The Committee on the Library and Scholarly Communication (COLASC) advises the campus administration on local and systemwide library and scholarly communication policies. Scholarly communication refers to the modalities by which research and creative work are made public; including publishing, technology, archiving, and copyright. COLASC advises on the administration of campus libraries and on matters concerning acquisition and management policies for collections. In recent years, COLASC has studied and advised on the California Digital Library project, digital archiving, use of library space by students and faculty, and local implications of copyright law. COLASC meets every other week.
Committee Info
COLASC Charge
COLASC Meeting Dates 2025-26
Committee Membership
Confidentiality and Recusal Policy
Consultation Procedures
Analyst Contact
• Morgan Gardea
• phone (831) 459-9150
• mgardea@ucsc.edu
Science & Engineering Library Consolidation Project
Science and Engineering Library Consolidation Project Lists
Lists related to the recent Science and Engineering Library consolidation project
Titles which were shared with print archives nationally:
Withdrawal lists: Identify titles that were either duplicated online or had no recent use and were duplicated in print across the country (UCs and beyond). Titles in the “withdrawals” files were recycled as part of the consolidation project. The third file (“…keep on site”) is the list of titles identified as high use, recently published, or unique to the UC and beyond and indicates the titles marked to keep on site. The final file explains the content of each of the files.
- Withdrawals
- Titles identified as high use, recently published, or unique to the UC and beyond; indicates the titles marked to keep on site
- Explanation of Lists
In terms of the current holdings of the Library, the most accurate information can be found by searching the Cruzcat catalog at: http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/search/X. Titles currently located in the Science & Engineering stacks may be searched by selecting the advanced search and adding the limit of location “S&E Stacks.” Titles in S&E reserves and protect may be similarly searched: advanced search in cruzcat and limit to either location “S&E Protect” OR “S&E Reserves.”
Science and Engineering Library Resolution
Memos to/from Librarian Cowell re Consolidation Project
November 2016 Meeting Call Letter from Senate Chair Einarsdóttir
COLASC Report to the Senate May 2017