International Coalition of Library Consortia

California Digital Library
CDL
Website: http://www.cdlib.org

Brief description

The California Digital Library (CDL) is an additional "co-library" of the UC campuses, with a focus on digital materials and services. A collaborative effort of the ten campuses, organizationally housed at the University of California Office of the President, it is responsible for the design, creation, and implementation of systems that support the shared collections of the University of California. Several CDL projects focus on collaboration with other California Universities and organizations to create and extend access to digital material to UC partners and to the public at large.

Legal structure

University-supported (formal)

Primary functions

• Collections sharing
• Electronic content licensing
• Electronic content loading/presentation
• Interlibrary loan/document delivery
• Preservation
• Training
• Union lists/shared online catalogs
• Other: New forms of scholarly and scientific communication

Number and type of member libraries

Academic (not a consortium)

Additional material/URLs

Consortium FAQ: http://www.cdlib.org/about/faq/