Category: Shared Collections
Resource Cancellation – Global Books in Print
Global Books in Print is being cancelled as of December 31, 2009. This cancellation was made as a result of a systemwide review of Tier 1 & Tier 2 resources.
Mellon Planning Grant Awarded to UC Libraries for a Western Regional Storage Trust
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a nine month planning grant to organize the “Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)” — a shared print repository service, focused initially on retrospective journal archives.
Emily Stambaugh in Print
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is initiating a new series of invited reports addressing emerging roles for research libraries and Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, is writing the report on New roles in providing print collections: remote storage and collection consolidation.
Completion of UC-Internet Archive on-site mass digitization projects
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
CDL ERMS milestone: data loaded into Serials Solutions
The ERMS implementation team (iTeam) achieved a major milestone on July 31, 2009 when they finished the initial phase of loading CDL data into Serials Solutions.
New Tier 2 subscription: National Technical Reports Library
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) is now available to UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA and UCM as part of a new Tier 2 subscription.
Campus Discount Program
As a way to facilitate individual campus licenses as well as potential Tier 2 efforts, CDL has begun to negotiate predetermined campus discounts and has set up the Campus Discount Program.
Resource Liaison Assignment Update: July 2009
CDL is pleased to announce the following resource liaison assignments within the CDL Resource Liaisons (RL) program.
Array of New Digital Resources from CDL, June 2009
CDL was able to purchase perpetual rights to eight new resources with end-of-year funds in June 2009.
HathiTrust Update
Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC's Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well. At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125, and this number grows weekly.