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eScholarship celebrates its 20-year anniversary!

The University of California’s eScholarship publishing and institutional repository program celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year, a milestone that provides us with an opportunity to reflect on how far UC has come in the work of open access library publishing […]

Ellen Finnie to retire September 2022!

With a heavy heart, I want to share with you news of an upcoming CDL transition: Ellen Finnie, CDL’s Director of Shared Collections, will be retiring as of September 1,  2022.    As Director, Ellen has been working with teams at […]

Raiden van Bronkhorst Joins CDL

CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Team is excited to welcome our new software engineer, Raiden van Bronkhorst. Raiden will be working primarily on machine learning projects. Raiden is a recent cum laude graduate of Western Washington University (WWU) where he majored […]

SCP Update – April 2022

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in March 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 113 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 91 Getty Publications Virtual Library (Local-OA): 311 JSTOR Books DDA: 502 Link to the full reports: 2022-03-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2022-03-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections Highlights […]

CDL Job Opening: Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements

The Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements is responsible for stewarding California Digital Library activities related to publisher agreements for open access, including analysis, data and financial modeling, negotiations, implementation, administration, and assessment. Reporting to the CDL Director of Shared […]

SCP Update – March 2022

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in February 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 197 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 1,074 JSTOR Books DDA: 312 University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications (Local-OA): 144 Collection level records: 12 Link to the […]

New Tier 2 Resource: Artech House Ebooks

As part of a new Tier 2 agreement, four campuses plus LBNL now have access to Artech House ebooks via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCI, UCLA and LBNL have access to the full backfile of nearly 700 ebooks back to 1999, […]

Lisa Mackinder appointed Assistant Director of Systemwide Licensing and Collection Services

We are delighted to announce that following a national search Lisa Mackinder has been appointed as Assistant Director of Systemwide Licensing and Collection Services for the California Digital Library.  Lisa comes to this role with 14 years of directly related […]

Good news from Shared Collections: Welcome Sherry Lochhaas!

We have good news from the Shared Collections program this morning. Sherry Lochhaas joins us today as our new Electronic Resources Services Manager. She is joining us from UC Berkeley, where she has held the Electronic Resources Librarian position, and […]

Welcome Satomi Saito

Please join me in welcoming Satomi Saito to the California Digital Library! Satomi joins the CDL Finance & Operations team as a Senior Financial Analyst, beginning March 1, 2022. Before joining the CDL, Satomi worked with the UC San Diego […]