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Where to Find Millions of Books, and How to Read Them

Event Type: Informational
Sponsor: University Library and the iSchool
Date: Oct 4, 2024 12:00 - 12:50 pm
Contact: Glen Layne-Worthey, Associate Director, HathiTrust Research Center (iSchool)
E-Mail: gworthey@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center is the research gateway to that enormous, near-universal library. This talk will briefly introduce the Center's text and data mining tools, which allow researchers to computationally analyze the millions of volumes of text held in the HathiTrust Digital Library.