Oklahoma State University Library Joins HathiTrust
Here’s a portion of the Oklahoma State University Library Announcement:
Oklahoma State University 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.
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According to Sheila Johnson, Dean of OSU Libraries, there are many benefits to OSU’s faculty, students and on-campus visitors.
“The HathiTrust collections add a breadth of materials with outstanding searchiblity of the full-text,” Johnson said. “The collection is continuously growing because new members like OSU are always adding new materials. It’s a wonderful example of collaboration among academic libraries.”
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See Also: JUST RELEASED HathiTrust Update on December 2014 Activities
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.