Month: August 2014
HathiTrust – Cool Happenings in July
HTRC Awarded Grant to Build Cool Tool Exciting news for the HathiTrust Research Center! In July, HTRC was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the “Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm.” The […]
Introducing the New Interlibrary Courier Service and the New ILL Courier Operations Team
The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) units of the UC Libraries have a new courier service that started August 7, 2014. We are once again working with Tricor Courier & Cargo Service, which previously served the UC Libraries until November 2011. The […]
WEST invites title nominations for deep backfiles to hold in place
Does your library have a deep print journal backfile you would be willing to archive in place on behalf of the region? WEST would like to invite member libraries to nominate moderately held deep backfiles for archiving in place. This […]
Melvyl Enhancements: Availability on Brief and Call Numbers in Lists
In their latest installation of enhancements, OCLC fixed a bug where call numbers were not appearing in saved lists. In order to take advantage of this fix, it was necessary to turn on the Availability on Brief (AoB) record display […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2014
I’m pleased to announce that on August 1st, Kate Garvey-Clasby was promoted to a Library Assistant V position. Being the successful candidate for the posted position, Kate’s responsibilities for batch processes will increase and she now will be able to […]
Identifier Wild Card! Introducing Suffix Pass-through
Earlier this year, the ARK resolver software was upgraded in some important ways, most of which were technical enhancements that improve performance and/or lay the groundwork for interesting things to come. One change we can now make available is an […]
WEST Strategic Planning Progress – Initial Recommendations for Change, 2016 and beyond
On June 3rd, the WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council convened to review member feedback from the recent program assessment and plan for WEST’s future beyond 2016. A final report with outcomes from that meeting is available on […]
New Licensed Resource — Statista
http://uclibs.org/PID/224553 (All campuses; on the Statista.com platform) All campuses have access to a new resource, Statista. Statista.com is a statistics portal that integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources into eye-catching charts and graphs that can be […]
Merritt Service Update: July 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities SDSC update. We have successfully resolved all the issues with the storage node at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud Storage service, and are now sending all newly submitted content to SDSC. […]
DMPTool Service Update: July 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Usage continues to increase. The new version of the DMPTool continues to get a lot of use. Since launch, 75 institutions have customized the DMPTool for their researchers. For the second month in […]