Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

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

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Bibliographic Services Users Council, May 9, 2008 Patti Martin Director, Bibliographic Services."— Presentation transcript:

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 Old version Current 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

12

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

14 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

15 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

16 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

17 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

18 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

19 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?

20 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?

21 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

22 WCL – Limits

23 WCL – Digital Content

24 WCL – Delivery Features

25 WCL Identities

26 WCL - Interface

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


Download ppt "Bibliographic Services Users Council, May 9, 2008 Patti Martin Director, Bibliographic Services."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google