International census questions

We've had several questions about census statistics and demographics for countries around the world. As a reminder the U.S. Census Dept. maintains a list of International Statistical Agencies here. Many of these agencies provide English language versions. For example, yesterday a patron and I were able to  find a report, in English, from the Swedish census bureau about the demographics of immigrants from Iraq to Sweden.

Ref College and Careers collection

Hi all,

As part of the reference reduction I'm planning to do some heavy weeding in the college and careers collection outside of the BI room. Much of the material can obviously be withdrawn or moved into the ref collection under its call number. If there is anything questionable I'll consult with the appropriate bibliographer, but if you have questions or concerns about this collection or the material in contains please let me know. Once I've cleared it I will ask cataloging to remove that location from Cruzcat.

thanks, Frank

My ILL Requests update

Hi All,
This is to inform you that a fix is being put in place that might affect patrons who are trying to access the 'My ILL Requests' service OR might affect when they go to place interlibrary loan requests. We are having CDL change the field where patrons enter their barcode in request and 'My ILL Requests' so that they will no longer be able to put hyphens or spaces between the numbers of their barcode. Patrons were supposed to be putting their barcodes in like this all along, however, the entry field would allow all sorts of variations which would go on to create a distinct account in the interlibrary loan system.

Basically, over the next few days/weeks/months, if you encounter a patron who is having difficulty logging into ILL services you may want to ask how they are going about entering their barcode.
Barcodes should be entered as one continuous string of numbers.
ie: 2210600642878X
AND NOT
22106-0064287-8X OR any other variation like this.

If the patron continues to have trouble please refer him directly to us (call, or e-mail ill@library.ucsc.edu). This fix should be in place sometime on Monday Nov. 15th.
Feel free to write back for any clarification!

-Josh, Interlibrary Loan

What to do if a 1994+ UCSC dissertation does not appear in Digital Dissertations online

Although we archive the paper copies of all UCSC master theses and doctoral dissertations in Special Collections, they do not handle the submission of files to Digital Dissertations. We can make an inquiry of the UCSC Graduate Division about the student and title and they will verify that the dissertation was produced. They do not have information about its submission to Pro Quest (the company that produces the electronic files and supports Digital Dissertations). It is not mandatory for students to have their dissertations made electronically available so in some cases it may be that the student decided not to make it accessible in this format. The Graduate Division can check and verify if this is the case.

If you encounter an incorrect record in Cruzcat, where a link to Digital Dissertations is provided but does not work, please let Cataloging know and they can correct the record.