Funding for the environmental project was received in February, and content is expected to become available to participating libraries this summer. An advisory board of public, school, and special librarians will assist her in project development. Under this agreement, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, working with the CDL and UC art librarians and slide curators will distribute images in selected test projects to faculty and students within the University and possibly to users of public libraries. Archival and manuscript repositories develop finding aids such as guides, indexes, inventories, and registers to provide detailed descriptions of the content and organization of specific collections. The Library at UC Berkeley has been a leader in the development of the EAD standard for archival finding aids and is currently hosting the database.
Users can search or browse the finding aids from the Berkeley site.
Collection level records are also being added to catalog records. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the listserv to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. In the future, we plan to develop a communications program to reach UC faculty, staff, and students, as well as others outside of UC who may be interested in our activities. We are also in the process of designing a CDL web page. We will then move to biweekly publication, generally on the 1st and 15th of each month, or as new information warrants.