HathiTrust Update on May/June Activities

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Please find attached our update on activities for the months of May and June. There are a number of items of note this month:

• The HathiTrust Research Center has released the Extracted Features Dataset, derived from 4.8 million public domain volumes in the HathiTrust Collection.
• The Board of Governors held its spring 2015 meeting on May 1 in Berkeley, CA.
• Jeremy York and Kat Hagedorn have written a blog post explaining how HathiTrust addresses reported problems with digitized volumes in HathiTrust.
• Appointees to the 2015 HathiTrust Nominating Committee have been named.
• In April, the Program Steering Committee focused primarily on review and analysis of the report and recommendations of the HathiTrust Monograph Archive Planning Task Force.
• The User Support Working Group is seeking nominations for up to 2 new members.
• HathiTrust will host two webcasts this summer to provide an update on current activities and member services.
• Mike Furlough, Executive Director, and J. Stephen Downie, Co-director of the HathiTrust Research Center, will serve on the steering committee of an IMLS planning grant awarded to Tufts University.

These items, as well as updates on projects, development, and more, are included in the attached newsletter.

Best,

Melissa Stewart

Assistant to the Executive Director