Year: 2000
Request News: Evaluation of Consortial Borrowing System proposals
The deadline for responses to the RFP for a Consortial Borrowing System (CBS) was mid-November. As last reported in CDLINFO on November 8th, the CBS is an expansion of Request that would create a single workflow for requests, provide temporary […]
January 19th Release – Previews and Notes
The January “release” of the CDL, to debut January 19th, focuses on new content associated with the Online Archive of California’s Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), eScholarship eprint repositories and publications, and a prototype version of the California statistics […]
EBSCO Agreement
CDL has signed an agreement with EBSCO to negotiate on CDL’s behalf for systemwide licenses with a selected number of publishers for access to their electronic journals. The agreement was signed following the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
New Resource Available
a. Royal Society of Chemistry In another example of successful co-investment by UC campuses and the CDL, all Royal Society of Chemistry Journals are now available to all campuses. Although subscribed titles were previously available to each campuses, systemwide access […]
Evolution of CDL-Hosted Abstracting and Indexing Databases
This article briefly reports on a strategy to examine alternatives for the provision of CDL-hosted abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases. The strategy has been endorsed by the University Librarians and the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC). The […]
CDL Staff News: New Staff Members
Please join us in welcoming these three new CDL staff members located at CDL offices in Oakland. Donna Kaiser and David Loy have arrived to fill vacancies in Digital Library Services and CDL Technologies respectively. Brian Tingle will join the […]
CDL Technologies Reorganization within the Office of the President
When the CDL was formed in October 1997, CDL Technologies, comprised of many members of the former Division of Library Automation, was formally a part of the Office of the President’s Information Resources and Communication department (IR&C). IR&C reports to […]
Union Catalog RFP Evaluation on Schedule
The steering committee for the evaluation of responses to the RFP for new technology to support the union catalog met on November 20, 2000 to share the results of site visits and further explorations of vendor products. As reported in […]
CDL Staff News
a. Richard Lucier Named College Librarian at Dartmouth CDL founding University Librarian Richard Lucier announced on November 1 that he has accepted a position as College Librarian of Dartmouth College effective February 1, 2001. In announcing his decision Richard remarked […]
CRL Displays in Periodicals Titles
When the CDL expanded displays in the California Periodicals database to include the CULP and SERHOLD locations, a feature was added that allows users to display holdings within a geographic region of California defined by the Library of California. The […]