Category: Newsletter
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.
Uncovering California’s Environmental Collections
Researchers worldwide will soon have access to previously inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, and other rich archival materials related to California’s environmental history.
HathiTrust Large Scale Search
Effective November 18th, the HathiTrust Digital Library is now providing full-text searching capabilities across the entire library of 4.6 million volumes (1.6 billion pages) in the collection.
Follow John Muir on Twitter and Facebook
This December, hear renowned California writer and naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) in his own words as he travels to California, encounters Yosemite for the first time, and works to preserve the open land he calls home.
Meet Stephen Abrams
How extraordinary to have an undergraduate senior thesis portend the themes throughout one’s career! That’s the case for Stephen Abrams, CDL’s Senior Manager for Digital Preservation Technology who arrived at CDL in February of 2008.
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – November 8, 2009
Several enhancements were made to Next Generation Melvyl with OCLC’s Sunday, November 8, install.
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.
John Muir Correspondence: On Calisphere, OAC and Web 2.0
CDL’s Digital Special Collections, The Bancroft Library, and The University of the Pacific Library are pleased to announce the availability on the OAC and Calisphere of over 6,500 letters from the correspondence of John Muir, 1838-1914.
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.
CDL and CDLINFO are now on Twitter!
CDL has joined many of our colleague and partner institutions, like UC Riverside Libraries, UCSF Libraries, UC Press, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, OCLC, and many others in creating a Twitter account.