Year: 2012
CDL Position: Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support
Are you excited about supporting the building and creative use of the world’s scholarship and knowledge? Are you a strong IT technical manager who can meet the challenges of managing complex relationships, keeping technologies up-to-date and working with developers to […]
UC-eLinks wording changes: simpler is better
Thanks to suggestions from UC librarians Katie Fortney (Santa Cruz), Ruth Gustafson (Davis), and Stacy Nelson (San Diego), the CDL has simplified key messages in the UC-eLinks window. But these changes go beyond wordsmithing — they reflect changes in the […]
Additional institutions adopting the DMPTool for managing their scholars’ research needs
The DMPTool now supports the National Institutes of Health (NIH) data sharing requirements. NIH requires that projects seeking more than $500,000 in direct costs in any single year address data sharing plans in their grant application. In some cases, some […]
Web Archiving Service Welcomes Emory University Libraries
CDL Welcomes Emory University Libraries as the newest Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partner! Kate Donovan Jarvis, Emory’s University Archivist and Erika Farr, Coordinator for Digital Archives will be using the service to archive the University’s websites. They will also use […]
Melvyl Central Index: Change in Language for Authentication Screen; Removal of SCIPIO
Based on user input, CDL has made the following changes to the Melvyl Central Index Pilot with the endorsement of the Melvyl Central Index task group: 1. The language on the Authentication screen has been modified. 2. The SCIPIO: Art […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – January/February 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Since I was unable to provide you with a monthly update in January, this update covers the work output for December 2011 and January 2012. Our December monographic output highlights include Springer (875 […]
Melvyl Enhancements – February 2012
On February 28, 2012 (12:38 PM PST), OCLC announced the roll back of the software changes installed on Feb. 26 due to some performance issues. OCLC has since announced that the re-installation of the quarterly software changes is scheduled to […]
Web Archivists: Call for Speakers is Open for Internet Librarian 2012
The call for submissions is now open for the 16th annual Internet Librarian conference, taking place October 22-24 in Monterey, California. The conference focuses on libraries’ use of internet technologies and covers a wide range of topics. Just a few of […]
EZID now offers QR codes
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager The EZID User Interface now displays a QR code representing the URL form of the DOI or ARK. The QR Code appears on the Manage tab. If the identifier is doi:10.1234/FOO, for example, the […]
Melvyl Mobile Stats Debut
Have you wondered which campus Melvyl gets the most mobile searches or if iPad users do more catalog searches than iPhone users? Are you a mobile-stats watcher? Beginning with the January 2012 usage statistics, monthly search statistics include the number […]