Take a walk with me
A guest post from Brad McKenna, Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science student.
One library science student gives his take on DPLA West.
Author Archive
Press: “A universal digital library is within reach”
“But the dream of a universal digital library lives on. Now a coalition of libraries and archives has come together to create a Digital Public Library of America to fulfill the original vision of a digital library for all. It could well be that an effort without commerce in the mix will have an easier time of it.”
Press: “At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape”
“On April 27, DPLA West brought together over 400 librarians, technologists, public policy advocates, and a very small number of publishers at the Internet Archive in San Francisco to discuss the progress of the most visible effort yet to forge a common digital library for both Americans and the world: the nascent Digital Public Library of America.”
Press: “The Library of Utopia”
Nicholas Carr profiles the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative in the May/June 2012 issue of “Technology Review,” published by MIT.
Press: “Harvard Releases Big Data for Books”
“The metadata will be available for bulk download both from Harvard and from the Digital Public Library of America, which is an effort to create a national public library online.”
Press: “Building the Digital Public Library”
“Palfrey spoke to librarians across the country about the DPLA yesterday at the ACRL Spring Virtual Institute.”
Press: “End of an Era at OCLC: Jay Jordan Reflects on His 14-Year Tenure”
In an interview with Library Journal, Jay Jordan, OCLC CEO, mentions his interactions with the DPLA.
Press: “‘Digital Public Library of America’ Becomes the New Google Books in April 2013”
“The ‘Digital Public Library of America’ will, well, provide a Google-Books-like experience but without the hassles of lawsuits. Harvard university librarian and member of the DPLA steering committee Robert Darnton recently made a ‘promise’ that the project would launch in April of 2013.”
Press: “BHL featured in Digital Public Library of America Hackathon”
“BHL is one of the first key data sets that is being used in the test bed for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Not sure what the DPLA is? Well, it’s a bold initiative to create a large scale digital library for the United States and the world.”
Press: “American digital public library promised for 2013”
“Darnton, who represents Harvard, said that the idea behind the library is to make America’s ‘cultural heritage accessible, free of charge, to all of our countrymen and women, in fact to everyone in the world.'”
