Library News for the Faculty

Winter 2001

In This Issue:

• New ORION2 Features
• What's New with the California Digital Library?
• E-books Added to Collection
• Reserves Offer Electronic Options
• UCLA Library Assesses Students' Information Competency
• Alert Your Students: Campbell Book Collection Competition Deadlines
• Powell Music in the Rotunda
• Think And Drink at the Library

New ORION2 Features

Several new features have recently been added to ORION2, the UCLA Library's World Wide Web-based information system. Users can access ORION2 through the Library's home page at <http://www2.library.ucla.edu> or directly at <http://orion2.library.ucla.edu>.

Recalls
Users can now recall items checked out to other users from within an item's record. To initiate a recall request, click on the line immediately above the holdings table that reads, "Detailed holdings, Recall, SRLF Request, ORION Express." Find the specific volume in the list of holdings and click the Recall button in the "Request Options" column.
     A login screen will ask you to enter your library account number, then a screen with information about the item to be recalled will appear. If that information is correct, click the Submit Recall button to complete the process. Notification will be sent by U.S. mail as soon as the item becomes available.
     All items you have placed recalls on will be listed in the "Titles on Request" section of My Account. You can access this feature by clicking "My Account" on the banner or footer on ORION2 screens.

Renewals
The renewals feature within My Account has been enhanced to make renewals simpler and quicker for users with many items checked out. You can access My Account by clicking "My Account" on the banner or footer on ORION2 screens, then log in with your library account number.
     Each page in My Account now contains a maximum of 50 items, which decreases the display time. To renew selected items on each page, click the box next to each; a check mark will appear. Then click the Renew Items button; the new due date(s) will appear. To renew all items on each page, click the box labeled "Renew all items on this page"; a check mark will appear. Then click the Renew Items button; the new due date(s) will appear. To cancel the transaction and begin again, click the "reset" link.
     If you have more than 50 items checked out, click on the "Next Page" link to see additional items, then follow the directions above to renew them. Please note that items will only be renewed on one page at a time.

Other Coming Features
Searching by call number and limiting searches to items in a specific location should be available on ORION2 by the end of the winter quarter.
     Testing has begun on software that presents search results in a more logical order, and that should be in place on ORION2 later this year. It will result in records produced by keyword searches appearing in the order of date of publication from oldest to newest. And records linked to headings (those produced by searches other than keyword and numeric) will appear in alphabetical order. Users will continue to have the option to sort results by author, title, subject, material, or ascending or descending date.
     Testing is also about to begin on a more sophisticated email feature, which will allow users to select multiple records from a results list and email only those records.

Gathering User Input
During January the Library will conduct a survey of user satisfaction with ORION2 on a random sample of students and faculty. To ensure that the sample is representative of the larger population, we ask that you complete the survey if you receive an email asking you to participate.
     Library staff have also developed new versions of the search screens and are in the process of gathering user reaction. If you would like to participate in a usability test on these search screens, contact Dawn Setzer by phone at extension 50746 or by email at <dsetzer@library. ucla.edu>.

As the implementation of ORION2 continues and new features are added, updates will appear in future issues of Library News for the Faculty.

What's New with the California Digital Library?

With its semiannual release on January 19, 2001, the California Digital Library, the virtual tenth library of the UC system, adds a number of enhancements.

Counting California
A prototype of Counting California, a gateway to government-produced social science data, is accessible through a single, easy-to-use Web interface. Users can find, combine, display, and use data on a broad range of topics from economics and education to crime and health. Counting California is one of the first collaborative efforts between the CDL and the Library of California.

Update on eScholarship
Through its eScholarship initiative aimed at addressing the future of scholarly publishing, the CDL is establishing prototype e-print repositories for several scholarly communities.
     Building on the experience of the Los Alamos arXiv e-print server, eScholarship is adapting and developing software that can support self-publishing for virtually any discipline.
     UC Press and eScholarship will also release their first electronic monograph in January, Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles by UCSF's Stanton A. Glantz and Edith D. Balbach.

Online Archive of California (OAC)
The experience of Japanese Americans interned during World War II is documented in the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA), a digital collection within the OAC that includes photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories. JARDA combines holdings from a number of California repositories including the UCLA Young Research Library Department of Special Collections; California Historical Society; California State Archive; California State University, Fullerton; Japanese American National Museum; UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library; University of the Pacific; and University of Southern California.
     Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) is a project that is investigating the geographic distribution and limited access to collections of unique materials held in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. MOAC is creating a prototype "virtual museum archive" that integrates standardized finding aids for museum and library special collections into a single source, thus providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California. In partnership with the CDL, ten California institutions are participating: UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, UC Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, and UCR/California Museum of Photography.

All CDL resources can be accessed through <http://www.cdlib.org>. Access to some resources is restricted to users at public workstations within the libraries or to UCLA faculty, staff, and students connecting through the campus network, Bruin OnLine, or Bruin OnLine Gold. For assistance with CDL or other digital resources, consult the public service staff in any campus library.

E-books Added to Collection

As a trial of the academic application of this growing publishing trend, the UCLA Library has acquired access to 572 e-books. The titles cover subjects in the humanities and social sciences, life and physical sciences, and management. Reference sources as well as monographs have been selected. Access has been licensed through netLibrary, the world's leading provider of electronic books.

Records for these e-books have been added to ORION2, so users will be able to find them by searching the catalog as they would for other UCLA Library materials. As with online journal subscriptions, users will find a URL field on applicable records just above the holdings table. The link reading "Online Access" will take users to a netLibrary information screen, where users can preview the book or check it out.

