Month: October 1998
Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the Melvyl system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways: For immediate assistance, call […]
CDL Milestones
CDL Milestones are now posted on the new CDL informational web site [http://www.cdlib.org/] under News and Developments.
Mark Needleman Leaves CDL
Everyone at CDL will miss Mark Needleman, currently the Coordinator of Advanced Technology at CDL Technologies. He will start a new position in December with DRA (Data Research Associates) in St. Louis as a Product Development Specialist in Standards. He […]
Shared Collections Information on the Web
The CDL has established a web site for information related to shared collections activities. Meant primarily for UC Library staff, the site at: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/ contains background documents, information from the Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections, and other materials. Some […]
International Coalition of Library Consortia Meeting Report
Beverlee French (CDL) and Cindy Shelton (UCLA) represented the CDL at “COC4.” The ICOLC meets twice a year and is a mix of vendor presentations, plenary sessions, and discussion groups. At October’s meeting there were 89 attendees, mostly from the […]
PIR Updates Well-attended
Over 70 library staff from all campuses, SRLF, and NRLF joined the project team in mid-October for discussions and status reports of the Patron Initiated Request (PIR) project. PIR is a key strategy, identified by the University Librarians and the […]
Patron Initiated Requesting
The Updates, covering all aspects of PIR, will be attended by representatives from SOPAG (Systemwide Operations and Planning Group), HOPS (Heads of Public Services), HOS (Heads of Systems), HOPS ILL, Interlibrary Loan Managers and other staff, Circulation Managers, and Technical […]
Shared Collections Subject Area Surveyors
The Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSCSC) has identified those selectors who will help survey digital collection issues in disciplinary areas. These individuals will represent existing selector groups and additional disciplinary areas to help identify the range of digital […]
JSTOR Update
Users may presently access the JSTOR collection at the article level only by linking directly to the JSTOR Web site. (See CDLINFO Issue #13 for a description of the collection and access information.) You can also access JSTOR journal titles […]
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) Site Now Available
The IEEE CSDL and the California Digital Library (CDL) have agreed to offer an experiment allowing users to connect to individual articles in journals produced by the IEEE Computer Society. This experiment ends December 31, 1998. The CSDL offers its […]