Month: September 2011
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: September 2011
Power of Three (POT) groups have generated initial task lists and timelines and are setting up Lightning Team memberships. After review and feedback from the NGTS Management Team, the POTs are now proceeding with the following tasks and will be […]
New Look/New URL for the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
(All campuses except UCR, UCSF; on the Univ. of Michigan platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/271 A new version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies was recently launched, along with an upgrade having close to 800,000 entries. This new version offers a state-of-the-art discovery system with […]
HathiTrust Constitutional Convention Ballot Proposals and More
As reported in August, a HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over three days, attended by delegates from each partner institution and consortium […]
Contributor Metadata Editor released for OAC/Calisphere digital objects
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the release of the Metadata Editor, a new tool for contributors to the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The Metadata Editor enables contributors to make changes to their digital objects, without […]
New Melvyl Governance in Place
By Ginny Steel, Chair, CoUL The Council of University Librarians (CoUL) is launching a new systemwide structure to manage the Melvyl WorldCat Local service. The new structure is incorporated in the CoUL Advisory Structure and consists of the following: Strategic […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – September 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]
Reading 5 Million Books at Once: Google N-Grams at TEDxBoston
Google has digitized millions of books from libraries across the world, including the UC Libraries. While our digitized books are great for traditional reading and research, the corpus also offers a unique opportunity for new kinds of inquiry. For instance: […]
UC HathiTrust Update & News
by Heather Christenson, HathiTrust Project Manager, CDL August Activities As the academic year begins, the HathiTrust Update on August Activities provides a report on what the HathiTrust partnership has been up to during the not-so-lazy days of summer. A number […]
Vertical Search Demo submitted to Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint
CDL has submitted a Vertical Search Demo (http://crawlspace.cdlib.org/) to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Beta Sprint project. The Beta Sprint issued a call for ideas and prototypes for the DPLA, which is envisioned as a “large-scale digital public […]
Important Milestone: Serial Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to display in Melvyl
Since nearly the inception of the UC-OCLC Melvyl project, adding serial Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to UC’s Melvyl catalog records has been a high priority. The aim in doing so has been to improve response time, particularly for serial records […]