Month: October 2012
Librarian in Print – Rachael Hu
CDL’s Rachael Hu has an article published in this month’s RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Fall 2012 13:175-190). The article is entitled, “Methods to Tame the Madness: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Assessment Techniques for […]
eScholarship PLUS
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2011-2012 Local History Digital Resources Project […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP’s latest annual report (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/scpannualreport20112012.pdf) is posted on the SCP website. The report contains significant details on our cataloging activities for the 2011/2012 fiscal year — the most significant of these arguably being […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: October 2012
In September, the NGTS Management Team proposed a slate of 2012-13 projects focused on implementing, further developing, and assessing various models of UC Libraries’ shared technical services operations to the Council of University Librarians (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/uls.html). The Council of University Librarians […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR XI as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable […]
New Licensed Resource – ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL)
By Julia Gelfand, Resource Liaison and Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian, UCI Libraries Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Diego) are now participating in a Tier 2 negotiation for the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital […]
WAS Service Update – September 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Fall 2012 releases update WAS 2.0: We are continuing the quality assurance testing for the WAS 2.0 release; among the areas of focus are the new solr index; duplicate reduction (which will substantially reduced the […]
HathiTrust September 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization September’s HathiTrust update includes late breaking news on the decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. Top news items for September include the recent HathiTrust Research […]
Upcoming transition of former RLG resources from OCLC to EBSCOhost
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012. As the databases […]