Month: December 2017
WEST Representatives Attend Rosemont Shared Print Alliance In-person Meeting
On November 3rd, WEST representatives from the WEST Executive Committee, supported by the WEST Project Team, traveled to Rosemont, Illinois to take part in an in-person strategic meeting of the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance. WEST’s representatives on the Rosemont Executive […]
CDL office closure Dec. 22, 2017 PM – Jan. 1, 2018
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Friday, December 22, 2017 at 3:00 PM PST through Monday, January 1, 2018. The […]
Wendy Parfrey retires in January
Wendy Parfrey, CDL’s Shared Content Coordinator and stalwart participant of CDL’s licensing and negotiations team, will be retiring on January 31, 2018. After twenty years with sales and marketing positions in the publishing industry (Pearson, Elsevier, Gale, Dialog and several […]
Momentum Press Ebooks move to iG Library platform
Momentum Press ebooks are moving from the ProQuest ebrary platform to the iG Library platform, which is the same platform that hosts the Business Expert Press ebooks. A Tier 2 resource, Momentum Press was purchased as individual collections. Individual availability […]
WEST Members Meeting at ALA Midwinter in Denver, Colorado – Please RSVP if you plan to attend!
The ALA Midwinter WEST Members Meeting is happening on Sunday, February 11, 2018, from 1-2:30 pm (MT) in the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Room Centennial H. Please RSVP to our poll (found here) (https://doodle.com/poll/4cei792qgs3b6udh) if you plan to attend. Please list your institution […]
Si ku quan shu EastView access ceasing December 31; new platform starting in January
Si ku quan shu 四庫全書 (complete library in four sections), compiled in the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, was the largest collection of texts in pre-modern China and has an important historical place in the histories of cultural texts and […]
Nexis Uni debuts; January webinars are available
As mentioned in a previous CDLINFO article, LexisNexis Academic Becomes Nexis Uni, Nexis Uni is now the platform for LexisNexis Academic online content. The PID that previously pointed to LexisNexis Academic (http://uclibs.org/PID/20081) has been redirected to the Nexis Uni platform. […]
WEST passes resolution honoring Emily Stambaugh
On November 17, 2017, the WEST Executive Committee passed the following resolution honoring Emily Stambaugh for her many contributions to shared print and the WEST program. Resolution Honoring Emily Stambaugh WHEREAS, Emily Stambaugh has served as Shared Print Manager for […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Personal lists with customized messages
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 12, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]
CDL Staff in Print – SCP Article in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Congratulations to CDL’s current Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) staff and former SCP staff member, Renee Chin, on the recent publication of their article, “One for Nine Ten: Cataloging for Consortia Collections, a UC model”, in the journal Cataloging & Classification […]