Mission
The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.
Vision
HathiTrust will be a vital catalyst for emerging forms of research, teaching, and learning that engage the scholarly and cultural record.
More specifically HathiTrust is organized to:
Goals
- To build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive co-owned and co-managed digital archive of library materials converted from the print collections of the member institutions.
- To dramatically improve access to these materials in ways that, first and foremost, meet the needs of the co-owning institutions, with a particular emphasis on ensuring access for individuals with print disabilities.
- To develop cost-effective and robust infrastructure for digital content of value to scholars and researchers, including a variety of formats and born-digital materials.
- To develop partnerships and services that ensure preservation of the materials in HathiTrust and the entire print and digital scholarly record.
- To reduce long-term capital and operating costs of storage and care of print collections through redoubled efforts to coordinate shared storage strategies among libraries.
- To build infrastructure that facilitates cost-effective and productive collaborations among partnering institutions to reduce the cost of securing campus intellectual assets.
- To define and make available a set of services that supports research using the HathiTrust corpus.
- To create a technical framework that allows for both central and distributed creation of tools and services.
- To sustain the HathiTrust enterprise as a “public good” while at the same time defining a set of services that benefits member institutions.
We respond to the evolving needs of our members and the community and have articulated our priorities for the coming years through our Strategic Directions for 2019-2023.
Strategic Planning