HathiTrust:<\/strong> After many years of hard work and a collaborative effort between Collection Services and Digital Initiatives, the Library contributed 17,918 digitized volumes <\/a>to HathiTrust. This marks a significant achievement of a long-held goal, to move our mass digitized collections from the IA into HathiTrust for increased preservation and access. Not only have we moved all our digitized volumes into HathiTrust, new workflows were also created to ingest digitized works on a regular basis using the Digital Projects Database (DPD). This incredible online tool was created by Elizabeth Thomson<\/a>, (recently retired system analyst) at the Library\u2019s in-house Application Development Team in Digital Initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions that offers millions of digitized titles from libraries around the world. During the pandemic while the Library was unavailable to onsite borrowers, it continued to provide access to our print holdings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2009-2010, HathiTrust started experimenting with ways to add support for ingesting content from the IA. This initiative enabled the Library to \u201cbatch upload\u201d our first IA collection to HathiTrust: the popular <\/a>Chapbook Collection<\/a> that was published during the 18th and 19th centuries and contains over 900 British and American chapbooks. HathiTrust\u2019s innovative approach of using existing high-resolution images from the IA saves an enormous amount of time since it is not necessary for the Library to restore archival images from its own preservation tape backups. Once the images are loaded, the HathiTrust record offers a similar experience to the IA with a full-text search component and a page-turner display option. More importantly, because of HathiTrust\u2019s close collaboration with the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) to create a permanent bibliographic catalogue, our digitized content is discoverable in McGill\u2019s discovery tool Sofia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Internet Archive:<\/strong> This past month, the Library reached the incredible milestone of 6 million views on the IA, a non-profit digital library that provides public access to millions of digitized items. Founded in 1996, the IA (archive.org) has collaborated with more 275 Canadian institutions<\/a> in providing open access to their unique materials. The McGill Library began uploading to the IA eight years ago and our collection now numbers 18,973 digitized items. Currently, the McGill Library has the following eight collections in the internet Archive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some interesting facts about our IA collection that is growing by thousands of eBooks every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you wish to stay informed of new additions to our digitized collection in the Internet Archive, please consider subscribing to our RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A big thank you goes out to our colleagues who made these milestones possible: Megan Chellew, Elizabeth Thomson, Jessica Lange, Sarah Severson (U of A), Clara Turp, Andrew Senior, Mutugi Gathuri, Mehmood Khalid, Jenn Riley and the rest of the Application Development Team in Digital Initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This summer, the McGill Library is celebrating two major milestones in digitization: Our entire collection of digitized volumes was added to HathiTrust. Our digital collections on the Internet Archive (IA) reached 6 million views. HathiTrust: After many years of hard … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2022\/06\/IA-1-1024x399.jpg\")
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