ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO RESOURCES (CCL-EAR) COMMITTEE -- Darryl Swarm (Feather River College): Committee Chair

The CCL-EAR Committee recently met via teleconference on March 7, 2016. The committee discussed potentially updating the review/preview format and ideas for improving the existing website. There was also a discussion on the ambitious work of the discovery systems team. A recent Discovery Systems Forum was facilitated by the committee’s discovery team on February 5, 2016 in Sacramento. Five leading discovery systems were examined through an informed, interactive panel discussion among other activities. Please see the associated article in this issue of Outlook for a more detailed summary of this well-attended meeting.

For those interested in the newspaper, magazine and journal content database Lexis-Nexis, a preview is now complete and published on the consortium website. Other recently-published reviews include Mango Languages, Rosetta Stone, Oxford English Online, Salem Online, Grove Art & Music, a Science Comparison review and Ambrose Video.

Reviews in progress and close to completion include: Swank Digital, JSTOR, and the aforementioned Discovery Systems comparison.

Please check our website for reviews that are of interest to you: https://cclibrarians.org/consortium/reviews. Our reviews feature an interactive component where you can post comments, feedback, and share your experiences with the database and we would appreciate your feedback.

The next CCL-EAR Committee Meeting will be held April 27 and 28 in Irvine. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu) for details on attending. As always, suggestions for any electronic databases on which you would like to see a review may be sent to Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu) or to your regional representative (CCL-EAR Committee Roster https://cclibrarians.org/committees/electronic-access-and-resources-committee#members).