Category: UC Libraries News
Investigating a better UC ebook reading experience: Phase 1 report
The UC Palace Project Team completed their phase 1 investigation of the Palace ebook reading platform in summer 2023 and submitted a report to the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) in fall 2023. DOC endorsed the report recommendations at their […]
UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for May 2023 – Now Posted!
The UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for Q2 2023 is now posted. It highlights three new articles in the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center, including: a celebration of UC San Diego’s Mass Contributions to HathiTrust, the new Dear Zephir advice column for […]
Danielle Watters Westbrook is appointed CDL’s Director of Systemwide Library Planning
I am delighted to announce Danielle Watters Westbrook has been appointed as CDL’s Director of Systemwide Library Planning with a start date of May 15th, a position that provides collaborative leadership to the UC Libraries in support of our shared […]
February 2023 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!
The latest newsletter for the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center is now posted. It highlights news and information about UC’s participation in and contributions to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The newsletter is intended for UC library staff and others working […]
Investigating a Better UC Ebook Reading Experience
If you are a library patron, reading an ebook on your phone or tablet is hard. That’s because, depending on the publisher, different ebooks require different reading apps. To get around this problem, the New York Public Library developed an […]
Introducing the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter
The inaugural issue of the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter was published October 28. This new quarterly publication will provide news and information about UC’s participation in and contributions to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The newsletter will keep UC […]
Thousands of older dissertations from UCSF newly available in eScholarship
Over three thousand dissertations and theses digitized from UCSF’s archives, originally submitted to the university between 1965 and 2006, were added to eScholarship this year. These titles cover topics as disparate as the pregnancy experiences of black women, AIDS and identity in the gay […]
Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust’s Newly Opened Volumes
On January 1, 2022 the public domain expanded in the United States to include works published in 1926. This is only the fourth expansion of the US public domain since 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act increased […]
UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books
Digitized books have become increasingly popular in recent years, and for university libraries and scholars, the first 18 months of the pandemic threw their value into sharp relief. As campuses across the country closed, many libraries began offering expanded access […]
UC Davis Contacts Alumni Authors in Successful Project to Open Theses and Dissertations for Worldwide Access
This article is based on the transcript from the HathiTrust Slack Pop-up held December 16, 2021 and the Dissertation Licensing in HathiTrust: Webinar & Virtual Chat held January 19, 2022. Both featured Sara Gunasekara from UC Davis, and Kristina Hall […]