Is CDL also reducing expenditures?
Yes. As a part of the UC-wide reductions, CDL received an $1.1M permanent cut to the operations budget (about 11%) and had 2008-2009 end of year expenses that hadn’t cleared in June “swept” by the UCOP Budget Office. This meant an additional $800,000 in cuts to UC-wide collections for which one-time commitments had been made but had not yet cleared the system. Additionally, multi-year reductions to the CDL budget have forced the ten campuses to assume responsibility for subscriptions to resources such as abstract & indexing databases that had previously been paid for by CDL. Examples of indexing and abstracting databases include Academic Search Complete, Biosis, and PsycINFO. In the second phase of the Library’s collection reduction process, we will undertake a review of all licenses facilitated by CDL on our behalf. Due to the magnitude of the Library’s budget cut, we will need to eliminate some subscriptions as a result. This process will be repeated on a regular schedule to ensure w
