Dear colleagues, The HathiTrust Research Center will conduct hour-long focus groups at the upcoming DH 2013 and JCDL 2013 conferences.
If you do research with large-scale, digital text corpora, we invite you to participate. Our goals are to: Find out how researchers (like you!) collect things together for research purposes; and Brainstorm researcher requirements (like yours!) for collecting HathiTrust items together for computational analysis. If you will be attending the DH or JCDL conferences and you are interested in these topics, please email Harriett Green ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) by *Monday, July 15, 2013* and indicate your preferred time for participation: Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska July 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m. July 16, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana July 23, 7:30-9:00 a.m. July 24, 7:30-9:00 a.m. The HTRC enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to the HathiTrust corpus, a digital library of millions of books and other materials digitized by the Google Books project and other mass-digitization efforts. We are interested in understanding how researchers build and use digitized book and serials collections in the course of their research. Your participation will give you a chance to meet with others working in your field or related areas. We hope to use the results to help advance the research tools afforded by the HathiTrust Research Center. -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: [email protected] http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/<http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/research/services/>
