
Box 4, Folder 4

Supervisory and Leadership Task Force leader's folder. 1974.

Scope and Content

Includes information on data-gathering generated by other universities.
Box 4, Folder 5

Personnel Task Force leader's folder. 1974.

Scope and Contents note

Includes information on data-gathering generated by other universities.
Box 4, Folder 6

Cathy Whitman files. 1974-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Includes drafts of reports, accompanying correspondence, and the article "Is MRAP in your Future?" (the Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1976 Jan).
Box 4, Folder 7

MRAP Communication Task Force minutes. 1976.

Box 4, Folder 8

MRAP Task Force on Personnel and Staff Development. 1967-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Includes procedural information, notes, newsletters, meeting minutes, and reports.
Box 4, Folder 9

MRAP Interim Report - draft. 1975 May.

Box 4, Folder 10

Volunteers and nominees. n.d.

Box 4, Folder 11

Task Forces. 1975.

Scope and Contents note

Includes nomination forms and notes.
Box 4, Folder 12

MRAP. 1974-1975.

Scope and Contents note

Includes call for, and responses regarding, ideas about the University Library in the future (1980's).
Box 5, Folder 1

Communications Committee minutes and documents. 1966; 1969-1971.

Box 5, Folders 2-3

MRAP Organizational Profile questionnaire - responses. 1975.

Box 5, Folder 4

To MRAP or Not - history. 1973-1974.

Box 5, Folder 5

Communications and memos to staff. 1974-1977.

Box 5, Folder 6

Imaging Sessions. n.d.

Box 6, Folder 1

MRAP Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication. c.1976.

Box 6, Folder 2

MRAP Communications Task Force - Design Team Interim Report and additional observations. 1975.

Box 6, Folder 3

Raw Data from "long form" questionnaire. 1975 Spring.

Box 6, Folders 4-7

Task Force reports. 1976-1977.

Scope and Content

Includes Task Force on Budgeting and Management Information Systems report (1976), Task Force on Personnel and Staff Development report (1976), and Design Team Recommendations by Theme Outline draft (1976) in folder 4; Task Force on Personnel and Staff Development report (1976), and Design Team Final Report draft (1977 in folder 5; Appendices of the Organization Task Force (1976), Working Paper of the Task force on Communication (1976), and assorted portions of reports in folder 6; and Report of the Task Force on Planning and Policy (1976) in folder 7.
Box 6, Folder 8

Accounts of time and other papers. 1974-1976.

Box 7, Folder 1

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - Interim report. 1975 Jun.

Box 7, Folder 2

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - minutes. 1975 Oct-1976 Aug.

Box 7, Folder 3

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - final draft of report. 1977 Jan.

Box 7, Folder 4

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - memos and outline of main themes in working papers. 1976.

Box 7, Folder 5

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - MRAP handbook (sections only) draft. 1973.

Box 7, Folder 6

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - minutes of meetings. 1976 Feb-Jul.

Box 7, Folder 7

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Design Team - Task Force reports to Newsletter. 1975 Oct-1976 Jul.

Box 7, Folder 8

MRAP Task Force on Communication - newsletters containing articles about Task Force. 1975 Oct-1976 Sep.

Box 7, Folder 9

MRAP Task Force on Communication - schedules and final workplan. 1975 Oct; 1976 Feb, May.

Box 7, Folder 10

MRAP Task Force on Communication - notes from Task Force meetings. n.d.

Box 7, Folder 11

MRAP Task Force on Communication - memos sent to Task Force members. 1975-1976.

Box 7, Folder 12

MRAP Task Force on Communication - memos, etc., from other Task Forces. 1975-1976.

Box 7, Folder 13

MRAP Task Force on Communication - summaries of first-phase Task Force reports. n.d.

Box 7, Folder 14

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Task Force readings. 1965-1976.

Box 7, Folder 15

MRAP Task Force on Communication - questionnaire - notes for its design, sample questions, etc. n.d.

Box 7, Folder 16

MRAP Task Force on Communication - questionnaire - memos sent with and copies of questionnaire. 1976.

Box 7, Folder 17

MRAP Task Force on Communication - questionnaire - compilation of data received. c.1976.

Box 7, Folder 18

MRAP Task Force on Communication - interviews - draft of questions; final questions. 1976.

Box 7, Folder 19

MRAP Task Force on Communication - interviews - collations of responses and analyses. c.1976.

Box 7, Folder 20

MRAP Task Force on Communication - needs list - drafts. c.1976.

Box 7, Folder 21

MRAP Task Force on Communication - needs list - copy sent to library staff. 1976 May.

Box 7, Folder 22

MRAP Task Force on Communication - original charge to the Task Force, and revisions. 1976.

Box 7, Folder 23

MRAP Task Force on Communication - supplementary data gathering - interview questions. 1976.

Box 8, Folder 1

Editorial Subcommittee. 1976-1977.

Scope and Contents note

Includes memos, notes, workplans, and drafts.
Box 8, Folder 2

Task Force communication. 1976.

Scope and Contents note

Includes minutes, reports, and other documents.
Box 8, Folder 3

Interim report. 1974-1975.

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes and drafts.
Box 8, Folder 4

Miscellaneous articles. 1974-1975.

Scope and Contents note

Includes articles as well as minutes of the Network Operations Committee (1974) and Library Advisory Council (1975).
Box 8, Folder 5

MRAP support. 1976.

Box 9, Folder 1

Newsletter articles. 1974-1976.

Box 9, Folders 2-4

Task Force reports. 1976.

Scope and Content

Includes Appendices of the Organization Task Force (1976), Design Team Final Report draft (1977), and Task force on Personnel and Staff Development report (1976) in folder 2; Task Force on Budgeting and Managing Information Systems report (1976), Task Force on Planning and Policy report (1976), and Task force on Personnel and Staff Development report (1976) in folder 3; and Task Force on Budgeting and Managing Information Systems report (1976), Working Paper of the Organization Task Force (1976), Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication (1976), Organization Task Force and Task Force on Communication Working Paper of the Joint subgroup to Study the Library Administrative Network (1976), and Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication Appendix G.
Box 9, Folders 5

Leadership/Group process experiments. 1973-1974.

Box 9, Folders 6

PSD/TF (Personnel and Staff Development Task Force). 1975-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Includes minutes, rosters, reading material, and information on the Library Personnel Department.
Box 10, Folder 1

MRAP Task Force on Communication - recommendations - first drafts. n.d.

Box 10, Folder 2

MRAP Task Force on Communication - recommendations - preliminary clusterings. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 3

MRAP Task Force on Communication - recommendations - preliminary recommendations and plans for implementation. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 4

MRAP Task Force on Communication - recommendations - preliminary, from Sub-group to study LAN. c.1976.

Box 10, Folder 5

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - drafts of sections. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 6

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - materials used to devise and draft sample evaluation. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 7

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - notes and draft of appendix on Staff Meetings. c.1976.

Box 10, Folder 8

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - draft previous to final draft. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 9

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - final draft for typist, notes to typist. c.1976.

Box 10, Folder 10

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - photocopy of draft for typist. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 11

MRAP Task Force on Communication - report - final for typist, Appendix G. c.1976.

Box 10, Folder 12

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Working Paper of the Joint Subgroup. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 13

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Working Paper of the Task Force on Communication. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 14

MRAP Task Force on Communication - Working Paper of the Task Force, Appendix G. 1976.

Box 10, Folder 15

MRAP Task Force on Communication - social activities - invitations. 1977.