Mike Furlough

Mike Furlough is Executive Director of HathiTrust, an organization that contributes to research and scholarship by collaboratively collecting, preserving, and sharing the scholarly record.  HathiTrust stewards more than 17 million digitized books and journals digitized on behalf of nearly 200 supporting member libraries.  Furlough leads the strategic development of HathiTrust’s programs and services, including its digital library, access for print disabled users, copyright research, innovative support for text and data mining, and the establishment of a distributed print archive among its members.  His career has long taken place at the intersection of emerging technologies and scholarly practices and in the past he has worked in various roles in the libraries at Penn State University Libraries and the University of Virginia.