Category: Discovery & Delivery
Metasearch Usability
In the Metasearch Infrastructure Project, the CDL is working to create metasearch tools and software that campus libraries can use to craft search portals tailored to specific audiences. The “Core Collection” portal is targeted towards undergraduate students doing research for […]
UC-eLinks: Targets and Titles
The campus libraries are full participants in adding their campus-licensed resources to the UC-eLinks program. Along with the CDL, they have added many new targets (including journal aggregators, library catalogs, full text books, journal publishers and more) and titles in […]
Improvements to Request (Interlibrary Loan) Service: Good News for Mac Users
Thanks to some changes provided by Ex Libris, the producers of the software that underlies the Melvyl Catalog, requesting multiple items at one time is now significantly easier. Users that have a Windows-based PC workstation or a Macintosh using Opera […]
Melvyl Catalog: Staff Satisfaction Survey
For more than a year, UC staff have had a chance to work with the Melvyl Catalog, teach users about it in classes and across public service desks, and use it in technical services and for other purposes. During this […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project Update
Work on the Metasearch Infrastructure project (The metasearch infrastructure project is no longer active. See: http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/metasearch/index.html). The Ex Libris MetaLib software has been installed at the CDL, and CDL staff completed software training in mid-September. Staff are currently experimenting with […]
Melvyl Catalog: First Issue of the Melvyl Matters Newsletter
By popular demand, the online newsletter El Mel Tells, a newsletter about the Melvyl Catalog, has had a name change. Its new name is Melvyl Matters. Check out the first issue at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl/melvylmatters/
A-Z Lists of Journals in UC-eLinks
A current list of ejournals licensed by the CDL and each campus (except UC Davis) is now available at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/uc-elinks/a2z.html UC Davis runs its own SFX server separate from the CDL server used by the rest of the campuses. The […]
UC-eLinks Web Site: New Information Added
Three new pages have been added to the UC-eLinks web site: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/uc-elinks/ “Adding Campus Databases to UC-eLinks” describes policies and procedures for campuses to follow when they add OpenURL support to databases that are not administered by the CDL. “Adding […]
Melvyl Catalog Maintenance: UCLA Record Load into the Melvyl Catalog
UCLA has moved its catalog, ORION2, to an Endeavor Voyager system and renamed the catalog the “UCLA Library Catalog.” The CDL has been working intensively for several months with Ex Libris and the UCLA library to ensure a smooth transition […]
Changes to Melvyl: Journal Record Additions
Programming to update the UC Irvine journal records in Melvyl was implemented Thursday, May 6. (These records have not been updated since 11/13/02 because of a change in Irvine’s output method for serials to meet CDL’s revised standard. The necessary […]