Category: Newsletter
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2017
SCP regularly posts monthly distribution statistics report. This monthly report shows titles added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions in June 2017. Our major serial record distributions include Open […]
Happy Anniversary New Zealand Hansard: Celebrating 150 Years of Openness and Transparency
This month New Zealand celebrates 150 years of government openness and transparency. It was one of the first countries to record and publish independent transcripts of the speeches and debates in its Parliament. The debates of the New Zealand Parliament were […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Central Daily News
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Central Daily News. http://uclibs.org/PID/296476 (B, I, LA, SB, SD; on the Transmission Books platform) Note: limited to 5 […]
New Licensed Resource: Announcing STMnetBASE eBooks from Taylor & Francis, 2017-2019
The UC Libraries have acquired the STMnetBASE frontlist ebook collection from CRC Press/Taylor & Francis for the next three years, 2017 – 2019. All ten campuses and CDL contributed towards this purchase. http://uclibs.org/PID/119780 (All campuses; on the CRCnetBASE platform) The […]
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 […]
New Licensed Resource – CNP eReading (DDA eBook Project)
Nine campuses (all except UCSF, LBL) recently began participation in a Demand-Driven Acquisitions eBook project for access to the CNP eBooks. http://uclibs.org/PID/289730 (B [LBL not included], D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, and SD; on the CNP eReading platform) […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: June 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of May [Xlsx]. This monthly report shows titles being added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are highlights of our major record distributions. Note: Green […]