Category: Staff News
CDL Interim Leadership Named
Yesterday, Susan Carlson, UCOP’s Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programs, issued a formal announcement (below) regarding the California Digital Library’s interim leadership. October 7, 2015 I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Ivy Anderson as Interim Executive […]
Meet Alana Miller — CDL’s new UX Content Strategist
CDL is happy to welcome Alana Miller as our new UX Content Strategist. Alana is a content strategist interested in the intersections between information, design, and discovery. Originally an aspiring film archivist, she completed her undergraduate degree in Film Studies […]
CDL’s Shared Cataloging Program helps support alternative press/open access resource
SCP staff are constantly on the lookout for how their cataloging can be leveraged for the greater good. Such an opportunity recently presented itself with the licensing by CDL of 800 titles offered by Reveal Digital in their Independent Voices […]
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 […]
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 […]
The SNAC pack is back (in print)
Now that the first and second phases of the award-winning Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) research and demonstration project have been completed, Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Ray Larson (UC Berkeley) and three CDL staff members (Rachael Hu, […]
Changing of the guard
In July, Erika Wilson, CDL Executive Assistant to Laine Farley, became the Communications and Operations Manager at the Authors Alliance (http://www.authorsalliance.org/). “As we continue to grow, it’s important we have staff committed to our mission,” said Authors Alliance Executive Director […]
CDL welcomes Angela Di Iorio
CDL is thrilled to welcome Angela Di Iorio from La Sapienza Digital Library in Rome. She will be joining us for two months as a visiting scholar. Angela is a technologist who has been working on digital library management and […]
Caitlin Nelson joins D2D
On Monday, August 10th, CDL’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) team welcomed Caitlin Nelson as the Discovery & Delivery Services Product Manager. Caitlin will be product manager for Request and eventually Melvyl, and she’s already been recruited for a UCLAS task force […]
CDL Job Opening for Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing
The California Digital Library has an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to lead its content licensing unit. The Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing will lead and manage collaborative licensing activities and negotiate license agreements for digital scholarly […]