Today, April 17, 2014, the Digital Public Library of America welcomed the California Digital Library, in collaboration with the ten-campus University of California (UC) Libraries system, as a DPLA Content Hub. A Content Hub is a centralized aggregation point for a large corpus of metadata from one or more institutions, which DPLA can harvest and display in its public access system.
Re: Common Knowledge Group Call for Members To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (for information) Users Council (via Ellen Meltzer for information & distribution) LAUC (via Nick Robinson for information & distribution) From: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young, Communications Manager) Date: 14 April 2014
This memo serves as call for members interested in a new UC Libraries Statistics Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
This memo serves as call for members interested in a new UC Shared Visual Resources Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for building shared visual resource collections. The Common Knowledge Group Charter containing more detail, and general information about CKGs, is available online at:http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013.
One of the outstanding NGTS items assigned to the UC Libraries Advisory Structure’s Strategic Action Group 3: Collection Building & Management (SAG3), was the final report from POT 7 LT2, “Responding to the Changing Collection Development and Management Landscape in the UC Libraries: The Role of the Collections Librarian”.
This memo serves as call for members interested in two new Common Knowledge Groups (CKGs):
· Reference CKG
· Scholarly Publishing Group CKG
Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for reference services and/or scholarly publishing. Their Common Knowledge Group Charters containing more detail, and general information about CKGs, are available online at: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg
This memo serves as call for members interested in the Cataloging and Metadata Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for cataloging and metadata services.
This memo serves as call for members interested in the UC Born Digital Planning Group (UCBDPG) Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for digital materials and services.
This memo serves as call for members interested in the Interlibrary Lending Common Knowledge Group (CKG). Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in interlibrary lending services.
