CDLINFO Newsletter, September 8, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 17
CONTENTS
- OAC Receives the Society of American Archivist's Coker Award
- Recent CDL Reports Available
- New Image Collection Now Available—Hartill Art and Architecture
- The Age of Reason arrives at UC: ECCO
- PAIS Archive
- FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, Film Literature Index
- For More Information
- News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- About CDLINFO
1.OAC Receives the Society of American Archivist's Coker Award
On August 19, 2005, at the Society of American Archivist's annual meeting, the Online Archive of California (OAC) received the C.F.W. Coker Award in recognition of the OAC's finding aid system, which provides a model for a consortial approach to the delivery of finding aids and digital objects.
Established in 1983, the award honors the memory of SAA Fellow C.F.W. Coker. The Coker Award recognizes finding aids, finding aid systems, projects that involve innovative development in archival description, or descriptive tools that enable archivists to produce more effective finding aids. Nominees must set national standards, represent a model for archival description, or otherwise have substantial impact on descriptive practices.
2. Recent CDL Reports Available
The CDL recently released two reports, one on Metasearch and another on Google Scholar. The first report was written in partial fulfillment of the CDL's National Science Digital Library (NSDL) grant. Titled "Integrating Information Resources: Principles, Technologies, and Approaches," it is specifically written to have utility beyond the NSDL project itself. The report is available on both the Inside CDL web site at:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/nsdl/ and
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/info.html
The second report is based on UC campus library responses to a CDL survey on how campus librarians and library staff are using Google Scholar in their own work, with students and faculty, at public service desks, and in instruction. The report, titled "UC Libraries Use of Google Scholar," is available from the Inside CDL web site
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/evaluation_activities/docs/2005/googleScholar_summary_0805.pdf .
3. New Image Collection Now Available—Hartill Art and Architecture
CDL has added the Hartill Art and Architecture collection of 16,660 images to Luna Insight ™. Hartill is available to all campuses. The images are primarily of architecture and include works from major periods, and monuments such as the Great Pyramids at Giza, Stonehenge, and the Viet Nam War Memorial. The collection c overs the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through the present, and from the Middle East to the Americas. It includes thousands of details of architectural decoration, mosaics, sculpture and stained glass, as well as related decorative arts and public sculpture. The collection is exceptionally strong in European medieval architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque and Gothic periods; additionally, modern architecture and sculpture are both especially well represented.
Access:
The collection can be accessed on Luna Insight ™ via the java client or a web browser.
Java client —Open Insight ™ and select "Hartill". ( To download the Insight ™ java client, go to the UC Image Service website: http://www.imageservice.cdlib.org/insight.html )
Browser -- http://uclibs.org/PID/97273Acquisition Background:
Alec Hartill of Hartill Art Associates, Inc., ARTstor and the California Digital Library reached an agreement to collaborate on the archiving, digitization and distribution of approximately 20,000 high quality slides, created by both Alec and Marlene Hartill of Hartill Art Associates, Inc. over the past 26 years. The images reproduce architecture and the built environment from antiquity to the present, and include thousands of details of architectural sculpture, mosaics and stained glass. Under the agreement, the California Digital Library purchased an archival set of the slides, which will be housed at one or more University of California campus libraries and made available for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. ARTstor is digitizing those slides, and the digital images will be incorporated into noncommercial educational resources supported, respectively, by ARTstor and the University of California. (Read the full press release http://www.artstor.org/info/collections/hartill.jsp )4. The Age of Reason arrives at UC: ECCO
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the digitization of 150,000 works published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800. It includes a variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the 18th Century. Included are works from women writers of the 18th Century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare.
The 18th Century brought the written word to the masses. With the expiration of strict printing controls and the Industrial Revolution, a large portion of the population previously unexposed to writings was exposed to a diverse collection of printed material. With a newfound passion for literacy, and an eager audience, texts explored new themes and ideas ranging from social and economic analysis and criticisms, to theories on man and society. Gale's ECCO digitally captures this influential period and provides a rich scholarly resource to UC.
ECCO was generously licensed by five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and San Diego) for perpetual rights on behalf of the entire UC system. This was a great example of consortial spirit ... all UC students and faculty will be able to read the complete original works of Ben Franklin and Adam Smith, not to mention look at 18th century maps and etchings, travel guides, poetry, songs and verses, medical texts, legal and ethical essays, architectural drawings and devotional works among other treasures of the Age of Reason.
The CDL interim page URL: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/ecco.html .
5. PAIS Archive
Beth Sibley (UC Berkeley) Resource Liaison
The PAIS Archive was recently released by CSA and thanks to CDL
funding is now available for all campuses on the CSA Illumina platform.
The current coverage is 1937-1976 with the rest of the backfile
(1915-1936) becoming available later this year. The database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. When complete, the PAIS Archive will contain over 1 million records.
The database provides historical perspective on many public policy,
political, economic, and social issues worldwide. Included are references to monographs, periodical articles, government documents, reports,pamphlets, notes and announcements, and analytics. The original historical subject headings have been retained in the file. Under "Search Tools" author, journal name and publication type indexes can be searched.
This resource can be accessed at: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/paisarc-csa.html
It also can be searched in combination with the current file PAIS International, 1972 to present: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/pais-csa.html .
6. FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, Film Literature Index
The CDL is pleased to announce UC access to three new film resources: FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, and the Film Literature Index.
Developed by the British Film Institute, FII gives full international coverage of films and film personalities from over 170 countries, up to the present day. All eras of film-making are covered - from the early silent movies to recent box-office hits. Based on the British Film Institute's Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database, Film Index International is both inclusive and authoritative.
FII is available on ProQuest at: http://fii.chadwyck.com/home .
FIAF International Film Archive database is an acclaimed international compendium of information on film and television from International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It brings together contributions from experts around the world dedicated to film preservation, cataloguing and documentation. It covers film literature from 300 periodicals since 1972, and includes the FIAF thesaurus. Additionally, the database features print sources for 22,000 silent films, a bibliography of FIAF members' publications and a directory of film and TV documentation collections.
FIAF is available on OVID at: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/fiaf.html .
The Film Literature Index (FLI) is an open access database from Indiana University. It is an index of 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001 (no current years). The FLI online database contains citations to film, television and video articles, reviews and book reviews.
FLI is available at: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/simpleSearch.jsp
These databases were recommended by the UC Performing Arts Bibliographer Group, endorsed by the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC), and approved by the Collection Development Committee (CDC) for systemwide participation.7. For More Information
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