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 all who share 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.
