CDLINFO Newsletter, May 11, 2006, Vol. 9, No. 8
CONTENTS
- Users Council Annual Meeting
- NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
- 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 28 at Preservation Park in Oakland. Topics discussed during the morning session included a welcome by Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost, Scholarly Information and University Librarian, Systemwide Library Planning and California Digital Library, and presentations on the Open Content Alliance, Calisphere, and the Metasearch Infrastructure Project.
The afternoon was devoted to an update of Bibliographic Services, including the Melvyl Catalog, UC-eLinks, the Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS – Verde) and the Bibliographic Services Task Force. Other topics covered were Licensed Content and Request, and the reorganization of the Digital Library Services unit of the CDL.
In addition to one member from every UC campus, the Users Council 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. NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
By Ruby Bell-Gam (Resource Liaison), UCLA
NISC is discontinuing its “African Studies” database, replacing it with the more comprehensive “Africa-Wide NiPAD”, which includes all of the content of two NISC databases, “African Studies” and “South African Studies”. The new database solves the problem of fuzzy boundaries in scope between its two predecessors.
CDL access to Africa-Wide NiPAD on the NISC Biblioline platform began on May 1, 2006. NISC will no longer offer African Studies as a separate database, and although South African Studies continues to exist separately, campuses that previously subscribed to the latter will no longer need to do so, since it is now included in the merged Africa-Wide NiPAD.
The CDL consortial agreement with NISC provides for the following access types to Africa-Wide NiPAD for UC campuses:
- Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara; five concurrent users each;
- Merced, and Santa Cruz; one concurrent user each.
The Africa-Wide NiPAD URL is:
http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QNIPAD
3. Revised Image Displays in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Web Sites
The CDL recently completed an upgrade to its instance of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), which serves as the search and display system for the OAC. As part of this process, we launched updated versions of our displays for image and imaged text objects. These viewers will also be implemented in June for forthcoming CDL websites, Calisphere -- currently known as CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org -- and its subsite, California Cultures. Additionally, we used this as an opportunity to make incremental updates and corrections to OAC image, text, and finding aid search and browse results pages.
The revised object views also appear on the web site that commemorates the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/
Contributing institutions to the Earthquake & Fire web site include:- The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley
- California History Society
- The California State Library
- The Huntington Library
- The Society of California Pioneers
- The Stanford University Libraries — Special Collections & Archives
4. 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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