Category: Newsletter
Calisphere: UC and California Department of Education Joint Press Conference
On Monday, August 21, University of California officials joined California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell in Sacramento to announce the official launch of Calisphere. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug21a.html. Additional information about Calisphere is available on the […]
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Discontinued
UC’s consortial license to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals will be discontinued by RLG on August 31, 2006. This specialized database is continuing on the Ovid platform. Two campuses, UC Berkeley and UCLA, will continue to purchase this resource […]
New Resource Available
a. CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) 1.8 Now Available Version 1.8 of the CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is now available for download from SourceForge: http://xtf.sourceforge.net. In addition to minor bug fixes and features, this release contains two major new […]
Library Staff News
a. CDL Reorganization The CDL recently reorganized in order to implement the vision that emerged from CDL’s Senior Management 2006 strategic planning process, which defined a revised mission and values statement (below), as well as chose and defined the boundaries […]
UC Libraries Partner With Google To Digitize Books
Yesterday, the UC libraries announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html. Additional information about the partnership is also available on the CDL website: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.htm].
New Resources Available
a. JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UC Riverside ), CDL Resource Liaison UC now has access to JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection. This collection is growing, and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. […]
SCP Cataloging Priorities
By Adolfo R. Tarango (UC San Diego), Head, Shared Cataloging Program Unit Shared Cataloging Program staff have posted an “SCP Cataloging Priorities” document. The document should address many questions campus staff may have regarding SCP cataloging priorities and how they […]
CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: American Assoc. Cancer Research Journals – Penny Coppernoll-Blach, UC San Diego ATLA Religion Database – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley CIAO – Jesse Silva, UC Berkeley Digital […]
7train METS Generation Tool Released
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of “7train”, an XSLT 2.0-based tool for generating Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) files from standardized XML inputs. Version 1 of the open-source, platform-independent tool is available via […]
Calisphere Web Site Launched
Calisphere is now available at: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources – including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art – from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. […]