The Melvyl Catalog will be taken down on Sunday, February 10, 2008 between 12:01 AM through 10 AM for system maintenance, and will be unavailable intermittently. During this period, some of the Shared Cataloging records in local campus catalogs will also be unavailable.
A new blog is available for UCLA community. Check out Managing Your Intellectual Property Blog . The Blog is central to successful, productive publishing and teaching in the academic environment, and it will keep you up-to-date on the latest news, tips, and events to help you revise authors agreements, request permissions, use courseware, and understand the important issues that impact your academic career.
The Library recently launched the UCLA Library Catalog in the social-networking site Facebook. This application offers convenience for the more than 50,000 UCLA Facebook members who can now search our holdings and ask us questions directly in Facebook.
The experience that we gained from developing this application will also enable us to offer the same service in other similar environments, such as course management systems, with some alterations.
You can install the application from the following URL; note that a Facebook account is required to download:http://apps.facebook.com/uclacatalog/All Facebook users can also browse or search the application by its name, UCLA Library Catalog.
Please feel free to try this service and provide your feedback. and your ideas of new services that can be offered in Facebook are also welcomed.
This just in from East View:
We would like to inform you about a scheduled service upgrade of the CNKI platform, to version KNS5.2. This release will include several new improvements, many of which were specifically requested by users.
To accommodate the upgrade, the English-language interface of CNKI will be temporarily unavailable from Dec. 24, 2007 - January 1, 2008.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause. The Chinese interface, however, will be available without interruption throughout, and is also accessed via the URL http://china.eastview.com.
Please share this information with your colleagues.
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Alison Ray
All instances of the “mail” button on the “Request Confirmation” screen are currently functioning.
From: CDL Alert List [mailto:CDLALERT-L@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU] On Behalf Of Alison Ray
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:31 AM
To: CDLALERT-L@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU
Subject: CDLAlert: Request Confirmation email button not working
The “mail” button on the Request confirmation page is currently not functioning. When attempting to send a copy of the Request through this button, the message “Email Fails” appears.
This issue does not affect the flow of requests to the campus ILL department; all requests that reach the “Request Confirmation” screen will be sent to the campus ILL department.
The Request team is currently investigating this issue; please stay tuned for further updates as they become available.
Please share this information with your colleagues.
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Alison Ray
Library Web Services would like to chat with library staff and end users in-person. We would like to understand your experience with the Library Web site and listen to your suggestions for new or improved web services.
On every Thursday, starting in December 2007, LWS will host its open house hour from 3 p.m. -4:30 p.m. All staff and users are welcome to drop by.
We are located in 11723 Young Research Library (We are on first floor. Walk to the right of the lobby. The room is right across the elevators. We are looking forward to seeing you.
The UCLA Library has replaced the previous system used for self-service copying and printing with the UCLA BruinCard system. UCLA students, faculty, and staff will now use their BruinCards to pay for these services, and all other library visitors can purchase a visitor BruinCard that also enables them to make purchases at other campus locations and at more than twenty businesses in Westwood. Read the rest of this entry »
Through September
The concept of “national cinema” has been contested and criticized in recent years, as filmmakers around the world increasingly adapt and remake work from other media and other countries, and as artists, financing, and distribution become globalized.
The library is ramping up on RSS Beta changes. The Beta was rolled out on March 1, and the Library has collected much information over the past six months. We really appreciate users who have sent in your feedback, which not only tells stories about your usage on RSS, but also revealed patterns of your peers. Applause!
Your feedback also makes our job in the Library much easier too. Up to this point, we have been pretty much guessing what feeds you need. Along with your feedback (anecdotal evidence), the library has another weapon to help us understand your usage preference, which is the web analytics (WA) tool (Quantified evidence). One thing I have to mention is that since RSS is a feature of Web 2.0 and most of the web analytics tools are still designed for Web 1.0 paradigm using web log analysis. So, we can only infer or interpret your behavior based on the numbers provided by our WA tool; however, it is interesting that the numbers tell us the similar stories as your feedback does. We would like to share our findings with you and let you validate them. Here is what we think: Read the rest of this entry »
