Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Uncovering California’s Environmental Collections
Researchers worldwide will soon have access to previously inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, and other rich archival materials related to California’s environmental history.
HathiTrust Large Scale Search
Effective November 18th, the HathiTrust Digital Library is now providing full-text searching capabilities across the entire library of 4.6 million volumes (1.6 billion pages) in the collection.
Follow John Muir on Twitter and Facebook
This December, hear renowned California writer and naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) in his own words as he travels to California, encounters Yosemite for the first time, and works to preserve the open land he calls home.
Web Archiving Resource: IIPC "Active Solutions"
In September the California Digital Library hosted the 2009 iPRES digital preservation conference in San Francisco. In conjunction with iPRES, the International Internet Preservation Consortium hosted a one-day open session: Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content. The presentations from that […]
John Muir Correspondence: On Calisphere, OAC and Web 2.0
CDL’s Digital Special Collections, The Bancroft Library, and The University of the Pacific Library are pleased to announce the availability on the OAC and Calisphere of over 6,500 letters from the correspondence of John Muir, 1838-1914.
New Look, Enhanced Services for eScholarship, UC’s open access digital publishing service launches new site October 19
Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, eScholarship Publishing Program eScholarship (www.escholarship.org) launched a redesigned website October 19 with a substantial array of digital publishing services for the University of California scholarly community and a dynamic research platform for scholars worldwide. […]
Web Archiving Resource: Library of Congress Video
The Library of Congress has prepared a brief video to convey the need for web archiving and to describe web archiving efforts at LC. This video provides a good introduction to the collection, access and technological challenges faced by web […]
Another way to explore Calisphere: find us on Facebook!
CDL’s Digital Special Collections Program is excited to announce that we have created a Calisphere page on Facebook. Facebook pages enable organizations to promote their services and connect with individuals. We’ll be using the page to engage educators, students, and the general public.
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse graphic materials documenting local people, place, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The […]
UC Berkeley contributes 28,000 architecture images to UC Shared Images
The Visual Resources Center at the College of Environmental Design (CED) at UC Berkeley has added more than 28,000 images to the UC Shared Images collections. The images, which represent a third of the Center’s entire digital collection, document the built environment from the pre-historical period to the early 21st century.