Bibliographic Services

Users Council, May 9, 2008Patti MartinDirector, 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 Added links to Google Book

Search API

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

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

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

UC-eLinks menu windowOld version

Current version

Coming to UC-eLinks E-books

Google Book target New eScholarship journals target WCL holdings targets

Targets for each campus instance

Metalib ProjectWomen in US Social Movements

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

User Testing Usability assessment by graduate students Comparison

Pilot Native Databases Google Scholar

Conducted By UCLA Results to be included in Pilot Evaluation –

soon!

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

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

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

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

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!

UC-OCLC Pilot History

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

Why OCLC?

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

What Will the Pilot Look Like?

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

Affiliates and Non-UC Libraries

WCL – Limits

WCL – Digital Content

WCL – Delivery Features

WCL Identities

WCL - Interface

Best Source for More Information

http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/uc_oclc.html