California Digital Library

The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve.

In addition, the CDL provides tools that support the construction of online information services for research, teaching, and learning, including services that enable the UC libraries to effectively share their materials and provide greater access to digital content.

News

• Laine Farley has been named executive director of the CDL. December 5, 2008 press release [HTML]
• The UC libraries support the settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers. See the press release: October 28, 2008 [HTML]
• Frequently asked questions about how the settlement impacts libraries and users: October 28, 2008 [PDF]
• CDL and the University of California Libraries join the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) in launching the HathiTrust shared digital repository. October 13, 2008 press release [HTML]
  
  See also: UC Libraries and HathiTrust

University of California Libraries

The CDL was established as a UC library in 1997. Find out more about the UC libraries' shared collections, strategic planning initiatives, and efforts to reshape scholarly communications at the University of California Libraries website.