Georgetown University Library Joins HathiTrust
From the Georgetown University Library is Washington DC:
The Georgetown University Library has become 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.
Membership in HathiTrust gives all Georgetown users advanced options when accessing HathiTrust’s more than 4.5 million publically-available volumes.
Users can now create reading lists, save items and download full-text pdfs of many items in HathiTrust’s archive. In the future, digitized volumes from Georgetown’s own collection will also be available to Georgetown users.
Start browsing today by logging in with your NetID and password! In addition, HathiTrust enables the Library to provide enhanced access to digitized materials, including items still in copyright, for users with print disabilities.
See Also: HathiTrust Executive Director Shares “Reflections on the First HathiTrust Member Meeting”
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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.