Month: September 2013
Changes to WEST Program Management
We are pleased to announce some changes in the WEST (Western Regional Storage Trust) program management as WEST enters into its next 3-year phase (Phase 2). Beginning in October 2013, Emily Stambaugh, CDL Shared Print Manager, will serve as WEST’s […]
Emily Stambaugh to Speak on Shared Print
CDL’s Shared Print manager, Emily Stambaugh, will be a speaker at a free program entitled, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections”, co-sponsored by OCLC, SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), and Loyola Marymount University on October 15, […]
Request 2.0: same same, but different
During the last two weeks of September, you may have noticed a change to the Request interface. CDL has upgraded Request, the interface UC staff, faculty, and students use to submit document delivery (where offered) and interlibrary requests. In look […]
Licensed Resources: RAND California Platform Change
RAND California (All campuses; on the RAND platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/8262 RAND California has had a platform change, including a new URL. RAND California is a collection of social science data in fourteen broad areas: Population & Demographics Health & Health Care […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — September 2013
It appears that CDL will be moving forward with a Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) pilot with YBP/Ebrary. Therefore, SCP expects to start distributing OCLC records for these DDA titles sometime in the next several weeks. The records will be distributed […]
New Licensed Resources: Harvard University Press eBooks; Karger Journal Archive and eBooks
By Wendy Parfrey, CDL Shared Content Coordinator Harvard University Press eBooks, 2013 Custom Collection Along with other recently acquired digital ebook collections, all UC campuses will now have access to a recently published collection of Harvard University Press titles on […]
New Licensed Resource: Foundations & Trends – nowPublishers
By Julia Gelfand (UCI), Resource Liaison for nowPublishers The Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego campuses are now participating in a Tier 2 package from nowPublishers that releases 31 titles in the Foundations & Trends (FnT) product line […]
UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS) Coordinating Committee Chair Appointed
By Marlo Young (UCSD), UCLAS Communications Manager Monthly updates from the new University of California Advisory Structure will commence in October 2013. Rosalie Lack (CDL) has been appointed Chair of the Coordinating Committee. More detail on the UCLAS Charge to […]
Next Generation Technical Services Management Team Final Report
The Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has just endorsed the Next Generation Technical Services Management Team Final Report (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/ngts/docs/NGTS_final_report_0813.pdf). The NGTS Management Team established a model for cross-functional working groups and project management that continues via the new UC Libraries […]
New Web Archive: Current Events in China – Popular Websites, Blogs & Twitters
By Su Chen, Head, UCLA East Asian Library Newsnet, Commentary, Blog, and Twitter are the major channels for over 500 million Chinese to access news, voice opinions, and exchange ideas on current important domestic and international issues, although the exchanges are […]