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The article announces that the collection of the former Women's History Library known as the "Women's Health/Mental Health" is now available on microfilm which is published by the Women's History Research Center in Berkeley, California. The microfilm contains 13 reels of material about women, including women's physical and mental health, biology and the life cycle, sex and sexuality, and birth control. Customers could obtain further information about the microfilm through contacting Research Publications Inc., the Center's distributor, located at 12 Lunar Drive in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

Presents updates related to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) as of 1984. Recipient of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for 1983; Job vacancies at the "The Journal of American History" publication; Details of a survey on OAH members released by Lewis Perry at the business meeting of the OAH in Los Angeles, California on April 6, 1984.

The article deals with a workshop on film as art conducted during the Art Libraries Society of North America conference on February 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. Projects presented in the workshop include "Toward a National Computerized Database for Moving Image Materials," sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. The film evaluation aspect of the workshop was conducted by Lois Swan Jones, professor of art at North Texas State University in Denton.

The article deals with a workshop concerning rare books for art librarians held at the Art Libraries Society of North America conference on February 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California. The morning session of the workshop was focused on rare books as sources for art historical research. Other topics discussed include the unpopularity of catalog collecting and private collection catalogs.

Focuses on the Viticulture and Enology Collection at the Shields Library of the University of California in Davis. General description and development of the collection; Information about the early imprints of the collection; Classified areas of the collection; Description of the Viticulture and Enology Collection of the library.

Presents the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive housed in the Center for Motion Picture Study in California. Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927; Aim at assisting the organization advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures; Research and reference collection of film-related paper materials; Major collections.

The article discusses a study conducted by researchers from University of California at Berkeley to examine the costs of digital image distribution for educational purposes. The researchers examined the experimental project, the Museum Education Site Learning Project (MESL). The primary cost centers in the digital network distribution of images and text through the MESL Project were identified, defined and explored by the researchers.

Lists items added to the Huntington Library's collections of primary research materials and made available to researchers in 2000. Items appearing under the categories 'Manuscripts,' 'Rare Books,' 'Photographs' and 'Prints and Ephemera'; Statement of acknowledgment appearing at the end of the entry where gifts by donors have made acquisitions possible.

This section offers news briefs related to library service in the U.S. The American Library Association held its annual meeting in San Francisco, California in June 2001. Blackwell's Book Services released Blackwell's Online Bookshop (BOB) in a U.S. version. A report from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) focuses on the economic and logistical issues associated with creating a shared library depository.

The article presents information on the Slavic literature collected by the Davis-Shields Library of the University of California, Davis, California. The Shields Library collects primary and secondary works on Russian language and literature, and works from and about Russia and Slavic-speaking countries in the social sciences and sciences. Emphasis is mostly on current imprints. Materials are primarily in Russian. Shields Library's collection is a Russian rather than a Slavic collection, although other Slavic languages are represented.

Discusses the history of multiracialism in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in East Los Angeles, California. Transformation of community from Jewish enclave to predominantly Mexican community; Neighborhood's commitment to multiracialism in the 1950s; History of Jewish Boyle Heights in the late twentieth century.

Scholars have recently reconceptualized the archive not only as a repository of knowledge, but also as an active producer and arbiter of knowledge. The study of archives, from this perspective, must attend to processes as well as products. This paper examines UCLA's Archiving Filipino American Music in Los Angeles (AFAMILA) project as a case study of collaborative archiving, from the perspective that both methodology, the strategies and practices of collecting, and musical content, the sounds collected, determine the meaning of music archives. Furthermore, the study seeks to demonstrate how the collaborative approach, with its emphasis on dialogue and exchange, subverts the discourses of power that have historically shaped music archiving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose, California is a unique dual-use library serving the students of San Jose State University and the community of San Jose, California. The reference collections of the two libraries are merged and interfiled to promote ease of access for both populations served. Economies of scale were realized through collaborative collection development activities for major reference purchases between the two institutions. This article describes the planning and creation of the King Library's merged reference collection and reviews the literature of collaborative collection development and merged or interfiled collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center will open soon, replacing the county's current 74-year-old facility with a modem, although smaller, facility. Los Angeles County has provided hospital care to the indigent since 1858, during which time, the operation of public hospitals has shifted from a state-mandated welfare responsibility to a preeminent part of the county's public health mission. As this shift occurred, the financing of Los Angeles County hospitals changed from primarily county support to state and federal government sources, particularly Medicaid. The success of the new hospital will depend on whether government leaders at all levels provide the reforms needed to help the county and its partners stabilize its funding base. (Am J Public Health. 2007;97:606-615.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents various writings and speeches by California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk which were housed at the California Judicial Center Library in San Francisco, California. These short pieces of writing deal with Mosk's various legal opinions on such topics as the death penalty, racial discrimination, and the right to privacy. Humorous anecdotes written by Mosk concerning court proceedings are also provided. His opinions on states' rights and the importance of state constitutionalism in the U.S. are also laid out.

