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Month: June 2015

What’s happening with WorldCat Local, FirstSearch & WorldCat Discovery?

The WorldCat Discovery beta launched in April 30, 2014 and is currently slated to conclude at the end of July 2015. WorldCat Discovery merges WorldCat Local and FirstSearch on a new platform with major functional design improvements. While OCLC considers […]

CDL Welcomes Stephanie Simms!

Meet Stephanie Simms, CDL’s new DMPTool service manager and UC3 Research Data Specialist. Stephanie spent the past ten months at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked on a range of digital […]

Melvyl Central Index Update – Modern Language Open collection temporarily removed

  Liverpool University Press has sent OCLC the incorrect data for this collection, and OCLC is working with them to correct and reload the data.  In the meantime, OCLC is removing the data from the central index; consequently, CDL has […]

EZID Service Update: May 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, we made the move to the “cloud-based infrastructure” mentioned in last month’s update. EZID is now hosted on Amazon Web Services. As mentioned previously, we made this change because we expect the […]