Category: Newsletter
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 4th Quarter 2015 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 […]
UC Curation Center recruiting two senior developer positions
The UC Curation Center (UC3) is currently recruiting for two positions: Senior Developer/DevOps Administrator and Senior Developer. The Senior Developer/DevOps Administrator will be involved in Java and Ruby/Rails application-level development, maintenance, and enhancement, as well as the architectural design, operational support, and system-level […]
Virginia Sinclair to retire from CDL
It is both a privilege and a bittersweet duty to announce the retirement of one of CDL’s longest-serving employees, Virginia Sinclair. Virginia’s last working day at CDL will be March 11, 2016. It is difficult if not impossible to sum […]
CDL Job Opening for Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst
Reporting to the Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager, the Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst serves as a domain expert in both library and key technical domains, maintaining community connections and information flow related to library systems software, standards and […]
CDL Helpline: notice of staffing transitions
Currently, the CDL Helpline (available via the CDL Helpline database, email [cdl@www.cdlib.org] and telephone [510.987.0555]) is experiencing staffing transitions. During the next month or so, responses to issues reported to Helpline staff might take slightly longer than usual, although we’ll […]
EZID Service Update: January 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month re3data.org announced a new metadata schema (http://www.re3data.org/2016/01/new-re3data-org-schema-and-search-functionality/). re3data.org is the Registry of Research Data Repositories, and it has been part of DataCite since 2014. A quick search of the registry for UC […]
California Digital Library announces new leadership
Following an extensive international search, the University of California is pleased to announce the appointment of Günter Waibel as the new Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library (CDL). Waibel’s appointment will take effect in early […]
Meet Robert Wang – CDL’s new UX Designer
Robert Wang is a new UX Designer at the California Digital Library (CDL). He recently graduated from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Information, specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI). He is excited about advancing CDL’s mission of supporting scholarship […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Call numbers added to emailed records
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on January 21, 2016 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 […]
DMPTool Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Maintenance/migrations. The DMPTool will be unavailable on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5 – 6pm (PDT) while we migrate the database to AWS. The application will also be moving to the cloud so you can expect another maintenance message […]