HathiTrust Digital Library: Report and Recommendation to LAMP

Abstract

Over the past decade, Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries has developed and executed a thriving digitization program. Through these efforts, OSU Libraries has sought to provide greater access to material uniquely available at OSU and provide a path for long-term preservation for digitized materials. As OSU’s digitization program has developed, so too has the libraries’ methods for access and preservation evolved to meet the current needs and technologies available to the Libraries. It is in this spirit of ongoing discovery that we undertake this process of investigating and evaluating the HathiTrust Digital Library and the potential benefits and opportunities membership in that organization may bring to the OSU Libraries.