Welcoming New Members to HathiTrust
Membership Elects a New Board Member & Passes 2023 Budget
HathiTrust is Hiring: Associate Director
Final Call for Member Meeting Registration
Reminder: Our Support Email Address is Changing 10/17!
HathiTrust Research Center: Fall Workshops & Bookworm Update
Get Started in Digital Humanities with Bookworm
From the Collection: Dom Marcello: poema
Welcoming New Members to HathiTrust
We are pleased to announce that Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Northern Colorado have joined the HathiTrust member community. See the full membership list on our website.
Membership Elects a New Board Member & Passes 2023 Budget
Gohar Ashoughian, University Librarian and Archivist from Wilfrid Laurier University (HathiTrust member since 2020), is the newest representative on the HathiTrust Board of Governors. She will begin her term in January 2023. Read more about Gohar in the press release. During the latest election cycle, Member Representatives also voted to approve the 2023 HathiTrust Annual budget. You can learn more about the 2023 budget in this video from Executive Director, Mike Furlough, and in the complete 2023 budget documentation.
HathiTrust is Hiring: Associate Director
HathiTrust is seeking an Associate Director to assume a key leadership role at a critical moment in our history as HathiTrust reaffirms its vision and commitment to long-term, durable, and equitable access to scholarship in a turbulent world. The Associate Director will coordinate HathiTrust’s services and programs, integrate and focus work of HathiTrust functional teams, working groups, and service providers, oversee evaluation and assessment, and monitor progress on goals and objectives. As a major contributor to HathiTrust’s ongoing success, the Associate Director will also participate in development and implementation of the next strategic plan. We welcome your application and recommendations of exceptional candidates.
HathiTrust has retained Koya Partners for this search. For more details, see the complete posting on our website.
Final Call for Member Meeting Registration
It’s not too late to register for the virtual 2022 Member Meeting, “Constructing Shared Culture: Building Vision, Values, and Strategies for the Future.” We’ve designed this year’s meeting to center members in the conversation about our organization and our future strategic direction.
The meeting is open to anyone affiliated with a member library. The break-out sessions have limited capacity to preserve the discussion-based format, but there is no registration cap for the other portion of the member meeting.
Virtual Member Meeting: Thursday, October 27, 2022
12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT - 3:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm PT
Reminder: Our Support Email Address is Changing 10/17!
Beginning October 17, users requesting support via email will need to use the new email address: support@hathitrust.org. We hope this email address is easier for your community to remember when they need help.
What You Need To Do
Update your internal documentation or website with the new email address by this date.
Alert your reference, liaison, and other user services library staff of this change.
Update your email Contacts, if needed. Members who regularly submit files or requests may need to update auto-fill functions in their email.
On October 17, begin using support@hathitrust.org for all the same issues or requests submitted using the former email address. This change is part of a continuing effort to improve the tools we use to support you and your community.
HathiTrust Research Center: Fall Workshops & Bookworm Update
Fall Workshops
Registration is now open for fall 2022 virtual HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) workshops. This term we are offering two of our popular introductory workshops and an introductory level workshop on the HTRC Extracted Features dataset. You do not need to be affiliated with a HathiTrust member institution to attend. Contact htrc-help@hathitrust.org with any questions.
Workshop 1: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC
Thursday, November 3, 2022
1:00 - 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 - 2:00 pm CT
In this session, we will explore the basics of HathiTrust as a data source and how to utilize HTRC as a resource for text and data mining. The session will be helpful for those who want a general overview, or who want a solid foundation for the other workshops in the series.
Workshop 2: HTRC Extracted Features
Thursday, November 10
2:00 - 4:00 pm ET / 1:00 - 3:00 pm CT
This session will introduce the Extracted Features data model. The dataset can be used for text analysis projects where access to the words and word-counts in a volume are expected by the algorithm, such as topic modeling or certain kinds of machine learning projects. No experience is required--your level of participation is up to you! However, familiarity with Python is helpful.
Workshop 3: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC - Repeat
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 - 2:00 pm CT
BookWorm Update
You can now explore trends in 2.7 trillion words — or 17+ million items — in the HathiTrust collection using HathiTrust+Bookworm. The HTRC Research Support Services team recently updated the HathiTrust+Bookworm tool to make use of new fields in the Extracted Features 2.0 dataset and to increase the corpus size. Bookworm enables scholars at all skill-levels to discover new textual use patterns across the entire corpus, including in-copyright and public domain volumes.
Get Started in Digital Humanities with Bookworm
This easy-to-use tool creates a visual output to show word trends across the HathiTrust corpus.
HathiTrust+Bookworm step-by-step tutorial
Follow this tutorial and learn how to run the HathiTrust+Bookworm visualization tool.
From the Collection: Dom Marcello: poema
Caption: And among the jewels I own/There is a beautiful black cat,/The name of Don Marcello/he was given when he was born.
Title: Dom Marcello: poema
Author: Domingues, Aurélio, 1879-1948.
Illustrator: Domingues, Flora.
Published: Pernambuc : [Empreza graphica Amazonia], 1921. Contributed by University of California (Founding member of HathiTrust, 2008).