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HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Creating and using Collections in Hathi

What can you do with them?

Building collections within Hathi is a useful way to organize and share groups of titles with others for public or private uses.  The full-text of items within a Hathi collection can be searched independently of the full digital library.

How to find current Collections in Hathi

Search the public Collections via the Collections tab on Hathi's homepage.  You can sort and list current Collections in a variety of ways, such as owner, item count, date updated, etc.

How to create a new Collection in Hathi

First, log in as a Wesleyan user. 

On the Collections page, click Create new collection.  Add a name, description, and whether it's public or private (seen by user only).  You can then search and add any title to your collections, or create a new collection on the spot, from any Full-view or Limited (search only) screen in Hathi, as in the example below