Month: June 2011
Ensuring Digital Formats Remain Usable: CDL Partnering on Unified Digital Formats Registry
The CDL, with funding from the Library of Congress, is working collaboratively to develop a Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR). A post describing this international project is on the LC digital preservation site. For those not familiar with the project […]
HathiTrust May 2011 Update: Orphan Works, New UC Members on Advisory Board and More
The May 2011 HathiTrust update has been posted on the HathiTrust website. This month’s top news items include research on orphan works and new UC members on the Strategic Advisory Board. Orphan Works Research With funding from HathiTrust, the University […]
CDL HathiTrust Staff in the News: Heather Christenson and Paul Fogel
In an in-depth interview in Library Journal with CDL’s Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and HathiTrust Project Manager, and Paul Fogel, technical lead for mass digitization and the co-technical lead for the HathiTrust at CDL, Char Booth, formerly of […]
bX Recommender Trial Ending 6/13/11
The UC Libraries hosted a 2-month trial of Ex Libris’ bX Recommender service, an academic library recommender service that displays in UC-eLinks. The trial will end on Monday, June 13. The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) appointed a small […]
UC Access to New Electronic Resources 6/2/11
All UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL and campus one-time purchases (some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions): Blackwell Companion to Phonology (All campuses; on the Wiley-Blackwell platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/175687 The […]
New Melvyl WCL Web Pages – Logos, FAQ and More
The CDL has launched new Web pages for Melvyl, supported by WorldCat Local, available at http://cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/ Versions of the new campus logos are linked from this page in Web-friendly, print-friendly, and re-sizable formats (GIF, PNG, and EPS). Also available are […]
CDL Opens HathiTrust SFX Target to the broader SFX community
CDL’s Discovery & Delivery group is sharing a way to link to HathiTrust digital resources with other institutions using SFX (the software we use for UC-eLinks). These institutions will have access to the HathiTrust Digital Library “target” on EL Commons […]