May 2023

Help Shape Our Future: Submit Your Strategic Visioning Survey
Staffing Changes: Farewell to Heather Christenson!
Postponed: Community Week 2023
Send Us Your Favorite Titles for the New HathiTrust Homepage
From the Collection: From the Philippines to America
HathiTrust Staff on the Road

Welcoming New Members to HathiTrust

We are pleased to announce that Portland State University has joined the HathiTrust member community. See the full membership list on our website.

Help Shape Our Future: Submit Your Strategic Visioning Survey

We encourage you to respond to the short survey we recently sent to HathiTrust members as part of our in-depth process of exploration, discovery, and strategic visioning taking place through the end of 2023. We’ll benefit greatly from the reflections you share to help shape the future of HathiTrust. It’s designed to take approximately 7 minutes to complete and we ask you to please respond before Thursday, May 25th.

Complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/hathitrustvision

We seek a broad range of ideas, so more than one person from your institution may complete the survey. Please forward to other individuals in your library who may have thoughts on the future of HathiTrust.  Contact vision@hathitrust.org with any questions.

Staffing Changes: Farewell to Heather Christenson!

Friday, May 5, was Heather Christenson’s last day with HathiTrust. Heather joined us as the Federal Documents Program Officer in 2016, leading work to establish a more comprehensive collection of U.S. Federal Documents in HathiTrust and becoming a recognizable and reliable advisor within the Federal Documents community. Additionally, she assumed responsibilities for HathiTrust’s collections strategies and management of our Collections and Access Team.  Heather was also instrumental in the development and adoption of the HathiTrust Digital Collection Principles.

Heather has been an important member of the digital library community working on mass digitization programs and projects for about 17 years — including at the California Digital Library during HathiTrust’s start-up days. She has decided now is a good time to begin exploring new work and different areas of personal interest. We will miss her greatly and wish her well in her future endeavors.

Postponed: Community Week 2023

If you’ve been following our news this year, we’ve got a lot going on, from hiring new staff and launching a new website to thinking big and working with our members to develop a new strategic vision. We’re taking the opportunity to put more energy into these really important things to have them ready for you by the fall.  We love community week and know our members do, too, so it will be back! Stay tuned for more as that plan develops.

Send Us Your Favorite Titles for the New HathiTrust Homepage

We know you’ve got favorite books and items in HathiTrust and hope that you’ll share them with us! Our new website will be live soon, and we are gathering ideas for the redesigned homepage featuring items from the collection. Use this form to submit your favorite HathiTrust items or collections for consideration in the launch or for future features. (To obtain a sharing link, use the Permanent link to this item or Link to the Collection in the left navigation.)

From the Collection: From the Philippines to America

Regularly appearing in HathiTrust’s annual Top Ten list, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Filipinos working along the West Coast of the U.S. during the Great Depression. Many introductory courses in Asian American literature also include the title on reading lists.

Title: America is in the Heart, a personal history
Author:  Bulosan, Carlos.
Published: New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1946.
Contributed by: University of Michigan (HathiTrust member since 2008).

HathiTrust Staff on the Road

HathiTrust staff will be attending the following events. Please contact us if you wish to meet us!

May 23, 2023, Google Scanning Partner Libraries meeting, Ann Arbor, MI: Aaron Elkiss, Mike Furlough, Jennifer Vinopal, Val Waldron
May 24-25, 2023, Google Books Library Summit, Ann Arbor, MI: Aaron Elkiss, Kristina Hall, Jennifer Vinopal, Val Waldron
June 22-27, 2023, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL: Heather Weltin.