Georgia State University Library has joined HathiTrust as a partner institution, making accessible to University Library users a vast collection of works from an international community of research libraries.  The collection includes more than 16 million volumes, nearly 6 million of which are in the public domain.

In general, when users access HathiTrust, they are provided with searchable access to digitized materials from all around the world.  Georgia State University users get access to the largest number of volumes and features by logging in with their institutional credentials at https://www.hathitrust.org/.  Once logged in, GSU users can download PDFs of public domain works and works made available under Creative Commons licenses.

Here are examples of a few items recently made available:

• 100,000 plus digitized books in the subject of Oceanography and the history of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from the University of California San Diego Library
• 1,000 plus manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan;
• 3,000 plus musical scores by female composers from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries from the University of Michigan Music Library;
• 1,000 plus primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction from Cornell University.

Users can also create, save, and in some cases share public or private collections, and perform non-consumptive analytics on portions of the HathiTrust collection.  Examples of this type of research include text extraction, textual analysis, and linguistic analysis. For more information about computational analysis of the collection contact Digital Scholarship Librarian, Spencer Roberts.

If you have questions about using HathiTrust, please contact a Georgia State University Subject Librarian at http://library.gsu.edu/home/services-and-support/services/subject-librarians/

About the Author

Shaumond Scott is the Senior Editorial and Production Coordinator for the University Library. He coordinates and manages communication strategy, public relations activities, and marketing for the Library.

Last chance this semester to attend a data workshop offered by the Library’s Research Data Services Team! Below are the workshops we have coming up in March and into early April.

International Economics and Business Data – Friday, March 2, 2018, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom 2 (Library North, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

ICPSR: Finding Social Science Datasets – Monday, March 5, 2018, 11:00am – 12:00pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom 2 (Library North, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

Mapping with Tableau Data Visualization Software – Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 10:00am – 11:00am, Atlanta Campus, CURVE (Library South, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

SPSS 1: Getting Started – Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom South 403 – REGISTER HERE

SPSS 2: Analyzing Data – Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom South 403 – REGISTER HERE

Tableau Data Visualization: Getting Started – Friday, March 30, 2018, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Atlanta Campus, CURVE (Library South, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

NVivo 1 for Windows: Getting Started – Friday, March 30, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom South 403 – REGISTER HERE

NVivo 2 for Windows: Exploring Your Data – Friday, April 6, 2018, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom South 403 – REGISTER HERE

Qualtrics Essentials: Getting Started – Friday, March 30, 2018, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom 2 (Library North, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

Qualtrics Essentials: Getting Started – Friday, April 20, 2018, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Atlanta Campus, Classroom 2 (Library North, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

R Programming 2: Data Analysis – Friday, April 6, 2018, 10:30am – 12:30pm, CURVE (Library South, 2nd floor) – REGISTER HERE

The Library is also hosting two talks as part of our DATA in the ATL speaker series:

Friday, March 23, 2018 | 11:00-12:30  – REGISTER HERE

Katherine Zitsch
Director, Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District
Manager of Natural Resources, Atlanta Regional Commission

A professional environmental systems engineer, Katherine has more than 20 years of water resources experience in areas of regional water planning, water and wastewater treatment, storm water, water reuse, and water conservation. Providing leadership for the 15-county Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, she and her colleagues use data to look at water management in a holistic fashion, protecting water quality and supply for the District and downstream communities as well. She has championed the metro area’s interests in the tri-state water dispute as well as the implementation of the Metropolitan River Protection Act, protecting a corridor along the Chattahoochee River for future generations. Katherine is intimately involved in using data to project future water supply needs for the metropolitan Atlanta region and then working to ensure water supply is available to meet those needs. She earned her B.S. in civil engineering and M.S. in environmental systems engineering from Clemson University.

Friday, April 27, 2018 | 11:00-12:30 – REGISTER HERE

Debra Lam
Managing Director, Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation
Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), Georgia Tech

In this newly-created role at Georgia Tech, Debra drives smart cities and urban innovation happening in Atlanta and beyond. Prior to this, she served as Pittsburgh’s first ever Chief of Innovation & Performance in which she oversaw all technology, sustainability, performance, and innovation functions of city government. She also crafted that city’s first strategic plan for innovation, the Inclusive Innovation Roadmap. She is a founding leader of the MetroLab Network, a city-university collaborative for urban innovation, of which the City of Atlanta, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech are members. Debra has lived and worked in cities around the world and as is a graduate of Georgetown University, with master’s in public policy, sustainable development from the University of California, Berkeley. More about Debra Lam.

Who is Joel? 

Joel is the library’s Business & Data Services librarian. He provides resources for business researchers and data support for researchers in other areas. Joel also provides Endnote support to users from any discipline.  All of this help may come in the form of one-on-one consultations, in-class instruction or workshops.

You might think working with business means that he went to school for business. That’s not the case though – Joel’s undergrad degree is a B.A. in History that he followed with a M.S. in Information Science from SUNY Albany when he noticed librarian jobs and thought he might enjoy this work.

Fun things to know about Joel

Joel regularly braves biking in Atlanta to get to work. He’s been routinely biking to work for about 3 years and his current commute is just around 10 miles each way. Luckily, he’s able to take some non-road bike paths to help him avoid sharing the road with cars all the way here and home again!

He may bike regularly, but driving doesn’t concern Joel either. A few years ago, he took a road trip that went from Atlanta to Philadelphia, to Ballston Spa, NY, then west to Cohasset, MN (by way of a ferry across Lake Michigan), down to Chicago and back to Atlanta, a distance of almost 3,700 miles in just under 2 weeks. This trip involved a number of things including meeting his infant nephew for the first time, a family reunion with his wife’s family, a visit to Bob Dylan’s childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota, a Cubs game at Wrigley Field and playing Willie Dixon’s bass at Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation (formerly Chess Studios), interspersed with some tasty midwestern beer at stops along the trip.

If you think Joel may be interested in music from some of the stops on that trip, you’d be right. Joel plays the upright bass and bass guitar and has been in several Atlanta area bands including Caroline & The Ramblers, Slim Chance & the Convicts and Clear Creek.

Joel is pro pineapple on pizza, as long it’s with the appropriate other toppings (selections such as ham are preferred), his favorite ice cream is lemon with brown sugar and he and his wife have a pet rabbit named Cecil, who may be the cutest rabbit I’ve ever seen.