Author: Rosalie Lack
Calisphere’s new Themed Collection explores conquest and cultural exchange in Early California
A new Themed Collection: 1780-1880: California in Transition is now available in Calisphere.
Maureen Burns joins Digital Special Collections
Maureen Burns (Humanities Curator, UCI Visual Resources Collection) will be joining the CDL 25% time, for a 5-month assignment providing support and management assistance for the UC Image Service.
Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and CDL Team Up with Middle and High Schools for Web Archiving Project
The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, and CDL are collaborating on a project to archive web sites -- from the perspective of middle and high school students -- with a view toward preserving and integrating primary resources into the K-12 teaching curriculum.
Calisphere – Share it with your students!
Now that fall has returned and UC students are streaming back to campus, it's a good time to take another look at Calisphere with undergraduate students in mind.
Counting California Decommissioned
This is a reminder that Counting California has been decommissioned; see previous CDLINFO article (dated March 31, 2008) for details.
Calisphere and iPods in the Classroom: New technology brings California history to life
Recently, Bay Area K-12 teachers learned simple and practical ways to team a cutting-edge technology — an iPod touch, PowerPoint, and online tools such as MovieMaker and Garageband — with Calisphere’s thousands of primary source images to bring history to life in the classroom.
Counting California will be Decommissioned June 1, 2008
Counting California, a single interface for accessing a variety of data and statistics about California from local, state, and federal government agencies, will be decommissioned on June 1, 2008.
Calisphere’s First Year in Review
CDL is pleased to report that in its first year, Calisphere has become a valuable resource for scholars, a popular destination for the general public, and an essential site for K-12 educators, who call it “a dream resource” and “a teacher’s dream come true.”
Local History Resources – New Collections in Calisphere and the OAC
Over 1,500 new digitized primary resources are now available in the CDL's Calisphere and Online Archive of California (OAC) websites as of February 2008.