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Winter 1999
In This Issue:
The Web of Science Now Online: Indexes Journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and HumanitiesThrough the efforts of the California Digital Library, UCLA now has access to the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Web of Science. Released in early 1997, the Web of Science provides online access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Collectively, these multidisciplinary databases index more than 8,000 scholarly journals. The Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 journals in 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more titles than the print or CD-ROM versions. The index is updated with 17,000 new records every week. The Social Sciences Citation Index fully covers 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines and is updated with 2,800 new records each week. Relevant items from more than 3,300 leading scientific journals are added on a selective basis. The Arts & Humanities Citation Index fully covers more than 1,140 journals and is updated with 2,200 new records every week. Arts and humanities articles are also selected from more than 6,800 leading science and social science journals. UCLA will have access to the 1994-1998 files of all three databases, which can be searched individually or in combination. The Web of Science offers two search modes: Easy Search or Full Search. Easy Search permits the user to search by topic, which looks for matches in the title, keywords, or abstract; by person, which retrieves articles that the person has written, that cite a given person, or that are about the person; and place, which retrieves articles published by persons working at a given institution or organization or in a specific geographic area. Full Search allows the user to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, and author affiliation, as well as to search for articles that cite a specified author or article. In addition, Web of Science offers:
The Web of Science is available on the public workstations in all library units. Users with domain names of ucla.edu or dialing in on Bruin OnLine accounts can also access it from outside of the library. The Web of Science can be accessed through the "Digital Resources" link on the UCLA Library home page at <http://www.library.ucla.edu> or directly at <http://www.webofscience.com>. If you have questions about the Web of Science, please contact staff at the reference desk in any campus library. Science OnlineThe UCLA Library now offers online access to Science magazine, the world's largest-circulation general scientific publication. This weekly publication combines important breaking news in science and science policy with a selection of scientific papers reporting the most significant breakthroughs in global research. In addition to the news, articles, and reviews available in the print edition, Science Online provides:
California Digital Library Goes PublicThe California Digital Library (CDL) opens its public "virtual doors" on January 20, 1999, by making available an integrated Web gateway to collections, services, and tools at <http://www.cdlib.org>. The CDL is also accessible through the UCLA Library Web site at <http://www2.library.ucla.edu>. Through browsing and searching tools, the CDL provides enhanced access to more than two thousand electronic journals from major scholarly publishers and information providers such as the Web of Science at <http://www.webofscience.com>, JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, High Wire Press, the Association for Computing Machinery, Academic Press, Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer, and many more. More than two thousand inventories, or finding aids, for special and archival collections throughout the state are also represented[see OAC sidebar at <#cdlarch.htm>], along with dozens of journal abstracting and indexing databases and reference databases. Through its Directory of Collections and Services, the new CDL Web site provides a single point of entry for access to these collections. It complements the CDL's MELVYL® library catalog of UC-owned print and non-print material, as well as ORION, the UCLA Library's online catalog, by leading users to a catalog or database search or directly to electronic journals, finding aids, and other digital material. The directory is designed to be collaboratively maintained by the UC campuses and to allow a "campus view" of available digital resources at the user's choice. Specific views, including subject-based views, can also be created for a particular "entrance" to shared UC collections. The CDL and its partner libraries on each campus are also using digital technologies to enhance sharing of the vast library collections of the University of California. Debuting with the CDL Web site is REQUEST, a pilot service through which UC faculty, graduate students, and staff can request material found in the MELVYL catalog but held by another campus with a simple click of a Web "Request" button. Founded in October 1997, and led by University Librarian Richard Lucier, the CDL operates in close collaboration with the nine UC campuses and their libraries and focuses on selecting, designing, building, managing, and preserving shared collections of high-quality digital materials. Previous issues of Library News for the Faculty have reported on the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC), the CDL's first collection, and on UCLA faculty and librarian contributions to its creation. Several CDL projects focus on collaboration with other California universities and organizations to create and extend access to digital material to UC partners and to the public at large. In addition to building shared collections and services, the CDL seeks to apply appropriate digital technologies to influence and support innovations in scholarly communication.
