Year: 2011
Reading 5 Million Books at Once: Google N-Grams at TEDxBoston
Google has digitized millions of books from libraries across the world, including the UC Libraries. While our digitized books are great for traditional reading and research, the corpus also offers a unique opportunity for new kinds of inquiry. For instance: […]
UC HathiTrust Update & News
by Heather Christenson, HathiTrust Project Manager, CDL August Activities As the academic year begins, the HathiTrust Update on August Activities provides a report on what the HathiTrust partnership has been up to during the not-so-lazy days of summer. A number […]
Vertical Search Demo submitted to Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint
CDL has submitted a Vertical Search Demo (http://crawlspace.cdlib.org/) to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Beta Sprint project. The Beta Sprint issued a call for ideas and prototypes for the DPLA, which is envisioned as a “large-scale digital public […]
Important Milestone: Serial Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to display in Melvyl
Since nearly the inception of the UC-OCLC Melvyl project, adding serial Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to UC’s Melvyl catalog records has been a high priority. The aim in doing so has been to improve response time, particularly for serial records […]
Stay in the Know: Melvyl Webinars Are Coming
Want to learn more about the status of features and future plans for Melvyl? A series of Melvyl Webinars is planned for September and October. Although the first two webinars will focus on public or technical services issues, everyone is […]
Introducing Literature Resources from Gale (LRG), a new path to LRC
Literature Resource Center (LRC): http://uclibs.org/PID/20324 Twayne’s Authors Online: http://uclibs.org/PID/220768 Scribner Writers Online: http://uclibs.org/PID/220769 Literature Resources from Gale (LRG) is the new gateway to the following systemwide databases — Literature Resource Center (LRC), Twayne’s Authors Online, and the Scribner Writers Online. […]
Facilitating Data Management: DCXL
CDL has launched a new project dubbed Digital Curation for Excel (DCXL), led by UC3’s project manager Carly Strasser. Carly comes to the CDL with a PhD in Biological Oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; her most […]
ARTstor Digital Library: New Features / User Registration for Image Downloads
ARTstor recently announced a number of new features and enhancements to the ARTstor Digital Library, in time for the fall semester and quarter: Filter search results by Time Period, Classification, and Geography Choose the number of thumbnails displayed Mouse-over to […]
Digital preservation: content now more secure than ever
In order to provide a greater level of preservation assurance to its customers, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has upgraded the Merritt curation repository with a new version of the Fixity micro-service. “Fixity” refers to a method of […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – August 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]