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Fall 2001
In This Issue:
ORION2 Update: New Quick Search Screen LaunchedThe UCLA Library has launched a redesigned Quick Search screen on ORION2, the Library's Web-based catalog. Based on extensive usability testing conducted over the summer, an analysis of user comments since January, and input from the ORION2 Faculty Advisory Committee, this new screen should alleviate many of the common confusions users have experienced with the system. Users can access ORION2 directly at <http://orion2.library.ucla.edu> or through the Library homepage. New Screen Coming Features As further enhancements are added to ORION2, updates will appear in future issues of Library News for the Faculty. What's New with the California Digital LibraryThe California Digital Library, the virtual tenth library of the UC system, has added a number of enhancements over the summer. Special Collections Request New Abstracts & Indexes Interfaces These changes are being made in conjunction with the replacement of the Melvyl Catalog (see below) and allow CDL staff to concentrate on providing value-added services such as links to full content and online interlibrary loans. In a number of cases, the new interfaces will provide access to additional content such as graphs, charts, and illustrations. Melvyl Catalog Replacement Increased Budget Supports Expanded Hours, ServicesUCLA's recently announced 2001-02 budget contained good news for the Library: an increase in temporary funding of $2 million, with plans to identify funding sources to make the increase permanent. More than a third of the additional amount is going toward collection development to replace collection funds cut from the state's budget. A substantial amount has also been dedicated to expanding hours at all campus libraries throughout the year, including both regular sessions and intersessions. Since graduate students are among the heaviest library users, they were surveyed during the summer to determine the days and times that would be most useful for them. In addition, a portion of the funding is being used to expand a pilot project in online, real-time reference, through which reference librarians use shared browsing to answer users' questions and virtually "walk them through" search strategies and online resources. The Library will also launch a newly created information literacy initiative, based on the results of a study at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/infocompetence> published earlier this year. New Electronic Reserves System LaunchedERes, the UCLA Library's new electronic reserves system, debuts this fall at <http://ereserves.library.ucla.edu>. This Web-based system offers online access to lists of class reserve materials in the Arts, Biomedical, College, East Asian, Management, Music, Research, and Science & Engineering libraries as well as to the full text of many of the items themselves. Reserve materials can include library-owned items such as books, compact disks, and videos; instructors' personal copies of books; and electronic documents such as articles from online journals, scanned versions of print items (articles, lecture notes, exams), sound recordings, images, and Web pages. Students can search for reserve materials in a number of ways. They can choose from an alphabetical, drop-down list of departments; from an alphabetical, drop-down list of instructors; or through keyword searches by course title, instructor's name, department, document title, or document author. With this new system, faculty and instructors now use a Web interface rather than paper forms to place items on reserve. For information on how to place reserve requests and to access the online form, visit the Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/welcome/services/fac-ta/eres_facta.html>. To allow sufficient time to process materials and prepare purchase orders for titles not owned by the library, reserve lists should be submitted three months in advance of the academic term in which they are to be used. Material for each class should be placed on reserve at only one library to prevent confusion for students. Because of copyright restrictions, users must be on the campus network or accessing the system from off-campus through Bruin OnLine, Bruin OnLine Gold, or the UCLA proxy server. No special software other than a Web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) is necessary to view reserve lists; however, some reserve items may require additional applications or plug-ins such as Microsoft Word (for text files), Adobe Acrobat (for PDF files), and RealMedia Player (for RealMedia audio files). CDL MEDLINE/HealthSTAR Transitions to PubMedThe California Digital Library (CDL) is nearing the end of its transition from the CDL-hosted MEDLINE/HealthSTAR database to PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). MEDLINE will continue to be available as a CDL-hosted database (Web and telnet interface) through this fall, but access will be discontinued as of December 31, 2001. CDL staff and health sciences librarians throughout UC have been working with the NLM to offer enhanced PubMed features to UC users. These include direct links from the abstract display to many of the electronic articles provided by the CDL and the UCLA Library, the ability to request copies of articles from other campuses or through ORION Express, and the display of library locations for print holdings. To access these new features, link to PubMed via Biomedical Library's Web page at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed>. For assistance with PubMed, consult the staff at the Biomedical Library reference desk or through email at <biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu>. The decision to transition to PubMed was made for a number of reasons. These include the fact that PubMed is available free of charge via the Internet (and will continue to be so for users after they leave UC), and PubMed provides access to many valuable features that CDL does not have the resources to implement in MEDLINE/Health Star. Study on Journal Usage Begins October 1The UCLA Library is participating in a UC-wide grant-funded research project to study how scholars use and libraries can integrate and preserve scholarly journals that are published in both print and digital formats. The 12-month research phase, which began October 1, involves removing from libraries selected print journals for which electronic access is provided and placing the print volumes in storage. Signage in the stacks where volumes have been removed directs users to the online version, and users can page volumes from the Southern Regional Library Facility if they need to consult the print version. Researchers are gathering data, including cost and usage figures, for both formats of the selected journals. The California Digital Library is coordinating the study, called the Collection Management Initiative, for which UC received a $670,000, two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The third phase of the project will involve evaluating strategies, policies, and programs for archiving and managing both digital and print collections. The study is reversible, if results warrant. The study's advisory structure is headed by a steering committee chaired by Brian Schottlaender, university librarian at UCSD, with members including faculty and other university librarians. The research advisory committee is chaired by Gary Lawrence, UC's director of library planning and policy development, and comprised of faculty members from a number of library schools. And the operations advisory committee, chaired by Cecily Johns, associate university librarian at UCSB, includes representatives from each campus. For further information on the UCLA Library's participation in this study, contact Cindy Shelton, associate university librarian for collections and technical services, by phone at 51201 or by email at <cshelton@library.ucla.edu>. UCLA Library Staff NewsInterim Head of Oral History Program. Jan Reiff, a 20th-century social and urban historian who has been on the faculty of the UCLA History Department since 1993, has been appointed as interim director of the Oral History Program (OHP). She has regularly used OHP resources in her teaching and looks forward to strengthening the ties between the program and the teaching and research mission of the university. Reiff's appointment extends through June 30, 2002. 2001 Librarian of the Year. Norma Corral, reference librarian in the Charles E. Young Research Library's Reference and Instructional Services department, has been honored as the 2001 Librarian of the Year by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles (LAUC-LA). The award recognizes Corral's contributions to diversity, librarianship, and the teaching and research missions of the university. She has long advocated cultural diversity by incorporating a broad perspective in her teaching, bibliographic instruction, and collection development; by mentoring students; by recruiting people of diverse backgrounds to the library profession, the UCLA information studies program, and the UCLA Library; and by challenging as well as engaging her colleagues to address these issues. LAUC is the University of California's primary organization for professional librarian and governance affairs. Semi-Annual Loans Due for RenewalMaterials checked out on semi-annual loans and due November 1 should now be renewed. Users can renew their own materials by using the renewal feature within My Account on ORION2 at <http://orion2.library.ucla.edu>. Users can also renew materials by calling the telephone renewal number at 310/825-9188, by email at <url-circ@library.ucla.edu> (please include your library account number), or in person at any campus library. This applies to materials checked out from the Arts, Music, and Research libraries and the Southern Regional Library Facility only. |
