Author: CDL
New CDL Helpline Web Site is Now Available
UC staff can now use the CDL Helpline web site (http://helpline.cdlib.org) to report problems with CDL services (such as the Melvyl Catalog, the CDL Directory of Collections & Services, OAC, etc.) and with vendor databases, ejournal web sites, etc. In […]
Library Staff News
New Director of Digital Preservation Program Patricia Cruse, CDL, has been appointed as the new director of the Digital Preservation Program. The program, located at CDL, has been established to assist the UC libraries in persistently managing digital information, achieving […]
UC-eLinks Liaisons Appointed
Following the success of UC-eLinks for providing services among the CDL-Licensed resources, campus libraries expressed interest in using it for their locally licensed resources. The extension of UC-eLinks to support campus-based resources that integrate with system wide resources originated with […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Melvyl-T Public Release On April 23, 2003 CDL rolled out the new Melvyl-T catalog to the public. Compared to the legacy Melvyl catalog – which will continue operating until August 2003 in parallel to the new catalog – Melvyl-T […]
Melvyl-T Catalog is Released
The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of the new Melvyl-T production catalog to UC library staff. The URL for the new web-based version of the catalog is http://melvyl.cdlib.org The telnet address is [telnet://melvyl.cdlib.org]. During this limited release […]
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping (Janice Contini, UCLA; PubMed Resource Liaison)
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping will affect phrase searching. NLM plans to improve the ability of PubMed to find appropriate Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) by removing the phrase list table from the Automatic Term Mapping. What is MeSH […]
And while We're on the Subject of Browsers
In some browsers (e.g., Netscape 4.x versions, Opera, and Mozilla) when the font size is much larger than the default settings, the entire Web page is not visible on the screen. In the case of Melvyl-T, this means that horizontal […]
It is Time to Update your Browsers
Vendors are removing support for older browser versions, e.g., Netscape 4.x. The removal of support for older browser versions may cause problems for UC library users in locales that have not yet moved to the most recent browser versions in […]
Library Staff News
a. The CDL Welcomes Peter Brantley; Thanks John Ober (Dan Greenstein) I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Brantley to the position of Director of Technologies for the CDL. The Director of Technologies has lead responsibility for […]