MORE 'HATHITRUST' POSTS
New HathiTrust Member: Lafayette College Becomes First Liberal Arts School to Join Organization
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
From a Lafayette College Announcement: Lafayette College [located in Easton, PA] has become the first liberal arts college to join HathiTrust, a cooperative of academic and research libraries seeking to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. “Lafayette’s membership in HathiTrust is an investment in the preservation of our own collections […]
An In-Depth Interview: "Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library"
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
Many questions about what HathiTrust does, how they do it, and how some use it, etc. they’re very likely going to be answered in this 2800 word interview published by Library Journal. Title: “Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians’ Digital Library” An Interview by Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges […]
University of Michigan Libraries: MLibrary Begins "First Serious Effort" to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
From a University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office Announcement: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are […]
The April 2011 HathiTrust Update is Now Available Online
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Resources
Direct to HathiTrust Update (April 2011) New PageTurner Online E-Reading Tool Enhanced Local Digitization Ingest “Michigan staff worked with Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Yale University, and the University of Illinois in April on ingest of locally-digitized volumes. We expect to begin ingest of volumes from Madrid in May, as well as the full set of […]
Audio: Listen Online + Slides: Recording of A Recent HathiTrust Open Webinar
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
You can access listen to the webinar and download the slides here. The webinar is an intro to HT. It was presented by Jeremy York, a Project Librarian at HathitTrust. The event took place on May 3rd and the second on May 5th. The program runs about 45 minutes. Slides loaded with numbers and graphics. […]
HathiTrust: Audio/Video/Slides From Two Recent Presentations By Members of the HathiTrust Team Now Online
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries
Presentation No. 1: Lunch and Learn: John Wilkin, Jon Stroop, and Marvin Bielawski on HathiTrust (Princeton U.) Title: “What is HathiTrust and How Can it Make a Difference? Direct to Slides ||| Direct to Audio From a Summary Article: John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at […]
"With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
From a Chronicle of Higher Ed. Report by Marc Perry: With the Google project in legal limbo, Indiana University and the University of Illinois are moving forward with plans to set up a similar research center [HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives] built around the archive maintained by the HathiTrust Digital Library, which […]
Indiana U. & U. of Illinois Launch HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
From an Indiana University Announcement: A new collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Repository, will help to meet this challenge by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HathiTrust Research […]
HathiTrust Certified as Trustworthy Repository
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Preservation, Reports, Resources
From a HathiTrust Announcement: HathiTrust has been certified as a trustworthy digital repository by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) through their rigorous Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) assessment program. Only a small number of digital repositories have been granted this certification. As our reliance on digital resources grows, the need for “long-lived” collections […]
