HathiTrust Update on Activities: July-September 2016
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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.