This last week we had a small lesson in business continuity here at CDL. Our home is in Oakland, California, and our city was disturbed on Thursday by civil unrest (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/09/BAH61EBUBF.DTL). The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) […]
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. […]
New additions to the CDL Web site include the “1999-Spring 2000 Highlights” document, which includes an overview of the CDL projects from the past year. It is available at: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/highlights.html]. The CDL Milestones page [http://www.cdlib.org/news/milestones.html], which contains a chronology of […]
The TLtC’s efforts in this area thus far have been in publishing in its webzine last April articles on information literacy (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/feature.html) and the development of the new UC Merced library (http://www.uctltc.org/news/2002/04/merced.html). The TLtC webzine also has a special discussion […]
[…] the time BIP was licensed as a Tier 2, the international edition was discussed, but it was not yet available online. With the assistance of resource liaison Jill Woolums (Berkeley) and agreement of all campuses, BIP has now been re-licensed […]
A current list of ejournals licensed by the CDL and each campus (except UC Davis) is now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/uc-elinks/a2z.html UC Davis runs its own SFX server separate from the CDL server used by the rest of the campuses. The […]
[…] users, indicating that this is an approach worth pursuing for providing ranking, recommendation and other types of functionality with an online catalog. Use of an index based single word spelling correction algorithm addressed 90 percent of misspelled single words. Initial […]
[…] than 3,600 digitized primary resources from 19 California cultural heritage institutions are now featured in the CDL’s Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) and Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) websites. The new online collections showcase local history materials, including photographs, ephemera, posters, maps, and […]
[…] but currently only works in the public domain or works whose copyright holders have given explicit permission can be consulted online in their entirety. The bulk of public domain works are pre-1923 books from the U.S. and government publications. About […]
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two fulltext series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase. The Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) currently has completed its sixth collection and includes a total of 46 series in Collections 1-6 that span […]
