Category: Discovery & Delivery
CDL staff embed in UCSC interlibrary services unit
By Alison Ray, Information Services Analyst & Leslie Wolf, Resource Sharing Project Manager Members of the California Digital Library are always looking for ways to get closer to the people and tools we connect through our digital services. Although we […]
DOI and PMID added to UC-eLinks Citation Linker
Your patience has been rewarded! By popular demand, the UC-eLinks team has added two new search fields to the end user Citation Linker forms: DOI – Digital Object Identifier PMID – PubMed Identifier Why is this good? When you enter […]
Accessibility Improvements to UC-eLinks
In 2012, University of California hired an accessibility consultant Jim Thatcher to review ten websites at each campus including the UC libraries’ websites, and to write a report for each campus. UC Berkeley shared their “Thatcher” report with CDL in fall 2012. […]
UC-eLinks is moving to the Ex Libris Cloud
After more than a decade of hosting the Ex Libris SFX software that runs UC-eLinks, the CDL is joining a growing number of SFX customers by moving UC-eLinks hosting from CDL to the Ex Libris Cloud. The migration process will […]
UC Berkeley Law Library Records Now in Melvyl as Part of UCB Collections
The UC Berkeley Law Library records now appear In Melvyl as part of the UC Berkeley Libraries collection (Level 1) for UC Berkeley. Berkeley Law is an affiliated library on the Berkeley campus. Records appear as part of the University […]
Got a question about Melvyl?
Technical questions Where do you inquire about Melvyl technical questions, configuration or customization requests? Send a message to MelvylOps@cdlib.org. Your question will be directed to CDL’s WorldCat Local operating team ticketing system and be viewed by the whole technical team. […]
WorldCat Local Knowledgebase for Melvyl? Not quite yet.
In fall 2012, members of the CDL WorldCat Local Operations Team completed a preliminary investigation of the WorldCat Local Knowledgebase (WCL KB). The result of the analysis was a decision not to implement the WCL KB at this time. The […]
UC Irvine Presents "Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery"
Several of our UC Irvine colleagues presented a session at the recent Charleston Conference with the title, Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery (Interlibrary Loan). CDL staffers attending the meeting suggested that additional staff would be interested in […]
Sherry Willhite retires
Please join me in saying farewell and sending best wishes to our CDL colleague, Sherry Willhite, who is retiring from the University of California effective January 2013. Before coming to CDL Sherry worked at Carlsbad City Library and was a […]
More Content in Melvyl
Melvyl Users will have access to yet more resources as of January 2013 with the addition of several new databases to the Central Index. As was reported earlier, CDL will include databases that OCLC has added to its Central Index […]