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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
Workshop Brings Together Staff from All Sites
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
14 Million Books & 6 Million Visitors: HathiTrust Growth and Usage in 2016
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
Electronic Access and The “Collective Collection”
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