CDLINFO News
Three New Newspaper Databases at Shanghai Library’s CNBKSY Platform
Four UC campuses have recently purchased several newspaper archives at CNBKSY. Participating UC campuses include: Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, and Irvine. The China Times 時事新報 1911-1949 Access at: https://www.cnbksy.com/product/productDescription?id=464&isProduct=false CNBKSY has digitized 147,000 pages of The […]
UC Libraries endorse Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries
On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the […]
Opportunity for WEST members to share development ideas and needs
During ‘off years’ of the collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA (https://agua.cdlib.org/west), both on the backend to increase automation and improve our ability to perform the collection analyses and on the front end […]
Call for Cycle 13 WEST Archiving Disclosures
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders* to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool in AGUA. WEST asks that members include records for […]
The WEST Executive Committee Establishes a Steering Committee & Updates Composition and Eligibility Requirements
In February 2024, the WEST Executive Committee approved a proposal to shift from a committee leadership structure of Subcommittees to a Steering Committee. Additionally, the Executive Committee finalized updates to the committee’s composition and eligibility requirements. Establishing an Executive Steering […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – March 2024
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for March 2024 New Content and […]
Job Opening: Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services position. Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services Reporting to CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Associate Director, the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services, oversees the management […]
SCP Update – March 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in February 2024 Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century: 36 CRL Global Press Archive 5 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 123 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings: 263 […]
March Newsletter for UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Now Posted
The March (Q1) newsletter for the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is now posted. Topics include new resources for library colleagues who are participating in the HathiTrust Shared Print Program; Dear Zephir’s detailed answer to why a user sometimes can’t […]
CDL Job Opening: UX Designer position
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the UX Designer position. UX DESIGNER The User Experience (UX) Designer will report to CDL’s UX Manager and will work as a highly collaborative member of the CDL UX team to support […]