We salute the winners of the 2008 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, who will accept their awards at a reception May 14.

This year's winners are:

• Carine de la Girond'arc and Alina Xu ("The Comics of R. Crumb: A Mirror of the Artist's Times and Obsessions")
• My Chau ("The Power of Patterns: Double Ikat for Textile Exchange in India and Indonesia")
• Linda Nyberg ("The Collapse of Time: Decennial Anniversaries and the Experience of Time in the German Democratic Republic")
• Keith Orejel ("Bodies, Burials, and Black Cultural Politics: African American Funerals in the Civil Rights Movement").

For details of these projects, see the Library Prize website.

The library subscribes to more than 850 premium online information sources. To learn more about what we've added in the last month, see our list of new resources.

New
» Italinemo (Italian literature and culture)
» Oxford Art Online

Changed
» Grove Art Online is now part of the Oxford Art Online suite and has a new URL.

To find out more about any of our electronic resources, search its title here.

The May 1 issue of Booklist, a book review journal, features the article "A Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to San Francisco," which surveys crime novels set in this area. It credits our own hard-boiled librarian, Randal Brandt:

"For readers interested in a more far-reaching scan of mysteries set in San Francisco and environs, go immediately to a wonderful Web site called Golden Gate Mysteries, maintained by the reigning expert on the topic, Randal Brandt, from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Brandt covers the waterfront, from the nineteenth century to yesterday."

The traditional 24-hour finals schedule for Doe and Moffitt Libraries will begin on Tuesday, May 13 and go through Saturday night, May 17. In addition to 24 hour access to the Gardner Stacks and Moffitt Library, the Doe Library and group study rooms will stay open until midnight those days.

Please observe the Library's No Food or Drink policy-- take snack breaks in the Free Speech Movement Cafe or the Moffitt-side classrooms.

And best of luck on your finals!

The following services provided by the California Digital Library will be unavailable between 1am and 4am on Sunday, May 4.  Please note that these times are AM, not PM.

UC-eLinks
Melvyl
Request
VDX and "My ILL Requests"
Online Archive of California
Calisphere
eScholarship Editions
eScholarship Repository
UC Image Service Collections (Luna Insight collections)
Mark Twain Project Online Beta
Counting California

For more information on these services, visit the CDL website.