Jan 20, 2016 Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust, to Visit Campus on Thursday, Jan. 28

Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust, will be visiting the Marriott Library on Thursday, Jan 28. Staff and faculty of The University of Utah are welcome to attend the two sessions listed below. This should be a very interesting morning. We hope you can participate!

Sessions Held on Jan. 28 in the Library’s Gould Auditorium

9:30 -11:00 AM: HathiTrust Overview

11:00 AM -12:00 PM: HathiTrust Research Center Initiatives and Projects

About HathiTrust

A Digital Library

The HathiTrust is a digital library containing nearly 14 million digitized volumes more than 5 million of which are in the public domain.

HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Search collections here.

Partnerships

HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of the universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository to archive and share their digitized collections. The Marriott Library joined as a partner in 2010.

HathiTrust has quickly expanded to include additional partners and to provide those partners with an easy means to archive their digital content. The primary community that HathiTrust serves are the members (faculty, students, and users) of its partners libraries, but the materials in HathiTrust are available to all to the extent permitted by law and contracts, providing the published record as a public good to users around the world.

Research Center

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain and, in the future, on limited terms to works in-copyright from the HathiTrust. Learn more about the HTRC from this video.

The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.