CDLINFO News
Assistant Director for Business Development Appointed
The CDL is very pleased to announce that Cate Hutton, currently the assistant director for UCOP’s Institutional Advocacy Programs, has accepted a position as the CDL’s assistant director for Business Development. We want to welcome Cate, whose background, in addition […]
Thanks to Andrea Sevetson – Government Information Report and Recommended Strategic Options Available
Andrea Sevetson’s appointment as CDL Special Assistant for Government Information is coming to a close. CDL is fortunate to have had someone of Andrea’s caliber and experience to devote concentrated time to digital government information over the past six months. […]
OAC Documentation
A section on the Online Archive of California (OAC) has been added to the Shared Collections Web page at [www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac] and contains background information, working documents, and meeting notes of the OAC Working Group: Online Archive of California (OAC) [PDF] […]
CDL/LOC Environmental Information Project Ends September 30
The CDL/Library of California Environmental Information demonstration projects ends on September 30. The Project, which involved creating a selective topical Web site designed to meet the information query needs of multi-type libraries, digitizing UC collections, and licensing a commercial database, […]
PIR Update: Article Request
Following favorable comments from SOPAG and the University Librarians on the timeline for article Request — implementation by January 2000 — the PIR Project Team continues to progress towards that goal. Library staff testing of article Request and of the […]
Academic Universe Offers New Web Interface [Linda Kennedy, UCD]
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Changes: August 20 Implementation of New Web Interface Six UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego) subscribe to Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe through Solinet, a library consortium. On Friday, August 20, 1999, CIS […]
Digital Library Instruction Issues – New Listserv Available
In response to advice from the CDL Education Working Group and discussions at the Spring DL Strategies forums and elsewhere, a new listserv for the discussion of education and instruction issues related to digital library resources and services is now […]
Joan Gargano and Patrick Newell to depart the CDL
Joan Gargano, Director of CDL Technologies, has accepted an exciting offer to become CIO at a startup company in private industry based in Boulder, Colorado. Joan’s leadership of the CDL Technologies staff, and contribution to CDL planning and development, as […]
CDL Directory Submission Pilot Project – Call for Participants
As was described in the June 18, 1999 (v.2, no.9) issue of CDLINFO, the CDL will be conducting a pilot project in early September in which a small group of campus libraries will add locally licensed content to the CDL […]
PREMEDLINE is Going Away
The National Library of Medicine will discontinue its Z39.50 server to the MEDLINE data (back to 1966) and the PREMEDLINE data effective December 13, 1999. MEDLINE/HealthSTAR is offered to UC users as a CDL-hosted database and will not be affected […]