The following services will be unavailable from 10pm Friday, May 28 until 2am Saturday, May 29:
The OskiCat and NextGen Melvyl Pilot catalogs will not be affected.
The Institute of Transportation Studies Library will be closed on Friday, May 28.
“The disability history program in the Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) has added a new collection of oral histories of leaders in the self-advocacy movement, led by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The collection documents the life stories of 13 self-advocacy leaders across the United States.
“As a whole, the collection is perhaps the most in-depth exploration of the transformative impact and cultural meaning of the self-advocacy movement,” says Tamar Heller, president of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. “Spanning over six decades, the life stories of self advocates document how far we have come as a society, while reminding us how much further we still must go.”
The self-advocacy collection is available online. It includes interview transcripts, as well as captioned video-taped excerpts accessible to individuals who have difficulty reading.” – UC Berkeley News
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“The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received a spectacular gift of hundreds of books, drawings, correspondence and other personal communications to and from one of America’s best-known writers, the Armenian-American author and playwright William Saroyan.
The rich collection includes approximately 48 cartons with 1,200 books and other archival materials assembled by his niece, Jacqueline Kazarian, of San Francisco, who also is the founder of the William Saroyan Literary Foundation International.
‘UC Berkeley is such an incredible place of learning and growing and intellectual exploration,” said Kazarian, who earned degrees in communication and decorative arts at UC Berkeley in the early 1950s. “I know that my uncle wanted his library, manuscripts and galleys to go to Berkeley. Students will be inspired by the collection.'” –
Read about the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) in the May 2010 issue of PLoS Biology. In Institutional Open Access Funds: Now Is The Time, authors Eckman and Weil describe how this innovative program has helped to increase the amount of Berkeley research universally accessible to readers by proving funding to pay open access fees. The project has also promoted faculty retention of publishing rights, fostered dialogue between libraries, researchers and journal publishers, and, ultimately encouraged a more sustainable scholarly communication environment.
