Month: February 2012
Melvyl Enhancements – February 2012
On February 28, 2012 (12:38 PM PST), OCLC announced the roll back of the software changes installed on Feb. 26 due to some performance issues. OCLC has since announced that the re-installation of the quarterly software changes is scheduled to […]
Web Archivists: Call for Speakers is Open for Internet Librarian 2012
The call for submissions is now open for the 16th annual Internet Librarian conference, taking place October 22-24 in Monterey, California. The conference focuses on libraries’ use of internet technologies and covers a wide range of topics. Just a few of […]
EZID now offers QR codes
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager The EZID User Interface now displays a QR code representing the URL form of the DOI or ARK. The QR Code appears on the Manage tab. If the identifier is doi:10.1234/FOO, for example, the […]
Melvyl Mobile Stats Debut
Have you wondered which campus Melvyl gets the most mobile searches or if iPad users do more catalog searches than iPhone users? Are you a mobile-stats watcher? Beginning with the January 2012 usage statistics, monthly search statistics include the number […]
What is EZID’s status?
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager In response to user requests, we are introducing two new channels for distributing EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid) status updates: a blog and an RSS feed from the blog. As we try out this new functionality, we […]
Web Archives: Information on Recent Technical Difficulties
From: Tracy Seneca – Web Archiving Service Manager, California Digital Library UPDATE: Wednesday February 21, 2012 The Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) developers have completed their work to improve the performance of the public WAS archives. Developers are now resuming work […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: February 2012
There was a hiatus in January in reporting from the Power of Three Groups (POTS) (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pots.html), but each of the groups have been hard at work meeting their deliverables. In addition, SOPAG and the NGTS Management Team have discussed the need to measure the impact […]
CDL Supports: Building the UC Irvine and UC Davis Campus Web Archives
A growing number of organizations are using the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) to build comprehensive archives of large university campuses. The web has become the primary mode of communication and publication for campus events and issues, and […]
Calculating scholarly journal value through objective metrics
Authored by Jacqueline Wilson and Chan Li CDL’s Collection Development and Management: Licensed Resources program has developed a value-based strategy which is now used as a major part of the University of California’s journal collection planning process. The strategy involves […]
Meet Virtual Martin
We here at the California Digital Library (CDL) are very serious when it comes to all things digital. Some of our colleagues work virtually so we’ve explored the gamut of long-distance communication solutions. The latest solution, a robot, has been […]