UC-Davis and CDL project examines the future of e-book lending
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UC-Davis and CDL project examines the future of e-book lending
The University of California (UC)–Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) are working on a project to explore the expansion of digitized book lending. UC-Davis, which lends more digitized books due to the pandemic, worked with the HathiTrust Digital Library Emergency temporary access service give titles. UC-Davis calls the preliminary evaluation of this experiment a “resounding success with professors and student users”. He announces the following:
Led by the UC Davis Library and the California Digital Library (CDL) and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UC has launched a survey of key questions regarding the future of e-book lending. …
The results of the project will be presented in a white paper and should lay the groundwork for broader work in the coming years to develop a comprehensive e-book delivery system for UC.
For more information, read the Press release.
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