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By Laine Farley, CDL Executive Director

With the retirement of Terry Ryan (UCLA) from the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Implementation Team, a slightly new governance structure is in place for moving the project forward.  Patricia Martin (CDL) will chair the Implementation Team and continues to also serve on the Executive Team.  Luc Declerck has been added as a member of the Executive Team, representing a strong voice for the campuses.

It will take 2 additional people on the Implementation Team to replace Terry’s notable contributions to this project.  Leslie Wolf (CDL) brings needed project management skills, and Adam Brin (CDL) contributes strong visionary and hands-on technical expertise.

Many thanks go to Terry for her remarkable deep and wide-ranging knowledge that has contributed to the success of the project thus far.  We wish her well in her retirement.

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of a CDL consortial license.  (Some campuses have already had access to this title through previous local campus subscriptions):

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (All campuses on the Thomson/ISI platform)
http://uclibs.org/PID/36787
Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles’ cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions.

By Lena Zentall, CDL Project Manager, Bibliographic Services

CDL has convened an Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) implementation team (iTeam) to lead the effort to move the ERMS into a production service for CDL on the Serials Solutions platform.  The team is comprised of representatives from different areas of CDL including Shared Acquisitions, Shared Content, Bibliographic Services, Information Services, Shared Cataloging Program, Licensing, and Statistics.

Adam Brin, Technical Lead
Jayne Dickson, Information Services
Holly Eggleston, Collections (starting at CDL Jan 2009)
Kate Garvey-Clasby, Shared Cataloging (UCSD)
Tony Harvell, CDL Acquisitions (UCSD)
Curtis Lavery, Licensing
Chan Li, Statistics
Margery Tibbetts, Lead Analyst
Lena Zentall, Project Manager

The anticipated timeline for the iTeam to carry out their charge is from November 2008 through June 2009.  Periodic updates will be distributed via CDINFO as key milestones are reached.

For more information about CDL’s selection of Serials Solutions ERMS, see the CDLINFO article  “Serials Solution Chosen as Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS)”  from September 22, 2008.  Campuses should feel free to contact Lena (lena.zentall@ucop.edu) with any questions about CDL’s implementation plans.

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

The University Librarians have made the decision to move forward with the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot supported by WorldCat Local as a replacement for the current Melvyl Catalog.  Pre-production will now begin with an aim of moving toward replacing Melvyl some time in 2009.

The Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Implementation Team presented a document outlining the current status of the pilot to the Executive Team which in turn was shared with the University Librarians and SOPAG (Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group) on November 20, 2008.  The document analyzes progress so far, as well as pre-production work necessary on the part of OCLC, CDL and the UC campus libraries to move the project to the next phase.

The document is available at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/oclc_docs/Nov_2008_Update.doc.

Slides [PPT] presented to the University Librarians.  These outline “campus tasks” that must be undertaken as we move toward production.  The Implementation Team willbe issuing guidelines and advice for campuses on the upcoming campus tasks; however, more planning and policy decisions are necessary before we can issue clear guidelines for the campuses to begin work.  Once these are finalized, work by the campuses can begin.

Following is the Executive Summary of the report cited above:

In the six months that the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot has been live, we have gathered information on the user experience, identified the strengths and remaining challenges of the system, and compared the pilot with UC’s goals as outlined in the 2005 Bibliographic Services Task Force (BSTF) Report.  Users value the breadth of the service, the integration of journal articles, and the ease of use.  Users find challenging the lack of Request integration, difficulties in emailing and printing, and problems in accessing materials, all of which are on OCLC’s roadmap for improvements in the coming year.  The pilot is meeting many of the goals outlined in the BSTF report and OCLC has demonstrated the ability to make rapid improvements to the system.

Based on these data, we believe that the pilot shows sufficient promise that we should transition the project into a pre-production phase, in which both UC and OCLC will engage in the planning and preparation needed to position us for going to production in mid-2009 if we continue to see successful progress.  In this pre-production phase, UC will use the results of the pilot to make policy decisions, complete the work needed to move records into OCLC, and implement sustainable planning and operations processes.  We will also continue to work with OCLC as they implement the remaining pre-production development projects needed, including implementing Request integration, improving access to electronic resources, improving response time, allowing the integration of RLF and affiliated library holdings into campus WCL sites, and continuing negotiations to represent our highest priority MARC records from vendors in WorldCat Local.  During this period, the Executive Team will also work with OCLC and the ULs to finalize UC’s agreements with OCLC.

The next major goal for the project will be moving to full production if we continue to see successful progress.  The target for full production is mid-2009.  We continue to see the promise for other strategic advantages to continuing a partnership with OCLC.

By Jennifer Colvin, CDL Strategic Communications Consultant

After an extensive search, the University of California has named Laine Farley as Executive Director of the California Digital Library (CDL), effective November 24, 2008. Farley, who has been with the CDL since its inception in 1997, had been serving as Interim Executive Director since July 2006.

"What we needed was not just a great leader for the CDL, but also a strategy for building the next generation of digital libraries," said Daniel Greenstein, Vice Provost - Academic Information and Strategic Services. "It was equally clear that the best way forward in envisioning this new world would be to draw upon the creativity, leadership, and talent already within UC and the CDL, and to ramp up our planning efforts. Laine’s vision and leadership, which she has demonstrated during challenging times, will take the CDL in new and exciting directions."

As part of ongoing planning with the University of California libraries, Farley will work closely with the University Librarians on the 10 campuses and others throughout the UC system to ensure that systemwide library services continue to evolve to better support libraries and scholars.

Previously, Farley’s roles at the CDL have included positions as Director of Digital Library Services and Deputy University Librarian. In addition, she was the User Services Coordinator and the Coordinator of Bibliographic Policy and Services at the UC Division of Library Automation. She has also been a reference librarian and coordinator of bibliographic instruction at UC Riverside, and head of the humanities department at the Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University. Farley holds a B.A. in liberal arts (Plan II) and an M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.

By Eric Satzman, CDL Web Production Manager

CDL is pleased to announce that Craig Thompson has accepted the position of Web Producer on the CDL Web Production team.  Craig is well known to many of you and has been contributing to the work of our team as a contractor for over two years.  He has done extensive work on sites such as Calisphere, OAC, the CDL “brochure”  site, Inside CDL, IntraCDL and others.

In addition to Craig’s interest in web development, he is also an accomplished photographer.  His work can be viewed on his web site located here: http://www.craigthompson.net/

We are pleased that Craig accepted the position and look forward to working with him in the future.