UCLA Library Blogs

After a long summer pause, no posting or new blogs were up. Sorry! You may know that the Library usually take those months to wrap up and evaluate its last Fiscal Year operation and plan for next Fiscal year. The library fiscal year starts from July to May each calendar year.

So here came the first UCLA Blog, UCLA English and Comp LIT Librarians. It is exciting! We expected more blogs will popup here in the next few months. Comp stands for comparative; LIT has nothing to do with Library Information Technology, but means Literature. Don’t you  love all those synonyms?  The blog already has several interesting postings. Check it out at http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/literature, and its author also received some interesting ideas on the blog titles. Do you have any?

You may notice some inconvenience when using Melvyl Catalog. As part of the Aleph 16.2 Melvyl catalog software upgrade, campus Melvyl Input and FTP Liaisons were informed several months ago that there would be a freeze in the loading of campus records into Melvyl. The freeze began on August 8, and will continue for 7-8 weeks. We will update you when the freeze stops.

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses may have already had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions): (more…)