Each year, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL, of which UAL is a member), purchases several collections that would be too costly or difficult for individual libraries to acquire on their own. CRL members participate collectively in suggesting collections, and then voting on which ones CRL should purchase. These collections will be […]
There’s a new, open access, Global Press Archive collection! It’s Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers. This collection has just launched with an initial 100,000 pages from 15 newspapers, from Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Morocco: browse by title here. Over the coming months, this collection will come to include more than 400,000 […]
Hello everyone, this post is to let you know of two database cancellations, effective December 31, 2019. We have cancelled two EBSCO databases, Chicano and AP Images. Please refer to Elizabeth Wallace’s January 13 email to UALIB-L for details about resources that the CSU team is considering cancelling, and about which we are earnestly […]
Hi everyone, a quick note: have you taken a look at Cambridge Companions? We had a trial with Oxford’s Very Short Introductions collection last year, but unfortunately with the budget reduction, we can’t start up a subscription. However, because of the positive feedback we received during the VSI trial, I want […]
Hi everyone, JSTOR provides us newly-published ebooks from many university presses from around the world. The way it works is that nearly every week, JSTOR adds new books to their platform, with the catalogue records following within 7-10 days (at which time the UAL cataloguing team, aka the “bibebook” team, loads the […]