Approved by the Board of Governors at their last quarterly meeting, the Strategic Vision was created through an intensive, year-long effort with partners, Athenaeum 21, to imagine HathiTrust’s future. In its first 15 years, HathiTrust has collected, preserved, and provided lawful access to more than 18 million texts in more than 400 languages. Today it stewards the single largest collection of digitized texts created by and for the academic community. This Strategic Vision responds to the changed circumstances of its member libraries, the world, and HathiTrust itself, but builds on existing strengths to outline critical and meaningful work over the next three to five years.

Executive Director, Mike Furlough, says, “The insights we’ve gleaned over the past year have led us to put renewed emphasis on our stewardship of the collection, the foundation on which HathiTrust was built.”