Category: Discovery & Delivery
WorldCat Discovery beta: User Experience Enhancements
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 29, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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.) […]
CDL Job Opening for Discovery and Delivery Systems Librarian
The Discovery and Delivery Systems Librarian serves as a domain expert in both library and key technical domains, responsible for operating key library services (union catalog, link resolvers) and integrated services such as Interlibrary Loan, while maintaining community connections and […]
WorldCat Discovery & FirstSearch: Latest updates from OCLC
On July 14th, OCLC presented a Virtual WorldCat Discovery User Community Meeting webinar that included information on the latest status of WorldCat Discovery, FirstSearch, the OCLC Community Center and more. The webinar recording of this program is available here. […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: New cover art image for articles
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on June 26, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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.) […]
Brian Riley joins UC3
Brian Riley, Application Programmer with CDL’s Discovery & Delivery team, has been on loan to UC3 working on the DMPTool service – helping with our AWS migration and implementing some long-awaited updates and bug fixes to DMPTool. UC3 is happy to […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Search Spelling Suggestion
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 12, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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.) […]
CDL Job Opening for Technical Team Manager
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) Discovery & Delivery team (D2D) seeks a service-oriented, innovative individual with strong management and leadership skills, and technical expertise for the position of Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager. The Technical Team Manager will lead and […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Feedback link implementation
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 14, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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.) […]
Farewell to Margery Tibbetts
After 31 years of service, Margery Tibbetts, long time technical lead for UCe-Links and WorldCat Local, will retire from CDL, effective April 5, 2016. Margery started working in academic libraries her freshman year at Purdue University and continued working there […]
OCLC announces FirstSearch will continue as a separate service
OCLC has decided to keep FirstSearch as a separate product rather than merging it with WorldCat Discovery. The official announcement is shown below. And, OCLC’s Executive Director of End-User Services, Mike Showalter summarized the changes in OCLC’s blog Next: “The future of […]