HathiTrust 2013 Mid-Year Review

[Jeremy York]

Please find attached a review of HathiTrust activities for the first half of 2013. From the review:

HathiTrust continued to grow in partnering institutions and digital content in the first half of 2013. Significant enhancements to HathiTrust services and strategic initiatives, including a new service for users who have print disabilities, a complete redesign of HathiTrust interfaces, the release of the HathiTrust Research Center, and an important partnership with the Digital Public Library of America, showed the vitality of an organization that continues to break new ground as we become an increasingly important part of the 21st century library landscape. 

2013 marks an important juncture for HathiTrust, as John Wilkin, the founding Executive Director, steps down from his position to become the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois. John wrote a special note in the Update on May 2013 Activities. Under John’s leadership, the HathiTrust partners have taken steps toward collective action on a scale that we have never before seen. We look forward to what we will be able to accomplish in the coming years together.

A summary of HathiTrust activities in the first half of 2013 is given in the attached update.

Best,

Jeremy York

Project Librarian, HathiTrust