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HathiTrust stands apart for its collection, breadth of programs, and fiscal strength, all intentions themes developed and supported by a diverse set of member libraries committed to its mission. The following intentions will guide work in HathiTrust advances collaborative efforts the coming years: To realize the vision, HathiTrust will emphasize among cultural heritage organizations and work designed to transform how libraries ► Responsibly steward collections serves a broader public good. work together to manage scholarly resources and resources. their users require, enhance the quality of HathiTrust’s collections and services to provide ► Include many voices and perspectives in The organization manages programs to collections, services, and governance. more meaningful access to scholars and find and open public domain materials, to learners, and empower our organization and expand access to U.S. federal publications, ► Embrace new opportunities in an membership to tackle major strategic challenges. to develop a distributed, shared network of evolving information landscape. Each theme is supported by objectives that will print collections, and to develop services define our investments and activities in support that support advanced computational ► Focus on strengths when identifying of the strategy. research. HathiTrust holds the largest set of new activities. digitized books managed by the academic, ► Take risks that help achieve research, and library community, which HathiTrust’s vision. offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform steward the cultural record. ► Promote interdependence scholarship • collaboration among libraries. 2019-2023 HathiTrust’s 2019-2023 Strategic Directions, enhance developed in consultation with member access • programs + services institutions, lays the path for HathiTrust STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS and its membership to transform research libraries in the service of the wider scholarly enterprise. empower membership • infrastructure

1 2 3 4 empower enhance transform HathiTrust empowers its member libraries and HathiTrust bolsters content discovery and diversifies uses HathiTrust addresses significant challenges libraries their patrons through a durable, sustainable, and of the scholarly record through services that improve cannot independently confront to advance innovative transparent organization and open infrastructure. the quality of the collection and the user experience. forms of research, pedagogy, and public engagement. HathiTrust is a growing, global partnership of 140+ major research institutions and libraries Objectives: Objectives: Objectives: working towards its mission to ensure that the Align our membership growth and financial Deepen and add breadth to the ► ► ► Inspire collective action to ensure durable cultural record is preserved and accessible strategies with long-term goals to steward the HathiTrust collections. access to the cultural record. long into the future. cultural record and sustain the organization. ► Expand computational research services to ► Lead transformations in the information ► Develop new analytic capacities to support scholarship and pedagogy. landscape through strategic partnerships in support service improvements, collection North America and abroad. ► Improve the ways people discover, locate, development, and member engagement. and engage with our collection. ► Develop robust frameworks for large-scale mission Strengthen and support our member libraries’ collection management, access, The mission of HathiTrust is to ► ► Invest in understanding the needs of users efforts to engage users of HathiTrust. and preservation. contribute to research, and members of HathiTrust. scholarship, and the common good Engineer the HathiTrust infrastructure as a Advocate for public policy that enables ► ► Address quality issues in the collection and ► by collaboratively collecting, more open platform for distributed activities associated metadata. libraries to fulfill their missions and users to organizing, preserving, and services. readily access information they need. communicating, and sharing the Enable robust transformative uses of the ► record of human knowledge. corpus, and open for reading more of the Potential Investments and Activities: collection wherever lawfully possible. Potential Investments and Activities: ► Develop plans for membership recruitment, ► Work with key allied organizations to engagement, and ongoing support. Potential Investments and Activities: define a coordinated, coherent, and vision HathiTrust will be a vital catalyst ► Expand existing training and sustainable networked preservation and ► Accept, preserve, and provide access to for emerging forms of research, outreach programs. access infrastructure. additional standard ebook formats. teaching, and learning that engage Reengineer and update HathiTrust repository ► Help develop U.S. and international ► ► Streamline existing services for those with the scholarly and cultural record. connections among shared print programs. and access services. print disabilities and focus on increasing ► Expand staffing to provide technical accessibility overall. ► Extend the access program for users with leadership across the HathiTrust enterprise. print disabilities. ► Define access and analytic services that build upon the initial phases of the Shared Print program. www.hathitrust.org 5 6 7 8