Author: Renata Ewing
HathiTrust – Cool Happenings in July
HTRC Awarded Grant to Build Cool Tool Exciting news for the HathiTrust Research Center! In July, HTRC was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the “Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm.” The […]
Big Strides for the Elephant – HathiTrust Mid-Year Update 2014
2014 has been a great year for the HathiTrust Digital Library, and the year is only half over! Milestones In February, HathiTrust surpassed 11 million volumes in its collection. Close to 4 million of these are in the public […]
It Takes a Village to Digitize a Library: UC Davis’ Mass Digitization Project Concludes
A year ago, UC Davis began sending out-of-copyright books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. The UC Davis team has sent more than 36,290 books to be digitized and […]
HathiTrust – May 2014 Update
Highlights from HathiTrust’s May update: HathiTrust released a statement on the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Appeal Ruling. The HathiTrust Research Center released a new dataset, consisting of page-level features extracted from a quarter of a million volumes. Interest in ingesting […]
The Shipment that Launched 3.6+ Million Digitized Books: NRLF Celebrates Major Accomplishment
In October 2006, NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility) sent the first shipment of UC books to Google to be digitized. This shipment launched the University of California’s participation in the Google Books Library Project which has since digitized more than 3.64 […]
HathiTrust – April Update
Highlights from April’s HathiTrust Update: HathiTrust is seeking nominations for the User Support Working Group. The group is looking to add up to two new members who have expertise in providing general user support with expertise in cataloging in particular. To submit nominations […]
Embed with HathiTrust: Putting Digital Books in Your Users’ Path
Did you know that it’s easy to embed HathiTrust books in your website? You can embed any public domain book into HTML code. Follow the instructions on the HathiTrust website or simply find the book you want and click the “Embed this […]
HathiTrust Update – Spring 2014
Recent highlights and events at HathiTrust: HathiTrust released a statement regarding the “Heartbeat Bug” on April 9th. In February Mike Furlough was appointed Executive Director of HathiTrust. He begins his tenure with HathiTrust on May 19. See the Press Release. Welcome Mike! In […]