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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
