Year: 2009
UC Berkeley contributes 28,000 architecture images to UC Shared Images
The Visual Resources Center at the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley has added more than 28,000 images to the UC Shared Images collections. The images, which represent a third of the Center’s entire digital collection, document the built environment from the pre-historical period to the early 21st century.
Next Generation Melvyl – Improvements in Display of Online Resources
In its September 13, 2009 install, OCLC made improvements to the display of electronic resources in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. The changes were made to help users better distinguish between links to online materials for which they have access as opposed to links from other libraries to which they may not have access.
Completion of UC-Internet Archive on-site mass digitization projects
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
CDL ERMS milestone: data loaded into Serials Solutions
The ERMS implementation team (iTeam) achieved a major milestone on July 31, 2009 when they finished the initial phase of loading CDL data into Serials Solutions.
Using Request in Next Generation Melvyl (WCL)
[originally posted as “Next Generation Melvyl – Evaluation Period Begins 8/19/09,” August 31, 2009] On 8/19/09, several configuration changes are being implemented as we point to NGM: The Request button will take users directly to the Request service. When users […]
Changes to UC-eLinks in Next Gen Melvyl
[originally published as “Next Generation Melvyl – Evaluation Period Begins 8/19/09,” August 31, 2009] Starting on Wednesday, August 19th, users visiting http://melvyl.cdlib.org are being directed to the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot as the default search. Several configuration changes are being […]
Next Generation Melvyl – Evaluation Period Begins 8/19/09
Starting on Wednesday, August 19th users visiting http://melvyl.cdlib.org are being directed to the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot as the default search. The page still offers a link to current Melvyl.
Read more-->New on OAC and Calisphere: Architectural Photographer Maynard L. Parker
A guide to the papers of noted Los Angeles-based architectural photographer Maynard L. Parker (1901-1976) is now available on Calisphere and the Online Archive of California (OAC).
New Tier 2 subscription: National Technical Reports Library
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is now available to UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA and UCM as part of a new Tier 2 subscription.
Campus Discount Program
As a way to facilitate individual campus licenses as well as potential Tier 2 efforts, CDL has begun to negotiate predetermined campus discounts and has set up the Campus Discount Program.