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Hosoi named to HathiTrust Program Steering Committee

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Mihoko Hosoi, associate dean for collections, research and scholarly communications at Penn State University Libraries, has been named by the HathiTrust Board of Governors to a three-year term on the HathiTrust Program Steering Committee, effective July 2020.

Mihoko Hosoi, associate dean for collections, research and scholarly communications, will join the University Libraries on Oct. 1 as a key member of its administrative team.  Credit: Penn StateCreative Commons

The committee reviews HathiTrust’s development agenda, reports recommended alterations to the board, and works with the board to develop policies for HathiTrust and its members.

HathiTrust was founded in 2008 among the members of the former Committee on Institutional Cooperation, now known as the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the libraries of the University of California system as a nonprofit collaborative of academic and research libraries. Currently, the organization counts nearly 170 college and university members. 

Member libraries have preserved and steward more than 17 million digitized items through the HathiTrust Digital Library, which offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, according to the HathiTrust website. The HathiTrust Digital Library’s Emergency Temporary Access Service, active since mid-spring 2020 following universities’ transition to remote research and instruction, permits lawful access to member institutions of specific digital materials corresponding to physical books held by an individual library. Penn State University Libraries provides online access to these corresponding digital titles through the University Libraries website

Hosoi, who joined the University Libraries in October 2019, is also one of six Penn State faculty recently named as fellows of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program. Faculty members selected for these one-year terms are selected based on their significant contributions and further potential for University leadership. 

Last Updated June 24, 2020