Category: Discovery & Delivery
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 […]
HathiTrust – December 2013 Update
HathiTrust highlights for the month of December include the following: An update on the Executive Director Search Approval of HathiTrust’s 2014 budget and fees An arrangement to preserve and provide access to materials made available by Knowledge Unlatched A reminder […]
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 […]
SCP’s New PID Service
One of the tools used by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) is the PID (Persistent Identifier) Service, which allows SCP to create PIDs for systemwide-licensed resources. PIDs act as substitute URLs for a resource and the PID service allows SCP […]
Staff in Print—Carly Strasser and Laura Krier
CDL is pleased to announce that a new book, Data Management for Libraries: A LITA Guide, by Carly Strasser, UC3 Data Curation Project Manager, and former CDL Discovery & Delivery staffer, Laura Krier, was just published and is available at […]
Welcome Dana Jemison
Please join CDL in welcoming Dana Jemison as a Metadata Analyst to our Discovery & Delivery Team. Dana will be working primarily on the PAPR (Print Archives Preservation Registry) project. PAPR supports research library and consortial efforts to archive and […]
Introducing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Metadata Management System
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from […]
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.) […]