HathiTrust Update on July/August Activities

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Please find attached our update on activities for the months of July and August.  Items of note this month include:

• HathiTrust has opened searches for three positions to oversee core operations and advance our programs to expand access to US federal documents and to develop the shared print monographs program.
• The 2015 HathiTrust Member Meeting will be held on December 9 at the Big Ten Center near O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
• The HathiTrust Board of Governors held their summer meeting by telephone on July 29.
• The HathiTrust membership will elect three new members to the HathiTrust Board of Governors in an election that will begin on September 28 and Conclude on October 19.
• The Board of Governors is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to the Program Steering Committee, serving two year terms that conclude June 2017.
• The Program Steering Committee has appointed the Metadata Policy, Strategy, Use and Sharing Advisory Group (MUSAG), co-chaired by Todd Grappone, UCLA and Martin Kurth, Yale.

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

Best,

Melissa