Category: Newsletter
Webinar: Yale’s AI Summarization Tool Turbocharges Library Research
Yale’s Digital Collections AI can summarize and answer questions about all kinds of digitized material – a book, a handwritten journal, materials in major European languages and much more. For a researcher searching through a heap of digital material […]
New Streaming Videos: CathayPlay
Several UC campuses now have subscription access to a new Chinese streaming video platform called CathayPlay. CathayPlay, having launched in 2019, is new to working with North American libraries, and our UC campuses are excited to have […]
SCP Update – December 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in November 2024 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 153 (GOBI) CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 182 JSTOR Books DDA: 265 Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) 2021-: 131 Wiley Online […]
UC Libraries Renews Contract with Ex Libris Group for Two Years
The SILS Leadership Group announces the successful renewal of our contract with Ex Libris Group for the Alma/Primo VE software suite and a new two-year collaborative improvement project. Three years after going live with the centralized library management and discovery […]
SCP Update – November 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2024 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 917 JapanKnowledge Lib: 1276 JSTOR Books DDA: 242 National Academies Press: 7 Oxford Scholarship Online 2024 Frontlist: 118 (GOBI) Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – October 2024
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 October 2024 Content and Collections […]
SCP Update – October 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in September 2024 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 319 ASCE E-books and Standards (2024-): 12 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 19 (GOBI) IOS Press online monographs (Local-OA): 183 JSTOR […]
World Digital Preservation Day – 7 November 2024
Each year, the Digital Preservation Coalition promotes World Digital Preservation Day, which falls on the first Thursday of November. In line with this year’s theme of Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, the UC […]
Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times
Earlier in 2024, ProQuest sunset the Chadwyck-Healey database titled Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times, previously found at http://historynews.chadwyck.com. Over the years, ProQuest has worked to migrate databases found on the Chadwyck-Healey platform over to the main […]
WEST’s new pilot with member libraries and the Internet Archive aims to maximize deselections, expand access, and enhance preservation
WEST is launching a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot will involve coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of WEST archived titles to the Internet Archive to expand digitization […]