UC-eLinks Project Team

The UC-eLinks project team, as part of Bibliographic Services, 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 campus OPACs, and multi-item services.

Charge

• Plans and specifies for implementation new integration services following the guidelines, principles, and recommendations from the appropriate groups (e.g, Heads of Public Services, Resource Sharing Committee, SOPAG, etc.).
• Identifies policy questions and refers to the appropriate groups (e.g, Heads of Public Services, Resource Sharing Committee, 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 metasearch and Electronic Resource Management Services (ERMS).
• 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.
• 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, and initiates assessment evaluations to the campuses.
• Identifies needs for usability testing and coordinates tests with the CDL's Information Services group.
• Determines the need for obtaining evaluation and assessment measures.
• Coordinates with other groups within CDL as needed.
• Determines communications and promotional activities. Provides information to the CDL Information Services 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:
• Rebecca Doherty, Convener
• Patricia Martin, Director of Bibliographic Services
• Lynne Cameron, Bibliographic Services Technical Lead
• Margery Tibbetts, Technical Project Lead for UC-eLinks
• Debra Bartling, Senior Development Programmer: backup for UC-eLinks technical project lead
• Adam Brin, Bibliographic Services Programmer: backup for UC-eLinks technical project lead
• Jayne Dickson, Information Services Analyst: troubleshooting; source/target vendor liaison
• Sherry Willhite, Project Manager for Request, Information Resources Analyst: Request user interface and troubleshooting; metadata analysis and source/target vendor liaison
• Alison Ray, Information Services Analyst: helpline; troubleshooting; source/target vendor liaison
• Ellen Meltzer, Education and Outreach
• Campus library staff:
• Karl Kocher, UC Davis
• Sarah Troy, UC Santa Cruz