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UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for December 2023 Now Posted
The final UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter of 2023 is now posted: The December newsletter features articles on UC’s 90,000 theses and dissertations in HathiTrust, Dear Zephir’s insights into how records are clustered in HathiTrust search, and an introduction to HathiTrust’s […]
A fond farewell to Lena Zentall
Please join the California Digital Library (CDL) in celebrating the incredible 22-year career of our much admired colleague, Lena Zentall, who will retire from the University on January 3, 2024. Lena joined the CDL in 2002 and has worked in […]
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 […]
Upcoming Shared Print Events
Shared Print Actions: Terminology follow up discussions The Shared Print Metadata Guidelines (SPMG) working group hosted a public webinar on November 7 to formally introduce the draft terminology as well as plans for approving it across the shared print community. […]
WEST Cycles 14 & 15 Unarchived Holdings Ingest is Complete!
In September WEST distributed a call to members to submit files of their unarchived print journal and serial holdings to seed the Cycles 14 & 15 collections analysis. Members’ files have been received and ingested in AGUA, completing the first […]
Shared Print Publication: A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections
In September, College & Research Libraries published the much-anticipated “A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections.” This paper is the culmination of work in the Partnership for Shared Book Collections into risk […]
Farewell to Maria Gould
California Digital Library (CDL) announces that, effective January 16, 2024, Maria Gould will be departing CDL and embarking on a new journey as Director of Product at DataCite. We’re thrilled for her and wish her nothing but success in this […]
Update on Merging the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections
In the spring of 2023, the Rosemont and Partnership Executive Committees endorsed a recommendation to merge the business and operations of the two federations to create a single organization to coordinate further development of shared print collection management and information […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – November 2023
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for November 2023 New Content and […]
SCP Update – November 2023
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2023 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 575 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 232 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings: 52 JSTOR Books DDA: 272 Oxford Scholarship Online 2023 Frontlist: 43 (GOBI) […]