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  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

HathiTrust has reached a tremendous milestone in the history of HathiTrust and the HathiTrust Research Center’s services.

September 20, 2018

By Paul Fogel, Manager & Technical Lead, Mass Digitization, California Digital Library California historical legislative research just got a bit easier. As a result of a collaboration between the California Office of Legislative Counsel and librarians at the University of California, Stanford University and the California State Library, nearly 4,000 California Assembly and Senate publications are […]

September 7, 2018

Prior to becoming the Head of Government Information & Data Archives at the University of Missouri (HathiTrust member since 2011), Marie Concannon spent ten years at the State Historical Society of Missouri. A self-proclaimed history lover and purveyor of government sources, she enjoyed answering visitor questions such as ‘What did such-and-such cost in such-and-such time period?’ […]

September 7, 2018

By Valerie Glenn, Federal Documents Analyst, and Heather Christenson, Program Officer for Federal Documents and Collections As reported previously, the HathiTrust US Federal Documents Program has been conducting a user needs investigation to learn more about users of HathiTrust’s federal documents. As part of this investigation, in April 2018 the HathiTrust Federal Documents Team conducted […]

June 20, 2018

By HathiTrust “I want to understand how reformers in Britain and Denmark in the 18th and 19th centuries thought about education and I use computational linguistics techniques applied to literature to do so.” In Her Own Words: Research Summary Despite their nineteenth-century political economies, poor, rural Denmark becomes a leader in public, mass primary education (1814) and secondary […]

April 2, 2018

By Mike Furlough, Executive Director Last summer we began work to define HathiTrust’s next strategic directions for 2019-2023.  We published a draft plan in late summer, then held several webcasts to discuss these proposals with members.   At our 2017 Member Meeting we devoted nearly the entire day to these issues and left tremendously energized by […]

February 28, 2018

By Sandra McIntyre, Director of Services & Operations Working with the library staff at Macalester College, we have successfully set up log-in access to HathiTrust member services for the first time using OpenAthens rather than Shibboleth for providing information about users’ identities.

February 28, 2018

By Angelina Zaytsev The HathiTrust collection experienced continued growth in 2017.

February 18, 2018

"The Roaring 20's returned to Atlanta, Georgia, on October 24-28, 1970.” This sentence appeared not in the style section of the Atlanta newspaper but at the start of an interoffice memo between Internal Revenue Service offices. The full memo and the backstory can be found in the six millionth openly available item deposited in HathiTrust, digitized by the University of California, Riverside.

January 31, 2018