Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Mount Holyoke College Signs up for WAS
The CDL Web Archiving Service (WAS) (http://was.cdlib.org/) is extremely pleased to welcome Mount Holyoke College as its newest subscriber. Leslie Fields, Head of Archives & Special Collections at Mount Holyoke, explains “after testing several options we determined that WAS was […]
WAS Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release Work on the new release continues. Significant progress was made in January; testing will begin in early February. Based on the results of testing, we will have a release date. VM […]
HathiTrust January 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The January HathiTrust update was released on 2/15/13, and, in addition to the regular updates on ingest, projects, working groups and new development, the new bylaws have been adopted by the HathiTrust partners. As our year begins, […]
Do You Use Calisphere? Tell Your Story!
CDL’s Calisphere Website is a finalist for an IMLS National Medal Award. Calisphere will be featured on the IMLS Facebook page on February 22. If you’ve used Calisphere in your teaching, reference work, or research and found value in it, […]
Undefined Future Uses
Last week I attended a lecture titled “Computing and the Practice of History” by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He focused on three things to explore how the digital […]
California Digital Library Named National Medal for Museum and Library Service Finalist
We are honored to share that the California Digital Library has been named as a finalist for the 19th annual National Medal for Museum and Library Service for our work on Calisphere. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor […]
CDL’s Lisa Schiff Named as Co-Chair of ORCID Business Steering Group
Lisa Schiff, a Technical Lead in CDL’s Access & Publishing Group, has been named as co-chair of the ORCID Business Steering Group (BSG). ORCID ( Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry […]
Temporary Changing of the Guard at UC3
Patricia Cruse, CDL’s Director of Digital Preservation (UC3), will be reducing her duties at the CDL between January 14 and June 30, 2013. Trisha will be working remotely from Italy and Spain while she accompanies her husband on his […]
CDL Welcomes Matt Pearson
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization CDL is delighted to announce that Matt Pearson began work in the Mass Digitization Team of the Collection Development and Management Program on January 14, 2013 as our new Digitization & Services Coordinator. […]
CDL Welcomes Katie Fortney
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing Please join us in welcoming Katie Fortney to the CDL as our new Copyright Management Officer. Some of you may already know Katie from her previous incarnation as Collection Development Librarian and Scholarly […]