Category: Newsletter
Merritt Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As part of the Datashare project, we developed several new features: Data user agreements (DUA): Curators may now require anyone downloading their data to first agree to a statement about using the data. Before […]
DMPTool Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities October was our biggest month ever: 375 new users in October. There is now a total of almost 3500 users, and they’ve created almost 3,000 plans total. Among the UC campuses, there were […]
Why do CRL records display in Melvyl under UC Libraries?
You may have wondered why records for items held at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), located in Chicago, show up under Level 2 with the University of California Libraries holdings in Melvyl; see below. There are several reasons for […]
WAS Service Update – October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work continues on the WAS 2.0 release and the WAS public interface redesign. iPRES 2012: WAS Service Manager, Rosalie Lack, attended the iPRES 2012 Conference. Of the sessions dedicated to web archiving, of particular interest […]
EZID Service Update — September & October 2012
September & October Activities We conducted an identifier clean-up exercise and were able to reduce substantially the incidence of broken and bad links. To all who assisted, we are thankful for your participation in the effort to insure […]
Melvyl Enhancements – November 2012
There are several Melvyl changes as a result of OCLC’s November 4, 2012 WorldCat Local install. These are described in detail in the PDF. The majority of the changes this time take place behind the scenes. IP Address Management Changes […]
Librarian in Print – Rachael Hu
CDL’s Rachael Hu has an article published in this month’s RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Fall 2012 13:175-190). The article is entitled, “Methods to Tame the Madness: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Assessment Techniques for […]
eScholarship PLUS
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2011-2012 Local History Digital Resources Project […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP’s latest annual report (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/scpannualreport20112012.pdf) is posted on the SCP website. The report contains significant details on our cataloging activities for the 2011/2012 fiscal year — the most significant of these arguably being […]