Not a lot of faculty know what HT or HTRC are.
There has been a dramatic increase in interest in digital humanities, digital publishing and text-analysis type of projects. This is mostly from junior faculty and graduate students, but of late there has also been a surge of interest among advanced undergraduates.
Video tutorials that HTRC is developing will be useful for users. There is an "audience question": many find the HTRC tools to be fairly limiting, especially in comparison with commercial tools.
We don't know if the corpus tools fit the current interests of our linguistics faculty.
Currently 3 million volumes of non-copyrighted materials and 8 million volumes of copyrighted materials.
HT-Bookworm (under development by HTRC and groups from Baylor and Northeastern) and the Data Capsule (which will allow users to run computational methods against protected data) are some techniques being developed that will make copyrighted material more usable to users in the future. In order to for HT-Bookworm to work, the back end will need to be changed from mySql (as it is currently) to Solr.