HathiTrust Spring 2016 Newsletter

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Please find attached our update on activities for the months of March-May.  There are a number of items of note:

• HathiTrust Research Center is proud to announce expanded services to support computational research on the entire corpus of HathiTrust.
• Print disability service proxies are now able to access all copyrighted material in HathiTrust on behalf of users with print disabilities.
• The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) is the winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright award from The American Library Association (ALA).
• "Electronic Access and the 'Collective Collection'", a talk delivered by Executive Director Mike Furlough at the 2016 CRL Forum, "@Risk: Stewardship, Due Diligence, and the Future of Print" has been published on our Perspectives from HathiTrust blog.
• The Board of Governors held its Winter 2016 meeting by phone on March 7th and Spring 2016 meeting in person at the Big Ten Center in Chicago on June 2nd.
• The Program Steering Committee (PSC) continues to establish and monitor the work of its committees and advisory working groups, as progress continues on the major areas identified in the four Planning Briefs presented to the membership in fall 2014.

Best,

Melissa