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A Mellon Foundation award to HathiTrust, in collaboration with @northeasternlib and @authorsalliance.bsky.social, enables responsible, equitable, and transparent AI services for the public good and scholarly exploration of the 19M-item corpus within reach. bit.ly/3SyW9hB

There's no artificial pumpkin spice in the October news trunk! Nothing but real updates here - the recent budget/board election, a member spotlight on CA State University, San Bernardino, and new Participant Expectations! #digitallibraries #trusty

We're hiring! New deadline: 10/21 Senior Specialist, Copyright & Information Policy—experience in copyright law, accessibility, and policy development in higher ed or GLAM. buff.ly/i53uF62 #trusty #digitallibraries #higheredjobs

We're hiring! As Senior Specialist, Copyright & Information Policy, you’ll analyze policy and advise on legal, policy, and ethical issues of sharing collections for analysis (e.g., language model training, NLP, AI). Apply by 10/16: buff.ly/q06slIu #HigherEdJobs #AcademicJobs #LibraryJobs #LawJobs

We're hiring! Senior Specialist, Copyright & Information Policy—experience in copyright law, accessibility, and policy development in higher ed or GLAM. Apply by 10/16: buff.ly/q06slIu #trusty #digitallibraries #highredjobs

It's not a stretch to say the September news trunk is the best ever. Big news all around! #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/xq3fcOX

Come see us in Chicago later this week! We're bringing merch and a group of HathiTrust staff ready to chat. And Trusty for photo ops! ALA Connect lounge Friday, June 26, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM CT Saturday, June 27, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM CT Sunday, June 28, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM CT

The Prices & Wages by Decade database, designed by superuser Marie Concannon of the U of Missouri, links to prices and wages from primary sources dating back to the 1700s. 70% of its links point to HathiTrust. Check out this interview with Marie. 🐘 🧡 #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/LF7FhjA

Whether you're a HathiTrust newbie or old-timer, you've always got more to learn! Get the basics in this webinar and hear firsthand accounts from member library leaders on how HathiTrust enhances their teaching, learning, and research missions. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/JhoT9OK

Welcome to Eugene Malin, HathiTrust’s new Applications Developer — he’ll help push our strategic vision forward! “I’m most excited to strengthen the software engineering practices that make modernization sustainable.” #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/p39PXeQ

We could barely fit all the HathiTrust news in this month's trunk! Or is it a bucket? a washbasin? Check out our new collection strategy and register for our most popular webinar. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/PP4iw58

Happy Birthday to the OG Bard! HathiTrust holds 25 volumes of the Art Nouveau Red Letter Shakespeare series (1904–09). E.K. Chambers and Talwin Morris created small volumes highlighting key scenes and quotes in red ink. #trusty #digitallibraries #ShakespeareDay buff.ly/v5ngKge

HathiTrust's new collection strategy focuses on active collection management, member engagement, metadata, discovery, and collection activation to serve library needs and scholarship. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/cjEV7VY

Happy Spring! Trusty emerged from hibernation with a trunkful of flowers and the latest news from HathiTrust. The March issue is out now! #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/0Ni9JJd

So much to love in the February news trunk! Preserving a beloved resource for ongoing access, celebrating Love Data Week, a pulpy romance rag, and a new member from California! #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/XC4C3SU

Welcome California State University San Bernardino to the HathiTrust community of 200+ academic and research libraries! 🐘 🎉 buff.ly/TiTcHFc

From scanners' hands to scholars' research, HathiTrust data travels! We recognize @lovedataweek in two blogs posts (thank you Janet!) with links to derived datasets from our collection. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/851qg7A #LoveData26

Still need the CIA's World Factbook, which ceased to exist this week?!? We got you, we got your students. This collection includes volumes from 1981-2017 as well as its earlier version from 1975-1980. buff.ly/hyIO32K #govdocs #digitallibraries #trusty#digitalpreservation

We're so happy to welcome the University of Auckland, Eastern Washington University, and University of Maine to the HathiTrust community of 200+ academic and research libraries! 🐘 🎉 buff.ly/Q7qVd2l

New year, new members, new milestones! The first HathiTrust news trunk is packed with exciting updates. Keep each other close on these frosty days! #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/WERuvq2

