CDLINFO 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 […]
Ebooks or Print Books or Both? Graduate Students Focus Group Study at UCSC
This week, UCSC and CDL have launched a research project to study academic user behaviors around print and digital monographs at various points during the research lifecycle. This project is already announced on UCSC library website: https://library.ucsc.edu/. In the next […]
EZID Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID Lead Architect John Kunze participated in the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Sao Paulo Brazil and presented a poster on Identifiers made easy with EZID. Kunze also presented at […]
CDL Transitions: The Arch Wherethro’ Gleams that Untravell’d World
On September 30th, CDL said a poignant farewell to Laine Farley as she headed into a well-earned retirement after nine years at the helm of the CDL. As CDL’s longest serving Executive Director, Laine presided over many of the CDL’s […]
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 […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Personal Lists; Importing Lists from WorldCat.org
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on September 25, 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’s Central Index is expanding
CDL will now activate CDL-managed Tier 2 databases in Melvyl’s Central Index. This was the recommendation of the Melvyl Configuration and Electronic Resources Project Team, and the Council of University Librarians endorsed it on September 14, 2015. Why is this […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2015
The first set of records for two new monographic packages were sent out last month, for Business Expert Press and for the Oxford Literature Handbooks. Business Expert Press promotes itself as providing “… concise, practical, treatments of the topics taught […]
NewsBank Interface Upgrade
NewsBank recently released interface chances for the Access World News and America’s News Magazines databases — http://uclibs.org/PID/98452. Enhancements include: Searching • More navigators by which the content can be explored • Searches can be refined either before or after conducting […]
Ovid User Interface Enhancements
The OVID interface (UC’s current host platform for the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles) will be undergoing an interface upgrade on September 30, 2015, including changes to Journal Views (Journal Listings View [see below], Journal Title View and Journal Full […]