The utility of every imaginable application which incorporates a gazetteer hinges on the simple fact that the resulting system will only be as useful, complete, or accurate as the underlying gazetteer itself. A major issue confronting gazetteers utilized in systems today is that they are not complete and measures of their accuracy are largely unknown. In this paper we describe a methodology which addresses this problem by automatically generating highly complete and detailed regional gazetteers from Internet sources. We utilize information extraction and integration techniques to automatically obtain geographic features and associated footprints and feature types from freely and widely available online data which could be applied to create a gazetteer for nearly any area. We discuss the distinguishing characteristics of the generated gazetteer and extend previous work to define measures which can be used to assess the completeness and accuracy of gazetteers. Using these measures, the generated gazetteer is evaluated against the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer and the Los Angeles Comprehensive Bibliographic Database. Our results indicate that a gazetteer created by our methods will be at least as complete as any gazetteer currently available for certain feature classes, while falling short in others. We conclude by offering suggestions to address these shortcomings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a virtual library plan created by library directors of the 23 California State University (CSU) system campuses. The information literacy portion of the project offers a repository of high quality interactive digital learning objects (DLOs) in the MERLOT repository. Therefore, DLOs created locally at the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Library at San José State University (SJSU) focus on topics that supplement the "core" DLO collection. Design/methodology/approach - This case study presents planning assumptions for developing local content that complements a California State University (CSU) system collection of high quality interactive information literacy DLOs. The authors also offer suggestions from the professional literature that guide their application of such Web 2.0 tools as wikis, podcasts, and tagging to create supplemental learning modules for their local information literacy instruction program. Findings - Web 2.0 Digital Learning Objects are essential components of an efficient academic information literacy program comprised of face-to-face and "on demand" virtual approaches. The California State University (CSU) system has identified a core set of DLOs, which are easily available in the MERLOT open access repository. Local development efforts, then, focus on the design and creation of DLOs of local significance. Practical implications - Librarians at the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Library in San José, California, USA, are developing local content for Web 2.0-enabled information literacy instruction. These developments occur within the context of a 23 campus initiative, originating at the Chancellor's Office, which has identified high quality information literacy digital learning objects (DLOs). This core open access collection intends to fulfill academic libraries'core instructional needs and is freely available to any library through the open access MERLOT repository by any library Originality/value - This paper recommends an approach for local production of virtual information literacy content which benefits from harvesting the "best of the best" currently available on the internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contains information about the Stanford University library in California and the Hoover Institution. The author presents biographical data about U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the formation of a library collection with materials from World War I. Information is presented about the history of the Stanford library and the Hoover Institution. The author discusses details about the library collection available at the Hoover Institution, including financial aspects.

In 2004, the Social Sciences and Humanities Library at the University of California-San Diego implemented restaurant-style pagers to notify waiting patrons that the reserve collection materials they needed were available. The authors describe the university libraries' process for implementing the pagers and the success staff has had with pagers over the past four years, list other libraries that use pagers, suggest other library uses for pagers, and offer guidance to institutions that might consider this service enhancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv, Israel that is available at the Stanford University Libraries website located at http://collections.stanfod.edu/telaviv. It states that the rich collection of books, magazines, and other historical materials were acquired by the university in 2005. It notes that the collection is from the Tel Aviv native and the most prominent antiquarian bookseller Eliasaf Robinson, who assembled the materials for forty years. It also discusses the history of Tel Aviv, which is documented in the collection. Moreover, it mentions that different digitalization equipments were used for each material such as the I2S DigiBook for the manuscripts and printed ephemera, while photographs are captured in 400 pixels per inch.

