Month: May 2013
Melvyl Enhancements – May 2013
OCLC has made two enhancements to WorldCat Local that impact Melvyl. These include the following: Support for IE10 WorldCat Local functionality, such as item availability and view now links, is now supported in IE10. (This had been reported as a […]
HathiTrust April 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust April 2013 Update is now available. Several important new developments are announced in the newsletter: Service to support access for users with print disabilities at partner institutions Updated, enhanced HathiTrust web presence […]
HathiTrust Services for Users With Print Disabilities
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization In an important new development, HathiTrust now provides a way for the UC campuses to offer full view of some of the in-copyright books in HathiTrust to our print disabled patrons. A designated […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — May 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Last month Springer topped our list for most titles distributed, 2731, which included the first titles sent, 41, for the newest Springer subject collection, Energy monographs. These include all the recently licensed 2013 […]
Five things I learned at IIPC
I recently attended the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly (http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2013/program). The IIPC is a consortium of libraries, academic institutions and other organization engaged in web archiving. The IIPC’s General Assembly included three days of member meetings and two days of […]
10,000,000 HathiTrust Records Now Have Clear Labels in Melvyl
In response to user feedback from the UC community, OCLC has relabeled more than 10,000,000 Melvyl (WorldCat Local) records making it easy to distinguish if a digitized work in HathiTrust is available in full text or for limited viewing only. […]
CDL Welcomes New UC3 Staff
By Stephen Abrams, UC3 Associate Director CDL’s UC3 program has just completed a flurry of hiring to fill four positions, two funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joshua Hubbard and Bhavitavya (Bhavi) Vedula were hired to work on the […]
WAS Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS at Society of California Archivists (SCA), Berkeley, CA. April 11 – 13. The WAS team attended and staffed a booth. Rosalie Lack also gave a short presentation to the Online Archive of California […]
DataUp Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We gathered potential stakeholders of DataUp in Santa Barbara, CA for a meeting to discuss the tool’s future directions. The meeting took place April 2‐3 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis […]
DMPTool Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DMPTool webinar series: The first webinar, an introduction to the DMPTool, will be May 28. Register for the webinar: (http://bit.ly/Z4g43Z) Read more about the webinar series: (http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/dmptool/webinar-series/) We’ve created two advisory boards for the […]