http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org California Digital Library News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/20/dataone-to-deal-with-data-deluge/ By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager Effective November 18th, the HathiTrust Digital Library is now providing full-text searching capabilities across the entire library of 4.6 million volumes (1.6 billion pages) in the collection. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright works by keyword or ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/20/hathitrust-large-scale-search/ By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator This December, hear renowned California writer and naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) in his own words as he travels to California, encounters Yosemite for the first time, and works to preserve the open land he calls home. To raise awareness of ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/19/follow-john-muir-on-twitter-and-facebook/ By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager; Photo by Craig Thompson, Web Producer How extraordinary to have an undergraduate senior thesis portend the themes throughout one’s career! That’s the case for Stephen Abrams, CDL’s Senior Manager for Digital Preservation Technology who arrived at CDL in February ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/19/meet-stephen-abrams/ By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager Several enhancements were made to Next Generation Melvyl with OCLC’s Sunday, November 8, installThe changes include: Parenthetical (Boolean) support in search queries.  You can now use parentheses to create more precise searches.  A search on dog (walking OR feeding OR ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/12/next-generation-melvyl-pilot-enhancements-november-8-2009/ Emily Stambaugh, CDL Manager of Shared Print The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a nine month planning grant to organize the “Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)” — a shared print repository service, focused initially on retrospective journal archives. UC Libraries in collaboration with regional library partners ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/03/mellon-planning-grant-awarded-to-uc-libraries-for-a-western-regional-storage-trust/ By Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery Do you know what the name Bibliographic Services means? We couldn’t agree on it either, so we decided to change the name of our team from Bibliographic Services to a name that better describes the services we provide as a ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/11/03/the-bibliographic-services-team-has-a-new-name/ By Mary Elings, Archivist for Digital Collections at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley and Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator, CDL Muir Letters Online CDL’s Digital Special Collections, The Bancroft Library, and The University of the Pacific Library are pleased to announce the availability on the ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/29/john-muir-correspondence-on-calisphere-oac-and-web-20/ By Jayne Dickson, CDLINFO Editor The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is initiating a new series of invited reports addressing emerging roles for research libraries.  The New Roles for New Times series will begin publication with five reports in 2010.  The reports will identify and delineate emerging roles ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/28/emily-stambaugh-in-print/ By Joan Starr, Manager, CDL Strategic and Project Planning CDL has joined many of our colleague and partner institutions, like UC Riverside Libraries, UCSF Libraries, UC Press, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, OCLC, and many others in creating a Twitter account.  We have done this for several reasons, including: as an ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/20/cdl-and-cdlinfo-are-now-on-twitter/