By Heather Christenson
March 20, 2017
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By Brandon Butler
February 24, 2017
by Sandra McIntyre
Thirty-eight HathiTrust staff members met February 2-3 in Chicago for the first-ever HathiTrust all-sites staff workshop. The attendees included managers, librarians, developers, systems administrators, and graduate students who work at HathiTrust’s distributed sites, including the sites at the University of Michigan, University of California, Indiana University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
February 22, 2017
By Angelina Zaytsev, Collection Services Librarian
The HathiTrust collection continues to grow steadily. As of January 1st, 2017, there are 14,816,187 volumes in the collection. Over one million volumes were added to the collection over the course of the preceding year, scanned from the library collections of 39 contributors. These included several new, unique collections, such as:
February 10, 2017
By Mike Furlough
Note: This message was sent to HathiTrust members on December 20, 2016
December 21, 2016
Written by Mike Furlough
Note: this is the lightly edited text of a talk presented at the 2016 CRL Collections Forum, @Risk: Stewardship, Due Diligence, and the Future of Print in Chicago, IL on April 14, 2016.
The audio for this talk is available on YouTube.
June 17, 2016
Written by Mike Furlough
In June, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) released "Orphan Works and Mass Digitization,” a detailed report proposing new orphan works legislation and proposing a pilot extended collective license (ECL) for in-copyright, published works that have been digitized.
November 17, 2015
By Aaron Elkiss, University of Michigan Library, Cross-posted from the University of Michigan Library Tech Talk Blog
June 18, 2015
by Jeremy York (HathiTrust) and Kat Hagedorn (University of Michigan Library)
As reported in our monthly updates, we receive well over a hundred inquiries every month about quality problems with page images or OCR text of volumes in HathiTrust. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in most of these cases, there is something we can do about it. This blog post is intended to shed some light on our thinking and practices about quality in HathiTrust. We hope it will also encourage you to report any problems you might find so that we might have the opportunity to fix them, and deliver the highest quality collections we can for educational and research needs.
May 13, 2015