The HathiTrust Federal Documents Program-Towards a Digital U.S. Federal Documents Library at Scale

HathiTrust is a collaborative organization founded in 2008 as a solution to the need of a group of libraries to preserve and provide access to large amounts of digital content produced via mass digitization partnerships with Google and the Internet Archive. As HathiTrust has grown to over one hundred and twenty member libraries, the digital library has evolved to encompass mass-digitized volumes contributed by the many additional members who have joined since its founding, as well as locally-digitized and some born-digital volumes. By way of its emergence from libraries themselves, HathiTrust is rooted in an attitude of service to end users, continuous improvement, and use of standards, and is attuned to the needs of libraries. Over the nine years of its existence, HathiTrust has developed robust access services at scale, including full text and catalog search, flexible viewing functions, and metadata download features.