CDLINFO LISTSERV, November 29, 2000, Vol.3, No.17

CONTENTS

1. Union Catalog RFP Evaluation on Schedule
2. CDL Technologies Reorganization within the Office of the President
3. CDL Staff News: New Staff Members
   1. Donna Kaiser
   2. David Loy
   3. Brian Tingle
4. For More Information
   1. CDL News
   2. Contacts for Questions or Problems
   3. Information about CDLINFO

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1. Union Catalog RFP Evaluation on Schedule

The steering committee for the evaluation of responses to the RFP for new technology to support the union catalog met on November 20, 2000 to share the results of site visits and further explorations of vendor products.

As reported in CDLINFO on October 11th (Vol.3, No.14; available at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo101100.html) the ESC is clarifying vendor responses and creating an understanding of customer experiences with these systems. The ESC will soon conclude its work by forwarding these analyses to the ESC Scoring Subcommittee who will officially score each qualifying response.

Members of the evaluation steering committee are the best sources of information about the RFP process. Please consult with your campus member if you have questions.

Evaluation Steering Committee members include:

Diane Bisom, UCI
Karen Coyle, CDL (ex officio)
Laine Farley, CDL
Cheryl Gomez, UCSC
Jon Good, UCOP, IR&C
Bernie Hurley, UCB (Chair)
Ann Jensen, UCB
Julia Kochi, UCSF
Terry Ryan, UCLA
Catherine Nelson, UCSB
John Ober, CDL (ex officio)
Susan Starr, UCSD
John Tanno, UCR
David Walker, CDL
Gail Yokote, UCD

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2. CDL Technologies Reorganization within the Office of the President

When the CDL was formed in October 1997, CDL Technologies, comprised of many members of the former Division of Library Automation, was formally a part of the Office of the President's Information Resources and Communication department (IR&C). IR&C reports to the Senior Vice President for Business and Finance.

On November 20, 2000 IR&C Associate Vice President William Campbell and CDL University Librarian Richard Lucier announced an agreement for the immediate transfer of all CDL Technologies staff to the CDL under the direction of UL Lucier. The technology staff for the CDL is now organizationally co-located with CDL programs. CDL Technologies director David Walker reports directly to UL Lucier. The unified CDL organization is within UCOP's Academic Affairs Division and reports to the Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives. As part of the agreement a transition plan will be established to complete the transfer to the CDL of responsibility for all computing resources that support its programs.

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3. CDL Staff News: New Staff Members

Please join us in welcoming these three new CDL staff members located at CDL offices in Oakland. Donna Kaiser and David Loy have arrived to fill vacancies in Digital Library Services and CDL Technologies respectively. Brian Tingle will join the CDL in January in a new strategic development programmer position.

a. Donna Kaiser

Donna Kaiser joined the CDL on November 13, 2000 as Digital Information Analyst in the Digital Library Services group. Donna brings a mix of interesting experiences in the academic environment, electronic publishing, and start-up companies. She has been an editorial assistant for scholarly journals, a technical writer, an instructor, an intellectual property manager, and most recently a "knowledge architect". Donna holds an MLIS and is currently a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley. We expect to make use of her many talents in various projects.

b. David Loy

David Loy joined the CDL on November 20, 2000 as a programmer in the Access Group. During the development of the original Melvyl catalog David was the programmer who wrote the Melvyl catalog search parser and the DLA Record Management System (DLARMS). After leaving the UCOP Division of Library Automation, David spent some years as a programmer for Dialog. His most recent position was as a developer for Elingo, a company that provides web-based translation services.

c. Brian Tingle

Brian Tingle will join the strategic innovations group as a development programmer on January 1, 2001. Brian is currently a programmer and project supervisor with the software engineering department at the UCSD library. He has been involved in San Diego's portal project and will contribute directly to collaborative development projects and in technology support for Counting California (previously known as California Counts), eScholarship, and other projects in development stages.

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4. For More Information

a. CDL News

Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "What's New," and previous issues of CDLINFO are posted on the CDL web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!

Remember also that reports, working documents, and status information of particular interest to library staff, are all available at http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/.

b. Contacts for Questions or Problems

If you have problems accessing or using the system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways:

• For immediate assistance, call the CDL Helpline at (510) 987-0555. Callers with TDD equipment, please call 1-800-735-2929 in California for the telephone relay operator.
• Send an e-mail message to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
• Click on "News" at http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ (also known as http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu) for information about system outages, problems with particular databases, the status of a resource, etc.

For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.

c. Information about CDLINFO

CDLINFO is designed to inform UC Librarians, and the UC community, about the progress of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the newsletter to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. More complete information about the CDL, as well as the Directory of Collections and Services which leads to digital resources, is available at the CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org.

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