New Article: “Building a U.S. Federal Government Documents Collection in HathiTrust”

The following article was recently published in Collaborative Librarianship.
Title
Building a U.S. Federal Government Documents Collection in HathiTrust
Author
Heather Christenson
HathiTrust
Source
Collaborative Librarianship
Vol. 8: Iss. 3
Abstract

The HathiTrust Digital Library encompasses over 760,000 federal documents digitized from print. HathiTrust has recently begun to focus attention on further developing this collection via the U.S. Federal Documents Program. The program will leverage the power of HathiTrust infrastructure, services, and member contributions and will focus not only on collection building, but also on the enrichment of discovery and access for end users. This article provides history of HathiTrust’s investment in federal documents, background on the program, a description of current goals and activities, and a brief look at the future.

Direct to Full Text Article (7 pages; PDF)

Resources
Searchable:  HathiTrust U.S. Government Documents Registry
Background

HathiTrust U.S. Federal Government Documents Program Web Page

HathiTrust Begins Project to Build Comprehensive U.S. Government Documents Registry (October 10, 2012)
https://www.hathitrust.org/usgovdocs

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