Month: November 1998
Call for EIP Evaluation Assistance
The CDL has received a second year of LSTA funding for its CDL/Library of California Access to Environmental Information Project. The grant supports two goals. The first is to evaluate the costs and benefits that have accrued from the cooperative […]
CDL Pre-release Web Site Available for Review
UC Library staff and others are reminded to use the pre-release of the CDL Web site and to send us comments and suggestions. The pre-release brings the California Digital Library a step closer to its January 1999 opening and is […]
PIR Materials and Listserv Available
At the October updates for the PIR project there was unanimous support for a web site that would be a single source for materials related to the background and implementation of PIR. This new web site is http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/pir/. The site […]
Staff in Print: Karen E. Coyle. Coyle’s Information Highway Handbook
CDL staff member Karen Coyle’s book provides background information on the social impact of our travels along the information highway, from the Information Society to the Information Economy; on the policy questions surrounding intellectual property, censorship, and privacy; and on […]
Charlene Baldwin Joins CDL's STIC Task Force
The CDL has appointed Charlene Baldwin, Assistant University Librarian for the Sciences at UC Riverside, to replace Locke Morrisey on the Science, Technology, and Industry Collection (STIC) Task Force. She will begin December 1 and joins continuing members Alison Bunting […]
Additional RLG Databases Accessible via Telnet Linemode
A new licensing agreement with the Research Libraries Group provides UC users with seven additional databases to search. Users can enter the Eureka system, which provides access to the RLG databases, in two ways. From the Telnet Melvyl system, type […]
RLIN Database Available for Testing through the Web Interface
The Research Library Group’s RLIN Bibliographic Database is now available for testing on the Melvyl Web test site at http://merlin.ucop.edu/meltst. RLIN Bibliographic File (@RLG) is one of the database choices. Comments on the test version of the RLIN database should […]
Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the Melvyl system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways: For immediate assistance, call […]
CDL Pre-release Web Site Available for Review
CDL and other UC staff are eagerly anticipating the “opening” of the CDL via the release of its web site in January 1999. Despite the many activities of the CDL and its partners — such as establishing shared collections principles […]