Month: May 2012
The Broad Value of Web Archives: Researcher Findings
On April 30 2012, the International Internet Preservation Consortium hosted a day-long session on “The Broad Value of Web Archives: General Use” (http://netpreserve.org/events/2012ga.php). Speakers at this event focused on the use and analysis of web-archived materials, and provided a glimpse into […]
Big Picture: The Latest at CDL
Looking for a current overview of what’s going on at the CDL? Presentations and Q and A from the May 21, 2012 Users Council Meeting are now available for viewing at http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/ The focus of the meeting was driven in […]
HathiTrust Instructional Materials
The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has just announced a new HathiTrust Resources and Guides Web page. Here you can find overviews, instructional materials, and guides covering HathiTrust and its services. These resources have been created by the HathiTrust Communications Working […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: May 2012
Power of Three group activities are being reported as they align with the strategic goals of NGTS: Cooperative Collection Development POT 7 has been working on recommendations to manage and communicate all of the existing cooperative collection development activities within […]
UCSF Implements Open Access Policy
The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, eliminating barriers to sharing their research. The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution […]
CDL Departures May, June 2012
CDL reports with mixed feelings the upcoming retirements of three of our valued colleagues: John Ober, Margaret Low, and Claudia Woo. John Ober began his stint as CDL Assistant Director for Education and Communications in 1998 and leaves us as […]
CDLers (and UCBer) in Print
UC librarians Sherri Berger (CDL), Lynn Jones (UCB) and Ellen Meltzer (CDL) have contributed a chapter to Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives, edited by Eleanor Mitchell, Peggy Seiden, and Suzy Taraba. Their chapter, also […]
HathiTrust April 2012 Update
This month’s HathiTrust update is now available. The update reports that “California Digital Library created prototype exports of the metadata that will be used to populate HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files (“hathifiles”) and bibliographic catalog. Timing tests for these exports were […]
RecordEXPRESS makes it easier to contribute collection guides to the OAC
CDL is pleased to announce the release of a new tool called RecordEXPRESS, which is designed to make it even easier for Online Archive of California (OAC) contributors to describe collections and contribute records to the OAC. RecordEXPRESS is a […]
Putting the P in DPLA
By Heather Christenson I don’t work in a public library; I work in an academic library, and specifically, an academic digital library. In recent years academic libraries have been grappling with the social and economic changes arising from a new […]