Mike Furlough

Mike Furlough is Executive Director of HathiTrust Digital Library. Furlough leads an organization that includes over 90 academic and research institutions working to transform scholarship and research in the 21st century. Furlough's research has focused on how libraries and universities develop organizational support for emerging scholarly communication practices. He has presented work at the Digital Library Federation Forum, the American Association of University Presses, the Charleston Conference, the Bloomsbury Conference, and Educause, among others. From 2011-2013 he served as faculty for the ARL/DLF/Duraspace E-Science Institute. Furlough studied English and American Literature at the University of Virginia. After joining the University of Virginia Library in 1997 he led the GeoStat lab, initiating support for GIS in digital humanities research, and later led planning for and development of the Scholar's Lab. From 2006-2014 served as Assistant and later Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communications at Penn State University Libraries, where he led content stewardship services that support the life cycle of scholarly production.