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HathiTrust Welcomes Yale University

We are pleased to announce that Yale University Library (YUL) has joined HathiTrust. The first items Yale has designated for deposit are approximately 29,000 books that YUL digitized with support from Yale University's Provost's Office and from the Microsoft Corporation. Yale is aiming for initial content delivery to HathiTrust in the September/October 2010 timeframe.

According to Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs at Yale University, “Joining HathTrust helps Yale fulfill several current critical goals:

Long term preservation for the Library's digital content underlies our information and service needs, and we are fortunate to benefit from the sophisticated commitment of HathiTrust libraries in this critical area.
By providing access to the "Microsoft books," we will complete the access piece of that project, realizing the Provost's and Library's considerable investment in digitizing these books.
We will join and have the opportunity to contribute to this important partnership and to affect its future planning after its start-up phase concludes (2013).
Participation in HathiTrust will complement and strengthen the Library's participation in the Yale Digital Commons, a collaborative framework launched by Yale's ODAI (Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure) to develop services to support the lifecycle management and use of Yale’s digital assets. HathiTrust is one component of a wider digital preservation strategy for Yale, integrating relationships with community-based solutions like HathiTrust with local implementation where required. Through the Digital Preservation Planning Committee, ODAI, YUL, and the museums are working together to develop university wide strategies and solutions to maintain access to the University's extraordinary investments in digital content.
Yale will provide the opportunity, through the work of colleagues in Yale's ODAI (Office of Digital Assets & Infrastructure), for users to benefit from data-mining and related tools in development.
We will benefit from HathiTrust's close examination and verification of copyright status for deposited materials.”

HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans.

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (listen to pronunciation) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.

HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections.

Partnership is open to institutions worldwide who share this grand vision.

HathiTrust is a solution.

To prospective partners, HathiTrust offers leadership and reliability. It provides a no-worry, pain-free solution to archiving vast amounts of digital content. You can rely on the expertise of other librarians and information technologists who understand your needs and who will address the issues of servers, storage, migration, and long-term preservation.

You will shape HathiTrust.

Growing the world's largest library won’t happen overnight. You've heard of other digital libraries. This one is different in concept and scale. Its greatest promise—and challenge—rests in defining how to serve researchers in the digital age. Together we will develop and refine the services needed to search and use such a large digital collection, and realize collectively our greatest potential as a library community. Together we will make HathiTrust available, to everyone, anywhere, any time. Together we will shape the future.

Bold idea. Big plan. Join HathiTrust.

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