To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young for information) Users Council Liaisons (via Jayne Dickson for information & distribution) LAUC (via Matthew Conner for information & distribution) CoUL (for information) From: Diane Bisom, Chair, Strategic Action Group 3: Collection Building & Management (SAG3) Date: 17 September 2014
To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (for information) Users Council (via Jayne Dickson for information & distribution) LAUC (via Matt Connor for information & distribution) From: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young, Communications Manager) Date: 9 September 2014
This memo serves as call for members interested in the new Project Management Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young for information) Users Council (via Jayne Dickinson for information & distribution) LAUC (via Nick Robinson for information & distribution) CC: Council of University Librarians (for information) From: Diane Bisom, Chair, Strategic Action Group 3, UC Libraries Advisory Structure Date: 21 July 2014
To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (for information) Users Council Liaisons (for information & distribution) LAUC (for information & distribution) CC: Council of University Librarians (for information) From: Lorelei Tanji, Chair, CoUL Date: 14 July 2014
The University of California Libraries join with our HathiTrust colleagues in welcoming the decision by the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals that key services of the HathiTrust Digital Library – digitization for the purpose of full-text searching and access for the print-disabled – are fair uses under US copyright law.
The University of California and several partners have released a new version of a free tool that helps researchers and their institutions create effective data management plans required by the federal government.
The DMPTool v2 aids researchers with this critical component of research practice required by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Under the 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy directive, this requirement will expand to nearly all federal agencies within the next year.
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing archives of cultural significance. The University of California is home to dozens of special collections at its 10 campuses.
