CDLINFO News
Resource Change: World Scholar Latin America and the Caribbean
In 2023, World Scholar Latin America and the Caribbean (via Gale) changed its name to Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. CDL owns the historical archive version of this product, with access for all 10 […]
New Open Access Book from eScholarship Publishing: The Art of Diversity by Susan Carlson
eScholarship Publishing, University of California, announces a new open access book release: The Art of Diversity: A Chronicle of Advancing the University of California Faculty through Efforts in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2010–2022 by Susan Carlson. In this institutional history, […]
A Tribute to Our Friend and Colleague, Claudia Conrad
At the end of December, CDL lost a beloved and respected colleague, Claudia Conrad. Claudia joined CDL in 2018 as the Discovery and Delivery (D2D) team’s Product Manager for Metadata and the Zephir service, which supplies metadata to the HathiTrust […]
Anna Striker appointed as CDL’s Systemwide Library Planning Senior Analyst
I am thrilled to announce that Anna Striker has been appointed as CDL’s Systemwide Library Planning Senior Analyst, with a planned start date of February 05. The Systemwide Library Planning (SLP) program resides within CDL and provides collaborative leadership and […]
UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for December 2023 Now Posted
The final UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter of 2023 is now posted: The December newsletter features articles on UC’s 90,000 theses and dissertations in HathiTrust, Dear Zephir’s insights into how records are clustered in HathiTrust search, and an introduction to HathiTrust’s […]
A fond farewell to Lena Zentall
Please join the California Digital Library (CDL) in celebrating the incredible 22-year career of our much admired colleague, Lena Zentall, who will retire from the University on January 3, 2024. Lena joined the CDL in 2002 and has worked in […]
Investigating a better UC ebook reading experience: Phase 1 report
The UC Palace Project Team completed their phase 1 investigation of the Palace ebook reading platform in summer 2023 and submitted a report to the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) in fall 2023. DOC endorsed the report recommendations at their […]
Upcoming Shared Print Events
Shared Print Actions: Terminology follow up discussions The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines (SPMG) working group hosted a public webinar on November 7 to formally introduce the draft terminology as well as plans for approving it across the shared print community. […]
WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Unarchived Holdings Ingest is Complete!
In September WEST distributed a call to members to submit files of their unarchived print journal and serial holdings to seed the Cycles 14 & 15 collections analysis. Members’ files have been received and ingested in AGUA, completing the first […]
Shared Print Publication: A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections
In September, College & Research Libraries published the much-anticipated “A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections.” This paper is the culmination of work in the Partnership for Shared Book Collections into risk […]