HathiTrust

For other uses, see Hathi (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with HATII, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at Glasgow

HathiTrust is a shared digital repository for storing university library digital content including that from the Google Books Project and the Internet Archive.

The concept for HathiTrust evolved from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and operates under the leadership of the repository administrators (Indiana University and the University of Michigan), which also provide a large part of the funding. Additional governance and financial support are provided by the charter participating libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, University of Virginia, and by other libraries and library consortia wishing to archive digital content. The director of HathiTrust is John Price Wilkin, who has led large-scale digitization initiatives at the University of Michigan since the mid 1990s.

As of May 2010, HathiTrust comprises around 6 million volumes, over 1 million of which are public domain.

Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant, an animal famed for its long-term memory.

External links

• HathiTrust
• Major Library Partners Launch HathiTrust Shared Digital Repository (official press release from 13 October 2008)
• HathiTrust at Indiana University
• An Elephant Backs Up Google’s Library