Category: Newsletter
CDL job openings for two programmer analysts
Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III (2 open positions) About you You are a programmer who seeks out innovative ways to continually improve interactive library systems. You thrive on building new systems to meet emerging needs, […]
New Native American Rock Art topic on Calisphere
Did you know that humans have been living in California for an estimated 8,000-12,000 years? Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the addition of a new topic to California Cultures, featuring Native American Rock art in California. The topic […]
SciFinder is now Web-only
As of June 30, 2011, SciFinder Scholar – the research discovery tool provided by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – is available only as a web resource. Previously, SciFinder Scholar was available via client-downloadable software. For the past two years, […]
New Licensed Resources: Newspapers, Gale Resources, JSTOR, TTL
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL and campus one-time purchases (some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions): 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (All campuses. On the Gale platform.) […]
Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25
DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by […]
One Small Step for Metadata Management in HathiTrust
In November 2010, a small team at the California Digital Library set to work on this ambitious goal: “By 2012, the California Digital Library will build a major component of HathiTrust: a system to manage HathiTrust partners’ bibliographic metadata.” What […]
HathiTrust Mid-Year Review of Achievements & Activities
The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has prepared a summary of HathiTrust achievements and activities for the first part of 2011. Learn details about this year’s activities, including orphan works, new partners, new content, images, datasets, Shibboleth and much, much more.
Staff Retirements – June 2011
With very mixed feelings, we bid farewell to three of our colleagues this summer: Phyllis Baker, Bob Brandriff, and Randy Lai. Phyllis Baker, Executive Director Laine Farley’s Executive Assistant, has been one of the key people making sure that CDL […]
Perspectives from HathiTrust: John Wilkin on discovery
HathiTrust has launched a new blog, Perspectives from HathiTrust. The first post comes from John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian, University of Michigan, and Executive Director, HathiTrust, on the topic of discovery. The HathiTrust Communications Working Group welcomes your ideas […]
UC Librarians in Print – UC Library Homepages
“Academic library Web sites are complex mixes of information gateways and links to resources and services. Hours, staff directories, research guides, room reservation systems, catalogs, databases, and donor information are just a handful of the many things users look for […]