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WEST Program Refresher – Slides and Demo Recording Now Available!

On February 7th WEST hosted an hour-long webinar that provided a refresher on the WEST program and an info session on WEST Archiving.  The first half of the webinar covered the history of WEST as well as the vision, mission, […]

Welcome Marcus Jun!

We are delighted to welcome Marcus Jun as the new Head of the CDL Shared Cataloging Program! He joins us on Monday, February 10, 2025. Marcus comes from the Cal State system where he managed ebooks including gov docs and […]

Package changes (January 2025)

Global Financial Data changes Global Financial Data, Inc. will officially become Finaeon, Inc. on January 1, 2025. Eight UC campuses subscribe to Global Financial Data database: (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, LA, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz). Users will […]

CDL Job Opening: Project Manager position

The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for a temporary (one year) Project Manager position. As a member of the CDL’s Shared Collections program, the Project Manager will be a primary contributor to CDL’s current efforts to develop and implement […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – January 2025

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for January 2025 Content and Collections  […]

SCP Update – January 2025

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in December 2024 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 22 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 370 JSTOR Books DDA: 912 Taylor & Francis ebooks (CRC/netbases 2012 & prior): 84 Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC […]

WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Archiving Commitments Are Complete!

The WEST project team is pleased to announce that all archiving commitments for Cycles 14 & 15 have been submitted and analyzed! This analysis included several important and impactful updates to WEST’s collections model and archiving priorities: Expanded Archive Holder […]

Webinar: Yale’s AI Summarization Tool Turbocharges Library Research

Yale’s Digital Collections AI  can summarize and answer questions about all kinds of digitized material –  a book, a handwritten journal, materials in major European languages and much more.   For a researcher searching through a heap of digital material […]

The Who, What, and Why of Voluntary Validation

What does it mean to validate archived materials? WEST physical validation includes two components:  the proactive compilation and verification of completeness of the backfile in a single location and  the verification of the condition of the material.  The effort put […]

New Streaming Videos: CathayPlay

      Several UC campuses now have subscription access to a new Chinese streaming video platform called CathayPlay.  CathayPlay, having launched in 2019, is new to working with North American libraries, and our UC campuses are excited to have […]