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a. Michele Manuel joined the CDL on December 2 as Business Services Specialist

Michele has been working in University & External Relations since 1998. Prior to that she worked in the UCOP Office of the Treasurer and at the UCSF School of Pharmacy. She has extensive experience in providing accounting and budgetary support.

At the CDL, Michele will provide support for CDL’s budget, purchasing, grant administration and personnel functions.  She will develop grant subaward and budget documents for multi-campus and multi-partner grant awards. She will monitor the award process to meet reporting requirements of grantors. Michele’s experience in tracking expenditures using project and source codes will help her maintain the department budget reporting system.

b. New Resource Liaisons Appointed

Resource Liaisons have been appointed recently for 31 resources, either to replace RLs who have fulfilled their terms or for new resources.  The Resource Liaisons Roster has been updated with names and email addresses [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/liaisons.html ]

In addition, the Resource Liaisons page on libstaff has been updated with the most recent quarterly reports [ http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/ ].  Note that they are password protected; consult a Resource Liaison on your campus or in your subject area for information).  The RLs are doing a great job of keeping on top of their resources.

a. Chemical & Engineering News (Mary Ann Mahoney, UC Berkeley)

Through the efforts of the CDL and campus investments, the UC campuses now have online access to “Chemical & Engineering News”, the “newsmagazine of the chemical world”. C&E News is published by the American Chemical Society.  Access is by IP address and coverage goes back to 1998.  There are no plans at this time to add to the backfile.

Our institutional license does not include access to classified advertisements online; that feature is only available to ACS members. However, there is a lot of career information on the website outside of the classified advertisements, including salary surveys, best companies to work for, interviewing tips, career planning advice, etc. Also, on the part of the Classifieds area of the website that we can access, there is a link to JobSpectrum, an online career and employment site created by the American Chemical Society, free to jobseekers.

a. A Final Farewell: CDL-Hosted Journal Article Databases

This is the last time the CDL will remind staff that the CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing journal article databases will be retired at the end of the year, since this is the last issue of CDLINFO in 2002.

After December, in the telnet version of Melvyl, if a user types in the name of a database (e.g., ABI), a message will appear that says “The ABI database is no longer available.  Type HELP for more information.”  The user will then find fuller information about the database, and how to access it in the new version.  In the Web version, the page http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ will remain visually unchanged.  The only difference after the beginning of January is that when UC users select a database from the “UC-licensed databases” pulldown menu, they will be connected directly to the new vendor version of the database selected rather than to the interim screen (as is currently the case).

Thanks to all those over the years who participated in the original envisioning, building, maintaining, and documenting of the original databases, and those involved in the testing, selecting, documenting and helping to improve the new vendor versions.

b. Wilson Databases Running in Parallel

The current and new versions of three Wilson Databases licensed by the CDL (Art Abstracts, Art Retrospective, and Readers’ Guide Retrospective) are now running in parallel versions. Users can select either version when the database is selected.  The CDL will move to the new version once SFX (UC-eLinks) testing is complete.

c. Latest Version of El Mel Tells

The November issue of El Mel Tells is available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/emtv1n5.html

This issue contains articles on the union catalog record in Melvyl-T, using Browse, and a continuation of CDL Staff Profiles involved in the creation of Melvyl-T. To see all issues of this publication, go to http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/