Year: 2010
Reshaping Scholarly Communication Website Update
by Joanne Miller The Reshaping Scholarly Communication website (http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu), an information resource especially for UC faculty on the facts and issues surrounding scholarly publishing, has been revised and updated. The website was originally the output of the Office of Scholarly […]
CDL Users Council: You can view this year’s sessions
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager From your desktop, you can attend sessions on CDL program activities tailored for Users Council. UC campuses and selected California institutions have a Users Council member who monitors communications to and from the CDL, […]
Project ecology
It’s standard to describe software development and implementation projects as having “life cycles.” If you look at some of the cool new agile tools, you’ll see another paradigm: story-telling, in which a project becomes a narrative, and each task is […]
HathiTrust Update & Significant Milestone
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager HathiTrust Reaches 1.1 Million Public Domain Volumes The HathiTrust has collectively reached one of our long-anticipated goals; over 1 million volumes are now available in full view for […]
Is Your Career Fit or Fat?
You exercise to build stamina and muscle. You meditate to gain greater serenity. You take your car to the mechanic to keep it running. In different ways, these are all about maintaining fitness. So what are you doing for your […]
JHOVE2: characterization matters
JHOVE is software used by most digital libraries and repositories to help manage their collections of digital files. First released in 2005, it quickly became an indispensible tool for format characterization and validation. In simple terms, people use JHOVE to […]
Train train train…
I’ve heard quite a few project managers say lately, “I don’t have any formal project management training,” as if to discount whatever observation they were about to make, because it was “only” based on years of experience. A mix of […]
Personal Archiving: Awareness and Events
Until recently, the field of Web archiving has largely been focused on preserving Web-based government information and content surrounding historical events. The issues faced early-on by national libraries and research institutions are now making their way into the mainstream as […]
How Portable Are Your Skills?
In the good old days, you worked at the same job for the same organization your entire work-life. Oh, you might get promoted or transferred, but you didn’t leave. There was an unspoken compact that you would give loyalty to the […]
SCP Distribution Statistics for May 3, 2010
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) has released record distribution statistics for the week of May 3, 2010. See: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/scpstats2010.html#may2010