Author: Kenny Whitebloom
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Interview: Nate Hill, Web Librarian
Nate Hill spoke with us last week via email about work done by the Audience & Participation workstream in advance of DPLA West, libraries as creative spaces, and his personal vision for the DPLA.
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Press: “Cultural Historian Robert Darnton on Digitizing Dartmouth’s Treasures”
“Darnton spoke with Dartmouth Now about the DPLA project after his lecture, which was also the inaugural Donoho Colloquium, sponsored by The Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library.”
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Press: “Darnton discusses future of libraries”
Robert Darnton spoke in Dartmouth’s Filene Auditorium in Monday’s inaugural Donoho Colloquium titled “The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future.”
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Press: “A two part plan to make your library a local publisher”
“The original vision for librarylab.org was connected to the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint; it was to be a networked physical architecture acting as a gateway for contribution to a national digital library.”
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Interview: Michael Kelley, Library Journal News & Features Editor
We recently spoke with Michael Kelley, executive editor of news and features for Library Journal, about current events in the library ebook market.
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Harvard Library Strategic Conversations Sponsors Program on “Building the Digital Public Library of America”
On Friday, March 2, Harvard Library Strategic Conversations will sponsor a free and open program titled “Building the Digital Public Library of America.”
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Press: “Medals Honor Humanities: Harvard Affiliates Win National Humanities Medals”
Robert Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and Professor of History, received a 2011 National Humanities Medal for his work with the DPLA.
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Penguin exits the e-lending scene
In an announcement made February 9, Penguin Group has terminated its contract with OverDrive, the largest distributer of digital content to American libraries and Penguin’s partner.
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Press: “Libraries Happen”
“I was a guest at a recent DPLA ‘Audience and Participation Work Stream’ meeting that brought together participants with a variety of perspectives and experience, but joined by a deep concern for the future of libraries…”
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Press: “The Digital Public Library of America: Highlights from Robert Darnton’s recent talk”
“”I was fortunate to be among those attending Robert Darnton’s talk on the Digital Public Library of America initiative last week…”