Category: Newsletter
WorldCat Discovery Services beta is launched
On April 30, 2014 OCLC released the WorldCat Discovery Services beta to existing WorldCat Local customers. OCLC has provided campus-specific preview URLs for the WorldCat Discovery Services (Beta) interface. Links to the beta are available on the CDL Melvyl website. […]
Melvyl Enhancements – April 2014
OCLC brought in three enhancements to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on April 24, 2014, described below. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Bug […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2014
I’m pleased to announce that SCP is now cataloging two high profile open access monographic collections, Knowledge Unlatched and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The UC’s are charter members of Knowledge Unlatched, http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, a collaborative initiative enabling free […]
HathiTrust Update – Spring 2014
Recent highlights and events at HathiTrust: HathiTrust released a statement regarding the “Heartbeat Bug” on April 9th. In February Mike Furlough was appointed Executive Director of HathiTrust. He begins his tenure with HathiTrust on May 19. See the Press Release. Welcome Mike! In […]
DPLA Welcomes CDL and UC Libraries Participation: Content Hub Launch
Today, April 17, 2014, the Digital Public Library of America welcomed the California Digital Library, in collaboration with the ten-campus University of California (UC) Libraries system, as a DPLA Content Hub. A Content Hub is a centralized aggregation point for […]
WAS Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Presentation. Rosalie Lack (WAS Service Manager) will be chairing a lightning talk session at the upcoming Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference in August, in Washington, DC. The session title is “From Crawling to […]
Merritt Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities 9 campuses use Merritt to preserve Electronic theses and dissertations—we have over 14,000 ETDs in Merritt. We have been working with Emily Lin and Sarah Sheets at UC Merced to streamline the process. CDL […]
CDL Notice Regarding US-CERT CVE-2014-0160, “Heartbleed Bug” OpenSSL Vulnerability
By Kurt Ewoldsen, Manager, CDL Information & Applications Support On April 8, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) announced a serious vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160, aka the “Heartbleed Bug”) in OpenSSL, a cryptographic software library that underlies much of the encryption […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: March 2014
Welcome to the first Service Update for UC3 Dash! UC3 Dash is a systemwide service that will allow UC campuses to provide an easy‐to‐use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is a centralized […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development continues at a fast pace, and we’re on track to release the new version in May. We’re currently testing with users and fixing bugs. We’re planning to work with the UC Berkeley WebAccess […]