HathiTrust 2014 Mid-year Review

[Jeremy York]

Dear Partners,

Please find attached a mid-year update on our activities in 2014. The first half of 2014 included several significant milestones for HathiTrust. In February, the HathiTrust Board selected Mike Furlough to be the new Executive Director of HathiTrust, marking a major transition and beginning of a new phase for the partnership. In February also, partners surpassed 11 million volumes in the digital repository collection. In June, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court released its ruling on the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. The ruling re-affirmed the lawful work HathiTrust has undertaken to expand access to library collections. Throughout the year, partners have been increasing their involvement through working groups and committees tasked with moving forward our broad initiatives in collections, shared print monograph archiving, U.S. federal government documents, and rights and access. We enter the summer and fall with great momentum and an ever-increasing knowledge and appreciation for the tremendous amount we can accomplish, for our institutions and the world, when working together.

Sincerely,

Jeremy York

Assistant Director, HathiTrust