Mass Digitization News Archive

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Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project (November 2023)

Librarians are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected by Copyright Law: Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library 02/09/23

Museums and herbarium books available online 03/07/23

Fair Use Week 2023: Looking Back at Google Books Eight Years Later 02/24/23 

University of California to Research Expanded Access to Digitized Books: Mellon Foundation Providing $1.1M in Support 01/10/23

How one digital book led to an important COVID-19 discovery 12/14/22

Why we are doubling down on digitizing books: Flexibility and ease of use for research, accessibility, emergency preparedness, and elevating diverse voices 11/29/22

The Data-Sitters’ HathiTrust Mistake 11/10/22

RUSA Update: Interview with Marie Concannon 08/17/22

Digitization, open access and the internet aid UCLA’s return of books looted by Nazis: Repatriation of Judaica texts serves as catalyst for UCLA Library-hosted symposium 05/12/22

What’s in the Hathi Trust? 02/03/22

A digital library worth checking out 12/14/21

Online ILR publications open up wealth of workplace wisdom 6/16/21

Creating data: a guided tour of the digital library 

How temporary access to a digital library helps students during pandemic 08/07/20

HathiTrust: A digital library revolution takes flight 05/13/20

Research Library Digitization Has Found Its Moment: Long-term Investments Pay Off and Provide Lessons for the Future 04/21/20

University libraries offer online “lending” of scanned in-copyright books 04/07/20

Rochford: Getting through the semester as history major 02/16/20

Commentary: Fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral can be ‘saved’ another way: digitally 02/26/20

He was the father of anti-Semitic publishing in America 02/05/20

The HathiTrust Digital Library’s potential for musicology research 01/23/20

Increasing Access with Google Books 11/13/19

Rhetorics of Care and Madness: Nursing Mental Illness and Disability, 1880-1925 09/24/19

How Capitalism Changed American Literature, 07/17/2019

Digital Library Opens Avenues for Data Analysis in Academic Research 04/22/2019

Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project 03/04/19

A Forgotten Botanist’s Stunning 19th-Century Manuscript Is Now Online 02/05/2019

University librarian recognized for achievements in library automation 02/06/2019

Copyright expiration releases works to the world 01/30/2019

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain 01/2019

It’s surprisingly easy to make government records public on Google Books 04/12/2018

• StoryCorps: Mary Sue Coleman and Paul Courant Discuss the birth of Google Books and HathiTrust 04/09/2018
• Interview with Boston University Professor & HathiTrust Researcher Cathie Jo Martin 04/02/2018
• Digital Age’ Librarian from Berkeley to Lead UC San Diego Libraries 02/27/2018
• University Libraries are purging millions of books 03/23/2018
• Machines are getting better at literary analysis 03/08/2018
• Professor uses big data to research history of gender in fiction 02/28/2018
• The HathiTrust Federal Documents Program: Towards a Digital U.S. Federal Documents Library at Scale 01/2018
• A century of agriculture research goes online 05/18/2017
• AAP praises wisdom of HathiTrust and Google Books Decisions 05/18/2017
• UCSD librarian marries print and digital in perfect union 03/21/2017
• What happened to Google’s effort to scan millions of university library books? 08/10/2017
• Set Your Agricultural Publications Free in the HathiTrust Repository 12/29/2016
• Beyond Google Books: Getting Locally-Digitized Material into HathiTrust, 06/04/2015
• UC San Diego: Books and Bytes, Fall 2014
• University Librarian reflects on a transformative era, 07/29/2014
• What does the Hathitrust Decision Mean for Libraries?, 07/07/2014
• HathiTrust: Insights from Behind the Scenes on the User Support Working Group, 06/25/2014
• Locate Landowner Maps in Digitized Book Collections, 05/31/2014
• Authors Guild Appeals Dismissal of Google Books Lawsuit, 04/16/2014
• The HathiTrust: how fair use is enabling new kinds of access to knowledge in our digital world. Interview with Mike Furlough, 04/03/2014
• Penn State librarian named executive director of HathiTrust, 03/13/14
• HathiTrust doesn’t monkey around with metadata management, 12/03/13
• Siding With Google, Judge Says Book Search Does Not Infringe Copyright, 11/14/13
• Checking in with Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA, 11/2013
• Rare Oceanography Collections at UCSD Now Digitized, Library Journal, 5/27/2010
• UCSD Joins with Google to Digitize Books, KPBS San Diego, 04/02/08
• UC library books are being turned into bits, 02/10/08
• UC libraries partner with Google to digitize books. Press Release, 08/09/06