Month: October 2006
Melvyl Recommender Project Findings
The Melvyl Recommender Project http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl_recommender/, which explored next-generation services for library catalogs, has reached its conclusion. The project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Popular commercial services such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Netflix have evolved quickly over […]
Library Staff News
a. Welcome Library Data Analyst Chan Li Chan Li has accepted the position of Library Data Analyst in the CDL Collections Licensed Content Group beginning Monday, October 9. Ms. Li has a Masters Degree in Library and Information Studies from […]
National Science Foundation Grant Final Report
The California Digital Library was awarded a National Science Foundation grant in 2003 to build on and enhance the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The work has been completed Update: (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. For Metasearch […]
Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service
The Web-at-Risk, a CDL Digital Preservation Group project, achieved a major milestone with Release 1 of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) to a pilot group of project curators. Development of the WAS marks a crucial step in enabling the libraries […]
Librarian Toolkits for Scholarly Communication
This summer the Scholarly Communications Officers completed work on three toolkits to help librarians when discussing scholarly communication issues with faculty and each other. One toolkit deals with the economic issues surrounding scholarly communication, a second deals with the role […]
UC Campuses Awarded IMLS Grants
UC Berkeley and UC Irvine were recently awarded leadership grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to build digital resources and conduct research projects. Read about their grant projects at: http://www.imls.gov/news/2006/092606_list.shtm#CA