In response to COVID-19 library service disruptions, HathiTrust has taken an important step to open up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. UC faculty, students, and staff at […]
The American Library Association’s Executive Board has just announced that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic they are canceling the 2020 Annual Meeting scheduled for June 25-30 in Chicago. In light of this cancelation, WEST will be exploring alternatives for […]
Next week, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) will put the UC-eLinks icon into operation in its databases; rather than using the text link “UC-eLinks”, as it is currently doing. CDL licensed databases from CSA include the following, and many campuses also […]
Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego) now have access to The Gale Digital Scholar Lab. The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is designed to transform the way researchers access and analyze Gale’s primary source content by integrating […]
The TLtC’s efforts in this area thus far have been in publishing in its webzine last April articles on information literacy (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/feature.html) and the development of the new UC Merced library (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/merced.html). The TLtC webzine also has a special discussion […]
2008 annual UC systemwide aggregated and campus-by-campus usage statistics for selected major Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals, databases and ebooks are now available on the Inside CDL website.
Most of us shudder when it’s time for our annual performance review. Not only is it time-consuming but it can also be stressful, since you don’t know whether you and your manager will see eye-to-eye on your performance. You actually […]
Vendors are removing support for older browser versions, e.g., Netscape 4.x. The removal of support for older browser versions may cause problems for UC library users in locales that have not yet moved to the most recent browser versions in […]
The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of the new Melvyl-T production catalog to UC library staff. The URL for the new web-based version of the catalog is http://melvyl.cdlib.org The telnet address is [telnet://melvyl.cdlib.org]. During this limited release […]
The needs assessment has been designed to help the project designers understand current usage patterns and user needs, discover similarities and differences across a variety of audiences, find out which features users find most valuable, and identify any unmet user […]
