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Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization

HathiTrust Webinar Available Online

Is your 52 volume set of Voltaire checked out but someone else needs to use it?  HathiTrust to the rescue! Want to learn more about HathiTrust, how it’s governed, what it contains and how people use it?  HathiTrust partners participated […]

The LGBT Pride Parade: New on Calisphere

Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce a new themed collection topic on Calisphere. The topic features images of the 1977 and 1978 Lesbian and Gay Pride Parades in San Francisco. View it now! The images in this topic depict […]

Heather Christenson In Print

CDL’s Heather Christenson has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) entitled, “HathiTrust; A Research Library at Web Scale.”  The article,  in vol. 52 (2), pages 93-102, discusses the challenges digitized collections present to research libraries. Congratulations, Heather!

Five UC Campuses now Shibboleth Enabled, Making Downloading of HathiTrust Materials Easier

Five University of California campuses, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego, are now Shibboleth enabled for access to HathiTrust advanced services.   Shibboleth is open source software for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows […]

Preview of Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features

A recording of our recent web-conference session on Forthcoming Web Archiving Service Features: QA Tools, Duplicate Reduction and Search Enhancements (http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=5xb4sl) is now available.  This 60 minute demo covers: WAS Roadmap: new features in context of overall direction for the […]

Web Archiving Service: Blog Posts and Articles

We’d like to alert you to two recent write-ups of the Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org) that cover both an initial evaluation and an in-depth examination of extensive use of the service.  Chris Prom provides a Web Archiving Service Evaluation in […]

California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.0

The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content.  XTF provides efficient and practical […]

Recently Released: University of Michigan Web Archive

Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partners at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan have made their comprehensive archive of university websites available to the public.  The University of Michigan Web Archive (http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/universityofmichigan) contains 490 archived sites from the umich.edu domain, […]

April Web Archiving Service Workshops (14th, 19th & 25th)

The California Digital Library will be offering two introductory Web Archiving Service sessions in April and another session to preview forthcoming enhancements to the service. Web Archiving Service Introduction Sessions On April 14th and again on the 25th at 9:30 […]

GBS at the Crossroads: What Now, What Next?

One year ago last February just days before the Google Books Settlement Fairness Hearing, I wrote a blogpost fancifully titled Hurtling Toward the Finish Line:  Should the Google Book Settlement Be Approved? In the ensuing weeks and months as we […]