Category: Discovery & Delivery
Exciting Milestone: Digitized Books Now Accessible through NGM Pilot
Users can now find links to HathiTrust volumes, including University of California Google digitized works, in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. There are approximately 5.5 million digital volumes in HathiTrust, many unique. Of these, about 1.1 million (and counting) have […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – Important Milestone: Request
By Adam Brin, Technical Lead, Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot An important milestone has been reached for the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot, supported by WorldCat Local. As of March 2, 2010, the back-end of UC’s Request (Interlibrary Loan) service began running at […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – February 2010 Enhancements
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services Four enhancements that impact the UC Libraries Next Generation Melvyl Pilot were made by OCLC on Sunday, February 21, 2010. These changes include the following: 1. URLs for detailed records were expanded to […]
UC-eLinks new website and 2009 usage statistics
By Lena Zentall, UC-eLinks Project Manager UC-eLinks new website UC-eLinks has a new face on the CDL website. http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/ucelinks/ As part of the CDL website redesign, we reorganized and refreshed the UC-eLinks content we provide to library staff and our […]
HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
Searching for UC Systemwide Electronic Resources in the Catalogs
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services (UCSD); and Adolfo Tarango, Head of CJK, Serials & Shared Cataloging Division (CDL/UCSD) There is a disparity between what users see in current Melvyl, the Next Generation […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – December 13, 2009
Two enhancements were made to the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot with OCLC’s Sunday, December 13, install.
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – November 8, 2009
Several enhancements were made to Next Generation Melvyl with OCLC’s Sunday, November 8, install.
The Bibliographic Services Team has a new name
Do you know what the name Bibliographic Services means? We couldn’t agree on it either, so we decided to change the name of our team from Bibliographic Services to a name that better describes the services we provide as a CDL team.
UC-eLinks in Next Generation Melvyl
[originally published as “Next Generation Melvyl – Improvements in Display of Online Resources” on Sept. 23, 2009] In its September 13, 2009 install, OCLC made improvements to the display of electronic resources in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot. The changes […]