CONTENTS
- STIC Faculty and Student Title Survey
- Call for Focus Group Development Assistance
- Bob Brandriff Returns to CDL Technologies
- Joyce McDougal to Serve as Executive Secretary for the CDL
- Mary Jean Moore Leaves CDL to Teach
- Nancy Gusack Crawford, Senior Editor, Takes on MJ Moore's Duties
- CDL Milestones
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
1. STIC Faculty and Student Title Survey
In its October 1996 report, the Executive Working Group for the University of California Digital Library (CDL) recommended the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC) as CDL's first collection. In the Fall of 1997, the STIC Task Force developed a collection strategy to provide access to a wide range of materials. The initial focus has been on the most heavily used published journal literature from commercial and society-based publishers in a broad range of disciplines from the Life, Health, and Physical Sciences and from Engineering. Members of the Task Force are Alison Bunting (UCLA), Katie Frohmberg (UCB), Susan Starr (UCSD/UCOP), and Beverlee French (CDL). Stella Bentley (UCSB) and Locke Morrisey (UCI) were earlier members of the Task Force.In early 1998, librarians across the campuses invited members of the UC faculty to help identify the most heavily used published journal literature.
The STIC title list contains faculty recommendations from eight of the University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz). STIC Task Force members collectively developed PowerPoint presentations and held workshops in both Northern and Southern California to elicit the participation of UC faculty members in defining and planning the CDL's collections.
Across the campuses, nearly one thousand faculty members attended 64 presentations on the LPAI planning effort and the development of the CDL and the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection. Faculty members were asked to name the top five titles they would like to see at their desktops and the top five that should be available for their students. Many others participated in the survey by electronic mail and the Web.
Over two thousand faculty members responded to the survey, recommending a total of nearly 8,000 titles. Approximately half of the faculty responded by electronic mail. Five campuses used the Web as one method of contact to elicit nearly 200 responses. The rest of the responses were submitted on paper at the presentations.
Mary Engle (CDL) oversaw the reduction data and prepared the summary information. The merged lists of faculty titles and those recommended for students are available via a Web browser or FTP client at:
ftp://ftp.dla.ucop.edu/pub/shared_collections/STIC_data/Titlelist.xls
and
ftp://ftp.dla.ucop.edu/pub/shared_collections/STIC_data/Student_titles.xls
The first 1,000 titles are noted. They are arranged by the numbers of votes received and include the number of recommending campuses. Other files at this site include the list of campus departments that recommended the titles (VotesbyDept.xls) and a more detailed summary on campus participation (STIC_summary.doc).
For more information, see: ftp://ftp.dla.ucop.edu/pub/shared_collections/STIC_data
2. Call for Focus Group Development Assistance
As one of the first steps in establishing an evaluation program, the CDL wants to use focus groups to gather direct, qualitative feedback on collections and services. The focus groups would variously concentrate on UC librarians and on faculty, student, and staff patrons of digital collections. Focus group expertise will be developed with the cooperation of the campuses and results will be shared widely. The first CDL effort using this method will evaluate the comprehensive CDL Web site, which is planned for testing in late Fall 1998 and for wide release in January 1999.We are looking for an individual or two to assist in developing and transferring focus group expertise. The goals are to develop the evaluative focus group effort for late Fall, to identify expertise and interest on each campus in order to facilitate wide use of the method, and to establish portable methods and success factors for the focus groups. We anticipate that these contributors would work closely with the CDL from early October, 1998 through February, 1999 and devote approximately 20-30% of their time to the effort. The ideal assistance would come from people with experience in and enthusiasm for the focus group approach, a strong interest in the collaborative potential of the CDL, and substantial experience in public services and faculty and student outreach. Details of the collaboration would be negotiated between the CDL, each interested individual, and his or her home department or library.
Please contact John Ober, Assistant Director Education and Communication (John.Ober@ucop.edu (510) 987-0425) to express interest or for more information.
3. Bob Brandriff Returns to CDL Technologies
We want to thank Bob Brandriff for his service for the past year as Acting Director of CDL Technologies. Bob's tenure as Acting Director ends on September 1st when Joan Gargano begins her position as Director of CDL Technologies (see CDLINFO vol. 1., no. 11 at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo080498.html). Bob's patient and thoughtful leadership has been an integral part of the operational development of the CDL and of the incorporation of the former Division of Library Automation (DLA) into the CDL. Fortunately for all of his colleagues, Bob will continue to contribute his expertise and insights as he resumes his focus on CDL Technologies applications management.4. Joyce McDougal to Serve as Executive Secretary for the CDL
Joyce McDougal joined the CDL as Executive Secretary on August 17, 1998. She will provide executive secretarial support to Richard Lucier, University Librarian and Executive Director of the CDL. Joyce will schedule and organize meetings of Universitywide committees and task forces. She will have knowledge of the programs and activities of the California Digital Library and systemwide library planning activities.Joyce has worked for approximately 10 years for the University, most recently as Assistant to the Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences on the Berkeley campus, where she planned meetings and conferences, maintained the Chair's on-line calendar, and performed a wide variety of ad hoc tasks assigned by the Chair. Prior to her appointment in EECS, she was Assistant to Jim Dolgonas of IR&C.
5. Mary Jean Moore Leaves CDL to Teach
Best wishes to Mary Jean Moore, who has left CDL to pursue a new vision: She is returning to school fulltime for a teaching credential to become an elementary school teacher. MJ was DLA's and then CDL's Senior Writer. MJ was one of the original Melvyl Web interface pioneers, writing and editing the html shells that provide users with search and help information. Before the creation of the Web version, MJ provided literate Help screens for users of the Telnet Melvyl system. Basically, she provided much of the visible language interface between the Melvyl system users and programmers. In addition, she was the Editor of the DLA Bulletin for 12 years, and the original moderator of the CDLInfo Listserv. MJ was a member of the user Services group and coworker to all of us. Her work ethic and sense of humor fit right into the environment at DLA/CDL, and we think her students will appreciate both in her new career.6. Nancy Gusack Crawford, Senior Editor, Takes on MJ Moores Duties
Nancy Gusack Crawford, Senior Editor, will be taking on MJ's MelWeb interface duties. Nancy has been at DLA/CDL since 1984 and originally edited former Director Cliff Lynch's innumerable research papers. She relieved MJ of her Telnet Melvyl system tasks when the Web interface was initiated. Since then, Nancy has become responsible for much of the DLAWeb site documentation and has become a member of the User Services group under Laine Farley. In addition to moderating the IR-L Digest Listerv, she succeeds MJ as moderator of CDLInfo Listserv7. CDL Milestones
CDL Milestones are now posted on the new CDL informational web site [http://www.cdlib.org/] under News and Developments.8. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the Melvyl 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 melvyl@www.melvyl.ucop.edu.
- Click on "News" on the Melvyl web system (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.
9. Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
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