UM: Libraries

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that libraries at major universities have been creating a backup for Google’s digital books project. Called the HathiTrust, its executive director is John Wilkin, a UM associate university librarian. Says Wilkin: ”Google won’t be around forever. This is a commitment to the permanence of the materials…We’ve been doing this for a couple of hundred years, and we intend to continue doing it.” [Source]