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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?

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): Read the rest of this entry »

The IEEE Xplore Digital Library will be unavailable from noon-1:00pm PDT on 21 June due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact us at onlinesupport@ieee.org.

From Cambridge Journals Online:

Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online Read the rest of this entry »

A Centenary Celebration of Ralph J. Bunche

One of UCLA’s most distinguished alumni, Ralph Johnson Bunche (1903-71) fought poverty and racism on his way to becoming one of the twentieth century’s leading peacemakers. Part of an international celebration of the centenary of Bunche’s birth, this exhibit celebrates his remarkable legacy by focusing on his accomplishments in three main areas: as a student, a scholar, and a diplomat.

Friday, June 1
8 p.m.
Powell Library Rotunda

Following his successful 2005 solo Powell recital, UCLA musicology graduate student Eric Wang returns to perform on a new five-octave, single-manual Italian harpsichord by Yves Beaupre as well as a 1979 Italian harpsichord by John Phillips. His program features compositions by Johann Jacob Froberger, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, and Antonio Soler.

Admission is free, and no reservations are required.

ARTstor, the digital image database that UCLA has subscribed to since 2005, is growing at a substantial rate. New collections continue to be added on a regular basis, and more than five hundred thousand images are now available. Read the rest of this entry »