HathiTrust, a member-based organization hosted by the University of Michigan, has received a 5-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund a multi-year effort to strengthen its preservation and access mission.
The funding will initially finance three new positions to develop an integrated program of assessment, analytics, and portfolio management for the HathiTrust organization.
In March 2020, HathiTrust developed the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS), permitting access to digitized materials for hundreds of academic and research libraries and their communities during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
The Mellon Foundation has made five other similar awards to a cohort of non-profit organizations in Nonprofit Finance Fund's Building Resilience in the Digital Humanities Initiative. This recent funding builds on the initiative's goal to create more adaptable organizations that carry on the important work of developing, preserving, and disseminating scholarly work in the humanities.
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