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 … More…
Read MoreCDLers (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 … More…
Read MoreHathiTrust 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 … More…
Read MoreRecordEXPRESS 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 … More…
Read MorePutting 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 … More…
Read MoreEZID: now even easier to manage identifiers
EZID, the easy long-term identifier service, just got a new look. EZID lets you create and maintain ARKs and DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), and now it’s even easier to … More…
Read MoreProQuest New Platform to be Available; New ProQuest Training Materials
The new and current platforms of CDL-licensed ProQuest databases will run in parallel, beginning the week of May 6. ProQuest currently encompasses resources on the ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck-Healy (ChH) … More…
Read MoreShared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – April 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Last month we distributed the first set of records for the Alexander Street Press collection, Theatre in Video (350 titles). This is also … More…
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