UNLOCKING HATHITRUST

摘要

I had a great leSSOll in misperception correction not long ago as I was writing an LJ post called "A Rising Tide: The Academic User and the Ebook Experience" (see ow.ly/5hDSw), which examined academic ebooks from a (critical) user perspective. While working with a faculty member at the University of California (UC)-Berkeley on trademark research, we discovered a series of promising volumes in HathiTrust-an emerging digital library stemming from research library collaboration with Google Books and other initiatives-only to find that poor scanning and metadata made the volumes virtually unusable.