http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org California Digital Library News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:42:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, eScholarship Publishing Program eScholarship (www.escholarship.org) launched a redesigned website October 19 with a substantial array of digital publishing services for the University of California scholarly community and a dynamic research platform for scholars worldwide. Previously known as UC’s eScholarship ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/19/new-look-enhanced-services-for-escholarship-uc%e2%80%99s-open-access-digital-publishing-service-launches-new-site-october-19/ By Perry Willett, CDL Digital Preservation Services Manager On October 5-6 2009, over 300 people from 22 countries attended iPRES 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. iPRES 2009 was the sixth in an annual series of conferences devoted to digital preservation, and with ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/15/ipres-2009-hosted-by-cdl/ By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator CDL’s Digital Special Collections Program is excited to announce that we have created a Calisphere page on Facebook.  Facebook pages enable organizations to promote their services and connect with individuals.  We’ll be using the page to engage educators, students, ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/10/01/another-way-to-explore-calisphere-find-us-on-facebook/ By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse graphic materials documenting local people, place, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The content has been created as part ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/09/28/new-on-oac-and-calisphere-local-history-digital-resources/ By Sherri Berger, Program Coordinator for Digital Special Collections The Visual Resources Center at the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley has added more than 28,000 images to the UC Shared Images collections. The images, which represent a third of the Center’s entire digital collection, document ... http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/09/23/uc-berkeley-contributes-28000-architecture-images-to-uc-shared-images/