CDLINFO LISTSERV, January 10, 2001, Vol.4, No.1
CONTENTS
- Melvyl and Database Transitions
- Senior Associate for Education, Usability and Outreach
- Melvyl Project Manager
- New Resource Available
- Alexander Street Press Correction (see below)
- JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection
- JSTOR General Science Collection Completed
- Poole's Plus Tier 2 agreement (Nancy Kushigian, UCD)
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd edition (John Tanno, UCR)
- MagazinePlus
- Books in Print
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
- Access to Blackwell's Table of Contents Ended on December 31, 2000
- Artbibliographies Modern Provider Became CSA on January 1
- OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids
- CDL Staff News
- Beverlee French Named Interim University Librarian
- Steve Toub Joins the CDL
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Melvyl and Database Transitions
The CDL has created, and the University Librarians and SOPAG have endorsed, two temporary positions considered crucial to successful transitions for the Melvyl Catalog and A&I databases [see CDLINFO issues Vol. 3, No 17; available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo112900.html and Vol. 3 No. 18; available at: http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo120600.html for the latest items on these transitions]. In each case the ideal candidate would be drawn from among UC library staff, with the CDL helping to arrange a leave of absence from their current positions and providing an administrative stipend above current salary level. The detailed descriptions mentioned below include contact information. Please share this announcement with your colleagues.a. Senior Associate for Education, Usability and Outreach (2yr full-time appointment)
The transition plans will create significant challenges, along with expected gains in functionality and ease of use, for users and for the design and delivery of related public services to those users throughout the UC system. Providing leadership to collaboratively address these challenges, and to contribute to the transition's success and benefits via usability studies, education and outreach, needs to be a priority of the transition process.
The Sr. Associate will lead and facilitate systemwide collaboration in these areas. He/she will report to CDL's Director for Education and Strategic Innovation. Scheduled start date: as soon as possible.
Detailed Description ["http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/recruitments/educationassociate.rtf"]
b. Melvyl Project Manager (2yr full-time appointment)
Catalog implementation plans include the formation of functional teams to address the major implementation areas of Database Development, Services, Architecture and Infrastructure, and Usability and Education. These teams will draw upon the considerable talents and experience of the CDL and campus staff. However, the success of the project depends on having a manager who can provide leadership for the project as a whole. The Project Manager will oversee and manage all aspects of the implementation process to completion, coordinate the work of functional implementation teams, and communicate with the CDL University Librarian, the ULs, SOPAG, UCOL and SLASIAC, other campus constituencies, and the vendor.The Project Manager will report to CDL's Director for Digital Library Services. Scheduled start date: Spring 2001.
Detailed Description ["http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/recruitments/.rtf"]
2. New Resource Available
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided.a. Alexander Street Press
Correction: North American Women's Letters and Diaries and The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries will not be released until this spring. There will be a future CDLINFO item announcing their availability.As recommended by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Content and the US History/Women's Studies Bibliographers, the CDL has purchased the two full-text databases--North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950, and The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries--produced by Alexander Street Press. Both resources are "one-time" purchases; the campuses will fund a modest annual access fee.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries[http://alexanderstreetpress.com/PSNAWLD.htm] is the largest electronic collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. The collection includes more than 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts, in electronic format for the first time. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, the writings represent all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, all geographical regions, the famous and the unknown. As described by the vendor, the diaries "provide a detailed record of what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves. Students and scholars can see how frequently they attended church, how they viewed their connection to God, and how they prayed. They can explore their relationships with lovers and family and friends."
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries [http://alexanderstreetpress.com/PSAmericanCivilWar.htm] knits together more than 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts in facsimile form, memoirs that provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, wives, and spies are included. The letters and diaries give both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, as well as the views of foreign observers. Detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events and personages, and accounts of sufferings at home, written for private consumption, provide an immediacy and a richness that are unmatched in public sources.
b. JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection
The complete JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection is now available. It was licensed through continued co-investment by all campuses (except San Francisco) and the CDL. It contains 29 titles and approximately 1 million pages of journal literature in the biological sciences. The material included in this archive reaches back to the 19th century and covers approximately 1,500 journal years.A complete list of the titles is available at http://www.jstor.org/about/eb_release.html. This page includes links to a detailed list of journals with title history information, handouts, shelf labels, and other support materials.
c. JSTOR General Science Collection Completed
The final release of titles in the JSTOR General Science Collection is now available. Portions of this collection have been released throughout the year 2000. With this final release, the collection is now complete by adding the earliest volumes of these titles, some of which reach as far back as 1665.A special web page has been prepared with information about the release of this collection [http://www.jstor.org/about/gensci_release.html]. This page includes links to a detailed list of the General Science Collection journals with title history information, handouts, shelf labels, and other support materials.
d. Poole's Plus Tier 2 Agreement (Nancy Kushigian, UCD)
With UC Davis as the lead campus, Nancy Kushigian, in consultation with the US History/Women's Studies and the UC Literature Bibliographers' consortial groups, has completed a Tier 2 update negotiation with Paratext Corporation for access to Series III and IV of Poole's Plus: The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century and for continued access to Series I.Six campuses are participating: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara. Access began for all six campuses on November 1, 2000.
Poole's Plus includes the following sources:
- Series I: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), Cumulative index to selected periodicals (1896-1899).
- Series III: New York Times Index (1863-1905); New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906)
- Series IV: Harper's Magazine Index (1876-1897); Library Journal Cumulative Index (1876-1897); Nineteenth Century Serials Masterfile.