Online Archive of California In its first two years, with funds from UCOP/CDL and Library Services and Technology Act funds administered by the California State Library, the OAC is already providing Internet access to nearly 2,500 finding aids, comprising almost 60,000 pages, that describe extensive archival collections at the nine UC campuses and at 13 repositories outside of UC. An additional eight non-UC repositories have been recruited, with work underway to create Internet access to their collections as well. The libraries, archives, and museums participating in the OAC initiative are repositories for an extraordinary body of rare and unique material. These include papers of major historical and contemporary California political figures as well as internationally prominent literary authors, records of major organizations, and collections of images documenting the past and present of communities and activities throughout California, the United States, and the world. The OAC can be accessed through the CDL Web site at <http://www.cdlib.org>. Update on UC Editors ForumAs part of the UCLA Library's continuing efforts to develop solutions to the interrelated issues of skyrocketing journal prices, static collections budgets, and increasing numbers of scholarly publications, the first in a series of UC Editors Forums took place in November. With funding from the California Digital Library (CDL), UCLA librarians identified faculty members who serve as journal editors and invited them to focus group sessions to gather their opinions on these increasingly urgent issues affecting the dissemination of scholarship. Three sessions were organized; two included editors of science journals, and one included editors of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Participants shared their perspectives as editors, as authors, and as representatives of their disciplines. Among the alternative models of scholarly communication discussed were cooperative purchasing agreements, electronic publishing options, and collaborations between UC and scholarly societies. Richard Lucier, CDL university librarian and executive director, moderated the two science sessions, and Cindy Shelton, head of the Charles E. Young Research Library Bibliographers Group, moderated the social sciences and humanities session. The UC Editors Forum will continue with a series of similar discussions at UC Berkeley and other campuses. The UCLA Library hopes to continue the discussions on this campus with a broader group of faculty and with graduate students. Update on ORION2With the forthcoming implementation of ORION2, the Library's new World Wide Web-based information system, library staff orientation and training on crucial parts of the system have begun. The cataloging software -- the portion of the system that staff will use to add bibliographic records of the Library's holdings to the public access catalog -- has been installed. Library staff training marks the beginning of the Library's transition to the new system. Further information on ORION2 is available on the Library Web page at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/catalog/orion2>. Updates on the launch date of the public component of the system will be posted on the Web site and will also be available through on-campus publicity and in future issues of Library News for the Faculty. UCLA Librarian Joins California Digital LibraryBrian Schottlaender, associate university librarian for collections & technical services, has been appointed as a senior associate to the university librarian of the California Digital Library (CDL) on a part-time basis. While continuing his responsibilities at UCLA, Schottlaender will work closely with the CDL associate director for shared collections and services and with the shared collections steering committee to develop and implement collection policies for primary source, non-commercially produced scholarly resources, particularly those that are part of the UC Libraries special collections, and to develop criteria for prioritizing the deployment of such resources. 1999 Campbell Student Book Collection Competition AnnouncedUndergraduate and graduate students are invited to enter the 1999 Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition, which recognizes students who have assembled and organized book collections. A total of $1600 in prizes will be available in six categories: undergraduate collection, first and second place; graduate collection, first and second place; children's book collection; and honorable mention. Students interested in entering the competition are encouraged to attend a book collecting workshop on Wednesday, February 24, at 4 p.m. In this workshop Dr. Susan M. Allen, head of the Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library, will suggest ways to focus collections and write an effective annotated bibliography. The workshop will take place in the Department of Special Collections in Room A1713 of the Young Research Library. The deadline for entries is April 7 at 5 p.m. Entry forms are available at the reference desks in the Arts, Biomedical, College, SEL/Engineering & Mathematical Science, and Young Research libraries. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April 21, at 3 p.m. in the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. For further information, visit the competition Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/committees/campbell/index.htm>. Funded in part by a bequest from the late Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, this competition is sponsored by the Friends of the UCLA Library, the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Library Staff Association, the UCLA Library, and other interested donors. 