The 12 US universities comprising the Committee on Institutional Cooperation have joined with the University of California’s library system to a single repository of their respective collections of digital materials in an entity called HathiTrust. Associate university librarian of the University of Michigan John Wilkin is executive director of the organization. On the one hand it provides a non-profit counterpart to the materials within Google Book Search, but on the other hand it potentially raises a new set of concerns for publishers. Currently they say they repository has almost 2 million volumes (largely the result of Google’s scanning), of which […]