CDLINFO News
TEN Database Removal
As has been discussed with various groups including SOPAG and the User Services Group, the TEN-year Catalog will be removed from both the telnet and web versions of the system. The TEN-year Catalog resides in the same physical database as […]
RILM and PAIS Available in Test Mode
a. RILM (@OCLC) Abstracts of Music Literature Database The RILM (@OCLC) database, produced by Repertoire International de Literature Musicale, will be available on the CDL web site with a web interface in early April, and is currently available for testing […]
Melvyl Transition Overview Now Available
With a constantly growing collection of resources, and new and evolving tools to use them, the historical distinction between a monolithic “Melvyl System” and “everything else” is less and less useful to describe UC-shared digital collections. The graphics and location […]
Digital Library Strategies Forum
In part inspired by the successful “DLA Updates,” but different in scope and structure, the CDL is hosting in-person forums — one in the north and one in the south — directed at UC library staff and select others. We […]
Recommendations of the STIC Task Force
The STIC Task Force has compiled a list of journal publishers with whom UC and CDL will concentrate its licensing negotiations in the first half of 1999. The following list is in addition to the ongoing trials and negotiations with […]
Shared Collections Lists Now Available
Two Shared collections documents — a list of Licensed Shared Collections and a list of participants in each license — are now publicly available. From the CDL home page, click on “About Collections and Services”. Then, in the “About the […]
New Databases
The addition of these databases to CDL’s Directory is the result of successful collaboration and co-investment among the campuses and CDL. a. HarpWeek HarpWeek is an indexed, image database containing cover-to-cover issues of Harper’s Weekly from its beginning in 1857 […]
Links to Full Content
In response to several comments from librarians we wish to clarify information about the status and timing of adding links from the CDL Directory to journal titles or from CDL-hosted databases to articles. Although there is some variability depending upon […]
Enhancements to Request/PIR
Thanks to diligent reporting by campus ILL staff, Request has been improved by making a number of refinements and solving various problems. A significant enhancement is that users may now request items from other campuses when the requested items are […]
CDL Brochures Available
A print brochure describing the CDL and the collaboration leading to collections, services, and tools is now available. A set of brochures has been distributed to each University Librarian and a copy mailed to UC faculty members. Additional copies can […]