Month: January 2014
Elsevier Contract Renewed for Next 5 Years
CDL has completed a favorable negotiation with Elsevier to renew the Science Direct journals for 2014-2018. The agreement continues UC’s strong record of excellent long-term cost control for this important package. Science Direct is the largest journals package for co-investment […]
WorldCat Discovery Services –Coming When?
OCLC has announced that their WorldCat® Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications, will be bringing the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local (WCL) services together. They have also announced that WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all current FirstSearch […]
Newsletter Spotlight: CDL's Mass Digitization projects
Recently, UCOP’s link newsletter included an article, Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections, focusing on the University of California Reprints website and CDL’s Mass Digitization projects. Check it out!
Melvyl Enhancements – January 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display
OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on January 13, 2014, described below. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Data […]
UC Shared Print Update Delivered to the CRL Print Archives Network Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014
The University of California Libraries have completed a strategic planning effort to guide the development of shared print collections and services in the upcoming years. The environment for print collections has evolved considerably since the inception of the UC shared […]
WEST Update Delivered to the CRL Print Archives Network Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) has entered into its second three-year implementation phase with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Between 2013 and 2016, WEST libraries will undertake two more archiving cycles, conduct strategic planning and assessment […]
Ethnomusicology Archive Records Added to Melvyl
Working with UCLA Library and CDL staff, OCLC added a second UCLA Library with a separate ILS, the Ethnomusicology Archive, to Melvyl as of January 22, 2014. The first added was UCLA’s Film and Television Archive (FATA) in November 2010. UCB’s […]
¡Viva la Causa!: Herman Baca Collection reveals 50 years of Chicano community activism in San Diego
By Sherri Berger, CDL and Marlayna Christensen, UC San Diego Approximately 40,000 pages of textual and visual material documenting Chicano community activism in San Diego are now freely available on the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The material […]
Upcoming Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014
The ALA Midwinter WEST Member Meeting is happening this Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08. Thank you to everyone who has already RSVP’d. If you haven’t RSVP’d yet, there is still time! You can RSVP to […]
Announcing a new strategic plan for UC Shared Print
The Shared Print Strategic Plan 2013-2018 includes a new set of goals and strategies for advancing the development shared collections. Highlights include a revised scope of collaboration for shared print efforts, a specific set of goals for the development of […]