Bibliographic Services Update

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Lunch Poems: Myung Mi Kim

Codex Sinaiticus

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Update on UC Bibliographic Services

Berkeley Library folks-- I have just sent the following out in the name of the ten University Librarians and CDL. On this campus, the list of people who have helped on these projects is a very long one, and that will continue to be the case as we move ahead.

Colleagues across the UC Libraries:

I write as the Convener of the University Librarians to update you on where we stand today with the Bibliographic Services Task Force (BSTF) report that stimulated so many discussions in 2006. I hope you will share this with everyone on your campus who is interested.

Over the past year, library experts drawn from all our campuses as well as faculty have reviewed and discussed the BSTF report and affirmed that improvements to our systems are essential.

In considering the recommendations and opportunities for action the University Librarians will move forward on two tracks.

First, our collaboration with Google and Microsoft is supported by the BSTF report and requires not only continuing our digitization efforts but also beginning work to develop mechanisms that focus on integration. While this collaboration has been announced previously we want to emphasize that this is a priority and one with strong support from our faculty and students.

Secondly, we have had preliminary discussions with OCLC to discuss partnership opportunities that may create a new generation of the Melvyl union catalog with expanded features as suggested in the BSTF recommendations. If the talks are successful we do expect to move forward quickly with possibly demonstration projects by the end of this year. Since these discussions are in very early stages there are few details – however, as plans emerge we will update you on our progress.

Tom Leonard
University Librarian

EVENTS

Lunch Poems: Myung Mi Kim

Thursday, March 1
12:10-12:50 p.m.
Morrison Library

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Myung Mi Kim travels to the root of language, connecting speech and culture in a rich web of immaculate phrases. Kim strips workds to the bone, using fragments and white space to enhance her themes of dislocation and first language loss. She is the author of four books of poetry, inculding "Under Flag," winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, and "Commons" (2002).

Still Much to Learn from the Codex Sinaiticus

Thurdsay, March 1, 2007
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Morrison Library
Presented by: Father Justin, Librarian
St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai

Original pages and fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus now reside with four different institutions: the British Library, the Library of the University of Leipzig, the State Library of Russia at St Petersburg, and Saint Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai. In March of 2005, a partnership agreement was signed between these four institutions, who will work together to conserve and photograph all surviving pages and fragments. Scholars will then proceed to make a completely new transcription of the text. From these resources, there are plans to make a quality facsimile (the first to contain all existing pages and fragments), as well as a DVD and a web site. Father Justin, librarian of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, will speak about the history and significance of the Codex Sinaiticus, and give details about this current project.

The event is sponsored by the Library and is free and open to the public.