The following services will be unavailable from 1 am through as late as 4 am on Saturday morning March 24, while we perform scheduled maintenance:

• OskiCat, the UC Berkeley library catalog (including searching, request, and renewal functions).
• UCB call number and availability information in Melvyl.
• Melvyl Request login and My ILL Requests.
• The library proxy server for accessing licensed electronic resources (VPN will still work).

Due to scheduled maintenance, there will be intermittent service interruptions to AIP Scitation on Saturday, March 10, between the hours of 5:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Scitation hosts electronic journals and ebooks for publishers such as AIP, ASCE, ASME, SIAM, SPIE, and more. See their full list of publishers and titles for more information.

In its second year, this program arranges summer internships for UC Berkeley undergraduates that provide exciting opportunities to pursue challenging, hands-on projects in energy and climate research around the world.

University, industry, government and non-profit internships are available in Brazil, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Nicaragua, People's Republic of China and Taiwan.

The internships are paid, and include transportation and housing costs.  The application deadline is Sunday, March 18, 2012.  Complete information is available at Cal Energy Corps.

The Institute of Transportation Studies Library will be opening late at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 8. The ITS Library will resume normal Spring Semester hours, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 pm Tuesday through Friday, on Friday, March 9.

Synthesis Digital Library Update for January 2012

• Automatic Parallelization: An Overview of Fundamental Compiler Techniques by Samuel Midkiff, Purdue University (Computer Architecture Series)
• Camera Networks: The Acquisition and Analysis of Videos Over Wide Areas by Amit Roy-Chowdhury and Bi Song, University of California, Riverside (Computer Vision Series)
• Declarative Networking by Boon Thau Loo and Wenchao Zhou, University of Pennsylvania (Data Management Series)
• NS Simulator for Beginners by Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France and Tania Jiménez, University of Avignon, France (Communication Networks Series)