Category: Newsletter
SCP Monthly Update — December 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of November. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP has been focusing on cataloging open […]
CDL Job Openings: Licensing Analyst & Shared Content Service Coordinator
The California Digital Library (CDL) is continuing to recruit for two outstanding openings on its licensing team. If you are passionate about building world-class collections to serve the needs of 21st century students and scholars, share our vision about the […]
Meet Ruchi Aggarwal – CDL’s new Finance Manager
Ruchi Aggarwal comes to CDL with a wealth of experience in finance and higher educations. She spent 16 years at the University of Washington in progressively senior roles, including as Finance Manager for the College of Engineering and as Assistant […]
Christine Kim joins CDL as OAC/Calisphere Service & Outreach Manager
We are delighted to announce that Christine Kim is joining the CDL as the OAC/Calisphere Service & Outreach Manager, effective January 15, 2019. Christine brings a broad array of advanced product management, marketing and outreach, and community support experience to […]
SCP Monthly Update–November 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of October. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP finished the major update on additions, […]
Cobweb Update: Recorded Webinar on Cobweb Functionality Now Available
Are you curious about how Cobweb can support your web archiving work or how you might use the platform to initiate or otherwise participate in collaborative web archiving initiatives? Check out the slides and recorded video from a recently held […]
New platform for several Gale databases
Several of the UC-licensed Gale databases are now live on the Gale Primary Sources platform and are still available on the existing Gale platform as well. Currently, the PIDs still point to the existing Gale platform; the PIDs will be […]
New platform for The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China and The Encyclopedia of Taiwan
East View is pleased to introduce a new, improved and cross-searchable platform for The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China and The Encyclopedia of Taiwan. Access to the new platform is available via the PIDs below; access to the previous […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Filter to open access content
The WorldCat Discovery installation on October 18, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Toward a national archival finding aid network: collaborative planning initiative receives LSTA funding support
CDL is excited to announce that we will soon be embarking on a collaborative planning initiative, in partnership with regional/statewide archival description aggregators, to explore a “next generation” finding aid network — one that which would continue to serve the […]