Category: Newsletter
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 […]
SCP Update – January 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in December 2021 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 228 JSTOR Books DDA: 576 Please see detailed reports at: 2021-11-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2021-11-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2021-12-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2021-12-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections Highlights on Other Activities While waiting for CDL Acquisitions […]
CDL Job Opening: Software Engineer
Are you a Python, Java or Ruby programmer? Are you interested in learning and using machine learning technologies (Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.)? Do you enjoy working in a team environment where your ideas make a difference? Then come join the […]
CDL Job Opening: Finance & Operations Director
At the core of the California Digital Library (CDL) is a simple idea – by mobilizing the expertise and creativity of our diverse community and engaging in collaborative problem-solving, we can transform the way libraries and scholars work, thus furthering […]
Introducing Digital Preservation Leadership and thanking past members of the Working Group
Dear UC Library colleagues We are writing to inform you of the newly formed Digital Preservation Leadership Group (DPLG) within the UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS) structure. This group is charged by the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) to lead […]
CDL office closure Dec. 23, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Thursday, December 23, 2021 through Sunday, January 2, 2022. The Office of the […]
CDL, CRL & HathiTrust Summit for Shared Print in the Collections Lifecycle
Background In 2020, CDL joined in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries and HathiTrust (the CCH Collaboration) to play a facilitative leadership role in advancing shared print’s transition to a new phase of integration and interoperability (read more here). […]