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| 2000-2004 WASC Accreditation |
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3.6: The institution holds, or provides access to, information resources sufficient in scope, quality, currency, and kind to support its academic offerings and the scholarship of its members. For on-campus students and students enrolled at a distance, physical and information resources, services, and information technology facilities are sufficient in scope and kind to support and maintain the level and kind of education offered. These resources, services and facilities are consistent with the institution's purposes, and are appropriate, sufficient, and sustainable.
The UCSC University Library, founded in 1965, is both the smallest general library in the University of California system and the largest research library between Stanford and Santa Barbara. Our relative youth and manageable size have allowed us to grow responsively with the campus and its programs and to innovate and adapt with agility to new information technologies. We share with other academic libraries a commitment to intellectual freedom and the widest possible access to information. This commitment is reflected in our open stacks, our active Inter Library Loan service, our online catalog, and our robust Web site linked efficiently to other sites and databases. We have mutually beneficial partnerships with libraries at other University of California campuses, local California State Universities, community colleges, and public libraries. Our active participation in the California Digital Library promises to enhance this collaboration to a new level. We have already developed a distinctive identity both in our interdisciplinary collections, and through our profound commitment to service, outreach and library use instruction, especially to undergraduates. The high quality of these services depends on an outstanding staff, which, because of its relatively small size, is versatile, broad and deep in its subject and technical expertise. Our size allows us to be directly and personally responsive to donors, whose gifts and endowments have a more obvious positive impact on our collections than they would on larger libraries. McHenry Library will be enlarged and modernized to provide space for the growing print collection and improved access to electronic information sources. Planned enhancements include an electronic resource center, a digitization and preservation laboratory, and a cyber café. This year the California Digital Library released a recent overhaul of the MELVYL system – allowing library patrons - faculty, students, staff, and other researchers as well as the public at large - to search a state-of-the-art catalog of the millions of books, journals and other items held by the libraries of the University of California campuses. This resource, in combination with the General Library’s ongoing investment in technologies that allow remote access to digitized material (databases, text files, images), greatly expands the accessibility to library material. This year the campus has implemented the first stage of CRUZNET – a wireless network that allows faculty students and staff access to the campus network and resources from locations throughout the campus. Patrons are no longer tied to a stationary workstation, but can access library resources from where they work. A strong user assistance program is in place in the Library, including a Teaching Support website for faculty and researchers, and user workshops open to all patrons. Librarians work with instructors to design course-specific sessions that focus on improving our students’ ability to acquire, analyze and use information effectively in a research or decision-making process. These skills have been recognized as an elemental part of the skill set of the successful student and the lifelong learner. The Library offers instruction tailored to individual class needs at the lower division, upper division and graduate level. Classes can be held in the library or in the classroom. The McHenry and Science & Engineering libraries also offer hard copy and electronic course reserves. The McHenry Library Reserves unit provides reserve services for arts, humanities and social sciences. The Science & Engineering Library Reserves unit provides reserve services for science courses. The goal of both reserve units is to make a limited amount of instructional material available to a large number of borrowers.
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