Tag: Mass Digitization
Viewing HathiTrust Books Just Got Better
Would you like to scan the contents of a book at a glance? This is now possible with HathiTrust’s upgrade to its pageturner functionality. The recent enhancements were developed collaboratively by CDL’s Stephanie Collett and staff at the University of […]
HathiTrust Webinar Available Online
Is your 52 volume set of Voltaire checked out but someone else needs to use it? HathiTrust to the rescue! Want to learn more about HathiTrust, how it’s governed, what it contains and how people use it? HathiTrust partners participated […]
Heather Christenson In Print
CDL’s Heather Christenson has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) entitled, “HathiTrust; A Research Library at Web Scale.” The article, in vol. 52 (2), pages 93-102, discusses the challenges digitized collections present to research libraries. Congratulations, Heather!
Five UC Campuses now Shibboleth Enabled, Making Downloading of HathiTrust Materials Easier
Five University of California campuses, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego, are now Shibboleth enabled for access to HathiTrust advanced services. Shibboleth is open source software for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows […]
GBS at the Crossroads: What Now, What Next?
One year ago last February just days before the Google Books Settlement Fairness Hearing, I wrote a blogpost fancifully titled Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Book Settlement Be Approved? In the ensuing weeks and months as we […]
Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement Decision: UC and HathiTrust Responses
The UC libraries have issued a statement on the March 22, 2011 federal court decision regarding the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement. The statement is available on UC’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication website: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/google/settlement_decision.html HathiTrust’s response is available at http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_asa_response
UC Libraries Digitize 3,000,000 Books
The Mass Digitization team at CDL is proud to announce that the 3,000,000th volume has been digitized from the collections of the University of California libraries! Reaching this milestone has involved the work of many dedicated people across the UC […]
The Story of the Digital Book [Video]
>Millions of books from the UC Libraries have been digitized, but how? Go behind the scenes to learn about the UC Libraries’ digitization process and see several ways you can use these newly digital books. “The Story of the Digital […]
HathiTrust Update
Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC's Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well. At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125, and this number grows weekly.