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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
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California State University San Bernardino
Welcome California State University San Bernardino to the HathiTrust community of 200+ academic and research libraries! 🐘 🎉 buff.ly/TiTcHFc
Love Data Week February 9-13, 2026
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
Covers of the CIA's World Factbook issues 1987 and 1991
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
Logos for University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Eastern Washington University; and University of Maine.
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
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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
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John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois. Title page of the book on the right with black and white drawing of John Brown on the left side with a signature by John Brown. American Crisis Biographies
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
Drawing of two hands holding cocktail glasses and toasting. Caption: Depression, suppression, forget it all now/Inflation, elation, to you, here's how.
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
Title cover of "Strong Poison" novel and portrait photograph of Dorothy Sayers.
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
three books covers side by side: Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, The Mystery at Lilac Inn and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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
People in black coats on an ice rink with snow covered mountains in the background play a game of curling.
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
Drawing of well-attired partygoers in the 19th century. A woman stands alone in the center of the crowd. Caption: "She felt the awkwardness of having no party to join." From "Northanger Abbey"
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
Yes! We have those ready to share today! more on what's coming soon
Public Domain Day 2026: 1930 U.S. Collection
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Gray outline of Canadian provinces with orange dots spread across the country representing 22 Canadian libraries.
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
This may or not be helpful, but did you know you can add ".xml" to a catalog record? for example catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00027...
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.
People in black coats on an ice rink with snow covered mountains in the background play a game of curling.
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
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Comin' atcha with a trunk full of updates! November 2025 edition features the latest buzz in the Resource Sharing pilot, 19 million items, the Member Meeting recording and more. #trusty #digitallibraries
Aaaaaand we're back! thank you for your patience.
Blerg! Our website is having intermittent issues loading pages due to a widespread Cloudflare outage. We are monitoring the issue, and hopefully access can be restored soon. In the meantime, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by this outage. buff.ly/3PCQ0uE
Tall wooden bookshelves on the upper floor of a library as seen from the lower floor.
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
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By Libraries, For Libraries HathiTrust Resource Sharing
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
Six orange ghosts float over a shadowy graveyard
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
