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... |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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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University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to build open source publishing platform May 12, 2016 California Digital Library and University of California Press are pleased to announce their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. |
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Reimagined Libraries April 28, 2016 UC Merced Library’s Deputy University Librarian, Donald Barclay, follows the upwards and download trends associated with libraries and reveals how they have reinvented themselves to meet users’ needs. See “Has the library outlived is usefulness in the age of Internet? You’d be surprised” in The Conversation. |
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41,000 new items to explore on Calisphere April 7, 2016 Flying bees, North Korean propaganda, and Catholicism in Los Angeles are just some of the subjects represented in the more than 41,000 new items recently added to Calisphere. The 56 new collections from Loyola Marymount University, Orange County Public Libraries, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the University of the Pacific are now available on the site. Calisphere’s new metadata infrastructure has made it possible to provide access to more digital content than ever before. This time last year, on the old platform, Calisphere provided access to approximately 250,000 digital objects; today, the new site has almost double that amount and is now approaching half a million items. |
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Proquest Critical Maintenance March 21, 2016 Proquest will be performing critical maintenance during the first weeks of April which will briefly affect access to a variety of their products. |
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Exhibit Reception: Selected Works - Graduate Student Research at UC Merced March 14, 2016 Come see how UCM graduate students are pursuing exciting research projects that make major contributions to their fields. In this second installment of the Selected Works exhibit, the accomplishments and research of two selected graduate students are highlighted. |