Workshop - Equitable Access and HathiTrust

Preparation

This page is a companion to the Workshop called Avenues to Equitable Access held on 9/23/2014.  This page covers portion of the program devoted to HathiTrust Enhanced Access. 
Together we will explore this offerings that provides e-access to full-text for those in the Cornell community that have a registered print disability. 

Program

Your guide for Equitable Access Starts with the Cornell University Library Disability page - https://www.library.cornell.edu/services/disability.

Student guide noted in the section devoted to HathiTrust Enhanced Access.  Available at https://www.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/HT%20Enhanced%20Access%20%20-%20Patron%20Guide.pdf

HathiTrust is a

• consortium - over 90 partner institutions
• digital library - ~ 11.5 million volumes (and growing all the time)
• preservation repository - persistent links for resources in lower left navigation bar for both book and page level persistent access.

Exploring the digital library

• Basic and advanced search - every book is full-text searchable
• Full view (~4M) and limited view (~7M)
• Reading online: image and OCR view
• Persistent links for book and for page.