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Lisa Mackinder appointed Assistant Director of Systemwide Licensing and Collection Services

We are delighted to announce that following a national search Lisa Mackinder has been appointed as Assistant Director of Systemwide Licensing and Collection Services for the California Digital Library.  Lisa comes to this role with 14 years of directly related […]

Good news from Shared Collections: Welcome Sherry Lochhaas!

We have good news from the Shared Collections program this morning. Sherry Lochhaas joins us today as our new Electronic Resources Services Manager. She is joining us from UC Berkeley, where she has held the Electronic Resources Librarian position, and […]

Welcome Satomi Saito

Please join me in welcoming Satomi Saito to the California Digital Library! Satomi joins the CDL Finance & Operations team as a Senior Financial Analyst, beginning March 1, 2022. Before joining the CDL, Satomi worked with the UC San Diego […]

CDL Job Opening: Publications Manager

To support the continued success of our thriving open access publishing program, the California Digital Library at the University of California is currently seeking candidates for a new eScholarship Publications Manager position. The successful candidate will collaborate with librarians and […]

CDL Job Opening: Systemwide Data Analyst

The Systemwide Data Analyst plays an important role in advancing and supporting data-driven assessment, planning and decision-making at the University of California (UC) Libraries, which comprises the ten UC campuses, two Regional Library Facilities and the California Digital Library (CDL). As a […]

Adriana Moran moves on

It’s with mixed emotions I tell you of news from CDL Acquisitions. Adriana Moran, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator, will be leaving us for another opportunity. She is leaving big shoes to fill, and we wish her all the best for her […]

SCP Update – February 2022

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in January 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 134 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 27 JSTOR Books DDA: 1,749 Open access resource selected by the UC Libraries (Local-OA) (Serials): 225 Collection level records: 6 […]

Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust’s Newly Opened Volumes

On January 1, 2022 the public domain expanded in the United States to include works published in 1926. This is only the fourth expansion of the US public domain since 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act increased […]

UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books

Digitized books have become increasingly popular in recent years, and for university libraries and scholars, the first 18 months of the pandemic threw their value into sharp relief. As campuses across the country closed, many libraries began offering expanded access […]

UC Davis Contacts Alumni Authors in Successful Project to Open Theses and Dissertations for Worldwide Access

This article is based on the transcript from the HathiTrust Slack Pop-up held December 16, 2021 and the Dissertation Licensing in HathiTrust: Webinar & Virtual Chat held January 19, 2022. Both featured Sara Gunasekara from UC Davis, and Kristina Hall […]