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HathiTrust Welcomes Columbia University as its Newest Partner

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December 16, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Columbia University has become the newest partner in the shared digital repository. The Columbia Libraries plan to contribute public domain volumes digitized through partnerships with Google, Microsoft and the Internet Archive.

“Columbia looks forward to membership in HathiTrust as a means not only to assure preservation of its own digital copies, but a way to contribute those volumes to an increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by academic institutions,” said James G. Neal, Columbia’s Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian. “Columbia’s students, faculty, and staff will benefit from the ability to search across the entire archive, with the assurance that all the books will continue to be available long into the future.”

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include more than 10 million volumes and over 100,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, graphic and audio-visual materials.

The official press release is available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/20091216.hathi.html.

HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans.

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (listen to pronunciation) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.

HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections.

Partnership is open to institutions worldwide who shared this grand vision.

HathiTrust is a solution.

To prospective partners, HathiTrust offers leadership and reliability. It provides a no-worry, pain-free solution to archiving vast amounts of digital content. You can rely on the expertise of other librarians and information technologists who understand your needs and who will address the issues of servers, storage, migration, and long-term preservation.

You will shape HathiTrust.

Growing the world's largest library won’t happen overnight. You've heard of other digital libraries. This one is different in concept and scale. Its greatest promise—and challenge—rests in defining how to serve researchers in the digital age. Together we will develop and refine the services needed to search and use such a large digital collection, and realize collectively our greatest potential as a library community. Together we will make HathiTrust available, to everyone, anywhere, any time. Together we will shape the future.

Bold idea. Big plan. Join HathiTrust.

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