Month: September 2002
$1 Million in New Grant Funding for CDL-led UC Library Projects
The CDL and partners have been awarded the following grants: 1) The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has provided $374,000 in funding for a two-year demonstration project led by CDL and the Berkeley Library in the creation of […]
New Resource Available
a. UC’s eScholarship supports BioMed Central Journals Under the auspices of the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program, the University of California has joined BioMed Central (BMC), an open access publisher, as an institutional member. UC’s collaboration with BMC is consistent […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. CDL Updates Retirement Notices Sent On September 25, the CDL sent out bulk mail messages notifying Updates holders of the upcoming database retirements and alternatives for Updates/Alerts in the vendor versions of the CDL-hosted journal article databases. They were […]
Library Staff News
a. Linda Gallaher-Brown Retiring from the CDL Linda Gallaher-Brown started out in computing in 1965 while a freshman at Sacramento State. Encouraged by her father, Jean Gallaher she took a summer job with the US Bureau of Reclamation programming in […]
Library Staff News
a. Mary Engle Moves to Part-Time The CDL regrets to report that Shared Content Analyst Mary Engle has relocated to southern California. Hired by the Division of Library Automation (DLA) in 1979, Mary filled a number of roles in her […]
eScholarship Repository Update
The eScholarship Repository–a central location for faculty working papers, pre-publications, and technical reports–is entering the second phase in its rollout. To see the repository in action, including a complete list of groups that have joined, visit http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/. In the first […]
UC TLtC Seeks Librarian Input (Paula Murphy, TLtC)
The TLtC’s efforts in this area thus far have been in publishing in its webzine last April articles on information literacy (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/feature.html) and the development of the new UC Merced library (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/merced.html). The TLtC webzine also has a special discussion […]
Open Access Ejournal Content
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended, and SOPAG concurred, that selected freely available ejournal content be linked (via UC-eLinks), cataloged by Shared Cataloging, entered into the CDL Directory, and monitored as other resources are (see http://www.cdlib.org/groups/jsc/ […]
New Resource Available
a. CRCnetBASE – 12 New Titles The CDL has purchased perpetual access to 12 new titles from CRCnetBASE and all nine campuses will share the annual access fees. – ATSDR’s Toxological Profiles [Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. UC-eLinks Pop-Up Window Version 1.3 Coming Next Week A new version of the UC-eLinks pop-up window will be released next week. Several improvements in this interface have been made, based on what was learned in usability testing. 1. The […]