Month: February 2015
CDL Job Opening for User Experience (UX) Content Strategist
Do you love creating an engaging and useful content strategy and user experience for online websites and resources? Then join our team! We are hiring a person to serve as the User Experience (UX) Content Strategist for the California Digital […]
UC Monthly E-Resource Usage Reports Are Now Available Via MPSInsight for Libraries
Monthly COUNTER usage reports for UC Libraries Systemwide licensed e-resources from 2010 to the present are now available via a link to MPSInsight for Libraries (formerly ScholarlyStats). ScholarlyStats was the brand name and platform under which MPS’s library statistics reporting […]
Merritt Service Update: January 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Merritt experienced some significant problems with ingest and retrieval beginning around January 21. In some cases, objects larger than 100 Mb submitted to ingest simply failed, but smaller objects failed as well. We isolated […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Red Book Online
Six campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Red Book Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/268676 (D, I, LA, R, SD, SF; on the Silverchair platform) Red Book® Online includes […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Early English Books (4,334 tiles), Springer (2,702 titles), SuperStar (520 titles), IEEE (130 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (121 titles), CRC Press (78 titles), Apabi (66 titles), and Wiley (60 titles). For […]
Update Delivered at ALA Midwinter 2015 WEST Member Meeting
The ALA Midwinter WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, Feb. 01, 2015 from 1-2:30 pm in the Hilton Chicago (Continental C). Thank you to everyone who braved the snow storm to join us! If you were unable to attend, please find […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Staff Accounts are now available!
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Staff User Accounts are here! With a staff user account, you can view MARC records, view the OCLC# on the brief record display, and search by library holding symbol. Further staff account features are anticipated. […]
EZID introduces a batch download feature
EZID has just implemented a feature allowing clients to download a copy of all or some of their identifiers and descriptive information (i.e. metadata). We call it “batch” download, because EZID returns all requested identifiers in one large file. Clients […]
Calisphere: Gearing up for DPLA in April
Last year, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) welcomed the California Digital Library as a DPLA Content Hub, on behalf of the UC Libraries and with the endorsement of the Council of University Librarians. In its role as DPLA […]
The Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) has its roots in the California Digital Library (CDL)
By Staci Markos, UCB Jepson Herbaria (smarkos@berkeley.edu) All over the world, dried plant collections are maintained in herbaria. Collections from California date from the early 1800s to the present. Each plant specimen is mounted on a sheet of acid-free paper along […]