Category: Discovery & Delivery
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 […]
Melvyl transition to WorldCat Discovery is delayed
Melvyl will not transition from WorldCat Local (WCL) to WorldCat Discovery (WCD) this summer. While OCLC has made significant progress, WorldCat Discovery is not yet functionally complete for Melvyl. The earliest possible date for a move to WCD would be December […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Personal lists are more robust
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on March 10, 2016 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 […]
Farewell to Colleen Whitney
Sometimes an offer comes by that is just too good to pass up. That happened to Colleen Whitney, Discovery and Delivery’s Technical Manager. Not only is she taking a long scheduled and well deserved vacation to New Zealand for most […]
CDL Job Opening for Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst
Reporting to the Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager, the Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst serves as a domain expert in both library and key technical domains, maintaining community connections and information flow related to library systems software, standards and […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Call numbers added to emailed records
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on January 21, 2016 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 […]
New mobile version of UC-eLinks
As of January 12, 2016, you will see a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks when you are on most mobile devices. Thank you to the campus UC-eLinks Liaisons and the the UC-eLinks Operations team for assisting with testing. Mobile versions are […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Change to how availability information will display in search results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on November 23, 2015 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 […]
Tier 2 databases are added to Melvyl’s Central Index
As reported in a previous CDLINFO article (Melvyl’s Central Index is expanding), CDL is now activating CDL-managed Tier 2 databases in Melvyl’s Central Index. Going forward, each campus will have different databases listed in their Central Index, depending on the […]