A new web page, “Information Literacy: What the UC Libraries are Doing” is now available at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/infolit/. The purpose of the site is to link to information literacy resources, to … More…
CDLINFO News: February, 2005
Counting California: New Datasets
As a result of collaboration with Berkeley’s UC data staff, Ilona Einowski and Fred Gey, Counting California now has two new datasets: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [California] … More…
UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository Pilot Released
After months of innovative and collaborative work, we are pleased to announce the pilot release of the UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository (DPR). The DPR is a set of services … More…
H. W. Wilson Upgrades Its Interface and Improves Features
By Susan Moon (Resource Liaison), UC Santa Barbara The H. W. Wilson Company has released an improved interface with upgrades to a number of features. The first change is … More…
Vendor Interface Changes
Many vendors of CDL-licensed resources have changed or will be changing their interfaces in the near future. (Note that these are not changes in vendors, but simply changes in the … More…
New Resources Available
a. ASM Handbooks Online By Camille Wanat (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison The ASM Handbooks Online is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of six participating campuses: UC Berkeley, … More…
eScholarship Repository: One Million Downloads Reached; Postprints Service Launched
The eScholarship Repository has reached one million full-text downloads, a remarkable achievement given the repository’s short life. On Wednesday, the eScholarship program announced the launch of its new eScholarship Repository … More…
Library Staff News
a. Roy Tennant Receives Literati Club Award for Excellence; Named User Services Architect Roy Tennant’s article, “A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century,” has been named the … More…
VDX: Status Update
VDX (Virtual Document eXchange) is UC’s consortial borrowing system for use in interlibrary loan (ILL), based on Fretwell-Downing’s product. The VDX implementation is a large and complex project that has … More…
Resource Update
a. America’s Newspapers Features a New Interface and New Search By Kay Collins (Resource Liaison), UC Irvine America’s Newspapers from Newsbank recently launched a new interface. With the new interface, … More…
