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Popular LibGuide Draws on HathiTrust Repository: Unleashing the Power of U.S. Federal Documents
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
Findings from the Federal Documents User Needs Survey
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
Interview with Boston University Professor & HathiTrust Researcher Cathie Jo Martin
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
Charting HathiTrust’s Strategic Directions: Update
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
Accessing Members-only Services with OpenAthens instead of Shibboleth
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
HathiTrust’s Six Millionth Open Book Highlights Congressional Investigations
"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
HathiTrust Libraries Propose to Retain More Than 16 Million Volumes in Shared Print Program
Fifty HathiTrust member libraries have proposed to retain more than 16 million volumes for 25 years under the HathiTrust Shared Print Program. These volumes correspond to more than 4.8 million individual book titles held in the HathiTrust Digital Library (about 65% of all HathiTrust digital monographs). This is a significant step toward the primary goal of the program: to ensure that print copies of all HathiTrust digital holdings remain available to scholars for many years to come. The Shared Print Program is a core program of HathiTrust, supported by and benefiting all of the more than 120 HathiTrust members.
June 29, 2017