Author: CDL
UC Libraries Partner With Technology Companies and Non-Profits to Provide Free Public Access to Digital Books
The University of California libraries are participating in a new partnership to build a freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world. The UC libraries will contribute books and resources in order to build a collection of […]
CDL Receives Grant for Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project
What if your library catalog was smart enough to offer good recommendations? The Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project is an experimental research and prototyping project that is investigating a number of technical strategies for making online public access catalogs easier to […]
Library Staff News
a. Ivy Anderson Appointed as Director of Licensed Content The CDL is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ivy Anderson, currently of Harvard University Library, to the position of Director of Licensed Content, effective January 2, 2006. The appointment […]
Expanded Academic ASAP Gets a New URL And a New Look
At long last Gale has everything in place the switch to the new Expanded Academic ASAP platform, will now occur on September 21. This is the switch that was previously scheduled to happen on August 15, and was delayed so […]
FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, Film Literature Index
The CDL is pleased to announce UC access to three new film resources: FIAF International Film Archive, Film Index International, and the Film Literature Index. Developed by the British Film Institute, FII gives full international coverage of films and film […]
PAIS Archive
Beth Sibley (UC Berkeley) Resource Liaison The PAIS Archive was recently released by CSA and thanks to CDL funding is now available for all campuses on the CSA Illumina platform. The current coverage is 1937-1976 with the rest of the […]
The Age of Reason arrives at UC: ECCO
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is the digitization of 150,000 works published in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800. It includes a variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and […]
New Image Collection Now Available—Hartill Art and Architecture
CDL has added the Hartill Art and Architecture collection of 16,660 images. Hartill is available to all campuses. The images are primarily of architecture and include works from major periods, and monuments such as the Great Pyramids at Giza, Stonehenge, […]
Recent CDL Reports Available
The CDL recently released two reports, one on Metasearch and another on Google Scholar. The first report was written in partial fulfillment of the CDL’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) grant. Titled “Integrating Information Resources: Principles, Technologies, and Approaches,” it […]
OAC Receives the Society of American Archivist’s Coker Award
On August 19, 2005, at the Society of American Archivist’s annual meeting, the Online Archive of California (OAC) received the C.F.W. Coker Award in recognition of the OAC’s finding aid system, which provides a model for a consortial approach to […]