CDL COLLECTIONS 								3.a.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY COLLECTION

•	LPAI - As recommended in the Library Planning and Action Initiative Advisory Task Force Report (March, 1998) 
•	“…the CDL should license acquire, develop, and manage electronic (digital) content in support of campus academic programs.”  (p. 15).  
•	The first shared electronic collection of the CDL will be the Science, Technology and Industry Collection, covering a literature that accounts for over 80 percent of the published electronic material now available.  Choosing a collection focused on science and technology will permit the University to achieve economies of scale when accessing the highest cost literature, establish a digital collection with the critical mass needed to investigate a variety of issues relating to scholarly and scientific communication, create a resource that will encourage collaborative activities with the private sector, and relieve the campuses of the need to provide additional support for the development of these collections.”  (Appendix B)

•	Faculty Consultation on Science, Technology and Industry Collection (STIC).  A task force of senior librarians (STIC Task Force) collaboratively developed an extensive information and consultation program directed towards science faculty on all campuses during winter 1998.  Across the campuses, nearly 1000 faculty attended more than 60 presentations by librarians on the LPAI effort and the development of the CDL’s science collection.  Response was enthusiastic.  Faculty members were asked to name the top five titles they would like to see at their desktops and the top five that should be available for their students.  All others were invited to participate in the “survey” by electronic mail and the Web.  Over 2000 faculty members responded to the survey, recommending a total of nearly 8,000 titles (about 2,000 unique titles).  The top 5 titles for the faculty were:  Science, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

•	Science, Technology and Industry Collection status.  Of the top-ranked 200 titles from the STIC Faculty Survey, the CDL now provides access in electronic form to 45 (22%).  Publishers represented by the remainder are priorities for further investigation and acquisition.  See the CDL Resource List for science publications currently available.

Beverlee French
California Digital Library
Associate Director, Shared Collections and Services
November 1, 1998