CDLINFO Newsletter, April 28, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 8
CONTENTS
- Users Council: Annual Meeting
- Vendor Selected for MLA IB
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1. Users Council: Annual Meeting
The Users Council met for its annual meeting on April 22 at Preservation Park in Oakland.
Topics discussed during the morning session included UC-eLinks, Google Scholar, Metasearch, scholarly communication, the Melvyl Catalog, and Request. The afternoon was devoted to brief overviews of image services, digital site building, the Digital Preservation Repository and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), assessment at CDL, the American West Project, and the public site.
In addition to one member from every UC campus, the Users Council also has representatives from the California Academy of Sciences, the California Historical Society, the California State Library, the California State University Libraries, the Getty Research Library, Graduate Theological Union, Hastings College of the Law, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Lab, NRLF, SRLF, and Stanford University.
The meeting afforded an opportunity to inform members about current activities related to CDL projects, programs, and services, and to have an exchange of ideas and a time to answer questions.
For more information, contact your Users Council Representative.
2. Vendor Selected for MLA IB
A new vendor has been selected for the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA IB) and the MLA Directory. MLA will remove its database from the current CDL-licensed platform, Ovid, at the end of June.
After careful review and analysis of several vendor platforms by UC English and American Literature Bibliographers, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) was selected as the new vendor. CSA licenses other social sciences and humanities databases for UC.
The decision was made by the MLA review group using the database transition tools developed by the Tools and Services Working Group and the A&I Transition team.
There will be an overlap period with Ovid and CSA beginning in May and running simultaneously through June 30. As of July 1, CSA will be the sole source for UC's subscription to MLA IB. Details about how to access the CSA version of MLA and training materials for the new platform will be shared via the campus Users Council representatives and will also appear in a later CDLINFO issue.
Thanks go to John Novak, Chair of the English and American Literature Bibliographers, and Rob Melton, MLA IB Resource Liaison, for sharing the leadership responsibilities for the transition. The CDL, along with John and Rob, would like to thank members of the Literature Bibliographers Group, the Performing Arts bibliographers, and the numerous reference librarians and users on several campuses who assisted at various stages of the process, along with literature librarians at many other universities in the U.S. and Canada who shared their own decisions with us by email.
3. For More Information
a. News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!
In addition, status information about CDL resources, reports, and working documents of particular interest to library staff are available on the Inside CDL web site.
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing CDL resources or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, contact the CDL:- 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.
- Or, send an email to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
c. About CDLINFO
CDLINFO informs UC librarians and the UC community about the progress of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. Please share selected information from this newsletter with faculty, staff, and students on the campuses.
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