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Category: Discovery & Delivery

CDL Opening for Discovery & Delivery Director

At the California Digital Library (CDL), we believe passionately that the library, in all its forms, is critically important to the vital work of students, scholars and the public. As a University of California systemwide library, CDL provides services to […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Personal lists with customized messages

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 12, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: “Instrumentation” helps musicians choose ensemble materials

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on November 2, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]

Announcing ILLReports! (Replacing JReports)

On November 6th, users will be able to access reports on UC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) activity through our newly designed interface: ILLReports (https://illreports.cdlib.org).  The previous service, JReports, will be retired and no longer available. These reports illustrate UC Interlibrary Loan activity, […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Group and ungroup editions and formats

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 5, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Maintain filters from search to search

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 17, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Share Personal Lists and “My Items”

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 27, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) New […]

NEW! UC-eLinks Journal Search page

Ex Libris has introduced a new Journal Search page, an upgrade of the A-Z ejournal list page currently in use. This is the first major redesign of the SFX ejournal search page in more than a decade. Each campus can […]

Staff Transitions: Nga Ong, Kathryn Stine & Nancy Scott-Noennig

Good things come in threes, and so it is with staff transitions this summer!   We’d like to take the opportunity to announce three – count them, three! – new staff transitions in this message: New positions within CDL for Nga […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Saved Searches

This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on June 15, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) New […]