New Melvyl catalog

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From: Deb Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 08:30:01 PDT 

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:30:01 -0700
From: Deb Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: New Melvyl catalog

>
>The current version of the Melvyl Catalog will be retiring August 1, 2003,
>to be replaced by a new Melvyl catalog already available at
><http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b>http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b.
>Melvyl has a new format and design, offers users a variety of enhanced
>features, and contains completely updated data for the holdings of the UC
>system.
>
>The Melvyl catalog of the University of California (UC) contains over 23
>million records for material held by the libraries of the 10 campuses of
>the UC system. The database is updated continually as material is ordered,
>received, and cataloged by the libraries. Material from libraries of
>selected University partners is also represented, including records from
>Hastings School of Law, the Center for Research Libraries, Lawrence
>Berkeley Lab, the California Academy of Sciences Library, the California
>Historical Society Library, and the Graduate Theological Union Library.
>Records from the California State Library will be completely loaded by
>early 2004.
>
>Melvyl-T (for Transition; the T will be removed August 1) contains entries
>for many materials in formats beyond books and journals (e.g.,
>manuscripts, maps, visual media, microforms and government documents)
>owned by the UC Libraries. In addition, predefined subsets of the catalog
>have been created to allow dedicated searching for online resources, for
>musical scores, and for sound recordings.
>
>Immediately evident in Melvyl-T are refined and expanded search features
>that are a significant advance over the legacy Melvyl catalog, itself long
>known throughout the world as a pioneer in presenting effective features
>to patrons.
>
>Among the important new features in Melvyl-T:
>· More flexible search options, including phrase and proximity
>searching.
>· Browsing by major indexes including author, title, subject, and
>call number.
>· Expanded limiting and sorting of search results.
>· Display of foreign language materials using their native language
>characters, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and Arabic.
>· Ability to return to previous searches and combine, review, or
>save them into a personal workspace.
>
>While the new search and display features are available to all users of
>Melvyl-T both within and outside of UC an additional feature gives UC
>faculty, students, and staff the ability to borrow material from another
>campus if unavailable at their home campus via a simple "Request" button.
>
>If you wish to provide feedback to the catalog developers at the CDL, use
>the Comments and feedback links at the bottom of each page.
>

Deborah Hunt
CTL Senior Information Specialist
Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu
mailto: dhunt@exploratoriu.edu
415-353-0485
(fax) 415-561-0370

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