Tag: HathiTrust
Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service
By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections. Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these books will be made available for purchase as reading copies […]
Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?
Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are composite fictional portraits created to represent different user types who […]
HathiTrust Update, September 2011 – Constitutional Convention and much more
Read the latest about the recent HathiTrust Constitutional Convention (with wide UC library participation), HathiTrust Mobile, Authors Guild Lawsuit, and a whole host of other initiatives in the latest HathiTrust update. Constitutional Convention On October 8-10, 2011, 130 representatives from […]
HathiTrust Constitutional Convention Ballot Proposals and More
As reported in August, a HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over three days, attended by delegates from each partner institution and consortium […]
UC Libraries expand access to orphan works
The University of California Libraries will join with the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of “orphan works” (http://www.lib.umich.edu/orphan-works) within the holdings of the HathiTrust […]
HathiTrust Constitutional Convention; 3-year Review
A HathiTrust Constitutional Convention will be held in Washington, D.C. from October 8-10, 2011. The Constitutional Convention will consist of a series of sessions over 3 days, attended by delegates from each partner institution and consortium. The sessions will be […]
HathiTrust – It Just Gets Better
HathiTrust full-text search now leverages the richness of bibliographic data, and building and searching collections just got easier! Read on for more details of what this means for researchers. Full-text Search The HathiTrust full-text search index now includes bibliographic data, […]
CDL job openings for two programmer analysts
Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III (2 open positions) About you You are a programmer who seeks out innovative ways to continually improve interactive library systems. You thrive on building new systems to meet emerging needs, […]
One Small Step for Metadata Management in HathiTrust
In November 2010, a small team at the California Digital Library set to work on this ambitious goal: “By 2012, the California Digital Library will build a major component of HathiTrust: a system to manage HathiTrust partners’ bibliographic metadata.” What […]
HathiTrust Mid-Year Review of Achievements & Activities
The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has prepared a summary of HathiTrust achievements and activities for the first part of 2011. Learn details about this year’s activities, including orphan works, new partners, new content, images, datasets, Shibboleth and much, much more.