1) Columbia Partnership– HathiTrust is very pleased to welcome Columbia University as its newest partner. A representative of HathiTrust will be traveling to Columbia in late January to give a full introduction to repository operations, current activities, and future plans.
2) 5 Million Volumes – A significant milestone was passed in December as HathiTrust exceeded 5 million volumes in digital holdings.
More than 3/4 of a million of these are in the public domain.
3) TRAC Audit – In early December, HathiTrust began a process with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to assess the digital repository in relation to the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) criteria
4) Bib API – HathiTrust has released a new bibliographic API that enables retrieval of descriptive and rights information for objects in the repository based on standard identification numbers (e.g., ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, OCLC).
You'll also find reports about the following working groups:
+ Discovery Interface
+ Collaborative Development Environment
+ Research Center
Also news about the Internet Archive ingest and a job opening for a new programmer for the non-Google ingest.
Finally, look for Development Updates, Partner News, New Growth, and the January Forecast.
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