CDLINFO LISTSERV, December 11, 2003, Vol. 6, No. 20
CONTENTS
- Open for Business as Usual During the Holidays
- New Resource Available
- Release 3 of Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment from Alexander Street Press (Jane Faulkner, UC Santa Barbara)
- Take Our Survey! Give us Feedback!
- Image Service Demonstrator Project: New Web Page
- Counting California: New Search Engine for Census 2000 Summary Files 1, 2, 3, and 4 (California)
- Shared Content: Signed License Agreements Now Distributed in PDF
- Library Staff News
- New CDLINFO Editor
- For More Information
- CDL News and Publications
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about CDLINFO
1. Open for Business as Usual During the Holidays
The CDL will be open in between the official UC winter holidays (December 24-25, 2003) and the New Year's holidays (December 31, 2003-January 1, 2004) and the beginning of the winter quarter/semester.
The specific days CDL will be open are: Friday, December 26; Monday and Tuesday, December 29-30; and Friday, January 2, 2004. On these four days, CDL staff will be available to answer both the CDL Helpline (510-987-0555) and the CDL main phone line (510-987-0425) for the convenience of all callers.
2. New Resource Available
a. Release 3 of Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment from Alexander Street Press (Jane Faulkner, UC Santa Barbara)
Alexander Street Press has just announced Release 3 of Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment at <http://alexanderstreet2.com/eenalive/>.
Nearly 1,000 new, fully indexed images are included in the database. Also included are more than 9,000 Audubon prints from "The Birds of America" as well as the complete contents of the three-volume "The Quadrupeds of North America," all of which have connections to the theme of explorers, expeditions, the environment, and their relationships to Native American peoples.
Newcomers to Early Encounters will find it easy to browse and search more than 80,000 pages of primary source materials that have until now been difficult to find outside the rare book room. At any point in a search, users can click on the title of a work and see the entire table of contents, with links to every chapter. Users can download chapters, sections, or even the entire book.
MARC records will soon be available, free of charge, for every book and manuscript in this new release. To learn how to download the records, please email Jane Faulkner, the Resource Liaison for Early Encounters, at faulkner@library.ucsb.edu.
3. Take Our Survey! Give us Feedback!
In September 2003, the CDL launched two new web sites: the CDL "brochure" site, intended to provide general information about the CDL to a broad public audience, and "Inside CDL," intended to provide UC library staff and other CDL partners with the supporting documentation required to accomplish their collaborative work with the CDL.
Three months have passed since the launch of the two sites, and the CDL now invites and encourages you, our partners, to spend a few minutes exploring the sites and provide us with additional feedback on how well the new sites are meeting your information needs. The URLs for the sites are:
CDL brochure site: http://www.cdlib.org
Inside CDL: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/
The brief survey is available at: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlib_survey.htm
The last day to take the survey is Friday, December 19. Thank you in advance for taking a few moments to provide us with feedback.
4. Image Service Demonstrator Project: New Web Page
The CDL is pleased to announce the release of a web page for the Image Service Demonstrator Project, a CDL development initiative, at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image/.
The site is intended primarily for librarians, library staff, and visual resource staff, not end users or the general public. However, feel free to use any of the information on the site for your users as you deem appropriate.
Included on the site are links to instructional materials, such as a one-page Insight Quick Guide created by Rina Vecchiola, UC Irvine, and a description of collections by Kathryn Wayne, UC Berkeley. These instructional materials can also be found on the Inside CDL web site at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/instruct/.
We will continue to add information as it becomes available.
Thanks to the project team members, listed on the web page, for their help in compiling and organizing the information.
5. Counting California: New Search Engine for Census 2000 Summary Files 1, 2, 3, and 4 (California)
A new search engine for the Census 2000 Summary Files 1, 2, 3, and 4 is now available at: http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/cms.search.html.
This search engine allows users to search on table title, description, creator, date, or subject. We anticipate that all titles in Counting California will soon be using this new search engine, so stay tuned for new and improved searching.
6. Shared Content: Signed License Agreements Now Distributed in PDF
The CDL is now sending the campuses completed license agreements executed by the CDL for shared digital content in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
In the past, licensing staff at the CDL sent these documents in paper to each campus for filing and distribution to relevant staff. We are now storing the complete original signed documents electronically, so we can send them as PDF files. The PDF format preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of the source documents, including readable signatures and manuscript corrections. This saves CDL staff time by eliminating processing and mailing, and is a step in reducing our reliance on paper.
We hope that this will better meet campus needs for internal distribution and storage. Distributing compact PDF files to each campus provides an auditable and verifiable trail. Each file can be used for viewing and printing at the campus using free Adobe Reader® software.
Redacted versions of license agreements for shared digital content are publicly available, and may be viewed at <http://alfalfa.ucsd.edu/cdl/index.jsp>.
If you have any questions, or wish to continue receiving license agreements in paper through postal mail, please email Curtis Lavery, Licensing Coordinator, at curtis.lavery@ucop.edu.
7. Library Staff News
a. New CDLINFO Editor
Jennifer Colvin is the CDLINFO editor. Rosalie Lack, who edited CDLINFO for the past several years, has started a new position at the CDL as Manager of Public Content. Submissions for CDLINFO may be emailed to jennifer.colvin@ucop.edu.8. For More Information
a. CDL News and Publications
News and events, press releases, reports and guidelines, and articles published by CDL staff are posted on the CDL web site at http://www.cdlib.org/. 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 at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/.
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.
- Send an e-mail message 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. Information 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, as appropriate.
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