Author: CDL
CDL Technologies Reorganization within the Office of the President
When the CDL was formed in October 1997, CDL Technologies, comprised of many members of the former Division of Library Automation, was formally a part of the Office of the President’s Information Resources and Communication department (IR&C). IR&C reports to […]
Union Catalog RFP Evaluation on Schedule
The steering committee for the evaluation of responses to the RFP for new technology to support the union catalog met on November 20, 2000 to share the results of site visits and further explorations of vendor products. As reported in […]
CDL Staff News
a. Richard Lucier Named College Librarian at Dartmouth CDL founding University Librarian Richard Lucier announced on November 1 that he has accepted a position as College Librarian of Dartmouth College effective February 1, 2001. In announcing his decision Richard remarked […]
CRL Displays in Periodicals Titles
When the CDL expanded displays in the California Periodicals database to include the CULP and SERHOLD locations, a feature was added that allows users to display holdings within a geographic region of California defined by the Library of California. The […]
Request News: a Consortial Borrowing System Request for Proposals
The California Digital Library has just released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new component of the Request system. ‘Request’ allows Library patrons on any of the University of California campuses to send requests to libraries for the loan […]
Web of Science (WoS) Increase Simultaneous Users; Additional Journals Linked (Beth Weil, UCB)
Effective November 1, 2000 UC access to Web Of Science (WoS) increased from 40 simultaneous users to 120 simultaneous users, thanks to additional funding commitments from the campuses in 2001 and more favorable port pricing negotiated by CDL; CDL will […]
CDL Staff News
a. Mary Heath Joins the CDL We are pleased to announce that Mary Heath will join CDL Technologies effective November 6, 2000. Mary will manage CDLT access initiatives, i.e. staff and projects that are focused on online access to collections […]
SilverLinker Coverage by Database and by Publisher
SilverLinker enables direct access from SilverPlatter’s bibliographic citation databases to electronic journals and also to holdings information from the California Periodicals Database. As reported earlier this year, CDL contracted with SilverPlatter to include SilverLinker for all campus accounts and SilverLinker […]
CDL Staff News
a. John Kupersmith Joins the CDL John Kupersmith will join the CDL on October 16 as an analyst in the Digital ibrary Services group. John has most recently been a part-time reference librarian at UC Berkeley’s Information Center in the […]
ICOLC September 2000 Reports
Presentations and summaries from the ICOLC September 2000 meeting in Vancouver are now available online <http://silver.ohiolink.edu/ioclc/vancouverseptember2000.html>. The focus of the meeting was on the emerging e-book marketplace. The CDL was represented at ICOLC by Lucia Snowhill (UCSB), member of the […]