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HathiTrust November 2012 Update

By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization November was a busy month at HathiTrust.  HT prepared technical systems to offer access to out of print and brittle works at partner institutions; worked with several institutions on deposit of locally-digitized materials; […]

HathiTrust September 2012 Update

By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization September’s HathiTrust update includes late breaking news on the decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. Top news items for September include the recent HathiTrust Research […]

HathiTrust August 2012 Update

HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update.   Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities.  For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]

HathiTrust June 2012 Update

The University of California libraries added another 3,446 volumes into HathiTrust this month, making UC’s total 3,340,228 of the 10,408,905 in HathiTrust.  Of these, more than 3,000,000 volumes are in the public domain. UC’s contributions to development this month include […]

CDL Joins Copyright Review Project

By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust Digital Library contains millions of digital volumes that are not available to users, but could potentially be in the public domain and made viewable online if their copyright status were known.  […]

HathiTrust May 2012 Update

Just in time for summer reading, the May 2012 update has been posted. So grab a comfortable chair and a refreshing beverage, and read on about the activities of our new Board of Governors, our new shared location for instructional materials, […]

HathiTrust Instructional Materials

The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has just announced a new HathiTrust Resources and Guides Web page.  Here you can find overviews, instructional materials, and guides covering HathiTrust and its services.   These resources have been created by the HathiTrust Communications Working […]

HathiTrust April 2012 Update

This month’s HathiTrust update is now available.  The update reports that “California Digital Library created prototype exports of the metadata that will be used to populate HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files (“hathifiles”) and bibliographic catalog. Timing tests for these exports were […]

HathiTrust March 2012 Update – New Board of Governors, CDL Zephir testing and more

In March, the new members of HathiTrust’s Board of Governors were announced; working group and committee reports are included. The California Digital Library achieved a milestone in March, loading all bibliographic records submitted by HathiTrust contributing institutions into the Zephir […]

HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more

You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management and dictionary-building work in the HathiTrust update on February 2012 […]