Year: 2011
CDL HathiTrust Staff in the News: Heather Christenson and Paul Fogel
In an in-depth interview in Library Journal with CDL’s Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and HathiTrust Project Manager, and Paul Fogel, technical lead for mass digitization and the co-technical lead for the HathiTrust at CDL, Char Booth, formerly of […]
bX Recommender Trial Ending 6/13/11
The UC Libraries hosted a 2-month trial of Ex Libris’ bX Recommender service, an academic library recommender service that displays in UC-eLinks. The trial will end on Monday, June 13. The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) appointed a small […]
UC Access to New Electronic Resources 6/2/11
All UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL and campus one-time purchases (some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions): Blackwell Companion to Phonology (All campuses; on the Wiley-Blackwell platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/175687 The […]
New Melvyl WCL Web Pages – Logos, FAQ and More
The CDL has launched new Web pages for Melvyl, supported by WorldCat Local, available at http://cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/ Versions of the new campus logos are linked from this page in Web-friendly, print-friendly, and re-sizable formats (GIF, PNG, and EPS). Also available are […]
CDL Opens HathiTrust SFX Target to the broader SFX community
CDL’s Discovery & Delivery group is sharing a way to link to HathiTrust digital resources with other institutions using SFX (the software we use for UC-eLinks). These institutions will have access to the HathiTrust Digital Library “target” on EL Commons […]
Websites: Make Them Accessible to Everyone
Is your website as accessible and inclusive as it should be for all your potential audiences? The University of California is committed to providing an electronic environment that is accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. To make it easier […]
Change in the way UC-eLinks displays articles with an embargo or moving wall
More full text links are now displaying in UC-eLinks due to a change in the way SFX (the software underlying UC-eLinks) handles embargoes and moving walls. This change means UC-eLinks will display more full text links from platforms that include […]
Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curation
UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the […]
CRL and California Digital Library to Develop Print Archives Preservation Registry
CRL is working with the California Digital Library to develop a Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR). PAPR will support research library and consortial efforts to archive and manage critical print serial collections in an informed and cost-effective manner. PAPR will feature […]
Important Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – May, 2011
Please read the following notes very carefully—there are several important pieces of information that will impact our Melvyl WCL service now and in the future. Those items which impact the UC Libraries immediately are marked with an asterisk (*). Please […]