1999 Ahmanson Undergraduate Research Scholarships AvailableThe UCLA Library is inviting applicants for 1999 Ahmanson Undergraduate Research Scholarships in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. These scholarships are intended for upper-division UCLA students enrolled in a course or a recognized departmental honors program in which an assigned research project requires the use of specific Department of Special Collections materials. The Department of Special Collections provides primary resources in the humanities and social sciences supported by the circulating holdings of the UCLA Library. The principal academic programs served are Art History; Classics; Comparative Literature; English; French; Germanic Languages; History; Italian; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Philosophy; Political Science; Sociology; Urban Planning; and World Arts & Cultures. Centers supported include African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin America, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Study of Women. Up to six undergraduate scholarships will be offered in 1999. Scholarship recipients will receive a stipend of $1,000 upon completion of their research project. Interested students should contact Dr. Susan M. Allen, head of the Department of Special Collections. The department is located in Room A1713 of the Young Research Library, and the phone number is 310/825-2422. A guide to department holdings is available on the World Wide Web at <www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/index.htm>. Print copies are also available in the department. Carol Burnett Collection Comes to Library, Film ArchiveActress, comedienne, and singer -- and UCLA alum -- Carol Burnett has given the university an extensive collection of materials from "The Carol Burnett Show." This popular primetime television program, which aired on CBS in 284 episodes from 1967 to 1978, earned 25 Emmy Awards and is now recognized as one of the classics of American television. The three-part gift includes music, scripts, and videotapes and will be housed in the UCLA Library and in the Film and Television Archive. The music materials, which have been given to the Music Library Special Collections, are in two parts. One section encompasses the original arrangements of orchestral scores and parts for musical numbers from "The Carol Burnett Show" that were performed by Lucille Ball, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Horne, Jerry Lewis, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, the Pointer Sisters, Martha Raye, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, the Smothers Brothers, Jimmy Stewart, and Mel Torme, among many others. Also included are musical arrangements from other performances, including "Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center," "Once Upon a Mattress," and several shows at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, and for a number of recordings, including the Carol Burnett and Martha Raye LP. Among the music arrangers are Frank Comstock, Peter Matz, Nick Perito, Berton Clayton Williams, and Harry Zimmerman. The original orchestrations include more than 1,850 titles, which are stored in 360 boxes, totaling over 350,000 pages of music. For each title there is a manuscript full score, piano-conductor score, and about 22 parts. In addition, the music materials include a collection of approximately 7,000 titles of published sheet music, containing individual songs, collections, and medleys. A printed guide to the music collection is available in the Music Library Special Collections reading room, and a Web version of the guide is being developed and will become progressively more comprehensive. The second component of the gift is a comprehensive collection of Ms. Burnett's own scripts from her television programs, which are housed in the Arts Library Special Collections. The scripts include rehearsal and tech schedules and rundowns for each episode as well as script notes by the script supervisor. The scripts will be cataloged on the Library's online information system and can be accessed through the Arts Library Special Collections reading room. The third part of the gift, which is housed in the UCLA Film and Television Archive, comprises 145 videotapes containing every episode of "The Carol Burnett Show." Accompanying the tapes are two notebooks which contain breakdowns of each individual episode; alphabetical and season-by-season lists of guest stars; and lists of movie take-offs, TV commercial take-offs, mini-musicals, and appearances of characters such as "the Charwoman," "George & Zelda," and "Mrs. Wiggins." The tapes will be available for viewing in the Archive Research and Study Center, Room 46 of the Powell Library Building. Reference Librarian Named Fulbright ScholarUCLA librarian Diane Childs has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 1998-99. Childs, who works in the reference department of the Charles E. Young Research Library, has received a grant to assist Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan, with collection development and library automation. Childs will spend approximately six months in Baku in 1999, during which she will work with staff at the Khazar library and with librarians from other higher education institutions in Baku to enhance library collections in support of the universities' fields of study. She will also explore the feasibility of establishing a program in library and information sciences at Khazar. Established in 1991, Khazar University is a private institution offering courses of study in mathematics and natural sciences, law and social sciences, economics and management, humanities, and engineering. English is used as the primary language of instruction. Khazar is among the first private universities established in Azerbaijan following the country's independence from the former Soviet Union. Childs's project has grown out of a project initiated by Professor Val Rust in the UCLA Department of Education. Rust organized a partnership between Khazar and UCLA that began in 1993 and allowed faculty exchange between the two institutions that has enabled Khazar to model its educational system after Western practices. Under the auspices of this program, Childs first traveled to Baku in 1994 to advise on Western systems of cataloging books and circulation practices. Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and TrendsThese panel discussions provide faculty, teaching assistants, librarians, and educational technology staff with opportunities to share experiences and address issues surrounding the integration of informational technologies in higher education. Two events are scheduled in Winter Quarter 1999: Expanding the Definition of Instruction Preparing Students for Learner-Centered Instruction All faculty and staff are invited to attend; no reservations are necessary. Information on previous and upcoming discussions is available on the World Wide Web at <http://www.oid.ucla.edu/sianme/>. Links to live Internet broadcasts of upcoming events and stored Web-casts of past events are also accessible through the Web site. |
