Category: Newsletter
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 […]
DMPTool Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We just reached a huge milestone (!), pushing a preliminary version of the DMPRoadmap code out to test on DCC-hosted DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne. Stay tuned for an update about when DCC will migrate […]
EZID Service Update: May 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID System Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, both attended the third annual CSV conference in Portland, May 2-3. “CSV” is short for “comma separated values,” and it is a common […]
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 […]
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the […]
John Kratz joins UX Team
CDL is happy to announce that John Kratz has joined the User Experience Design team as a full-time career UX designer. In case you weren’t aware of John’s history here at CDL and his many contributions and project work prior […]