The HathiTrust Board of Governors has announced the appointment of Mike Furlough as the Executive Director of HathiTrust. Furlough comes to HathiTrust from The Pennsylvania State University, where he is currently Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications.
Furlough has more than a dozen years of experience leading initiatives in digital scholarship, content stewardship, and scholarly communications, and has served for the last nine months as an inaugural member of HathiTrust's Program Steering Committee. He will begin his tenure as Executive Director on May 19.
Furlough will carry forward the mission of more than 90 academic and research institutions working to transform scholarship and research in the 21st century. The partnering institutions currently own and maintain a trusted digital repository of more than 11 million volumes, digitised from partner library collections and other sources. The repository has become a unique preservation and access platform, supporting cutting-edge initiatives in open access, copyright review (the Copyright Review Management System), computational research (the HathiTrust Research Center), and a broad effort to expand access to US federal government documents, among others.
