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Month: June 1999

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 Milestones

CDL Milestones are now posted on the CDL informational web site under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!

CDL Directory Submission Pilot Project

One of the major goals of the CDL Directory is to experiment with the development of a collaboration “space” where the UC campus libraries can participate in the creation and management of digital content.  Through the CDL Directory, the campus […]

Full List of Recommended Commercial Electronic Files

The Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collection’s survey of bibliographer groups yielded a large number of recommendations for digital resources.  Previous issues of CDLINFO announced the availability of the completed surveys and of JSCSC’s criteria for prioritization and an initial […]

PIR/Request Phase II Discussed at Updates

Regional meetings held in early June brought UC library staff together to discuss the success of automatic requesting of materials (via the Melvyl Catalog’s Request service) during the first half of 1999, and to discuss its further development.  Levels of […]

Online Archive of California Developments

The OAC Advisory Working Group recommended two thematic areas for digitizing archival material across UC campuses.  SOPAG and the University Librarians endorsed the recommendation of a collaborative focus on the arts in California and ethnic communities in California for primary […]

Education Working Group Recommends Guiding Principles

Drawing upon discussion with colleagues, interaction during the DL Strategies forums, and their extensive experience, the members of the CDL Education Working Group have developed a set of “Recommended Guiding Principles” to guide development of the education programs of the […]

July Release of CDL Services Available for Testing/Viewing

http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/july99/ The URL above leads to descriptions and several viewable/testable changes to the CDL Web, CDL Directory, and CDL-hosted Databases Interface, including the Melvyl Catalog, that are being prepared for a July 7th release.  Many of these changes are based […]

Creating Links into the CDL Directory

Library web managers have a great deal of flexibility in how they can provide access to the CDL Directory from their web sites.  The simplest approach is to provide a link to the CDL Directory’s home page at.  There are […]

CDL Gets a New IP Address

The CDL mainframe server is getting a new network interface designed to improve response time and stability when the system is heavily used and thus, our IP address is changing.  If you use domain names, e.g., dbs.cdlib.org or melvyl.ucop.edu, to […]