Milestones: HathiTrust Reaches 16 Million Volumes
From a HT Announcement:
On December 5th HathiTrust’s collections grew to 16 million volumes! Book number 16,000,000 was digitized and deposited by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Osborne’s London and Birmingham Railway guide. Illustrated, published in 1840 at the height of “railway fever” in Great Britain, was written as something of a guidebook to inevitable progress.
HathiTrust announced volume number 15,000,000 in February 2017.
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On a Related Note…University of Illinois (UIUC) Library Adds 14 Millionth Volume to Collection (December 11, 2017)
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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