http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org California Digital Library News Thu, 15 May 2008 17:47:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Lisa Schiff, Technical Lead for CDL Publishing Services The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce a new release of its search and display technology, the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Version 2.1.   XTF is an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/05/15/california-digital-library-announces-new-release-of-the-extensible-text-framework-xtf/ By Lena Zentall, CDL UC Image Service Manager CDL has added the Saskia Art & Architecture collection to UC Shared Images in ARTstor. Saskia provides over 26,000 core art history images on Western European civilization from more than 100 museums worldwide including the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, the ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/05/02/uc-image-service-news-saskia-collection-added-to-uc-shared-images-in-artstor/ By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator As part of the 2008 renewal process for the LWW online journals, Journal of Investigative Medicine has been added to the CDL’s agreement with Ovid. UC-eLinks will be enabled and the title cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program.  The full list of licensed ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/05/01/lippincott-williams-wilkins-newly-licensed-title-for-2008/ By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director The Online Archive of California (OAC) is being completely redesigned for a planned live launch by early spring 2009.  OAC provides access to nearly 9,000 online archival finding aids and more than 170,000 digital images and documents, aggregated from ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/30/new-oac-redesign-project-page/ Emily Stambaugh, Shared Print Manager CDL/CDC Shared Print has a new website. http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/ The new site is integrated into Inside CDL and can be accessed through the Collection Development Process and Collections pages.  The site consists of two parts: 1. Main Shared Print page http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/ 2. Agreements ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/30/new-shared-print-website/ By Sherry Willhite, Request Project Manager Increased security for Request service In order to make the transmission of personal data and other information more secure within UC’s Request (interlibrary loan) service, Request began running under https (a secure version of http) on December 12, 2007. Some users did ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/28/request-interlibrary-loan-recent-enhancements/ By Jane Lee, Senior Assessment Analyst CDL’s assessment unit has been in existence for almost four years, and in that time, Felicia Poe and Jane Lee have enjoyed working with many of you in the campus libraries.  You’ve welcomed us into your libraries and rounded up students and faculty for ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/24/ever-wonder-what-your-users-are-up-to-so-do-we/ By Chan Li, CDL Data Analyst 2007 UC systemwide and campus-by-campus aggregated usage statistics for selective major Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals and database are now available on the Inside CDL website at  http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html#2007 Two types of reports are included:  Ejournal articles viewed by campus and Database ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/24/journal-and-database-usage-statistics-update/ By Lena Zentall, CDL UC Image Service Manager UC Shared Images implementation continues with CDL moving some collections from Luna Insight to ARTstor, while access to other collections is reverting to UC websites. What do you need to do?  Since PIDs (persistent identifiers) stay the ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/15/uc-image-service-news-luna-insight-collections-update/ By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries are in the process of scanning millions of books from our print collections so that ultimately users will be able to discover and access these books in digital form.  Our libraries have embraced this enterprise with both ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2008/04/15/mass-digitization-projects-update/