Category: Shared Collections
CDL recruiting for Shared Print Manager
The California Digital Library (CDL) seeks an innovative and proactive Manager of Shared Print to plan and oversee projects that allow the University of California libraries to share and coordinate printed collections.
Shared Print is a major collaborative effort of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) designed to enable the UC libraries to meet the complex information needs of an outstanding faculty and student body in the 21st century through creative and effective sharing of printed materials. The Shared Print program assumes a leadership role in planning sustainable systems for millions of printed library materials, develops mechanisms for effective and creative resource sharing, and provides a focus for the development of strategies and initiatives that guide the University’s libraries through the transition to a more collaborative approach to building and sustaining library collections.
Interim Resource Liaison Coordinator
As many of you know, Heather Christenson, who has served as Resource Liaison Coordinator at the CDL since 2002, has recently assumed the role of CDL Project Manager for the UC implementation of Verde, the electronic resource management system from Ex Libris. With this new challenge, the Resource Liaison program must reluctantly bid Heather a fond farewell.
New Nature Journals Available
By Teri Vogel (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison for Nature journals The UC campuses now have access to the newest titles in the growing collection of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journals. The multidisciplinary Nature Nanotechnology (launched in Fall 2006) will […]
2005 Annual Usage Statistics Report Available
Selective Tier One and Tier Two journal and database usage statistics for calendar year 2005 are now available on the Inside CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html#2005. There are two reports included: Ejournal articles viewed by campus and Database searches by campus. […]
Retrospective Bibliographic Searching in the Life Sciences
By Beth Weil (UC Berkeley), Web of Science Resource Liaison UC has just obtained access to the Biosis backfile (Biosis Archive) which comprehensively covers the biological sciences literature from 1926-1968. The current Biosis file has covered the data from 1969-present. […]
New Citation Report provides H Index
The latest quarterly software update for Web of Science introduced a new feature called the Citation Report. It captures citation activity and identifies citation trends. The Citation Report enables you to instantly create formatted reports for any General Search (author, […]
UC Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) Project Update
The following is a summary of recent ERMS project activities, and plans for the coming months. Ex Libris product manager Ted Koppel visited the CDL in November. As a result of this meeting, CDL is in the process of upgrading […]
Mass Digitization: Open Content Alliance and the UC Libraries
On December 6, 2006, Microsoft released the beta Live Search Books (http://books.live.com), providing a new portal to access UC libraries books scanned by the Internet Archive (IA) for the Open Content Alliance. An initial review of Microsoft’s service was provided […]
SCP Use of OpenURLs
Becky Culbertson, Manager, Shared Cataloging Program, reported that on July 1, SCP catalogers began to use SFX OpenURLs on new and existing serial records. These URLs will be used in lieu of PIDs to the greatest extent possible. The same […]
New Resource Available
a. North American Women’s Drama By Jane Faulkner (UC Santa Barbara), Resource Liaison North American Women’s Drama is a full-text database of 1500 plays written by women from the United States and Canada from the Colonial period to the present. […]