On Sunday, August 6th from midnight to 2am Pacific Time, ExLibris will be performing systems maintenance which may cause an interruption in online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
On Saturday, July 22nd beginning at 10pm Pacific Time, ExLibris will be performing system reindexing which will cause an interruption in online catalog services through Sunday evening. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
LitCovid is an open access literature hub compiling the most comprehensive collection of international research papers so far on the new coronavirus disease COVID-19. Created via the support of the US National Institutes of Health’s intramural research programme, LitCovid is updated daily with newly published articles. LitCovid hopes to provide timely insight from the scientific literature into the biology of the virus and the diagnosis and management of those infected.
America’s Historical Newspapers via Readex are now available with enhanced interfaces. These enhancements are available for a number of databases including Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, African American Newspapers, California Historical Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers. Patrons will still have the option of using the previous interface via a link in the banner at the top of each database’s homepage through May 2019.
New features available in the redesigned interface include enhanced database selection, the ability to show fewer or more results per page, and citations instantly created and exported in all major formats. Upcoming enhancements will include an enhanced mapping function and a My Collection Tools addition.
Check out the new interfaces via the above links or the Library’s A-Z database listings.
Thousands of images by photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) and Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) are now digitized and available on Calisphere, UC Santa Cruz University Library Digital Collections and the Digital Library of America (DPLA). More than 6,000 negatives by the artists were digitized through a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz and CDL. UCSC selected three groups of images to digitize from the collection of 12,000 photographic prints and 30,000 negatives by the artists: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers (1968-1969), a collaboration by Baruch and Jones on the group; The Death of A Valley (1956), a collaboration between Jones and Dorothea Lange that documented Monticello, a town in Berryessa Valley that disappeared underwater after the completion of the Monticello Dam; and additional photos focusing on San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, including Walnut Grove: Portrait of a Town (1964) another collaboration between Baruch and Jones.
Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones were part of the first class to attend a new photography program at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) founded by Ansel Adams just after World War II. Other faculty included photographers Minor White, Dorothea Lange, and Imogen Cunningham.
Their digitized photos grant an in-depth look into California in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s, chronicling rural and urban life, most often outside the mainstream, and portraying poverty, upheaval, everyday life, and change. Images range from the landscapes of the Central Valley, to the Black Panthers’ political rallies, to the experience of agricultural workers, yet they frequently focus on children or the interaction between people and animals.
A note: some images may have titles and other metadata that is incomplete, inaccurate or may reflect historical biases and terminology. Many of the images are titled “untitled” because they were never printed or displayed by the photographers. In these cases, the UC Santa Cruz library listed descriptive information from the donor’s inventory in the SubSeries Title field to provide context about the subject of the photographs.
A joint effort between CDL’s Mass Digitization Team, the California Office of Legislative Counsel, and librarians at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the California State Library has resulted in 4,000 volumes of historic California Legislative materials being digitized and made open access in HathiTrust and Google Books. These items include introduced and amended bills published between 1911 and 1988, Statutes and Legislative Journals published between 1849 and 1988, and supporting materials including some Final Histories, Final Calendars, Appendices, and Constitutional Amendments.
These digitized items may be searched via full text in a separate HathiTrust featured collection, or browsed by title and year in a Google sheet containing a link to each volume in both HathiTrust and Google Books. All volumes in both libraries are open access. All may download a page at a time on HathiTrust, and individuals affiliated with one of HathiTrust’s 140+ member institutions may login to download full-work PDFs of the volumes. Google Books provides full download of the volumes to everyone.
For more information on the collaboration and details about the materials, see HathiTrust’s blog post.
Beginning Saturday, September 15th at 6pm and continuing intermittently through Sunday, September 16th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause sporadic interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Beginning Friday, August 31st at 10pm and continuing up to 8 hours, Campus IT will be applying a software patch in an effort to repair wireless connectivity issues that have been impacting the campus. During this time, the campus wireless will be completely offline for a short period of time and intermittently offline as IT reboots it in phases. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Beginning Saturday, August 11th at 10pm through Sunday, August 12th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
The fiber network that links UC Merced to the internet is currently being repaired due to damage incurred by construction. The campus is completely without internet connectivity and online library resources may also be inaccessible. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope for resolution of this issue by this evening. For status updates, please visit https://it.ucmerced.edu/status.
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