Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
UC Libraries Digital Collection Project wins 2016 Sautter Award
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) project has won a Larry L. Sautter Golden Award for Innovation in Information Technology. The annual award, which is sponsored by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council, recognizes “collaborative innovations in IT that advance […]
CDL receives LSTA grant funding to expand access to more collections through Calisphere
CDL is pleased to announce that we have received funding to expand our metadata harvesting operations for Calisphere, enabling us to aggregate and provide even more comprehensive access to unique digital resources from across the state of California. The initiative […]
Introducing: Calisphere exhibitions!
Join a civil rights protest. Marvel at the engineering of an early car. Get a glimpse of what life was like for people throughout history. Calisphere’s new “exhibitions” invite researchers and general users to get up close and personal with the remarkable […]
Calisphere exceeds half a million items!
“The deeper you look, the more you’ll discover.” Today, the Calisphere motto rings particularly true, as we celebrate the growth of the collection to over half a million items! (Or 530,711, to be exact.) Recent additions include the Gold […]
Rosalie Lack moves to UCLA Library
Rosalie Lack, CDL’s Web Archiving Coordinator, has accepted a position with the UCLA library. Her last day at the CDL will be May 24. During her time with the CDL, Rosalie has demonstrated a strong commitment to the success of […]
CDL Welcomes Conclusion of Authors Guild v. Google
CDL welcomes the conclusion of the Authors Guild’s decade long lawsuit against Google. The suit came to an end April 18th when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild’s Appeal of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision […]
University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to build open source monograph publishing platform
From the OSC blog post… California Digital Library and University of California Press are excited to announce their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. Through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of California […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project Win’s ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) is the American Library Association’s 2016 winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. The award recognizes CRMS’ dedication to creating a “balanced U.S. Copyright system through advocacy for a robust fair use doctrine […]
CDL’s Adrian Turner wins Archival Award of Excellence
CDL is delighted to announce that Adrian Turner has won the prestigious Archival Award of Excellence from the California Historical Records Advisory Board. Adrian received the award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in removing barriers to […]