Year: 2005
Directory of CDL-Licensed Content Retiring
Reminder: The Directory of CDL-Licensed Content [http://www.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/directory_search] will be retired October 31, 2005. At that time, please be prepared to remove any links to or mention of the Directory in campus web pages or guides. Users who have bookmarked the […]
Updated versions of OAC and eScholarship Editions
Last week the CDL released updated versions of the Online Archive of California (OAC) <http://www.oac.cdlib.org/> and eScholarship Editions <http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/>. The eScholarship Editions home page provides more visible access to various browse options. Most of the other noticeable interface changes were […]
New CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: ArtBibliographies Modern (Tier 2) — Krista Ivy, UC Riverside Bibliography of the History of Art — Susan Jurist, UC San Diego Contemporary Women’s Issues — Sherri […]
UC Libraries Partner With Technology Companies and Non-Profits to Provide Free Public Access to Digital Books
The University of California libraries are participating in a new partnership to build a freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world. The UC libraries will contribute books and resources in order to build a collection of […]
CDL Receives Grant for Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project
What if your library catalog was smart enough to offer good recommendations? The Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project is an experimental research and prototyping project that is investigating a number of technical strategies for making online public access catalogs easier to […]
Library Staff News
a. Ivy Anderson Appointed as Director of Licensed Content The CDL is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ivy Anderson, currently of Harvard University Library, to the position of Director of Licensed Content, effective January 2, 2006. The appointment […]
Expanded Academic ASAP Gets a New URL And a New Look
At long last Gale has everything in place the switch to the new Expanded Academic ASAP platform, will now occur on September 21. This is the switch that was previously scheduled to happen on August 15, and was delayed so […]
FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, Film Literature Index
The CDL is pleased to announce UC access to three new film resources: FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, and the Film Literature Index. Developed by the British Film Institute, FII gives full international coverage of films and film […]
PAIS Archive
Beth Sibley (UC Berkeley) Resource Liaison The PAIS Archive was recently released by CSA and thanks to CDL funding is now available for all campuses on the CSA Illumina platform. The current coverage is 1937-1976 with the rest of the […]
The Age of Reason arrives at UC: ECCO
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the digitization of 150,000 works published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800. It includes a variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and […]