September 30th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
Beginning Fall Quarter, 2009 the Shields Library will implement new trial services designed to meet the needs of our students, faculty and staff.
A General Reference Desk is now located on the 2nd floor and will provide integrated basic reference service. Hours are Monday – Friday, 9am – 6pm, and Sunday, 1pm – 5pm (Sunday hours effective October 11 – November 22). Contact the Reference Desk at (530) 752‑9862 or referenceservices@lib.ucdavis.edu . Subject specialist librarians will continue to offer individual appointments for students and faculty needing in depth reference and library research consultations.
Information Kiosk: The Information Desk in Shields Library will feature a kiosk that provides answers to the most commonly asked informational and directional queries. Students, faculty, and staff with reference questions will be directed to the General Reference Desk on the 2nd floor (Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm) and to the new 24/7 Chat Reference service all other times. Circulation Desk staff will answer basic questions evenings and weekends.
Re:Search Start will be located on the Lower Level of Shields Library. A service for lower division undergraduates, this program is designed to help students with term papers assignments and projects. Students can sign up for a 30 minute appointment through the Library Instruction web page. Appointments will be available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from noon – 4:00pm, October 13 – November 25.
Coming Soon: 24/7 Chat Reference service will soon be available for our patrons who want reference assistance from anywhere, anytime!
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August 26th, 2009 by Daniel Goldstein
Save details to image groups
In response to feedback from our user community, ARTstor has released two new features in the Digital Library. You will now see an icon in the ARTstor Image Viewer that allows you to zoom in and save a particular detail of an image to an image group. With this new feature, full views and multiple details of an image may appear together in any given group, as well as be exported for use in the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) or PowerPoint. This ability to save and share multiple views of the same image helps to meet the many teaching, research, and presentation needs of the ARTstor community.
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Nested folders
ARTstor has also enhanced the functionality of folders in the Digital Library. Instructor-level users can now create nested sub-folders that can be moved easily from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. For example, you can build draft versions of your image groups in a private folder and simply drag them to a public folder when they are ready to be shared. The addition of nested folders allows you to organize ARTstor content in ways that are meaningful and intuitive to you
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May 5th, 2009 by David Michalski
The Shields Library and the Physical Sciences and Engineering Library are pleased to announce that effective immediately, faculty and research borrowers no longer need to bring in Shields and PSE books at the end of the year to re-check them out. It is now possible to renew these books on the web, by phone or in person. Books can be renewed twice, allowing faculty and research borrowers to keep the material for as long as three years (unless recalled for another borrower) without bringing them back to the library. (Books with holds on them can’t be renewed). Especially for researchers with lots of volumes checked out, this will be a great time-saver.
Faculty with proxy borrowers have some special instructions. Please check the renewal reminder emailed by the library on May 4 for instructions. If you have any questions, please call the library (Shields 752-1203; Physical Sciences & Engineering 752-5507)
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