Michael Furlough is Executive Director of Hathi Trust. Furlough's research has focused on how libraries and universities develop organizational support for emerging scholarly communication practices, and he has presented work at the Digital Library Federation, the American Association of University Presses, the Charleston Conference, the Bloomsbury Conference, Educause, IFLA and other venues. From 2011-2013, Furlough served as faculty for the ARL/DLF/Duraspace E-Science Institute. After joining the University of Virginia Library in 1997, he developed and led services supporting digital humanities research, including the Scholar’s Lab. From 2006-2014, Furlough served as 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.