Category: Melvyl
Melvyl Enhancements – February 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display
OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on February 13, 2014, described below. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Data […]
WorldCat Discovery Services –Coming When?
OCLC has announced that their WorldCat® Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications, will be bringing the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local (WCL) services together. They have also announced that WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all current FirstSearch […]
Melvyl Enhancements – January 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display
OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on January 13, 2014, described below. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Data […]
Ethnomusicology Archive Records Added to Melvyl
Working with UCLA Library and CDL staff, OCLC added a second UCLA Library with a separate ILS, the Ethnomusicology Archive, to Melvyl as of January 22, 2014. The first added was UCLA’s Film and Television Archive (FATA) in November 2010. UCB’s […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – Changes for 2014
It’s January 2014, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. As of this January, we are making a minor change to the policy of adding only CDL managed licenses with all […]
Melvyl Enhancements – October 2013
There are several Melvyl enhancements as a result of OCLC’s October 28, 2013 WorldCat Local install described below and at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/24October2013_WCL_ReleaseNoteUpdate.doc. (Some of the changes described at the link above do not impact the University of California’s versions of WorldCat.) […]
Melvyl Enhancements — August 2013
OCLC brought in several enhancements to WorldCat Local that impact Melvyl on August 22, 2013. These contain enhancements for both July and August and include the following: Display changes for handling records from databases displaying ‘fake’ OCLC number in record […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – Additional Changes in July 2013
In early June, CDL reported that staff had completed the biannual analysis for potential changes to the Melvyl Central Index configuration targeted for July 2013, and that while OCLC had added databases to the Central Index in the past six […]
Melvyl Enhancements – June 2013
OCLC completed two enhancements to WorldCat Local on June 19, 2013 that impact Melvyl. These include the following: Support for export of “non-Latin” characters from mapped 880 fields into citation management software (Note: This was the functionality that was removed […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
CDL staff completed the biannual analysis for potential changes to the Melvyl Central Index configuration targeted for July 2013. While OCLC has added databases to the Central Index in the past six months, there are no CDL managed licenses with […]