Author: Kenny Whitebloom
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Elena Kemelman
Elena Kemelman, a recent MLIS graduate, spoke briefly about her personal vision for the DPLA’s future at the October 21, 2011 Plenary Meeting.
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The Great SOPA Debate
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a modified version of the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA), reflects a real and growing tension between libraries and rightsholders.
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: David Norton
David Norton gives his perspective on the e-publishing world, public education in a digital environment, and the DPLA’s potential for remarkable change at the October 2011 Plenary.
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Press: “A Digital Library for Everyone – Audio and Slides from a DLF Forum Panel”
Audio and slides from the 2011 Digital Library Forum.
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Press: “Optimistic or Pessimistic About America: Robert Darnton”
“I refer to the Digital Public Library of America, a project to digitize millions of books and to make them available free of charge to everyone in the world. Far from being a utopian dream, this plan is doable…”
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Jesse Shapins
Jesse Shapins, co-founder and associate director of the metaLab (at) Harvard University, talked briefly about his personal vision for the DPLA during the October 2011 Plenary.
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Press: “DPLA: conjugating the physical and the digital”
“It’s time for a wholesale reconceptualization that inserts multimedia kiosks into the very fabric of the existing architecture of one of the few remaining truly public spaces in contemporary life: the local public library.”
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Brief Interviews from the Plenary: Barbara Namugayi and Martina Darragh
Barbara Namugayi and Martina Darragh spoke with us at the October 2011 Plenary Meeting about the ways the DPLA may complement the open access movement and IT community.
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Brief Interviews from the DPLA Plenary: Todd Carpenter
Todd Carpenter, Managing Director of the National Information Standards Organization, provides his impression of the October 2011 Plenary Meeting.
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Press: “DPLA – The Most Important Cultural Advancement Since the Internet?”
“The vision of the DPLA connecting citizens to and through electronic materials could revolutionize the social structures of education.”