Year: 2010
Letter to UC Faculty on Nature Publishing Group Subscription Increases
A letter dated June 4, 2010 describing exorbitant subscription increases on the part of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for the 67 journals UC licenses (including Nature) was distributed to UC faculty by campus librarians with the support of faculty […]
Looking anew at Service Level Agreements
“Service Level Agreements”–does the phrase bore you or bring you to tears? Make you run looking for a task designee? You are probably in good company. I suspect there are lots of Service Level Agreement (SLA) templates available online for […]
Immediate Change: Time, Inc. Titles Removed from LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis has informed us that Time Inc. has decided to withdraw its publications from all LexisNexis services, effective immediately. Previously, LexisNexis Academic was restricted to rolling coverage of the most recent 2 years for the titles shown below. As of […]
Ivy Anderson in Print
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies now being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library community, and by extension, […]
The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good
Are you a perfectionist? Not that there’s anything wrong with that! We all agree it’s important to take pride in our work, set goals, and try to achieve them. Lena and I are perfectionists — it’s why we are so […]
Project management and transformational change
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a day-long workshop to orient 3 new task force teams. In this context, a “task force team” is a 6-7 person team of experts drawn from different University of California (UC) campuses and […]
CDL Recruiting for Discovery & Delivery Programmer Analyst
By Lynne Cameron, Technical Lead, Discovery & Delivery Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III About you You are a programmer interested in being part of a team envisioning and building the next generation of library discovery […]
CDL Recruiting for Publishing Support Programmer
By Lisa Schiff, Technical Lead, eScholarship Publishing Group Job Summary: The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library provides open access digital publication services to the University of California academic community, supports widespread distribution of UC research materials, and fosters […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – May 2010
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager Two enhancements appear in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, May 23 install. The improvements include: A change to the global header: the Library custom web links at […]
3 Ways to be More Effective in Giving and Receiving Feedback
Unless you’re an art student or critic, giving and receiving feedback probably isn’t a formal part of your daily routine. The interaction can be stressful and contentious, regardless of whether you are the giver or receiver. Is it any wonder […]