By Ivy Anderson, Director of CDL Collection Development & Management
The CDL is delighted to announce that Emily Stambaugh has accepted an appointment as Manager of Shared Print beginning November 1st, 2007. Emily comes to the CDL from the University of California at Riverside, where she has served as the Social Sciences Bibliographer and Collection Analyst since March of 2005. At UC Riverside, Emily has overseen the development of the libraries’ collections in the Social Sciences, chaired the Electronic Resources Committee, licensed electronic resources, and provided leadership for the libraries’ collections in all formats. Prior to coming to UC, Emily served as the Collection Development Librarian at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and prior to that, as Assistant to the Latin American and Iberian Resources Bibliographer at UNC Chapel Hill.
Emily has been active in various library organizations and consortia including ALA, the Western European Studies Section of ACRL, the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, and the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) system. At UC, Emily has served with distinction on a number of systemwide committees, including the Collection Development Committee and the Scholarly Communication Officers Group (while serving as temporary Head of Collection Development at UC Riverside) and the Mass Digitization Collections Advisory Group.
Emily holds a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley. She speaks Spanish and Catalan and brings international publishing and business administration experience to her work in libraries, as well as a strong interest in collaborative collection development, resource sharing, area studies collections, synergies between print and electronic collections, long-term preservation and collection assessment.
Please join the CDL in welcoming Emily to this important leadership post on behalf of the UC Libraries’ shared print collections program.
By Ivy Anderson, Director of CDL Collection Development & Management
Bob Heyer-Gray (UCD) recently undertook a part-time appointment as Interim Resource Liaisons Coordinator at the CDL through August 2007. Bob did a wonderful job in this temporary assignment organizing the April 2007 Resource Liaisons meeting, gathering and organizing the annual vendor evaluations from the RLs for the 2006/2007 resource work plan, working on the recruitment of new Resource Liaisons, and serving as a general point person for Resource Liaison issues. The CDL has had to release Bob to take up his new role as LAUC President. Bob, many thanks for your months of service to the CDL and your UC colleagues.
Beginning immediately, please contact Wendy Parfrey for questions and assistance with Resource Liaison-related matters. Wendy can be reached at wendy.parfrey@ucop.edu.
CDL hopes to launch the recruitment for a reconfigured position incorporating Resource Liaisons coordination responsibilities in the next few months.
By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager
As a reminder, Telnet Melvyl ceased as of August 31, 2007. In 2003, the UC campus libraries launched a new version of the Melvyl Catalog based on software from Ex Libris, running on the IBM AIX platform. Both the Web and Telnet versions of the catalog were maintained. Now, in 2007, the catalog is being upgraded to a newer version of the Ex Libris software, running on a Sun Solaris platform. Maintaining the Telnet interface to Melvyl, which was little used by UC students, faculty, and staff, would have been prohibitively expensive, due to the change from IBM to Sun hardware. The Telnet software version CDL ran did not support the Sun platform and would have required a significant investment in staff time and resources to set up and maintain.
With input from the UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS), Heads of Technical Services (HOTS), and Collection Development Committee (CDC), and in consultation with library staff, it was decided to cease production of the Telnet version of Melvyl on August 31, 2007 because of the technical difficulty and expense of maintaining it.
Users who desire the flexibility of command line searching can use the Command Search feature available on the web version of the Melvyl Catalog. Command searching is the most effective way to perform complex searches as it affords a great deal of control over the search results.
Please remember to update your websites, guides, etc.
By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager
Many of your colleagues have NOT been having a quiet summer, but have been intensely engaged in delving into how a Next Generation Melvyl Catalog, supported by the WorldCat Local Service might work, given the complexities of 10 unique UC campus libraries, 4 different Integrated Library Systems (ILS) among the 10 campuses, and an uncountable variety of practices among us all, not to mention understanding the challenges of OCLC’s systems and work flows. Task group members, guided by impressive group leads, have displayed an enormous amount of passion, work and effort.
The items below were added to the web site since the beginning of August.
New task group charges added include:
Circulation Transactions Task Group, added 8/6/07
Mass Digitized Content Task Group, added 8/29/07
New task group reports added:
UC-eLinks Task Group Interim Report, dated 7/25/07
Request/Resource Sharing Final Report, dated 8/7/07
New Joint UC-OCLC Task Group charges added:
Local Information, added 8/8/07
Delivery Services, added 8/9/07
New Update:
Follow Up to UL-SOPAG Report — June 13, 2007, added 8/23/07
Three previously planned task groups are being put on hold for the moment: “Buy-It” links, Authentication, and Mining Authority Records for Recommending. As the project progresses, we will re-evaluate launching these groups.
