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Booklet on Lakehead University Orillia Campus Business Plan 2006 - 2011, July 2006.

Series consists of inter-university correspondence in the area of cooperation between the provincially-assisted universities to create a provincial library system in Ontario. Meeting minutes, reports, budget and salary surveys, task forces, questionnaires and cooperative projects include inter-university transit system, computerized cataloging, government documents project and cooperative union serials system.
Correspondence also includes telex messages with related societies and organizations.

Inter-library loan forms from 1966-1969. A second folder, Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario (CUPO), 1966-69, includes circuletters on varied topics such as Spinks Commission report, library development, creation of a Council of Universities of Ontario (COU) and committee reports. Also includes some correspondence dealing with Ontario Council of University Librarians (OCUL) an affiliated of Committee of Presidents of Universities of Ontario (CPUO).

Ontario Council of University Librarians monthly minutes as from May 1968 backwards; as of September 1969 backwards. Meeting minutes include various topics such as Library operational policies, library systems and reports.

Minutes from April 1968 backwards; April 1969. Correspondence includes minutes and reports on H. Duncan Wall’s consultant report, Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Bibliographic Centre Project and possible functions and services of a bibliographic centre in Ontario. Also includes a draft copy of Initial System Design for the Ohio College Library Center by Frederick G. Kilgour, director. Some materials marked as “Confidential”.

Some response letters on various questionnaires including survey of working conditions at Libraries in Ontario, library holdings, new or renovated library buildings, archives, offprints, salary survey and academic status for Librarians. Also includes a library questionnaire by Commission on Canadian Studies. The cover letter points out the questionnaire is to determine the location and extent of library holdings and other source materials. National Science Library questionnaire is included to determine need and configuration of future retrospective searching capabilities for Canada.

Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) related issues regarding Commission on Postsecondary Education report, Royal Commission on book publishing, Ohio College Library Center, Board for Library coordination and the Inter-university Transit System (IUTS). Second folder contains meeting minutes of System and Operations Committee and Ontario University Libraries Technical Services Group, cooperative acquisition policy, ethnic newspaper microfilming project, draft standards for Canadian Community College Libraries.

Memos relative to Canadian publishers-agents and university librarians, and various notes, statements and letters on the Royal Commission on Book Publishing plus a schedule of public hearings. Also includes a Submission to the Ontario Commission on Postsecondary Education by the Canadian Book Publishers Council, 1971-1973.

National Library Surplus Library Materials Program notice, a paper on “A Cooperative Acquisition Plan for Canada” by Guy Sylvestre, National Librarian and a Study of National Library Automation Development.

External correspondence on library related issues and various questionnaires from federal and provincial Library organizations. In particular a questionnaire on Institutional Archives by the Consultative Group on Canadian Archives.

Letter from Ontario Council of University Libraries (COU) regarding undergraduate inter-library loans, guidelines and IUTS (Inter-university Transit System).

Minutes of meetings and agendas of meetings of Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) 1973. Meeting topics include Ethnic Newspaper Microfilming Project, microfilming of theses, cooperative cataloguing, reciprocal use of Ontario University Libraries. Also includes 1973 issues of Monthly Review published by Council of Ontario Universities and a draft of a proposal concerning library cost comparisons by Dr. Robert Lee, Chief Librarian, University of Western Ontario

Membership dues requests from Canadian Library Association (CLA), - Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL) and Ontario Library Association (OLA) and questionnaire for nomination suggestions to CLA offices and to CLA committees. Also includes a Working Paper on the reorganization of the CLA.

Letters from CODOC Working Committee on Union Standards, reports from CODOC Working Committees and CODOC coding supervisors. Memos from Standards Committee and Council of Ontario Universities (COU) and correspondence on cataloguing procedures for CODOC and Lakehead University Library: Comments on participation in Ontario Universities’ Library Cooperative Systems (OULCS) Documents Project

Discussion on using dial up system CATSS (Cataloguing Support System) processor, Council of Ontario Universities (COU) meeting of Chief Librarians of Institutions Participating in UNICAT/TELECAT (computer-based cataloguing support) system. Also includes a report on Hardware/Software System Service Requirements for Year II and Lakehead University Library’s participation in the Monograph Demonstration Project.

Minutes of meetings of Committee Task Force III, collection policies of various universities and collection strengths and special collections of the fifteen Ontario university libraries. Also includes Lakehead University Library Collection Policy and Administration 1966-1973.

Letters on Union Catalog System Year II costs, continued use of UT/LAS services, library holdings for the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning (ACAP) assessment, and the importance of library collection policy statements appraisals and acquisition policy. Also includes minutes of Council of Ontario Universities (COU) meeting on library coordination.

Letters and memos to CODOC Project members on status of project on union standards, working groups, standards committee and resolving problems.

Office of Library Coordination memos, chart and reports on Inter-university Borrowing Project (IUBP) borrowing procedures revisions, CISTI (Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information) subscription budget, circuletter 1893, Annual report of Computer Services Coordination Board. Also includes correspondence of the Systems Advisory Committee.

Letter to Bryan Mason, VP Administration from E.J. Belton, Chief Librarian on the value of Lakehead contribution to Council of Ontario Universities (COU) for library coordination, Office of Library Coordination, progress report of Ontario Universities’ Library Cooperative Systems (OULCS) Projects, Advisory Systems Committee terms of reference, circuletter 1218. Also includes a letter written by Geoffrey Briggs, University Librarian, Carleton University Library to Dr. A. Booth, President, Lakehead University regarding cost of Library coordination on sharing a union catalogue and cataloguing support.

External memos regarding Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) meetings, salaries, questionnaires and OCUL union list of microform sets in OCUL libraries. Also included Ontario Association of College and University Libraries (OACUL) Librarians’ Exchange Programme, Report of the University Grants Committee (UGC) Working Party on Capital Provision for Libraries (The Atkinson Report) and a copy of Community Use of Thomas J. Bata Library, Trent University.

Correspondence on a shared catalogue of all journals (serials) held in Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) libraries Cooperative Union Serials System (CUSS) Project. Also includes CUSS meeting minutes.

Notes on Library and media directors meeting, 1975, copy of Catalyst LSACU newsletter, creation of Lake Superior Association of Colleges & Universities (LSACU) media catalogue and further cooperation with sharing non-print resources between Lakehead University Library and LSACU.

Submission to Ontario Council of University Affairs (OCUA) concerning operating finances, letter to Dr. Andrew Booth from J. Stefan Dupre, chairman of OCUA regarding policy and planning issues and financial outlook for 1976-77. Also includes a news release on university funding and circuletters 1560 and 2168.

Ontario libraries collection policies and newsletters.