The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) held the 12th International Coalition of Library Consortia meeting in Nashville on September 19-21, 2002. At the meeting (as in the past) vendors are subjected to sessions where members “grill” them about a […]
CDL is redesigning the CDL Libstaff website [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff] Your input is essential for helping us to improve the site. An essential first step in the redesign process is understanding how library staff currently use the site. To that end, we’ve […]
The CDL has created a survey to allow us to better understand how you currently use the CDLINFO newsletter and learn about the types of information you may need and want from the CDL in the future. The survey contains […]
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of “7train”, an XSLT 2.0-based tool for generating Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) files from standardized XML inputs. Version 1 of the open-source, platform-independent tool is available via […]
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As […]
In an earlier post , I promised I’d cover our Twitter guidelines and also provide you with some information about how the account is performing. Before I get going, let me remind any readers unfamiliar with Twitter that “following” is a […]
Some people are brilliant at melding words and visuals. Most of us struggle to create engaging presentations, documents and web pages. We’ve all been told it’s crucial to appeal to visual as well as verbal thinkers, but knowing how to […]
Hundreds of thousands of Giants fans crowded the streets of downtown San Francisco (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2010/11/04/MNM51G6DMS.DTL) to welcome their conquering heroes home, many having waited a lifetime for the pleasure. Orange and black confetti poured out office buildings lining the business district. […]
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that […]
