- 17,634,044 total volumes
- 8,379,218 book titles
- 461,228 serial titles
- 6,171,915,400 pages
- 790 terabytes
- 209 miles
- 14,328 tons
- 7,039,209 volumes(~40% of total) in the public domain
Begun in 2008, HathiTrust Digital Library is first and foremost a digital preservation repository. It is also a highly functional access platform. HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access to both public domain and in-copyright content, digitized books and other media such as journals scanned from the collections of major libraries and other sources. These include Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. Today eighty academic libraries and other major research institutions are members of HathiTrust. Texas Tech University Libraries joined in 2013.
Anyone with an internet connection can access most HathiTrust content in the public domain, currently about 3,000,000 titles published prior to 1924. By way of comparison, TTU Libraries owns in print approximately 250,000 of the public domain titles currently accessible in HathiTrust Digital Library. Benefits to Temple affiliates include the following: