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Winter 2002
In This Issue
New ORION Express Web Delivery: Receive Articles and More OnlineNow there's no need to come to a library or wait for the mail to receive photocopies. ORION Express, the UCLA Library's fee-based document delivery service,can send journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters via the Web directly to any home or office computer. Items are scanned, converted into Acrobat PDF format, and stored on a library server. Recipients are notified by email when the item is available online (usually within two business days of the request being placed), then open the URL provided in the body of the email to read, print, and/or download the document. In most cases the price for this delivery method is $3.25, the same charge as for photocopies. Free software, Acrobat 4.0 or higher, is required to view documents. A link to Adobe Acrobat is provided in the email so recipients can download it if it's not already available on their computers. To use this service, registered ORION Express users must change their delivery profile online at <www2.library.ucla.edu/service/docdelivery.cfm> by filling out the required fields. Allow one working day for the service to be activated. To register for ORION Express, visit the Web site at <www2.library.ucla.edu/service/docdelivery.cfm>. For further information, contact an ORION Express office: Biomedical Library - 310/825-4055; Law Library - 310/825-9317; Management Library - 310/825-3138; Research Library - 310/825-1263; Science & Engineering Library - 310/825-3646. What's New with the California Digital LibraryThe California Digital Library (CDL), the virtual tenth library of the UC system, has added a number of resources recently and is also continuing its transition to new journal article databases. New Resources New Abstracts & Indexes Interfaces New Library Web SiteThe UCLA Library has launched a redesigned and reorganized Web site. Based on an extensive user needs analysis, the new site streamlines access to library resources and services. New features on the homepage include a new electronic materials database (<http://eresources.library.ucla.edu>) with searching capabilities by title, keyword, subject area, or type of resource; and a database of hours (<http://hours.library.ucla.edu>) for all libraries that allows users to search by time of day, date, or library. Drop-down menus offer users the option of searching by type of item (book, article, electronic materials) or by subject area; the subject area guides have been created by librarians and contain resources in a variety of formats that are useful to research in that area. A left-hand column contains quick links to such frequently used resources as ORION2 (<http://orion2.library.ucla.edu>), Melvyl (<http://www.cdlib.org/collections>), renewals (<http://www.library.ucla.edu/borrowing/renewals.html>), and reserves (<http://ereserves.library.ucla.edu>) and remains consistent throughout all second-level pages. Second- and third-level pages also contain a navigation tree at the top of the page that will help users determine where they are within the site and return to previously viewed pages easily. UCLA Library Receives Preservation Grant from the Mellon FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded the UCLA Library a challenge grant to help staff address the problem of protecting the most fragile and highly used library resources. The initial grant of $340,000 will be used to establish a conservation treatment laboratory in which preservation activities will take place. The laboratory will be located at the Southern Regional Library Facility and is expected to be completed this year. In addition, the foundation will award the Library an additional $750,000 if an equal amount is raised from other library donors within three years. This fund of $1.5 million will be used to create an endowment for conservation and preservation, which will support these vital, ongoing activities permanently and thus help preserve library materials for many future generations of users. Library Receives Grant for Asian Studies MaterialsAs part of a $2-million grant to the College of Letters and Science to support the undergraduate Asian studies program, the Freeman Foundation has given the UCLA Library substantial funding to enhance its holdings in East Asian and Southeast Asian studies vernacular-language materials. The grant, which will be $75,000 per year for four years, will support acquisitions in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese journals, current and retrospective issues of Asian newspapers, and monographs in the curriculum's new areas of concentration. Nature Now Available OnlineUCLA Library users now have online access to Nature, the Nature Research journals, and the Nature Reviews journals. Licensed by the California Digital Library, the package includes Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Genetics, Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Structural Biology, Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. To access any of the journals, visit <http://www.nature.com/nature>. Library Acquires Susan Sontag PapersThe UCLA Library has acquired the papers of Susan Sontag, which form a unique record of her distinguished career in American letters. This extensive archive includes manuscripts of her writings; her correspondence with contemporary writers, artists, musicians and other intellectual and historical figures; her personal notebooks; and her private library of more than 20,000 books. Among Sontag's books are four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2000; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; a play, "Alice in Bed"; and seven works of non-fiction, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, On Photography, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors, Under the Sign of Saturn, and the recent Where the Stress Falls. The collection will be housed in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. It augments the department's other holdings of papers by contemporary American writers, who include Ray Bradbury, Raymond Chandler, Norman Cousins, Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Paul Monette, and Carolyn See. The archive was acquired with funds provided by an anonymous donor. Powell Music in the RotundaFriday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. Music by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and others performed by talented historical keyboard graduate students from UCLA Assistant Professor Tom Beghin's class will transport the audience back in time to the days of the composers. Tuesday, April 16, 4 p.m. The UCLA Byzantine Choir will perform unaccompanied ancient Byzantine church music. Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m. The UCLA Early Music Collective will explore the differing senses of early modern self and the body displayed in the music, song, and dance of the Italian intermedio and the English masque. For further information, visit the Powell Music Series Web site. |
