UCSF has been working with the California Digital Library on the large-scale, long-term digital preservation repository by testing and refining automated processes and protocols to deposit material in the CDL repository. The Library has begun to archive digital source material from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library into the preservation repository. (Sponsor: CDL)

With funding from the CDL, the Library completed a two-year effort to create digital images of the Library's collection of 400+ Japanese woodblock prints for the purposes of both preservation and greater access. This effort involved collaboration with the CDL, UC Merced, and UC Berkeley. The digital images are accessible via the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection website and the University of California's Calisphere. (Sponsor: CDL)

The Library's Archives and Special Collections unit is collaborating with the GLBT Historical Society on a project to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical records that document California's response to the AIDS epidemic. An archivist is currently processing 20 archival collections at UCSF. The Library anticipates acquiring additional records from the UCSF AIDS Health Project and the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies to process in the second year of the project. (Sponsor: National Historical Publications and Records Commission)

With support from the CDL's eScholarship program, the Library has been working with UCSF faculty to develop technical infrastructure and services to collect, preserve, and provide access to faculty collections of slides, video, and other multimedia material used in teaching activities utilizing the Luna Insight Software. (Sponsor: CDL)

The CKM is engaged in a multi-year project funded by the National Library of Medicine to develop an open-source toolkit for building institutional digital multimedia repositories. The tool will be available in Spring 2006 and will allow faculty to upload multimedia resources, catalog, and organize resources into albums. (Sponsor: National Library of Medicine)

With support from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), the Library is preserving tobacco industry multimedia materials (video and audio recordings) held in a variety of locations: a depository in Minnesota that is scheduled to close at the end of 2008, the Guildford Depository located near London, England, housing BAT documents, and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In July 2008, the Library acquired videos from the US Smokeless Tobacco Company. This project involves processing, metadata creation, and uploading multimedia resources to the Internet Archive. (Sponsor: TRDRP)

Library programmers developed a system to create searchable PDF files for millions of tobacco document images using optical character recognition (OCR) software running on PCs in the Library's student computer labs. The system became fully operational in December 2004. Approximately 16 million of 41 million files have been processed to date. (Sponsor: National Cancer Institute)

In Fall 2004, the Library launched the British American Tobacco Documents Archive, a digital archive that now provides access to approximately 2 million digital surrogates of British American Tobacco documents held in a depository in Guildford, England. This effort was completed in 2008 and all records were integrated into the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. (Sponsor: Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute)

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library was developed by the UCSF Library with the support of the American Legacy Foundation. It now contains approximately 51 million pages in 9.7 million documents. In addition to continually harvesting recently released documents from tobacco industry websites, the team recently added a collection of depositions and transcripts, a collection of documents from the US Smokeless Tobacco Company, and fully integrated the BAT documents from the British American Tobacco Documents Library into LTDL to provide a comprehensive search of all collections. (Sponsor: American Legacy Foundation)