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Category: Staff News

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 […]

CDL Staff in Print – John Kratz & Carly Strasser in Scientific Data

Congratulations to John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow at CDL, and our former CDL colleague, Carly Strasser, on today’s publication of their article, “Making Data Count”, in the journal Scientific Data. The article presents research conducted for Making Data […]

Jing Jiang joins D2D

CDL welcomes Jing Jiang, the newest application developer on the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) team. She comes to us by way of IT Infrastructure Services at the UC Davis library, where she was a member of the technical team supporting the […]

CDL Welcomes Stephanie Simms!

Meet Stephanie Simms, CDL’s new DMPTool service manager and UC3 Research Data Specialist. Stephanie spent the past ten months at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked on a range of digital […]