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Year: 2010

Site Registry for the Web Archiving Service

Over 20 organizations are now using the Web Archiving Service to capture and archive Web sites.  These organizations include the University of California libraries, other UC units and organizations beyond the UC.  Web archivists have told us that they want to see a collection-planning tool […]

IOP Journals Platform Change

By Sue Koskinen (UCB), IOP Resource Liaison Beginning Tuesday, March 2, 2010, the IOP Publishing journals, which UC licenses, are now accessed via the IOPscience <http://iopscience.iop.org/> platform. This new system provides users with advanced functionality, new features and a clean, […]

Cochrane Library Platform Transition

By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The Cochrane Library has moved from Wiley InterScience to a new platform: http://www.thecochranelibrary.com.  Current subscribers include Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. For more information about the move, see […]

200,000 Digital Images in OAC and Calisphere

Digital Special Collections is celebrating a major milestone: as of today, more than 200,000 digital images are available on the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere websites. The images—photographs, posters, artwork, and more—have been contributed by over 100 archives, […]

A habit of resilience

I’ve been reading an article in the January/February issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), “How to Bounce Back from Adversity.” If you have access to HBR online, here’s a link. The freely available Idea in Brief is here. Based on old […]

Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – Important Milestone: Request

By Adam Brin, Technical Lead, Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot An important milestone has been reached for the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot, supported by WorldCat Local.  As of March 2, 2010, the back-end of UC’s Request (Interlibrary Loan) service began running at […]

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) to be discontinued 3/31/10

By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The Getty Research Institute, publishers of the Bibliography of the History of Art, will not provide access to BHA beyond March 31, 2010. BHA will no longer be available from CSA Illumina nor […]

Internships at CDL

Last Wednesday, Rachael Hu and I went to the Spring Career Fair at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. The Fair is held at Berkeley’s South Hall, an historic building on the campus. This year’s Fair had 13 “vendors” including us. The […]

CDL’s System Status web page – ‘One stop shopping’ for system information

By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst At the top right of CDL’s newly redesigned website (http://www.cdlib.org) is a link to CDL’s System Status web page.  This System Status page brings together several useful tools in one place to facilitate […]

Web Archive for California Water Research

The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA), using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service, has built the California Water Districts Web Archive, a comprehensive archive of water district websites.  This Web archive is now available to the general public at: […]