Year: 2006
Library Staff News
a. CDL Reorganization The CDL recently reorganized in order to implement the vision that emerged from CDL’s Senior Management 2006 strategic planning process, which defined a revised mission and values statement (below), as well as chose and defined the boundaries […]
UC Libraries Partner With Google To Digitize Books
Yesterday, the UC libraries announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html. Additional information about the partnership is also available on the CDL website: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.htm].
New Resources Available
a. JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UC Riverside ), CDL Resource Liaison UC now has access to JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection. This collection is growing, and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. […]
SCP Cataloging Priorities
By Adolfo R. Tarango (UC San Diego), Head, Shared Cataloging Program Unit Shared Cataloging Program staff have posted an “SCP Cataloging Priorities” document. The document should address many questions campus staff may have regarding SCP cataloging priorities and how they […]
CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: American Assoc. Cancer Research Journals – Penny Coppernoll-Blach, UC San Diego ATLA Religion Database – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley CIAO – Jesse Silva, UC Berkeley Digital […]
7train METS Generation Tool Released
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of “7train”, an XSLT 2.0-based tool for generating Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) files from standardized XML inputs. Version 1 of the open-source, platform-independent tool is available via […]
Calisphere Web Site Launched
Calisphere is now available at: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources – including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art – from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. […]
New Resources Available
a. ATLA Religion Database, Index Islamicus, Philosopher’s Index By Jan Carter, UC Berkeley The CDL is pleased to announce access to three new databases in philosophy and religious studies available from CSA. The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database […]
New Resources Available
a. Education Index Retrospective By Diane Childs (UCLA), Resource Liaison Education Index Retrospective, with indexing for 1929 through 1983, has recently been purchased by the CDL. On WilsonWeb, it complements the current UC subscription to Education Full Text (with indexing 1983-; […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project Reaches Key Milestone
A milestone in creating a UC campus configurable metasearch tool has been reached: an alpha, or very first testing stage, version of UC’s “Find It” metasearch tool was unveiled and reviewed by two groups of UC librarians on May 4 […]