{"363641":{"#nid":"363641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Library Expands Access to World\u2019s Largest Digital Library","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library is the newest member of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hathitrust.org\u0022\u003EHathiTrust\u003C\/a\u003E, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough HathiTrust, the Georgia Tech campus community can now freely access more than 4.5 million digital books and journals in the public domain from a desktop or mobile device. Users can search HathiTrust\u2019s catalog, curate their own private libraries, and download digital material at no cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs a partner, we have access to full-text searching of materials in all of the HathiTrust collection,\u201d said Fred Rascoe, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. \u201cIn addition, Georgia Tech students, faculty, and researchers can download the full-text of any public domain document.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than one hundred partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMembership in HathiTrust is a means to assure preservation of Georgia Tech\u2019s digital copies and contribute or sustain those volumes to an increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by academic institutions,\u201d said Rascoe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the last six years, partners contributed more than 12 million volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections through a number of means including Google, Internet Archive digitization, and in-house initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHathiTrust serves a dual role. First, as a trusted repository, it guarantees the long-term preservation of the materials it holds, providing the expert curation and consistent access long associated with research libraries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond, as a service for partners and a public good, HathiTrust offers persistent access to the digital collections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis includes viewing, downloading, and searching access to public domain volumes, and searching access to copyright volumes. Specialized features are also available which facilitate access by persons with print disabilities, and allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into \u201ccollections\u201d that can be searched and browsed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMembership will allow us to have a place to preserve items from future digitization projects, for instance if we scanned government documents from our collection,\u201d Rascoe said. \u201cThe advantage of being a HathiTrust member is the ability to make any digitization work of benefit to the whole user community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHathiTrust was named for the Hindi word for elephant, \u003Cem\u003Ehathi\u003C\/em\u003E, symbolic of the qualities of memory, wisdom, and strength evoked by elephants, as well as the huge undertaking of congregating the digital collections of libraries in the United States and beyond. HathiTrust is funded by the partner libraries and governed by members of the libraries through its Board of Governors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\u0022\u003EVisit HathiTrust\u0027s website for more information.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough HathiTrust, the Georgia Tech campus community can now freely access more than 4.5 million digital books and journals in the public domain from a desktop or mobile device.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form."}],"uid":"27508","created_gmt":"2015-01-13 10:30:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:50","author":"Tearanny Street","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"363651":{"id":"363651","type":"image","title":"HathiTrust","body":null,"created":"1449245793","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:33","changed":"1475895100","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:40","alt":"HathiTrust","file":{"fid":"202092","name":"hathitrust_logo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hathitrust_logo_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hathitrust_logo_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":25452,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hathitrust_logo_0.png?itok=vT89eF-z"}}},"media_ids":["363651"],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"70271","name":"library news"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETearanny Street\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Tearanny.Street@library.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}