CDLINFO News: Mass Digitization

HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more

March 12, 2012  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management … More

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HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes

January 6, 2012  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

HathiTrust reached a major milestone on January 5, 2012, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain. Read … More

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Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service

December 1, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections.  Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these … More

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Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?

Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users.   For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are … More

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HathiTrust Update, September 2011 – Constitutional Convention and much more

October 17, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

 Read the latest about the recent HathiTrust Constitutional Convention (with wide UC library participation), HathiTrust Mobile, Authors Guild Lawsuit, and a whole host of other initiatives in the latest HathiTrust … More

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HathiTrust Constitutional Convention Ballot Proposals and More

September 26, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

As reported in August, a HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over three … More

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Reading 5 Million Books at Once: Google N-Grams at TEDxBoston

September 22, 2011  |  Category:  Mass Digitization,Technology  |  Author: 

Google has digitized millions of books from libraries across the world, including the UC Libraries. While our digitized books are great for traditional reading and research, the corpus also offers … More

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UC HathiTrust Update & News

September 9, 2011  |  Category:  Discovery & Delivery,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

by Heather Christenson, HathiTrust Project Manager, CDL August Activities As the academic year begins, the HathiTrust Update on August Activities provides a report on what the HathiTrust partnership has been … More

UC Libraries expand access to orphan works

August 24, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter,Press Releases  |  Author: 

The University of California Libraries will join with the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions … More

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HathiTrust Constitutional Convention; 3-year Review

August 10, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

A HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over 3 days, attended by delegates … More

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