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New Board of Governors Members Begin in 2024
We are pleased to announce several new members of the Board of Governors who will begin their terms January 1, 2024. Ping Fu, Library Director and College Librarian at Whitman College, will join Holly Jeffcoat of Southern Methodist University, who was elected by members earlier this fall. Also joining the Board is Steve Mandeville-Gamble, University […]
December 13, 2023
HathiTrust User Support Holiday Hours
HathiTrust User Support  and the HathiTrust Research Center help teams will be out of the office during the upcoming United States holiday, Friday, December 22, 2023, until Tuesday, January 2, 2024. The teams will still receive patron messages at support@hathitrust.org and htrc-help@hathitrust.org respectively, but you should expect a delay in response during this time. The […]
December 13, 2023
Welcome to Andrea Cote, Business Process Lead
HathiTrust is pleased to announce that Andrea Cote joined HathiTrust in December as HathiTrust’s first Business Process Consultant Lead. Reporting to the Associate Director, Jennifer Vinopal, Cote will develop a team focused on business analysis and operational excellence. This position is funded by the Building Resilience for Access and Preservation grant from the Mellon Foundation, […]
December 13, 2023
HathiTrust Research Center Accepting Proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Program
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) requests proposals for its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Program, a scholarly service offering collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. Previous ACS awardees are not eligible. Such proposals should demonstrate: A well-developed research question  Identified analysis methods A feasible […]
November 21, 2023
Welcome to UX Designer Gayathri Ramesh
Gayathri Ramesh joined HathiTrust in October in a new role as UX Designer to conduct user research and design new components for our digital library and web interfaces. She recently completed a Master’s in UX Research and Design and has a Bachelor’s in computer science and engineering with experience in higher education and accessibility design. […]
November 8, 2023
Welcoming New Members: November 2023
We are pleased to announce that Occidental College has joined the HathiTrust member community. See the full list of member libraries.
November 8, 2023
We’re Hiring! DevOps Engineer Position
We are currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team of developers to build infrastructure for a broad array of applications. We are looking for an engineer to help improve our automated workflows for developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring our applications. Applications are being accepted until November 5, 2023. HathiTrust, administered by the University […]
October 24, 2023
Call for Projects in Metadata Quality Improvement Program
The third round call for participants in the  Metadata Quality Improvement Program  (MQIP) is now open! HathiTrust member libraries that currently contribute content (or have in the past) are eligible to access this program to improve, correct, and enhance their own catalogs – the source records for all HathiTrust items. This MQIP Program application period […]
October 12, 2023
From the Executive Director: Follow-Up on August’s Service Interruption
In late August, HathiTrust experienced a multi-day service interruption stemming from a network outage at the University of Michigan. We have since begun internal reviews to identify ways we can improve our response and improve service continuity in the future. We, and our members, consider integrity and reliability of systems and data on a regular basis.
September 25, 2023