The CALAFIA goals are:

1. To identify and develop strategies to collect, acquire, provide access to, and preserve important research resources.

2. To develop and coordinate formal collection development agreements in order to maintain or enhance the collective collections, based on programmatic needs and strengths of individual campuses. Coordinating serial cancellations and new subscriptions, developing collections in new program areas, building retrospective backfiles, and assigning geographic collecting responsibilities are examples of appropriate activities. Agreements should clearly identify participant responsibilities, minimum time commitment, notification and monitoring provisions.

3. To develop and submit Mini-SCAP proposals, and to coordinate them with formal agreements of the consortium whenever possible.

4. To collaborate to obtain extra-institutional grant funds, whenever appropriate, to support consortium goals.

5. To coordinate the acquisition of, location of, and access to large microform sets.

6. To promote access to appropriate electronic resources.

7. To identify preservation needs and coordinate projects.

8. To promote the exchange of information among Latin Americanist colleagues, employing electronic communication and the World Wide Web as much as possible to facilitate rapid and readily-accessible information sharing.

9. To promote the development and exchange of instructional tools and research aids.

10. To advise and make policy recommendations to the Collection Development Committee regarding collection development, management, preservation, bibliographic and physical access issues as they relate to Latin American area collections and resources.

11. To coordinate projects, activities, and initiatives in collaboration with other regional, national, and international Latin Americanist groups or institutions, to the extent possible.

12. To work with vendors and publishers, particularly microform publishers, to develop needed products and favorable consortium purchasing arrangements.

13. The group will work to promote the spirit of cooperation embodied in the "Brief Guidelines for Collaborative Collection Development and Management Among the University of California Libraries" (Revised October, 1994), and "UC-Stanford Collection Development Committee Expectations of Selector Groups:' Working Document" (February 1993), and adhere to all guidelines elaborated in these documents.