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Laine Farley, CDL Executive Director, to Retire Effective September 30th

Laine Farley, longtime Executive Director of the California Digital Library, will retire from the CDL effective September 30th, 2015. Farley is CDL’s third and longest-running Executive Director, having served in that capacity for nine years—first as Acting Executive Director from […]

New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Gunsho Ruiju Online

  Nine campuses (all except UCSF) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Gunsho Ruiju Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/168427   (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, SB and SC; on the JapanKnowledge platform) The Gunsho Ruiju series is […]

EZID Service Update: August 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We announced our 2015-2017 Roadmap, the result of long-range strategic planning conducted this summer. The planning process included gathering input from UC campus representatives, non-UC EZID clients, and internal CDL clients. DataCite announced two […]

Informa Healthcare journals moving to the Taylor and Francis platform on September 1st

As of September 1,  Informa Healthcare journal content will be hosted on the Taylor and Francis platform.  This follows the transfer in management of the Informa Healthcare titles to Taylor and Francis in January 2015. Users should be automatically directed to […]

CDL Job Opening for UX Designer

Do you get intrigued thinking through system interactions and engaging in the details of a useful and arresting user experience for online websites and resources? Then join our team! We are hiring a person to join the UX team and […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Availability/Location Information on Brief Results

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 21, 2015 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 […]

Melvyl & FirstSearch transition to WorldCat Discovery rescheduled to June 2016

OCLC’s latest roadmap for WorldCat Discovery (WCD) development indicates that parity with the existing FirstSearch and WorldCat Local interfaces will not happen until spring 2016.  Additionally, CDL continues to work with OCLC to resolve a few remaining issues where WCD […]

Readex Interface Enhancements, released August 19

Readex released changes to the Early American Newspapers and Early American Imprints databases on August 19, 2015. These changes affect the local databases only, and do not affect the larger Archive of Americana interface. Changes to these database interfaces include: […]

CDL Acquires New One-time Systemwide Resources in 2015

One of the goals for the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) in 2015 was to evaluate and ‘refresh’ the annual survey to bibliographer groups.   The survey has been in practice since 1997 as the major source of campus priorities for systemwide […]

New Licensed Resource — Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015)

All UC campuses now have access to Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015).  Note: Some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/276063; all campuses, on the IG Library Portal platform. SCP cataloged and distributed the individual ebook […]