Year: 2020
Michael Urashka moves to UCSF
Michael Urashka, who joined CDL in April of 2017 from LBNL, has accepted a new position at UCSF which brings the attractions of a (much) shorter commute and new challenges. Here’s wishing Michael well in his new opportunity and we […]
Hardy Pottinger and Dave Pcolar join the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization team
The Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group is thrilled to announce two new members. Hardy Pottinger has joined CDL as the new Publishing Systems Developer! Hardy joins us from UCLA Libraries where he: Developed & deployed VSim – a DSpace-based repository […]
CDL COVID-19 Update
Update (6/3/20): Bay Area counties have updated their shelter in place orders with a phased re-opening approach for some businesses; however, the shelter in place order is still in place for the general population. Currently, CDL will remain on telecommute […]
WEST Assessment Webinar summary
The WEST project team hosted three webinars presenting brief program updates, an overview of findings from the 2019 WEST Assessment, and the outcomes of the strategic planning session held in October 2019. Slide deck is now available through the California […]
Call for Volunteers for WEST 2020 Working Groups –Disclosure & Validation Standards and Resource Sharing
At the 2019 WEST Strategic Planning Session, WEST governance committee members created a set of strategic recommendations to guide WEST through the coming years. Among the recommendations were to create a number of working groups to review and investigate specific […]
SCP Update – March 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of February 2020. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — Net […]
Martin Haye is moving on, but not too far!
After almost 17 years designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative publishing technologies for the CDL and UC, Martin Haye is moving to the other “side” of the application equation. As of February 1, 2020, Martin begin transitioning into the Infrastructure and […]
New Resource: BungeiShunju Archives
Bungei Shunjū is one of the most popular and influential monthly literary magazines in Japan for almost 100 years. Since founded in 1923, the magazine has been a central venue for numerous contemporary writers to publish their essays, debates, and […]
4.5 Million UC Volumes Digitized & UC’s Most Popular Full View Books in HathiTrust for 2019
The University of California Libraries recently contributed the 4,500,000th digitized book from their collections to HathiTrust Digital Library–a tremendous achievement resulting from 15 years of continuous digitization work. The vast majority of these millions of volumes were generated via the […]
CDL Open Access Appointments: Welcome Ellen Finnie and Tran Ha!
We are delighted to announce two stellar new appointments on the CDL Collection Development Program’s open access team effective March 2020. It is our great pleasure to announce that Ellen Finnie will be joining CDL as Open Access Publisher Agreements […]