What Was New on the Library Web - 2000 Archive
 Exhibits and Events
Electronic Resources - Known Problems
Electronic Resources - Trial Databases
News Archive
Current News
December 2000
September 2000
August 2000
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International Political Science Abstracts is now available to all UC Berkeley
students, faculty and staff via the Electronic Resources menu on the
Library Web home page. Select Indexes and Abstracts.
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Try your hand at evaluating Web pages critically in this newly revised and
expanded online interactive tutorial "Evaluating Web Pages: How and
Why" by Joe Barker in the Teaching Library.
There is an online
form (pdf) for doing the exercise at and online
hints if you get stuck. Find out why it's important to evaluate web pages!
The online tutorial is a companion to the new course offered by the
Teaching Library, "Can you trust the Web: Evaluating and Citing Web
Pages and Sites"
The tutorial could be recommended to students and researchers at all
levels to increase their confidence in what they find on the Web.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about computers in the UC
Berkeley libraries, but were afraid/too overwhelmed/too busy to
ask!
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The Information Gateway on the 3rd floor of the Moffitt Library has
a fabulous new Web presence. This new Web site will be the default browser
home page for the public computer terminals in the Information Gateway.
The Teaching Library Staff worked as a team to produce this wonderful
resource, so congratulations to all of you!
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Source OECD is now available to all UC Berkeley students, faculty and
staff. This resource is accessible via the Books category of
the Electronic Resources menu on the Library Web home page.
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UC Berkeley faculty, students and staff now have access to International
Political Science Abstracts. This resource is also available via
the Electronic Resources menu on the Library Web home page. Select
Indexes and Abstracts.
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CIS History Universe is now available to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff via the Electronic Resources menu on the Library Web home page. Select
Indexes and Abstracts.
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Veg out! Take a peek at the Checklist of
Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps, compiled and
maintained by Claire Englander and Phil Hoehn.
July 2000
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UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff now have access to Global Market Information Database
(Euromonitor). This database provides international marketing
statistics by country and product, demographic data for countires, and
global company and brand data.
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The brilliance just keeps on coming around this joint! Jon Solomon of the Business & Economics Library scored HTML gold on his
first foray into the wonderfully wacky world of Web page
development! Go directly to BUSI's fabulous new electronic journals page
for immediate internet gratification (is this legal?).
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It didn't take recently hired librarian John Kupersmith very long
to make himself useful around here. John has created the terrific online
resource, Effective
Assignments Using Library Resources. If you're an instructor
here at U.C. Berkeley, get thee to that Web page!
June 2000
May 2000
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The Catholic
Encyclopedia is now available via the Library Web home page. Choose
Encyclopedias and Gateway Sites from the Electronic Reference Resource
Database drop down menu. The Catholic Encyclopedia covers
topics both religious and secular, from a uniquely Catholic perspective.
Other features include access to St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa
Theologica and 90 megabytes of patristic writings.
April 2000
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Folly or fact? Truth or titillation? Just how is one supposed to figure out
whether or not a Web site contains research caliber information, or
supermarket tabloid worthy infotainment? The Library's Internet guru Joe
Barker has once again come to our collective rescue. Check out Evaluating Web Pages:
Why and How for a comprehensive and entertaining explanation of
this most important research skill.
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While the new and fabulous bi-weekly BEST @ THE
LIBRARY column isn't technically on the Library Web, I'm
mentioning it here because it's, well, new and fabulous! This column is
another way for The Library to penetrate the psyche of each and every Cal
student with useful and vital research tips and information. We are The
Library, resistance is futile.
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netLibrary provides access
to the full text of books. The U.C. Berkeley Library is
experimenting with e-books during 2000 and 2001. We have purchased over
500 titles in the social sciences. The best way to find out what is
available is to scan by publisher. To use netLibrary, you must be
accessing the site from a U.C. Berkeley IP address and register for an
account on the entry page. From the Library Web home page, access
netLibrary via the drop-down menu of Electronic References Resources.
Select Books from the menu.
March 2000
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Bioscience
at Berkeley, Biotechnology in the Bay Area: Selections from an Exhibit in
the Bancroft Library. The selections for this Web site were taken
from an exhibit developed for the Biotechnology at 25: Perspectives on
History, Science, and Society symposium held at the University of
California, Berkeley on March 12 and 13, 1999. The exhibit featured more
than 100 items selected from the archives and oral history collections of
The Bancroft Library, or lent especially for the exhibit.
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Media Review Digest is now
available. Media Review Digest is the most comprehensive guide to
reviewed and evaluated non-print media. In addition to coverage of the
best reviews in print publications, Media Review Digest also provides
access to reviews and related resources accessible via the Web --
currently linking to more than 300,000 full-text reviews. Media Review
Digest is available from computers on campus or remotely through Berkeley
IP address recognition [see proxy.lib.berkeley.edu]. From the Library Web home page, access Media
Review Digest via the drop-down menu of Electronic References Resources.
Select Indexes & Abstracts from the menu.
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The Media Resources Center has just made
available approximately 15 hours of the infamous Watergate tapes
(for RealAudio player) at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/watergate.html.
The Government & Social Science Information
Service (GSSI) provided the funds to purchase the digital files.
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The Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources
Library Web site has been given a full-body makeover that includes a
sleek new look, and improved functionality. Check it out!
February 2000
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The African
Studies database is now available. This multi-disciplinary resource
on Africa combines seventeen databases, most prominently an electronic
version of African Studies Abstracts, which contain more than 353,000 indexed
references. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, development,
business, mining, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law,
music, art, natural history, tourism and much more. Access to the database
is limited to computers in The Library, and on the U.C. Berkeley campus.
From the Library Web home page, access the African Studies database
via the drop-down menu of Electronic References Resources. Select
Indexes
& Abstracts from the menu.
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The Victorian
Database Online is now available. The Victorian Database Online
is an electronically searchable version of the Cumulative Bibliography
of Victorian Studies (PR461.A5, 1977-95) put out by the Literary Information
and Retrieval group (LITIR) at the University of Alberta. It continues
the CD-ROM which is no longer being published. Researchers can search over
100,000 records from 500 plus journals listing books, articles, and dissertation
abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 (updated annually). The database
is interdisciplinary in scope covering every field of nineteenth-century
British studies including entries in English on the following topics in
the Victorian period: painting, architecture, and music; philosophy and
religion; histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British
Empire; military and naval history; politics, commerce, and economics;
sociology, women's studies, law, and education; science, technology, and
medicine; and literature - drama, poetry, prose, and fiction. From the
Library Web home page, access the Victorian Database Online via
the drop-down menu of Electronic References Resources.
Select Indexes & Abstracts from the menu.
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Environmental Design librarian Sue Koskinen has created a selected guide
to the literature on museum
and library design. The guide is available via the Environmental
Design Library's Web site, and the Starting
your research with Library Research Guides page. The museum and library
design guide includes lists of basic research tools, historical sources,
and strategies for finding materials at U.C. Berkeley and on the Internet.
As always, consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff for
further information on this topic.
January 2000
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