Year: 2015
Joanne Miller moves to UC Academic Senate
Joanne Miller, Systemwide Library Planning Analyst at CDL, will be leaving us to take a new position as an analyst with the UC Academic Senate. This is a wonderful opportunity for Joanne – she will make a valuable contribution to […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. Google
October 20, 2015 The University of California libraries applaud the ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Google’s digitization of library collections, creation of search functionality, display of snippets, and provision of copies to its partner libraries […]
Tier 2 databases are added to Melvyl’s Central Index
As reported in a previous CDLINFO article (Melvyl’s Central Index is expanding), CDL is now activating CDL-managed Tier 2 databases in Melvyl’s Central Index. Going forward, each campus will have different databases listed in their Central Index, depending on the […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Databases (Classic Ancient Books & Local Records)
Eight campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books or Zhongguo jiben guji ku (中国基本古籍庫) and to the […]
ScienceDirect to discontinue support of Internet Explorer 8
Elsevier/ScienceDirect is following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 that, as of January 2016, it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We […]
CDL Interim Leadership Named
Yesterday, Susan Carlson, UCOP’s Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programs, issued a formal announcement (below) regarding the California Digital Library’s interim leadership. October 7, 2015 I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Ivy Anderson as Interim Executive […]
Ebooks or Print Books or Both? Graduate Students Focus Group Study at UCSC
This week, UCSC and CDL have launched a research project to study academic user behaviors around print and digital monographs at various points during the research lifecycle. This project is already announced on UCSC library website: https://library.ucsc.edu/. In the next […]
EZID Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID Lead Architect John Kunze participated in the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Sao Paulo Brazil and presented a poster on Identifiers made easy with EZID. Kunze also presented at […]
CDL Transitions: The Arch Wherethro’ Gleams that Untravell’d World
On September 30th, CDL said a poignant farewell to Laine Farley as she headed into a well-earned retirement after nine years at the helm of the CDL. As CDL’s longest serving Executive Director, Laine presided over many of the CDL’s […]
Meet Alana Miller — CDL’s new UX Content Strategist
CDL is happy to welcome Alana Miller as our new UX Content Strategist. Alana is a content strategist interested in the intersections between information, design, and discovery. Originally an aspiring film archivist, she completed her undergraduate degree in Film Studies […]