Category: Newsletter
CDL Welcomes Jim Vanderveen to UC3
Please welcome Jim Vanderveen, who has worked at UC Davis the past 4 years as their Bibliographic Database Coordinator. Jim previously worked at CSU Sacramento Office of Water Programs as their IT Administrator. This combined skill set of DevOps and […]
Rosalie Lack moves to UCLA Library
Rosalie Lack, CDL’s Web Archiving Coordinator, has accepted a position with the UCLA library. Her last day at the CDL will be May 24. During her time with the CDL, Rosalie has demonstrated a strong commitment to the success of […]
CDL Welcomes Conclusion of Authors Guild v. Google
CDL welcomes the conclusion of the Authors Guild’s decade long lawsuit against Google. The suit came to an end April 18th when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild’s Appeal of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Search Spelling Suggestion
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 12, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project Win’s ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) is the American Library Association’s 2016 winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. The award recognizes CRMS’ dedication to creating a “balanced U.S. Copyright system through advocacy for a robust fair use doctrine […]
EZID Service Update: April 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Last month we announced a DataCite webinar to be held on April 12th covering the new DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and the DataCite in RDF mapping. Here is a link to […]
CDL’s Adrian Turner wins Archival Award of Excellence
CDL is delighted to announce that Adrian Turner has won the prestigious Archival Award of Excellence from the California Historical Records Advisory Board. Adrian received the award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in removing barriers to […]
Staff in Print – Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell
CDL’s Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell of the Access & Publishing group have contributed a chapter to Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship (An ALCTS Monograph), edited by Dawn Hale. Their chapter is entitled “Give Them What They Need: Rethinking Management, Aggregation, […]
Katrina Romanowsky leaving CDL
Katrina Romanowsky, the Access & Publishing Group’s Community & Outreach Manager, will be leaving CDL to pursue other creative endeavors. Her last day in the office will be Friday, May 6th. Katrina joined the Access & Publishing Group in 2013 […]