July 10, 2019
The UC San Diego Library is embarking on a new effort with the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to co-create a blueprint for the first nationally Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) service for private and sensitive data. This initiative was recently awarded a one-year, $87,384 grant by the Institute of Museum and…
August 20, 2014
…with proceeds benefiting the UC San Diego Library’s collections and services, which support student and faculty research and teaching. The evening’s festivities will include dinner and cocktails, a silent auction, and a keynote talk from internationally recognized biographer Noël Riley Fitch on “Sharing Julia Child’s Appetite for Life.” Fitch wrote…
February 17, 2021
Data curators at the UC San Diego Library have the privilege of working with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library’s Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of some of these research data sets has inspired the Library’s Research Data…
February 5, 2019
…a collaboration between the UC San Diego Library, UC Santa Barbara, Emory University, Northwestern University and DuraSpace — will design tools that will enable libraries and archives to seamlessly deposit content into distributed digital preservation systems (DDPs), update that content over time and reliably restore content if needed. The design…
February 25, 2021
…1930. Image courtesy of UC San Diego Library, Special Collections & Archives. UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections and Archives Acquires its First African Americana Collection Collection chronicles the African American experience post-Civil War and documents migration West A photo of “Reuben the Guide,” a San Diego resident well-known for…
October 25, 2016
The UC San Diego Library has joined KPBS, the San Diego Public Library, San Diego County Library, and other local partners in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the popular One Book, One San Diego community reading program, an initiative launched in San Diego to encourage a shared reading experience focused…
October 29, 2013
…award-winning television station, the UC San Diego Library has launched a new channel on UCTV. The new channel offers content on a wide range of Library and campus activities, including special events, faculty and author lectures, innovative programs, special and digital collections, and other Library and University initiatives. The initial…
August 17, 2015
…with proceeds supporting the UC San Diego Library’s collections, services and learning spaces. Festivities will include dinner and cocktails, a silent auction and a keynote talk from Sarah Thomas, vice president for the Harvard Library. “The UC San Diego Library plays a vital role in supporting the university’s world-renowned research…
July 23, 2015
…Audrey Geisel to the UC San Diego Library’s Dr. Seuss Collection, the primary repository for Theodor Seuss Geisel’s creative works. The Library’s Mandeville Special Collections houses more than 15,000 items in its Dr. Seuss Collection, including original drawings, sketches, manuscript drafts, books, notebooks, photographs and memorabilia, documenting the full range…
June 8, 2020
…100 volumes in the UC San Diego Library’s American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF) Culinary Collection. Spearheaded by Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), this digitization project has allowed the Library to share historic and rarely seen cookbooks, manuscripts, and pamphlets featuring advertisements for food products—some materials dating back to…
