Collecting Partners
The University of California, Berkeley Library participates in a wide variety of cooperative collection development programs. On campus, we work closely with the Affiliated Libraries to maximize the depth and breadth of our respective collections. Extramurally, we work with peer academic institutions and membership organizations under the guidance of a range of formal and informal agreements that expand access to collections through leveraging local acquisition funding, staff expertise, and resource sharing capacity.
This page identifies significant, active cooperative programs, including the names of institutional partners, references to texts of agreements, dates, and links to further information. For each subject or area program, the relevant contact is the Berkeley collection specialist.
Broad Programs
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Membership in CRL provides UCB with access to an extended collection of specialized research collections with a particular focus on international and area studies, government documents at all levels, microformats and recently electronic resources. UCB participates in most of CRL's area-based preservation and access programs, including those outlined below under area-specific agreements.
Exchange Program
The Library Exchange Program seeks to meet three fundamental goals: acquisition of materials not otherwise available; cost-effective acquisition of materials also available by purchase; and dissemination of publications produced at the University of California at Berkeley. To this end, the Exchange Program maintains over 2,500 active exchange agreements with academic, scientific, and governmental institutions in virtually every country in the world and obtains approximately 7,600 serial titles and 4,000 monographs per year.
Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Programs
Since 1962 the Library of Congress has maintained offices abroad to acquire, catalog, preserve, and distribute library and research materials from countries where such materials are essentially unavailable through conventional acquisitions methods. These offices conduct Cooperative Acquisitions Programs (CAP) that are open to library and research institutions wishing to acquire publications from the countries covered by the programs. Participating libraries deposit funds with the Library of Congress annually to cover the projected cost of the materials, binding, and shipping, plus administrative costs. Berkeley participates in six programs outlined below under area-specific agreements.
Research Library Cooperative Program (Stanford and the University of Texas, Austin)
RLCP is based upon a direct lending program allowing UCB faculty and graduate students expedited access to the research collections at Stanford and the University of Texas, Austin. A cooperative collection development program in Latin American studies has been developed around this institutional partnership.
University of California Shared Content Program (California Digital Library and UC Libraries)
The shared content program facilitated by the California Digital Library fosters cooperation and joint investment in the acquisition of digital resources across the 10 campuses; at present UC Berkeley coinvests in joint licensing of over 200 such resources at an annual cost-share of $4.1m. A related program promotes the development of efficient methods for the collaborative acquisition of printed books and journals.
Subject, Format, and Area-Specific Agreements
Africa
- Center for Research Libraries: Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)
- Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisition Program, Nairobi (1992–present)
French and Francophone Studies
- Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)
UCB is a sustaining member and as such receives the texts digitized under this program and contributes to decision-making and prioritizing at ARTFL. - Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL)
German Studies
Government Information (UC and Stanford)
- Agreement on Last Copy Retention of Government Publications, June 2006 (PDF)
History, British (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSC)
History, United States (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSC)
Latin American Studies
- CALAFIA (California Cooperative Latin American Collection Development Group):
North Mexican | South Mexican - Latin Americanist Research Resources Partnership (LARRP)
- Center for Research Libraries: Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
- Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisition Program, Rio de Janeiro (1990–present)
Maps and Cartographic Materials (UC and Stanford)
Middle East and North Africa
- Center for Research Libraries: Cooperative Middle East Microform Project (MEMP)
- Library of Congress Middle East Cooperative Acquisition Program, Cairo (1963–present)
Music (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSC, Stanford)
Religious Studies (Graduate Theological Union Library)
The Library maintains a cooperative collection development policy (PDF) with the Graduate Theological Union Library, which provides for the sharing of collecting responsibilities for various aspects of religious studies between the two institutions and offers reciprocal borrowing privileges for graduate students and faculty at Berkeley and GTU.
Slavic and Eastern European Studies
- Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Libraries Consortium
- Center for Research Libraries: Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP)
Sociology (UC and Stanford)
South Asia
- Center for Research Libraries: South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)
- Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
- Library of Congress South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program, New Delhi (1959–present)
- Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisition Program, Islamabad
Southeast Asia
- Center for Research Libraries: Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)
- Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisition Program for Southeast Asia, Jakarta (1963-present)
Women's Studies (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, UCSC, Stanford)
Informal Agreements
Africana (Stanford)
Contact Jason Schultz ("jschultz" at library dot berkeley dot edu).
Art and Architecture (UC campuses and Stanford)
Contact Elizabeth Byrne ("ebyrne" at library dot berkeley dot edu).
Germanic Studies (Stanford)
Contact Jim Spohrer ("jspohrer" at library dot berkeley dot edu).
Jewish Studies (UC campuses and Stanford)
Contact Paul Hamburg ("phamburg" at library dot berkeley dot edu).
Middle East and North Africa (Stanford, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara)
Contact Shayee Khanaka ("skhanaka" at library dot berkeley dot edu).
