Category: Mass Digitization
Embed with HathiTrust: Putting Digital Books in Your Users’ Path
Did you know that it’s easy to embed HathiTrust books in your website? You can embed any public domain book into HTML code. Follow the instructions on the HathiTrust website or simply find the book you want and click the “Embed this […]
HathiTrust Update – Spring 2014
Recent highlights and events at HathiTrust: HathiTrust released a statement regarding the “Heartbeat Bug” on April 9th. In February Mike Furlough was appointed Executive Director of HathiTrust. He begins his tenure with HathiTrust on May 19. See the Press Release. Welcome Mike! In […]
HathiTrust A Gold Mine for Researchers
Heist from the San Francisco Mint? An inside job? Whatever the solution to this mystery, a crafty researcher used the HathiTrust Digital Library to try to track down the answer. A couple in California’s Mother Lode country in the Sierra […]
Newsletter Spotlight: CDL's Mass Digitization projects
Recently, UCOP’s link newsletter included an article, Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections, focusing on the University of California Reprints website and CDL’s Mass Digitization projects. Check it out!
HathiTrust – December 2013 Update
HathiTrust highlights for the month of December include the following: An update on the Executive Director Search Approval of HathiTrust’s 2014 budget and fees An arrangement to preserve and provide access to materials made available by Knowledge Unlatched A reminder […]
HathiTrust October 2013 Update
There are a number of exciting announcements from HathiTrust this month: Zephir, a new bibliographic data management system developed for HathiTrust by the California Digital Library was released. HT announced its intention to become a replicating node in the Digital […]
Introducing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Metadata Management System
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from […]
HathiTrust September 2013 Update
An Executive Director search is under way for HathiTrust, as reported in the HT September update. Other highlights in September include a meeting of the Program Committee, where it was reported that new subgroups will be appointed to advance the […]
The Richness of the UC Libraries Revealed in Reprints
The UC Libraries are happy to announce the re-launch of the University of California Library Reprints website! Through our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Google, the UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from our […]
UC Davis Joins Google Book Digitization Project
By Heather Christenson, CDL, & Karleen Darr, UC Davis In June 2013, the UC Davis Library began sending public domain (out-of- copyright) books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. UC […]