Working together with CDL and Google, UCSD has finished digitizing nearly 100,000 volumes from the collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/) – the world’s largest oceanographic library. Included are works on marine biology, climate science, ecology, geology, and many other subjects. The collection […]
[…] debuting a new interface on Friday August 14. From the vendor’s announcement, the new interface includes: More intuitive search, browse, video, and audio pages to help patrons find content faster Easily accessible instructional videos to get patrons up and running […]
October 20, 2015 The University of California libraries applaud the ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Google’s digitization of library collections, creation of search functionality, display of snippets, and provision of copies to its partner libraries […]
[…] & Engagement Manager in CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections unit, has accepted the role of Program Manager, Global Partnerships, at Google Scholar. In addition to the opportunities this role offers, Monica will be able to take advantage of Google’s global […]
[…] concerns only the Melvyl Union Catalog. The need and strategy for a transition of CDL-hosted journal abstracting and indexing databases is being examined separately (public information can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/ news/cdlhosteddatabases.html ); details for library staff are available at: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/a-i-trans/.
a. Planning for the New Melvyl: Good News on the Personal Author Front One of the many features that distinguish Melvyl as a catalog with extraordinarily sophisticated power is that users can look for personal authors and retrieve the pertinent […]
[…] culture of California and the American West. Materials are sourced from libraries, archives, and museums in UC, California, and the world. Calisphere: Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Selected from […]
[…] appreciate the true beauty and splendor of ARKs. The new page has already been re-purposed in a German “technology watch” newsletter, which is the very first edition of a bi-annual publication from the Interoperable Metadata Center for Excellence and the […]
[…] More complete physical description information for archival records is included Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) have been loaded And…coming soon… Google Gadgets and Facebook Widgets. Google Gadgets enable you to search Next Gen Melvyl from your iGoogle Homepage, Google Desktop, […]
[…] to everyone via email (or worse, as a document attachment to e-mail). Instead, use a collaborative space like a wiki or Google Docs to record agreements and commitments. It reduces e-mail traffic; saves space in each person’s email client; and eliminates storage of the document […]
