Category: Newsletter
CDL's Recently Acquired Scholarly Content in 2008
Every year CDL purchases perpetual rights to scholarly digital content using end-of-year funds. This growing collection of content provides permanent digital rights on behalf of future generations of UC faculty and students in varied disciplines across the sciences and humanities.
CDL Staff at IFLA Conference
Margaret Low, software engineer in Digital Preservation, recently returned from the IFLA Annual Conference in Quebec where she presented a very well-received paper on the CDL preservation infrastructure.
UC Image Service News: Collection liaisons appointed
The UC Libraries Collection Development Committee (CDC) has appointed collection liaisons for UC Shared Images – one from each campus, to facilitate collection building in ARTstor.
Pamela Daniels Retires
Pamela Daniels has announced her retirement from the University of California
Digital Library Federation (DLF) releases Technical Recommendation from ILS Discovery Interface Task Group
The Digital Library Federation is pleased to announce the release of the technical recommendation of its ILS Discovery Interface (ILS-DI) Task Group. This document recommends standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery.
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – August enhancements and other news
Based on end user comments and usability testing, OCLC has made the following enhancements to the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot supported by WorldCat Local (WCL) this month. p>
CDLAlert Archive
Have you ever noticed that a resource was down and wondered if the vendor had sent a downtime message? The easiest way to find out is to check the CDLAlert Archive.
Updating of the SFX (UC-eLinks) KnowledgeBase Monthly Reports Discontinued
Since CDL web statistics have indicated that the SFX (UC-eLinks) KnowledgeBase monthly reports were little used, we are discontinuing the automatic generation of these pages in order to direct resources towards projects which have a greater impact on campus end users.
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How are you using CDL's website? Does CDL's website help you do your work? What can the website do better? We want to know!
CDL Staff at ELPUB2008 Conference
The Publishing Group had a very successful trip to the ELPUB2008 conference in Toronto where CDL staff presented a workshop and paper.