Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
UC HathiTrust Update & News
by Heather Christenson, HathiTrust Project Manager, CDL August Activities As the academic year begins, the HathiTrust Update on August Activities provides a report on what the HathiTrust partnership has been up to during the not-so-lazy days of summer. A number […]
Vertical Search Demo submitted to Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint
CDL has submitted a Vertical Search Demo (http://crawlspace.cdlib.org/) to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Beta Sprint project. The Beta Sprint issued a call for ideas and prototypes for the DPLA, which is envisioned as a “large-scale digital public […]
ARTstor Digital Library: New Features / User Registration for Image Downloads
ARTstor recently announced a number of new features and enhancements to the ARTstor Digital Library, in time for the fall semester and quarter: Filter search results by Time Period, Classification, and Geography Choose the number of thumbnails displayed Mouse-over to […]
UC Libraries expand access to orphan works
The University of California Libraries will join with the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of “orphan works” (http://www.lib.umich.edu/orphan-works) within the holdings of the HathiTrust […]
John Muir letters highlighted in new Calisphere Themed Collection topic
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the release of a new Themed Collection topic on Calisphere: The Letters of John Muir. The topic features 22 letters between Muir and notable contemporaries such as Asa Gray, Robert Underwood Johnson, Ralph […]
HathiTrust Constitutional Convention; 3-year Review
A HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over 3 days, attended by delegates from each partner institution and consortium. The sessions will be […]
HathiTrust – It Just Gets Better
HathiTrust full-text search now leverages the richness of bibliographic data, and building and searching collections just got easier! Read on for more details of what this means for researchers. Full-text Search The HathiTrust full-text search index now includes bibliographic data, […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2010-2011 Local History Digital […]
New Calisphere features enable better image discovery and browsing
Two recent enhancements to the Calisphere interface, plus the release of a slideshow widget for contributors, provide new ways to discover and view the more than 220,000 images in the collection. “More like this” Every image on Calisphere now includes […]
Mark Twain Project Online Receives Award for Best Reference Web Site 2011
The Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO), a joint project of the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press, was selected as one of the MARS Best Free Reference […]