Category: Discovery & Delivery
WorldCat Discovery beta: Easier to print search results & lists
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on March 12, 2015 included the following new features & 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 […]
CDL Job Opening for Application Programmer
Are you a versatile and innovative programmer who thrives on building new systems to meet emerging needs? Do you enjoy understanding and troubleshooting how metadata flows through distributed systems? Come join a dynamic development team that works within CDL […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Staff Accounts are now available!
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Staff User Accounts are here! With a staff user account, you can view MARC records, view the OCLC# on the brief record display, and search by library holding symbol. Further staff account features are anticipated. […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
It’s February 2015, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. Currently, CDL adds databases to the all instances of the Melvyl Central Index for resources managed by CDL and licensed by […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Tell Us What You Think
What’s happening with the WorldCat Discovery Beta? The WorldCat Discovery Services beta launched in April 30, 2014 and is currently slated to conclude in April 2015. WorldCat Discovery merges WorldCat Local and FirstSearch on a new platform with major […]
Introducing the New Interlibrary Courier Service and the New ILL Courier Operations Team
The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) units of the UC Libraries have a new courier service that started August 7, 2014. We are once again working with Tricor Courier & Cargo Service, which previously served the UC Libraries until November 2011. The […]
Melvyl Enhancements: Availability on Brief and Call Numbers in Lists
In their latest installation of enhancements, OCLC fixed a bug where call numbers were not appearing in saved lists. In order to take advantage of this fix, it was necessary to turn on the Availability on Brief (AoB) record display […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
It’s July 2014, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. Currently, CDL adds databases to the all instances of the Melvyl Central Index for resources managed by CDL and licensed by […]
Melvyl Changes – Hold Your Horses!
The long-awaited ability to see MARC records is coming June 26, 2014 to WorldCat Discovery—the merger of FirstSearch WorldCat and WorldCat Local (aka Melvyl) — in what is called staff mode. This new feature also introduces a lot of unknowns […]
HathiTrust – May 2014 Update
Highlights from HathiTrust’s May update: HathiTrust released a statement on the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Appeal Ruling. The HathiTrust Research Center released a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter of a million volumes. Interest in ingesting […]