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UC Libraries HathiTrust Newsletter for May 2023 – Now Posted!

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 by Renata Ewing

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 … Read more

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Danielle Watters Westbrook is appointed CDL’s Director of Systemwide Library Planning

May 16, 2023May 12, 2023 by Guenter Waibel

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 … Read more

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February 2023 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 by Renata Ewing

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 … Read more

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Investigating a Better UC Ebook Reading Experience

February 9, 2023January 11, 2023 by Lena Zentall

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 … Read more

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Introducing the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter

February 9, 2023November 4, 2022 by Renata Ewing

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 … Read more

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Thousands of older dissertations from UCSF newly available in eScholarship

September 12, 2022July 13, 2022 by Katie Fortney

(c) University of California 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 … Read more

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Public Domain Expansion 2022: Highlights of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernist Writers in HathiTrust’s Newly Opened Volumes

July 5, 2022February 14, 2022 by Renata Ewing

Illustration by Ernest H. Shepard published in Winnie the Pooh 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 … Read more

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UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books

July 5, 2022February 14, 2022 by CDL

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 … Read more

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UC Davis Contacts Alumni Authors in Successful Project to Open Theses and Dissertations for Worldwide Access

July 5, 2022February 1, 2022 by Renata Ewing

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 … Read more

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Introducing Digital Preservation Leadership and thanking past members of the Working Group

July 5, 2022January 18, 2022 by CDL

Dear UC Library colleagues We are writing to inform you of the newly formed Digital Preservation Leadership Group (DPLG) within the UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS)  structure. This group is charged by the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) to lead … Read more

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