Year: 2011
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 […]
New Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Courier Service to Launch November 7
By Eric Scott, Chair, RSC As of November 7, the University of California Libraries will begin using a new courier service for our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) intercampus deliveries, Accurate Courier Services (http://www.accurate-courier.com/). Based on a charge from CDL and SOPAG, the […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: October 2011
NGTS develops definitions, best practices for system-wide work The UC Libraries’ Next-Generation Technical Services initiative has four major aims: 1) cooperative collection development; 2) collaborative technical services; 3) collaborative digital initiatives; and 4) financial and technical infrastructure for system-wide collaboration. […]
CDL Security guidelines adopted and posted
By John Ober, Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support The CDL has adopted and published a set of Information Technology Key Security Guidelines & Baseline Supporting Practices, along with a companion System Access and Account Management Policy. The guidelines are available […]
New Custom URL for PubMed
Recently, it came to our attention that PubMed had changed its URL, which subsequently changed the custom URL used by the UC campuses. PubMed’s custom URL includes specific components (tool & otool) that allow the interface to incorporate linking and […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – October 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 […]