HathiTrust: An author never forgets
“Dean of Libraries Paul Courant tossed an academic journal on a table in his office. The earwax-colored front cover read: The National Tax Journal, March 1980. “Read that for as long as you can before...
View ArticleHathiTrust and Digital Public Library of America as the future
“By the beginning of the 21st century, several trends in the evolution of libraries had emerged-collaboration was a key to survival; technology would play an integral role; library as “place” would...
View ArticleLibrarians and Colleges File Briefs Backing HathiTrust
“Coalitions of librarians and colleges and universities filed friend of the court briefs Tuesday supporting the HathiTrust in a lawsuit in which authors’ groups charge that the digital repository is...
View ArticleBrown University Library Joins HathiTrust Partnership
“Brown University Library has become the newest member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library...
View ArticleDigital Library Boosters Take Aim at Critics
Google’s plan for a vast digital library is “the kind of project that the fair use doctrine was designed to protect,” three nonprofits told the 2nd Circuit. Beginning in 2008, major universities and...
View ArticleHathiTrust to partner with DPLA
“The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available...
View ArticleAuthors Guild Warns Of ‘Dark Underbelly Of Mass Digitization’
“The Authors Guild, which is battling the book storage project HathiTrust in court, now says that digitization of books in and of itself can pose a risk to authors, given how easily digital books can...
View Article1.7 million titles from HathiTrust now live on DPLA homepage
“At the start of the summer we announced the introduction of the HathiTrust Digital Library as a DPLA Content Hub. Now, with the summer winding down, we’re excited to share that 1.7 million metadata...
View ArticleHow the HathiTrust Digital Library Handles 11 Million Digitized Volumes
“Digitization is a widely used means of preservation reformatting for print and analog materials, especially with the large-scale capabilities that efforts such as the Google Books Project and the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Bibliographic Metadata Management System
“HathiTrust is pleased to announce the release of a new, state-of-the-art bibliographic management system for its 11-million volume digital repository. The new system, called Zephir, is developed and...
View ArticleUA Libraries Join HathiTrust
“The University of Alabama has become one of the newest partners of Hathitrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and...
View ArticleUMass Amherst Libraries Join HathiTrust Partnership
“The UMass Amherst Libraries has become one of the newest partners of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital...
View ArticleMike Furlough Selected To Be Executive Director of HathiTrust
“The HathiTrust Board of Governors is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Furlough as the Executive Director of HathiTrust. Furlough comes to HathiTrust from The Pennsylvania State University,...
View ArticleThe Universal Library Is Us: Library Work at Scale in HathiTrust
“When major research libraries pooled resources in 2008 to launch HathiTrust—today one of the largest collaborative library initiatives in the world—they knew that they were on to something big. For...
View ArticleUniversity of Rochester Libraries join HathiTrust
“The University of Rochester Libraries have become one of the newest members of HathiTrust, a worldwide partnership of more than one hundred major research institutions and libraries working to...
View ArticleUO Libraries Joins HathiTrust
“The University of Oregon has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary initiative to preserve and provide access...
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