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1967 - Books for College Libraries grew out of the collection development initiative for the University of California's New Campuses Program. The program's goal was to create three identical library collections for the new Irvine, Santa Cruz, and San Diego campuses. Drawing upon published library catalogs from Harvard and the University of Michigan, editors Melvin Voight, university librarian, and Joseph Treyez, head of the New Campuses Program, set out to build a new collection of 50,000 core titles. The result became Books for College Libraries, a single-volume resource offering 53,410 hand-selected titles with publication dates prior to 1964.

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