Year: 2006
UC Libraries Presentation at Board of Regents Meeting
On Thursday, May 18, Dan Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian for the CDL, gave a presentation at the UC Board of Regents meeting about the accomplishments the UC libraries and their staffs have achieved through innovation and collaboration. […]
Updated CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors
The CDL’s technical requirements for database and ejournal vendors were updated in April 2006. These documents reflect new or revised sections on information security, preservation, metasearch, and authentication via Shibboleth. They are intended to be shared with database and ejournal […]
CopyrightMD
The California Digital Library is making available the first draft of its XML schema for copyright metadata, CopyrightMD. This schema grew out of work at the CDL to address the integration of rights information into the digital library workflow. During […]
NISC’s “Africa-Wide NiPAD” replaces “African Studies” and incorporates “South African Studies”
By Ruby Bell-Gam (Resource Liaison), UCLA NISC is discontinuing its “African Studies” database, replacing it with the more comprehensive “Africa-Wide NiPAD”, which includes all of the content of two NISC databases, “African Studies” and “South African Studies”. The new database […]
Vendor Changes for the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
By Susan Koskinen (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison, and Susan Jurist, (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison We are happy to announce that the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available via CSA […]
Digital Dissertation Platform Change in Process
ProQuest is performing a phased migration of the Digital Dissertations database to the ProQuest interface. This move should be completed with ProQuest’s summer 2006 release. As part of this process, the ProQuest database menu now offers a link to the […]
Revised Image Displays in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Web Sites
The CDL recently completed an upgrade to its instance of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), which serves as the search and display system for the OAC. As part of this process, we launched updated versions of our displays for image […]
Library Staff News
a. Joan Starr Joins CDL as Project Planning Manager Joan Starr will be joining CDL as the Manager for Project Planning and Resource Allocation on April 7. Reporting to Deputy University Librarian Laine Farley, Joan will work with the CDL’s […]
Changes to the PubMed Limits Screen
By Cheryl A. Bartel (UCLA), PubMed Resource Liaison PubMed has made changes to the limits screen. The majority of the limits are functionally the same. The presentation, however, is dramatically different. Instead of the single short screen with drop-down menus, the […]
Users Council Annual Meeting
The Users Council met for its annual meeting on April 28 at Preservation Park in Oakland. Topics discussed during the morning session included a welcome by Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost, Scholarly Information and University Librarian, Systemwide Library Planning and […]