On Friday, July 22nd at 11:30pm to Saturday, July 23rd at 11pm PDT, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may result in intermittent interruptions of online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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.
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.
Campus IT has scheduled an Extreme Networks Cores Logical Cutover to NGN starting this Friday July 8th through Monday early morning on July 11th, with downtime windows occurring at 7pm-3am each day. Many systems may experience 15 minute network outages and/or performance degradation during these times, which may possibly affect access to Library resources as well. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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.
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 through the Library’s chat service.
On Friday June 24th between 3:00pm and 7:00pm (PDT), Taylor and Francis Online, BioOne Complete and Annual Reviews will be unavailable due to database maintenance at their websites. Content available through these providers may be inaccessible during this time frame. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope these interruptions will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
OCLC is currently experiencing system issues that affect a variety of our services, including WorldCat Local and ILL, which they are working to correct. We apologize for this interruption to our patrons and hope for a speedy resolution.
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. New titles are chosen each year for inclusion based on risk-management principles. WEST archives and retention commitments are visible internationally, through the Center for Research Libraries’ Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) and OCLC WorldCat.
“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.
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