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Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
A powerful public service Paul Courant’s HathiTrust Digital Library in three acts | By Erin Spanier
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cholarly CVs are long, there’s no denying it, so it’s not surprising that Paul N. Courant’s CV stretches a good twelve feet from end to end. What is surprising is that what is likely to be Courant’s single greatest contribution to scholarship isn’t mentioned in his CV at all: development of the largest digital library in the world, the HathiTrust.