Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs) are standing groups of experts or pioneers in areas of interest to the University of California Libraries (UCL). The intention of CKGs is to foster innovation and continuous improvement by providing a venue for staff across campuses and from various levels to exchange ideas and collaborate on systemwide initiatives. Although CKGs may communicate with groups in the UCL Advisory Structure, they are not intended to make systemwide policy decisions, manage projects or project teams, or oversee ongoing services. CKGs are proposed by UC Libraries’ staff who identify an issue, topic, subject, or content format that would benefit from the creation of a cross-‐campus community. The Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) provides broad oversight for the CKGs and their registration process.
- For more information, including CKG Guidelines and a roster of CKG Chairs & their contact info, visit the UC Libraries CKG public webpage.
- For more information on the UC Libraries Advisory Structure, visit the UC Libraries Advisory Structure public webpage.
- See also the UC Libraries Advisory Structure Organization Chart.
Active Common Knowledge Groups
- African Studies CKG
- Archival Management Systems User Group CKG
- Art & Architecture CKG
- Born Digital Content CKG
- British/U.S. History and Gender Studies CKG
- Cataloging and Metadata CKG
- Course Reserves CKG
- Data Curation CKG
- Digital Humanities CKG
- Digital Reformatting and Preservation CKG
- Digital Repository Metadata (DRMD) CKG
- East Asian Studies CKG (formerly UCEAB Group)
- Ebook Usability CKG
- Education CKG
- English and American Literature CKG
- Ethnic Studies CKG
- Eurobibs CKG
- Government Information Libraries (GILS) CKG
- Heads of Special Collections CKG
- Health & Life Sciences CKG
- Instructional Design CKG
- Interlibrary Lending Services CKG
- Latin American Studies CKG
- Law CKG
- Maps & Geospatial Data CKG
- Middle Eastern Studies CKG
- Music CKG
- Performing Arts and Media Studies CKG
- Physical Preservation CKG
- Physical Sciences & Engineering (PSE) CKG
- Regional Library Facilities CKG
- Reference CKG
- Scholarly Communications CKG
- Shared Visual Resource CKG
- Social Sciences CKG (includes Anthropology, Business & Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Science Data, and Sociology )
- Public Services in Special Collections CKG
- University of California Archivists Council (UCAC) CKG
- Web Archiving CKG
Inactive Common Knowledge Groups & Bibliographer Groups
- Business & Economics (former Bibliographer Group; merged with Social Sciences CKG as of May 2016)
- Digitization CKG (merged with Preservation CKG as of May 2016)
- English and American Literature (former Bibliographer Group; inactive as of May 2016)
- European History, Languages and Literature (former Bibliographer Group; inactive as of May 2016)
- Library IT CKG - UC Hydra, Blacklight, Fedora 4 Camp Agenda, June 2015 (inactive as of May 2016)
- Linguistics (former Bibliographer Group; inactive as of May 2016)
- News (former Bibliographer Group; inactive as of May 2016)
- Philosophy and Religious Studies (former Bibliographer Group; inactive as of May 2016)
- Political Science Bibliographer Group (merged with Social Sciences CKG June 2016)
- Preservation CKG (consequence of the great "Digital Reformatting and Preservation / Physical Preservation CKGs Schism" of 2019)
- Project Management CKG
- Psychology Bibliographer Group (merged with Social Sciences CKG June 2016)
- Social Science Data Bibliographer Group (merged with Social Sciences CKG June 2016)
- Sociology & Anthropology Bibliographer Group (merged with Social Sciences CKG June 2016)
- Statistics CKG