| LofT Notes is a periodic newsletter
designed to keep UVa Library staff informed about new and interesting digital
initiatives being undertaken throughout the Library, upcoming speakers and presentations,
and other news.
In this Issue:
- Project Access
- Digital Library Repository
- Five Tumultuous Years of UVA History: The Cavalier Daily 1967-1972
- High School Interns at the RMC Digital Media Lab
- Classical.com
- Cross-search with LION and EEBO
- CAB Direct
- EOLSS - Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
Project Access
Project Access is fast approaching the launch of its fall beta test of the public interfaces. These include the new Virgo catalog interface (currently known as iLink) and the new cross-database searching tool (currently known as Multisearch). We hope to have the test site in place from September 26 through November 4. We will be doing usability testing and focus groups with users and staff during this time as well. Directors Station (the statistics module) will begin its test phase by September 2. The Relais (ILL) group may be able to begin looking at their module around the same time. Directors Station and Demand Management (the request function) should be available sometime this fall. We are planning for the other three modules to go live in January 2006. Questions and comments can be addressed to Chris Hoebeke (chh4n) or Lynda White (lsw6y).
http://staff.lib.virginia.edu/access/
Digital Library Repository
14,185 images have been loaded into the Digital Library Repository, representing collections from the Fine Arts Library, the
McIntire Department of Art Visual Resources Collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and research by UVA faculty. Soon to come are 346 electronic texts created by DLPS, and 3,760 UVA Special Collections finding aids. This is the "beta" version of the Repository, as we move towards full production release of this service next year.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/image/
Five Tumultuous Years of UVA History: The Cavalier Daily 1967-1972
Five years of UVA History as observed through the reporting of the Cavalier Daily are now online. The archives can be browsed by date or searched by keyword. The full transcriptions and the page images are available.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/cavdaily/
High School Interns at the RMC Digital Media Lab
In cooperation with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center (CATEC), the DML sponsored two local high school students, Cathy and Alan, as they worked this summer to improve their video production and 3D animation skills. The DML also played host to a group of middle school-aged aspiring web designers who were eager to learn about media-related jobs in the "real world." Another high school intern, Richard, a student from Western Albemarle High
School, will spend this academic year in the DML working with Maya, an industrial-strength modeling and animation application.
Classical.com
Classical Music Library, aka Classical.com, is a collection of over 20,000 classical music tracks for online listening. Links to program notes and composer and artist biographies are included. The collection can be searched by composer, artist or ensemble, conductor, label, genre, instrument, and historical period.
http://internal.virginia.classical.com/
Cross-search with LION and EEBO
Searches carried out in Literature Online (LION) Quick Search and Search Texts will now also search the entire set of Early English Books Online (EEBO) citation data. LION search results will include full results from EEBO, and clicking on any of the items in your EEBO results list will launch the EEBO or EEBO TCP interface in a separate window.
http://lion.chadwyck.com/ and http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo/
CAB Direct
A combination database of CAB Abstracts and Global Health. In addition to citations on agriculture and applied life sciences, this database covers tropical, community, and public health; rural development; leisure, recreation and tourism; and agricultural and environmental economics.
http://www.cabdirect.org/
EOLSS - Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
This is a UNESCO resource - "An integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopedias. It attempts to forge pathways between disciplines in order to show their interdependence and helps foster the transdisciplinary aspects of the relationship between nature and human society." Then encyclopedias include Social Sciences and Humanities, Development and Economic Sciences, Human Resources Policy and Management, and Institutional and Infrastructural Sciences as well as physical, life, and applied sciences titles.
http://greenplanet.eolss.net/EolssLogn/InsLogin.aspx
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