UC-eLinks Project Team

The UC-eLinks project team guides the implementation of all of the services available through UC-eLinks and other integration services. The team ensures that implementation is coordinated among the different services as needed. The current components of UC-eLinks include SFX, Request, links to holdings in the Melvyl Catalog, and multi-item services.

Charge

• Plans and specifies for implementation new integration services following the guidelines, principles, and recommendations of the CDL Tools and Services Working Group.
• Identifies policy questions and refers to the appropriate groups (e.g, Resource Sharing Committee, Heads of Public Services, SOPAG, etc.).
• Creates a project plan and provides reports to CDL management.
• Ensures that UC-eLinks integrates with various search/discovery tools, including the Melvyl Catalog, article databases, and tools such as SearchLight.
• Assesses the service implications for implementing UC-eLinks in article databases including:
• Determining the impact on Request.
• Testing or coordinating the testing of metadata for different types of documents.
• Designs user interfaces and works with graphic designers as needed.
• Creates specifications or guidelines for vendors on metadata requirements, presentation of UC-eLinks within the user interface, and functional requirements.
• Develops procedures for the maintenance of SFX knowledge database and is responsible for its accuracy and currency.
• Coordinates campus library contributions to the SFX knowledge database or interrelationships between the CDL and the campus library SFX servers.
• Identifies and assesses opportunities for extending services to new communities, e.g., new partners for Request or interoperability with other institutions' OpenURL servers.
• Assesses the need for new tools to extend services.
• Identifies needs for usability testing and coordinates tests with the CDL's education group.
• Determines the need for and methods of obtaining evaluation and assessment measures.
• Coordinates with other groups within CDL as needed, including the services group, the content management infrastructure group, the collections group, and the collection integration group.
• Determines communications and promotional activities. Provides information to the CDL education and outreach group for publicizing new developments in UC-eLinks and for identifying any training needs. Communicates information and concerns to and from the campus libraries through the use of appropriate publications, listservs, and liaisons.

Membership

• CDL staff:
• Laine Farley, Convener
• Mary Heath, Project Manager for Request and Manager of Access Services programmers
• Margery Tibbetts, Project Manager for SFX
• Jayne Dickson, Digital Library Services Analyst: troubleshooting; source/target vendor liaison
• Lena Shelton, Bibliographic Analyst: maintenance of SFX Knowledge Base
• Sherry Willhite, Information Resources Analyst: Request user interface and troubleshooting; metadata analysis and source/target vendor liaison
• Ellen Meltzer, Education and Outreach
• Heather Christenson, Resource Liaison Coordinator
• Campus library staff:
• A member who can inform issues related to Request
• A member who can inform issues related to reference, instruction, and other public services issues
• A member from UC Davis due to coordination with the SFX server
• Liaisons:
• Request Liaisons
• SFX Liaisons (to be named; for coordinating campus library additions to SFX)
• Resource Liaisons (as needed for source/target issues)