Month: May 2010
CDL Recruiting for Discovery & Delivery Programmer Analyst
By Lynne Cameron, Technical Lead, Discovery & Delivery Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III About you You are a programmer interested in being part of a team envisioning and building the next generation of library discovery […]
CDL Recruiting for Publishing Support Programmer
By Lisa Schiff, Technical Lead, eScholarship Publishing Group Job Summary: The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library provides open access digital publication services to the University of California academic community, supports widespread distribution of UC research materials, and fosters […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – May 2010
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager Two enhancements appear in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, May 23 install. The improvements include: A change to the global header: the Library custom web links at […]
3 Ways to be More Effective in Giving and Receiving Feedback
Unless you’re an art student or critic, giving and receiving feedback probably isn’t a formal part of your daily routine. The interaction can be stressful and contentious, regardless of whether you are the giver or receiver. Is it any wonder […]
Strategic travel
Has your travel budget been getting you down? Or should I say, has the absence of a travel budget been getting you down? I’ve written here about what it takes to work remotely, and I’ve been thinking lately about how to […]
SCP monthly cataloging update (May 2010)
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) monthly cataloging update for May 2010 is now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/updates/update2010.html#may2010
Issues in Applied Linguistics Now Published in eScholarship
eScholarship is pleased to announce the publication of volume 17, issues 1 & 2 of UCLA’s Issues in Applied Linguistics. Initially launched in 1989 as a print-only journal, this volume marks the journal’s first digital publication. Issues in Applied Linguistics […]
CDL Archiving Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Websites
The California Digital Library is using the Web Archiving Service to archive sites related to the gulf oil spill. While CDL’s primary role in Web archiving is to provide tools and support to collection specialists, we also use the service […]
Webinar of "Merritt" repository development
UC3 is developing a new Digital Preservation Repository based on a set of curation micro-services. (We’ve named this development effort “Merritt” after Lake Merritt (http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/parks/lakemerritt.asp), just a few blocks from our office.) We’ve reached a development milestone, and held a […]
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library Finishes Digitization
Working together with CDL and Google, UCSD has finished digitizing nearly 100,000 volumes from the collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/) – the world’s largest oceanographic library. Included are works on marine biology, climate science, ecology, geology, and many other subjects. The collection […]