Tag: HathiTrust

Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?

Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court.  As […]

HathiTrust Update

By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update.  The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]

Mass Digitization Projects Update: 2009 in Review

By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries’ made great progress in mass digitization of books in 2009, despite significant fiscal challenges. In April 2009 we reached a major milestone: over 2 million books digitized! In August […]

HathiTrust Update

Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC's Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well.  At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125, and this number grows weekly.