CONTENTS
- Grant Support Received for Online Archive of California
- Environment Information Project
- IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) Site Now Available
- JSTOR Update
- Shared Collections Subject Area Surveyors
- Patron Initiated Requesting
1. Grant Support Received for Online Archive of California
In September 1998, LSTA awarded funds to the California Digital Library (CDL) to continue development of its Online Archive of California (OAC). The Library Services and Technology Act states as an objective the promotion of innovative programs in the ever growing field of library technology. The OAC is a state-wide digital archive that integrates into a single, searchable database thousands of archival finding aids and digital facsimiles of the contents of archival collections that are dispersed through the State. In its award letter to the CDL, the California State Library credited OAC staff for their progress on the online finding aids union database. The State's award letter highlighted OAC objectives of using the XML standard, creating collection-level records, reformatting paper finding aids, expanding participation throughout California, and providing an evaluation of user benefits as examples of the leadership that the CDL and UC are taking in the area of digital archival finding aids.2. Environment Information Project
A. Grant Support for Additional Year
In addition to the successful OAC grant mentioned above, the CDL also received approval of LSTA funds for the California Digital Library, Library of California Access to Environmental Information Project. The Environmental Information Project (EIP) began in 1997, to demonstrate the economic and intellectual benefits of a collaboration between the Library of California (LOC) and the CDL, as well as to explore the infrastructure issues involved in delivering electronic content through the CDL to participants in the LOC. During the first year of the EIP, ending on September 30, 1998, an Environmental Information Project web site was developed (at http://www.eip.cdlib.org/) to provide access to environmental information contained in a licensed database (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), University of California collections, and selected sites on the Internet. The CDL made the environmental web site available to 33 California libraries of various types, including public, special, and academic libraries, and provided training to staff at those sites. In late summer, users of participating libraries gained access to this new resource.In its award letter, the State Library emphasized that the EIP project was significant for several reasons, particularly because it demonstrates that the CDL and the Library of California can develop joint projects to make new information resources available which have the potential to be of long-term benefit to Californians. In addition, the State Library recognized the importance of the development and implementation of shared database licensing in a multi-type library environment. The evaluation phase of the project is particularly important, given the September 29th signing of the Library California legislation (S.B. 409) by Governor Wilson.
B. Thanks to Barbara Schader
The Environmental Information Project owes much of its success to date to the extraordinary contributions of UCLA librarian Barbara Schader, who acted as the Environmental Librarian for the project during its first year. Barbara's oversight of the development of the collection included managing the selection and digitization of UC-owned materials. Barbara also acted as the principal point of contact for the 33 participating libraries, and helped develop the successful training of project participants. As Barbara returns to full-time status at UCLA please join us in thanking her for her tireless contributions.
3. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) Site Now Available
The IEEE CSDL and the California Digital Library (CDL) have agreed to offer an experiment allowing users to connect to individual articles in journals produced by the IEEE Computer Society. This experiment ends December 31, 1998.The CSDL offers its full-text online collection of all issues of 18 periodicals produced by the Computer Society from January 1995 through the present. The titles are Computer, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Design & Test of Computers, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Micro, IEEE MultiMedia, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics.
IEEE CS periodical issues produced in 1995 and 1996 are posted in the CSDL in HTML format. Issues produced since January 1997 are posted in the CSDL in both HTML and PDF formats.
Article-level links are in Melvyl Web records for these journals in addition to the "Article image" links that are already available in the ongoing IEEE/UC joint project.
Both the IEEE CS and CDL will keep each other up to date on access methods and usage statistics (e.g., which periodicals are accessed most frequently, which years are accessed, and the number of "visits" and individual document requests made) as they are identified and collected.
Continuation of the project into 1999 is under discussion.
4. JSTOR Update
Users may presently access the JSTOR collection at the article level only by linking directly to the JSTOR Web site. (See CDLINFO Issue #13 for a description of the collection and access information.) You can also access JSTOR journal titles by selecting Journal List at the top of the Electronic Journal selection of the Melvyl "Resources" page.The CDL is working on providing article-level links, targeted for availability in early 1999, directly from the Melvyl Web site.
5. Shared Collections Subject Area Surveyors
The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC) has identified those selectors who will help survey digital collection issues in disciplinary areas. These individuals will represent existing selector groups and additional disciplinary areas to help identify the range of digital information already available and the variety of challenges and opportunities that confront different disciplines. The JSCSC plans were described in vol. 1 no. 11 of CDLINFO (available via the CDL web at http://www.cdlib.org/news/).JSCSC survey coordinators and surveyors include:
ARTS (Alan Ritch, coordinator)
Art and Art History: Christine Bunting, UCSC
Dance and Theater: Lorelei Tanji, UCI
Film and Video: Gary Handman, UCB
Music: John Tanno, UCR
HUMANITIES (Cindy Shelton, coordinator)
British and American History: Ellen Broidy, UCI
English and American Lit: Margaret Gordon, UCSC
European history, lit, etc.: Katalin Radics, UCLA
Philosophy/Religion: Myra Anderson, UCR
Womens Studies: Nancy Kushigian, UCD
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Barbara Kornstein, coordinator)
Anthropology: Kathy Creely, UCSD
Business/Econ: Milt Ternberg, UCB
Ethnic Studies: Rafaela Castro, UCD
Geography/Maps: Mary Larsgaard, UCSB
Political Science: Nancy Koller, UCR
Psychology/Education: Joan Kaplowitz/Diane Childs, UCLA
Social Sci data sets: Libby Stephenson, UCLA
Sociology: Beth Sibley, UCB
AREA STUDIES (Clint Howard, coordinator)
East Asian: Karl Lo, UCSD
Latin American: Eudora Loh, UCLA
Southeast Asian: Suzanne McMahon, UCB
[others to be announced later]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES (Alan Ritch, coordinator)
Jackie Dooley, UCI, consultant
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (Barbara Kornstein, coordinator)
Lucia Snowhill, UCSB, consultant
Priorities in the Sciences were identified by the STIC survey process (see CDLINFO Vol.1, No.12). The STIC Task Force and liaisons identify ongoing issues.
6. Patron Initiated Requesting
Readers are reminded that a major effort to discuss the PIR project and to gather campus input will take place at PIR Update sessions scheduled this week (for Southern campuses on October 12th at UCI and for Northern campuses on October 15th at UCSF).The Updates, covering all aspects of PIR, will be attended by representatives from SOPAG (Systemwide Operations and Planning Group), HOPS (Heads of Public Services), HOS (Heads of Systems), HOPS ILL, Interlibrary Loan Managers and other staff, Circulation Managers, and Technical Services/Systems staff.