Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
The DAMS is live! UC Libraries Digital Collection Project reaches major milestone
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project has just reached the halfway point, and with it, a major milestone: the shared digital asset management system (DAMS) is now in production and ready for use by campus library staff! Watch our […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus Top 10 Publications
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: “Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten […]
WAS Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Storage. Work continues on migration of WAS storage to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). We are now moving the content at a rate of approximately 1 TB a day. Once it is all […]
It Takes a Village to Digitize a Library: UC Davis’ Mass Digitization Project Concludes
A year ago, UC Davis began sending out-of-copyright books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. The UC Davis team has sent more than 36,290 books to be digitized and […]
Introducing Nancy Hoebelheinrich — DPLA Project Coordinator
Please join us in welcoming Nancy Hoebelheinrich to the CDL, as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Project Coordinator. As part of a 9-month project (June 2014-February 2015) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and DPLA, Nancy will […]
HathiTrust – May 2014 Update
Highlights from HathiTrust’s May update: HathiTrust released a statement on the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Appeal Ruling. The HathiTrust Research Center released a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter of a million volumes. Interest in ingesting […]
The Shipment that Launched 3.6+ Million Digitized Books: NRLF Celebrates Major Accomplishment
In October 2006, NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility) sent the first shipment of UC books to Google to be digitized. This shipment launched the University of California’s participation in the Google Books Library Project which has since digitized more than 3.64 […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Digital Library Appellate Court Ruling
The University of California Libraries join with our HathiTrust colleagues in welcoming the decision by the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals that key services of the HathiTrust Digital Library – digitization for the purpose of full-text searching […]
UC Special Collections Highlighted
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing […]
HathiTrust – April Update
Highlights from April’s HathiTrust Update: HathiTrust is seeking nominations for the User Support Working Group. The group is looking to add up to two new members who have expertise in providing general user support with expertise in cataloging in particular. To submit nominations […]