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.
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. (more…)
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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: (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.
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?
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Library a grant for a project to catalog, digitize, and provide online access to the Caro Minasian Collection of Near Eastern manuscripts. (more…)
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