Category: Discovery & Delivery
Metasearch Infrastructure: User Needs Assessment Activities
The needs assessment has been designed to help the project designers understand current usage patterns and user needs, discover similarities and differences across a variety of audiences, find out which features users find most valuable, and identify any unmet user […]
ILL Requests for Electronic Resources Now Available Through UC-eLinks
The Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) has approved a recommendation from the Resource Sharing Committee (RSC) that interlibrary loan (ILL) requests for items with electronic copy no longer be blocked. The CDL implemented this recommendation on Monday, March […]
CSL Records Complete in the Melvyl Catalog
The California State Library (CSL) “snapshot” and update files have now been completely loaded into the Melvyl Catalog. A separate link to the CSL library catalog [http://www.lib.state.ca.us/] is also available on the list of “Other Catalogs” in Melvyl. Please share […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project
A new project is getting underway at the CDL. The Metasearch Infrastructure Project will create an infrastructure that can be used by campus libraries and the CDL to tailor search portals to particular user needs. This infrastructure will replace […]
Melvyl Catalog
b. Two Changes to Melvyl 1. Library pull down menu A critical mass of the California State Library’s records has now been loaded into the Melvyl Catalog. As a result, the CDL has added the California State Library to the […]
VDX: UC’s Consortial Borrowing System Software Project
Exciting things are happening with the implementation of VDX (UC’s Consortial Borrowing System Software project), which provides the behind-the-scenes processing for UC’s Request service (both Melvyl Request and UC-eLinks Request). Here’s a brief status report. VDX (UC’s Consortial Borrowing System […]
Melvyl Feature: Requesting Multiple Items from a Saved List
It is now possible to save a list of items during your current Melvyl Catalog session and submit the entire list to the Request (UC’s Interlibrary Loan) service for processing. To create a list, mark the desired records and click […]
IEEE Conferences in UC-eLinks (Brian Quigley, UCB Resource Liaison)
Thanks to the diligence of Margery Tibbetts (CDL), users can now link to most IEEE conference papers online through UC-eLinks from INSPEC. Over the past year, IEEE has been depositing its conference data into the CrossRef database. Upon completion, ExLibris […]
Campus Instances of UC-eLinks Update
The CDL is happy to announce that the majority of the campus instances of UC-eLinks are in production (UCR should be ready to go live in the next few weeks.) The campus instances are managed by the UC-eLinks Liaisons on […]
UC-eLinks Activated for America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
UC-eLinks has now been activated for articles ONLY in two ABC-Clio products: America: History & Life (AHL) and Historical Abstracts (HA). Resource Liaison Ellen Broidy (UCLA) tested the service before its release. We are negotiating with ABC-Clio to have the […]