Please forgive duplication: Please join the library for an Early Bird with Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust on February 26th at 9am in Doe Library 180.
HathiTrust, Collective Action, and Local Services This talk is intended to provide an overview of HathiTrust and an opportunity to discuss how it can better support research and teaching at University of California, Berkeley. Since its founding in 2008 HathiTrust has aspired to build a sustainable program of collective stewardship for library collections in the United States and around the world. Mike Furlough will review the organization’s membership structure, services, and collections. The second half of the talk will highlight several major initiatives now underway, which are intended expand access to US federal documents, enable computational research across millions of digitized texts, and catalyze new collective action to manage the print record. Mike Furlough is Executive Director of HathiTrust Digital Library. Furlough leads an organization that includes over 100 academic and research institutions working to transform scholarship and research in the 21st century. The partnering institutions currently own and maintain a trusted digital repository of more than 13 million volumes, digitized from partner library collections and other sources. HathiTrust offers a unique preservation and access platform, supporting cutting-edge initiatives in open access, copyright, and computational research. Furlough is currently on the Board of the Digital Preservation Network and is a member of The Future of the Print Record working group. His research has focused on how libraries and universities organize to support emerging scholarly communication practices. A collection of essays,Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, co-edited with Maria Bonn, will be published by ACRL in 2015. From 2011-2013 he served as faculty for the ARL/DLF/Duraspace E-Science Institute. Furlough previously served as the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications at Penn State University Libraries (2006-2014) and in a variety of roles supporting the development of digital scholarship services at the University of Virginia Library (1998-2006). He studied English and American Literature at the University of Virginia. -- Erik Mitchell Associate University Librarian Director of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services University of California, Berkeley [email protected] http://erikmitchell.info Calendar: http://bit.ly/erikscalendar
