Bibliographic Services

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Bibliographic Services

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

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Bibliographic Services

• Melvyl
• UC-eLinks
• Metalib
• Request
• Next Generation UC/OCLC pilot project

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Melvyl

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

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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

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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

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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

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UC-eLinks menu window
Current version
Old version
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Coming to UC-eLinks

• E-books
• Google Book target
• New eScholarship journals target
• WCL holdings targets
• Targets for each campus instance

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Metalib Project

• Women in US Social Movements

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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

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User Testing

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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WCL Limits
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WCL Digital Content
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WCL Delivery Features
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WCL Identities
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WCL - Interface
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Best Source for More Information

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