Author: CDL
SCP’s Becky Culbertson headlines OCLC Member story on shared cataloging
Recently, Becky Culbertson, stalwart member of the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP), was interviewed by OCLC staff about shared cataloging. The interview is now online as one of OCLC’s Member stories, highlighting how catalogers at the California Digital Library share work […]
UC DLFx 2019 – Call For Proposals
The UC DLFx 2019 meeting is happening @ UC San Diego on May 20-22, 2019. Registration and travel information will be available soon. Participants from across the UC libraries, archives, and museums are invited to submit proposals for presentations, sessions, […]
Ergonomic Abstracts Database is cancelled effective January 11, 2019
The subscription to EBSCOhost’s Ergonomic Abstracts database for the participating locations (all campuses except UC Davis) has been cancelled effective January 11, 2019. The systemwide cancellation was approved by the Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG), representing all UC campuses. If […]
CDL Position Opening: Executive Assistant
CDL’s executive assistant position is open for recruitment until 1/25/2019. The position is a permanent, career appointment. As executive assistant to the CDL Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director (“Executive Director”), the position plays a key role in managing the […]
UCLA works with SCP on cataloging Russia Newspapers
In response to SCP’s call for Cyrillic language expertise, Peter Fletcher of UCLA, Team Leader, International Team, Cyrillic Languages Catalog Librarian, volunteered to help SCP catalog newspapers of the State Public Historical Library (Russia), an open access collection of Russian […]
CDL office closure Dec. 21, 2018 (noon) – Jan. 1, 2019
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Friday, December 21, 2018 at noon through Tuesday, January 1, 2019. The Office of […]
Greg Janée in Transition
Greg Janée, lead developer for the EZID service, has recently stepped up to be the Director of the Data Curation Program at the UCSB Library. Greg, who joined CDL’s UC3 team at 50% time 10 years ago, shifted to CDL’s infrastructure team […]
China Data Online Cancellation
The China Data Online product is no longer available through UC’s Tier 2 subscription vendor. According to the China Data Center website (http://www.chinadatacenter.org/closed/): “Effective immediately, this China Data Center (CDC) website and associated CDC websites will no longer be available. […]
Robin James joins CDL
Robin James joined CDL on August 2nd as Günter Waibel’s new interim Executive Assistant. She comes to us courtesy of UCOP’s temporary staffing program. We’re hoping that Robin will stay with us until the open recruitment for Khatira’s position has […]
CDL Position Opening: Shared Content Service Coordinator
At the California Digital Library (CDL), we believe passionately that the library, in all its forms, is critically important to the vital work of students, scholars and the public. As a University of California systemwide library, CDL provides services to […]