To check e-books out, users will be asked to create a free netLibrary account. All personal information in that account will be kept confidential and will not be disclosed to a third party without the user's consent. Depending on the subject and expected use, e-books have loan periods of two hours or three days.

The initial collection of 572 books has been licensed for one year. At the end of the year, subject specialists in the various disciplines will decide whether to continue to fund access to individual titles.

If you have questions or comments about this new service, contact Sharon Farb, digital acquisitions coordinator, by phone at extension 63388 or by email at <farb@library.ucla.edu>. If you would like to see an individual title acquired, contact your bibliographer.

Reserves Offer Electronic Options

UCLA Library materials are increasingly available in a variety of formats, electronic as well as print. The Library's reserve system can help faculty to identify and facilitate access to relevant materials for their classes in print and electronic formats. Among the electronic options are online journals, Web sites, scanned articles, licensed databases, and digitized audio files.

As an example, in the course Psychiatry 98D Violence in America, taught in Fall 2000 by O. Vernon Matisse, the College Library Reserves staff worked with Professor Matisse to locate and make available electronic versions of six of the 19 items he asked to have placed on reserve. Digital materials included articles from the FBI Library, the Federal Trade Commission Web site, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Web site, and Science magazine.

Reserves can also act as a gateway to other Library services. Students in Professor Matisse's seminar, who ranged from freshmen to graduate students, were required to complete a 15-page paper on a topic related to violence, synthesizing research from a variety of academic sources. An instructional session tailored to their research needs introduced the students to the most relevant databases and encouraged them to ask questions and take full advantage of library resources and services.

Electronic reserve services are currently available in the Biomedical, College, and Music libraries. For further information, visit the Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/welcome/services/fac-ta/reserve.html">.

UCLA Library Assesses Students' Information Competency

Information competency is vital to completing university-level coursework as well as in lifelong learning. In order to identify ways to make library instruction more effective, the UCLA Library recently completed a project to assess the information competency skills of UCLA undergraduates. The goal of this study was to provide librarians with information that will enable them to tailor their in-class and individual instructional sessions to the students' level of knowledge and to provide information that is crucial for success at UCLA.

The survey was conducted during Spring Quarter 1999 on a sample of 453 undergraduate students. It contained questions designed to assess students' information competency according to their ability to: define the research topic and the information need, develop and implement an effective search strategy/process appropriate for an information need, locate and retrieve information, evaluate the information and the search strategy, and organize and synthesize information. These criteria were based on a review of the literature in the field and on lists created by library colleagues; they also closely resemble standards published after the survey was completed by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

The committee that conducted the survey is finalizing its report. Librarians will soon begin contacting faculty members to initiate a dialogue on this issue and to discuss strategies for increasing students' information competency skills. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the report when it becomes available, contact Patti Caravello by phone at extension 54332 or by email at <patti@library.ucla.edu>.

Alert Your Students: Campbell Book Collection Competition Deadlines

All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to enter the 2001 Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition, with a total of $1850 in prizes available. First and second prizes are awarded in the categories of undergraduate and graduate collections; prizes are also awarded for a children's book collection and honorable mention. In addition, a special award will be given this year in memory of Newton Werner for an outstanding arts, music, or culture collection.

The deadline for entries is Wednesday, April 4, 2001. Entry forms will be available at the reference desks in the Arts, Biomedical, College, SEL/Engineering and Mathematical Science, and Young Research libraries and can also be printed from the World Wide Web at the URL listed below. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April 18, 2001.

Interested students are encouraged to attend a workshop on book collecting on Wednesday, February 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sidney Berger, director of the California Center for the Book, which is based at UCLA, will suggest ways to focus collections and write an effective annotated bibliography. It will take place in the YRL Department of Special Collections (room A1713).

Further information is available on the Campbell Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/committees/campbell/index.htm>.

Powell Music in the Rotunda

The 2000-01 season of the Powell Music Series continues throughout the winter quarter, featuring performances by UCLA students and faculty.

The Balkan Instrumental Ensemble and Women's Bulgarian Vocal Ensemble, both student groups from the Department of Ethnomusicology, will perform traditional Bulgarian music on Wednesday, January 31, at 4 p.m. The program will feature traditional instruments including a goatskin bagpipe (kaba gaida), wooden flute (kaval), plucked lute (tambura), bass drum (tupan), and vase-shaped drum (tarambuka), and traditional drone-based, two-part songs as well as three- and four-part arrangements of traditional songs.

Graduate students of Professor Tom Beghin will perform a historical keyboard recital on Friday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m. They will present works by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Dussek, brought to life on harpsichord and fortepiano, the 18th-century instruments these composers knew.

On Friday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., the UCLA Early Music Collective will present "The San Marco Connection: Secular & Sacred Music of the 17th Century." The gold-encrusted, Byzantine church of San Marco in Venice was the nexus for the last musical outpourings of the Renaissance and the beginnings of the musical extravagance of Baroque culture. This program will explore the diversity and influence of Venetian musical styles among Italian and non-Italian composers alike.

For more information, visit the Powell Music Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/nwsevnts/powmusic/index.htm>.

Think And Drink at the Library

Now users don't have to interrupt a study session for a shot of caffeine or a trip to the water fountain: the UCLA Library has designed a spill-proof mug that has been authorized for use in all campus libraries.

This attractive, 16-oz. thermal mug can be purchased for $3.95 in all ASUCLA restaurants and coffee houses. The first beverage is free with purchase, and refills of coffee, tea, or soft drinks cost 75¢ each.

Since protecting library materials and equipment is of paramount importance, this spill-proof mug has been thoroughly tested and is the only one users can use in the libraries.