Year: 1999

Digital Library Instruction Issues – New Listserv Available

In response to advice from the CDL Education Working Group and discussions at the Spring DL Strategies forums and elsewhere, a new listserv for the discussion of education and instruction issues related to digital library resources and services is now […]

Joan Gargano and Patrick Newell to depart the CDL

Joan Gargano, Director of CDL Technologies, has accepted an exciting offer to become CIO at a startup company in private industry based in Boulder, Colorado.  Joan’s leadership of the CDL Technologies staff, and contribution to CDL planning and development, as […]

CDL Directory Submission Pilot Project – Call for Participants

As was described in the June 18, 1999 (v.2, no.9) issue of CDLINFO, the CDL will be conducting a pilot project in early September in which a small group of campus libraries will add locally licensed content to the CDL […]

PREMEDLINE is Going Away

The National Library of Medicine will discontinue its Z39.50 server to the MEDLINE data (back to 1966) and the PREMEDLINE data effective December 13, 1999.  MEDLINE/HealthSTAR is offered to UC users as a CDL-hosted database and will not be affected […]

Resource Liaisons (update)

Resource Liaisons met Monday, July 26 in Oakland to discuss their charge.  Liaisons will 1) monitor technical and content performance; 2) identify enhancements that producers might make; 3) coordinate input on their respective databases from colleagues; 4) review online and […]

Elsevier Journals Now Available via the CDL Directory [http://www.cdlib.org/]

Readers are reminded that the CDL’s “Collections Update” document (available at: [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/docs/]) is updated regularly with information about resources being negotiated and expected times for availability.  Campus Collection Development Officers also have current status information. Online versions of the nearly […]

Multi-Resource Search Tool

Campus librarians and CDL staff met on July 13 to plan the CDL-hosted multi-resource search tool, a function being planned for implementation in January 2000. Attendees were Roy Tennant and Camille Wanat (UCB); Steve Mitchell and Margaret Mooney (UCR); Ann […]

Request/PIR News — Extending to Articles

A report is available with details on plans for extending the present books-only Request function to include journal articles.  The report is being used in discussions with SOPAG, University Librarians, and others about the timing and implementation of the extended […]

Contacts for Questions or Problems

If you have problems accessing or using the system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways: For immediate assistance, call the […]

CDL Milestones

CDL Milestones are now posted on the CDL informational web site under News and Developments.  Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!