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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. (more…)

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.

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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: (more…)

Biomedical Library Blog went live yesterday. Who should read their postings? I hope everyone would and empirically those who student and work in the School of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Dentistry and the Division of Life Sciences.  Biomed is planning to provide a variety of content which you may find useful for your work and study life.  check it out at: http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/biomedical. It is also listed under the Library Blogs on the right side of this webpage.