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Bibliographic Services

Bibliographic Services. Users Council, May 9, 2008 Patti Martin Director, Bibliographic Services. Bibliographic Services. Melvyl UC-eLinks Metalib Request Next Generation UC/OCLC pilot project. Melvyl. Completed our upgrade to V16.02 Working on backlog of records to load

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Bibliographic Services

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  1. Bibliographic Services Users Council, May 9, 2008 Patti Martin Director, Bibliographic Services

  2. Bibliographic Services • Melvyl • UC-eLinks • Metalib • Request • Next Generation UC/OCLC pilot project

  3. Melvyl • Completed our upgrade to V16.02 • Working on backlog of records to load • Added links to Google Book Search API

  4. UC-eLinks • Rebecca Doherty joined as Project Manager • Margery Tibbetts • ELUNA 2008 annual meeting planning committee co-chair • NISO/UKSG KBART (Knowledge Base and Related Tools) working group • Adam Brin will be joining in June

  5. UC-eLinks • July 2007 New, cleaner menu window layout • Nov. 2007 Assessment of new UC-eLinks menu window • Recommendation to support Direct Linking to articles • Development is currently underway • Dec 2007 UC-eLinks in MELVYL

  6. UC-eLinks • 9 of 10 campuses now using the A-Z list for primary eJournal discovery tool • Peak usage in March was over 1.1M requests • Last fall was 44,000/day

  7. UC-eLinks menu window Current version Old version

  8. Coming to UC-eLinks • E-books • Google Book target • New eScholarship journals target • WCL holdings targets • Targets for each campus instance

  9. Metalib Project Women in US Social Movements

  10. Pilot Application • Search resources simultaneously • User selects resources to search from portal • Listed resources pre-selected for topic • Additional Features: • Full text links when available • Ability to save records for export (Print, Email, EndNote, Zotero) • Faceted browsing of results

  11. User Testing • Usability assessment by graduate students • Comparison • Pilot • Native Databases • Google Scholar • Conducted By UCLA • Results to be included in Pilot Evaluation – soon!

  12. Request Achievements • Sherry Willhite is the Project Manager • Nov 2007 - Revised Request handling of missing items • Endusers can ask for items that appear to be available at the home campus, but which are not actually available

  13. Request Achievements • Increases in security of data transmissions • Dec 2007 Request began running under https • Jan 2008 - Access to the “My ILL Requests” service limited to UC IP addresses in Jan 2008. • Users must login from on campus or via their campus proxy or VPN service

  14. Request Achievements • Statistics enhancements • Feb 2008 Statistics for My ILL Requests became available • March 2008 Web-based ILL statistics reporting system with output in HTML • Jan 2008 - UCB began borrowing on VDX

  15. Request - Coming Soon • VDX document server hosted at CDL to provide better integration of desk top delivery with VDX. • Move to VDX version 3.2.2 • VDX statistics - new software program. • Integration of the Request Service with the WorldCat Local pilot

  16. UC-OCLC Pilot History • University Librarians charged BSTF Team in 2005 • 2005 BSTF produced report in December 2006 – UC wide discussion • 2007 – ULs charged Exec/Imp Team • 2008 – Next Gen Pilot goes Live!

  17. Why OCLC? • Moving discovery beyond the local level to the network level • Allow users to discover resources beyond our consortial level • Scope down to the regional, union view, or local • Database size – 100+ M records, growing 10M/year

  18. What Will the Pilot Look Like? • Based on Worldcat Local • 10 UC branded URLs • 1 Melvyl branded URL • Pilot available soon! • Continuous development • At least one upgrade during the pilot • Links to local OPACS for circ/location information

  19. Affiliates and Non-UC Libraries • Working out how the affiliated libraries can participate • Non-UC libraries will show up in the “WorldCat” section of results for now • To make a final decision • Will be involved in decision making about their options • Could be cost implications

  20. WCL – Limits

  21. WCL – Digital Content

  22. WCL – Delivery Features

  23. WCL Identities

  24. WCL - Interface

  25. Best Source for More Information • http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/uc_oclc.html

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