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Weighted Voting Models For The Hathitrust Constitutional Convention, Julia Lovett

Julia Lovett

In March 2011, the HathiTrust Digital Library partner institutions will meet for a Constitutional Convention (CC). At this meeting, the partners will either develop a new governance model for HathiTrust or articulate a set of questions to frame a post‐Convention discussion of a new governance model. Questions might include: What should the governing boards be, and how should they be constituted? Which institutions should have representative power, and how many representatives should there be per institution? Should HathiTrust have a new host institution and, if so, what criteria should be used to select a new host institution? These decisions will …