This is an important update on the future of the UC Davis Physical Sciences & Engineering Library.
To meet its budget reduction goals, the UCD Library will downsize from 4 to 3 locations. By July 1, 2011, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library collections, staff, and services will be integrated into the Shields Library, primarily on the 3rd floor. You may view the full UC Davis Office of Research, Management and Planning recommendations for the General Library.
To make space for the move, much of the biological and agricultural sciences collection, currently on 3rd floor of Shields Library, will be relocated and integrated into the Carlson Health Sciences Library building to form a health, life sciences, and agriculture collection. This redistribution of science collections will optimize the amount of unique print library materials that can be kept on campus.
We are developing criteria for what will stay on campus and what will go to the NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility, the UC Libraries storage building in Richmond.) NRLF staff provide rapid web delivery of journal articles, while books and journal volumes are delivered to campus in 2 days. In the fall, we will share the criteria for storing items and seek broad input.
This outcome is a difficult one for all of us, and we will work with you to continue providing the best possible configuration of collections and services that you have come to expect from the PSE Library staff.
Comments may be sent to Karen Andrews at: klandrews@ucdavis.edu. I welcome your comments.
Tags: atmospheric sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, statistics
All of my most productive studying periods have been in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library. Compared to the mountainous Shields Library, the PSE provides students with a better studying environment by far. I don’t think this is the best course of action. With this plan enacted, all of the engineering and biological science majors that primarily study in the PSE will have to migrate to Shields – making an already crowded library even more so. I think if anything, a UC Davis should reduce the library’s hours of operation. Even though that’s not the most favorable course of action either, it is better than the alternative.