HathiTrust Update on Activities: July-September 2016

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Oct 14, 2016, 1:22:42 PM10/14/16
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Please find attached our update on activities for the months of July-September.  There are a number of items of note this month:
  • The members of HathiTrust have elected four library directors to serve on its Board of Governors beginning in 2017.
  • The 2016 HathiTrust Member Meeting will be held on November 10, 2016 at the Big Ten Center in Rosemont, IL.
  • Starting in January 2017 the HathiTrust Copyright Review Program will recommence review of 1923-1963 U.S. publications.
  • We're pleased to announce the appointment of a new Federal Documents Advisory Committee (FDAC).
  • The Shared Print Program is ready to launch, with a Shared Print Advisory Committee (SPAC) and over 50 HathiTrust partner libraries participating in the final planning and initial implementation phase.
  • The HathiTrust Collection Committee's Collection Priorities Survey Analysis Report, with recommendations endorsed by the Program Steering Committee (PSC) and the Board of Governors, has prompted PSC to take action on a number of major collections matters related to the focus and quality of the digital corpus.
  • A HathiTrust Research Center task force worked during Summer 2016 to prepare the Non-Consumptive Research Policy.
These items, as well as updates on ingest, development, and more, are included in the attached newsletter.
Best,
Melissa
hathitrust-update-2016_Summer.pdf
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