The CDL Resource Liaison for Poole's Plus is Michaelyn Burnette (UCB).
e. Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd edition (John Tanno, UCR)
John Tanno negotiated the license for the second edition of the Tier 2 resource New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; it is now available online to all UC campuses (except San Francisco). The first edition was published in 1980 and this completely revised and enlarged edition edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell contains over 29,000 entries written by some 6,000 international contributors. It includes over 20,000 biographies of composers, performers, and writers on music, and over 9,000 topical articles, covering styles, terms, and genres; instruments; classical, world, jazz, and popular music; as well a variety of other subjects. Articles feature the latest scholarship on the topic with extensive bibliographies and cross references.The online version will benefit from a quarterly review and update by a permanent in-house editorial and research team, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on music available. Links are or will be provided to images, digital sound, and related Web sites. The URL to this new, powerful electronic resource is http://www.grovemusic.com/grovemusic/home/index.html.
f. MagazinePlus
Sanae Isozumi (UCSD) negotiated the license for the Tier 2 resource, MagazinePlus [http://web.nichigai.co.jp/cgi-bin/astloginip.cgi?W=UCC&DB=00]. It is now available to Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.MagazinePlus covers 8,500 Japanese, scholarly literature in various fields and general interest periodical titles, and provides bibliographical references to 4,850,000 articles from 1975 to the present. It also includes bibliographic information for 6,000 reports and thesis in the areas of humanity and social science published in academic journals from 1945 to the present.
Note: Accessing MagazinePlus requires Japanese software. We recommend the use of the latest versions of Microsoft IE with Japanese Global IME (Japanese Global IME is available at http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/ime5_win32/en/ime5_win32.htm) or Netscape Communicator with additional front-end processors (FEP).
With UC San Diego as the lead campus, Alan Ritch (UCB) negotiated the licenses for Books in Print and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
g. Books in Print
Books in Print [http://www.booksinprint.com/], a Tier 2 resource licensed by all campuses is now available. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative bibliographic database with over 3.4 million titles; 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents; information on award winners, bestsellers; and over 500,000 full-text reviews.h. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Tier 2 resource, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [http://www.ulrichsweb.com] is now available to all campuses. Ulrich's is a bibliographic database that indexes 250,000 serials published worldwide. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
3. Access to Blackwell's Table of Contents Ended on December 31, 2000
The only access to Blackwell's Table of Contents has been via the RLG native mode interface (Eureka) in both the web and telnet versions of the CDL-hosted databases. RLG recently informed the CDL that it discontinued providing access to the Blackwell's Table of Contents file on December 31, 2000. Consequently, no access to this database will be available starting with this calendar.Since 1997, RLG has offered customers access to the Blackwell's Table of Contents file at no additional charge to them. When the contract for this file came due for renewal, Blackwell's price increase was so substantial that continuing access was not feasible.
Note that RLG will continue the weekly loading of Blackwell's Enhanced LC-CIP records into the RLG union catalog under the Library Identifier XBCP.
4. Artbibliographies Modern Provider Became CSA on January 1
Effective January 1, 2001, the Tier 2 resource, Artbibliographies Modern, changed providers from ABC-CLIO to CSA. Artbibliographies Modern is available to five campuses: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.
5. OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids
The CDL OAC Working Group (OACWG) subcommittee on Metadata Standards has recently developed and released two important documents: the OAC Best Practices Guidelines for Encoding New Finding Aids Draft 11/28/00 (BPG) and the Minimal Level OAC MARC Record for CDL Draft 12/12/00. The BPG is intended for use by contributors preparing new finding aids describing archival and manuscript collections for inclusion in the OAC. The purpose of the BPG is to ensure a base level of consistency in the content and structure of OAC finding aids, which will benefit both OAC users and OAC system designers. The Minimal OAC MARC Record document is intended for use by OAC participating repositories which have not typically created MARC bibliographic records for their archival materials and for the CDL Shared Cataloging Project.Both of these documents are available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac/.
The OACWG would appreciate your feedback on these documents. Please provide your comments and suggestions to Robin Chandler, OAC Manager (robin.chandler@ucop.edu) by January 31, 2001.
6. CDL Staff News
a. Beverlee French named Interim University Librarian
Beverlee French, CDL Director, Shared Content, has been named Interim University Librarian for the CDL and Systemwide Library Planning effective February 1, 2001.The recruitment for a permanent UL will begin immediately. The UL recruitment committee is planned to include campus Executive Vice Chancellors, University Librarians, and several faculty members along with CDL and LAUC representation.
b. Steve Toub Joins the CDL
Steve Toub joined the CDL on January 8 as the new Web Design Manager in the Digital Library Services group. Steve has been an Information Architect at Argus Associates, the leading information architecture consulting firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While at Argus, he worked with academic libraries, state libraries, and corporate clients including Microsoft. Steve also worked for JSTOR, the electronic publisher of back issues of scholarly journals, and was a Digital Information Associate for the Internet Public Library.
7. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "What's New," and previous issues of CDLINFO are posted on the CDL web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!Remember also that reports, working documents, and status information of particular interest to library staff, are all available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways:- For immediate assistance, call the CDL Helpline at (510) 987-0555. Callers with TDD equipment, please call 1-800-735-2929 in California for the telephone relay operator.
- Send an e-mail message to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
- Click on "News" at http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ (also known as http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu) for information about system outages, problems with particular databases, the status of a resource, etc.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
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