In 2022, CDL and the UC campuses committed to supporting the Global Press Archive CRL Phase 2 project, continuing the work accomplished in Phase 1. This project supports the digitization of millions of pages of content hosted on East View’s GPA platform. These collections are made available through the GPA CRL Alliance, a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and East View Information Services. The GPA CRL collections promote open access to both thematic and single-title collections of digitized newspapers. Additional in-copyright collections are made available for CRL-me ..read more

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDLManaged Electronic Collections in March 2024 ACM Digital Library Complete: 47 ASME Digital Collection eBooks (2023-): 3 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2023 All eBooks: 1,606 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 186 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings: 274 JSTOR Books DDA: 157 National Academies Press: 11 SCP GOBI Oxford Scholarship Online 2023 Frontlist (Oxford Scholarship Online (LocalL)): 4 (GOBI) Springer English/International eBooks 2023 – Full Set: 802 (GOBI) Springer German Language eBooks 2023 – Full Set: 313 (GOBI) Wiley O ..read more

On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section, the statement reads: “The endorsers listed below urge all organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, to uphold libraries’ rights and interests to use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction o ..read more

During ‘off years’ of the collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA (https://agua.cdlib.org/west), both on the backend to increase automation and improve our ability to perform the collection analyses and on the front end by improving the interface and building new reports to support WEST members. Additionally, WEST may consider opportunities to collaborate with other organizations doing similar work to pool resources to develop products and services that benefit WEST and the wider community. WEST is in the beginning planning stages for AGUA Dev ..read more

The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders* to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool in AGUA. WEST asks that members include records for all materials archived for WEST in Cycle 13 and in earlier cycles to capture any cataloging updates or changes to your local records and ensure WEST’s records are aligned with local records.   WEST asks that Archive Holders and Builders submit these records to AGUA by May 31, 2024. Please provide records to OCLC separately on a schedule convenient for your library ..read more

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for March 2024 New Content and Collections  Upcoming UC Santa Cruz Collections The UC Santa Cruz Library Special Collections & Archives department has undertaken a major AV preservation project that involves digitization of AV materials. Preservation of the resulting files and objects will take place in Merritt. A sampling of these collections includes: Sara ..read more

The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services position. Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services Reporting to CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Associate Director, the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services, oversees the management and ongoing development of a portfolio of metadata ingest and analytical tools, primarily the Zephir product, utilized by HathiTrust repository contributors nationwide. The Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services is a member of a team of four, including a metadata analyst and two developers, responsible for ..read more

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in February 2024 Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century: 36 CRL Global Press Archive 5 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 123 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings: 263 JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets: 9 (new) JSTOR Books DDA: 313 JapanKnowledge 史料纂集 (Shiryō Sanshū) (Local-L): 22 (new) KinoDen: 7 Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers Open Access: 79 (new) Open access resource selected by the UC Libraries (Local-OA): 19 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All En ..read more

The March (Q1) newsletter for the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is now posted. Topics include new resources for library colleagues who are participating in the HathiTrust Shared Print Program; Dear Zephir’s detailed answer to why a user sometimes can’t view old journals; and a brief report on the discovery of HathiTrust volumes in UC’s Library Search. It features a celebration of newly opened public domain volumes from 1928, and provides updates on HathiTrust happenings of interest to UC library staff. The newsletter is published quarterly and is intended for UC library colleagues and o ..read more

The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the UX Designer position. UX DESIGNER The User Experience (UX) Designer will report to CDL’s UX Manager and will work as a highly collaborative member of the CDL UX team to support the development and improvement of CDL’s online tools and services. The UX Designer will be an experienced professional who will apply UX assessment and design concepts to a range of tasks that will utilize the complete user-centered design process (user research, web content development, service assessment, and interaction design). The UX Designer will regularl ..read more