Memeing the Hathi Trust

Hathi Trust was announced this week:

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-tee) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.

HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.

We celebrate the Hathi Trust idea because it widens the pool for equal access to books and ideas.

Now Google Book Search and the Internet Archive have some competition to keep historic thoughts open and accessible.

Here are the founding member schools:

California Digital Library
Indiana University
Michigan State University
Northwestern University
The Ohio State University
Penn State University
Purdue University
University of California Berkeley
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Merced
University of California Riverside
University of California San Diego
University of California San Francisco
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Cruz
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Virginia  

Learning belongs to each of us.

Knowledge is a shared meme that requires tending and examination.

Together, we can fuse learning with knowledge to educate the open mind.