By Jessica Hilt. On the floors of the UC San Diego’s Library, happy rainbow racks dot the interior. Students rush around, sometimes sliding out a Chromebook from a loan station or returning one into the rack. Over 70 Chromebook laptops have…
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By Christine Kim and Adrian Turner. Calisphere is a gateway to California’s remarkable digital collections, with free access to over two million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources. Developed and maintained by UC’s California Digital Library, Calisphere gathers resources…
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March 16, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Is anything real anymore, or is it all smoke and mirrors? The UCLA Library provides virtual applications and desktops to library staff, and virtual applications to campus through the Campus Library Instructional Computing Commons’ (CLICC) Software Shortcut. Leveraging a…
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January 24, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Susan Chesley Perry, Head of Digital Initiatives, University Library, UC Santa Cruz. As Library Collections and services increasingly move online, the lines between traditional library and IT roles are starting to blur. This past summer, during the UC Computing…
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November 29, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sherri Berger, Product Manager, California Digital Library (UCOP). The ten libraries of the University of California system hold a dazzling array of unique materials, including photographs, newspapers, maps, oral histories, films, ephemera, and more. Documents of world events and…
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August 29, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
Date: Tuesday, August 30 Time: 2 – 3 p.m. How do you put out IT fires, manage staff computers, updates, and the world with 3 staff employees, and new untrained student helpers each year? I don’t know either, yet we…
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August 16, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alexa Rivetti, UCB student intern, UCOP. For universities on the semester system, school starts in just a few days. For those on the quarter system, there’s weeks left. Either way, now is the time to pick up a…
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July 19, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern at UCOP. Which is more fragile, digital data or a photo? While many people assume digital is more durable than analog, it is actually the other way around. Say a photo has a…
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July 8, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. Chris Hoffman, Informatics Services Manager in Research IT at UC Berkeley, completed his B.A. at Rice University and his Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, both in anthropology. He did his research on…
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May 24, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Allen Schiano, Director of Academic Services, UCI. The general trend in student computing needs has revolved around getting applications and materials to students’ computers and mobile devices. However, there is still a need to provide computing lab environments…
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