We are pleased to announce that Yale University Library (YUL) has joined HathiTrust. [Our emphasis]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 important 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.”
Source: HathiTrust
Some Current HathiTrust Stats
6,365,870 total volumes
3,718,621 book titles
149,843 serial titles
2,228,054,500 pages
237 terabytes
75 miles
5,172 tons
1,230,800 volumes (~19% of total)
in the public domain
The FreePint Family is a family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success.
'FreePint... provides most of my professional development because it won't come through work and [other resources] just don't cut it.'
FUMSI Forum: Do you have a research question? Post it to the FUMSI Forum, where professionals share Q&A and useful tips on how to Find, Use, Manage and Share Information. It's free.
FreePint Shop:
VIP LiveWire:
