Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Farewell Rosalie Lack
By Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development & Management Rosalie Lack will be leaving the CDL in early March for an exciting new opportunity as Deputy Director of an international non-profit library consortium called eIFL.net (http://www.eifl.net/ ). Her last day […]
Finding and teaching with images using ARTstor
By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator As the new semester ramps up, we thought it was a good time to remind you about the wealth of digital images available on ARTstor. New content and features are always being […]
Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As […]
HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
Web Archive Discovery: Memento Implementation Meeting
On February 2-3, members of the California Digital Library Web archiving team took part in a working meeting of the Memento Project, hosted by the Internet Archive. Led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Old Dominion University (ODU), […]
New Name for CDL’s Digital Collection of UC Press Titles
by Elise Proulx Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing GroupThe digital scholarly monograph collection formerly known as eScholarship Editions has been renamed “UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2008” (www.escholarship.org/editions). A joint project of UC Press and the California Digital Library’s Publishing Group, […]
Major Report on Scholarly Communication Needs & Practices Now Available in eScholarship
by Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty […]
Luna Insight collections: transitioning access in January 2010
By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director The CDL has transitioned the access of several image collections from CDL’s version of the Luna Insight service to other entry points. This decision is a result of a recent analysis of […]
Mass Digitization Projects Update: 2009 in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries’ made great progress in mass digitization of books in 2009, despite significant fiscal challenges. In April 2009 we reached a major milestone: over 2 million books digitized! In August […]
Web Archiving Service: Revised Site
On Thursday January 21, the California Digital Library launched a redesigned Web Archiving Service home page: http://was.cdlib.org. The new design integrates information about both web archives and curatorial tools, so that people visiting the site can easily get information about […]