CDLINFO News
WorldCat Discovery beta: MARC Record Refinements
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on September 29, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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 on Melvyl.) […]
EZID Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID’s Lead Architect, presented a paper at SciDataCon, part of International Data Week in Denver, CO (September 11-17). John’s paper, “A Vocabulary for Persistence,” (http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/sessions/103/paper/109/) was part of the Semantic Enrichment, Metadata and […]
CDL Welcomes Khatira Nawabi
On Tuesday, September 27th, Khatira Nawabi joined CDL as my new Executive Assistant, and Ivy Anderson’s Administrative Assistant, beginning . Khatira brings a wealth of experience and an impressive portfolio to her new position, including high-level experience in preparing correspondence, […]
DMPTool Service Update: August 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Enhancements. We just released some small tweaks and enhancements designed to boost community insight into DMP behaviors (details on the blog). We’re especially keen to collect feedback about what DMP metrics are most useful as we consider […]
Welcome YAMZ.net developer/intern Manoj Tuguru
We are happy to announce the arrival of Manoj Tuguru at CDL as a developer intern. Manoj graduated in June with a Master of Science in Software Engineering degree from Drexel University, where he was a student of Jane Greenberg. The […]
Judy Dobry Joins D2D
At the beginning of September, Judy joined CDL’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) team as Tech Manager. In Judy’s own words: Judy Dobry comes to CDL from Berkeley’s Graduate Division where she was IT Director. At Berkeley, Judy and her team […]
Calisphere welcomes new contributors on its redesign anniversary
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the new Calisphere site, and we’re celebrating by making it even bigger! Since its release in September 2015, the site has grown by 150,000 items, to reach more than 550,000 total items today. These include […]
New resources in Melvyl’s Central Index
Eight resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: American Society of Civil Engineers eJournals (American Society of Civil Engineers) American Society of Civil Engineers eBooks (American Society of Civil Engineers) JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection […]
CDL Job Opening – Systemwide Library Research Analyst
Systemwide Library Research Analyst The University of California Libraries system includes more than 100 libraries at the 10 UC campuses, the California Digital Library, and two regional library facilities. The Systemwide Library Research Analyst sits within the California Digital Library […]
UC Berkeley Researcher Mines HathiTrust Volumes for Cliometric History of Postsecondary Education in California
By guest blogger, UC Berkeley Economist Zach Bleemer Editor’s note: UC Libraries continue to digitize and add to the HathiTrust corpus that is now over 14.7 million volumes. A key reason for digitizing library collections is to facilitate new forms of computer-aided research […]