Reading recommendation from @umichlibrary.bsky.social MLK Day lecture by Brian Jones (author of "Black History is for Everyone"): "John Brown" by W.E.B Du Bois, available in HathiTrust: buff.ly/eqYO1MF #MLKDay #trusty

On January 16, 1919, the U.S. Congress ratified the 18th amendment prohibiting alcohol's sale, distribution, and production. The 21st amendment ended Prohibition as evidenced in the gleeful 1933 title, "Cocktail Parade." #TGIF #Trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/saL2pOe

Thanks for your excellent work @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy promoting materials in the #publicdomain and on HathiTrust. We're a super fan! #trusty #digitallibraries onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

This mystery by Dorothy Sayers is among the U.S. public domain titles now available in HathiTrust. Amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey navigates hapless infatuation with his paramour and suspected killer, Harriet Vane. buff.ly/iFVMxIg #digitallibraries #trusty #publicdomain

😆 more of these, please @thisismattmiller.com! What other "interesting volumes" are folks finding in the 1930 US PD collection? bit.ly/49GVVLa

Delve into newly opened Public Domain collections! Explore 78k titles published in 1930 and now open in the U.S. bit.ly/49GVVLa (some available worldwide) and over 57k titles published in 1899 (in Canada & Australia) and 1900 in other regions. bit.ly/3YZ5pew #PublicDomain #digitallibraries #Trusty

And we're out! HathiTrust staff and our member-led user support team are off to enjoy holidays with friends and family. See you January 2! #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/ccYAsUz

oh what a festive find! Here is a better copy (without that pesky moiré pattern) thanks for sharing @denisekiernan.com! hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark...

We're quickly sliding into the end of 2025, but we've got a final news trunk with #publicdomain titles, a #sharedprint initiative, and a hot tip on downloading a range of pages in a title. #digitallibraries #trusty buff.ly/VTEvVK0

Party like it's still Jane Austen's 250th birthday! Explore her works preserved in HathiTrust and marvel at the volumes illustrated by C.E. Brock. "She felt the awkwardness of having no party to join." 😭 😭 😭 buff.ly/5XfxYBJ

22 Canadian academic and research libraries are HathiTrust members, collaborating to preserve and provide access to the HathiTrust collection, mostly from North American libraries. Explore this Special Edition Canada for highlights buff.ly/XG0Emfe #trusty #digitallibraries #libraries

We're teaming up with @caldiglib.bsky.social and WEST on a pilot initiative to enhance shared print collaboration in libraries. #trusty #digitallibraries Read more: buff.ly/ENCwLCT

Today, we are pleased to release The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals. This release builds on the recap of our final planning workshop and anticipates release of our final deliverable later this month.

Gone curling! HathiTrust staff and our member-led user support team will be off during upcoming U.S. holidays. We’re available between Dec 1 and Dec 20, but otherwise, find us sweeping stones at the rink or after the New Year. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/XDQij2O

Wrapping up #UPWeek2025 with this digital collection of scholarly and university press publications from ACUP, AEUP, AUP, EULAC, and African UP data. More than 250,000 titles, including 35,000 in the Public Domain. #TeamUP #digitallibraries buff.ly/dO9PnNn

HathiTrust Resource Sharing is midway through a pilot with 30 ppl registered to lawfully access digitized, in-copyright titles for lending excerpts via ILL - matching their libraries print titles, of course. Nov project update: buff.ly/ksyNMgi #trusty #digitallibraries

Honoring #WDPD2025 every single day at HathiTrust! We steward over 19 million digitized and preserved items on behalf of our 210 member libraries. #WhyPreserve? Stephen Abrams of @harvardlibrary.bsky.social brings it home. Check it out: buff.ly/SoPyrwD

Thanks to the University of Michigan Library for contributing this ghoulish 1963 #Halloween title with truly spooky, awesome illustrations by Gil Miret. #trusty #digitallibraries buff.ly/OLZA3SY

To all who celebrate, #Trusty bids you a Happy #Halloween from HathiTrust! #digitallibraries

HathiTrust staff and #trusty recently gathered to create appreciation packages for members serving on the user support team, which handles 5,000 inquiries annually! More info: buff.ly/0b4AyEy #digitallibraries

We join others in mourning the loss of Dr. Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg’s leader. We are indebted to @gutenberg.org 's essential and historic role to make published materials available online and to Greg's leadership for helping digital libraries evolve and thrive throughout the decades.