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Year: 2011

DataCite Metadata Scheme is published

The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that […]

Emily Stambaugh in Print

Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, recently had an article published in a recent issue of Against the Grain.  The article is entitled Heading West: Circling the Wagons to Ensure Preservation and Access, and discusses the Western Regional Storage […]

HathiTrust WorldCat Local Discovery Tool

Today, OCLC and HathiTrust announced the release of a WorldCat Local-based interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library, currently containing more than 4 million records.  The discovery interface is available at http://hathitrust.worldcat.org and will be updated on a regular basis. (Links […]

CDLers (and UCSBer) in Print

The latest D-Lib magazine is a special issue devoted to Research Data. It has an international list of authors, including a few from close to home. John Kunze and Patricia Cruse, University of California Curation Center; and Greg Janée, University […]

CDL On-the-Go

The CDL website has gone mobile. Since the launch of our new web presence in January, 2010, the User Experience Design team has continued our commitment to finding new and timely ways to serve our users’ needs. In the summer […]

Principal Metadata Analyst Position Closes 1/14/11

Shape the future of discovery & delivery. Discovery & Delivery: Job Opportunity Position: Principal Metadata Analyst About you You are an experienced metadata analyst. You have the ability to understand how metadata is mapped and transformed as it travels between […]

HathiTrust: 2010 Year in Review

By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager A special edition HathiTrust newsletter highlighting 2010 achievements and activities is now available.   2010 was quite a momentous year for our partnership; the membership of HathiTrust doubled to 52 institutions, and we’re approaching […]

Behind the Finding Aid: UCLA Library’s John Fante Papers

Researchers of literature and history can now delve into the life and work of John Fante (1909-1983), an Italian-American writer best known for his 1939 novel Ask the Dust. UCLA Library Special Collections has finished processing the author’s papers, and […]