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	New Resources via CDL August 5, 2016 A variety of new resources have been added to UC Merced’s online collection via the California Digital Library this summer. UC Merced now has access to JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences XV Collection, adding an additional 150 titles to the platform by 2018. Arts & Sciences XV provides extensive coverage in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, including literature, film, art, music, religion, classical studies, history, education, economics, political science, and sociology. AnthroSource, which was previously licensed by UC Merced, is now included in CDL’s systemwide Wiley contract for the next three years. AnthroSource provides access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge, and currently includes 32 anthropological publications from AAA comprising journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters. The Declassified Documents Reference System has been released and is now live on the Artemis platform from Gale Cengage as U.S. Declassified...
	ProQuest Critical Maintenance July 21, 2016 ProQuest EBL and Ebook Central platforms will be unavailable for from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Saturday, July 23, 2016 for scheduled maintenance. EBL ebooks may not be available during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
	Mystery Themed Book Display July 15, 2016 Visit our new book display located on the second floor right across from the elevators. This month, we are featuring crime, mystery, and psychological thrillers to get your heart racing! Stop by and select a book for summer reading.
	UC Libraries Digital Collection Project wins 2016 Larry L. Sautter Award July 14, 2016 UCOP’s UC Libraries Digital Collection Project is a winner of the 2016 Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for enabling all UC libraries to create, manage, and make accessible to the public hundreds of thousands of digital assets ranging from historical records and maps to photographs and films. Services include a shared digital asset management system that all campus libraries may use, a tool to aggregate and index digital content across collections, and the Calisphere website that allows the public to explore UC’s archival treasures. The annual award, sponsored by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council, recognizes collaborative innovations in IT that advance the university’s missions of teaching, research, and public service, and encourages collaboration and solution sharing across the UC system.
	Denice Sawatkzy, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, Retires June 29, 2016 Denice Sawatzky has been Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Coordinator at UC Merced since 2005. Before coming to UC Merced she worked at UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz. She brought extensive experience to her position, establishing ILL services at our campus. Our library users have benefited from Denice’s information-finding expertise combined with her a love of sleuthing. Denice announced earlier this year that she was going to retire. Her last day is June 29th just a few weeks short of 29 years working in UC Libraries. We wish Denice the best in her retirement and will miss her many contributions and great sense of humor.
	UC Merced Library Welcomes Lindsay Davis June 24, 2016 The library is pleased to welcome Instruction Librarian Lindsay Davis to its staff. Lindsay started on June 1st. She comes to UC Merced from Merced College’s Los Banos Campus Library. She has also held roles at the CSU Stanislaus University Library, Stanislaus County Library, and the Library of Congress. She earned a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and a BA in history from CSU Stanislaus. As a first generation college student and daughter of an immigrant, she understands how intimidating academic libraries can be for brand-new students. She hopes to help students feel comfortable asking for research assistance and learn research skills that will help them write those term papers and think more critically about information outside the classroom, too. Lindsay’s primary role at UC Merced is teaching research skills in classes, developing instructional materials and tools, and assisting students in research consultations whether in-person or...
	WEST Libraries Reach 500,000 Volumes June 7, 2016 The libraries of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) have reached a milestone in building a lasting shared print library collection, successfully archiving 500,000 volumes. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed shared print journal repository program in the western region of the United States. Along with libraries from the University of California system, more than 70 research and academic libraries currently participate in WEST, including libraries from Stanford University, the University of Washington, Arizona State University, the University of Oregon, and Rice University among many others. Through distributed retention commitments and archive-building activities, WEST safeguards the scholarly record while also creating opportunities to reallocate library space for new collections and innovative user spaces. Print journal volumes are consolidated and retained at high-density library storage facilities and more than thirty-five libraries....
	Calisphere exceeds half a million items! May 27, 2016 “The deeper you look, the more you’ll discover.” Today, the motto of Calisphere is particularly appropriate given the growth of the collection to over half a million items! Calisphere’s new metadata infrastructure has made it possible to provide access to more digital content than ever. The site has grown exponentially since its re-release this past fall, and the growth is set to continue, as more institutions sign up to add their collections the site. Recent additions include the Gold Rush Life collection from the University of the Pacific, containing correspondence, diaries, and other primary source materials on the lives of individuals during the California Gold Rush; photographs, news clippings, postcards, and programs from the 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet, contributed by CSU Dominguez Hills; and over 3,000 audio and video recordings digitized as part of the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.
	A Victory For Fair Use May 19, 2016 The Authors Guild’s decade long lawsuit against Google came to an end April 18th when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild’s Appeal of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision from October 2015. By declining, the Supreme Court affirmed the Circuit Court’s ruling that Google’s digitization of library collections, the creation of search functionality, and display of snippets are all non-infringing fair uses. If one takes into account the fair use findings in other similar cases, there are now four argued rulings which affirm that the work undertaken by participants in the Google Library Project to convert library collections to digital form constitute fair use as defined by U.S. Copyright law, a victory for fair use, libraries, scholars, researchers, and the public alike. The University of California has been in partnership with the Google Library Project since 2006. As result, close to 3.8 million volumes from UC Library collections have been converted to...
	Video: Research Data Matters May 13, 2016 Why is research data management important and what is the impact of good data management practices?

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