The article discusses activism by women's clubs in California to promote reforms intended to improve social conditions for U.S. Indians. With the assistance of John Collier, former U.S. commissioner for Indian affairs, and Pueblo Indians, members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) campaigned against assimilation-based U.S. policies regarding Indians and supported the return of lands to Indians as well as religious freedom and self-efficacy for Indian tribes. The author notes that GFWC members such as Stella Atwood investigated social problems faced by Indians and motivated Collier to promote Indian reforms.

The papers of Zygmunt Haupt, Polish emigre writer and painter, are now fully processed and open to researches in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information is presented about conferences at the American Library Association's annual meeting in Anaheim, California in Summer 2008. The forums include "Next Steps in Next Generation Catalogs, A Report on Presentations and a Discussion, "International Authority Issues: The Time Is Now for Non-Roman Scripts in the Name Authority File," and "Removing the Fence: Merging Print and Electronic Serials Workflows."

The purpose of this article is to describe the scope and depth of the historic corporate annual report collections in twelve academic/research libraries in North America. For many decades, a few major academic business libraries have been collecting and preserving corporate Annual Reports (ARS), the reports sent to shareholders documenting the financial status and future plans of the company. Today these historic collections provide more than a record of the companies' finances; they provide a glimpse into the social and cultural thoughts from the past and the corporate stories of individual companies. Digitization of these reports has only just begun; so, except for fewer than 900 companies (most of which have been on the Fortune 500 list), the companies included in these historic annual report collections are not available electronically. The combined collection of the twelve libraries includes reports from nearly 38,000 different companies. Stanford, Harvard, and Western Ontario have the largest collections. Harvard and Columbia have collections with significant historic depth, while Purdue has a collection with important late-twentieth-century holdings. The overlap of the collections is much smaller than was anticipated. The two largest collections, Stanford with over 18,000 companies and Harvard with over 11,000 companies, have only 3,668 companies in common. The overlap of companies between the largest five collections is only thirty-three companies. This research identifies these collections as unique and therefore valuable to the study of specific company histories and the industrial development in North America. Librarians need to preserve these collections and work toward digitizing them.

Current economic challenges have had a profound impact on collection development, as a good budget has become one which merely remains flat in comparison to the many budgets which have been severely cut. While inflation has steadily eroded collection budgets for many years, the Great Recession exacerbated economic woes as both academic endowments and state tax revenues declined drastically. The Health Sciences Libraries of the University of Southern California address these difficult times by communicating and collaborating with colleagues, customers, and vendors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article utilizes qualitative methods to explore changes in women's representation in a specific historical topic: World War II narratives. On one hand, war discourse is fundamental to the historical understanding of politics in many parts of the world. Furthermore, since the time World War II narratives first appeared in school textbooks, women's status has significantly increased around the world and in the United States. As a result, these narratives provide an interesting case to examine historical and enduring gender roles and power structures. Using a collection of twelve U. S. history secondary school textbooks published between the years 1956 and 2007 and used in California's public schools, we employ a modified version of Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault's (1986) five stages of thinking about women's history as our coding scheme. Our findings reveal not only greater mentions of women in newer textbooks, but also a greater use of compensatory and "bi-focal" narratives. However, we argue that these more recent texts still fall far short of adopting multifocal, relational narratives that challenge hegemonic gender relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on international series and electronic resource management, including information on vendor and publisher services and topics related to library schools and continuing education. The article presents abstracts from several journals including the July 2011 issue of "Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community," the June 2011 issue of "Serials Review." Topics include the awarding of the SAGE travel grant to librarian Patrick Carr to attend the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) International conference in England on September 14-16, 2011, a basic serials cataloging workshop at Pepperdine University on August 3, 2011, and the New York Public Library's (NYPL) online catalog changes implemented by software company Bibliocommons.

The article discusses nine items contained in the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley as of 2011. The author argues that the items demonstrate the diversity of information on California legal history in the library. According to the author, the library was established following a donation of historical documents by the late California bookstore owner and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1905. The article examines library items including an oral history interviews with the late Mexican immigrant Ignacio Ezquer, a book entitled "Laws for the Better Government of California," by the late California military governor Richard B. Mason, and papers related to the San Francisco, California, Committee of Vigilance of 1851.