Copley Library Annual Report 2017-2018

Digital USD Continues to Grow and Flourish

During the school year, items in Digital USD (digital.sandiego.edu) – the university’s online, open access collection of faculty and student scholar ship, creative work and institutional archival material – were downloaded nearly 60,000 times by people around the world.

Nearly 20,000 works now populate the repository. New items posted this year include:

• Guide to the 1992 and 1996 presidential debate records held by University Archives (http://digital.sandiego.edu/findingaidsur/28). • The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project, collaboration between Copley Library and the local community, documenting the history of lowriding and car clubs in San Diego beginning in the 1950s. (http://digital.sandiego.edu/lowriders) • Digitized copies of the university’s annual president’s reports dating back to the 1979-80 school year (http://digital.sandiego.edu/usd-annualreports/ and http:// digital.sandiego.edu/usd-presidentsreports) • Student exhibits at the 2018 Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference (http://digital.sandiego.edu/osp-researchweek/2018/ccurc) • French professor Michèle Magnin’s sabbatical research projects: curation and transcription of the work of French feminist journalists (http://digital.sandiego. edu/durand/ and http://digital.sandiego.edu/misme)

The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project memorabilia.

Explore these materials and more at digital.sandiego.edu.

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Annual Report | 2017-18