CONTENTS
- Robin Chandler Joins CDL
- Circulation status information now available for UCB
- Shared Cataloging Records Update
- CDL Web Design Advisory Group Appointed
- New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web
- Francis
- Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Robin Chandler Joins CDL
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce that Robin L. Chandler will assume the new position of Online Archive of California Manager on May 8, 2000. A core component of the CDL, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to primary source materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. As OAC Manager, Robin will lead the CDL in building and managing the OAC within a collaborative framework.Robin brings a breadth of experience and a record of leadership within the archivists' community to this position. She has participated in advancing the OAC, particularly as a member of the OAC Working Group and Chair of the UC Archivists Council. Robin is currently Head of Archives and Special Collections at the UC San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management, where she has developed and managed the digital Tobacco Control Archives. She has held a number of other progressively responsible positions in museums and archives, starting with an internship at the Smithsonian and including Archivist and public services librarian for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. She has been active in the Society of American Archivists and the California Society of Archivists and has numerous publications, presentations, and successful grants to her credit. Her BA is from UC Davis in Art Studio and Art History, her MLIS from UC Berkeley with emphasis in Archives Management. She also holds an MA in American History from San Francisco State University.
Please join us in welcoming Robin Chandler to the California Digital Library.
For more information about the OAC, please see the document "Online Archive of California Transition 1999-2000" which is available on the Libstaff site at [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac ]. The document describes the progress and status of the OAC and some of the challenges ahead.
2. Circulation status information now available for UCB
The Melvyl Catalog now includes the circulation status information for items held by UC Berkeley. You can see the circulation status of a particular item by pressing the (UCB+circ status) link in your record display, or by selecting "UC Berkeley (+circ status)" from the Display Options menu. With the implementation of circulation status information for UCB items, the circulation status of 7 of the 9 UC campuses is now available online.UC Santa Barbara is currently working on a software enhancement to their system so work on the implementation of UCSB circulation links should begin by late summer 2000.
Implementation of circ links for UCLA has not yet been scheduled since UCLA is in the process of implementing a new system. We will schedule a date as soon as UCLA is ready.
Please note: circulation links are a critical component of implementing the new Request policy of borrowing items from other campuses if that item has been checked out locally.
3. Shared Cataloging Records Update
This weekend the Shared Cataloging files of records for the following electronic resources will be sent via ftp to the CDL and will be ready for retrieval by the nine campuses by April 21:
Academic IDEAL (207 titles)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (22 titles)
Blackwell Science (Synergy) (226 titles)
Company of Biologists (COB) (3 titles)
Elsevier ScienceDirect (971 titles)
IEEE Xplore (160 titles)
JSTOR (165 titles)
Kluwer Online (393 titles)
Project Muse (103 titles)
Springer LINK (355 titles)
Wiley (256 titles)
These files will be processed and loaded into the California Periodicals database by April 24. After this initial file transfer, file updates are expected on a weekly basis.
Production of Shared Cataloging records for CDL electronic journals began in January at UCSD under the direction of Crystal Graham. At the CDL, Beverlee French provides overall coordination of this effort and Rebecca Doherty is responsible for file distribution operations.
In addition, a group of Shared Cataloging Program Systems Liaisons (for file retrieval) has the operational responsibility for managing the files in coordination with campus practices.
Library staff interested in this program may subscribe to the listserv, SCP-L@ucop.edu (send the following line to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu: SUBSCRIBE SCP-L your name). For immediate questions on cataloging, contact Becky Culbertson at UCSD (rculbertson@ucsd.edu); for questions on file distribution, contact Rebecca Doherty at CDL (rebecca.doherty@ucop.edu). Further information about the CDL Shared Cataloging Project is available at: [ http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/disc/cdl/ ].
4. CDL Web Design Advisory Group Appointed
Through its various web sites, the CDL provides services and information about its mission and goals to the UC and other communities. It is vital that the design of all CDL web sites be clear and unambiguous. These web sites should work together as seamlessly as possible where required. They should not present any impediments to the effective use of CDL collections and services, and should complement and integrate effectively with campus library web sites. As the CDL evolves, new tools and services will need to be integrated into its various web sites. Existing services - such as the CDL-hosted databases web interface and the CDL Directory - will need to be updated and enhanced to include new features and functionality. Certain elements may need to be completely redesigned.The CDL Web Design Advisory Group has been appointed to advise the CDL on all aspects of interface design and web site integration. The primary function of this group will be to advise CDL Digital Library Services on the most appropriate ways to integrate new tools and services, to test and evaluate new features, and to provide feedback on important design issues. This group will also gather feedback from important library constituencies. More specifically, the CDL Web Design Advisory Group's charge encompasses all CDL web sites as they relate to the following:
- Advise on the appropriate ways to integrate new tools and services.
- Test and evaluate new design features and concepts.
- Solicit and gather feedback on new design issues from constituent groups.
- Provide assistance in the design of new and/or updated navigational schemes, graphics, etc.
- Provide guidance and feedback on ADA compliance issues.
- Advise on appropriate strategies for the ongoing development and maintenance of the CDL Vocabulary.
- Advise on appropriate strategies for the ongoing development and maintenance of campus library additions to the CDL Directory.
CDL Web Design Advisory Group members have been drawn from all aspects of library work, including technical services, bibliography, web management, systems and public services. Since the CDL serves users representing all disciplines within the University, the members are also representative of these major areas of study - arts and humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Group members are therefore well-placed to gather input from the various library constituencies they represent. The current members are:
Pat French, UC Davis
Carlos Rodriguez, UC Riverside
Elizabeth Sibley, UC Berkeley
Lorelei Tanji, UC Irvine
Brian Warling, CDL (Chair)
David Yamamoto, UCLA
More information about the CDL Web Design Advisory Group is available at the following URL: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/system_services/wdag/ .
5. New CDL-hosted Databases Available from the Web
In addition to accessing Francis and Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals through the RLG Eureka interface, users can now access them from the CDL-hosted databases interface (via z39.50 protocol).a. Francis
The FRANCIS database contains more than one million records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics. International in scope, it is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature--with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.It indexes more than 3,700 international journals, in addition to books, conference proceedings, French dissertations, and research reports.
FRANCIS covers items from 1984-present and is updated monthly. Most items have abstracts. It is produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS).
b. Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
The Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals database indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period.The Index describes the entire journal contents - articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements - and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. The file includes 27,000 records.
6. 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.
c. Information about CDLINFO
CDLINFO is designed to inform UC Librarians, and the UC community, about the progress of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the newsletter to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. More complete information about the CDL, as well as the Directory of Collections and Services which leads to digital resources, is available at the CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org.
Eligible subscribers: UC library employees
To subscribe for email distribution: Please send the following line to listserv@listserv.ucop.edu: SUBSCRIBE CDLINFO-L (your name)
CDLINFO is also published on the web at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/
Frequency of publication: Biweekly, or as new information warrants.
Communicating with the Listserv: While the CDL Listserv does not accept submissions, subscribers are encouraged to send suggestions, thoughts, and comments on material in the Listserv or on related issues to the CDL at cdl@www.cdlib.org.