This memo serves as call for members interested in a new UC Shared Visual Resources Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for building shared visual resource collections. The Common Knowledge Group Charter containing more detail, and general information about CKGs, is available online at:http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013.
One of the outstanding NGTS items assigned to the UC Libraries Advisory Structure’s Strategic Action Group 3: Collection Building & Management (SAG3), was the final report from POT 7 LT2, “Responding to the Changing Collection Development and Management Landscape in the UC Libraries: The Role of the Collections Librarian”.
This memo serves as call for members interested in two new Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs):
· Reference CKG
· Scholarly Publishing Group CKG
Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for reference services and/or scholarly publishing. Their Common Knowledge Group Charters containing more detail, and general information about CKGs, are available online at: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg
This memo serves as call for members interested in the Cataloging and Metadata Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for cataloging and metadata services.
This memo serves as call for members interested in the Interlibrary Lending Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in interlibrary lending services.
This memo serves as call for members interested in the UC Born Digital Planning Group (UCBDPG) Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for digital materials and services.
The UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS) Coordinating Committee (CC) and Strategic Action Groups (SAGs) are pleased to be able to provide an inaugural report designed to update our colleagues throughout the UC Libraries on noteworthy activities and developments within the advisory structure.
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, and content digitized locally by libraries. The University of California is a founding partner in HathiTrust.
The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future scholarly articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge.
