HATHITRUST A Shared Digital Repository HathiTrust current work, challenges, and opportunities for public libraries Creating a Blueprint for a National Digital Public Library November 16, 2011 Jeremy York Project Librarian, HathiTrust

Partnership Arizona State University Baylor University Boston University California Digital Library Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Emory University Getty Research Institute Harvard University Library Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Michigan State University New York Public Library New York University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University Northwestern University The Ohio State University The Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Purdue University Stanford University Texas A&M University Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of Arizona University of Calgary University of California Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz The University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Florida University of Illinois University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Iowa University of Maryland University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Missouri University of Nebraska-Lincoln The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin- Madison Utah State University Yale University Library

Digital Repository Launched 2008 Initial focus on digitized book and journal content “Light” archive – As accessible as possible within the bounds of law

Mission To contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge

Universal Library Common Goal Single Entity, Many Partners HathiTrust

Collections and Collaboration Comprehensive collection -Preservation…with Access Shared strategies – Copyright – Collection management, development – Efficient user services Public Good

Preservation and Access Preservation and Access, ~10 million volumes – TRAC-certified – Discovery Bibliographic and full-text Extended discovery – Viewing Public domain and open access works Lawful uses of in-copyright works Print on demand – Virtual Collections – Research Center – Beyond digitized books and journals

Copyright Rights holder permissions Review of works – U.S – Non-U.S. Lawful uses of in-copyright materials – Users who have print disabilities – Section 108 (preservation) uses – Orphan works

Collection Management, Development Print holdings Print monographs archiving Discovery (OCLC) Collections Committee

Support Funded for initial 5-year period by founding partners ( ) Base funding from partners – Content contributed – Overlap of print holdings with HathiTrust

Challenges Legal challenges to an archiving model that helps libraries meet the challenge of long-term curation of the cultural record Balance of centralization and de-centralization of organization Scaling digitized book and journal ingest Expanding to new types of content – Images, Audio Transitioning to new governance model, entering next phase

Public Library Engagement Partnership Deposit Collections, User Services

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