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November 11, 2010

ULS joins digital partnership

ulsThe University Library System (ULS) has become the newest member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.

ULS is contributing thousands of volumes, including volumes from the Darlington Library’s extensive collection of 19th-century schoolbooks, as well as University theses and dissertations.

Rush G. Miller, Hillman University Librarian and ULS director, said: “Membership and participation in the HathiTrust is part of a multi-pronged approach to permanent archival storage of the digital books, dissertations and other materials we have created over the past 10 years of aggressive digitization of library content at the University of Pittsburgh. It will allow us to ensure that these open access digital materials will always be available.”

The HathiTrust has more than two dozen partners. Over the last two years, the partners have contributed nearly 7 million volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections. Nearly 1.5 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and available on the web.

HathiTrust offers access to the digital collections, including viewing, downloading and searching access to public domain volumes, and searching access to in-copyright volumes. Specialized features also are available that facilitate access by persons with disabilities, and allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into “collections” that can be searched and browsed.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 43 Issue 6

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