Category: Discovery & Delivery
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 […]
Farewell to Patti Martin
With fond appreciation, CDL is today announcing the retirement of one of its leading and longest-running program directors: Patricia “Patti” Martin, Director of CDL’s Discovery and Delivery (D2D) Program, who will be retiring from CDL effective June 30th, 2017. Kurt […]
Barbara Cormack Joins D2D
Barbara Cormack joins the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) group this Thursday, June 1st as a metadata analyst. Barbara will be working on Zephir, the HathiTrust metadata management system, as well as on other metadata-intensive projects. Barbara brings deep experience and […]
Melvyl transition to WorldCat Discovery is delayed (again)
Melvyl will not transition from WorldCat Local (WCL) to WorldCat Discovery (WCD) this summer. The CDL Melvyl Operations Team is currently working with OCLC to resolve a technical problem that is affecting resource sharing. In order to isolate the problem and […]
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Seeks Proposals from Scholars
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals from scholars interested in receiving advanced collaborative support to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis. Who may submit proposals? Individual scholars or teams of scholars from academic and non-profit institutions. At […]
New HathiTrust Section Added to CDLib.org
We recently added a new HathiTrust section to the CDLib.org website. The new section describes UC’s partnership and involvement with the HathiTrust Digital Library and is intended for UC librarians, staff and students, as well as the interested public. The […]