October 21st, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
In addition to the student self registration service implemented last year, UC Davis faculty and staff can now activate their library privileges online.
You can register from work or home. Log in at http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/register using your Kerberos ID and password. Your employee ID card will be activated for library privileges within one working day. Your ID card is your library card, and the barcode number (starting with 2117..) is your library card number.
As always, staff at the circulation desks are available to assist with any problems you may encounter in the registration process.
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October 21st, 2009 by Karen Andrews
This is an important update on the future of the UC Davis Physical Sciences & Engineering Library.
To meet its budget reduction goals, the UCD Library will downsize from 4 to 3 locations. By July 1, 2011, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library collections, staff, and services will be integrated into the Shields Library, primarily on the 3rd floor. You may view the full UC Davis Office of Research, Management and Planning recommendations for the General Library.
To make space for the move, much of the biological and agricultural sciences collection, currently on 3rd floor of Shields Library, will be relocated and integrated into the Carlson Health Sciences Library building to form a health, life sciences, and agriculture collection. This redistribution of science collections will optimize the amount of unique print library materials that can be kept on campus.
We are developing criteria for what will stay on campus and what will go to the NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility, the UC Libraries storage building in Richmond.) NRLF staff provide rapid web delivery of journal articles, while books and journal volumes are delivered to campus in 2 days. In the fall, we will share the criteria for storing items and seek broad input.
This outcome is a difficult one for all of us, and we will work with you to continue providing the best possible configuration of collections and services that you have come to expect from the PSE Library staff.
Comments may be sent to Karen Andrews at: klandrews@ucdavis.edu. I welcome your comments.
Tags: atmospheric sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, statistics
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October 19th, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
The California Digital Library has some new and wonderful electronic publishing services that you may want to use!
Representatives are coming to campus tomorrow as part of Open Access Week events to describe ways you can disseminate your research, hold on to your rights as authors, and preserve your scholarly output for the ages… all for free. Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation.
What: “Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship”, presented by Catherine Mitchell, director of the California Digital Library Publishing Group at the University of California
When: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Where: Shields Library, Second Floor Instruction Room (turn left off the stairs)
About:
- Keep your copyright
- Reach more readers
- Publish when you want
- Protect your work’s future
- …all with no fees
eScholarship offers a robust open access publishing platform that enables departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including:
- Journals
- Conference Proceedings
- Books
- Working Papers
- Postprints
- Seminar/Paper Series
Initiated in 2002, eScholarship now houses over 30,000 publications with more than 9 million full-text downloads to date. The rate of usage of these materials has grown dramatically in the past 7 years, now often exceeding 170,000 downloads per month.
Come learn how you can get started publishing with eScholarship today!
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July 9th, 2009 by Karen Andrews
Beginning august 3, 2009, the Shields Library reserves unit staff will accept course materials on Monday – Friday between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. This is being done to maximize staffing efficiencies.
Instructors are encouraged to make use of Smartsite for internet-based titles.
To ensure that course reserves titles are available to students by the first day of classes, reserves lists must be received by the shields library reserves staff by the last Friday of:
• August for fall quarter
• November for winter quarter
• February for spring quarter
• May for summer session
Reserves lists received after the deadline may take up to two weeks to process due to peak workload constraints at the beginning of the quarter and the delays involved in retrieving loaned material.
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July 2nd, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
Did you know that as U.C. Davis staff you have access to the books, journals, databases and other electronic resources available through the University Library? Discover how to use our print materials and electronic resources, and get access from your home or office. Learn how to search our catalog and databases (a sample database will be demonstrated). For more information contact Sandra Vella at savella@lib.ucdavis.edu. Registration is required: you can register here.
Schedule:
- Thu Jul 23 10:00am-11:00am Library Instruction Lab (Shields Library)
- Wed Aug 5 10:00am-11:00am Library Instruction Lab (Shields Library)
- Mon Aug 10 10:00am-11:00am Library Instruction Lab (Shields Library)
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May 19th, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
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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April 20th, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
As part of the Inspec interface switch, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library is offering a class with experienced Inspec trainer Karen Berryman:
- Friday, April 24, 11:00a-12:00p
- Kemper Hall 1065
Everyone is welcome! Come to Kemper Hall to learn how to use this great database for physics, electrical engineering, computer science, and applied science topics. Berryman will point out some of the tricks for getting the most out of the database and the new features that are coming with the new interface.
Refreshments will be served!
Tags: INSPEC
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April 6th, 2009 by Phoebe Ayers
Welcome to the new PSE Library Blog! In this blog, we’ll be documenting new resources at the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, as well as library news. Please give us your feedback! For more information, you can visit our homepage or contact a librarian.
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