Month: August 2006
Calisphere: UC and California Department of Education Joint Press Conference
On Monday, August 21, University of California officials joined California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell in Sacramento to announce the official launch of Calisphere. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug21a.html. Additional information about Calisphere is available on the […]
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Discontinued
UC’s consortial license to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals will be discontinued by RLG on August 31, 2006. This specialized database is continuing on the Ovid platform. Two campuses, UC Berkeley and UCLA, will continue to purchase this resource […]
New Resource Available
a. CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) 1.8 Now Available Version 1.8 of the CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is now available for download from SourceForge: http://xtf.sourceforge.net. In addition to minor bug fixes and features, this release contains two major new […]
Library Staff News
a. CDL Reorganization The CDL recently reorganized in order to implement the vision that emerged from CDL’s Senior Management 2006 strategic planning process, which defined a revised mission and values statement (below), as well as chose and defined the boundaries […]
UC Libraries Partner With Google To Digitize Books
Yesterday, the UC libraries announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. See the press release at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/aug09.html. Additional information about the partnership is also available on the CDL website: [http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.htm].