Search Facet: Project LEND

For more information or to reach the project leadership, please contact projectlend@ucdavis.edu. Press inquiries only: Jessica Nusbaum, UC Davis Library, jlnusbaum@ucdavis.edu.

Staff and Partners  The two-year (2023-2024) project is being managed at the University of California Davis Library and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rice Majors, the associate university librarian for scholarly resources at UC Davis, is the … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unplanned large-scale experiment in digital access to scholarly books, including at the University of California Libraries. As campuses across North America and around the world closed in the early months of 2020, many libraries began … Read more

In January 2023, the University of California libraries launched a landmark research project – Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery) – to investigate the potential for expanded lawful use of digitized books held by academic and research libraries. The … Read more