Month: November 2011
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: November 2011
Power of Three Groups: Lightning Teams charged and moving forward Lightning Teams (LTs) created under POTs 2 through 6 have begun working on specific, defined tasks in support of the NGTS objectives and deliverables. Their charges and rosters have been […]
Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?
Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are composite fictional portraits created to represent different user types who […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – November 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]
bX Recommender Purchase Postponed Indefinitely
The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) gave serious consideration to the purchase of bX Recommender following a three month trial and assessment last spring. HOPS determined the service to be of some usefulness in increasing discovery of UC’s full […]
Discover the groundbreaking research of UC’s Nobel Laureates in eScholarship
Last month, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at UC Berkeley. Want to explore his groundbreaking research? Check out some of his recent publications (http://www.escholarship.org/uc/search?creator=%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22;creator-join=or) in […]
WAS Under the Hood: How Web Archives Work – Nov 16 Webinar
The Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org) enables librarians, archivists and researchers to capture websites, and to build and publish web archives. Join us Wednesday November 16th at 9 am Pacific for a webinar on the technologies behind the Web Archiving Service. […]
Data Management Tool Launched by University of California Libraries and Partner Institutions
The press release (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/26584) below was distributed by the UC Newsroom (and at partner institutions) this morning: Important questions are challenging researchers today: Where should their research data reside? How can they make the data discoverable by other investigators and […]