Month: April 2002
Library Staff News
Kirk Hastings joined the CDL staff on April 15th as a Programmer/Analyst in John Ober’s Strategic Development unit. Kirk has extensive structured text experience (SGML and XML), including writing software to transform text from various formats into one standard […]
Information Literacy Article
The lead story and several other features in this month’s TLtC Webzine and Online Forum focuses on libraries, thanks to Editor Paula Murphy. The lead story, “A 21st Century Challenge: Preparing ‘Cut and Paste’ Students to be ‘Information Literate’ Citizens” […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Round One of Usability Testing Completed on Melvyl-T Interface The first round of usability testing on the Melvyl-T prototype interface was completed April 12 by the Evaluation Liaisons at six campuses: Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa […]
Detailed Description Of New Vendor Versions Of Transitioning Databases
a. Detailed Description Of New Vendor Versions Of Transitioning Databases On April 11, 2002, INSPEC via Ovid became available to the UC community at http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=insz. Access to INSPEC via CDL-hosted Databases is expected to continue until December 31, 2002. INSPEC […]
Library Staff News
a. Karen Cargille Retires Karen Cargille, who will retire April 15, has been critical to the launching and growth of the CDL Shared Collections and will be sorely missed. Under her leadership as department head, the UCSD Library Acquisitions Department […]
Counting California New Content–Census 2000 and Vital Statistics
The Counting California project team is pleased to announce the release of the following new content on Counting California 1. Census 2000 Counting California announces the release of Census of Population and Housing, Census 2000, Summary File 1 from the […]
Online Archive of California (OAC) Usability Testing
Behind the scenes, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is undergoing major improvements. First, a new home page is currently being designed to provide the OAC with its own unique identify. Second, Dynaweb the software package that first launched OAC […]
eScholarship Repository Launched
On April 3rd an important new component of the eScholarship program was launched by the CDL. The eScholarship Repository [http://repositories.cdlib.org/] stores and distributes working papers authored or sponsored by faculty from the University of California. Searching and viewing the content […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Current Contents and INSPEC via Ovid now Available Current Contents and INSPEC will now be accessible via Ovid’s interface, beginning April 11, 2002 with UC-eLinks activated for links to full electronic text and holdings. A link to Request will […]