CDLINFO News
New Look, Enhanced Services for eScholarship, UC’s open access digital publishing service launches new site October 19
Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, eScholarship Publishing Program eScholarship (www.escholarship.org) launched a redesigned website October 19 with a substantial array of digital publishing services for the University of California scholarly community and a dynamic research platform for scholars worldwide. […]
iPRES 2009 hosted by CDL
On October 5-6 2009, over 300 people from 22 countries attended iPRES 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. iPRES 2009 was the sixth in an annual series of conferences devoted to digital preservation, and with the 300 attendees, the largest ever.
Web Archiving Resource: Library of Congress Video
The Library of Congress has prepared a brief video to convey the need for web archiving and to describe web archiving efforts at LC. This video provides a good introduction to the collection, access and technological challenges faced by web […]
Another way to explore Calisphere: find us on Facebook!
CDL’s Digital Special Collections Program is excited to announce that we have created a Calisphere page on Facebook. Facebook pages enable organizations to promote their services and connect with individuals. We’ll be using the page to engage educators, students, and the general public.
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse graphic materials documenting local people, place, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The […]
UC-eLinks in Next Generation Melvyl
[originally published as “Next Generation Melvyl – Improvements in Display of Online Resources” on Sept. 23, 2009] In its September 13, 2009 install, OCLC made improvements to the display of electronic resources in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. The changes […]
UC Berkeley contributes 28,000 architecture images to UC Shared Images
The Visual Resources Center at the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley has added more than 28,000 images to the UC Shared Images collections. The images, which represent a third of the Center’s entire digital collection, document the built environment from the pre-historical period to the early 21st century.
Next Generation Melvyl – Improvements in Display of Online Resources
In its September 13, 2009 install, OCLC made improvements to the display of electronic resources in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. The changes were made to help users better distinguish between links to online materials for which they have access as opposed to links from other libraries to which they may not have access.
Completion of UC-Internet Archive on-site mass digitization projects
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
CDL ERMS milestone: data loaded into Serials Solutions
The ERMS implementation team (iTeam) achieved a major milestone on July 31, 2009 when they finished the initial phase of loading CDL data into Serials Solutions.