Month: February 2010
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – February 2010 Enhancements
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services Four enhancements that impact the UC Libraries Next Generation Melvyl Pilot were made by OCLC on Sunday, February 21, 2010. These changes include the following: 1. URLs for detailed records were expanded to […]
Music Index Online moves to EBSCOhost on March 1, 2010
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired The Music Index Online™ from Harmonie Park Press, and access to this resource via the Harmonie Park Press platform will end on February 28, 2010. The Music Index […]
UC-eLinks new website and 2009 usage statistics
By Lena Zentall, UC-eLinks Project Manager UC-eLinks new website UC-eLinks has a new face on the CDL website. http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/ucelinks/ As part of the CDL website redesign, we reorganized and refreshed the UC-eLinks content we provide to library staff and our […]
Double Issue of California Italian Studies Journal Launches in eScholarship
by Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group eScholarship is pleased to announce the inaugural double issue of California Italian Studies Journal (http://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj), a digital, peer-reviewed, open access journal committed to publishing innovative and influential scholarly work in the […]
EconLit, FIAF Transitioning to CSA Illumina and Chadwyck-Healey Platforms
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services Two databases, EconLit and FIAF (Film/TV Periodicals Index [International Federation of Film Archives]), will be transitioning from their current platform on OvidSP. EconLit will be moving to CSA Illumina and FIAF will transition […]
CDL’s Twitter account, Part 2
In an earlier post , I promised I’d cover our Twitter guidelines and also provide you with some information about how the account is performing. Before I get going, let me remind any readers unfamiliar with Twitter that “following” is a […]
Farewell Rosalie Lack
By Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development & Management Rosalie Lack will be leaving the CDL in early March for an exciting new opportunity as Deputy Director of an international non-profit library consortium called eIFL.net (http://www.eifl.net/ ). Her last day […]
Finding and teaching with images using ARTstor
By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator As the new semester ramps up, we thought it was a good time to remind you about the wealth of digital images available on ARTstor. New content and features are always being […]
Project citizenship
In the fall of 2008, as CDL was gearing up to become deeply involved in HathiTrust, I was part of the team managing our efforts. We anticipated a long-term initiative encompassing many projects, committees, and workgroups, and that was just […]
Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As […]