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Library Staff News
a. Jon Solomon Joins Melvyl-T Team Jon Solomon is the newest addition to the Melvyl-T User Interface team. Jon, head of technical processing at the UCB Business Library, will contribute three days each week (Tuesday – Thursday) for the next […]
New Status of Services Page
CDL has recently implemented a set of “status of services” pages that informs library staff of downtime, outages and related information for both CDL systems and for vendor systems of CDL-licensed resources. The URL is [http://www.cdlib.org/status/]. The highlight of this […]
Daniel Greenstein to become CDL University Librarian
We are extremely pleased to announce that Daniel Greenstein has accepted the position of University Librarian and Executive Director of the California Digital Library. He is expected to assume his new position in May 2002, and all are encouraged to […]
Instruction Workshops Report
About 160 UC librarians brainstormed, reflected, and learned to insert active learning into library classes over four days in January and February. The instructional workshops were led by Debra Gilchrist, Director, Pierce College, in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington State […]
Request Update
UC’s long awaited Consortial Borrowing System (CBS), which uses Virtual Document Exchange (VDX) software from Fretwell-Downing, to combine workflows for filling interlibrary loan requests, provide patrons with new features such as the ability to check the status of requests, and […]
NSF Funds CDL to Coordinate Planning Effort In Digital Library "Actors"
The National Science Foundation approved a research planning grant for the CDL to coordinate a working group that will set an agenda for future research in the emerging area of digital library “actors”. These actors are persons, organizations, and instruments […]
New Resources Available
a. The Royal Society Journal`s The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the United Kingdom, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. Its original journal Philosophical Transactions is, at 336 years old, the world’s oldest continuously published academic journal. […]
Library Staff News
a. Alvin Pollock Joins the CDL The Online Archive of California (OAC) is pleased to announce that Alvin Pollock is officially devoting 50% of his programming time to OAC projects. Alvin worked closely with Daniel Pitti on the development of […]
New Resource Available
a. Literature Resource Center (LRC) Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale Group has been licensed by the CDL for all 9 campuses. Recommended by History and Reference bibliographer groups and endorsed by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, […]
Library Staff News
a. Cecily Johns Joins the CDL Cecily Johns, who most recently has served as AUL for Collections and Technical Services at Santa Barbara and Project Director for the Collection Management Initiative (50%) joined the CDL on January 2, 2002, as […]