Category: Newsletter
Daniella Lowenberg on Assignment to US Department of Health and Human Services
It is my pleasure to announce the assignment of Daniella Lowenberg, through the Intergovernment Personnel Act (IPA), to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a two-year period, funded by […]
Thousands of older dissertations from UCSF newly available in eScholarship
Over three thousand dissertations and theses digitized from UCSF’s archives, originally submitted to the university between 1965 and 2006, were added to eScholarship this year. These titles cover topics as disparate as the pregnancy experiences of black women, AIDS and identity in the gay […]
New Scholarly Communication Investments by CDL 2022
CDL’s Shared Collections team, in consultation and collaboration with the UC-wide Shared Collections Leadership Group (SCLG), is pleased to have been able to invest in several important open resources and tools in Fiscal Year 2021-22, reflecting our commitment to ’invest […]
FY21-22 New Resources – JSC Annual Survey
CDL is pleased to announce new resources recently acquired by the UC Libraries for systemwide use by UC students and faculty. The selection of these resources was a collaborative effort involving all ten campuses, overseen by the Joint Steering Committee for […]
eScholarship Pilots New Technologies
The University of California’s open access publishing program and institutional repository, eScholarship, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. As part of this celebration of the many ways eScholarship has enabled UC affiliated scholars and editors to openly share their research […]
Fond Farewell to Felicia Poe
Please join the California Digital Library in bidding a fond farewell to our colleague, Felicia Poe, who will retire from the University beginning July 2022. Felicia began her UC career at CDL in late 2001 as a service design analyst. […]
Oxford Ebooks migrate to Oxford Academic platform
In July 2022, Oxford research books collections will move to the Oxford Academic platform (https://academic.oup.com/). This means that books will be available alongside journals in a single place for the first time. The Oxford Academic platform will be familiar to […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – June 2022
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for June 2022! New Content and […]
Brian Tingle’s retirement (and other milestones)
In the spirit of comings and goings, I have the bittersweet task of congratulating Brian Tingle on a milestone trifecta: 25 years of service to the University of California, his 50th birthday (imminently), and his retirement as of July 8, […]
Staff Recruitment: Metadata and Extraction, Transformation, and Loading Specialist
Working under the direction of the Head of Shared Cataloging Program, this position uses advanced professional library concepts and objectives to resolve highly complex issues. Duties and assignments are defined by overall objectives and involve a high level of complexity […]