CDLINFO News
UC-eLinks moving to secure HTTP (https://) on 2/19
On the morning of Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Ex Libris will install “SSL” on the CDL SFX server, meaning that all UC-eLinks traffic will be redirected from ‘http://ucelinks.cdlib.org’ to ‘https://ucelinks.cdlib.org’. If you encounter any unexpected problems with outbound linking behavior […]
Melvyl will switch to WorldCat Discovery
Melvyl’s long-awaited switch to WorldCat Discovery, OCLC’s newer discovery user interface, will happen this summer. OCLC has announced an end-of-life date for WorldCat Local of August 9, 2019. Since April 2014, when OCLC released WorldCat Discovery as a beta product, […]
MagazinePlus & WhoPlus database transition includes new database – BookPlus
With the renewed MagazinePlus license, users on the 5 participating campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Merced, San Diego and Santa Barbara) now have access to three databases: MagazinePlus, BookPlus, and WhoPlus. MagazinePlus: http://uclibs.org/PID/4880 (B, D, M, SD, SB; on the Nichigai web […]
SCP Monthly Update — February 2019
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of January 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials, our major distributions were Open Access journals […]
WEST Welcomes New Member – CSU Bakersfield
WEST is very pleased to welcome a new member in 2019 – California State University, Bakersfield! Bakersfield is the tenth CSU campus to join WEST. California State University institutions have long been valued members of the WEST program. Many of […]
SCP’s Becky Culbertson headlines OCLC Member story on shared cataloging
Recently, Becky Culbertson, stalwart member of the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP), was interviewed by OCLC staff about shared cataloging. The interview is now online as one of OCLC’s Member stories, highlighting how catalogers at the California Digital Library share work […]
Updates and Discussion at the ALA Midwinter 2019 WEST Member Meeting
WEST members met during ALA Midwinter on Sunday, January 27th. About 20 representatives (ranging from deans, to collection managers, to technical services experts) gathered to hear WEST updates and engage with a panel of WEST’s Archive Builders. Meeting slides are […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: High res cover art & aligned titles
The WorldCat Discovery installation on January 18, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
2019 WEST Executive Committee Election Results and Operations and Collections Council Appointments
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is governed by an Executive Committee that oversees the operation and development of WEST and works to integrate WEST with related archiving programs nationally and internationally. WEST members cast their votes in elections for […]