CDLINFO News
BrowZine iPad Application Trial and Survey – ends April 30, 2013
Have an iPad? Help the Library evaluate a new research tool that is being considered for possible subscription. The libraries of the University of California are running a trial of a new technology called BrowZine, a tablet application that allows […]
CoUL Issues Statement of Support for Dale Askey
On March 26, 2013, the UC’s Council of University Librarians issued a statement of support for McMaster University librarian Dale Askey who has been sued by a publisher for making defamatory remarks in a blog post. The CoUL’s statement is […]
UC Berkeley Law Library Records Now in Melvyl as Part of UCB Collections
The UC Berkeley Law Library records now appear In Melvyl as part of the UC Berkeley Libraries collection (Level 1) for UC Berkeley. Berkeley Law is an affiliated library on the Berkeley campus. Records appear as part of the University […]
Merritt Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). All UCOP services are moving to VMs, and we believe that this will result in more stable services. We […]
DMPTool Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We held two project meetings in February to discuss the grants we received from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and IMLS. A blogpost at the DMPTool blog describes the meetings, and links to reports […]
DataUp Service Update: January – February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strasser, Kunze, and Cruse presented DataUp as a poster at the 2013 International Data Curation Conference, held in Amsterdam in January, receiving 2nd place in the poster competition. Strasser presented the DataUp poster at […]
WAS Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release. Work continues on the release. SJSU Intern. Caitlin O’Neal López has joined our team, virtually, as an intern from San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science. (Caitlin currently […]
Welcome to the new UC libraries website
By Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UCSC & Council of University Librarians Chair I am delighted to announce the redesigned UC Libraries website. The website is the primary communication vehicle for the UC libraries’ systemwide initiatives and collaborative activities and is […]
HathiTrust February 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust update on February activities is now available. Top News: the HathiTrust Research Center plans a release of software infrastructure at the end of March, loaded with the latest and greatest service components and […]
EZID Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged this month about the “11 most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. EZID Clients were 9 out of the 11. Congratulations! (http://bit.ly/YGEufT) EZID currently holds approximately a half million […]