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In anticipation of the National Archives releasing the Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950 on April 1, 2022, we are highlighting a new collection curated from reports available in HathiTrust, the U.S. Census of Population: 1950. We expect that the 2022 release of the head of household primary source records will generate tremendous public […]

April 16, 2021

Contributed by Heather Weltin, Shared Print Program Officer “We are stronger and better when working together in most things, especially in preserving resources in the future.” - discussion attendee

March 18, 2021

By HathiTrust Federal Documents Advisory Committee

May 8, 2020

By Kristina Hall, Copyright Review Program Manager, HathiTrust Greg Cram, Associate Director of Copyright and Information Policy, New York Public Library

October 10, 2019

HathiTrust Shared Print Program - From Task Force Recommendations to Today By Heather Weltin, HathiTrust Shared Print Program Officer

August 22, 2019

Six months into the first year of implementing Strategic Directions 2019-2023, I want to share some highlights and take a look at where we are headed in the next six months. HathiTrust’s Strategic Directions, 2019-2023, reinforces our commitment to digital preservation and access, to our role as stewards of the cultural record, our interdependent success […]

August 6, 2019

By Angelina Zaytsev

May 16, 2019

Wealth of Agriculture Documents HathiTrust Digital Library is a trove of preserved agriculture documents and traditional or historical practices. Several institutions have made these items available using a Creative Commons license, including a recent release of more than 1,000 agricultural bulletins and reports published by Michigan State University’s Agriculture Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Office.

May 7, 2019

By Heather Christenson

April 10, 2019

  Marie’s inspiration for the “Prices and Wages by Decade” LibGuide was the well-worn, paperback copy of The Value of a Dollar. With the HathiTrust’s collection of digitized U.S. Federal Documents, as well as those maintained by FRASER (Federal Reserve database), Marie has been able to build the site using links to primary source documents […]

October 4, 2018