Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Web Archiving Service Maintenance, Monday March 28
On Monday, March 28th the Web Archiving Service servers will undergo a scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will require a downtime for the service between 8 am and noon on Monday. During that time, public archives will remain accessible, but login […]
Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement Decision: UC and HathiTrust Responses
The UC libraries have issued a statement on the March 22, 2011 federal court decision regarding the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement. The statement is available on UC’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication website: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/google/settlement_decision.html HathiTrust’s response is available at http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_asa_response
Amazing times, social media
I work with web archiving full-time so you think that I’d be used to the web by now – but sometimes it can still strike me as strange. These have been amazing times in recent months, with revolutions and uprisings […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Kearny Street Workshop posters from UCSB
Students and researchers now have free access to 170 images of posters, artwork, and photographs documenting the work of the Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian/Pacific American community in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco. View them on Calisphere or the […]
HathiTrust WorldCat Local Discovery Tool
Today, OCLC and HathiTrust announced the release of a WorldCat Local-based interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library, currently containing more than 4 million records. The discovery interface is available at http://hathitrust.worldcat.org and will be updated on a regular basis. (Links […]
HathiTrust: 2010 Year in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager A special edition HathiTrust newsletter highlighting 2010 achievements and activities is now available. 2010 was quite a momentous year for our partnership; the membership of HathiTrust doubled to 52 institutions, and we’re approaching […]
Behind the Finding Aid: UCLA Library’s John Fante Papers
Researchers of literature and history can now delve into the life and work of John Fante (1909-1983), an Italian-American writer best known for his 1939 novel Ask the Dust. UCLA Library Special Collections has finished processing the author’s papers, and […]
Prototype interface released for searching archival authority records
CDL’s Digital Special Collections program is pleased to announce the public release of a draft prototype historical access system for the Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC). SNAC is a two-year research project, funded by the National Endowment for […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Images from UCSD’s Melanesian Archive
By Kathryn Creely, Melanesian Studies Librarian, UC San Diego and Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator. Take an “armchair voyage” to Oceania! Nearly 6,000 photographs depicting the people and places of the Pacific Islands are now available on the […]
New Features in the Web Archiving Service
CDL’s Web Archiving Service will be adding some exciting new features next week. Starting December 9th, WAS curators will be able to create topical browsing for public web archives using their own terminology. Researchers will be able to explore your […]