Month: February 2002
Library Staff News
The Melvyl-T team has a new member. David Sidlo is a computer consultant with extensive experience in systems development and programming. He joins us to design and implement a test environment for the Ex Libris loaders and converters, and for […]
GPO Gate Ceasing Production
GPO Gate Ceasing Production This is to inform users of GPO Gate that the University of California’s California Digital Library and the University of California, San Diego will cease production of GPO Gate on March 15th. GPO Gate, a web […]
SciFinder® Scholar Update: New Client and Historic Content Back to 1907 (Marion Peters, UCLA)
SciFinder® Scholar 2001, released this Fall by CAS, is available for downloading from UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Web site <http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind>. UC students, faculty, and staff need to install the SciFinder Scholar 2001 client (MS Windows or Apple Macintosh) […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. UC-eLinks: Permeating the Databases UC users of CDL databases will begin to see UC-eLinks increasingly as it appears on the transitioning databases. UC-eLinks, based on the “OpenURL” linking technology being widely adopted in the library community, will eventually […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Melvyl-T Catalog Unveiling Rescheduled For Fall 2002 There is a change in schedule for the debut of the new Melvyl-T catalog. The new schedule is necessary because quality assurance testing is taking longer than anticipated and because several enhancements […]
Library Staff News
a. Jon Solomon Joins Melvyl-T Team Jon Solomon is the newest addition to the Melvyl-T User Interface team. Jon, head of technical processing at the UCB Business Library, will contribute three days each week (Tuesday – Thursday) for the next […]
New Status of Services Page
CDL has recently implemented a set of “status of services” pages that informs library staff of downtime, outages and related information for both CDL systems and for vendor systems of CDL-licensed resources. The URL is [http://www.cdlib.org/status/]. The highlight of this […]
Daniel Greenstein to become CDL University Librarian
We are extremely pleased to announce that Daniel Greenstein has accepted the position of University Librarian and Executive Director of the California Digital Library. He is expected to assume his new position in May 2002, and all are encouraged to […]
Instruction Workshops Report
About 160 UC librarians brainstormed, reflected, and learned to insert active learning into library classes over four days in January and February. The instructional workshops were led by Debra Gilchrist, Director, Pierce College, in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington State […]
Request Update
UC’s long awaited Consortial Borrowing System (CBS), which uses Virtual Document Exchange (VDX) software from Fretwell-Downing, to combine workflows for filling interlibrary loan requests, provide patrons with new features such as the ability to check the status of requests, and […]