Category: Newsletter
WorldCat Discovery beta: Feedback link implementation
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 14, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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.) […]
EZID Service Update: March 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Last month, we announced two draft DataCite specifications available for comment: the DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and the DataCite in RDF. On Tuesday April 12, members of the team working on these […]
A bee’s flight and other wonders: 41,000 new items to explore on Calisphere
Flying bees, North Korean propaganda, and Catholicism in Los Angeles are just some of the subjects depicted in the more than 41,000 new items that have recently been added to Calisphere. A total of 56 fascinating and diverse new collections […]
Farewell to Margery Tibbetts
After 31 years of service, Margery Tibbetts, long time technical lead for UCe-Links and WorldCat Local, will retire from CDL, effective April 5, 2016. Margery started working in academic libraries her freshman year at Purdue University and continued working there […]
OCLC announces FirstSearch will continue as a separate service
OCLC has decided to keep FirstSearch as a separate product rather than merging it with WorldCat Discovery. The official announcement is shown below. And, OCLC’s Executive Director of End-User Services, Mike Showalter summarized the changes in OCLC’s blog Next: “The future of […]
Welcome Mihoko Hosoi as CDL’s New Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing
Following an extensive national search, CDL’s Collection Development and Management Group is delighted to welcome Mihoko Hosoi as Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing. Mihoko will report to Collections Director Ivy Anderson and begins her new position on March 23, 2016. […]
Melvyl transition to WorldCat Discovery is delayed
Melvyl will not transition from WorldCat Local (WCL) to WorldCat Discovery (WCD) this summer. While OCLC has made significant progress, WorldCat Discovery is not yet functionally complete for Melvyl. The earliest possible date for a move to WCD would be December […]
Farewell to SCP Head Adolfo Tarango
It is with mixed emotions that we announce that Adolfo Tarango, Head of the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) at UC San Diego, is leaving UC to take an exciting new position as the head of technical services at the University […]
Heather Christenson joins HathiTrust Digital Library
Heather Christenson, Manager of Digital Content Development and Strategy within the CDL Collections Program, has taken a new position with HathiTrust as Program Officer for Federal Documents & Collections. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a major new initiative […]
DMPTool Service Update: February 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Migrations. The DMPTool application will be moving to the cloud (AWS) by the end of the month. This action will not involve any maintenance downtime. New API calls. We’ve added new calls in response to requests […]