HathiTrust employs a number of committees and working groups, some of which are standing and have long-term appointments, while others may be devoted to finite tasks with a specific timeline. In general, working groups are established either by the Executive Director, or the Program Steering Committee [1]. View past working groups and committees [2].

Executive Director

• User Support Working Group [3] (March 2011): Responds to inquiries of all kinds received through HathiTrust's public email address and user interfaces.
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• Federal Documents Advisory Committee [4] (August 2016): makes recommendations regarding implementation of the U.S. Federal Documents Program [5]. (Preceded by the earlier Government Documents Initiative Planning and Advisory Group [6]).
• Shared Print Advisory Committee [7] (July 2016): Recommends policies and procedures to establish and sustain the HathiTrust Shared Print Program. (Preceded by the earlier HathiTrust Print Monographs Archive Planning Task Force [8])

Program Steering Committee 

• Collections Committee [9] (July 2016): A standing committee responsible for collection development activities and policies, and charged with making key recommendations about the content included in HathiTrust. 
• Metadata Policy, Strategy, Use and Sharing Advisory Group [10] [10]: MUSAG is charged with reviewing managed metadata, formatting relevant policy and strategic directions to benefit the members. 
• Quality Assurance and Standards Working Group [11] (August 2016). Recommends strategies, processes, and techniques detailing how members, end users, and/or HathiTrust Operations can assure the quality of the HathiTrust corpus.