The Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) and its partners, one of which is HathiTrust, are working to make one category of underutilized gray literature – technical reports – much more accessible.  TRAIL began in 2006 as a digitization pilot involving one librarian from each of seven Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) schools (plus a representative of the Center for Research Libraries).  It is now an ongoing member-based collaborative digitization and preservation effort and is currently the 24th largest content contributor to the HathiTrust.  This talk will address:
•        a brief background of TRAIL and its mission;
•        how TRAIL came to be associated with HathiTrust;
•        some of the advantages TRAIL has realized from partnering with a HathiTrust member;
•        how TRAIL’s relationship with HathiTrust has evolved over time;
•        where we believe the TRAIL/HathiTrust partnership is “driving and supporting change in the research ecosystem”;
•        where we are headed in the future.

Presenter: Mel DeSart, Head, Engineering Library and Head, Mathematics Research Library at the University of Washington & current Chair of TRAIL
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Time: 3:00 p.m. EDST/ 12:00 p.m. PDST