CDLINFO News
Learning from mistakes
Earlier this month we marked the 104th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/splash.html). The anniversary brought to my mind the confluence of Mother Nature and human nature. In this event, just as with Iceland’s spectacular ash cloud(s), we are witness […]
HathiTrust Books Available via UC-eLinks
CDL is pleased to announce access to selected HathiTrust books via UC-eLinks. HathiTrust books free of copyright restrictions, contributed by both UC and other HathiTrust partners, are now available via a link in the UC-eLinks menu window. The links appear […]
How to be Happy at Work
Are you happy at work? Are you happy with work? Are you supposed to be happy at work? Maybe you aren’t – after all, there’s a reason they call it “work.” I looked for the holy grail of happiness at […]
SNAC project will use archival authority records to expand access
CDL’s Digital Special Collections Program is collaborating on an exciting research and development project with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia (project lead) and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. The Social […]
SCP Distribution Statistics for April 19, 2010
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) has released record distribution statistics for the week of April 19, 2010. See: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/scpstats2010.html#apr2010
Start from the ground up
Have you ever been asked “how long does the task list need to be?” If so, has this struck you as code for something else? When I’ve been asked this question, I’ve sometimes thought it was genuine, but just as […]
Meet Jason Colman
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services Jason Colman’s reputation preceded him when he came to CDL’s Mass Digitization Program as a Project Specialist. Although he brings a rich background in digital libraries, he was probably more widely known as the […]
UC’s Internet Archive-digitized Books Now Loading into the HathiTrust
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager Through a collaborative effort between the California Digital Library and the University of Michigan, the University of California volumes digitized by Internet Archive are now flowing into the HathiTrust Digital Library. This accomplishment […]
How to Embrace Innovation
Innovation is about making changes — doing things differently, thinking differently. What’s helpful to know is the changes you make don’t have to be huge and dramatic. Incremental changes like putting one foot into the gym to launch a long-term […]
Territory folks
I’ve had a couple of reminders this week about the perceived differences between technical team members and the rest of us. I claim the dubious privilege of straddling the fence, as a former member of an IT shop myself, so […]