Charge

The University of California Resource Sharing Committee is an all campus/UC University Library group reporting to the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG). The University Library representative appointed by each UL will represent the entire Library as this group develops policy recommendations and procedural agreements.

Meetings:

Meetings will be held quarterly, with one meeting an in-person meeting and three conference calls. Campus libraries will be responsible for the cost of travel to the meeting.

Charge:

The RSC is charged with:

Identifies and discusses policy issues and recommends best practices that facilitate resource sharing among campuses.

Identifies and analyzes barriers to expeditious sharing of materials and recommends solutions to remove these barriers. This may include identifying new methods of resource sharing, consideration of local circulation policies that affect resource sharing and facilitating movement of materials among the campuses.

Coordinates communication on UC resource sharing issues with interlibrary services, circulation, collection development, special collections, technical services,and other groups as appropriate.

Coordinates collection, organization of and systemwide reporting of UC ILL/Resource Sharing statistics.

Conducts special quantitative studies of UC intercampus movement/transmission of materials.

Membership:

Comprised of one representative from each UC University Library appointed by the University Librarian, one representative from the California Digital Library, one representative from each of the regional library facilities, and one representative from LAUC.

Convener/Chair: Chair is selected by the membership for a two-year term.