Month: March 2010
A habit of resilience
I’ve been reading an article in the January/February issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), “How to Bounce Back from Adversity.” If you have access to HBR online, here’s a link. The freely available Idea in Brief is here. Based on old […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – Important Milestone: Request
By Adam Brin, Technical Lead, Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot An important milestone has been reached for the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot, supported by WorldCat Local. As of March 2, 2010, the back-end of UC’s Request (Interlibrary Loan) service began running at […]
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) to be discontinued 3/31/10
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst The Getty Research Institute, publishers of the Bibliography of the History of Art, will not provide access to BHA beyond March 31, 2010. BHA will no longer be available from CSA Illumina nor […]
Internships at CDL
Last Wednesday, Rachael Hu and I went to the Spring Career Fair at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. The Fair is held at Berkeley’s South Hall, an historic building on the campus. This year’s Fair had 13 “vendors” including us. The […]
CDL’s System Status web page – ‘One stop shopping’ for system information
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst At the top right of CDL’s newly redesigned website (http://www.cdlib.org) is a link to CDL’s System Status web page. This System Status page brings together several useful tools in one place to facilitate […]
Web Archive for California Water Research
The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA), using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service, has built the California Water Districts Web Archive, a comprehensive archive of water district websites. This Web archive is now available to the general public at: […]
CDL-Hosted Archivists’ Toolkit/Archon Service: Now Available
By Adrian Turner, DSC Data Consultant The CDL Digital Special Collections Program is pleased to announce the availability of a new, free service for contributors to the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere websites: CDL-hosted versions of Archivists’ Toolkit […]
See (how) the project runs
When I first started working at CDL, I was not used to the academic organizational culture. I was coming from a very different environment, that of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which has a quasi-governmental, quasi-corporate culture. One of […]