CDLINFO News
Web Archive Discovery: Memento Implementation Meeting
On February 2-3, members of the California Digital Library Web archiving team took part in a working meeting of the Memento Project, hosted by the Internet Archive. Led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Old Dominion University (ODU), […]
CDL welcomes Greg Janée
By John Kunze, CDL Preservation Technologies Architect Please join me in welcoming a new half-time developer, Greg Janée to the UC Curation Center. Greg will be working remotely from Santa Barbara, where the other half of his time goes to […]
CDL ERMS Portal gives UC library staff access to license terms for CDL resources
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst, Collections CDL is pleased to announce the launch of the CDL ERMS Portal, an interface for campus library staff to find licensing-related information about CDL managed electronic resources. The CDL ERMS Portal is part […]
New Name for CDL’s Digital Collection of UC Press Titles
by Elise Proulx Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing GroupThe digital scholarly monograph collection formerly known as eScholarship Editions has been renamed “UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2008” (www.escholarship.org/editions). A joint project of UC Press and the California Digital Library’s Publishing Group, […]
How CDL’s Twitter account was born
Last October, CDL launched its official Twitter presence with a central account that channels the content of the CDLInfo newsletter and also additional content created by CDL programs and individuals that the CDL account follows. In today’s post, I’ll tell you […]
Major Report on Scholarly Communication Needs & Practices Now Available in eScholarship
by Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty […]
Searching for UC Systemwide Electronic Resources in the Catalogs
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services (UCSD); and Adolfo Tarango, Head of CJK, Serials & Shared Cataloging Division (CDL/UCSD) There is a disparity between what users see in current Melvyl, the Next Generation […]
Luna Insight collections: transitioning access in January 2010
By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director The CDL has transitioned the access of several image collections from CDL’s version of the Luna Insight service to other entry points. This decision is a result of a recent analysis of […]
Mass Digitization Projects Update: 2009 in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries’ made great progress in mass digitization of books in 2009, despite significant fiscal challenges. In April 2009 we reached a major milestone: over 2 million books digitized! In August […]
Learning from Detroit, or, Why projects fail
When I heard about the would-be Christmas bomber, I couldn’t help thinking, “Why haven’t the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations been implemented?” And since that day, indeed, we’ve come to find out that the various security agencies are still not talking adequately […]