Author: Vicky Zeamer
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Press: Prototype of Digital Public Library of America to launch in Boston this month
“The beginnings of the first public, national, on-line library will soon be unveiled in Boston – home to the country’s first publicly supported municipal library.”
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Press: The National Digital Public Library Is Launched!
“The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge. How is that possible? In order to answer that question, I would like to describe…
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South Carolina brings digital wealth to library project
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. It is written by Annie Schutte, a librarian, teacher and consultant for Knight Foundation.
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Press: Episode 97: Digital Potato Library of America
“In another single-topic Digital Campus, we react to the news that Dan is headed to the Digital Public Library of America as its Executive Director (no tears, no tears) by forcing him to tell us all about it. Special guests on the podcast include Berkman Center and DPLA Technical Workstream member David Weinberger, author of…
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Press: Q&A: Knowledge liberator
Robert Darnton heads the world’s largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate.
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Digital Library Digest: March 28, 2013
This week’s digest looks at libraries’ new ways of browsing digital data, the creation of the Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation in Europe, a Massachusetts library’s quest to create a digital learning lab that stresses hanging out/messing around/geeking out, the new app from the National Library of Australia for browsing their collection of…
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Sharing oral histories from Minnesota’s immigrant population
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. It focuses on one of the six state digital libraries that will act as a…
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A plan for libraries to aggregate metadata into one central portal
The following is part of a series that looks at The Digital Public Library of America – the first national effort to aggregate existing records in state and regional digital libraries so that they are searchable from a single portal. It is written by Annie Schutte, a librarian, teacher and consultant for Knight Foundation.
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Digital Library Digest: March 21, 2013
This week’s digest covers the digitization of Spanish documents in Florida which are the earliest written document of any region in the U.S., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s recent public domain addition of 20K high-res images, a data-driven public art display called “Filament Mind” at the Teton County Library in Wyoming, the Maine…
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Digital Library Digest: March 14, 2013
This week’s digest looks at a small public library in Massachusetts that will begin to publish ebooks, how the new chief executive of the British Library is looking to strengthen service, how school districts are experimenting with strategies for K-12 digital libraries, ARTstor and Condé Nast’s collaboration, and the end of the Google Reader era.