We are pleased to announce that Stony Brook University has joined the HathiTrust member community. See the full list of member libraries.
January 18, 2024
Press
We are nearing completion of our new Strategic Vision, the culmination of a year’s work in which we examined and discussed the accomplishments and lessons from our first 15 years with our members, peers, and staff. Led by Athenaeum21, this process explored our growth, expansion, and experimentation and illuminated our place in the current research, […]
January 17, 2024
HathiTrust recently made design improvements to the MARC view of catalog records. By applying new design principles used in the website redesign and digital library interface, the rows of data are roomier and easier on the eyes. To view a book’s MARC record, click on the button from the catalog record of an item. The […]
January 16, 2024
On January 1, titles published in 1928 entered the public domain in the United States, including more than 66,000 items in the HathiTrust collection. Global readers can access 46,829 of these titles. HathiTrust exclusively preserves the digital copies of published print works. With thousands of contributions from member libraries, HathiTrust is uniquely positioned to increase […]
January 16, 2024
HathiTrust has filed an amicus brief in Hachette Book Group et al vs Internet Archive, a US federal lawsuit addressing “controlled digital lending” (CDL). In March, a district court in New York granted summary judgment to the publisher plaintiffs, ruling that Internet Archive’s CDL service and its National Emergency Library infringed the publishers’ copyright, and […]
January 3, 2024
In January, HathiTrust will once again celebrate the return of Public Domain Day. This coming year, titles published in 1928 will enter the public domain in the United States, including more than 66,000 items in the HathiTrust collection. Some of these will also be viewable globally. Global readers will also gain public domain access to […]
January 2, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Miami University in Oxford, OH, has joined the HathiTrust member community. See the full list of member libraries.
December 13, 2023
We are pleased to announce several new members of the Board of Governors who will begin their terms January 1, 2024. Ping Fu, Library Director and College Librarian at Whitman College, will join Holly Jeffcoat of Southern Methodist University, who was elected by members earlier this fall. Also joining the Board is Steve Mandeville-Gamble, University […]
December 13, 2023
HathiTrust User Support and the HathiTrust Research Center help teams will be out of the office during the upcoming United States holiday, Friday, December 22, 2023, until Tuesday, January 2, 2024. The teams will still receive patron messages at support@hathitrust.org and htrc-help@hathitrust.org respectively, but you should expect a delay in response during this time. The […]
December 13, 2023
HathiTrust is pleased to announce that Andrea Cote joined HathiTrust in December as HathiTrust’s first Business Process Consultant Lead. Reporting to the Associate Director, Jennifer Vinopal, Cote will develop a team focused on business analysis and operational excellence. This position is funded by the Building Resilience for Access and Preservation grant from the Mellon Foundation, […]
December 13, 2023